YOU MEAN LIKE A PARDON CLINTON GAVE RICK

LIKE TRYING TO CHANGE SPOTS-----

New Black Panther Chairman: We Should be Applauded Like Founding Fathers for Willingness to Die and Kill for Black Nation --31KH. B5

Just like in Ferguson, the New Black Panthers have been exposed as leaders in the Baltimore riots. Right on the heels of those riots, New Black Panther Party National Chairman Hashim Nzinga has claimed that the New Black Panthers should be applauded as the Founding Fathers and that they are ready to die or kill for the black nation.
While some of that I would agree with his comments, which we have pointed out on this site, he doesn't seem to want to address much of the criminal activity that is going on in the black community as aptly demonstrated for the world to see in both Ferguson and Baltimore.
And just to be clear, we have written stories in which there are Black Americans in those neighborhoods who don't riot, who peacefully protest something they are against and even arm themselves to protect places of business. For those people, I stand behind them 100%.
However, what Nzinga is pushing is something quite different. He is an inciter. He is stirring up insurrection and as the Constitution states, the militia's job is to put down insurrections.
However, he doesn't address the fact that the guy in charge, Barack Obama, is considered black! Nor does he talk about a black Attorney General, or the black woman, Loretta Lynch, who is taking Eric Holder's place as Attorney General. He even mentions Homeland Security, which is also headed by a black man. He doesn't reference any of these people's ethnicity though. He just pulls a Trotsky and claims "straight racism."
Well, I do believe that love does lay down one's life for their friends (John 15:13), just as Jesus said. I also believe love causes us to lay down our life for family, but what I hear coming from Nzinga is not love, but a hatred of white people in the same vein that New Black Panthers King Samir Shabazz offered when he called for the outright murder of white people and their babies.
All of this falls in line with New Black Panther Party member Malik Shabazz's new year's resolution to "build up that army" and "go to the gun range." These people don't have love in their hearts. They have hate. They are the most racist people in the world and they hate white people.
source--tim brown, freedom outspost, hashim nzinga

Inspector General Recovers Thousands of Lerner's Emails at IRS--43KH. B46
Congressional committees involved in the investigation into the improper targeting of tea party groups said the Treasury's inspector general for tax administration (TIGTA) turned over roughly 6,400 new emails either to or from Lerner from between 2004 and 2013.

Of the new emails the inspector general found, around 650 were from 2010 and 2011, while most were from 2012, The Hill said. In total, 35,000 emails have been recovered from recycled back-up tapes.
The IRS also said it took the inspector general around 10 months to recover the emails affected by Lerner's computer crash
Her attorney, William Taylor, recently said he and his client were "gratified but not surprised" by a decision by the U.S. Attorney's Office not to pursue contempt of court charges against her.
source--fox, newsmax, melanie batley

Clinton: Justice System Needs Overhaul, End to 'Mass Incarcerations'-—47JH , B43
Pointing to a wave of violence in Baltimore, Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that die nation's criminal justice system has gotten "out of balance" and must be restored through steps such as the use of body cameras by every police department in the country. "It's time to change our approach," Clinton said in her first major policy address since launching her presidential campaign earlier this month. "It's time to end the era of mass incarceration."
Repudiated policies dating to her husband Bill Clinton's presidency that lengthened prison terms while putting more officers on the streets. "We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population," she said. "We don't want to create another incarceration generation." "We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America," Clinton said. Criminal justice reform, however, should not be placed in a silo and separated from a lack of economic and educational opportunities in many communities, Clinton said. And many people suffer the consequences of roughly 15 million "missing African-American men" who are imprisoned, making them unable to care for their children or provide for their families. "It is rare to see Democrats and Republicans agree on anything today but we're beginning to agree on this," she said. "We need to restore balance to our criminal justice system. Of course it is not enough just to agree... we actually have to work together to get the job done. We have to deliver real reforms that can be felt on our streets." In December, President Barack Obama asked Congress for $263 million for police body cameras and additional law members and civil rights leaders following the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson. the president's proposal would have allocated $75 million over three years to help states purchase body cameras. The money would have paid for about 50.000 devices, though Congress never acted on the president's request.

source- NEWSMAX
Hillary to GOP: You get 1 shot on Benghazi--47KH.
Hillary Clinton is refusing to testify twice before the House pane investigating the 2012 attacks on the U.S. government compound in Benghazi, Libya.
Clinton is willing to testify once before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, but her attorney says she will not meet the panel’s demand to come before it twice. He also criticized the panel for asking Clinton to appear once just to examine her use of a private email account while secretary of State.
In an April 23 letter to Kendall, Gowdy asked that the 2016 presidential contender testify before the committee first during the week of May 18. This appearance was to examine her use of a personal email server while acting as the nation’s top diplomat.
The letter also asked Clinton to appear a second time in June so the committee could look at her role in the episode, which left four Americans dead. He noted that 300 messages relevant to the 2012 attacks have been given to the select committee and that Clinton’s testimony “would be of no assistance regarding the State Department’s production in response to the Committee’s requests.”
“Dragging out this process further into the presidential election season sacrifices any chance that the American people will see it as serious or legitimate,” Cummings said in a statement. “After nearly a year, we have still found not a scrap of evidence to support claims Secretary Clinton ordered a stand-down, approved an illicit weapons program, or any of the other wild allegations that Republicans have been making about her for years.”
source--the hill, martin matishak

Furious Bill Clinton Tells NBC's Cynthia McFadden: There Is A Deliberate Attempt To Take Down Clinton Foundation--47kh.
Bill is furious about the widespread criticism of him, his foundation, and his wife. You can tell by just looking at him.

He's livid: His body language and responses gave him away. Bill pointed his finger, stumbled over answers, displayed his paranoia, laughed inappropriately and made no apologies. He defiantly said that he will not stop making paid speeches if Hillary is elected because "I gotta pay the bills."
Right, Bill. Over $135,000,000 in speaking fees can pay a lot of bills.

The former president bristled when asked about the perception of his taking $500,000 for 11 speeches after Hillary became Secretary of State, insisting he didn't understand it: "I'm not responsible for other people's perceptions."
That's the Clinton way. Someone is always after them. This time it is not the vast right wing conspiracy. Instead, it is The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal. It's a lot harder for the Clintons to ignore these folks.

Bill told McFadden that there was nothing new in the criticism and that 90% of everything that's being raised was known the last time Hillary ran for President. The claim is ridiculous because much of what her been reported focuses on Hillary's tenure as Secretary of State. By definition, what she did there form 2009 -- 2012 could not have been known in 2008.

Here's what wasn't known, Bill:

• After Hillary's appointment as Secretary of State, Bill was paid $500,000 for 11 speeches, a significant increase from the pre-State Dept. days.

• The Clinton Foundation set up a Canadian mirror organization to the Clinton/Giustra Initiative in order to shield 1100 donors from disclosure.

• The Clinton Foundation accepted donations from 181 donors that lobbied the State Department. The State Dept. gave millions in grants to Laureate University, an organization that appointed Bill as its honorary chairman and paid him millions.

• The Clinton Foundation did not abide by the Memorandum of Understanding with the Obama Administration regarding disclosure of donations from several foreign countries and individuals with business before the State Department.

• Hillary Clinton's brother, Tony Rodham, a former bouncer, prison guard, and private investigator, was appointed to the Board of Directors of a company that received the royalty rights for mining gold in Haiti, when Bill and Hillary were overseeing the reconstruction of Haiti after the earthquake.

• Tony Rodham was also appointed to the Board of a pay-for-Visa scheme with Chinese investors who were banned from doing telecom business in the U.S. because of its history of cyber spying.

• Hillary's mandatory annual disclosure form did not reveal the names of the true sponsors of Bill's speeches.

• Etc., etc., etc. (Check out the specifics in Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer, released tomorrow.)
Looking anything but amused, he said no one has ever tried to influence Hillary through him.


source--the hillary daily.com, dick morris, eileen mcgann

George Soros reportedly could face up to $7B tax bill, after delaying payment for years--3KH. B49


Nov. 3, 2011: George Soros smiles before a speech at the Central European University in Budapest. (Reuters)
George Soros may soon face a monumental tax bill -- of nearly $7 billion -- after years of playing hard-to-get with the IRS.
Despite Soros having advocated for higher taxes on the wealthy, the liberal billionaire reportedly has delayed paying his own for years thanks to a loophole in U.S. law.
That loophole was closed by Congress in 2008. But before that, Bloomberg reports, Soros used it to defer taxes on client fees. Instead, he reinvested them in his own fund, and they grew tax-free.
Bloomberg, citing Irish regulatory filings, reported that Soros has made $13.3 billion in this way. Factoring in the various tax rates that would apply, one tax expert estimated this would leave Soros with a roughly $6.7 billion bill.
While Soros did not comment on the estimate, Bloomberg reported that Soros deferred his taxes for so many years by reinvesting client fees. While he technically was able to do this for U.S.-based funds, offshore funds were apparently preferred because otherwise clients would face negative tax implications.
Congress closed that loophole in 2008, ordering fund managers to pay up by 2017.
According to Bloomberg, Soros moved assets shortly before the change to Ireland, seen as a possible shelter from the law. But tax attorneys told Bloomberg they don't know of a way for money managers to avoid the bill in 2017.

sourcve--fox news

THE "I" FACTOR---PRESIDENT AND THE FIRST-PERSON PRONOUN:A HISTORICAL SURVEY:-7H, B12A
From almost the moment President Obama Assumed office, observers began calling attention to his unusual proclivity to use "I". Terrence Jeffrey of CNS counted 34--"I''s in the president's speech federal rescue of General Motors but, of ominously, just one mention of "Congress" and none of "law." Just last week, a report in Grabien charged the president with referencing himself (I )or we) 118 times in 33 minutes in his departure speech from India, which computed to a rate of "3.5 Obama references per minute."
Obama's pronominal binging they assert, bespeaks a dangerous personalism in his view of governance, a boundless narcissism in his psychological disposition, and a peculiar solipsism that demands that his listeners see the world as filtered through his eyes.
A quick survey by BuzzFeed in 2014 purported to show that in press conferences Obama . has been more sparing in his use of personal pronoun-(I); me, my. mine, and myself than most of his predecessors. According to BuzzFeed, "Obama is maybe the least narcissistic president since 1945. This means less than Truman, Eisenhower, or George H. W Bush.
A team of researchers at the U of VA prestigious Laputa Institute of Computational Linguistics undertook a detailed analysis of the use of "I" in spoken ''State of the Union addresses delivered before Congress. The list With some minor technical adjustments— counting an incoming president's first speech to Congress as a State of the Union address, and excluding the :e lame-duck address of an outgoing president—the institute team was able to construct a data set consisting of 97 speech a respectable N Tiodern social scientific standing. Researchers — were able to determine the average number of I's per speech (41.2), the average for each president, William J. Clinton 102.1 H Barack Obama 72.9, George H.W. Bush 65.8, Gerald R. Ford 62.0, Lyndon B. Johnson 58, Richard Nixon 5O.3
The most highly ranked presidents, the Democrats Clinton and Obama, stand out for being more than a full standard deviation above the mean, while the two low the Federalists Washington and John Adams, are more than a standard deviation below it. Clinton and Obama together managed to hold 7 of the top 10 places for individual speeches, while Washington and Adams delivered 8 of the 10 bottom-ranking speeches. While Clinton and Obama held center stage before a much larger body, complete with galleries packed with human props, and spoke to the entire American public. It is also worth considering whether Washington's I's lean toward the self-effacing, while Obama's suggest self-absorption.
source--weekly standard (2/16/15), james ceaser, terence jeffrey,

BREAKING TRUST---14H.
At what point do we—the institution and our nation—lose our soldiers' trust? The trust that we will provide them the right resources—the training and equipment—to properly prepare them and lead them into harm's way. Trust that we will appropriately take care of our soldiers, our civilians, and their families, who so selflessly sacrifice so much. This was the question Army chief of staff Gen. Raymond Odierno posed to the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 28, and it's one that presses a point of view rarely considered in Washington: We "honor their service" without irony. But we have shortchanged their ability to fight, depriving them of sufficient resources—of personnel, equipment, and training—first to win the wars to which we sent them, then to prepare them for the next conflict. The 2011 Budget Control Act stands at the moment.
Even before 2011, the Obama administration had slashed something ''approaching $500 billion from Bush-era defense plans; the BCA, with its "sequestration" provision, might eliminate another $1 trillion. Under the BCA, the military is shrinking Active-duty Army troop strength will fall to about 420,000 barely m an half what it was in 1990. The Navy, once a fleet of 600 ships, is on course to drift down to the mid--200s, while the Air Force, which once had 188 fighter squadrons, will soon have just 49.
Nor do the Chinese military's boat-and-plane-bumping antic's or Beijing's aggressive and destabilizing behavior toward our allies in the region create any groundswell for a Pacific "pivot" with any muscle. A few highlights from — the January 28 hearing, held to "receive testimony on the impact of the Budget Control Act of 2011 and sequestration on national security": Gen. Odierno: "Readiness has been degraded to its lowest level in 20 years. [Two years ago], only 10 percent of our brigade combat teams were ready." Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert: "The Navy's fleet readiness will likely not recover from the ship and aircraft maintenance backlogs until about 2018." Marine Commandant Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr. approximately half of our non deployed units... are suffering personnel, equipment, and training shortfalls. In a major conflict, those shortfalls will result in a delayed response and/or additional casualties." Air Force chief of staff Gen. Mark Welsh III: "Today, just under 50 percent of our combat squadrons are fully combat ready. ... We will not be able to simultaneously defeat an adversary, deny a second adversary, and defend the homeland. And I don't think that's good for America."
In 2012, the administration gave up that requirement for the military, believing Europe would never face a security problem again and hoping retreat from the Middle East would somehow make its problems go away. So inured have our governing elites become to our declining capabilities.
source--weekly standard (2/16/15), thomas donnelly, gary schmitt

BEYOND SACTIONS: 60H
The Obama administration succeeded in pressuring Democrats to insist there not be a vote on senate floor in support of the Nuclear Weapon free Iran act of 2015. Lacking the votes in the Senate to impose closure. Senate Democrats may simply have ensured that sometime prior to the deadline, the administration will announce a framework agreement with Iran as deeply flawed as the current interim agreement, which the White House claimed, falsely we now know, would freeze Iran's nuclear program.
It's a good time to take a look at what's happening in the real world. While talking away at negotiating tables in various European capitals, the Iranian regime is also on the march. In the Middle East. The Iranians know that they can fight (e.g., in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen) and bargain at the same time. so there is no real harm to them in talking. On one condition. What the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatoilah Ali Khameini, cannot afford is rapprochement, with the United States. A framework deal that gives Iran cover for an eventual nuclear breakout, while effectively acknowledging Iranian interests around the region.
From Iran's perspective, it's fine if the Obama White wants to believe that it's thawing relations and getting to know the Iranians better by talking. What Iran gets out of talks is delay and, as a bonus, some discord in DC.
The Obama administration never wanted sanctions in the first place. In time, the White House came to see sanctions largely as a form of concession to and deterrence of its domestic opponents, a way to mollify critics and show that, all evidence to the contrary, it was serious about stopping Iran from getting the bomb. Accordingly, the Iranians understood that the White House would be willing to provide sanctions relief. If Obama didn't sweeten the pot, and if Tehran then threatened to walk away and crash negotiations, that would potentially unleash the wrath of a foe the administration considers more hateful than the Iranians -Its opponents on Capitol Hill.
So in order to fend off Republicans and a few hawkish Democrats, Obama had to keep appeasing the Iranians. That meant not only sanctions relief, but also, among Other things, laying off Bashar al-ashar and recognizing Iranian interests in Syria. It meant coordinating with IRGC-Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani in Iraq against the Islamic State. It meant sharing intelligence with Hezbollah in Lebanon. All these are serious strategic victories for Tehran. But perhaps Iran's most valuable win is to have neutralized the power capable of stopping its drive for nuclear weapons—the United States—by inducing American policymakers to tie themselves down in a fight over sanctions.
No policy of sanctions, bargaining, or inducements can work unless the use of force becomes once more a credible possibility. But so is that possible with this president?
source--weekly standard (2/9/15), lee smith

THE LEFT: A GIANT INTIMIDATING MOB: 9H, B12
Josesph Douphertv. the longtime Philadelphia union boss of Ironworkers Local 401. told his members they were at war with non union workers. On Jan 20,2015 Dougherty was convicted in a major racketeering case of using violence, vandalism, and intimidation to secure construction jobs for his members. Arson of a Quaker meetinghouse being constructed with non-union labor. Non-union workers assaulted with baseball bats, and cars vandalized. agitators called themselves "the goon squad". The Helpful union Guys," 'thugs." 1,OOO members in his shop, was paid handsomely for his wartime efforts, earning over $200,000 a year. He will face a 15-year-minimum sentence in April. Unions are the Democrats' enforcers, and their skull-cracking.
Michael Mulgrew, president of New York's United Federation of Teacherswent off on critics of Common Core at the July 2014 UFT convention. "We do not back down from a fight. if someone takes something from me, I'm gonna grab it right back out of their old, twisted sick hands and say it is mine! Punch you in the face and push your face in the dirt because this is the teachers'. set a policy or hold a political view due to the crap they'll get from a vocal minority of virulently liberal customer's who disapprove.
That sort of bellying rhetoric is of a piece with some other famous democrat lines Such as: • "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." — Barack Obama, Politico, 6/13/08
• "I want you to argue with them and get in their face." — Barack Obama, ap, 9/18/08 ;
• "We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us.--BarackObama. Univision. 10/25/10
The iron fisted stance of the left is the reason that half the people in this country are afraid to voice their views. Speaking of which, get a load of Obama's chutzpah during his January 19 press conference, I think they [Sony] made a mistake ... We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship :Because if somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what they'll start doing when they see a documentary they don't like. Or news reports that they don't like. Or even worse imagine if producers and distributors and others start engaging in self-censorship because they don't want to offend the sensibilities of somebody whose sensibilities probably need to be offended. So that's not who we are. That's s not what America is about ... I wish [Sony] had spoken to me first. I would have told them, do not get into a pattern in which you're intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks.
Obama own organization that he's running out of the White House, Organizing for America, as well as MoveOri.org, acorn, Media matters are built on intimidating and silencing opponents. Obama specializes in censorship. They try to eliminate opposing views. not only caving to North Korea, but also caving to "Al Sharpton. This is not who we are, from the guy whose mentor Saul Alinsky codified these tactics. From a guy who put a video maker Makoula Basseley Nakoula in prison based on a lie.
Let's say you're a business that's decided to advertise on a radio or TV show and suddenly you are hit with supposed emails and tweets from customers, threatening you and claiming that if you continue to do business with that radio or TV show, you'll lose them as customers. Then you find out that all those emails and tweets are being sent by Twitter robots.
The purpose of their intimidation is precisely to get us to shut up.
source--rush, 2/2015

HARD TIMES FOR HEZBOLLAH--1H. B5 Is Iran's Lebanese client losing its grip:
last week Hezbollah buried one of its princes, jihad Mughniyeh, the 22-vear-old son of the late Imad Mughniyeh, a legendary Hezbollah commander implicated in such infamous operations as the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut. Israel Jan.18 strike killed the younger Mughniyeh and five other Hezbollah operatives, is evidence of a dangerous crisis for Hezbollah. The [Lebanese Shiites] don't want another war with Israel, "but they also want to know Hezbollah can protect them like it says. if Hezbollah's retaliation brings a crushing Israel response Nasrallah will have opened not only a fight with Israel, but a third confrontation as well, inside Lebanon, with the county's Sunni community. "It would mean the Sunni-Shia conflict has come to Lebanon in earnest," fighting across the border in Syria. The Sunni extremist groups like Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS. Pitched battles between Hezbollah and Sunni fighters on the Syria border.
As it turns out, Mughniyeh and the others, including Iranian Revolutionary Guards Brigadier General Mohamed Ali Allahdadi confidant of Iran's Ouds Force commander Qassemg Suleimani, to open a second front against Israel, in addition to the group's South Lebanon stronghold, on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
'The Shia are supposed to side with justice against injustice." Hezbollah has also staked the Shiites to a position against the regional Sunni majority in a war whose best outcome, says Slim, can only be a political settlement.
checkpoints, traffic—everythings_worse than when I was last here nearly three years ago. There's less electric and more blackouts, the water shortages are worse, and so is the sewage. There's no president, no elections on the horizon to elect a new parliament, the economy is moribund with parents urging their children to formulate a Plan B—how to get out of Lebanon and start a career and family elsewhere.
Hezbollah is falling and a new chapter is beginning for the Shiites, exactly how many Lebanese shiites have been killed there is unknown—high-end estimates more than a thousand in the last two years—"Let's say there are 3,000 Hezbollah combatants in Syria, with 20,000 committed to the war.
Hezbollah is unaccustomed to waging a Iong war of attrition like this, they are worried that the women will become more powerful."
the sheikh's political and theological mission is taking on wilayet al-faqih, the theological concept developed by the founder of the lslamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, But with wilayet al-faqjh, the supreme leader is effectively able to bypass Muhammad the prophet as well as the Koran. The If it's such an obviously bad and un-Islamic, idea I ask the sheikh, why did the Iranian people buy it? "Ignorance,"Khomeini was charismatic."
Ignorance is a problem with many of the Lebanese too. The fact that Hezbollah takes care people. For them, fighting for Iran isn't fighting just another country, it's God's country. Just because we attend a fighter's funeral doesn't mean we are behind the cause." Hezbollah's war in Syria is a good thing, as the sheikh sees it. becausc it will destroy the organization and turn the Shiites against it. Much of Hebollah young cadre comes from the tech schools the organization has opened throughout the south. Education is a good business investment for Hezbollah, and they've made lots of good investments."
cautionsi against believing Western media reports that Hezbollah is going broke. "In addition to their own investments, they have money from the Lebanese state." They also still get what they need from Irag, they're also still making money from criminal enterprise " think of mansions as the counterpoint to martyrs." the Shiite community's foreign policy is largely made in Tehran.
weekly standard (2/2/15), lee smith,lokman slim

OBAMA CORPORATE LIBERAL--15H. B26
And secret friend of the one percent
His domestic agenda consists of more spending on roads and infrastructure, new entitlement programs for community college and preschool. and tax preferences targeted to middle and low-income earners. All of is he would pay for with new inheritance taxes on the wealth, a hike in the capital gains tax, and a special levy on the highest financial institutions.
His record shows him to be a corporate liberal, and a closer look at last week's proposals confirms it. The Corporate liberal offers the following deal: In exchange for greater authority—to tax, to regulate, to distribute—government will dispense benefits to the top and bottom of society. the poor will receive more generous social welfare benefits: the wealthy will be granted special provisions, exemption , and benefits.
Obamacare is a perfect illustration, The government subsidizes health insurance, but it does so through private companies. The government implicitly guarantees that insurers will profit in the individual marketplace. The welfare state is expanded. The more interests are drawn in, the more our Madisonian system resists reform, and the more ensconced in power corporate liberalism becomes.
Corporate liberals go to great lengths to distract voters from discerning the actual nature of the regime. Obamacare: Its supporters regularly and viciously attacked insurance companies during the debate. Obama talked like a populist about taxes, but note his timing. He is calling for massive new taxes on top individual earners from the most re-publican Congress in generations.
Why not have asked for this in 2009 or 2010, when Democrats were in charge. He may claim that he is committed to fairness, but our deeply unfair corporate tax code will remain intact for at least two years. There are two types of tax fairness—vertical and horizontal. By insisting on greater vertical fairness, he has killed any hope of reforms enhancing horizontal fairness. Vertical tax fairness is the principle that those who make more money should pay more. A flat tax which applies the same percentage to all earners, achieves vertical fairness: A progressive tax, which taxes higher earners at higher rates, intensifies this effect.
Our system of taxation is progressive, and last week Obama called for making it more steeply so. Horizontal fairness is the principal that individual or business with similar incomes or assets should pay similar amounts of tax.
Uncle Sam discriminates based on how we earn and spend our money.
source--weekly standard, (2/2/15), jay cost

IRAN NONSENSE---47K, B4
Netanyahu to address congress. Top Obama administration officials made clear they considered the invitation itself an affront and the acceptance of it a breach of protocol. Same White House that last week had British David Cameron making calls to Capitol Hill to lobby lawmakers against more sanctions on Iran. Had to apologoze to senator Marco Rubio and others for violating its pledge to "consult Congress" before making any unilateral changes to U.S. policy on Cuba. Who has boasted repeatedly of his ability and willingness to ignore the legislative branch and use his "pen and phone to do what he wants. That used the cover of anonymity to callNetanyahu "chickenshit" in a recent interview.
consider the section on Iran in President Obama's State of the union. It took up just l72 words of his 6,500-word address. First time in a decade, we've halted the progress of its nuclear program and reduced its stockpile of nuclear material. Agreement that prevents nuclear-armed Iran, secures America and our allies, including Israel. There are no guarantees that negotiations will succeed, and Ikeep all options on the table to prevent a nuclear Iran.
Alienating America from its allies; making it harder to maintain sanctions; and ensuring that Iran starts up its nuclear program again. This is delusional. The United States hasn't "halted" Irans nuclear program. A week before that claim, Iran announced it would build two more reactors. During this diplomacy, it has made progress on its plutonium program and continued enriching. It was suppose to freeze centrifuge activities at the Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant at Natanz, but IAEA reported last fall it was feeding uranium hexa-fluoride gas into the IR-5 centrifuge there.
Obama implied that congress—not Iran—would be at fault if military, conflict erupted. Obama accused Senator Bob Menendez of bowing to the interests of campaign contributors. The State Department lists Iran as the foremost state sponsor of terror in the world. According to a former top U.S. military official the Iranian regime is responsible for more than a third of American troop deaths in Iraq. The regime talks openly about eliminating Israel.
source--weekly standard (2/2)--stepehen hayes

HILLARY HAS IRAQ WOES LIKE NO OTHER—47JH B43
She supported Bush’s invasion and Obama’s withdrawal, and in both cases was tracking with public opinion when she started. After Bush’s war got unpopular, Clinton recanted. And one supposes that as Obama’s policy for that woe-begotten nation and its region continues to displease voters, Clinton will be tempted to recant her support for the Obama doctrine too. The fall of Ramadi to Islamist militants will no doubt hasten Clinton’s consideration of a political exit strategy.


Clinton might be expected to lay out her vision for the future. After all, she argued for an earlier intervention against the Syrian dictator Obama is now helping to stay in power. But Clinton can’t jump too hard away from Obama since the base voters she is working so hard to woo with her domestic policy reversals believe the current president has been, if anything, too bellicose – he of the flying killer robots, domestic spying and desk-drawer kill lists.

HILLARY HUSH AS DOMESTIC SPYING VOTE NEARS

Clinton tweeted her support earlier this month of the House-passed USA Freedom Act, which allows the NSA to keep collecting phone records while housing the data with private companies. With pressure from the left ramping up and a Senate vote likely this week, Clinton has otherwise kept a low profile.  

HOUSE MEMBERS PUSH FOR IRS CLINTON PROBE
“recent media reports have revealed that the Foundation failed to report millions of dollars in grants from foreign governments that it accepted while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and that it facilitated private business transactions between foreign entities” and as such, “given the substantial public interest involved, we feel a prompt review of the Foundation’s tax-exempt status is appropriate to determine whether it is acting within the scope of its charitable mission.”

Stephanopoulos gave $50K to Clinton Foundation - Fox News: “ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos never disclosed to his network -- or viewers -- $50,000 in contributions he made to the Clinton Foundation in recent years

Clinton Foundation donor flails in interview - WashEx: “A major Clinton Foundation donor who stood to profit immensely from the highly scrutinized takeover of Uranium One by the Russian government struggled to explain his involvement with the charity under questioning Tuesday. Frank Holmes, one of several investors cited in a New York Times article about the deal, attempted to dismiss allegations that he had donated to the Clinton Foundation in an effort to secure Hillary Clinton's approval for the 2010 transaction during an interview on CNBC's ‘Squawk Box.’ Several of his claims directly contradicted statements that flashed on the screen while he was speaking. A fact box on the screen indicated U.S. Global Investors, of which Holmes is CEO, held $4.7 million in shares of Uranium during the first quarter of 2011. But Holmes said his company was ‘long gone before 2008.’”

HILLARY READY FOR NEXT MILE IN MARATHON RUN TO THE LEFT
With New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Sen. Elizabeth Warren pushing the Democratic left’s agenda in Washington today, a new report out today from longtime Clinton economic guru Joseph Stiglitz advocates re-writing market rules he says have led to a concentration of wealth among the richest Americans and squeezed middle class. The blueprint published by a liberal think tank is likely to influence Hillary Clinton’s policy positions, NYT reports. “Several proposals by Mr. Stiglitz, including raising taxes on capital gains and a push to make corporations less focused on short-term quarterly returns, are in line with what Mrs. Clinton is expected to embrace in her campaign. She has already spoken about other proposals in the report, like reforming the criminal justice system, an immigration overhaul and paid sick and family leave.”

Squeeze play --[Citing the recent verbal warfare between President Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren over the trade deal, National Journal looks back on five feuds between Warren and the White House that have spilled out into the open.]
Obama’s Hillary headache --Obama — have done their best to keep the presidential campaign at bay, aided by a Clinton campaign that, until very recently, had been sandblasted of anything approaching serious policy proposals….That’s only going to get more awkward as the campaign gears up and Clinton starts laying out an agenda, which necessarily will include either new items or recycled Obama proposals that failed to launch (universal pre-school, anyone?).”

HILLARY’S BIG MONEY LOGIC
WaPo’s Chris Cilliza dives into Clintonese logic to explain how Hillary Clinton reconciles her advocacy for reigning in big money with her embrace of a super PAC looking to raise millions to knock off her Republican opponent. “The answer she will likely give…is some version of the unilateral disarmament case: The only way to bring about real campaign finance reform is for me to get elected president. The only way for me to get elected president is to ensure a close-to-fair financial fight. The only way to ensure a close-to-fair financial fight is to help the super PAC raise money…But, the honest truth is that Clinton isn't likely to be heavily pressed on the question…

No State review of undisclosed Clinton Foundation donations - AP: “[State] Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said the contributions in question, made to the Clinton Health Access Initiative by private donors, would not have been reviewed even if they had all been disclosed under the terms of ethics agreements Clinton signed before she took office. That’s because only donations to the foundation from foreign governments or speaking fees for former President Bill Clinton were subject to vetting.”

[Hillary Clinton continues her California fundraising swing with a luncheon fundraiser at the Portola Valley home of eBay CEO John Donahoe and global affairs director for Human Rights Watch and former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council, Eileen Donahoe.]

Power Play: Hillary’s left turn -Hillary hiding - WaPo: “Clinton’s silence on trade, coming at the worst possible time for Obama, dovetails with her transformation into a presidential candidate eager to align herself more squarely with the liberal wing of her party. In other areas in which Clinton has moved to the left — such as immigration reform and gay marriage — White House aides have been delighted that she has forcefully embraced the president’s governing record. But on trade, Clinton’s hedge has left Obama without political cover in his increasingly bitter feud with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and other progressives, who have fiercely opposed the pact as a boondoggle for big business.”

Hillary bulks up on damage control team -  WSJ: “A pro-Hillary Clinton group formerly under the umbrella of Democratic opposition research group American Bridge is set to become its own super PAC in an effort to more forcefully push back on criticism of Mrs. Clinton….The group will employ an unusual strategy in doing so….[I]t doesn’t plan to make independent expenditures, which are ads explicitly advocating for or against a candidate.”

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Clintons’ foundation has raised nearly $2 billion — and some key questions] –47JH. B43
Over the past week, Bill and Chelsea Clinton toured four African countries with a delegation of billionaires, lobbyists and business executives who have given generously to the Clinton Foundation and now are raising money for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, blurring the line between politics and philanthropy. Chelsea Clinton added: “Whenever I have had a conversation with anyone, it’s always about the work. I’ve never had anyone talk to me about my parents in a political capacity for a foundation program.”
Bill Clinton was defensive to the point of seeming testy in an interview with NBC News this week, saying the foundation had never done anything “knowingly inappropriate” when accepting donations from foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia. we continually assess their value to ensure we are investing in opportunities that will have the greatest positive benefits for society,” Monsanto spokesman Tyson Pruitt said.
Spokesmen for two other previous CGI sponsors, Samsung and Deutsche Bank, refused to say whether they would sponsor the conference again this fall. “When you look at the 2,200 people who work at the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Health Access Initiative, it would be disingenuous to say it hasn’t affected people,” she said. “But it’s affected people insofar as they don’t understand why the world isn’t more interested in the work that they’re doing.”
Republicans have harshly criticized the foundation for accepting millions in donations from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. In response, the Clinton Foundation recently announced it would restrict donations from foreign governments except six Western nations.
Plans continue for CGI America, a domestic-themed conference that Bill and Chelsea Clinton are hosting June 8-10 in Denver that will feature Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, and Detroit Mayor Michael Duggan (D).
[Bill Clinton defends foundation, paid speeches: ‘I gotta pay our bills’]
But other attendees see the Morocco conference as an opportunity to make high-level connections. Faruk Taban, president of the Washington-based Turkic American Alliance, said he flew to Marrakesh to meet African business leaders and persuade them to become active in his group — and said that Bill Clinton’s role as convener “obviously was a big motivation to come.”
source-tyson pruitt, Helderman and Hamburger reported from Washington. Kevin Sieff in Kenya contributed to this report.
Philip Rucker
BILLIONAIRE DONOR STEYER GETS HILLARY HOUSECALL--FOX
Billionaire Tom Steyer and his wife Kat Taylor host Hillary Clinton at their home in upscale Pacific Heights-San Francisco today. The “Conversation with Hillary,” in which the presumptive Democratic nominee will likely be pressed for her position on the Keystone XL pipeline, kicks off a three-day California fundraising swing. Steyer is a green-energy mogul whose business depends on government subsidies and government regulation of his fossil-fuel competitors. Though Clinton has been officially non-committal on Keystone, don’t be surprised if her leftward shift continues as she plays up to West Coast donors.
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