UPDATED – 08/11/2018 – Videos of all Candidates Presented by The Highlands Tea Party 2018 Midterm – Cary Pigman, Matt Caldwell Ron DeSantis, Bob White, Arlene Tuck, Ben Albritton, Greg Steube, Julio Gonzales, Bill Akins, Rep DeSantis, Jack Richie, Ashley Moody, Baxter Troutman, Mike McCalister, Governor Rick Scott
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Author: Update 08/11
CARY PIGMAN – (INCUMBENT) FLORIDA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MATT CALDWELL – (CANDIDATE) COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE
CHARLENE EDWARDS -(INCUMBENT) HIGHLANDS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD
ISSAC DURRANCE– (CONTENDER) HIGHLANDS COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD
UPDATED 08/06
MIKE McCALISTER – Candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture
FLORIDA GOVERNOR RICK SCOTT – Running for Senate Seat of Bill Nelson
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- RON DeSANTIS – Candidate Governor Florida
Film at Trump National Golf Club – Jupiter 7/14/2018 - DENISE GRIMSLEY – Candidate Commissioner of Agriculture Florida
- BOB WHITE – CANDIDATE FORT FLORIDA GOVERNOR
- ARLENE TUCK – HIGHLANDS COUNTY COMMISSIONER
- JACK RICHIE -HIGHLANDS COUNTY COMMISSIONER (INCUMBENT)
- BEN ALBRITTON – FLORIDA SENATE (SEAT HELD BY SENATOR DENISE GRIMSLEY)
- AKINS – GONZALES DEBATE – U.S. HOUSE DISTRICT 17 ( SEAT OF REP TOM ROONEY)
- BILL AKINS – CANDIDATE FOR U.S. HOUSE DISTRICT 17 (SEAT OF TOM ROONEY)
- GREG STEUBE – U.S. HOUSE DISTRICT 17 ( SEAT OF REP TOM ROONEY)
- BAXTER TROUTMAN – CANDIDATE FOR FLORIDA AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER
- ASHLEY MOODY – CANDIDATE FOR FLORIDA ATTORNEY GENERAL
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THE HIGHLANDS TEA PARTY MEETING – August 14, 2018 – Jill Compton Twist Highlands County School Board
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AND OUR NATIONS DESTINY
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MEETING August 14, 2018
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SPEAKERS
UPCOMING SPEAKERS & EVENTS,
August 21, 2018 – 90th birthday cake for Homer.
NOTICE: August 28, 2018 – NO MEETING ELECTION NIGHT – DO YOUR DUTY “VOTE”
Vice Chair Bob Gilmore –
Chairman John Nelson –
1) Review Judges and Amendments hs.
1) For the next 7 weeks I will be attending the Highlands County Sheriff’s Citizen’s Academy,
on Thursday nights 5:30 to 8:30 P.M. Saturday 9/29 will be a day at the sheriffs Gun Range.
Please let myself or Bob know if you or any member is going in for surgery, or have other issues we should put in our prayers.
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A) Adam Putnam (R) U.S. Sugar has donated $340,000 to his PAC, Florida Grown, since January 2017. Florida Crystals has donated $65,000.
B) Adam Putnam (R) accused rival Ron DeSantis of backing a massive tax increase that would hurt Florida’s economy, claimed groceries, gas, home purchases would all cost 23 % more What Adam Putnam fails to mention in the ad is the following: The bill HR25 which had been introduced in congress 10 times. The Fair Tax Act is to introduce a 23 percent federal sales tax that would replace other federal taxes. The bill eliminates income, estate, payroll, and gift taxes, as well as the Internal Revenue Service itself. This act would only apply on the purchase of new items, not items like a used car. used furniture, etc. Also calls for a monthly payment to all family households of lawful U.S. residents as an advance rebate, or “prebate”, of tax on purchases up to the poverty level. The Fair Tax plan does not appear in DeSantis campaign materials. in fact, He’s running on low taxes and limited regulation in Florida.”
C) Andrew Gillum (D): The Tallahassee mayor has not received any contributions from the sugar industry, BUT. he did take $250,000-dollar donation the best-known Socialist in the world, the man who turned his back on his Jewish people and supported Hitler, George Soros
D) DeSantis (R) vocally opposes sugar subsidies, calling them “costly” to taxpayers. Since then, the sugar industry stopped contributing to him, and their relationship has soured.
E) Gwen Graham (D): announced she would not accept sugar donations – Did accept $17,400 in 2014 & 15 said she would donate same amount to the Non-Profit Indian River Keeper.
F) Philip Levine (D): The former Miami Beach mayor will not accept sugar donations, he announced in Martin County
G) Candidates running for governor 4 of the 7 running are multi-millionaires Jeff Greene (D) – $3.8 billion net worth, Philip Levine (D) – $100 million, Gwen Graham (D) – $14.9 million, Adam Putnam (R) – $8.7 million, Chris King (D) – unknown (but in the millions), Ron DeSantis (R): -$538,000, Andrew Gillum (D) – unknown (but a “non-millionaire”), Bob White (R) Not Listed
H) Adam Putnam (R) posting false & deceptive ads about Rep. DeSantis, this time that DeSantis voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive welfare benefits voting against the 2104 Farm Bill. Taking a chapter out of Sun Tsu – all warfare is based on deception – allies of Putnam, based on an appallingly dishonest local blogger, are suggesting that Putnam’s opponent, Rep. Ron DeSantis, voted to give food stamps to illegal aliens — by voting against the food stamp-laden 2014 farm bill! The facts: DeSantis voted against the bill because the statist 2014 farm bill, was full of unconstitutional subsidies, Stalinist price controls, and codified Obama’s baseline of food stamp enrollment.
There was before and still is after the vote, contained boilerplate language in the Farm Bill to ensure legal verification for eligibility. Section 4015 dictates that “a state agency shall be required to use an immigration status verification system E-Verify” to determine eligibility of welfare and food stamps. This would eliminate Illegal Aliens. DeSantis was one of 63 republicans and 103 democrats who voted against the 2014 Farm Bill. The farm bill banned illegal immigrants, college students, lottery winners and dead people from getting food stamps, plus the fact that Federal Law already banned illegals from receiving food stamps it was the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
I) Adam Putnam (R) also says DeSantis voted against work requirement for Food Stamp recipients: Federal law already requires many able-bodied food stamp users to work or attend training programs. This program was also part of the farm bill DeSantis voted against. Immaterial the laws Putnam is pointing to were not affected as they were already in effect, this is a deceptive play on words!
J) Adam Putnam (R) also spread deceptive lies regarding DeSantis taking money from out of state donors, “It’s suspicious that people who can’t even vote in Florida want to support Candidates in Florida”. Apparently, he forgets that several million people who have winter residents here and summer up north, are residents of Florida as I was for 10 years when I resided in Colorado. Plus, many national business interests have factories, stores, and employee Florida residents.
K) Adam Putnam’s (R) letter I received last week, he states the following: “Sadly, my republican primary opponent once supported a plan to impose 23 % national sales taxes” Another deceptive lie, he fails to mention that this was during debate of the Fair tax which would replace all federal income taxes (including the alternative minimum tax, corporate income taxes, and capital gains taxes), payroll taxes (including Social Security and Medicare taxes), gift taxes, and estate taxes with a single broad national consumption tax on retail sales. The Fair Tax Act (H.R. 25/S.
So what you see above are a lot of Deceptive lies that Mr. Adam Putnam is spreading on the airwaves, in letters and poster, unfortunately to truth abiding people, he is doing himself a major disfavor.
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Horrifying details released in investigation of ‘extremist Muslim’ compound that allegedly conducted school-shooting training
Judge allows release of suspects linked to ‘extremist Muslim’ compound ahead of trial, as sickening accusations emerge
A state judge has denied a request by prosecutors to keep in jail the five suspects arrested during a raid at a New Mexico compound as they await trial. Prosecutors said children discovered at the “extremist Muslim” compound earlier this month were both trained to use firearms and taught multiple tactical techniques in order to kill teachers, law enforcement and other institutions they found corrupt.
Children at compound were being trained for school attacks
11 malnourished children rescued from a New Mexico compound linked to ‘extremist Muslims’ were being trained to commit school shootings, court documents show; William La Jeunesse reports. The children discovered at an “extremist Muslim” compound in New Mexico earlier this month were both trained to use firearms and taught multiple tactical techniques in order to kill teachers, law enforcement and other institutions they found corrupt, state prosecutors revealed on Monday. The prosecutors provided more details about the accusations during a court hearing in which they asked that Siraj Ibn Wahhaj and four other defendants be held pending trial on child abuse charges.
But the judge in the case ruled against prosecutors’ request.
Judge Sarah Backus said although she was concerned by “troubling facts,” prosecutors failed to articulate any specific threats to the community. She set a $20,000 bond for each defendant and ordered that they wear ankle monitors and have weekly contact with their attorneys.
Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 39, was allegedly training children to commit school shootings. (Taos County Sheriff’s Office)
It was also announced Monday that 3-year-old Abdul-ghani Wahhaj, who had been missing since December, allegedly died amid a ritualistic religious ceremony intended to “cast out demonic spirits,” Reuters reported. “It was a religious ritual carried out… a ritual intended to cast out demonic spirits from Abdul-ghani Wahhaj,” Taos County Prosecutor John Lovelace said.
Public defenders argued the boy’s father was trying to heal the child by reading passages from the Quran but prosecutors claimed he was denying the boy medication. One of the children taken into custody claimed that the boy had died in February. The children said they were told the boy would be resurrected as Jesus and guide them on which “corrupt institutions” to attack, NBC reported citing investigators.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the remains of a child found on the grounds of the compound were Abdul-ghani Wahhaj.
Subhannah Wahhaj, Jany Leveille and Hujrah Wahhaj were arrested on earlier this month. (Taos County Sheriff’s Office) The defendants were arrested and 11 children were taken into custody during a raid Aug. 4 on the compound near the Colorado state line. Wahhaj and the others were seated with their public defenders in a Taos courtroom Monday as prosecutors presented books that were found at the compound, documents related to Wahhaj’s trip to Saudi Arabia and a handwritten notebook that appeared to be some kind of teaching manual. They also pointed to evidence that Wahhaj had taken a series of firearms courses while in Georgia.
Defense attorneys, meantime, argued that prosecutors were trying unjustly to paint their clients as armed militants. Public defenders also argued that the rifles and handguns found on the property were common guns that could be bought at retail stores and that their clients made no aggressive efforts to defend their compound.
Wahhaj is the son of a Brooklyn imam, also named Siraj Wahhaj, who was named by prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the New York Post reported. The elder Wahhaj, who heads Masjid At-Taqwa mosque, was a character witness in the trial for Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the notorious “blind sheikh” who was convicted in 1995 of plotting terror attacks in the U.S.
Fox News’ Travis Feschun, Nicole Darrah and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
SECRET SERVICE ‘AWARE’ OF ANTIFA THREATS TO MURDER TRUMP – ANTIFA” SOME REAL MENTALLY SICK PEOPLE!!
Benny Johnson | Reporter At Large
Multiple 
members of the progressive protest group who gathered outside the White House Sunday threatened President Trump with physical violence and murder.
The Secret Service tells The Daily Caller they are now “aware” of the threats and are “investigating” the progressive protesters.
“The Secret Service is aware of the incident,” a Secret Service spokesperson tells The Daily Caller, clarifying that they cannot further comment on “protective intelligence investigations” as a matter of policy.
When asked, “If Donald Trump showed up here, what would you say or do?” the answers regularly and voluntarily veered to violence. Protesters looked into the camera and threatened to physically harm or “murder the president.” (RELATED: ‘Do Him Like Gaddafi’ — Antifa Protestors Caught On Video Threatening To Kill The President)
One said they wanted to “do him like Gaddafi” in reference to the Libyan leader that was dragged into the street, beaten and murdered by his own people. Another wanted to “piss” on Trump and “beat his ass.” Yet another protester bluntly said he would “murder Trump for the American people.”
It’s time to put aside blowhard journalists of the mainstream and social media and anarchy-seeking Antifa
Newspaper Industry Seeks Character
Assassination of President As Antifa
Wants to Kill Him
By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives—August 13, 2018
Webmaster comment: I hope the CIA/FBI are looking for the Character
on the Right, he needs to go down!
Without ever blinking a jaundiced eye, 100 newspapers will follow the Boston Globe’s
directive on Thursday with a collective hit job on President Donald Trump.
At press time, not a single newspaper had stepped forward to state that this is proof
positive that there is no such thing as an objective free press; that what the Boston Globe is calling for is nothing less than a coordinated hate attack.
Why are they doing it? They’e doing it because they can
Defiant to the readers in roughly half of the country, the newspapers want it etched in stone, that President Donald Trump is wholly hated. What they’re not saying is that he’s hated by the media, but not by 63 million and counting people from all walks of life. In other words the failing and fast fading newspaper industry wants to perfect what they’ve been doing for almost two years: the character assassination of President Donald J. Trump.
Why are they doing it? They’e doing it because they can.
They’re doing it because as the self-appointed gladiators in the political arena, they can already hear the ear-splitting cheers of their Marxist Masters governing from the swamp, and the adulated members of the current Entertainment Industry et al. And that’s not even to mention the masses who they have managed to convince that everything going wrong in their lives is the fault of Donald J. Trump.
While the newspaper is putting on Thursday’s show (as if it hasn’t been happening every other day since Nov. 9, 2016) unhinged groups that likely wouldn’t be there without them, are talking openly about killing Donald Trump. “Antifa activists counter-protesting the so-called ‘Unite the Right 2’ rally across from the White House in Washington, D.C. on Sunday spoke on camera to Daily Caller reporter Benny Johnson, bluntly stating they want to murder President Donald Trump. (Gateway Pundit,, Aug. 13, 2018 )
You can see and hear it for yourself as Johnson posted the video to Twitter complete with captions. “Here was my question to the progressive protesters (I asked everyone the same question): “If Donald Trump showed up here, what would you say or do?” Over half-dozen progressives voluntarily told me they would kill Trump. This is the *definition* of “Violence on both sides”” (GateWay Pundit)
“I was only at the event for one hour. I had 5 people threaten to physically harm or kill the president. “ON CAMERA. At least a few of these threats are worthy of the @SecretService investigation” “I asked leftist progressives outside the White House today what they would do if they met President Trump. Their answers: •”I would murder him.” •”We’d have to do him like Gaddafi.” •”If I get a chance to # him up I would.”
•”Beat his #.” There is violence on both sides”.
There is violence on both sides pic.twitter.com/4HoofkZN3F— Benny (@bennyjohnson) August 13, 2018
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Omarosa Manigault-Newman, Gold Digger – Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!
Omarosa’s claim that Trump used the ‘n-word’ is coming apart pretty quickly
By Dan Calabrese —— Bio and Archives—August 13, 2018
Omarosa Manigault-Newman seems like quite the gold-digger, and one thing gold-diggers do is make spectacular claims sure to get them attention.
There is no story the news media would like to tell more than this one: “Trump caught using n-word.” Manigault-Newman knows this, and she needs attention. So last week she tried to give them that story by making the claim that she had heard Trump say the world backstage while she was working on The Apprentice.
Aside from the question of whether anyone should even care, let’s consider how we might determine whether we believe the claim. After all, if it’s strictly Manigault-Newman herself claiming to be a witness, and there was no one else to corroborate it, then it’s strictly a he-said-she-said and there’s no way to know for sure.
But often people who tell tall tales can’t resist the temptation to make them taller, and that’s where they tend to get in trouble. In Manigault-Newman’s new book “Unhinged,” she claims there is outside corroboration to her claim about Trump using the n-word . . . and that’s where she starts to get herself in trouble.
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Frank Luntz ✔@FrankLuntz I’m in @Omarosa’s book on page 149. She claims to have heard from someone who heard from me that I heard Trump use the N-word. Not only is this flat-out false (I’ve never heard such a thing), but Omarosa didn’t even make an effort to call or email me to verify. Very shoddy work.
Frank Luntz ✔@FrankLuntz Replying to @FrankLuntz @OMAROSA It seems like certain book publishers these days care more about getting a release out than getting the facts down.This is why people don’t trust these “exposés,” which is especially bad for authors who actually are good and reliable.
Yashar Ali 
✔@yashar
I feel like books used to go through more fact-checking. So many big books in the past year, that got big advances, have had major fact checking issues https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/1027989937470066688 …
West VIrginia Supreme Court Judge faces 395 years in prison. $5.5 Million in fines
West Virginia lawmakers move to impeach entire Supreme Court
Justice Allen Loughry faces up to 395 years in prison and $5.5 million in fines. (WVPB)
West Virginia’s House Judiciary Committee moved to impeach the state’s entire Supreme Court this week.
The committee filed 14 articles of impeachment against the four judges on Tuesday, and they will now go to the full House of Delegates for a vote. The articles allege the justices – Chief Justice Margaret Workman and Justices Allen Loughry, Robin Davis and Elizabeth Walker – have engaged in corruption, incompetency, neglect of duty, maladministration and certain high crimes.
The justices are also accused of “wasteful spending of taxpayer funds on lavish office renovations,” using public vehicles for personal matters and creating a plan to pay certain senior judges more than is lawful, the committee said. “This is truly a sad day for West Virginia, but it is an important step forward if we are going to restore the public’s confidence in the judiciary,” state Rep. John Shott, a Republican who chairs the judiciary committee, said in a statement. “This committee did not take this effort lightly. After reviewing all the evidence available to us, it became clear that a culture of entitlement and disregard for both the law and taxpayer funds have damaged the reputation of our judicial system – and that all justices had a part in violating the public’s trust.”
Aside from the articles of impeachment, Loughry was previously suspended for allegedly repeatedly lying about using his office for personal gain. He pleaded not guilty in federal court in June to multiple counts involving alleged fraud.
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TO HELL WITH THE NFL!!!
The cowardly owners and coaches (with exception of Dallas Cowboys) kowtowed to players union and it has started all over again.
Therefore, we should boycott watching NFL (including the Super Bowl) for a 3rd straight year. Send them a message by voting with our pocketbooks that this is not about their 1st Amendment rights – they are employees and should not be protesting against our national anthem, our national colors, and law enforcement everywhere while on the job !
Their message is hypocritical anyway since they are all millionaires, many multi-millionaires who are taking advantage of the capitalistic, free market system and our Constitution defended by the very veterans, active military, law enforcement and all their supporters that they are INSULTING with their stupid, misplaced protests.
As you know, the 2018 Super Bowl winners (who are not champions),the Philadelphia Eagles,including Hillary supporting leftist coaches, players & owner carried this charade a step further by boycotting the traditional reception offered by President Trump who then hosted a reception for real heroes, our military.
THE DEMOCRATS ARE ON THE WRONG TRACK – SOCIALISM IS THE DOWNFALL OF EVERY NATION THAT HAS TRIED IT!
Tax Reform: Heritage just published new research showing that the tax cuts included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act benefit average taxpayers in every single state and district in the country. State and district specific data are available at www.TaxesAndJobs.com, but the typical American household will have an extra $26,000 over ten years, or $45,600 for a family of four. Find your state on the map on the website and explore the data to see how much people in your congressional district will save on their taxes this year. Please SHARE this district-specific data with congressional candidates, your local GOP groups or Tea Party chapters, and on social media.
Democrats are running on undoing Tax Reform and doing away with these savings. Let’s use this district-level data to drill down and emphasize the importance of electing conservative members of congress and making tax cuts permanent.
THE VIEWS A GOLD STAR MOTHER HAS ABOUT PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
Karen VaughnThe views this mother has about Donald Trump are much like many others. Her characterization of Trump as the “Salty Sailor” or as The Fireman paint an excellent picture!!. She has written many great books about her son and family. This is a Comment from KAREN VAUGHN, Mother of Aaron Vaughn, Navy Seal.
Sometimes God uses the no-nonsense, salty sailor to get the job done. Appreciating what the man is doing doesn’t mean we worship the salty sailor or even desire to be like the salty sailor. It doesn’t even mean God admires the salty sailor. Maybe He just knows he’s necessary for such a time as this.
I believe with all my heart that God placed that salty sailor in the White House and gave this nation one more chance in November 2016. Donald Trump is what he is. He is still the man he was before the election. And without guilt, I very much admire what that salty sailor is accomplishing.
He’s not like me. That’s okay with me. I don’t want to be like him. I will never behave like him. I know we’ve NEVER had a man like him lead our nation. It’s crazy and a little mind blowing at times. But I can’t help admire the ability he has to act with his heart rather than a calculated, PC, think tank-screened, carefully edited script. I still believe that is WHY he became our President and WHY he’s been able to handle a landslide of adversity and STILL pass unprecedented amounts of good legislation for our country AND do great works for MANY other nations, including Israel.
I’m THRILLED with what he’s doing for my nation, for the cause of Christ (whether intentional or unintentional, doesn’t matter to me), and for the concept of rebuilding America and putting her FIRST. I will not be ashamed of my position because others don’t see him through the same lens.
Should it matter to me if a fireman drops an f-bomb while he’s pulling me from a burning building? Would I really care about what came out of his mouth in those moments? Heck no! I’d CARE about what he was DOING. He wasn’t sent there to save my soul and I’m not looking to him for spiritual guidance. All I’m thinking in those moments is, “Thank you, Jesus, for sending the fireman.”
I’ll post this article below again for those who still might not understand me. This man is crass. Okay. He’s not careful with what he says. Okay. You feel offended that he’s not a typical statesman. Okay. But he is rebuilding the nation my son died for… the nation I feared was on a fast track to becoming a hopeless cause.
Forgive me if I’m smiling.”
Written by
KAREN VAUGHN
KAVANAUGH NOT A THREAT TO THE DEMOCRATS!
Kavanaugh is no threat to established precedent
By Steven Calabresi, opinion contributor — 08/0 7/18 09:45 AM EDT 34
The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill
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MIKE PENCE’S EMOTIONAL SPEECH AS KOREAN WAR SOLDIERS REMAINS COME HOME
Benny Johnson from the Daily Caller reported on the remains of American heroes being returned from North Korea and showed us a picture of the boxes draped in UN flags. This became a problem for some as those who fought and lost their lives during the Korean War, who is finally now returning to America should be draped in American flags. Seeing the boxes of remains covered in blue UN flags was bothersome for many and some may have felt as though their long-lost family member or friend was disrespected. (the reason was the fact that they do not know for sure if they are American, South Korean, French, Norwegian, as this was a United Nations conflict, plus chances are North Korea did not have 55 American flags. How about we just be thankful that they sent them home wherever that may be)
“One of the most important results of President Trump’s negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is the return of the remains of American troops who perished during the Korean War half a century ago. The remains of over fifty U.S. servicemen arrived in South Korea in accordance with an agreement made between Trump and Kim Jong Un last month.
The remains were transported from North Korea to Osan Air Base at Pyeongtaek, South Korea, where a formal acceptance ceremony for the remains was performed.
U.N. honor guards carried the boxes containing the still unconfirmed remains of U.S. servicemen killed during the Korean War. The date the remains landed in the South happened to be July 27 — the 65th anniversary of the armistice that ended the open hostilities of the Korean War.” Thanks to talks between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, the heroes are finally returning to their friends and family. However, it was Mike Pence who took matters into his own hands and made sure that all 55 of the presumed American casualties were properly draped in American flags.
“Dozens of cases believed to contain the remains of missing American soldiers who died during the Korean War have finally returned to US soil – as President Trump praised North Korea’s ‘kind’ Kim Jong-un for keeping his word to return them. In an emotional and solemn ceremony, Vice President Mike Pence welcomed the remains of the presumed casualties on Wednesday after they were flown from South Korea. American flags were draped over the 55 cases as they arrived in Hawaii and were escorted off an aircraft by military honor guards.
‘Some have called the Korean War the ‘forgotten war.’ But today, we prove these heroes were never forgotten,’ Pence said at the ceremony.
‘Today, our boys are coming home.’
Each of the 55 containers was accompanied by one Marine, one sailor, one soldier and one airman. They set them gently on risers lined up inside the hangar as Pence stood alongside Admiral Phil Davidson, commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command. Hours later, Trump took to Twitter to praise the ‘beautiful ceremony’ and to thank the North Korean leader for keeping his commitment after they reached an agreement during their recent summit.”
President Donald Trump later thanked Vice President Mike Pence and Kim Jong-un for their involvement on making sure the supposed remains of the 55 American heroes were returned and the ceremony was beautiful. It’s very interesting to see an American president communicating peacefully towards a North Korean dictator. Is this a sign that times have changed for the better and two countries who were once a finger snap away from demolishing each other (not really) are not bosom buddies?
All the talk about Russia and here’s Trump making deals with North Korea instead. Will this make Vladimir Putin jealous?
How will this story be spun to fit a narrative of the mainstream media?
This week: Senate tries to wrap up before brief break
BY JORDAIN CARNEY – 07/30/18 06:01 AM EDT
Senators are racing to finish up a slate of legislation before heading out of town for a brief August recess.
The Senate is poised to wrap up work on two must-pass bills, pass another government funding package, confirm Trump’s 24th appeals court judge and go to conference with the House before leaving Washington for a week.
With the House out of session until September, the Senate is the only chamber in town this week.
Unlike the House, senators are scheduled to leave at the end of the week to take a brief one-week summer recess, Aug. 6-10, after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) canceled most of the break earlier this year.
And for senators hoping that they could end up getting back some of their traditional summer vacation at the end of the month, GOP leadership has a warning: Don’t get your hopes up. “We’re not taking an August recess this year. We have a lot of work to do and we’re going to work right through the summer,” McConnell told a local Kentucky radio stationlate last week. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), McConnell’s No. 2, separately told reporters that McConnell is “deadly serious” about keeping the Senate in session throughout August.
Republicans argue the schedule change will let them catch up on confirming President Trump’s nominees and passing smaller government funding packages ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline to avoid the third shutdown of the year. But it also pays political dividends for Republicans by keeping a slate of vulnerable red-state Democrats in Washington during the week and off the campaign trail.
Appropriations
The Senate is poised to wrap up its second government funding package this week. The House passed its version of the legislation — which includes Financial Services, Interior, Environment and related agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency — earlier this month. The $58.7 billion legislation included language to block D.C. from implementing its own individual mandate on health insurance after 2019.
Senators are adding funding for Agriculture, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development into the bill.
The 10 Most Destructive Americans of My 8 Decades
Frank Hawkins is a former US Army intelligence officer, Associated Press foreign correspondent, international businessman, senior newspaper company executive, founder and owner of several marketing companies and published novelist. He is currently retired in North Carolina. mailto:fhawk852@gmail.com
America has undergone enormous change during the nearly eight decades of my life. Today, America is a bitterly divided, poorly educated and morally fragile society with so-called mainstream politicians pushing cynical identity politics, socialism and open borders. The president of the United States is threatened with impeachment because the other side doesn’t like him. The once reasonably unbiased American media has evolved into a hysterical left wing mob. How could the stable and reasonably cohesive America of the 1950s have reached this point in just one lifetime? Who are the main culprits?
Here’s my list of the 10 most destructive Americans of the last 80 years.
10) Mark Felt Deputy director of the FBI, aka Deep Throat during the Watergate scandal. This was the first public instance of a senior FBI officially directly interfering in America’s political affairs. Forerunner of James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Andrew McCabe.
9) Bill Ayers Represents the deep and ongoing leftist ideological damage to our education system. An unrepentant American terrorist who evaded punishment, he devoted his career to radicalizing American education and pushing leftist causes. Ghost wrote Obama’s book, Dreams of My Father.
8) Teddy Kennedy Most folks remember Teddy as the guy who left Mary Joe Kopechne to die in his car at Chappaquiddick. The real damage came after he avoided punishment for her death and became a major Democrat force in the US Senate, pushing through transformative liberal policies in health care and education. The real damage was the 1965 Hart-Cellar immigration bill he pushed hard for that changed the quota system to increase the flow of third world people without skills into the US and essentially ended large-scale immigration from Europe.
7) Walter Cronkite Cronkite was a much beloved network anchor who began the politicization of America’s news media with his infamous broadcast from Vietnam that described the Tet Offensive as a major victory for the Communists and significantly turned the gullible American public against the Vietnam War. In fact, the Tet offensive was a military disaster for the NVA and Viet Cong, later admitted by North Vietnamese military leaders. Decades later Cronkite admitted he got the story wrong. But it was too late. The damage was done.
6) Bill and Hillary Clinton It’s difficult to separate Team Clinton. Bill’s presidency was largely benign as he was a relative fiscal conservative who rode the remaining benefits of the Reagan era. But his sexual exploits badly stained the Oval Office and negatively affected America’s perception of the presidency. In exchange for financial support, he facilitated the transfer of sensitive military technology to the Chinese. Hillary, a Saul Alinsky acolyte, is one of the most vicious politicians of my lifetime, covering up Bill’s sexual assaults by harassing and insulting the exploited women and peddling influence around the globe in exchange for funds for the corrupt Clinton Foundation. She signed off on the sale of 20% of the US uranium reserve to the Russians after Bill received a $500,000 speaking fee in Moscow and the foundation (which supported the Clinton’s regal lifestyle) received hundreds of millions of dollars from those who benefited from the deal. Between them, they killed any honor that might have existed in the dark halls of DC.
5) Valerie Jarrett – The Rasputin of the Obama administration. A Red Diaper baby, her father, maternal grandfather and father-in-law (Vernon Jarrett who was a close friend and ally of Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis) were hardcore Communists under investigation by the U.S. government. She has been in Obama’s ear for his entire political career pushing a strong anti-American, Islamist, anti-Israeli, socialist/communist, cling-to-power agenda.
4) Jimmy Carter – Carter ignited modern day radical Islam by abandoning the Shah and paving the way for Ayatollah Khomeini to take power in Tehran. Iran subsequently became the main state sponsor and promoter of international Islamic terrorism. When Islamists took over our embassy in Tehran, Carter was too weak to effectively respond thus strengthening the rule of the radical Islamic mullahs.
3) Lyndon Johnson Johnson turned the Vietnam conflict into a major war for America. It could have ended early if he had listened to the generals instead of automaker Robert McNamara. The ultimate result was: 1) 58,000 American military deaths and collaterally tens of thousands of American lives damaged; and 2) a war that badly divided America and created left wing groups that evaded the draft and eventually gained control of our education system. Even worse, his so-called War on Poverty led to the destruction of American black families with a significant escalation of welfare and policies designed to keep poor families dependent on the government (and voting Democrat) for their well-being. He deliberately created a racial holocaust that is still burning today. A strong case could be made for putting him at the top of this list.
2) Barack Hussein Obama – Obama set up America for a final defeat and stealth conversion from a free market society to socialism/communism. As we get deeper into the Trump presidency, we learn more each day about how Obama politicized and compromised key government agencies, most prominently the FBI, the CIA and the IRS, thus thoroughly shaking the public’s confidence in the federal government to be fair and unbiased in its activities. He significantly set back race and other relations between Americans by stoking black grievances and pushing radical identity politics. Obama’s open support for the Iranian mullahs and his apologetic lead from behind foreign policy seriously weakened America abroad. His blatant attempt to interfere in Israel’s election trying to unseat Netanyahu is one of the most shameful things ever done by an American president.
1) John Kerry Some readers will likely say Kerry does not deserve to be number one on this list. I have him here because I regard him as the most despicable American who ever lived. After his three faked Purple Hearts during his cowardly service in Vietnam, he was able to leave the US Navy early. As a reserve naval officer and in clear violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, he traveled to Paris and met privately with the NVA and the Viet Cong. He returned to the United States parroting the Soviet party line about the war and testified before Congress comparing American soldiers to the hordes of Genghis Khan. It was a clear case of treason, giving aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war. We got a second bite of the bitter Kerry apple when as Obama’s secretary of state, he fell into bed with the Iranian (Death to America) mullahs giving them the ultimate green light to develop nuclear weapons along with billions of dollars that further supported their terrorist activities. Only the heroic Swift Vets saved us from a Manchurian Candidate Kerry presidency. Ultimately we got Obama.
Dishonorable Mentions! (Just missed the list)
John Brennan Obama’s CIA director who once voted for Communist Gus Hall for president. A key member of the Deep State who severely politicized the CIA. Called President Trump treasonous for meeting with the president of Russia.
Jane Fonda movie actress who made the infamous trip to Vietnam during the war in support of the Communists. She represents hard left Hollywood that has done so much damage to our culture.
Jimmy Hendrix and Janice Joplin Both revered entertainers helped usher in the prevailing drug culture and personally suffered the consequences. Karma’s a bitch.
Robert Johnson /BET Helped popularize ho’s, bitches and pimps while making millions on great hits such as Jigga my Nigga, Big Pimpin, Niggas in Paris and Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. Many scholars within the African American community maintain that BET perpetuates and justifies racism by adopting the stereotypes held about African Americans, affecting the psyche of young viewers through the bombardment of negative images of African Americans. Who can disagree?
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr./The New York Times Once the gold standard of American journalism, the paper always had a liberal tilt and occasionally made bad mistakes. As the years have gone along, the paper has slid further and further left and today is virtually the primary propaganda arm of the increasingly radical Democrat Party. Still retains influence in Washington and New York.
George Soros Jewish former Nazi collaborator in his native Hungary who as a self-made billionaire has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into left wing groups and causes. The damage he has caused is difficult to measure, but it’s certainly large. He has funded much of the effort to kill the Trump presidency.
Frank Marshall Davis – Anti-white, black Bolshevik, card-carrying Soviet agent. Probable birth father and admitted primary mentor of young Barak Hussein Obama.
Letter From Senator Bill Cassidy (Louisiana), written to our member on President Trumps choice of Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court
Dear Ms. Smith,
Thank you for writing me about President Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as a nominee for the position of Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue.
Judge Kavanaugh is a well-respected, independent-minded adjudicator with a proven track record as a judge who will apply the law as written and enforce the text, structure, and original understanding of the Constitution. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and was a law clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy, the man whose seat he has been nominated to fill.
Judge Kavanaugh has 12 years of experience on the D.C. Appellate Court bench where the Supreme Court has endorsed his opinions more than a dozen times. His opinions have been cited by more than 210 judges across the country. The American people will be well served by an eminently qualified, fair-minded jurist. I’m looking forward to the Senate confirmation process this fall and I anticipate that Judge Kavanaugh will be confirmed .
It is the President’s Constitutional responsibility to nominate judges to the Supreme Court and it is my responsibility as a senator to give my advice to the President about his nominees and consent to the choice he has made to serve on the Supreme Court.
I will continue to represent the views of my state and do so through hearing from constituents like you. Please continue to reach out, either by phone or by email, when you have another question or concern. You can reach my office in Washington DC at 202-224-5824 or submit an email
America Resurgent Homeland Security Summit – September 30, 2018 Sunday 10 AM to 9 PM
America Resurgent Homeland Security Summit
This America Resurgent Homeland Security Conference brings leading experts in national/homeland security from the US military, intelligence agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA, DEA), journalism, politics and local communities to address crucial and timely subjects affecting our families’ future.
Benefit For Disabled Veterans
Sunday, September 30, 2018 10 a.m. – 9:00p.m
Soldiers Memorial Fund
Receives All Profits.
Selma/Al Katz & Iric Grossman Memorial Conference
“All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” – Edmund Burke
“We must all hang together or we shall hang separately” – Benjamin Franklin
Powerful Pro-American National Security Program featuring US Military, CIA, Journalists, Political Candidates, & prominent local speakers.
Abacoa Golf Club
105 Barbados Dr.
Jupiter, Florida
America Resurgent Homeland Security Conference
Tentative Speakers/Topics:
1. Jim Angle — (Fmr. Sr Wash. D.C.,White House Correspondent) – Media Bias & Porous Borders
2. Dr. Richard Benkin — (Human Rights Activist) – The Dangers To America Of Ignoring The Hindu Holocaust
3. Dr. Robert Katz — (Exec. Dir., America Resurgent) – A Light Unto The Nations — The Miracle of Israel
4. Clare Lopez (Fmr. CIA Operations) – Saddam’s Revenge: Enemy Control Of Port Canaveral
5. Col. Mike McCallister — (USA – Ret.) – What Makes America Great
6. Dr. Peter Pry — (Fmr. CIA/EMP Commission) – Defeating The Deep State
7. Bernard Sansaricq — (Fmr. President of Haitian Senate) – The Clinton Pillage of Haiti
8. Joshua Thifault — (Turning Point USA) – Salvaging A Brainwashed & Lost Generation
9. Jeff Sanow — (Fmr. CIA/Clandestine Service) – Radical Islam 101/Christian Persecution In The Middle East & Beyond
10. Leading Candidates for Florida Governor, Senator and Congress Invited
Notes:
Speakers/Speaking Order subject to change/cancellations
Video Recording of Conference will take place
Highly regarded public golf course on site
Excellent restaurants in vicinity
Click here for a list of restaurants that are all within walking distance from the hotel
Door Prizes: Military books, CDs
Musical Accompaniment: All That Jazz Septet
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Free Concert – Mingling/Networking/Drinking Cash Bar
Cigars Under The Stars 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Register Early, Space Limited to first 200
Pre-Summit Party/Free — Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 2:00 p.m. — meet @ Abacoa Golf Club
Jupiter Inlet Museum & Lighthouse (Admission Fee)
Cuz it’s better to light one candle than curse the darkness.
6:00 p.m. Dinner — Best Rib Joint In Town (Mrs. Smokeys)
Post Summit Picnic/Park/Pier Party & Prayer – Free – Monday, October 1, 2018 2:00 p.m. (Meet @ Abacoa Golf Club)
Stroll @ Juno Dunes Natural Area
Juno Beach: Prayer for D-Day Soldiers
6:00 p.m. Dinner – Juno Beach Fish House
Cuz life’s a beach, and then you sit at the right hand of G-d, eternally (if you lived right)
Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018 — $30 Admission Fee (covers cost of all you can eat buffet lunch/concert)
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Poll: Graham, DeSantis Take Lead In Florida’s Gubernatorial Race
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TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – With the primary elections almost exactly a month away, a poll released Friday shows Democrat Gwen Graham and Republican Ron DeSantis as the front-runners in the race to replace Gov. Rick Scott.
The Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy poll came after Florida Atlantic University also released a poll this week showing Graham and DeSantis leading their gubernatorial primaries — though the margins were larger in the Mason-Dixon results.
“Democrat Gwen Graham and Republican Ron DeSantis have established themselves as the clear front-runners in their respective gubernatorial primaries,” Mason-Dixon said in analysis accompanying its results.
The Mason-Dixon poll showed Graham, a former congresswoman from Tallahassee, getting the support of 27 percent of Democratic voters, followed by former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine at 18 percent. They were followed by Palm Beach businessman Jeff Greene at 12 percent, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum at 10 percent, Winter Park businessman Chris King at 7 percent and other candidates at 1 percent. Many Democratic voters — 25 percent — were undecided as the Aug. 28 primary nears
The Florida Atlantic University poll, by comparison, gave Graham a four-point edge over Levine.
Graham has large leads over her primary competitors among women and Hispanic voters, according to the Mason-Dixon poll. But she also might be benefiting from Greene’s entrance into the race last month, with Mason-Dixon saying Levine’s “previously growing base of support appears to be stalled.”
“Levine had been running about even with Graham until Greene jumped in,” the Mason-Dixon analysis said. “Both men have extremely similar profiles — politically experienced, successful business owners who are white, male, Jewish and from South Florida. They each have tremendous personal wealth that gives them the ability to put a considerable amount of their own money into their campaigns. With this over-lapping appeal, the two are drawing a combined 30 percent of voters — slightly more than Graham.”
In the Republican gubernatorial primary, meanwhile, the poll showed DeSantis, a Northeast Florida congressman who enjoys support from President Donald Trump, with a double-digit lead over state Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam.
Mason-Dixon’s analysis pointed to Trump’s support as a key factor for DeSantis. The president is slated to hold a rally Tuesday in Tampa in which he will tout DeSantis.
“It is likely that President Donald Trump’s endorsement of DeSantis is the driving factor behind the shift in the race,” the Mason-Dixon analysis said.
The poll said 41 percent of GOP voters backed DeSantis, while 29 percent supported Putnam. The Florida Atlantic University poll, by comparison, gave DeSantis a nine-point edge over Putnam. Mason-Dixon’s results indicated DeSantis has large leads over Putnam among male and white voters.
Mason-Dixon, a longtime pollster in Florida, conducted telephone interviews of 625 registered voters statewide who said they were likely to vote in the November general election. The poll was conducted from Monday through Wednesday.
The News Service of Florida’s Jim Saunders contributed to this report.
INTERESTING CLIP FROM THE ORLANDO SENTINEL DeSANTIS vs PUITNAM
Scott Maxwell Contact Reporter
I’ve always thought DeSantis was the more solid choice for Republicans. He’s a former Navy JAG officer, member of Congress and rock-solid conservative.
Republicans seem to agree as DeSantis is surging in the polls. He’s gone from 15 points behind Adam Putnam in one poll to more than 15 points ahead in another.
That’s partly because Putnam is a career politician (44 years old and in elected office since he was 22) whose campaign has been a train wreck. It’s not that Putnam’s tactical operation has been poorly run. It’s that his actual record has been exposed. And for Putnam, that may be fatal.
Putnam’s agriculture office has botched gun permits. The state’s waters are now thick with polluted green slop after he spent years fussing about environmental protection.
And there’s the fact that he declared himself a “proud NRA sellout” — an admission that made even ardent Second Amendment supporters wince. Many people, after all, respect gun rights. No one respects a “sellout.”
Meanwhile, DeSantis, a Bronze Star recipient and graduate of Yale University and Harvard law, has scored endorsements from President Trump and Fox News celebrities while reminding voters that he stood up to Big Sugar, which has poured money into Putnam’s campaign.
The knock against DeSantis is that he kowtows to the president. The knock against Putnam is that he kowtows to any business interest with a campaign check.
Regardless of who wins, count on Republicans rallying behind their guy. Because, unlike Democrats — who sometimes turn into pouty, “I’m voting for Jill Stein!” defeatists after their preferred candidate loses — Republicans usually unite after a primary.
The primary vote is Aug. 28. The last day to register to vote or pick or switch parties before the primary is July 30.
smaxwell@orlandosentinel.com
I WAS THINKING?
I was thinking; Since only 11 million people have Obama-Care, how will 24 million people die if it is repealed? Will an additional 13 million people be randomly shot?
I was thinking; If Donald Trump deleted all of his emails, wiped his server with Bleachbit and destroyed all of his phones with a hammer, would the Mainstream Media suddenly lose all interest in the story and declare him innocent.
I was thinking; If women do the same job for less money, why do companies hire men to do the same job for more money?
I was thinking; If you rob a bank in a Sanctuary City, is it illegal or is it just an Undocumented Withdrawal?
I was thinking; Each ISIS attack now is a reaction to Trump policies, but all ISIS attacks during Obama’s term were due to Climate Change and a plea for jobs.
I was thinking; We should stop calling them all ‘Entitlements’. Welfare, Food Stamps, WIC, ad nausea are not entitlements. They are taxpayer-funded handouts, and shouldn’t be called entitlements at all. Social Security and Veterans Benefits are Entitlements because the people receiving them are entitled to them. They were earned and paid for by the recipients.
I was thinking; If Muslims want to run away from a Muslim country, does that mean they’re Islamophobic?
I was thinking; If Liberals don’t believe in biological gender then why did they march for women’s rights?
I was thinking; How did the Russians get Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC to steal the Primary from Bernie Sanders? How did Russia get Donna Brazile to leak debate questions to Hillary Clinton in advance of the debates?
I was thinking; Why is it that Democrats think Super delegates are fine, but they have a problem with the Electoral College?
I was thinking; If you don’t want the FBI involved in elections, don’t nominate someone who’s being investigated by the FBI.
I was thinking; If Hillary’s speeches cost $250,000 an hour, how come no one shows up to her free ones?
I was thinking; The DNC is mad at Russia because they ‘think’ they are trying to manipulate our election by exposing that the DNC is manipulating our election.
I was thinking; If Democrats don’t want foreigners involved in our elections, why do they think it’s all right for illegals to vote?
POLL RESULTS MONTH OF JULY FLORIDA GOVERNOR RACE DeSANTIS – PUTNAM
Polls
2018 Florida Governor
| Poll | Date | Sample | MoE |
DeSantis
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Putnam
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Spread | ||||
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| RCP Average | 7/2 – 7/25 | — | — | 38.8 | 27.8 | DeSantis +11.0 | ||||
| Mason-Dixon | 7/23 – 7/25 | 500 LV | 4.5 | 41 | 29 | DeSantis +12 | ||||
| Florida Atlantic University | 7/20 – 7/21 | 262 RV | 6.0 | 36 | 27 | DeSantis +9 | ||||
| Gravis | 7/13 – 7/14 | 905 LV | 3.3 | 35 | 29 | DeSantis +6 | ||||
| Remington Research (R) | 7/2 – 7/5 | 2826 LV | 1.8 | 43 | 26 | DeSantis +17 |
