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Miami-Dade County First to End Sanctuary Status

Saturday, 28 January 2017 08:37

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, January 27, 2017:

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The mayor of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Carlos Gimenez, ordered his prison director “to honor all immigration detainer requests received from the Department of Homeland Security” on Thursday, following President Donald Trump’s executive order. He added: “Miami-Dade County complies with federal law and intends to fully cooperate with the federal government.” (See protesters above)

This was music to Trump’s ears, who immediately tweeted

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Apple Supplier Foxconn Negotiating $7 Billion Plant in Pennsylvania

Monday, 23 January 2017 16:25

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, January 23, 2017:

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Speaking at a meeting at company headquarters in Taiwan on Sunday, Foxconn CEO Terry Gou (shown, on left) expanded on his company’s plans to build a $7 billion flat-panel display facility in Pennsylvania. He said the factory could employ between 30,000 and 50,000 people, depending on what kind of deal he could strike with state officials.

Those plans were inadvertently disclosed following a meeting in December between Donald Trump and Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son. A photo revealed a clipboard Son was carrying that clearly said:

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Trump Meets With Tech Executives

Friday, 16 December 2016 06:48

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, December 15, 2016:

Donald Trump opened the gathering of high-tech industry executives on Wednesday, nearly all of whom vociferously opposed him during the presidential campaign, by calling them “a truly amazing group of people.” If any of them thought the meeting would be confrontational, they were disappointed.

Trump went on:

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Final and Buried Reports Reveal Fantastic Government Waste

Wednesday, 07 December 2016 06:43

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, December 6, 2016:

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Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) issued his second annual Federal Fumbles study last week, totaling $247 billion in wasteful projects and nonsensical studies. When fellow Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn retired, the job of finding and then criticizing wasteful projects fell to Lankford.

He is up to the task:

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Trump Picks Former Goldman Sachs Banker for Treasury Secretary

Thursday, 01 December 2016 06:59

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, November 30, 2016:

One of the first criticisms over Donald Trump’s nomination of former Goldman Sachs banker Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday for Treasury secretary came from the Democratic National Committee: “So much for draining the swamp … nominating Steven Mnuchin to be Treasury Secretary is a slap in the face to voters who hoped [Trump] would shake up Washington.”

Just the name “Goldman Sachs” sends shivers down the backs of Americanists.

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Trump Names Steve Bannon as Co-Equal of Priebus

Tuesday, 15 November 2016 20:29

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, November 15, 2016:

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Donald Trump’s announcement on Sunday that he was naming Reince Priebus as his chief of staff and Steve Bannon (shown) as his chief political advisor generated outrage from the Left and the Right. While the Right accused Trump of selling out his principles by installing longtime Republican stalwart Reince Priebus as his personal gatekeeper, most of the Left’s outrage was focused on Bannon, who has made it his life’s mission to oppose and expose the establishment’s control of the media and the political process in general.

Those who know him, however, have a vastly different and more favorable view of the man.

Running Breitbart News ever since its founder, Andrew Breitbart, died in 2012, Bannon has tapped into, and augmented, an increasing number of citizens’ distaste of and outrage against the establishment. More than 40 million people view his website every month,

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Trump Names RNC Chair as Chief of Staff

Monday, 14 November 2016 16:38

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, November 14, 2016:

Upon learning that Donald Trump named the chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), Reince (pronounced “rains”) Priebus to be his chief of staff, Michael Savage called him “the enemy within.” Savage, the host of a popular talk show with 20 million listeners nationwide, added:

He’s the RNC! Everything the voters rejected. He will steer Trump away from every policy we sent him to D.C. to change. He is the enemy within. He is [Paul] Ryan, [Mitch] McConnell, and the Old Guard. They do not want change.

Jenny Beth Martin, the co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, agreed, although in slightly softer terms:

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The Four “Wild Cards” in Trump’s Handful of Advisors

Friday, 11 November 2016 14:07

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, November 11, 2016:

Nervous conservatives are looking for signs that the “establishment” – i.e., Goldman Sachs, big banks, the Council on Foreign Relations, George Soros, etc. – having been unable to derail Donald Trump’s march to the presidency, is going instead to infiltrate and insinuate its operatives into the new Trump administration. Many of them remember the successful infiltration and subsequent manipulation of the Reagan administration with the naming of establishment insider James Baker as Reagan’s chief of staff.

At the moment there appear to be four “wild cards” out of the dozens Trump has already invited into his inner circle: Steven Mnuchin, Peter Navarro, John Paulson, and Carter Page.

The first and most obvious one is Steven Mnuchin, the head of Dune Capital Management and former director at Goldman Sachs, where he amassed a personal fortune estimated at more than $40 million as head of the firm’s trading desk. A graduate of Yale,

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Latest Jobs Report Masks Continuing Weakness

Saturday, 05 November 2016 06:05

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, November 4, 2016:

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The latest jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday morning was trumpeted as reflective of an improving economy. The Wall Street Journal said the report “signal[ed] solid momentum in the labor market just days before American voters elect a new president,” while Jeffry Bartash, writing for MarketWatch, said it “shows the seven-year-old economic recovery still has plenty of life despite a slowdown in growth earlier in the year.”

A hard look behind the headline numbers — 161,000 new jobs created in October and the unemployment rate at 4.9 percent — reveals

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Former Marine Corps General Pleads Guilty in Leaks Case

Friday, 21 October 2016 05:52

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, October 20, 2016:

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General James E. Cartwright, USMC

On Monday retired Marine General James Cartwright (left) agreed to plead guilty to charges that he lied to the FBI during its investigation into leaks over the clandestine Stuxnet operation back in 2013. Stuxnet was a computer virus, or worm, that was designed to harm Iran’s ability to produce weapons-grade material for its nuclear program. (On that same day, the FBI released documents charging that the Department of Justice offered the FBI a “deal” to reclassify some of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails retroactively.)

As Josh Rogin noted in the Washington Post,

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Tax Foundation Rates Tax Plans of Trump and Clinton: Trump’s Plan Wins

Friday, 21 October 2016 05:39

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, October 20, 2016:

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Analysis by the Tax Foundation of all that is currently known about the tax plans proposed by presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton concludes that, if enacted, Clinton’s plan would expand government at the expense of a shrinking economy. On the other hand, Trump’s plan would grow the economy, shrink government’s revenues, raise wages, and expand employment.

But it’s not tax “reform,” claims the study’s author, Kyle Pomerleau,

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If Chosen as Hillary’s VP, Tim Kaine Would Be Invisible

Friday, 22 July 2016 11:16

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, July 22, 2016:

As chances continue to improve that Hillary Clinton will name Virginia Democrat Senator Tim Kaine (above) as her vice-presidential running mate later this afternoon, a closer look at the affable, non-controversial socialist reveals a man not likely to interfere with the Clinton presidency if she wins in November.

He has all the credentials of a socialist and all the charm that is sorely lacking in his would-be running mate.

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Practical Considerations Likely to Thwart Trump’s plans to Deport Illegals or Build His Wall

Monday, 18 July 2016 08:28

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, July 18, 2016:

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As the November presidential election draws closer and Trump draws closer to Hillary in the polls, skeptics are beginning to ask some hard questions: If Trump wins, just how is he going to keep his promise to deport 11 million illegal aliens over the next two years? How is he going to build the Mexico – US wall to keep them from returning? How much will that cost? How long will that take?

The math is daunting:

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Corruption in U.S. House: Fattah Forced to Resign; Rangel Chooses to Retire

Tuesday, 28 June 2016 06:25

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, June 27, 2016:

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Official House Photo of Congressman Chaka Fattah, from Pennsylvania’s 2nd district

Within days of each other, two House Democrats — one a petty thief, the other a big-time plunderer — have had to account for their unethical behaviors. The first was forced to resign from office; the other announced his intention to retire.

Chaka Fattah, whose birth name is Arthur Davenport, represented Pennsylvania’s Second District (mostly Philadelphia and its environs) from 1995 until Thursday, June 23 when he was forced to resign. It wasn’t his idea. Fattah wanted to stay in office until the day before his sentencing on October 4, milking his position for every last penny.

A year ago July, he and four of his associates were indicted on federal charges for

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Will Cruz’s Hail Mary Save His Campaign?

Friday, 29 April 2016 04:41

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Friday, April 29, 2016:

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Before that miraculous toss that put the Dallas Cowboys on top of the Minnesota Vikings in an NFL playoff game in 1975, the last-second desperation throw was called the “Alley-Oop.” But when Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach was asked about it after the game, he said “I closed my eyes and said a Hail Mary” and changed its name forever.

History is replete with Hail Mary tosses that worked.

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Council on Foreign Relations Doesn’t Understand Voters’ Anger

Saturday, 26 March 2016 06:32

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, March 25, 2016:

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In his article published by the Project Syndicate on Thursday, Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) revealed that he doesn’t understand voters’ anger manifesting itself in the unexpected success of candidates viewed as establishment outsiders such as Senator Ted Cruz and businessman Donald Trump.

He noted voters’ “considerable anxiety” and even their “outright anger” but cannot understand why they feel that way. After all, he said,

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Angst over Federal Government Continues to grow

Friday, 29 January 2016 06:42

This article was published by The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, January 27, 2016:

Two of the best-known aphorisms on freedom come from Samuel Adams and Anonymous. First, Anonymous: “The essence of freedom is the limitation of government.” Samuel Adams expanded on it with this:

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Congress Votes to Raid Fed’s Slush Fund to Pay for Highways

Tuesday, 24 November 2015 05:53

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, November 23, 2015:

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In its never-ending quest to spend money it doesn’t have, but not wanting to raise taxes, especially during the current election cycle, on Thursday, November 5 Congress passed a $325-billion, six-year transportation bill that is to be financed by selling off some of the country’s strategic petroleum reserves and raiding the Federal Reserve.

In its editorial complaint about the bill, the Washington Post said

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Boehner Cuts Deal With White House; National Debt to Reach $20 Trillion

Wednesday, 28 October 2015 04:39

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, October 27, 2015:

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After working privately over the past several weeks with members of the White House staff, as well as with Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and Harry Reid (D-Nev.), House Speaker John Boehner succeeded late Monday night in cobbling together a deal that gives everyone in Washington what they want but leaves the bill for the taxpayer. By the time the dust settles, the deal will cause the country’s national debt to reach $20 trillion within the next 18 months, if not sooner.

Doing an end run around usual House procedures, Boehner

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Justice Department Declares Lois Lerner Innocent in IRS Targeting Scandal

Wednesday, 28 October 2015 04:31

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, October 25, 2015:

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On Friday, in a letter to the chairman and the ranking member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, Peter Kadzik, the assistant attorney general of the Justice Department, let Lois Lerner (shown) off the hook:

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