Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel announced Tuesday his endorsement of businessman and former Army officer Otto Voit to be Pennsylvania's next State Treasurer.
"As State Treasurer of Ohio and as a fellow veteran, I am proud to endorse Otto Voit to be Pennsylvania's next State Treasurer. As a successful businessman, Otto has the right experience to lead Pennsylvania's finances. As a former Army officer, I know he has the integrity and the leadership traits necessary to reform Harrisburg.
Otto is committed to bringing government transparency to Pennsylvania and I'm glad to stand with him in support of PACheckbook.com, his initiative modeled after our efforts in Ohio. We implemented OhioCheckbook.com to increase government transparency and hold our elected officials accountable by posting state spending online. OhioCheckbook.com is setting a new national standard for government transparency, bringing Ohio from 46th to 1st nationally in government accountability and transparency.
Otto's vision for PAcheckbook.com will open up government and bring the transparency and accountability that Pennsylvania taxpayers deserve."
Voit thanked Mandel for his support. "Ohio has become the gold standard for economic success and government accountability. I appreciate Treasurer Mandel's support as we work to do the same here in Pennsylvania."
Josh Mandel has served as Ohio State Treasurer since 2011. He previously served in the Ohio State Legislature and on the Lyndhurst City Council.
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
An Intimate Setting Features World Class Show
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| Photo by Jeffrey Apoian |
Paul Jost, an eclectic artist who is a vocalist, musician, arranger and composer, has been performing worldwide with recent tours in South Korea and Ireland and a performance in Germany at JazzAhead, A resident of Southern New Jersey, he plays frequently on the east coast. Paul is included on many albums and his solo CD Breaking Through (Dot Time Records) has been getting raves worldwide. Recently commissioned by Exit Zero Jazz Festival to interpret Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” album as Jazz, he headlined the concert there and performs it frequently including last month for a live recording at The Bitter End.
The Jost Project, a band with vibraphonist Tony Miceli, bassist Kevin MacConnell, drummer Doug Hirlinger and Paul on vocals and harmonica, reaches new audiences for Jazz through the lens of classic rock. Their CD, Can’t Find My Way Home (Dot Time Records) and Breaking Through are played on Sirius XM Radio. Paul is honored to have recently performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra’s concertmaster David Kim.
For more information about Paul Jost, visit pauljostmusic.com. “Breaking Through” is available on www.dottimerecords.com, amazon.com and itunes.com.
For more information about Paul Jost, visit pauljostmusic.com. “Breaking Through” is available on www.dottimerecords.com, amazon.com and itunes.com.
The Rationale Behind A Tortured Decision . . .
From Matt Rooney at Save Jersey:
If this is your first trip to SaveJersey.com, John or Jane Doe U.S. Voter, then I should go ahead and get this out of the way up front for your benefit:
I’m not a Trumpie. It’s a matter of public record.
Stated succinctly: At his worst, Donald Trump is a walking, talking, orange nightmare that’s a Republican caricature of everything the Left tells persuadable voters WE are and conservative activists like myself have spent many, many years trying to overcome. At best? He’s a badly flawed candidate who made this election unnecessarily competitive.
I nevertheless decided to give him my vote in November general election after staring at my vote-by-mail ballot for several tortured days.
What you’re about to read isn’t an endorsement so much as it’s a point-by-point explanation of how I arrived at my personal Election 2016 decision when faced, I think almost everyone in America would agree, with an objectively tragic choice. I won’t judge someone else’s decision to abstain. Your conscience is your own affair.
All that same, it’s possible that recounting my own mental journey will help you make up your own mind. Or at least give you someone/something with which to commiserate?
Either way, here at the five primary reasons why I held my nose and voted for Donald Trump:
I’m not a Trumpie. It’s a matter of public record.
Stated succinctly: At his worst, Donald Trump is a walking, talking, orange nightmare that’s a Republican caricature of everything the Left tells persuadable voters WE are and conservative activists like myself have spent many, many years trying to overcome. At best? He’s a badly flawed candidate who made this election unnecessarily competitive.
I nevertheless decided to give him my vote in November general election after staring at my vote-by-mail ballot for several tortured days.
What you’re about to read isn’t an endorsement so much as it’s a point-by-point explanation of how I arrived at my personal Election 2016 decision when faced, I think almost everyone in America would agree, with an objectively tragic choice. I won’t judge someone else’s decision to abstain. Your conscience is your own affair.
All that same, it’s possible that recounting my own mental journey will help you make up your own mind. Or at least give you someone/something with which to commiserate?
Either way, here at the five primary reasons why I held my nose and voted for Donald Trump:
1) For better or worse, this is a two party system. Get over it.
The alternative is… indefensible
American politics hasn’t seen a viable independent insurgency since Ross Perot’s 1992 presidential campaign which, in the end, succeeded only in electing… Bill Clinton.
24 years later, you may not like where we’re at but the logic of it is unassailable: voting for Gary Johnson, writing in Marco Rubio, or hoping Evan McMullin can somehow take Utah and deny anyone else an Electoral College win are all just as likely to end in victory for Bill’s wife, Hillary.
Think we’d be better off with a parliamentary system? Or no parties at all? Those are academic arguments for November 9th. For now, your only real choices (should you choose to participate) are Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. God help us. Abstaining may or may not make you feel better.
I’m not your priest or rabbi so, given everything I’ve explained above, I’ll say only this: Qui tacet consentire.
2) The people who brought about ‘Trumpocalypse’ won’t learn a damn thing if he loses big league or turns heel in office (which is unfortunate).
Trust me: I’ve cumulatively wasted months of my youngish life arguing with ‘establishment’ and Trumpie/Trumper/Trumpkin trolls alike, Save Jerseyans, and you’re not going to change anyone’s mind about any of this.
If you think Mitch McConnell is the devil? Or Ted Cruz is the anti-christ? You’ve made an emotional decision. Consequently, you’re beyond the realm of reason/fact/logic/pragmatism.
If you think Mitch McConnell is the devil? Or Ted Cruz is the anti-christ? You’ve made an emotional decision. Consequently, you’re beyond the realm of reason/fact/logic/pragmatism.
Coalitions require compromise; like any relationship, personal or collective, when the parties stop caring about what the other person is saying and completely shut down, that’s invariably the end of the road (and I know what I’m talking about – I’m a divorce lawyer when I’m not commentating on politics).
Those of us who haven’t completely lost our heads? We know the French Revolution analogy for the GOP’s 2016 meltdown is the fairest, most accurate causative analysis for how the Party of Lincoln and Reagan arrived at this sad pass. That’s another discussion for another time when tempers cool and folks are once more ready to listen to one aother. For now? Trump going down in flames by 2 points or 12 points won’t speed up the catharsis of the willfully blind. The only certain result of a Trump loss is a Clinton victory.
The only way to ‘save’ the GOP is for better, stronger alternatives to Trumpism and Liberalism to step forward and assert themselves. No one can honestly predict how Trump’s fate either stymies or accelerates that organic process. Face it! I have, thought it wasn’t easy to do.
3) And no, sorry, they’re not ‘equally awful’ by any honest assessment of the situation.
We only have two real choices: check.
Electorally knee-capping Trump isn’t likely to rescue the resistance: check.
Both candidates suck equally? Not so fast.
Anything awful you can fairly say about the Donald goes double (or quadruple) for the Clintons. I see your Trump University and raise you the Clinton Foundation. The Republican nominee’s proposals are badly flawed, especially on the immigration and trade fronts; Clinton’s policy proscriptions seek to replicate, and amplify, Barack Obama’s ruinous 8-year journey to the letter including the ruinously expensive and ineffective Obamacare experiment. There’s some evidence that Donald Trump behaved like a frat boy at various stages of his life, saying things you and I wouldn’t tolerate coming from the mouth of a grown man; there’s boatloads of evidence that Hillary Clinton punished women who called her own husband out for treating them like sexual play things. Trump routinely says objectively crummy or even downright cruel things; Hillary does awful, criminal, cruel, evil things, and she’s been at it for three decades like a pro.
With President Trump, Americans will have a commander-in-chief who isn’t a role model.
With President Clinton? Americans will have a commander-in-chief who’s a model plutocrat, one likely to be indicted and/or impeached in her first term.
Like I’ve said again and again… it’s an unhappy choice, one I didn’t want to have to make, but one which also isn’t hard to make once you’ve conducted a dispassionate, honest comparative analysis.
Still struggling? Ask yourself a simple question: Would you vote for Richard Nixon IF you knew had advance knowledge of Watergate?
4) Our system is better suited to survive an indecisive buffoon than an effective criminal.
That last question posed above is critical.Anything awful you can fairly say about the Donald goes double (or quadruple) for the Clintons. I see your Trump University and raise you the Clinton Foundation. The Republican nominee’s proposals are badly flawed, especially on the immigration and trade fronts; Clinton’s policy proscriptions seek to replicate, and amplify, Barack Obama’s ruinous 8-year journey to the letter including the ruinously expensive and ineffective Obamacare experiment. There’s some evidence that Donald Trump behaved like a frat boy at various stages of his life, saying things you and I wouldn’t tolerate coming from the mouth of a grown man; there’s boatloads of evidence that Hillary Clinton punished women who called her own husband out for treating them like sexual play things. Trump routinely says objectively crummy or even downright cruel things; Hillary does awful, criminal, cruel, evil things, and she’s been at it for three decades like a pro.
With President Trump, Americans will have a commander-in-chief who isn’t a role model.
With President Clinton? Americans will have a commander-in-chief who’s a model plutocrat, one likely to be indicted and/or impeached in her first term.
Like I’ve said again and again… it’s an unhappy choice, one I didn’t want to have to make, but one which also isn’t hard to make once you’ve conducted a dispassionate, honest comparative analysis.
Still struggling? Ask yourself a simple question: Would you vote for Richard Nixon IF you knew had advance knowledge of Watergate?
4) Our system is better suited to survive an indecisive buffoon than an effective criminal.
We’ve heard a lot about Trump’s hedging on the ‘will you accept the election results’ question and the alleged threat it poses to the American system.What about the threat that Hillary Clinton’s criminality poses to the country?
Americans still haven’t recovered from the Watergate effect on public confidence in government. Emailgate and Foundationgate are each independently Watergate ON STEROIDS. God knows what’s still to come. If I’m an honest liberal sincerely devoted to the progressive cause (for argument’s sake, of course), I may be rooting against Hillary Clinton between now and November 8th. Her inevitable downfall could damage the Democrat Party for a generation in much the same way as Republicans suffered in the wake of Nixon’s resignation.
Buffoons? Defined broadly? We’ve survived plenty of weak presidencies. Johnson. Grant. Harding. Carter. Men who were accomplished in one or more non-political arenas but wholly incompetent in the White House. Our system of checks and balances, as well as the bureaucratic hierarchy of executive power structure, guarantees that Donald Trump can’t accidentally nuke a country or empty the treasury. Will we be better or worse off? Time will tell.
Criminals? They warp the system to serve their diabolical ends in a thousand less-than-obvious ways. They pervert our culture, too, and lower the ethical bar for their successors. They poison the relationship between the people and their representative in a manner that’s difficult to reverse. Hillary is Al Capone in a pantsuit. The damage Hillary Clinton is likely to inflect upon our beleaguered republic won’t be easily remedied by a midterm election or Senate trial. We know because we’ve been down this road before.
Hillary’s criminality is a bigger threat to our republic than the Donald’s buffoonery. It’s really THAT simple, Save Jerseyans.
5) As ever, Americans are their own worst enemy. It’s time to re-take responsibility for our democracy.
This nation’s first Republican president said it best:“Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.”
[Emphasis added.]
China and Russia aren’t what keeps me up at night, Save Jerseyans.
The fact that Americans chose a potty-mouthed snake oil salesman (Trump) and an sickly socialist crook (Clinton) as the presidential finalists out of 300+ million citizens?
It’s the stuff of which nightmares are made.
Our culture is sick. Very sick. This disease will doom us long before any single policy or politician.
What’s a voter to do?
These politicians are a reflection of us. Donald Trump’s antics are a symptom of what we’ve become. Hillary Clinton and her hubby are both symptom AND causation. I first learned what oral sex was – back in grade school, in the 1990s – snickering with other kids over the Clinton scandal. The Democrat Party’s senior statesmen is the original one-man ‘War On Women,’ and Slick Willie’s wife was his right-hand hatchet woman. Neither of them should be permitted within 1,000 yards of the White House (or a school building).
Treat the disease, America.
Hillary Clinton will use every lever of federal power to finish implementing Saul Alinsky’s vision. Defeating Hillary Clinton and her radical band is our first meaningful opportunity in a decade to at least stabilize our society’s decay. It’s a vote against big government, creeping socialism, political correctness, microaggression ideology, Pajama Boy-itis, safe spaces, ‘Holiday’ Trees, Halloween in school bans, and every other aspect of modern American life that’s stealthily weakening our society and eroding our values from within. It’s a vote FOR restoring the United States as a place where ‘the rule of law’ isn’t just a rhetorical flourish and persons are evaluated primarily by their deeds, not verbal transgressions as judged by the sensitivities of the cultural elite.
A visit to any random Clinton fundraiser or rally is a carnival freak show experience in the sewer that’s grosser, and more vile, than any trip to Trump Tower.
I’m under no illusions as to who Donald Trump is, and my expectations for a Trump presidency are appropriately measured.
Knowing how terrible President Hillary Clinton would be doesn’t require an active imagination, only a cursory familiarity with who she’s been during her pathetic, stomach-churning public tenure.
Of the two? Donald Trump is the only defensible option for president of the United States on November 8th.
The fact that Americans chose a potty-mouthed snake oil salesman (Trump) and an sickly socialist crook (Clinton) as the presidential finalists out of 300+ million citizens?
It’s the stuff of which nightmares are made.
Our culture is sick. Very sick. This disease will doom us long before any single policy or politician.
What’s a voter to do?
These politicians are a reflection of us. Donald Trump’s antics are a symptom of what we’ve become. Hillary Clinton and her hubby are both symptom AND causation. I first learned what oral sex was – back in grade school, in the 1990s – snickering with other kids over the Clinton scandal. The Democrat Party’s senior statesmen is the original one-man ‘War On Women,’ and Slick Willie’s wife was his right-hand hatchet woman. Neither of them should be permitted within 1,000 yards of the White House (or a school building).
Treat the disease, America.
Hillary Clinton will use every lever of federal power to finish implementing Saul Alinsky’s vision. Defeating Hillary Clinton and her radical band is our first meaningful opportunity in a decade to at least stabilize our society’s decay. It’s a vote against big government, creeping socialism, political correctness, microaggression ideology, Pajama Boy-itis, safe spaces, ‘Holiday’ Trees, Halloween in school bans, and every other aspect of modern American life that’s stealthily weakening our society and eroding our values from within. It’s a vote FOR restoring the United States as a place where ‘the rule of law’ isn’t just a rhetorical flourish and persons are evaluated primarily by their deeds, not verbal transgressions as judged by the sensitivities of the cultural elite.
A visit to any random Clinton fundraiser or rally is a carnival freak show experience in the sewer that’s grosser, and more vile, than any trip to Trump Tower.
I’m under no illusions as to who Donald Trump is, and my expectations for a Trump presidency are appropriately measured.
Knowing how terrible President Hillary Clinton would be doesn’t require an active imagination, only a cursory familiarity with who she’s been during her pathetic, stomach-churning public tenure.
Of the two? Donald Trump is the only defensible option for president of the United States on November 8th.
You Won't Believe The Reasons For The Spectacle!
If you're lucky enough to live in a part of the country where there are four distinct seasons you know that this time of year can be dazzling.
And hopefully, you're wise enough to take the time to enjoy the vivid hues of the season.
We've been doing just that. We've slowed down, looked up, and savored arborland's big, bright show. The above (and below) photos are the result.
It's been my experience that when it comes to autumn, nature is much more reliable than Broadway or Hollywood. This show's always a winner. There are no flops.
The changing of the leaf colors is the way that trees begin to prepare for winter.
A process called photosynthesis helps keep the leaves green through spring and summer. A chemical called chlorophyll helps make photosynthesis happen. Chlorophyll is what gives plants their green color.
As the days get shorter and there is less and less sunlight, the trees realize that winter is coming. They cannot support their leaves. During winter there is not enough light and water to sustain the leaves. The trees will rest and live off the food they stored during the summer.
Animals grow a furrier coat to prepare for winter. Trees shed their leaves.
As the trees begin to shut down their food-making factories, the green chlorophyll disappears from their leaves. The bright green fades away and we begin to see yellow and orange colors. Small amounts of these colors have been in the leaves all along. We just can't see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green chlorophyll.
That's science's explanation.
However you explain it, the result is a time-honored show.
Get out and enjoy the razzle-dazzle before the curtain comes down on this magical spectacle. It's fantastic!
Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.
~Emily Dickinson
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~John Donne
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.
~Emily Dickinson
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~John Donne
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~Albert Camus
All photos copyright 2016 by Dan Cirucci.
It's Serious Stuff, Folks . . . VERY Serious!
Here's is a fairly complete and recently updated list of possible crimes that could be in question in the ongoing Hillary Clinton federal investigation:
18USC§201 Bribery
18USC§208 Acts Effecting A Personal Financial Interest (Includes Recommendations)
18USC§371 Conspiracy
18USC§1001 False Statements
18USC§1341 Frauds And Swindles (Mail Fraud)
18USC§1343 Fraud By Wire
18USC§1349 Attempt And Conspiracy (To Commit Fraud)
18USC§1505 Obstruction Of Justice
18USC§1519 Destruction (Alteration Or Falsification) Of Records In Federal Investigation
18USC§1621 Perjury (Including Documents Signed Under Penalties Of Perjury)
18USC§1905 Disclosure Of Confidential Information
18USC§1924 Unauthorized Removal And Retention Of Classified Documents Or Material
18USC§2071 Concealment (Removal Or Mutilation) Of Government Records
18USC§7201 Attempt To Evade Or Defeat A Tax (Use Of Clinton Foundation Funds For Personal Or Political Purposes)
18USC§7212 Attempts To Interfere With Administration Of Internal Revenue Laws (Call To IRS On Behalf Of UBS Not Turning Over Accounts To IRS)
18USC§201 Bribery
18USC§208 Acts Effecting A Personal Financial Interest (Includes Recommendations)
18USC§371 Conspiracy
18USC§1001 False Statements
18USC§1341 Frauds And Swindles (Mail Fraud)
18USC§1343 Fraud By Wire
18USC§1349 Attempt And Conspiracy (To Commit Fraud)
18USC§1505 Obstruction Of Justice
18USC§1519 Destruction (Alteration Or Falsification) Of Records In Federal Investigation
18USC§1621 Perjury (Including Documents Signed Under Penalties Of Perjury)
18USC§1905 Disclosure Of Confidential Information
18USC§1924 Unauthorized Removal And Retention Of Classified Documents Or Material
18USC§2071 Concealment (Removal Or Mutilation) Of Government Records
18USC§7201 Attempt To Evade Or Defeat A Tax (Use Of Clinton Foundation Funds For Personal Or Political Purposes)
18USC§7212 Attempts To Interfere With Administration Of Internal Revenue Laws (Call To IRS On Behalf Of UBS Not Turning Over Accounts To IRS)
Well Just Let All This Speak For Itself . . .
Don't be confused by the way that the numbers are listed above. This race has clearly shifted in this latest ABC News tracking poll.
Hillary's now a slim point behind Donald Trump -- a first since May. He's at 46, she's at 45.
Trump now leads Clinton by 8 points in the share of voters who are very enthusiastic about their choice as of Friday.
Strong enthusiasm for Clinton has lost 7 points since the start of tracking, especially Friday through Sunday.
More, directly from the ABC poll analysis:
"Among other factors, there’s been consolidation for Trump among Republicans and GOP-leaning independents (86 percent now back him, up from 80 percent). He has also seen improvement among pure independents (i.e., those who don’t lean toward either party), up from an even split to a large Trump advantage, 25 percent Clinton to 54 percent Trump, across the past seven nights (combined for a larger samples size). Seventeen percent of pure independents pick someone else.
"Among Democrats and Democratic leaners, meanwhile, Trump’s support has gone from 5 to 9 percent -- a slight change, but a statistically significant one. Clinton’s support has been essentially steady."
Monday, October 31, 2016
Take Heed: A Very Strong And Sober Warning!
Statement from Brandon Judd, President of the National Border Patrol Council, the official union representing 16,500 U.S. border patrol agents:
“In 2014 the United States Border Patrol experienced a crisis at the border. Just ahead of the presidential election, that crisis is reaching epic proportions - an emergency even worse than 2014, and rising. Yet the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, refuses to even acknowledge the disaster - in fact, she is pushing for, in her words, "open borders." On top of that, there is a media blackout on the border emergency unfolding days before the election.
“Mrs. Clinton's extreme plan will expand upon the policies that is the cause of the current crisis, including the President's unconstitutional executive amnesty orders - triggering a Constitutional Crisis. Her plan will erode the physical and economic security of this great nation and all of its residents. Her plan means an open door to criminal cartels, drug dealers, and even terrorists. Her plan includes amnesty in 100 days in the middle of a border emergency, Social Security and Medicare for unlawful entrants, and the expansion of catch-and-release policies that are overwhelming border towns, straining U.S. communities, and threatening innocent lives. Her failure to address the border crisis, and her push to open the border altogether, disenfranchises millions of Americans who demand our borders be secure.
“Border Patrol Agents are capable and willing to secure the border of the United States, but we must have a leader willing to remove that shackles that bind our law enforcement officers and keep them from fulfilling their important mission, Donald Trump is that leader.”
EXCLUSIVE: Agents Accuse Feds of Covering Up Record Border Detainee Numbers for 2016 Election “A record number of illegal aliens have crossed the U.S.- Mexico border and are in U.S. Border Patrol custody in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV), according to the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC). Border Patrol Agent and NBPC President Brandon Judd spoke exclusively with Breitbart Texas and condemned the leadership of the Border Patrol’s parent agency, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), for allegedly “keeping this information secret” ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” (Breitbart, 10/30/16)
“In 2014 the United States Border Patrol experienced a crisis at the border. Just ahead of the presidential election, that crisis is reaching epic proportions - an emergency even worse than 2014, and rising. Yet the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, refuses to even acknowledge the disaster - in fact, she is pushing for, in her words, "open borders." On top of that, there is a media blackout on the border emergency unfolding days before the election.
“Mrs. Clinton's extreme plan will expand upon the policies that is the cause of the current crisis, including the President's unconstitutional executive amnesty orders - triggering a Constitutional Crisis. Her plan will erode the physical and economic security of this great nation and all of its residents. Her plan means an open door to criminal cartels, drug dealers, and even terrorists. Her plan includes amnesty in 100 days in the middle of a border emergency, Social Security and Medicare for unlawful entrants, and the expansion of catch-and-release policies that are overwhelming border towns, straining U.S. communities, and threatening innocent lives. Her failure to address the border crisis, and her push to open the border altogether, disenfranchises millions of Americans who demand our borders be secure.
“Border Patrol Agents are capable and willing to secure the border of the United States, but we must have a leader willing to remove that shackles that bind our law enforcement officers and keep them from fulfilling their important mission, Donald Trump is that leader.”
EXCLUSIVE: Agents Accuse Feds of Covering Up Record Border Detainee Numbers for 2016 Election “A record number of illegal aliens have crossed the U.S.- Mexico border and are in U.S. Border Patrol custody in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV), according to the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC). Border Patrol Agent and NBPC President Brandon Judd spoke exclusively with Breitbart Texas and condemned the leadership of the Border Patrol’s parent agency, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), for allegedly “keeping this information secret” ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” (Breitbart, 10/30/16)
EXCLUSIVE — Immigration Officer: Border Deluge of Illegal Aliens ‘Is The Worst We’ve Ever Seen’ “The flood of illegal aliens pouring across the southern border has become a “crisis situation” and is even worse than the record 2014 border surge, says an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer from El Paso, Texas with more than ten years of service to the agency.” (Breitbart, 10/30/16)
Yes, A Staggeringly Shameful, Disgraceful Record!
Can you imagine this?
Can you?
Somebody's been posting a rant on Facebook that maintains that the ONLY thing anyone could possible hold against Hillary is the email scandal, and even that isn't damaging enough to harm her sterling reputation and candidacy.
Really?
Well, here's our answer:
It's NOT just the Clinton emails, as much as some might like to think it is.
Can you?
Somebody's been posting a rant on Facebook that maintains that the ONLY thing anyone could possible hold against Hillary is the email scandal, and even that isn't damaging enough to harm her sterling reputation and candidacy.
Really?
Well, here's our answer:
It's NOT just the Clinton emails, as much as some might like to think it is.
Though, to be sure, Hillary Clinton IS under federal criminal investigation while Trump is not and never has been. And the tentacles of the emails themselves comprise a veritable house of cards -- an intricate web of mendacity.
But we're talking about decades of Clinton scandals and deception plus all the new revelations from scores of leaks -- none of them very good or very encouraging. It's a long, shameful road: the White House travel office scandal: Hillary's health care fiasco; Hillary's covering Bill's dirty deeds and defaming the women he was involved with; the missing Rose Law firm files; the cattle futures windfall scandal; selling the Lincoln bedroom to the highest bidder; looting the White House and attempting to steal $190,000 in gifts and furnishings; the fabrication of "a vast right-wing conspiracy;" the enemies list, complete with secret "gotcha" files; the alleged affair with Vince Foster and his subsequent [presumed] suicide; the sale of high-tech secrets to China; the bloody, murderous, humiliating Benghazi debacle and the concocted video coverup story; the lies to the Benghazi victims' parents; the lies about "landing under snipe fire in Bosnia:" and always wanting to be an astronaut and being named after Sir Edmund Hillary; the documented lies about the emails; the Clinton Foundation scandal (now the subject of ANOTHER FBI probe); the presidential pardon payoffs to Hillary's brothers; Hillary's radical pal Saul Alinsky (to whom she wrote a veritable love letter); Hillary's laughing and boasting about defending a vicious child rapist and getting him off; the misplacement of six BILLION dollars in State Department money under Hillary; Hillary receiving funds from an arm of the Iranian government and hiring a convicted Iranian-American multimillionaire with ties to Tehran as her national campaign finance director in 2008; calling her opponent's supporters "deplorable" and "irredeemable"; dismissing millennials as "basement dwellers" and defaming observant Catholics as backward; cheating on the primary debates with questions fed to her in advance by Donna Brazille and rigging the primaries through the DNC to insure Bernie's defeat. Whew!
And we've just scratched the surface.
THIRTY+ years of lies, deception, evasion and scandal.
Shame on her!
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