Trump would end 'gun free zones' on military bases

Donald Trump was unfortunately proven right on another one of his top issues Thursday: "gun free zones" at military bases.

Indications that Thursday's shooting at two military bases in Chattanooga, Tenn., occurred at or near "gun free zones."

In an interview with the website AmmoLand.com, Trump decried the zones on military bases, suggesting that they left highly-trained gun operators without a weapon to fire at attackers, with the exception of military police.

A photo from the scene taken from a local Fox station showed 29 bullet holes around a "gun free zone" sign.

Here's our earlier story:

Pistol-packing GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump ripped a policy implemented by former President Bill Clinton making military bases "gun free zones," declaring that as president bases would no longer be defenseless against terror attacks.

"As Commander-in-Chief, I would mandate that soldiers remain armed and on alert at our military bases." he told the website Ammoland.com.

"President Clinton never should have passed a ban on soldiers being able to protect themselves on bases. America's Armed Forces will be armed," he added to the website closely watched by gun rights groups and the National Rifle Association.

Via: Washington Examiner

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Vicious Sid's State Department

The big find in the first dump of emails from Hillary Clinton's secret email server, aside from a few insulting comments about Cuban Floridians, is the fact that The New York Times was on to a much bigger story in May than it realized.

Sid Blumenthal, the former Clinton hatchet-man from the 1990s, was not just sending Secretary of State Clinton briefings about the situation in Libya, but was briefing her about nearly every corner of the globe. Though barred by President Obama's minders from any official job in the administration, vicious Sid had constant access to Clinton.

Blumenthal's sense of self-importance in these communiques is as absurd as his undue influence over Clinton is scandalous. Under the centered, all-caps header of "CONFIDENTIAL," he offers up one assessment after another of British, Iranian, Italian and Afghan affairs as if he were some kind of mobile CIA station chief.

At one point, he asked (or politely demanded) that the secretary expedite a hiring at State. He passed messages from former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, now the head of an African energy company, seeking access to America's chief diplomat for a business pitch. The emails also hint that he and Clinton had very frequent phone conversations. Who knows what sort of bad advice they contained? Was he the mastermind behind the botched reset with Russia?

The public learned from a New York Times report in May that Blumenthal had extensively advised Clinton on Libya, where he had financial interests that he now refuses to discuss. He would pass along often erroneous information. Clinton would remove his name and then pass his rumor-filled memos to senior officials at State as something from "a contact," as though they were credible.

Blumenthal was reliable as a friend, rather than as a source of information. He was loyal to Clinton, and in Clinton-world that's the golden ticket. He was put on the payroll of Clinton's family foundation, to the tune of $120,000 per year. George Stephanopoulos's donations apparently went to a good cause.

This international man of mystery schtick is a far cry from Blumenthal's real role in the life of the nation. He was a Clinton sycophant, brought into the White House in times of crisis, who would lie and defame freely to preserve the illusion of an ethical Clinton White House.

His greatest accomplishment came in the late 1990s, when he told reporters the lie that Monica Lewinsky was a slutty stalker who had demanded sex and even threatened (in the manner of Potiphar's wife and Joseph) to blackmail the poor, innocent President Clinton. He made the mistake of peddling this and his plans to smear alleged sexual assault victim Kathleen Willey, to the late Christopher Hitchens, who made the entire conversation part of the public record.

Via: Washington Examiner

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Democrats demand seat at the table for budget talks

Senate Democrats want to ensure they have a place at the table for any high-level budget talks this year.

For the first time since President Obama won election in 2008, Democrats are stuck in the minority in both chambers of Congress.

They don’t want to get sidelined in the same way they did at the end of the Clinton administration, when Republicans last controlled the Senate and House under a Democratic president.

Then, President Clinton took the lead in negotiating the year-end spending bills, wielding the bully pulpit to get the best deal he could to increase funding for domestic programs.

“That was then. We’re now,” said Sen. Barbara Mikulski (Md.), the senior Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee. “It is the Senate Democrats that are doing everything to force this issue.”

Senate Democratic leaders don’t want to rely on Obama’s veto to compel Republicans into convening a budget summit later this year, as that could lead to negotiations limited to the White House and GOP leaders.

Instead, Senate Democrats want to convene high-level talks now. They’re demanding a prominent role by threatening to block every single appropriations bill Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) brings to the floor, well before any of them reaches Obama’s desk.

“We hope to demonstrate as quickly as possible to the Republicans that if we’re going to resolve this budget crisis, we shouldn’t wait until November or December. Let’s do it now,” said Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), who also serves as the ranking member on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.

“If it’s going to work, it will require congressional leadership on both sides to meet with the president,” he added. “As long as the Republicans need 60 votes in the Senate and don’t have them, they’ll need Democratic cooperation.”

Clinton clinched his role as his party’s lead negotiator after he bested former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) in the spending standoff that resulted in the 1995 to 1996 government shutdown.

“The 1997 budget deal we were totally cut out of,” said Steve Elmendorf, who served as a senior adviser to House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt (Mo.).

Via: The Hill

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Oppose Gimmick 'Fixes' to Obamacare

As chairman of the League of American Voters, a national grass-roots organization, I recently sent out this article urging a stop to Obama's political tactics regarding Obamacare.

Major supporters of President Barack Obama's Obamacare law are proposing new legislation to modify and "fix" problems associated with the new program.


Congress should reject any such legislation that offers minor adjustments to this radical law — unless significant changes are agreed to by President Obama and his supporters.


With the looming nightmare of 5 million Americans soon losing their current healthcare coverage, many leading supporters of the law, including President Obama himself, former President Clinton, and leading senators who backed the law such as Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, are pushing for legislation that will modify Obamacare and allow citizens to keep their current  insurance.

Urgent: ObamaCare Is About to Strike — Are You Prepared?


It's understandable why these senators and congressmen want a political "bailout."

These were the same people who claimed, along with Pres. Obama, that under the new law every American gets to "keep their doctor, and their healthcare plan."

Via: Newsmax

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OBAMA'S NEGATIVE POLLING WORSE THAN CLINTON'S IN 1995 SHUTDOWN

Gallup released a poll last week showing President Barack Obama's negative polling among Americans during the current government shutdown is substantially worse in comparison to the numbers the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton, had during his administration's shutdown in 1995. 

According to Gallup:

A majority of Americans, 57%, say they now view President Obama more negatively as a result of the shutdown, while 28% see him more positively. By contrast, during the December 1995 shutdown, 49% of Americans viewed Clinton more negatively and 35% more positively. Clinton's overall approval rating would tumble to 42% by the end of the 1995-96 shutdown, but rebounded later in 1996.

Gallup points out that Americans view the present shutdown as more serious than the 1995 government shutdown. Republican Congressional leaders are viewed similarly to how they were viewed during the 1995 shutdown, with 61 percent viewing them negatively. Democratic Congressional leaders are also viewed negatively by 58 percent of Americans.

President Obama's overall job approval rating has taken a sharp drop since he first came to office. Gallup's recorded Obama's approval rating at 67 percent when he first took office. That number has since plunged to 44 percent. 

Via: Breitbart

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[VIDEO] Healthy Young, Key To ObamaCare, Aren’t Buying It

Obamacare “only works … if young people show up.”

That’s from former President Bill Clinton in a recent MSNBC interview.

It’s why Obamacare supporters and government agencies are trying everything fromsports advertising to video contests to get young people in the game.

But will those millions of Millennials show up and sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act?

A recent Reuters poll found Obamacare may not attract enough young people to keep costs low for others. And according to our small sampling, the answer would be no.

“An entire generation is being turned into a part-time workforce” because of Obamacare, said 22-year-old Patrick Richardson, a senior at the University of Toledo in Ohio who considers himself fortunate to have health insurance through his employer.

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“When you do the math, it’s cheaper to pay the penalty, but that’s not the way the system was designed. It counts on young people enrolling, but young people don’t want any part of it,” he said.

Via: Florida Watchdog

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