Monday, August 31, 2015

Left-Wing Activist/Faux Journalist Jorge Ramos’s Daughter Works for Hillary Clinton's Campaign

Jorge Ramos, the amnesty activist moonlighting as a Univision and Fusion journalist, revealed in June that his daughter is an employee of the Hillary Clinton campaign.

In a statement on the Fusion website, Ramos wrote:

As journalists the most important thing we have is our credibility and integrity. We maintain that, in part, through transparency with our audience, our colleagues and our critics. That is why I am disclosing that my daughter, Paola, has accepted a position working with Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

As a father, I am very proud that she has decided to actively participate in our democratic process. I hope that more young people get involved, regardless of political parties or ideological preferences. Our democracy and our future depend on that.

I completely support and respect Paola’s decision. In our family we have always cherished tolerance, dialogue and active participation in what you believe.

Like many reporters who have parents, siblings or other family members that are active in politics, this will not change how I approach my duty as a journalist. I will continue to report with complete independence and ask the tough questions, the same way I have done for the last 30 years.
Ramos was temporarily removed from a press conference being held by Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump in Iowa yesterday.

As Trump called on a reporter, Ramos stood and began shouting questions. Trump asked him to sit down, but instead Ramos continued to interrupt the proceedings. After Ramos was briefly removed from the room, he returned, only to debate Trump for several minutes, instead of asking questions and waiting for answers.

As Real Clear Politics reports, “The two went head to head for five minutes over birthright citizenship, how Trump would build a wall, how he would deport illegal immigrants and more. Trump fought back against Ramos and attempted to get him to acknowledge crime committed by illegal immigrants.”

The revelation certainly casts Ramos’s stunt against Hillary’s chief Republican rival in a new light.

Chris Christie Quote of the Day!

“Well, they’re not, but what my point was that this is once again a situation where the private sector laps us in the government with the use of technology. Let’s use the same technology to make sure that 40% of the 11 million who are here illegally don’t overstay their visas.”

- NJ Governor and 2016 Presidential candidate Chris Christie on his plan to deal with illegal immigration if elected President

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Ain't The Devil Happy: In The News 8/30/15

Trump: I'm Winning Because Americans Are "Tired of Being the Pasties"

Poll: 71% Think Political Correctness is a Problem in America

A Sheriff Blames His deputy's Death on the Black Lives Matter Movement

Obama Does Nothing To Stop ISIS

Planned Parenthood Sues Alabama: State Has No Choice But to Fund Us

Christian Film 'War Room' Stuns Hollywood With $11 Million Weekend

In 2008, Fewer Than 30 Million Used Food Stamps. Now 46 Million Do

NY Times Headlines Make Clarence Thomas Look Like a Plagiarist

'Official Misconduct Charge' Referred Against Marriage Clerk

Hillary Clinton Strikes A New Tone On E-mail Scandal

LATimes.com:

Hillary Rodham Clinton's team has long scoffed at polling that shows voter concern about her trustworthiness and honesty. Clinton herself has even dismissed it as voters' confusion amid all the attacks directed at her by enemies on the right.

The campaign suggests such numbers are overshadowed by the candidate's deep support among Democratic voters nationwide, reflected in her commanding lead in the race for the party's nomination.

But it has become clear in recent days that the numbers do matter, particularly as Clinton finds herself unable to contain growing public unease with her emailing practices while secretary of State. Key Democrats are anxious over the way the campaign has handled the scandal, and they are eager to see Clinton confront the impression among a large swath of voters that she lacks honesty.

In recent weeks, the campaign's shifting approach to the problem has been clear. After a news conference in Nevada, where a visibly agitated Clinton responded with sarcasm and annoyance to questions about her use of a private server for government business, the candidate's tone changed. By the time she arrived in Iowa for a campaign event Wednesday, she was contrite. "I know people have raised questions about my email use as secretary of State, and I understand why," she said. "I get it."

In Minneapolis on Friday, she again used a careful tone. "I'm trying to do a better job of explaining to people what is going on," she said at a news conference.

It is not just supporters of Vice President Joe Biden who are keeping a close watch on how Clinton is handling the matter. Donors and other influential Democrats are looking for assurance that Clinton will be able to move past the controversy. It won't be easy. The issue is not going away anytime soon.

The email practices are at the center of multiple government investigations -- including one by the FBI -- and the State Department is under a court order to publicly release each month thousands of previously undisclosed emails sent and received by Clinton while she was at the State Department, with the latest batch due Monday.

Hillary's changing her tone because of Bernie Sanders more than anything else IMO.

RELATED: Hillary Supporter Ed Rendell: She’s Handled Email Issue ‘Atrociously,’ Very ‘Tone-Deaf’

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Buying Sex Should Not Be Legal

NYTimes.com:

HERE in my city, earlier this month, Amnesty International’s international council endorsed a new policy calling for the decriminalization of the global sex trade. Its proponents argue that decriminalizing prostitution is the best way of protecting “the human rights of sex workers,” though the policy would apply equally to pimps, brothel-keepers and johns.

Amnesty’s stated aim is to remove the stigma from prostituted women, so that they will be less vulnerable to abuse by criminals operating in the shadows. The group is also calling on governments “to ensure that sex workers enjoy full and equal legal protection from exploitation, trafficking and violence.”

The Amnesty vote comes in the context of a prolonged international debate about how to deal with prostitution and protect the interests of so-called sex workers. It is a debate in which I have a personal stake — and I believe Amnesty is making a historic mistake.

I entered the sex trade — as most do — before I was even a woman. At age 14, I was placed in the care of the state after my father committed suicide and because my mother suffered from mental illness.

Within a year, I was on the streets with no home, education or job skills. All I had was my body. At 15, I met a young man who thought it would be a good idea for me to prostitute myself. As “fresh meat,” I was a commodity in high demand.

For seven years, I was bought and sold. On the streets, that could be 10 times in a night. It’s hard to describe the full effect of the psychological coercion, and how deeply it eroded my confidence. By my late teens, I was using cocaine to dull the pain.

I cringe when I hear the words “sex work.” Selling my body wasn’t a livelihood. There was no resemblance to ordinary employment in the ritual degradation of strangers’ using my body to satiate their urges. I was doubly exploited — by those who pimped me and those who bought me.

I know there are some advocates who argue that women in prostitution sell sex as consenting adults. But those who do are a relatively privileged minority — primarily white, middle-class, Western women in escort agencies — not remotely representative of the global majority. Their right to sell doesn’t trump my right and others’ not to be sold in a trade that preys on women already marginalized by class and race.

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Georgia Mom’s ‘Breathe Fire’ Response to Anna Duggar Goes Viral

Mediaite.com:

In the wake of Josh Duggar‘s renewed troubles when his infidelity was exposed along with his Ashley Madison profile, his wife Anna has reportedly been facing pressure from both sides of her family regarding whether to stay with him.

When the story first broke, Jessica Kirkland unleashed a fiery statement about the Duggar wife’s situation, which has attained viral status over the last five days.

Kirkland began her post by pointing out how Anna Duggar was “crippled” by her parents for not pursuing education and following their expectations, only to end up “shackled to this loser because his family was famous in their religious circle.” She went on to say that Duggar’s problem poses a lose-lose situation for her, seeing as she would be ostracized if she sought divorce, but that her religious views bind her to the anguish caused by Josh Duggar’s cheating:

What is Anna Duggar supposed to do? She can’t divorce because the religious environment she was brought up would blame her and ostracize her for it. Even if she would risk that, she has no education and no work experience to fall back on, so how does she support her kids? From where could she summon the ability to turn her back on everything she ever held to be sacred and safe? Her beliefs, the very thing she would turn to for comfort in this kind of crisis, are the VERY REASON she is in this predicament in the first place. How can she reconcile this? Her parents have utterly, utterly failed her.
Kirkland also emphasized that her post was not meant to be an attack on religion, but rather, a call for the media to give attention to Anna Duggar’s predicament, and a call to women to empower their daughters:

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WE MUST DO BETTER BY OUR DAUGHTERS. Boys, men, are born with power. Girls have to command it for themselves. They aren’t given it. They assume it and take it. But you have to teach them to do it, that they can do it. We HAVE to teach our daughters that they are not beholden to men like this.
Kirkland concluded by saying that Josh Duggar ought to be “cowering in fear” of his wife, and wishing that someone empowered Anna with such resolve. “As for my girls,” Kirkland said, “I’ll raise them to think they breathe fire.”

Unless you're a wife/mother who's been cheated on, you can't possibly walk in her shoes. But the public shame alone of being married to such a scumbag, hypocrite and rapist will hopefully get Anna Duggar to eventually think about what's best for her and her kids and do the right thing, get a lawyer, divorce that a-hole and take him for everything's he got.

RELATED: Anna Duggar's Brother Wants "That Pig" Josh Duggar "Out of Our Family"

Is The Liberal Media Denying That Women Used Ashley Madison?

TheWeek.com:

When it emerged that the hack on affair website Ashley Madison had potentially outed 36 million users, we the public berated the unfaithful.

But, if you look closely at the media coverage, it's only the site's male users who are being called to account. "Pull up your pants, gents. The game is up," said Business Insider. "Don't cry for the men of Ashley Madison," said Britain's Daily Mirror. "They deserve all they get." After all, they're the insatiable hound dogs so desperate to sow their maritally frustrated oats that they thought nothing of using their real email address to sign up for a site promising both affairs and discretion.

Meanwhile, women who use the site — whose details appear on that same list — are being ignored. "Ashley Madison proves women aren't interested in casual sex," screamed a New York Post headline. Sure, it seems very likely that around five out of six of Ashley Madison's genuine clients are men (allegedly the site added fake female accounts to lure more men), but that still means many millions of women signed on to have an affair. That's not an insignificant number — especially for a website marketed predominately at men. Yet, the press diligently focuses its scorn on those reprehensible testicle-owners who sought sex with women who aren't their wives.

Is it really so hard to believe that perhaps some female signups also drooled lustfully at the prospect of covert extramarital sex? And that they were so blinded by the horn that they too entered indiscreet personal details? But journalists are scouring the hack list for famous men, like noted family values hypocrite Josh Duggar, and seem unconcerned with exposing Ashley Madison's female customers.

To stubbornly ignore the role of women who use the site gives an incomplete picture. Mentioning Ashley Madison's female clients merely to dismiss them as an insignificant minority implies that it's only really men who coldly seek affairs. We can't accept that women can also be sexual predators — or, at least not women who are in their right mind. The media loves to paints females who assert their sexuality as "out of control" or damaged.

Same thing I've been thinking ever since the news came out that the cheating website Ashley Madison got hacked: so far the liberal media has outed some prominent and not-so-prominent men who used the site, but what about the women? Surely, in this age of acceptable sexual deviancy, the Left's ongoing destruction of marriage and so-called feminists who are proud to be "sluts"...it can't just be about the dudes.

RELATED: The Scarlet Manifesto: The Rise of the Adulterous Woman

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

‘Fcking Most Violent Motherfckers': Peggy Hubbard’s #BlackLivesMatter Rant Goes Viral

Mediaite.com:

A black grandmother posted a video online excoriating the #BlackLivesMatter movement that has gone massively viral in just a matter of days. Peggy Hubbard had a very strong emotional reaction to the case of St. Louis officers fatally shooting a black 18-year-old who reportedly had a handgun and the death of a 9-year-old in Ferguson who was killed in a drive-by shooting.

It outraged Hubbard that activists protested for “the thug” and said, “Are you fucking kidding me? Police brutality? How about black brutality. You black people, my black people, you are the fucking most violent motherfuckers I have ever seen in my life.”

Hubbard laid down the law and repeatedly said “fuck you” to the people spreading “bullshit” about police brutality.

She said the “black lives matter” mantra should be applied equally to black-on-black crime and elaborated, “327 homicides later y’all want to holler police brutality? Black people, you’re a fucking joke. You’re tearing up communities over thugs and criminals.”

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She added, “You shoot at them, they’re gonna shoot at you.”

In a follow-up video, she ended up elaborating and apologizing for her profane language, explaining that she was just very angry and heartbroken.

Hubbard will appear on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon tomorrow night. No surprise there. (UPDATE- 8:08 pm EST: She’s appearing tonight in the 9 pm hour on CNN.)

Donald Trump Vows to Fight Against the ‘War on Christmas’

Mediaite.com:

“I go out of my way to use the word ‘Christmas,'” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told an Alabama radio host, seemingly in an attempt to capture the crowd of voters that, like Bill O’Reilly and Fox & Friends, think the word “Christmas” is under assault.

“There’s an assault on anything having to do with Christianity,” Trump told Yellowhammer Radio host Cliff Sims on Friday. “They don’t want to use the word Christmas anymore at department stores…. There’s always lawsuits and unfortunately a lot of those lawsuits are won by the other side.”

As president, Trump vowed, “I will assault that. I will go so strongly against so many of the things, when they take away the word Christmas.”

Monday, August 24, 2015

Actress Mayim Bialik: Hollywood Is Not Friendly to People of Faith

FOXNews.com:

Mayim Bialik is best know for her role as "Blossom" on the NBC sitcom of the same name and as the quirky Amy Farrah Fowler on "The Big Bang Theory," but the 39-year-old is also known as a person of faith in Hollywood.

Bialik has consistently used her celebrity as a platform to support causes that are important to her and to share her message of modesty with her fans. At times that means upsetting a few people here and there.

Bialik, who is Jewish, recalled a recent trip to Israel that caused quite a stir on social media.

"I've gotten a lot of negative attention for visiting Israel," she told FOX411. She was visiting a friend in the Israel Defense Forces. "That’s what's amazing...simply by going to Israel this summer and saying nothing more than, 'I've gone to Israel,' I got the same amount of hatred and threats and anti-Semitism for actually making a statement trying to support people whether I like it or not are serving in an army."

She continued, "That reveals the truth. It really doesn’t matter what I support or believe the fact that I'm Jewish and go there is enough – that should be alarming to most people."

While the threats she received were from fans, Bialiak said the entertainment industry isn't friendly to people of faith either.

"I think in general it's never going to be trendy to be observant or religious in Hollywood circles," she said candidly. "There are people I know of faith and we tend to congregate together. I study Jewish texts weekly. That's something really positive to me when you're a person of faith, it stays with you all the time."

Confirming what most conservatives already know.

RELATED: Chris Pratt Thanks God For Child’s Recovery, ‘Jurassic World’ Actor Outs Himself As A Conservative Christian

George Will Quote of the Day!

"Trump’s immigration plan could spell doom for the GOP"

- Political columnist and commentator George Will on 2016 Presidential candidate Donald Trump's plan to deport over 11 million illegal immigrants from the U.S.

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Ain't The Devil Happy: In The News 8/23/15

Rand Paul Clears Hurdle, Won’t Have to Give Up Senate Seat to Run for President

Trump Slams Nabisco’s Plan to Move Oreos to Mexico: ‘I’ll Never Eat Them Again’

Fiorina Hits Todd for Using Climate Change to Talk California Drought

Illegal Immigration is the Disease and Trump’s Plan is the Cure

Biden 2016: The Warren Rendezvous

Federal Judge: Clinton ‘Violated Government Policy’

If Liberals Genuinely Cared About Justice, They Would Not Revere Margaret Sanger

Huckabee: Don't Punish Children Because Parents are Illegal Immigrants

Massive Planned Parenthood Protests Across US

Americans Who Stopped Terrorist Prepared to 'Fight to the End'

Chris Matthews Plays Race Card on Donald Trump; Ignores White Crowds for Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton

Mediaite.com:

Chris Matthews recently declared he would end MSNBC show’s longest-running program — Hardball— if Hillary Clinton dropped out of the race. Some had a good laugh about it while joking that it was the best 2-for-1 deal that’s been presented in a long time.

There’s a reason why the 69-year-old has enjoyed such staying power at MSNBC: His genuine, unbridled passion for all-things-politics. He’s just a guy who truly doesn’t see his job as a job at all. As Dick Vitale once said, “I can’t believe they’re paying me all this money to do something I love.” And there was a time early in his career when Matthews — who once worked for the Carter administration as a speechwriter — was a relatively fair host when analyzing stories and interviewing guests (particularly on his now-cancelled Sunday morning NBC panel program, The Chris Matthews Show).

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But that’s all changed now, as Chris is nothing more than a one-trick pony who sees everything through the prism of race. If he were consistent across both major parties, perhaps that would be one thing. But Matthews only applies the race card to Republicans, which plays well with his equally-myopic (and small) audience. It doesn’t, however, help broaden his viewership and turns off those with some sanity and a brain, which may explain why he’s been getting his doors blown off by Fox’s Greta Van Susteren and CNN’s Erin Burnett (or her replacement while on maternity leave) on a nightly basis. In the end, it really is a shame to see a once-respected political voice be reduced to a punchline…because that’s exactly what Matthews has become.

Exhibit A for this week happened on Friday night during Hardball’s coverage of Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Mobile, Alabama. Per the Mobile Police Department, 30,000 people showed up (Rachel Maddow later crowed the number was only 20,000, which she obviously had first-hand knowledge of from her Manhattan studio 1,000 miles away). Anyway, as Hardball previewed the event, Matthews had this exchange with NBC reporter Katy Tur, which basically tells you everything wrong with media today:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Are there any black people there?

TUR: I have not seen any today that have come out for Donald Trump. I spoke — I spoke with a lot of people at lunch today — and they were all, to be blunt, Caucasian white people who expressed support. The others did not… [They are] normal looking people, who have normal looking opinions on things.
It would be interesting to hear what a “normal-looking” opinion sounds like. But to the greater point, why would Matthews even broach a question like that? And if he’s going to go there, where is that very same question around a Bernie Sanders rally, which are also overwhelmingly white? Or a Hillary Clinton rally? A John Kasich rally? A Ted Cruz rally? Why is race a focus here and not for any of those candidates regardless of party? Because all of the aforementioned candidates have town halls and rallies that are almost-exclusively attended by, to use Ms. Tur’s words, “Caucasian white people” (even Kasich, who won 26 percent of the black vote in Ohio last year, which, in context, is 20 points higher than what Mitt Romney received nationally in 2012).

The whole race thing harkens back to the same game former (and perhaps future) MSNBCer Keith Olbermann and Matthews played when the Tea Party rose to power in 2010. It was Olbermann who first decided to point out that Tea Party rallies were only attended by white people, which obviously—in his mind—made the group the 21st-Century version of the KKK. Night after night, it was the same theme, with Matthews hitting for the race-card cycle by comparing the GOP to the KKK, Nazis, Storm Troopers while acting like the party “base is wearing sheets”. MSNBC’s Joy Reid played the race card from the bottom of the deck this morning in her astute analysis of Trump’s popularity as well, so it appears the new playbook on Trump is out: Nothing else appears to stick to Teflon Don(ald), so let’s go with the tried and true formula that helped make us so unpopular as a network lately.

As for Matthews, it’s clear he’s attmepting to associate Trump with the tea party by using the same tired race tactic, which is rich when considering the GOP frontrunner’s platform isn’t quite in line with that of said party. Here’s what fiscally-conservative stalwarts Club For Growth had to say about Trump recently:

The Club for Growth has issued very substantive and detailed white papers on the records of the major announced Republican candidates for president. There is no need to do a white paper on Donald Trump. He is not a serious Republican candidate, and many of his positions make him better suited to take on Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary. It would also be unfortunate if he takes away a spot at even one Republican debate.
To Matthews, implying a GOP candidate is racist or attracts only those who hate black people — even a New Yorker like Trump — is just another day at the office. And when Chris takes off his mic and calls it a night, he retires back to his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland… where the average home costs more than seven figures and the total black population is exactly one percent.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Ted Cruz Takes Down Liberal Terrorist/Lesbian Hollyweird Actress Ellen Page on 'Gay Rights' and Liberal Hypocrisy

HotAir.com:

Lots of media buzz around this exchange this afternoon, not because it’s terribly interesting or illuminating but because it features two famous people arguing over politics and, apparently, that’s reason enough. (I … guess Page still qualifies as famous? You’ve seen “Juno” and/or “Inception,” right?) The thing is, she’s all wrong for the task here, which was obviously to channel LGBT rage at the social conservative Cruz. She’s soft-spoken, even polite when he tells her he’ll answer her question but won’t engage in a back and forth. The key to a million YouTube views was to blow glitter in his face and screech “homophobe,” not let the guy actually respond. Since when is this “debate” an actual debate to the left?

Anyway. You know how these arguments go by now. Page wants to know why it’s okay for some businesses to discriminate against gays. Cruz wants to know why it’s okay to force religious business owners to provide services to a ceremony like a gay wedding to which they object on faith grounds. Well, says Page, Christians haven’t been persecuted historically in America the way gays have. Don’t you think they deserve special protection? At that point I figured Cruz would counter by giving her a lecture on free exercise and conscientious objection, but no — instead he asks her why she’s more concerned with getting Americans to bake wedding cakes for gays than stopping ISIS from tossing gays off of buildings. That’s horrible too, Page concedes, but ISIS isn’t the only persecutor worldwide. What about Jamaica? What about it, says Cruz? Are you seriously comparing state persecution of gays in the Middle East to what random thugs do in other countries? Etc etc etc. Bottom line: Page wants her cake. And the way things are going in the courts, she’ll get it.

The Gheys don't have the guts to take on ISIS who's out there beheading gays every week, but shutting down Christian businesses who don't want their faith compromised by individuals who spit at God's word is something they do with glee. As for what group out there is really being persecuted.....

RELATED: Pope Francis sees Christian 'genocide' as persecution affects 200 million Christians

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Josh Duggar Confesses to Cheating, ‘Porn Addiction': ‘I Have Been the Biggest Hypocrite Ever’

Mediaite.com:

Three months after 19 Kids and Counting reality show star Josh Duggar admitted to sexually molesting several young girls, including his own sisters, he became the first big celebrity name to be outed in the hack of Ashley Madison, a website that helps married people find sex partners.

Duggar, who was forced to resign from his position at the Family Research Council, has released a statement on his family’s website in which he confesses to infidelity, porn addiction and more.

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Read the full statement below:

I have been the biggest hypocrite ever. While espousing faith and family values, I have secretly over the last several years been viewing pornography on the internet and this became a secret addiction and I became unfaithful to my wife.

I am so ashamed of the double life that I have been living and am grieved for the hurt, pain and disgrace my sin has caused my wife and family, and most of all Jesus and all those who profess faith in Him.

I brought hurt and a reproach to my family, close friends and the fans of our show with my actions that happened when I was 14-15 years old, and now I have re-broken their trust.

The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country, I was hiding my own personal failings.

As I am learning the hard way, we have the freedom to choose to our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences. I deeply regret all hurt I have caused so many by being such a bad example.

I humbly ask for your forgiveness. Please pray for my precious wife Anna and our family during this time.

Josh Duggar
Above Josh Duggar’s statement on the website, he parents, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar wrote that their “hearts were broken” when they first heard about their son’s connection to Ashley Madison. “As we continue to place our trust in God we ask for your prayers for Josh, Anna, our grandchildren and our entire family,” they added.

For years, Josh Duggar made public speeches against LGBT Americans, arguing that the gay “lifestyle” is harmful to children and families. His family has endorsed Mike Huckabee for president and following the molestation scandal the candidate stood by Duggar, saying, “Good people make mistakes.”

What a sick, depraved, despicable and disgraceful man. Not only should his poor wife divorce him immediately and take him for all he's got, but Mike Huckabee needs to come out, admit that he got conned by this fool and disown Josh Duggar asap. The Duggar parents will take plenty of hits for their son being an a-hole, but one bad seed doesn't make them bad parents and hopefully another TV network will eventually pick up their excellent show...minus Josh.

RELATED: Mike Huckabee Says 11-Year-Old Rape Victim Should Have to Bear Her Rapist's Child

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Democrat Senator Bob Menendez Rips the Iran Deal: “Hope” Is Not a National Security Strategy

HotAir.com:

Via the Free Beacon, enjoy five minutes of the most hawkish Democrat in Congress living up to his billing. Unlike Chuck Schumer, Menendez doesn’t need to play nice in voicing his criticism of the deal. He’s not the incoming minority leader with a caucus to manage, for one thing, and thanks to the federal corruption charges filed against him this spring, he doesn’t have any relationship with Obama that he fears jeopardizing. The guy came to state his piece, and he didn’t hold back. This line is particularly cutting, as it goes right to the heart of the legacy Obama’s trying to build for himself:

The unstated narrative of the Iran deal is that President Obama is making good on the vision of candidate Obama, who saw early that the Iraq war was a bad idea while the rest of the country was rushing towards it. Getting Iran to denuclearize (for 10 years or so) and hopefully reach detente with the west will show the hawks out there that diplomacy can achieve more than eight years of war could. It’s essentially a bet right next door to Iraq made by doves that they, not hawks, know the true path to national security. Menendez’s line about doing the easy thing tears at the guts of that theory by equating Obama with the Iraq hawks he disdains. They took the politically easy route in 2003, says Menendez, and now the White House is doing the same thing by misleading a war-weary country into believing that this deal will stop Iran’s drive to a bomb when, in reality, it enables it. Quote: “The agreement that has been reached failed to achieve the one thing it set out to achieve—it failed to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons state at a time of its choosing. In fact, it authorizes and supports the very road map Iran will need to arrive at its target.” Just so. The entire strategy, as Menendez says, boils down to hope, specifically the hope that Iran will reform politically before the deal lapses in 10 years and they resume uranium enrichment with much more advanced centrifuges, putting them on the doorstep of having a bomb. Hope, he notes drily, isn’t a national security strategy. I wonder if Captain Hopenchange felt an extra sting from that line.

Sorry, Folks, Donald Trump Is for Real

TheDailyBeast.com:

After watching the real estate mogul work the crowds in New Hampshire, it’s clear that he isn’t going away.

In New Hampshire the other evening a fairly large group of people turned out to listen to Donald Trump, the world’s most famous landlord, as he talked about how great he is and how terrific the country will be when he is president. Trump arrives everywhere with the certainty and confidence of a guy who has never had to choose between making a mortgage payment or taking care of a tuition bill.

He is the most familiar face in a line-up of Republican candidates that with few exceptions resembles a parade of pygmies. He has been on TV for more than a decade so people figure they know him, the way they know the meteorologist, the sportscaster or the news anchor on their local network affiliate in Des Moines or Manchester.

And when he shows up one of the big differences between Trump and the rest of the field is obvious. All the others arrive with a title and people ask questions that start with “Senator” or “Governor,” but with Trump it’s simply, “Hey, Donald.”

Donald is accessible. He isn’t surrounded by a flying squadron of handlers and public relations hacks. He will answer any question posed to him and his replies are offered without fear of controversy because a big part of being Trump means you simply do not care what people think about what you just said.

Donald is not boring. Half the rest of the Republican field, other than John Kasich, behave like store mannequins. The other half resemble people badly in need of professional help.

RELATED: Donald Trump, Moderate Republican

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

What Happened To Scott Walker?

Mediaite.com:

Pre-Trump, Scott Walker was arguably the man to beat for the GOP nomination. Iowa was already practically in the bag, with Walker jumping out to a double-digit lead in the Hawkeye state and no real threat coming from establishment candidates like Jeb Bush. Backers reel off the laundry list: He’s the only guy in the race who won three gubernatorial contests in two election cycles. The Wisconsin governor is a union conqueror and debt dissolver…inherited a huge deficit and made it a surplus. And before running to the comments section and advising putting away the Walker pom-poms, do know my horse was declared in this space back in January. For the purposes of this column, this is simply an exercise of listing why Walker was considered a real contender for the nomination.

But then along came Trump and out came all the oxygen in the room. Some–like Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz and the afore-linked John Kasich have been able to find a few bubbles to rise above the GOP frontrunner for long enough to get a rise on the polls, sure. And the one candidate who has absolutely disappeared–and we’re talking Ed Snowden-esque disappeared–it’s been the 47-year-old Walker. And the results have been devastating: An August 12th CNN/ORC poll shows he’s now running a distant third in Iowa (trailing Trump by 13 points and Carson by 5), in a state any and every political expert says he must win or can call it a day. Nationally, Walker is down to six percent support in a Fox News poll released today, his lowest number in over a year.

So what happened? Basically, Walker isn’t flashy. He’s not soundbite-driven in a media culture built around it. His seemingly-perpetual hound dog expression doesn’t result in almost any decent photos of him in terms of displaying intellect or gravitas. Call it shallow or superficial, but like it or not, this stuff matters early on…particularly when being introduced to many voters for the first time.

But is the drop also due to a poor debate performance? Not really. Walker didn’t distinguish nor hurt himself that night and was barely discussed afterward as a result. In the end, perhaps he resembles a classic politician too much, which is not a good thing in this race. Just ask Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton: This is the anti-establishment race on both sides–at least for now–that craves authenticity, candor and people who aren’t career politicians (the honest Bernie Sanders being the exception because of the stark contrast that is Hillary).

Bradley Manning Might Get Solitary Confinement for Viewing Caitlyn Jenner Vanity Fair Magazine

USAToday.com:

Chelsea Manning, the transgender Army private convicted of leaking national security secrets, faces a hearing Tuesday for prison infractions that could result in solitary confinement.

Manning, who was intelligence analyst Bradley Manning when arrested in 2010, is charged with disrespect of a prison officer and is accused having books and magazines including Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan, among other offenses.

Her lawyers say she is being harassed.

The ACLU said in an email that Manning was charged with disrespect for requesting a lawyer when she felt she was being accused of misconduct. Other charges included disorderly conduct for sweeping food on the the floor, possessing an expired tube of toothpaste and possessing "prohibited property" — some of them documents pertaining to trans rights and government transparency including the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture.

Prison documents also list several books and magazines, including a Cosmopolitan issue that included an interview with Manning and a Vanity Fair issue with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover.

What a sick ingrate

RELATED: Cost of treating transgender troops called negligible

Monday, August 17, 2015

Bernie Sanders Quote of the Day!

"I Don’t Owe #BlackLivesMatter An Apology"

- Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on the Black Lives Matter protest movement

Actor John Rhys-Davies says Christianity Is Being Wiped Out

CNN.com:

Perhaps John Rhys-Davies was channeling Gimli, his character from The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, because the Welsh actor delivered a soliloquy late Monday about good and evil and even warned of the end of days courtesy of radical Islamic terrorism and political correctness.

"There is an extraordinary silence in the West," said Rhys-Davies on Adam Carolla's podcast posted Monday night. "Basically, Christianity in the Middle East and in Africa is being wiped out — I mean not just ideologically but physically, and people are being enslaved and killed because they are Christians. And your country and my country are doing nothing about it."

Carolla elicited laughter from Rhys-Davies when he asked him when it became fashionable to refrain from judging outsiders.

"This notion that we've evolved into a species that's incapable of judging other groups and what they are doing, especially when it is beheading people or setting people on fire or throwing acid in the face of schoolgirls — I like that kind of judging. It's evolved!" said Carolla.

Carolla joked that if Bill Maher had a show during World War II, Americans would not have fought the Nazis because the comedian's guests would have been "screaming" about tolerance.

"This is a unique age. We don't want to be judgmental," said Rhys-Davies, who's also known for his role in the Indiana Jones franchise. "Every other age that has come before us has believed exactly the opposite. I mean, T.S. Eliot referred to 'the common pursuit of true judgment.' Yes. That's what it's about. Getting our judgments right."

Rhys-Davies was on Carolla's podcast — which has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's most popular podcast — to promote the DVD release of Return to the Hiding Place, a film about Jews in Holland during World War II that was directed and written by Peter C. Spencer, also a guest on Monday night's podcast.

"It's an age where politicians don't actually say what they believe," said Rhys-Davies. "They are afraid of being judged as being partisan. Heaven forbid that we should criticize people who, after all, share a different value system. 'But it's all relevant. It's all equally relative. We're all the same. And God and the devil, they're the same, aren't they, really? Right and wrong? It's really just two faces of the same coin,' " he said, mocking what he sees as politically correct doctrine.

"We have lost our moral compass completely, and, unless we find it, we're going to lose our civilization. I think we're going to lose Western European Christian civilization, anyway," said Rhys-Davies.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Donald Trump on Illegal Immigrants: ‘They Have to Go’

Mediaite.com:

In an exclusive interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, Donald Trump said that he would rescind President Barack Obama’s executive order granting quasi-legal status to people who entered the country illegally as children, saying they’d all have to go.

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“The executive order gets rescinded,” Trump said.

“You’ll rescind that one, too? You’ll rescind the Dream Act executive order, the DACA?” asked host Chuck Todd.

“We’re going to have to,” Trump said. “We have to make a whole new set of standards.”

“So you’re going to split up families? You’re going to deport children?” asked Todd.

“We’re going to keep the families together. We have to keep the families together, but they have to go. They have to go” he said.

“What if they have no place to go?” Todd asked.

“We will work with them,” Trump said. “They have to go, Chuck. We either have a country, or we don’t have a country.”

It's not as complicated as the lying, liberal media would have you believe. Come to the US legally and no one will have a problem with you, do the opposite and not only will people have a problem with you, but you should be arrested and deported.

RELATED: The border wall Donald Trump wants (mostly) exists.

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Overrated Homosexual Football Player Michael Sam Quits Canadian Football League Citing 'Mental Health'

ESPN.com:

Michael Sam will step away from professional football, he announced via Twitter on Friday night.

Sam, the 25-year-old who began the season with the CFL's Montreal Alouettes, cited a tumultuous past year for leaving football at this time.

The Alouettes confirmed in a release that Sam has left the club for "personal reasons" and that he has been added to the team's suspended list.

Sam made the announcement in a series of tweets.

Sam, the first openly gay player to be drafted into the NFL, agreed to a two-year deal with the Alouettes this summer. He left training camp June 12, citing personal reasons, and sat out the team's first five games. He failed to record a tackle in his Alouettes debut Aug. 7.

Sam, the 2013 SEC defensive player of the year at Missouri, was selected in the seventh round of the 2014 NFL draft by the St. Louis Rams, did not make the team and spent some time on the Dallas Cowboys' practice squad before being released.

Homosexuality, an immoral, unGodly and sexually deviant choice that many around the world make, has long been known to lead to depression, mental health problems. anxiety and even suicide. So no one should be surprised that Michael Sam, who was never as good a football player as the liberal media who championed his gayness lied and told you he was, would quit a professional football league he never had the real talent to be in in the first place and cite 'mental problems' as the reason for it. After all, it was Michael Sam's choice to be gay that got him opportunities 7th round draft picks don't normally receive, it was only a matter of time before the jig was up.

RELATED: Report: Michael Sam's 'preferential treatment' irks Montreal teammates

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Hillary Clinton to Turn Over Server, Reportedly Had Two Top Secret Emails

Mediaite.com:

There are some new developments coming out tonight about the ongoing saga of Hillary Clinton‘s use of private email while she was Secretary of State.

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First, reports tonight say that the FBI has taken possession of thumb drives with Clinton’s emails, and that Clinton will be turning her private server and thumb drive over to the DOJ.

And then there’s the issue of Clinton having four classified emails on her server (despite not being marked as such), which led to a Department of Justice referral dealing with the potential compromise of classified information.

Well, as it turns out, two of them weren’t just supposed to be classified, they were top secret:

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Jesse Ventura Wants To Be Donald Trump's Running Mate

HotAir.com:

Well, why not? One’s a pot-stirrer with occasional ties to professional wrestling, and the other is … the former governor of Minnesota. Those who don’t recall Jesse Ventura’s foray into statewide politics may not realize it, but this could be a match made in heaven, at least for Ventura. After endorsing Donald Trump while speaking with former Trump adviser Roger Stone yesterday on Ventura’s Off the Grid, Jesse got down to the real business:

“I decided to go rogue. I still support Donald Trump, very strongly, even though we have some disagreements on issues. On the No. 1 issue: cleaning up the special interest corruption of our government, I agree with him,” Stone said about his split. “People are ready for blunt talk. They don’t want these politicians that are scripted or that are handled, or practiced, or coached. This is why you were successful, in Minnesota,” Stone said.
Ventura asked him who he thought should be Trump’s vice president.
Dr. Ben Carson is the only non-career politician and a straight talker, Stone said, calling a Trump-Carson ticket “very strong.”
But Ventura didn’t want to be left out of the mix.
“That throws me out of the equation because I’m a former governor. Do you think Donald would ever think of asking me?” Ventura asked.
Ventura was only a politician in the most narrow sense of the word. Like Trump in this cycle, Jesse ran for governor more as a lark than anything else, leveraging the major-party status of Ross Perot’s Reform Party to boost his bid. And like Trump again, Ventura gained lots of attention for campaign antics and outrageous statements. Most people here dismissed him as a joke, but woke up the day after the election to find out that we had elected Ventura over Norm Coleman and Skip Humphrey.

Unfortunately, the antics didn’t stop that morning, either. He went on a book tour the first year and used state security personnel rather than hiring his own bodyguards. The same year, he refereed a WWF wrestling match. In 2001 Ventura became an NBC color announcer for the short-lived XFL, which was backed by Vince McMahon. With Ventura making a joke of Minnesota government, Republicans and Democrats (DFL in MN) managed to cut Ventura out of the biennial budget process. He left politics at the end of his only term, while the state eventually went on to elect Al Franken … twice.

I been said that Trump's current run for POTUS reminds me of Jesse Ventura's run for governor of Minnesota awhile back. Carson or Fiorina would make more sense as a running mate tho.

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Monday, August 10, 2015

Target Bows Down To The Left, Plans to ‘Phase Out Gender-Based Signage’ at Its Stores

Mediaite.com:

Target announced some big news this weekend: they’re getting away from “gender-based signs” at their stores to foster a more inclusive environment.

In a press release Friday, Target explained, “Over the past year, guests have raised important questions about a handful of signs in our stores that offer product suggestions based on gender.”

And while they need to keep that going with the clothing section for obvious reasons, they understand “in some departments like Toys, Home or Entertainment, suggesting products by gender is unnecessary.”
They laid out their plan to change things up:

Right now, our teams are working across the store to identify areas where we can phase out gender-based signage to help strike a better balance. For example, in the kids’ Bedding area, signs will no longer feature suggestions for boys or girls, just kids. In the Toys aisles, we’ll also remove reference to gender, including the use of pink, blue, yellow or green paper on the back walls of our shelves. You’ll see these changes start to happen over the next few months.

RELATED: A Genderless Society Is Not the Answer

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Megyn Kelly Talks Penises, Oral Sex and Breasts with Howard Stern

Shoebat.com:

Donald Trump was disinvited from a prime speaking role to an important gathering of conservative activists on Friday for his criticism of Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly after a combustible debate performance. As for the vacant spot at the Red State gathering, Red State chief Erick Erickson has invited Kelly to replace Trump. Kelly replacing Trump was a fair judgment in Erickson’s view for saying “blood coming out of her … whatever”. The comment stirred up a hornets nest. Well, Shoebat.com found a five year old interview of Meghan Kelly when she was climbing up the ladder not minding to get on the Howard Stern Show to gain fame while allowing Stern to discuss with her every sort of smut including her private sex live which is supposed to be sacred. She laughs and is okay with Stern discussing penises, breasts, in a very trashy nonchalant way.

Such a classy woman, how dare Donald Trump say anything mean about her, much less call her out on being unfair to him at that debate the other night (like he's not entitled to his opinion)? What's funny too about all this Kelly vs Trump brouhaha is all within the liberal media who are suddenly siding with and become huge Kelly fans--can we say that that is not just a coincidence? I mean a FOX host getting love from the Left? Really?!?

RELATED: Erick Erickson Disinvites Trump from Conservative Gathering Due to Megyn Kelly Remarks

Friday, August 7, 2015

Chris Christie and Rand Paul Shout at Each Other over Gov’t Surveillance

Mediaite.com:

Megan Kelly asked Chris Christie to comment on terror and his opposition to Rand Paul when it comes to government surveillance.

Christie began by discussing what he witnessed during 9/11, and the importance of striking a balnce between respecting liberty and protecting citizens. “I will make no apologies ever for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We have to give more tools to our folk to do this and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way.”

Paul responded by saying that his aim with curbing the PATRIOT Act was in making sure that the constitutional rights of innocent civilians would be respected, while directing more resources towards suspected criminals. “I want to collect more records from terrorists but less records from other people,” Paul said.

From there, Christie interjected and he and Paul went at each other. Christie continued to blast Paul’s call for subcommittees as an inefficient use of resources to protect citizens, while Paul continued to say that unconstitutional searches were not the answer terror victims are seeking.

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Cross-Dresser Bruce Jenner's New Show "I Am Cait" Loses Half Its Audience

HollywoodReporter.com:

E! may be playing the waiting game for those precious DVR views, but time-shifting likely can't change the tenor of I Am Cait's second week at bat.

The Caitlyn Jenner reality series lost more than half of its premiere haul on Sunday night, per live-plus-same-day ratings. The episode averaged 1.3 million viewers, down from 2.7 million viewers the week prior.

All told, the first episode of I Am Cait already has reached 7.7 million viewers. But that number is a combination of encores and time-shifting. The original telecast of I Am Cait's premiere fetched a more modest 3.9 million viewers with its first round of DVR views.

Though I Am Cait is bringing young viewers to its Sunday slot, 1.3 million viewers is lower than any episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians ever has pulled among live-plus-same-day showings.

Finally, the general public seems to be waking up to the fact that despite all the makeup, dresses, Vogue covers and a liberal media that celebrates everything his every move, Bruce Jenner is still a sad man/cross-dresser with a severe mental illness.

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Barack Obama Equates Republicans To Anti-Americans Iranians

HotAir.com:

The lowest moment from what was probably the lowest speech of his presidency — so far. David Harsanyi, watching this, asks a good question:

Imagine what would have happened if Bush had said that Democrats were caucusing with Saddam Hussein?

The GOP opposes the nuclear deal because they think it’s too favorable to Iran and not favorable enough to America. The hardliners in Iran’s parliament oppose the deal for the opposite reason. Insofar as they both want the deal to fail, I suppose that’s “common cause.” But then, as Harsanyi says, it must also be true that Barack Obama made “common cause” with Saddam Hussein since both of them thought the Iraq war was a bad idea. Obama thought it was a bad idea for U.S. and Iraqi security whereas Saddam thought it was a bad idea for his own personal security, but the reasoning is immaterial apparently. All that matters to “common cause” is how the parties to an issue align. Or at least, 12 years after the invasion of Iraq, that’s all that matters now. I wonder what Democrats like Steve Israel, who came out against the Iran deal yesterday, thought when they found out today that they’re on the same side as the worst fanatics in Iran’s government.

Actually, Obama’s insult may be worse than it at first appears. The major theme of this speech, as it always, always is — and always disingenuously — when Obama talks about diplomacy with Iran is that the only alternative is war. Reportedly he went so far today in a private meeting with Jewish leaders as to claim that Iranian rockets will rain down on Tel Aviv if the GOP-led Congress blocks the deal, because that will lead to war with Iran and war will lead to Iranian reprisals against Israel. Never mind that Iranian-made rockets already rain down on Israel every few years thanks to Hezbollah and that the sanctions relief Iran is getting from this deal will help pay for more of them. Never mind too that Israel’s own prime minister seems to think reprisals are a risk worth taking in the name of stopping an Iranian atomic bomb. The point, at least to Obama, is that only a warmonger would oppose this terrible deal, which all but endorses an Iranian bomb 10 years from now. Equating the Republicans in Congress with Iran’s hardliners was his way of suggesting, I think, that both of those groups actually seek war with each other in the name of advancing their own political interests. There’s no such thing as good-faith opposition to an Obama policy, at least outside the Democratic caucus. If GOP hawks hate his nuclear deal, it can only be because they’ve got Gulf War III on the brain and refuse to let some master stroke of diplomacy deter them.

In fact, that’s basically an Iranian talking point coming out of the president’s mouth, that some elements of the U.S. government are stone-cold fanatics who’ll accept nothing short of war with Iran.

Worse speech ever by Barry. But this uber-liberal President's sheer hatred for the GOP has never been disputed.

RELATED: Graham: Obama’s ‘Delusional’ to Compare GOP to Anti-American Iranians

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

How Donald Trump Can Win The Debate

CNN.com:

Muhammad Ali once professed that "it is hard to be humble when you are as great as I am." The current fantastic polling results for Trump in the run-up to the first Republican Party debate may make it difficult for him to approach the event with any sense of humility and propriety.

However, if he could find it within himself to demonstrate the high standards of decorum that the audience expects from a "real" presidential candidate, he could leave the stage as he entered -- the definitive front-runner among 17 Republicans vying to be the next president of the United States.

In fact, Trump said on ABC this weekend that he won't be "throwing punches" and "I'm not looking to attack." But he also accused his rivals of being "all talk, no action."

Trump should not forget that exigence, the audience's expectation for what will be communicated and how it will be communicated, helps determine how people will interpret and respond to his presentation. Trump's scorched-earth attacks on immigrants, military veterans and the rest of the field have largely succeeded because they fit within the narrative of character and crisis that sustains the attention of the networks and their audiences.

Presidential debates are different. The audience expects more. They want to be informed about solutions and not simply entertained.

Puerto Rico Has Defaulted

Townhall.com:

U.S. commonwealth Puerto Rico defaulted on its debt for the first time Monday, paying just $628,000 of its $58 million scheduled payment. Moody's "views this event as a default."
Puerto Rico has an outstanding debt of $72 billion.

Puerto Rico's Government Development Bank paid only $628,000 of the $58 million due creditors, the agency said. It said the decision "reflects the serious concerns about the Commonwealth's liquidity" and the need to ensure "essential services (residents) deserve are maintained."

Given the tiny payout, "Moody's views this event as a default," said Emily Raimes, vice president at the U.S. credit giant.

Puerto Rico's outstanding debt of $72 billion is far bigger than Detroit's $20 billion bankruptcy two years ago but a fraction of Greece's $350 billion in obligations. But unlike Detroit, there's no law allowing Puerto Rico to declare bankruptcy. And Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has said the federal government won't bail out the island, as institutions such as the International Monetary Fund rescued Greece.
Puerto Rico has seen its population plummet since the recession began, and despite attempts to raise sales taxes to raise revenue, the economy has not recovered. People born in Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens, although they do not pay federal income tax nor vote in presidential elections.

Funny, how Hispanic-Americans up in arms about protecting illegal immigrants, don't seem to mention or care about how Puerto Rico's been doing under Barry's watch.

RELATED: Obama Administration Without Plans to Bail Out Puerto Rico

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

The Bush Hater's Case for Jeb Bush

TheWeek.com:

Now, I very much dread the idea of Clinton-Bush Part Two, which I fear will play out like a grittier, cash-grabbing reboot of 1992. And nominating a man with a now-toxic family legacy is the surest path this side of Donald Trump to canceling all of the GOP's natural advantages against Hillary Clinton.

But strangely enough, he seems to be the only top-tier candidate on the Republican side who seems to have learned something from the disaster of his brother's presidency.

Yes, he spent a painful week earlier this year awkwardly trying to clarify his views on the Iraq War. He was so determined not to talk about his brother's war that he made it his own problem. But he ended up saying this: "Knowing what we now know, what would you have done? I would have not engaged. I would not have gone into Iraq."

Jeb Bush also went on a brain-shopping spree sometime ago. His advisers include people from across the Republican spectrum, including ultra-hawks like Paul Wolfowitz and John Hannah. But The Wall Street Journal reported that he seems more in line with his father's foreign policy, and the broader realist tradition:

In private, Jeb Bush has expressed admiration for former Secretary of State James Baker and former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, two veterans of his father's administration known for advocating restraint and a tight focus on national interests, according to people familiar with those discussions. [The Wall Street Journal]

Bush has already had an occasion to distance himself from James Baker, after the old foreign policy hand gave a tough, anti-Benjamin Netanyahu speech to the dovish Israeli advocacy group J Street. But it is clear that Jeb Bush at least respects his non-neoconservative foreign policy advisers.