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~All Gave Some~Some Gave All~ God Bless America~
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I hate to ask this question but honesty mandates it. Is Big Don ultimately bowing to the the powers that be by softening on his principles and caving to the vaunted “establishment”. Is he or isn’t he the second coming of Ronald Reagan?
Alabama: Trump Campaign Robocall Does Not Even Mention Luther Strange Is Coming to Rally
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A Trump campaign “robocall” promoting Sen. Luther Strange’s (R-AL) campaign rally with President Donald Trump Friday does not even mention the senator’s name, according to a report by Huntsville ABC affiliate WAAY.
“This special rally event featuring President Donald Trump” is the only thing Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, reportedly said of the rally.
The rally was already moved to Friday from Saturday, when it would have competed opposite a rally for Strange’s special election rival, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. Trump, as Strange pointed out 28 times at Thursday’s debate, has endorsed him in the race.
The apparent snub to Strange comes after White House sources expressed concerns this week that attendance for the rally will fall well short of what Trump came to expect in the Yellowhammer State during the 2016 campaign. The same sources identified lackluster support for Strange as a possible damper on crowd size, suggesting the robocalls omitting Strange may be an attempt to conceal from Trump supporters the purpose of the rally so they might attend.
“We have concerns that there may not be a high amount of turnout at the rallies for Strange, and we are concerned that some of those that may show up may be there to shout pro-Roy Moore slogans–or that they just want to see the president and vice president but still plan to vote for Roy Moore,” a White House aide told Breitbart News. “Translating this into votes for Luther Strange is going to be very difficult, if not impossible.”
On at least one occasion in 2016, the Madison rally in February, Trump claimed a crowd of more than 30,000.
After the February 2016 rally in nearby Madison, Trump told attendees the crowd was upwards of 30,000:
THANK YOU ALABAMA! 32,000 supporters tonight. Get out & VOTE on Tuesday! WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Friday’s rally with Strange will be held at Huntsville’s 9,000-seat Von Braun Center.
Dean Young, the host of Roy Moore’s rival rally in rural Washington County Saturday, already took the extraordinary step of inviting President Trump to attend their rally in addition to the Huntsville one, despite his endorsement of Strange. The White House has, so far, made no indication Trump plans to take Young up on his offer.
When asked by WAAY reporters, the Strange campaign claimed no knowledge of the Lara Trump robocalls, while Trump’s team had yet to respond.
Melania Releases ‘Family’ Statement – It’s Going Viral
Image Source: YouTubeFirst Lady Melania Trump has become an especially good role model for children since her husband took office in January. Now, she’s once again proving her dedication to children and family.
The First Lady spoke to the spouses of the dignitaries in attendance at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday. During her talk, Mrs. Trump said that it is the responsibility of parents to raise their children with good values and a healthy love of country.
“Show me the loving bonds between your families today and I will show you the patriotism and moral clarity of your nation tomorrow,” she said.
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Our choices on how we raise and educate our children in fact provide the blueprint for the next generation. If we do not advocate a love of country to our children and generations to come, then why would our children grow up to fight for their countries?
Patriotism Begins at Home
The World Bank reports that as many as 385 million children throughout the world now live in desperate poverty, and Trump said the solution to this starts at home.
Together, we must acknowledge that all too often it is the weakest, most innocent and vulnerable among us, our children, who ultimately suffer the most from the challenges that plague our societies.
Whether it is drug addiction, bullying, poverty, disease, trafficking, illiteracy, or hunger, it is the children who are hit first and hardest in any country.
This is true in especially in the United States, where at-risk children, including those whose families rely on government assistance, are the most likely to be involved in terrorizing situations like child sex trafficking.
“No child should ever feel hungry, stalked, frightened, terrorized, bullied, isolated or afraid, with nowhere to turn,” Trump said. “We need to step up, come together, and ensure that our children’s future is bright.”
Whether it is drug addiction, bullying, poverty, disease, trafficking, illiteracy, or hunger, it is the children who are hit first and hardest in any country.
This is true in especially in the United States, where at-risk children, including those whose families rely on government assistance, are the most likely to be involved in terrorizing situations like child sex trafficking.
“No child should ever feel hungry, stalked, frightened, terrorized, bullied, isolated or afraid, with nowhere to turn,” Trump said. “We need to step up, come together, and ensure that our children’s future is bright.”
Final Words
Mrs. Trump finished her talk by reminding those in attendance, including Brigitte Macron of France, Sophie Gregoire of Canada, and Emine Erdoğan of Turkey, that they have a responsibility to protect children — if not, the nations of the world will fall apart.
“As we all know, the future of every nation rests with the promise of their young people,” she said.
After painting such a dour picture for the U.N., Trump ended with a message of hope: “God Bless our children, God Bless our nations, and God Bless the United States of America.”
**SPONSORED CONTENT** Americans Have Found That a New Search Engine is Exposing Personal Data. Have You Looked Up Your Name Yet?
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The following is a testimonial by someone who found more than they bargained for.
Have you ever googled yourself? A crush? Your neighbors? 57% of Americans admit to keeping an eye on their online reputation, and 46% admit to using the internet to look up someone from their past.
But Google is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to finding personal information. There’s a new website going around that users are calling “creepy,” “scary,” and “awesome.”
Have you ever been issued a speeding ticket? Failed to stop at a stop sign? Do you know someone who’s had a run-in with the law? If you’re like most of us, the answer to at least one of those questions is “yes.” Most of us have slipped up at least once or twice. In fact, one in four Americans has an arrest or a criminal record.
An innovative new website called Truthfinder is now revealing the full “scoop” on millions of Americans.
TruthFinder can search through hundreds of millions of public records in a matter of minutes. TruthFinder members can literally begin searching in seconds for sensitive data like criminal, traffic, and arrest records. Plus, they are able to check as many records as they want (think: friends, family, neighbors, enemies, etc. etc.).
Previously, if you needed to research somebody’s arrest records, it involved a lot of work. First, you’d need to know where the arrest records were located. Then you’d have to travel to the appropriate county court office — in person! After filling out long and boring paperwork, you’d have to wait for the results.
Searching arrest records could take days, weeks, or even months. And what if somebody was hiding an arrest in an unknown county? You might never find it.
But with websites like TruthFinder, a background check is simple and easy. With just a few clicks of your mouse, you can find detailed and explicit information not readily available through a standard search engine.
I decided to test it out for myself and discover what information TruthFinder might expose about me. The search was easy, and after a few minutes, I found myself staring at my background report — and it wasn’t pretty!
There was that mortifying blog that I’d started in high school, still up for all the world to see! My report even included embarrassing photographs of myself that I’d totally forgotten about. I couldn’t believe that TruthFinder even found my secret social media profiles that I’d created under an alias. The sheer volume of data about me was definitely scary. I feel like a perfect stranger could look me up on TruthFinder and find out my entire life story.
After conducting just one search, I was totally hooked. I just couldn’t believe that it was legal to have this many personal details online! One of my friends from back home has pretty much dropped off the map entirely for the past three years. I’ve been kind of worried about him, and nobody seemed to know where he had gone. So, I typed his name into TruthFinder and was absolutely devastated by the search results.
My “friend” had gone to jail. TruthFinder had every single detail on the case, from the date he was arrested to which prison he was currently in. But the gruesome description of his offence made me realize that I probably needed to reevaluate who my friends were. This guy’s records listed charge after charge for battery, assault, and child abuse. His criminal record read like an infinite scroll of total depravity. I just couldn’t believe it.
From now on, I’m looking up everybody — no matter how normal they seem. Luckily for me, TruthFinder offers unlimited searches, so I’ll never be fooled again.
Although TruthFinder can show deeply shocking criminal records, I’ve really been surprised by just how practical it is as an everyday tool. I’ve used it to look up addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, estimated income levels, assets — heck, I’ve even found Amazon wishlists on TruthFinder. One time I looked up Todd Kohlhepp, the scary serial killer from South Carolina who confessed to seven murders. Well, guess what? His Amazon profile came up in his background report, and let me tell you, it was downright chilling. He literally left reviews on knives and shovels, discussing how he used them in the murders. It was one of the creepiest things I’ve ever found online.
My own report came back with an interactive map of local sex offenders in my neighborhood, complete with mugshots and explicit details of their crimes. I was seriously grossed out to learn that my last apartment building was absolutely infested with perverts, rapists, and total scumbags.
It isn’t all scary — After reading more about TruthFinder, I’ve heard lots of positive stories, too. Apparently, people have reunited because of this website. Estranged families have used public records to contact long-lost family members to get back in touch. Military friends have reunited after years of lost contact because they found the right phone number or email address on their report.
All in all, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend TruthFinder to my friends and family. In today’s world, you need to take precautions to keep yourself and your family safe. But if you’re going to look up someone that you know using TruthFinder, I have to warn you: the information you might find could forever change how you feel about someone. Make sure that you’re emotionally prepared for the consequences if you find something you don’t want to see. To get started with your search, click here.
Will West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin Switch Parties Next Week?
EDWARD LULIEAttorney
Next week we will see another Senate vote to overturn Obamacare. The Graham-Cassidy bill, which has suddenly gained momentum has a real chance of passage. I would not count on Senator McCain to vote for it.
Despite his long friendship with Lindsey Graham he seems to hate Donald Trump more than he likes Graham. Yet there is another path to victory, and that path goes through West Virginia.
The Governor of West Virginia, Jim Justice, changed his party affiliation to Republican in August. He knew that Trump was a big winner in WV and that there was little downside politically to changing sides to the GOP as that party is now favored by voters. Consider Democrat Joe Manchin, who is running for re-election in as Senator in West Virginia. Why should he stay with a party that looks to have lost the state. What advantage does being a Democrat give him? Governor Justice has just endorsed Manchin for re-election in what appears to be a hotly contested election for 2018.
Manchin is apparently facing an uphill battle, but that might quickly change.
Suppose, with the assistance of President Trump, Manchin looked at the writing on the wall and decided to change party affiliation, just like Jim Justice. If he did that at the beginning of next week and brought another vote to pass Graham-Cassidy he would be an instant hero to most Republicans and become hated by many Democrats.
The moment is ripe, Republicans may barely have the votes to pass Graham-Cassidy but imagine for a moment that Manchin brings along that needed last vote for passage. He would have leverage to cut a deal with the GOP and President Trump. As a Republican he could secure his reelection and get a Trump endorsement as well. While some on the right may howl that he is too liberal, it is doubtful that WV voters would agree. Tax Cuts, Tax Reform and many other goals of Donald Trump might become much more possible to achieve.
Legacy media still seems convinced that 2018 will see huge gains for Democrats. Of course they still think Trump lost and seem to have forgotten all the Democrat promises of regaining power in 2016 failed miserably to materialize. It seems likely that the GOP will actually increase their numbers in the Senate in 2018 and gain more control of the Senate. Might Joe Manchin be interested in being in the majority party?
Timing is everything here. President Trump should invite the GOP senate leadership over to have coffee and a chat with Senator Manchin on Monday. Success would see a major shift of power and President Trump getting a victory that the country desperately needs.
So will sanity and self interest prevail? Will the GOP see the advantages? Will Joe Manchin smell the coffee and wake up sometime next week as a Republican Senator, and the savior of Graham-Cassidy? I certainly hope so.
Sarah Palin: Vote for Roy Moore Isn’t Vote Against Trump; It’s a Vote for MAGA Agenda
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said a vote for Alabama grassroots Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore is a vote for the economic nationalist agenda that got President Donald Trump elected and not a vote against Trump himself.
Palin made her remarks at a raucous Thursday evening rally for Moore after Moore’s debate with D.C. establishment Senator Luther Strange.
“A vote for Judge Moore isn’t a vote against the president,” Palin said. “It’s a vote for the people’s agenda that elected the president.”
Moore is leading Strange in every poll leading up to Tuesday’s runoff election, and many Alabama voters have indicated that though they personally like and support Trump, they will be voting for Moore, who they believe will better support Trump’s agenda than Strange, who they think will be more loyal to the Republican establishment and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
Economic nationalists have been disheartened that Trump has caved on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for certain illegal immigrants, made deals with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), has had second thoughts about pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord, and is not prioritizing his signature campaign promise to build the wall.
“We voted to put America first. Not the political elite that had ignored us for decades,” Palin said. “We voted for a big beautiful wall, not for another amnesty deal.”
As has been noted, “the Washington Post reported that Moore has become a ‘darling to Trump’s base,’ especially after, as U.S. News & World Report noted, ‘[former White House Chief Strategist Steve] Bannon and his like-minded nationalists lieutenants at Breitbart have watched Trump’s centrist turn with great unease.'”
Palin reminded voters that the “MAGA” movement started in Alabama in 2015 at a raucous rally when then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who had been the intellectual leader of the economic nationalist movement in the Senate while Palin was the movement’s heart and soul since the 2008 election, put on a “Make America Great Again” hat and said, “this isn’t a campaign. It’s a movement.”
Palin urged Alabamians to “send a loud and clear message” to the D.C. Swamp on Tuesday that “our movement isn’t over, and it’s not slowing down. It’s roaring and rumbling across the country.”
“We’re sending Trump someone who has our back — not Mitch McConnell’s,” Palin said. “Make no mistake: Big Luther is Mitch McConnell’s guy.”
The Governor of West Virginia, Jim Justice, changed his party affiliation to Republican in August. He knew that Trump was a big winner in WV and that there was little downside politically to changing sides to the GOP as that party is now favored by voters. Consider Democrat Joe Manchin, who is running for re-election in as Senator in West Virginia. Why should he stay with a party that looks to have lost the state. What advantage does being a Democrat give him? Governor Justice has just endorsed Manchin for re-election in what appears to be a hotly contested election for 2018.
Manchin is apparently facing an uphill battle, but that might quickly change. Suppose, with the assistance of President Trump, Manchin looked at the writing on the wall and decided to change party affiliation, just like Jim Justice. If he did that at the beginning of next week and brought another vote to pass Graham-Cassidy he would be an instant hero to most Republicans and become hated by many Democrats.
The moment is ripe, Republicans may barely have the votes to pass Graham-Cassidy but imagine for a moment that Manchin brings along that needed last vote for passage. He would have leverage to cut a deal with the GOP and President Trump. As a Republican he could secure his reelection and get a Trump endorsement as well. While some on the right may howl that he is too liberal, it is doubtful that WV voters would agree. Tax Cuts, Tax Reform and many other goals of Donald Trump might become much more possible to achieve.
Legacy media still seems convinced that 2018 will see huge gains for Democrats. Of course they still think Trump lost and seem to have forgotten all the Democrat promises of regaining power in 2016 failed miserably to materialize. It seems likely that the GOP will actually increase their numbers in the Senate in 2018 and gain more control of the Senate. Might Joe Manchin be interested in being in the majority party?
Timing is everything here. President Trump should invite the GOP senate leadership over to have coffee and a chat with Senator Manchin on Monday. Success would see a major shift of power and President Trump getting a victory that the country desperately needs.
Timing is everything here. President Trump should invite the GOP senate leadership over to have coffee and a chat with Senator Manchin on Monday. Success would see a major shift of power and President Trump getting a victory that the country desperately needs.
So will sanity and self interest prevail? Will the GOP see the advantages? Will Joe Manchin smell the coffee and wake up sometime next week as a Republican Senator, and the savior of Graham-Cassidy? I certainly hope so.
The Governor of West Virginia, Jim Justice, changed his party affiliation to Republican in August. He knew that Trump was a big winner in WV and that there was little downside politically to changing sides to the GOP as that party is now favored by voters. Consider Democrat Joe Manchin, who is running for re-election in as Senator in West Virginia. Why should he stay with a party that looks to have lost the state. What advantage does being a Democrat give him? Governor Justice has just endorsed Manchin for re-election in what appears to be a hotly contested election for 2018.
Manchin is apparently facing an uphill battle, but that might quickly change. Suppose, with the assistance of President Trump, Manchin looked at the writing on the wall and decided to change party affiliation, just like Jim Justice. If he did that at the beginning of next week and brought another vote to pass Graham-Cassidy he would be an instant hero to most Republicans and become hated by many Democrats.
The moment is ripe, Republicans may barely have the votes to pass Graham-Cassidy but imagine for a moment that Manchin brings along that needed last vote for passage. He would have leverage to cut a deal with the GOP and President Trump. As a Republican he could secure his reelection and get a Trump endorsement as well. While some on the right may howl that he is too liberal, it is doubtful that WV voters would agree. Tax Cuts, Tax Reform and many other goals of Donald Trump might become much more possible to achieve.
Legacy media still seems convinced that 2018 will see huge gains for Democrats. Of course they still think Trump lost and seem to have forgotten all the Democrat promises of regaining power in 2016 failed miserably to materialize. It seems likely that the GOP will actually increase their numbers in the Senate in 2018 and gain more control of the Senate. Might Joe Manchin be interested in being in the majority party?
Timing is everything here. President Trump should invite the GOP senate leadership over to have coffee and a chat with Senator Manchin on Monday. Success would see a major shift of power and President Trump getting a victory that the country desperately needs.
So will sanity and self interest prevail? Will the GOP see the advantages? Will Joe Manchin smell the coffee and wake up sometime next week as a Republican Senator, and the savior of Graham-Cassidy? I certainly hope so.
Roy Moore disrupts U.S. Senate race in Alabama — and prepares for new level of defiance in Washington
By Michael Scherer
Roy Moore, a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Alabama, pauses for a closing prayer at a “Faith and Family” rally at Shoals Christian School in Florence, Ala. (Nathan Morgan for The Washington Post)
With the thunder and fire of an old-time revivalist, U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore rose before the assembled souls at the Redemption Baptist Church, a front-runner in the polls days out from an election that could rattle the rickety structures of the Republican Party.
“You think that God’s not angry that this land is a moral slum?” asked Moore, 70, reciting a rhyming poem he had written years earlier during a 50-minute address before several dozen believers. “How much longer will it be before his judgment comes?”
Republican primary voters across the country have been trying since 2010 to elect angry outsider candidates who promise to disrupt the ways of Washington. But no one in recent history has promised to be quite as disruptive as Moore, a former chief justice of Alabama who was twice removed from the bench for defying judicial orders.
And few have divided the GOP as Moore’s candidacy has, producing a momentous power struggle over an election that is likely to turn out less than 20 percent of Alabama’s Republican voters but could nonetheless set the tone for the coming 2018 election battles.
Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) and jurist Roy Moore face a runoff race in September to determine who will win the Republican nomination to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Senate seat. (Amber Ferguson/The Washington Post)
In August, Moore won the first round of primary voting with 39 percent of the vote and then won the endorsement of the third-place finisher weeks later. Now, with the runoff election just five days away, Moore leads public polling averages by nine points over Sen. Luther Strange, the man appointed to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the U.S. Senate.
Strange, a 6-foot-9-inch former prosecutor in the conventional mold of his colleague, Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), is bolstered by millions of dollars pouring into the state from establishment Republicans including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — and even by President Trump, who plans to hold a rally for Strange in Huntsville on Friday.
But many of Trump’s core supporters remain with Moore, who relentlessly praises Trump’s policy agenda on the campaign trail. Also backing Moore is a hodgepodge of conservative iconoclasts: former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon, Bannon’s Breitbart media operation, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson and evangelical leaders from across the country.
And for now, they are winning, revealing with startling clarity the gaping divide between Trump’s most ardent fans and GOP leaders — and setting up the uncomfortable possibility that many of them could turn out to see Trump as he tries to prop up Strange, and then vote for Moore.
The central argument of Moore’s campaign is that removing the sovereignty of a Christian God from the functions of government is an act of apostasy, an affront to the biblical savior as well as the Constitution. Among the prices he says this country has paid for denying God’s supremacy: the high murder rate in Chicago, crime on the streets of Washington, child abuse, rape and sodomy. It is a crisis he hopes to address next year from the floor of the Senate.
“We have forgotten the source of our rights,” Moore preached during that church appearance, quoting from memory passages from several books of the Bible, along with the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and a U.S. Supreme Court decision from 1892. “We put ourselves above God. And in so doing, we forgot the basic source of our morality.”
Moore has always been controversial, and proudly so. As a judge, he denied custody of three teenagers to their mother, who was in a lesbian relationship, writing that her private behavior was “an inherent evil against which children must be protected.”
In his current campaign, he has called for the impeachment of judges, including possibly Supreme Court justices, who issue rulings for same-sex marriage and sodomy.
On-the-record candor
He also acts nothing like a professional political candidate. During the final days of a brutal campaign, which has featured withering daily television and direct-mail assaults on his character, he invited a reporter to spend hours alone with him traveling through the state. Unstaffed by campaign aides and tethered to the outside world only by a flip-phone, Moore offered a seat in his family’s pew for Sunday church services, welcomed a tag-along when he visited with his 90-year-old mother, gave a tour of his home and property in rural Gallant, Ala., and then offered to speak on the record for a two-hour drive, with a quick stop for lunch with his wife, Kayla, at a roadside Cracker Barrel, where they both ordered the Sunday Homestyle Chicken.
The last 50 years, Moore argued, have witnessed the tragic removal of God from public life, from schools, from government, something that was never intended under the Constitution’s establishment clause. “There is no such thing as evolution,” he said at one point as he waited for his lunch. Species might adapt to their environment, he continued, but that has nothing to do with the origins of life described in the Bible. “That we came from a snake?” he asked rhetorically. “No, I don’t believe that.”
Moore’s on-the-record candor arises from an earnest desire to make sure that his unconventional ideas about the Constitution and God, which he has recorded in three separate books, are accurately portrayed for a national audience. “One thing I do not want you to do, because it’s not right, is to say that I believe in biblical punishments,” he said during the drive, which included periodic rain storms that blotted out the rolling forest and farmland. “I’ve been accused of saying I want to kill homosexuals because the Bible says. And I don’t.”
Moore talks with supporters about the Second Amendment during the rally in Florence. (Nathan Morgan for The Washington Post)
As a historical matter, there is little debate over the religious convictions of the founding Americans. But Moore has used these admonitions to take the position that any legal orders that defy a conservative evangelical view of “the law of nature and nature’s God,” as Thomas Jefferson put it, are illegitimate, unconstitutional and should not be obeyed.
“The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, not what judicial supremacists say it is,” he said. “It’s not debatable when it contradicts reason.”
“The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, not what judicial supremacists say it is,” he said. “It’s not debatable when it contradicts reason.”
In 2003, when a federal judge ordered Moore to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments he had installed at the Supreme Court of Alabama, he refused. Like a soldier ordered to murder civilians, he could not, as an officer sworn to the Constitution, carry out an illegal command, he explained. He was removed from office as a result.
In a testimony before a Senate subcommittee on June 8, 2004, Roy Moore, said the First Amendment allows the states and citizens “to acknowledge God.” (C-SPAN)
Alabama’s electorate returned Moore to his old post 10 years later — just in time for the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling establishing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Moore again rebelled, writing a flurry of memos and decisions, telling the governor to “oppose such tyranny” and announcing that the order should not be accepted as the “rule of law” since human beings are not “at liberty to redefine reality.” He was suspended from the bench without pay and voluntarily retired.
Underlying all of these actions, and his latest designs on elective office, is an unwavering vision of key constitutional questions as moral choices between good and evil. “Sodomy is against the laws of nature,” he said, before comparing it to a man or woman who has sex with a donkey. “Let’s say the court decides to get rid of the law of gravity and says you can jump off the Empire State Building. Can they do that? No, they certainly can’t do that.”
A fighting instinct
Moore’s hometown of Gallant boasts a post office, a church and 855 residents, according to the 2010 Census. Other than that, there is not much to distinguish it from the farmland and forest that surround it. Moore started building his house here on weekends nearly 50 years ago, when he was still a 20-something bachelor working as a deputy district attorney.
He was living in a trailer — a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and a Vietnam veteran who viewed hard manual labor as his hobby. “When I say I built it myself, I laid the block,” he explained, as he approached the property. “I hand-dug the foundation, and laid the rock and filled the rock with cement that I mixed by hand.”
He also built the dining room table that his family still uses, and he hand-carved the bedposts on the four-poster bed he shares with his wife under plaques displaying the Ten Commandments. As his family grew — he adopted Kayla’s first child by a previous marriage, and they have three children together — he built a pool outside the backdoor, 15 feet deep with a jumping platform nearly as high. He then installed a circulating waterfall, which he decorated with another marble display of the Ten Commandments. A third set of commandments sits on the fireplace mantel.
In Moore’s home office, where he does his writing, he hung a couple of antique rifles in glass cases. “Guns, guns, guns. I’ve got lots of guns,” he said, passing through. “Guns you don’t see.”
Campaign paraphernalia for Moore. (Nathan Morgan for The Washington Post)Such details are not incidental to Moore’s political views, because a defiant, individualist attitude has always driven him, nearly as much as the ideas he espouses. Ask him for his story, and he tells it as a series of confrontations.
When he arrived at the U.S. Military Academy, the first in his family to go to college, he suffered hazing from his fellow cadets — on account, he believes, of his strong Southern accent and small-town education. He began training as a boxer, deciding to literally fight back and win the respect of his fellow cadets. In Vietnam, he ran a military police company supervising the stockade in Da Nang. It was toward the end of the war, when drug use and low morale among draftees were rampant. Amid threats on his life for his strict demands for discipline, he challenged anyone in the company to take him on in the boxing ring.
By the time Moore became a prosecutor, he had little patience for the conventions of the legal community. He complained to a county grand jury about law-enforcement budget problems, a breach of protocol that earned him an investigation by the Alabama State Bar Association.
When Moore campaigned for district attorney years later, the legal establishment turned against him and he lost. He said he was so angry that he moved to Texas, and spent a year studying kickboxing so that he could come back home and beat a local black belt, unaffiliated with the legal community, in a tournament in the county seat. He won. “One thing my father always taught me is the one thing they can’t take from you is what you know,” Moore explained. “That’s why when I go to defend myself, I learn things.”
Decades later, the attitude never dimmed, nor did his fighting instinct. As a Republican judge, Moore has criticized the current Senate for letting fears of a government shutdown be used to allow Planned Parenthood to receive federal funding. He supports a raft of conservative political positions, saying he will increase funding for the military, work to secure the border either through military deployment or a wall, fight to repeal the Affordable Care Act and oppose former president Barack Obama’s executive orders, including protections for undocumented immigrants who entered the country as children.
Moore is open to granting some of those same immigrants a chance to eventually stay in the United States, if they first return to their countries of origin and meet certain qualifications. “To put them all in the same pot, to say you are all welcome or all rejected seems harsh,” he said. “That’s the kind of thing I can negotiate on.”
One thing he won’t negotiate is his view of how the Senate conducts business. He carries with him a pocket pamphlet he published containing his legal theory of God’s supremacy, along with the key documents that he claims as evidence for the argument. This includes a full copy of the Constitution, which he has begun to mark up in recent weeks, noting each place where the document lays out voting margins in the legislative branch.
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Helen and Moe Lauzier
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