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Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Monday, April 16, 2018
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-eight percent (48%) disapprove.
Machete Attack Every 90 Minutes in ‘Gun-Free’ Britain
by LIAM DEACON
JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP/Getty
Recorded machete attacks in the UK have shot up by nearly five times in just three years, with the majority in the capital, London.
The huge number of crimes committed with the deadly, sword-like weapons means there is an average of 15 a day in the UK, or one every 90 minutes.
Figures uncovered using freedom of information requests by the Daily Mail show that police dealt with 928 crimes involving machetes in the last two months of 2017.
London saw the bulk, with 425 of the attacks. There were 99 in Greater Manchester, 77 in the West Midlands, and 29 each in Merseyside and West Yorkshire.
Just three years earlier, the deadly blades were used in 100 crimes a month over the same period.
As violent crime surges across the country, and even faster in London, the long blades, designed for chopping undergrowth, appear to be a weapon of choice for criminals in the UK, which is governed by strict gun-control laws.
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In January, Office of National Statistics (ONS) figures showed that in the year to September 2017 the police recorded 37,443 offences involving a knife or sharp instrument.
This represents a sharp rise of 21 per cent increase on the previous year, and the highest number of blade attacks since records began seven years ago.
The rise in knife crime was larger in London, jumping by 38 per cent, and gang-related acid attacks are also on the rise.
Across the UK, violent crime overall surged by 20 per cent, robbery was up by 29 per cent, and sex offences surged by 23 per cent.
Since 2011, the number of offences involving a knife or a sharp instrument had been falling, but began rising in the past three years, the ONS explained.
London under the leadership of Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan has experienced more than 50 murders so far this year – surpassing the number recorded in New York City over the same period for the first time.
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Jim Kelly’s feeding tube removed, wife’s video shows the battle is far from over
By Fox Doucette
Jim Kelly just had his feeding tube removed, and it seems the first thing he enjoyed was a chocolate shake.
From the look on his face as he got to enjoy actual food consumed the way nature intended, the beverage passing over his taste buds for the first time since returning to aggressive treatment for the oral cancer that recurred March 1, it is hard to imagine anyone loving anything as much as Kelly loved that shake.
However, the view of the aftermath of his reconstruction surgery shows that the 58-year-old Buffalo Bills legend has a long way to go on the road to recovery.
Kelly initially had surgery to remove cancerous cells from his upper jaw in June 2013, including the installation of a prosthetic as his skull was torn apart in pursuit of the malignant growth.
Nine months later, the cancer was back with a vengeance, spreading to his brain.
But against all odds and perhaps by grace of divine intervention, what seemed to be certain doom was averted as the cancer was once again forced into remission.
“God works in mysterious ways, because all the negatives might turn into a big positive,” he said. “Now, they can go in and remove the cancer that’s on the other side and rebuild the whole jaw at the same time.”
The Hall of Famer underwent a grueling surgery March 28 to do just that, and since then he has been recovering at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
On Thursday, his feeding tube came out and Kelly once again got to enjoy his favorite culinary treat.
His wife, Jill, had words to describe her own reaction to her husband’s battle.
“More PROGRESS!!! Huge day…the feeding tube is out and a CHOCOLATE SHAKE! YES!! Amazing! Thank You LORD!!! #KellyTough,” she wrote in a Facebook post with the video.
The Buffalo Bills tried four times to win the Super Bowl and came up short four times in Kelly’s career.
Unlike the football team, however, nobody wants to see cancer try for a fourth time to defeat Jim Kelly.
With any luck, he and his family can get back to a normal life, and this time the cancer will remain in remission, where it belongs.
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Melania Trump ignores the gossip – and announces her support of the U.S. troops
Image via lev radin / Shutterstock.comFirst Lady Melania Trump made an announcement on Saturday, but it was not what the media wanted to hear.
Melania ignored the gossip and hate mongers to send a very supportive message out to our military members…
Melania Trump✔@FLOTUS1/2: Thank you to the strong & courageous members of our U.S. military all over the world! Your continued contributions & commitment to the safety of our great nation will never go unnoticed or unappreciated.
2/2: And to all military families, especially the children, thank you for your sacrifice. #monthofthemilitarychild 
Somehow…
With everything that is being said about her, the First Lady has remained classy throughout.
While the media has tried to suck her into its gossipy and disgusting narrative, Melania has taken the higher road.
She no doubt realizes making a statement is a no-win situation for her.
If she makes a statement about the affairs, liberals will use it against both she and the President.
If she makes a statement supporting her husband, everyone will call her a liar.
Dutiful...
While the First Lady has not exactly been accessible to the media, she has continued to perform her duties.
Prior to Easter, she took a quick break with her son, which the media portrayed as her hiding out.
That was proven false, though, when she came back to the White House on Easter Sunday, then hosted the annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn.
More recently, the First Lady hosted a discussion group with some young students at the White House.
The children absolutely loved her and the session was deemed a complete success.
When you think about it, it is actually quite amazing that she has been able to shut out the media and concentrate on what is truly important to her… the health and well-being of our children and supporting our troops.
Dershowitz Slams the ACLU — ‘Partisan, Hard-left, Political Organization,’ ‘No Longer Cares’ About Civil Liberties
by JEFF POOR
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz criticized the American Civil Liberties Union for the double standard it seemed to be applying to President Donald Trump, a Republican regarding his legal situation and an apparent violation of attorney-client privilege.
According to Dershowitz, the ACLU would take a different tack if Hillary Clinton were president and faced the same circumstances.
“If this were Hillary Clinton, they would be raising money left and right defending Hillary Clinton’s rights,” he said. “But now they’re raising money left and left attacking Trump and by putting the attack on Trump over defending our civil liberties. Why do you think I’m here all the time? Why do you think I’m speaking up in favor of a man I voted against? Because the ACLU is dead in the water.”
“Who has ever heard of the ACLU coming in, not only justifying but applauding a raid on a lawyer’s office, which may very well have taken material that was [protected by attorney-client privilege.]”
This gesture by the ACLU revealed to Dershowitz where the organization stands regarding its politics.
“It is a partisan, hard-left, political organization, which no longer cares about the civil liberties of all Americans,” he added. “It is agenda-driven, money-driven and anti-Trump.”
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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire --- Comey Caught in Massive Lie, Can’t Even Tell Truth to Softball Interviewer Stephanopoulos
BY CILLIAN ZEAL
If you watched James Comey’s first major interview since excerpts from his book began appearing in the press, you’re probably thinking you’ve wasted an hour of your life that you’ll never get back.There wasn’t a whole lot new to be gleaned from the interview, conducted by ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in a manner that suggested not so much softball as it did T-ball. The big headline from the night is that Comey called President Donald Trump “morally unfit to be president” and said there was “certainly some evidence of obstruction of justice” when it came to the investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
I’ll leave the decision as to whether or not that’s true to the American people, as Comey seemed to do when he suggested he believed “impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office would let the American people off the hook and have something happen indirectly that I believe they’re duty bound to do directly.
“People in this country need to stand up and go to the voting booth and vote their values,” Comey said.
Speaking of values, one would assume that truth is a universal one. By that measure, the assertions Comey made Sunday will certainly be up for judgment over the coming days and months.
One of the former FBI director’s statements on the Trump dossier, however, proves Comey views the truth very loosely when it comes to our 45th president.
The lie in question comes from when Stephanopoulos asked Comey whether or not he knew that the dossier, which the FBI used to get a FISA warrant on Carter Page — a Trump campaign employee who played a minor role on a foreign policy advisory team — was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
“Yes, I … I was told at some point that it was … the effort had originally been financed by a Republican source to develop … material opposition research on Donald Trump,” Comey said.
“Then, after the Republican nominating process ended, the effort was taken up and funded by a Democratic-aligned group trying to get opposition research on Trump.
“I never knew which … who the groups were, but I knew it started with Republicans paying for it and then the Democrats were paying for it.”
While this part was first reported last October, it turned out to mostly be a falsehood. The original opposition research commissioned by Fusion GPS was funded by Republican donor Paul Singer, the owner of the Washington Free Beacon.
Comey repeated the false claim that a Republican (Paul Singer) funded the dossier. That's been debunked time and again. #ComeyInterview
That research was conducted not just on Trump but on all the Republican candidates and was wound down when it became clear Trump would be the nominee. It didn’t include the research that would go into what was known as the “Trump dossier” and was conducted long before the portion of the dossier on Russia was compiled. That portion was used by the FBI to get the warrant on Page.
As Check Your Facts notes, “D.C.-based opposition research firm Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with expertise in Russia, to put together the dossier after Republicans quit paying the firm to compile opposition research on Trump. Steele was hired after a lawyer representing the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign hired the firm to dig up dirt on Trump.”
The difference isn’t academic. Comey, as the director of the FBI when the dossier was used to obtain a search warrant in FISA court, is one of the people on this planet who should be most familiar with not only its contents but its genesis. He ought to be well aware that the opposition research funded by the Washington Free Beacon was wholly separate from the actual dossier.
In fact, at the time, Comey’s FBI was only willing to tell the FISA court that the document was compiled by Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, who the agency identified as someone it “speculated” was “likely” digging up dirt to discredit Trump’s campaign. No mention was given of the fact the Democrats had commissioned the dossier and were paying for it, nor that Steele (who had, as the National Review’s Andrew McCarthy points out, “expressed contempt for Trump and a commitment to prevent his election”) was the one collecting the information.
Comey, as director of the FBI, admitted he knew at some point the Democrats were funding the research. That throws the FISA warrant application into question. The idea that he didn’t know that the dossier wasn’t associated with Singer or the Republicans, as he seemed to indicate in the interview with Stephanopoulos, is prima facie absurd.
Comey had to know, as one of the highest-ranking officials at the Department of Justice, that the warrant on Page would be one of the most highly-scrutinized warrant applications in the history of this republic.
Do you honestly believe Comey’s FBI went into it not knowing who was paying for the research in the Trump dossier in general and the Russian research in particular?
Given that his fate is inextricably intertwined with this warrant, do you think he may have Googled developments regarding it on his iPhone sometime in the interim between his firing and his interview with Stephanopoulos, particularly given that he just wrote a book on the matter?
Of course not. Comey may have been fired by Trump, but not for being a bumbling dunce. Facts that are available to writers at Conservative Tribune were not necessarily kept from the head of the FBI. Comey knew what the FBI said in the FISA warrant was deliberately evasive. He knew what he said last night wasn’t the truth, and he likely knew it at a very early stage of the investigation.
What Comey said last night about Americans standing up and going to the voting booth and vote their values doesn’t just work at the voting booth. Comey appeared last night to sell his own book, a tome written by a serial prevaricator who seems to tell as much of the truth as suits him or his agenda, which clearly isn’t an unbiased one.
Let this be a friendly reminder that you can vote with your dollars, at the bookstore or on your Kindle.
Obama’s Justice Dept. feuded with FBI, agents quit as politics played larger role
By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
President Barack Obama listens as U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch speaks, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014, where the president announced that he will nominate Lynch to replace Attorney General Eric Holder.Acrimony between the FBI and Department of Justice was so bad in the waning days of the Obama Administration some agents quit the bureau, a former G-man said.
Feuds over the direction of investigations — and particularly some of the high-profile politically-involved probes — began to build up as the 2016 election approached, and as the FBI felt pressure from its political masters at the department.
Agents in field offices did not trust department lawyers they viewed as Washington bureaucrats, while the department’s headquarters, known in the business as Main Justice, felt rank-and-file agents weren’t following orders and, at times, strongly disagreeing with superiors.
The department’s inspector general exposed just how deep the feuding ran in a new report last week investigating the actions of former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. The report recounted an August 2016 phone call from a high-level Justice Department official who complained the FBI had taken “overt” actions to investigate the Clinton Foundation, potentially embarrassing then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Mr. McCabe said he got the sense the Obama Justice Department was telling him “to shut down” the probe. Later he called the exchange as “very dramatic” and said he’d never had a confrontation like that with the Justice Department.
“The engine driving all of this, which is alluded to in the report, is that the FBI people in New York were closer to the facts on the Clinton Foundation and angry it wasn’t going anywhere,” said J. Christian Adams, who served as an attorney in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division from 2005 through 2010.
“People in the FBI wanted to follow the facts and the law wherever it took them and this mysterious PADAG calls the number two man at the FBI and tells him to shut it down,” Mr. Adams said. “That’s amazing.”
The inspector general said Mr. McCabe was caught in “an increasingly acrimonious fight for control between the Justice Department and FBI agents pursuing the Clinton foundation case,” and described the broader FBI-Main Justice relationship as “being under great stress.”
It didn’t help that Mr. McCabe’s boss, then-FBI Director James Comey, was viewed by field agents as an extension of the Justice Department. He had never served as an agent and came to bureau after a stint as Deputy Attorney General under George W. Bush. He is the one who selected Mr. McCabe as his second in command.
Former agents said the relationship began to sour well before 2016, though, with much of the bad blood dating back to former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who led the department for President Obama from 2009 to 2015.
“I know from talking to some agents in the FBI at that time that there conflicts between the Holder DOJ and its priorities and how the FBI wanted to work cases,” said Danny Denfenbaugh, a 33-year FBI agent, who retired in 2002.
“The FBI had always taken pride in following the evidence to where it would lead and never allowing politics into their investigation decisions,” Mr. Defenbaugh continued. “But then the DOJ at times would say, ‘we don’t want you to do this.’”
One major source of contention was Mr. Holder’s push to investigate local police agencies for civil rights violations.
The department opened more than 20 civil rights investigations into local police departments between 2009 and 2014, more than doubling the number of reviews from the previous five years.
Some in law enforcement, including the FBI, were demoralized by the probes, believing they were risking their lives without any support from Main Justice, said a former department lawyer.
“Eric Holder waged an anti-police campaign that he believed in,” Mr. Adams said. “He was so successful in merging his ideology with the Justice Department some people there didn’t even realize he was doing it.”
The battle intensified as the Justice Department and the FBI’s field office in New York battled over the 2014 death of Eric Garner in New York City. Garner died in July of that year after a New York City Police Officer confront him for selling untaxed cigarettes. The officer was seen on video using a chokehold, prohibited by the New York Police Department, to subdue him.
FBI agents took over the case and opposed charging the officer, a recommendation supported by New York federal prosecutors. But lawyers at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division claimed there was clear evidence to the charge the officer.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who succeeded Mr. Holder, removed the FBI agents investigating the case, replacing them with agents from outside New York. The move was described as “highly unusual.” Ultimately, a federal grand jury decided not to indict the officer, Daniel Pantaleo.
Stress from the Garner skirmish was still fresh at the FBI and Justice Department when the New York field office was tasked with investigating the Clinton Foundation.
That was part of what led to the August phone call between Mr. McCabe and the high-ranking department official, whom the report didn’t name.
But others say cultural differences that existed in both organizations before Mr. Holder or Ms. Lynch arrived at the Justice Department caused the bad blood, stemming from their separate roles with the FBI as the hard-charging investigators and the department lawyers having to figure out what cases can actually be pursued.
FBI agents typically deal with their local U.S. Attorney’s Office, which is staffed by prosecutors who are likely to be more aggressive and to make decisions fairly quickly, said Ron Sievert, a former department attorney and current University of Texas professor.
Mr. Sievert estimates that about 90 percent FBI investigations end up with local U.S. Attorneys with agents only dealing with Main Justice for cases involving political corruption, national security or interstate drug trafficking.
“For years Main Justice had a reputation for being overly cautious,” Mr. Sievert said. “What you can do with one supervisor’s signature in the field you have to do with three or five in Washington because everyone is thinking about the political and legal ramifications of each case.”
Mr. Sievert recalled his own difficulty getting a program approved during his time at the Justice Department. It took about fourth months to secure support from each supervisor in the chain of command.
When his project was finally green-lighted by the attorney general himself, Mr. Sievert was told that he now had to seek approval from the Treasury and Commerce departments along with the intelligence agencies — a process that would take about four more months for each department.
“At the U.S. Attorney’s Office, if you have a great idea that makes sense and legal, they will tell you to just go for it,” he said.
Mr. Adams said it could take years to repair the division, and it could require a housecleaning of leadership at both the FBI and Justice Department.
“The problem is so vast and deeply embedded in the Justice Department, it will be an extremely difficult thing to dislodge,” Mr. Adams said.
Lew Schiliro, the former head of the FBI’s New York field office, said Attorney General Jeff Sessions needs to take the reins.
“It has to be Sessions,” he said. “The bureau reports to him and the Justice Department reports to him, yet he’s been silent on the issue. He needs to be a strong attorney general.”
Rand Paul Endorses Patrick Morrisey in West Virginia GOP Senate Primary
by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has endorsed West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey in the May 8 Republican primary for the Party’s nomination to challenge Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) in the November general election.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has endorsed West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey in the May 8 Republican primary for the Party’s nomination to challenge Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) in the November general election.
“Patrick Morrisey has a proven conservative record of fighting for conservative values,” Rand said in a statement the Morrisey campaign released Monday.
Paul added:
As Attorney General, Patrick has stood up for West Virginia taxpayers, defended the state from President Obama’s overzealous regulations, and expanded gun rights. With so many politicians in Washington stuck in the swamp, we could use a senator with Patrick’s principled integrity in the U.S. Senate. I look forward to working with Patrick next year in defense of our shared conservative principles.
Morrisey expressed his appreciation for Paul’s endorsement.
“It is an honor to receive Sen. Paul’s endorsement in this race,” Morrisey said in the statement, continuing:
I’ve long admired Sen. Paul’s commitment to fiscal responsibility, less government, and constitutional principles. Sen. Paul has been a leader in fighting for a balanced budget and eliminating President Obama’s draconian regulations – issues very near and dear to West Virginians’ hearts. I look forward to working with him on these important efforts and many others.
Morrisey faces establishment favorite Rep. Evan Jenkins (R-WV) and coal magnate Don Blankenship in the May 8 primary.
The most recent poll shows Morrisey in the lead.
The winner of the May 8 Republican primary will face Manchin in the midterm election. Manchin is one of ten Democratic senators running for reelection in a state President Donald Trump won in 2016.
According to a recent Morning Consult poll, Manchin is one of the most vulnerable Democrat senators on the 2018 ballot.
Crooked Hillary Finds Herself In Some Very Hot Water
Fox News by: Perry Chiaramonte
By Government of Thailand (Hillary Clinton เข้าพบนายกรัฐมนตรี) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], The Hillary Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee allegedly used state chapters as strawmen to launder as much as $84 million in an effort to circumvent campaign donation limits, and the Federal Election Commission ignored complaints exposing the practice, a lawsuit filed Monday claims.
The Committee to Defend the President (CDP), a political action committee formally known as Stop Hillary PAC, filed its complaint with the FEC in December 2017 with the claims that the Hillary Victory Fund (HVF) solicited cash from big-name donors, and allegedly sent that money through state chapters and back to the DNC before ending up with the Clinton campaign.
As first reported by Fox News at the time, the CDP alleges in its complaint that about $84 million was funneled illegally from the DNC through state party chapters and back into the war chest of the Clinton campaign. The political action committee claims that even though the FEC acknowledged receipt of the complaint and claimed that an investigation would be conducted, the needle has barely moved.
“The Clinton machine has escaped accountability for its illegal practices for far too long,” Ted Harvey, CDP chairman, said to Fox News. “After months of review, the FEC has refused to address the Clintons’ $84 million money laundering scheme that violated several campaign finance laws.”
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