Time to fire up the judicial confirmation engines again

Trump needs to speed up renominations, Graham needs to spirit them through the Judiciary Committee, and McConnell needs to get tough on Democrat stall tactics for floor votes.

I’m so old, I remember when Republicans were ramming judicial nominations through the Senate, and Democrats were squealing like stuck pigs about it.

Then came Jeff Flake’s attempt to disrupt the process unless a bill were passed protecting Mueller, and then the congressional term ran out with Democrats refusing to carry over the nominations. That left 13 nominees for appeals courts and 60 nominees for District and other lower courts hung out to dry.

The refusal to carry over nominations, in itself, was not a big deal, because Trump could quickly renominate the dozens of pending nominees, many of whom already had Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings and were awaiting a floor vote.

But things have gone quiet on judicial confirmations the last two weeks since the new congressional term started. As of January 17, there have been only 6 judicial nominations received by the Senate.

There are 145 federal judicial vacancies as of this writing (plus another 19 known future vacancies):

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/01/time-to-fire-up-the-judicial-confirmation-engines-again/

Pompeo reportedly meeting with top GOP strategist as he mulls 2020 Senate bid

Signs continue to point to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo running for the Senate come 2020.

The latest indication: reports that he planned to meet Sunday afternoon with veteran Republican strategist Ward Baker to discuss a possible campaign to fill the seat being vacated by Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas. Roberts, a Republican, said earlier this month, that he would not seek re-election in 2020.

The meeting between Pompeo and Baker, which was first reported by Politico, comes as Republican leaders including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., are aggressively wooing the secretary of state to run for the open seat. Pompeo, who previously served as a congressman from Kansas, has not made a decision on whether or not he will run, but his aides have said he's in no rush to make a call anytime soon.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/report-pompeo-meeting-with-top-gop-strategist-as-he-mulls-2020-senate-bid

Stunning: U.S. military operating in 40 percent of world’s countries under guise of ‘war on terror’

A stunning map published this month by Smithsonian Magazine provides new details about the expansive nature of U.S. military involvement around the world as it relates to the post-9/11 “war on terror.”

Contrary to the narrative that the war is winding down, the map resembles a modern-day version of shows a U.S. military presence akin to the period when the the ‘sun never sat on the British empire.’ Some 17 years after the war began, U.S. military presence globally is expanding and has now spread to more than 40 percent of the world’s countries.

By ‘presence,’ that includes U.S. military and support personnel who are currently engaged in 80 countries on six continents, according to Brown University’s Costs of War Project at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.

The project calculated recently that since 2001, the U.S. has spent more than $5.9 trillion on war, most of it in Afghanistan and Iraq but also Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen, where U.S. military operations are more or less permanent at this point with no prospects of ending them for any reason.

https://greatpowerwar.com/2019/01/20/stunning-u-s-military-operating-in-40-percent-of-worlds-countries-under-guise-of-war-on-terror/

Center for American Progress Fires Two After Intercept Scrutiny

The liberal media outlet The Intercept reported that its scrutiny of the liberal Center for American Progress recently led to the firing of two CAP employees “suspected” of leaking emails. Leaked emails showed concern among some staff about United Arab Emirates’ influence at the liberal group.

CAP is one of the most well-known liberal groups in Washington, D.C. and is supported by a host of prominent left-wing names including George Soros and Tom Steyer. Soros gave more than $12 million to CAP between 2005 and 2014 and more since.

The CAP site indicated Soros’s Open Society Foundations gave another “$1 million or more” in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Impeach Trump advocate Tom Steyer’s foundation donated $1 million or more each year from 2014 through 2017. He is also on its board of directors. The Embassy of the UAE was also listed as a “$500,000 to $999,999” donor for 2017.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/julia-seymour/2019/01/18/center-american-progress-fires-two-after-intercept-scrutiny

>>4842268

That was one of the results of the Berlin wall coming down they needed a new enemy that the world would united against. and the world trade center gave the cabal a reason to start the so-called war on terror and their never ending wars

Leading Latino Pastor's Support for Trump on Border Goes Unreported

Texas Pastor Ramiro Peña has been one of Donald Trump’s most prominent Hispanic evangelical supporters and advisors since the 2016 presidential campaign.

However, the nation’s top broadcast television networks, in English and Spanish, have consistently ignored Pastor Peña and his significant role advising the President, including during the current crisis over U.S. border security.

The deliberate suppression of Pastor Peña’s views, which are shared by tens of millions of people throughout the country, was especially glaring when President Trump recently visited South Texas.

When you hear what Pastor Peña had to say to the President, including validating his “heart of compassion” and determination to bring an end to the scourge of human suffering that comes with illegal immigration, it is no wonder that most media outlets once again chose to avoid airing his views, as they were just entirely too far from their preferred narrative and spin.

Thankfully, the Pastor’s remarks were recorded and MRC Latino presents his exchange with the President below as a public service.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/latino/ken-oliver/2019/01/18/leading-latino-pastors-support-trump-border-goes-unreported

>>4842347

it is nothing more then a sign post for people looking back on will know the events that happened

>>4842379

Does this sound familiar

“We Control Both Left & Right” — Kuhn Loeb Banker

In a candid moment after WW1, Kuhn Loeb partner Otto Kahn explained that the Cabalist bankers “remake” the world by creating artificial conflicts and determining the outcome. These include the world wars, the Cold War, and the phony “Left-Right” gridlock.

>>4842463

What do you think they are teaching in these so-called schools

Saudi Arabia Funds Politically Influential University That Promotes Pro-Muslim Agenda

Georgetown University took $20 million from a member of the Saudi royal family to fund a Muslim-Christian center.

The kingdom’s influence on Washington has come under scrutiny following the slaying of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Georgetown trains future diplomats and houses experts Washington relies on.

Now, the center uses liberal talking points, such as comparing Muslims to DACA “Dreamers.”

The Saudi royal family funded a politically active Muslim studies program within Georgetown University, which trains future diplomats and is woven into the Washington scene from Foggy Bottom to Congress.

The school’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (CMCU) is named after the patron who donated $20 million — the second-largest gift in university history at the time, according to its website.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2018/10/31/saudi-arabia-georgetown/

>>4842471

I know the feeling. I just try to post what I can to help point people in the right direction… they think if you post one book that's all their is such as the one you did, but thats just a starter book to help help interested in leaning more.and its filled with history .

>>4842568

I know they think the yellow vests is the 1st time its happened.. here is a little help for those of you interested in knowing more..

May 1968: A Month of Revolution Pushed France Into the Modern World

Just six weeks after France’s leading newspaper, Le Monde, pronounced that the country was “bored,” too bored to join the youth protests underway in Germany and in the United States, students in Paris occupied the Sorbonne, one of the most illustrious universities in Europe.

The day was May 3, 1968, and the events that ensued over the following month — mass protests, street battles and nationwide strikes — transformed France. It was not a political revolution in the way that earlier French revolutions had been, but a cultural and social one that in a stunningly short time changed French society.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/world/europe/france-may-1968-revolution.html

>>4842578

Senseless Secrets: The Failures of U.S. Military Intelligence from George Washington to the Present

From the Revolutionary War to Somalian relief, American intelligence has consistently failed. The system, designed to gather, analyse, and distribute critical information, has cost American lives while squandering enormous amounts of taxpayers' money. In this book, a career soldier who has directly observed recent inadequacies from the inside, looks at these failures and tells how and why they occurred

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/444697.Senseless_Secrets