[Free Beacon] President Donald Trump on Friday called out James Comey after reports surfaced a day earlier that the former FBI director had drafted a statement to exonerate Hillary Clinton from the investigation into her private email server before key portions of the probe were complete.
"Wow, looks like James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton long before the investigation was over...and so much more," Trump wrote on Twitter. "A rigged system!"
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It wasn't about Hillary and her wrong-doings which were many and egregious. Comey had to whitewash Hillary so he could get on with the faked investigation of Trump and associates. The Dems were not planning for a loss in 2016. They wanted Trump to run against Hillary because they thought he would be easiest to beat. Plan A was that Hillary was to be the next POTUS. Part of Plan A was to take down Trump in the election with opposition research, planned unrest at Trump's rallies, spying on Trump, unmasking of Trump and associates, opening up the intelligence agencies against Trump, accusations of wrong-doing such as had been down to Herman Cain, fake dossiers--they threw everything at Trump. After she lost, Plan A quickly morphed into Plan B--Russian collusion accusations, and appointment of special counsel to try to get Trump weakened, made ineffectual with having to fend off constant accusations and impeached. I hope Trump finds the way to bulldoze the Deep State and get rid of these traitors and criminals. America will be better off.
[Victor Davis Hanson] Preventive wars and preemptive strikes are both risky business. A preventive war is a military, diplomatic, and strategic endeavor, aimed at an enemy whom one expects to grow so strong that delay would cause defeat. A preemptive strike is a military operation or series of operations to preempt an enemy’s ability to attack you. In both cases, a government judges a diplomatic solution impossible. But judgment calls are debatable and preventive wars often stir up controversy. Preemptive strikes run the risk of arousing a sleeping enemy who, now wounded, will fight harder. Yet both preventive wars and preemptive strikes can succeed, under certain limited circumstances. Consider some examples.
The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.) is the granddaddy of all preventive wars. The Peloponnesians, led by Sparta, decided to make war on Athens less because of a series of disputes dividing the two blocs than because of the future that they feared, one in which Athens’ growing power would break apart Sparta’s alliance system. The Athenians wanted to decide the two sides’ dispute via arbitration, but the Spartans refused, which cost Sparta the moral high ground. Before Athens and Sparta could fight a proper battle, the war began. Sparta’s ally, Thebes, launched a preemptive strike on the nearby city and Athenian ally, Plataea.
Both the preemptive strike and the preventive war succeeded but at no small cost. It took four years of hard fighting and considerable escalation before Plataea surrendered. Sparta emerged victorious against Athens but only after 27 years of intermittent and escalatory warfare. The price of victory was steep, leading to embroilment in war against Persia, a falling-out with Sparta’s former allies, and ultimately, the collapse of the Spartan regime after centuries of stability. Athens lost the Peloponnesian War, but managed to preserve and even strengthen its regime at home; it never successfully restored its overseas power.
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And the French move to throw the Germans out of the Rhineland in 1936 prevented WW II. Oh. Wait.
Point is, you never know what a particular move prevented since, logically, whatever it was didn't have a chance to happen.
So you can't tell the difference between having prevented it and it was never going to happen. And, historically, they usually look pretty sordid. No matter what they prevent, which, as I say, didn't happen and nobody knows what it might have been.
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On other hand, humans have a penchant and willingness to engage in human sacrifice (of others) rather than dirtying their own hands in prevention of greater harm. Think of it as chemotherapy for cancer. It's harmful to the body, but to do otherwise faces a certain terminal outcome.
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If you have not, A War Like No Other is Hanson's book concerning the Peloponnesian War(s). Hanson takes a long, complicated subject and makes it readable. I read it after getting about two chapters into The Tides of War, Steven Pressfield, in order to understand Pressfield's work. Recommend both.
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The problem with preventative action is that sometimes you get what you thought you wanted.
It's difficult to tell what a good path is, especially with respect to the future.
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War is human sacrifice (of others).
Had the Western allies stood with the Czechs rather than abandoning them, the Germans would have faced a hard nut to crack in the mountains and a force up to their level. A lot of Czech tanks rolled through France in '40. Karma. How deep do you want to sacrifice?
It was stunning to watch the socialist left suddenly do a 180 degree turn in condemning Antifa for the pack of thugs nearly all Rantburgers always knew they were.
I often read about the John Brown Gun Club in Arizona, which features young leftwing men and wimmin carrying firearms as part of demonstrations that say, yes, we have guns, too. But as Antifa has demonstrated time and again, their activity serves two purposes.
First is to fulfill a desire among leftists that they will get a crack at a conservative man.
And for the second purpose: if they can get a conservative to fight back, and they can get him arrested, he is automatically disarmed under the firearms laws. A twofer!
I reupped my NRA membership Thursday. The last issue of American Rifleman had an article about the 6.5mm Creedmoor cartridge. A lot of nice things are being said about the 6.5mm Creedmore of late, such as its cost is similar to the 7.62mm NATO cartridge. Its flight performance exceeds the 7.62mm NATO round and it compares favorably to the .300 Winchester Magnum 150 grain bullet.
In the article, tests were conducted with the 120 grain bullet and the 143 grain bullet. The 7.62mm NATO round can be sold in sizes of up to a 240 grain subsonic slug to the 100 grain hollow point. In all there is a dizzingly wide variety of 38 slugs to chose from. The 6.5mm Creedmoor has 13 slugs to choose from. The .300 Winchester Magnum has 22 slugs to choose from.
As for costs of used 7.62mm NATO semiautomatic rifles, the highest low price I have recorded in this column has been $2,750, and the lowest has been $500, for a median price of $950.
I checked Armslist for semiautomatic rifles for the 6.5mm Creedmoor and the .300 Winchester Magnum.
For the .300 Winchester Magnum, from a list of 24 semiautomatic firearms nationwide, the highest priced rifle was a Nemo Arms Omen, for $4,800. The lowest was $675, for a rechambered Browning BAR. the median price was $2,737.
For the 6.5mm Creedmoor, I found 44 semiautomatic rifles on Armslist.com. The highest priced rifle was a Howa side charger for $5,300, and the lowest was $1,000, for a median price of $4,300.
The advantage the 6.5mm Creedmoor round has over the .300 Winchester Magnum is that it can fit into standard .308/7.62mm magazines. Fultom Armory offers 6.5mm Creedmoor uppers for PSA generation one lowers, for about $1,200. The total for a Creedmoor build including the receiver, comes to $1,700, and that is before you start considering optics, which for good optics, will add as much as $4,000 at the high end, about $400 for a new Leupold scope at the low end.
When I considered building a 7.62mm NATO semiautomatic, the complete upper assembly for a 26 inch barrel was $700. My build would come to around $1,000, not including optics.
Pistol ammunition prices were mixed. Rifle ammunition prices were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were mostly higher. Prices for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
Arizona: .223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic): Smith & Wesson: $300
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: utdoor Limited, Ten Ring, TMJ, Brass Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammomen,Mag tech, FRN, Brass Casing .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Octane Munitions, Own Brand, RNFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .18 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Extreme Reloading, Own Brand, RN, Brass Casing .14 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Extreme Reloading, Own brand, RN, Brass Casing, Reloads .14 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bang It Ammo, CCI Blazer, LNR, Aluminum Casing .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Armscor, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo Men, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .32 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (10 Weeks))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammo King, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (9 Weeks))
.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain. From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Unlimited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (1Q, 2017))
.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .80 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Ammo Liquidator, Winchester, Brass Casing, SP, .81 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: +.23 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Red River Reloading, Federal, Brass Casing, JSP, 2.36 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 200 rounds : Wholesale Hunter, Federal, Brass Casing, JSP, 2.36 per round (From Last Week: +.25 Each)
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo Men, Aguila, RNL, .04 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo King, Aguila, RNL, .04 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2Q, 2017))
#1
Fight back with a couple of white paint ball tounds or spray em about the head masks with white spray paint then yell "KKK!" and see how long they last in the crowd.
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And for the second purpose: if they can get a conservative to fight back, and they can get him arrested, he is automatically disarmed under the firearms laws. A twofer!
[JPost] It’s not enough that the PFLP hasn’t been banned long ago for carrying out deadly attacks to advance its agenda of destroying the State of Israel.
It sounds hallucinatory because it is: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostinian, a terrorist organization responsible for the deaths of dozens of Israelis ‐ including the 2001 liquidation of tourism minister Rehavam Ze’evi ‐ will be running candidates for the German Bundestag.
It’s not enough that the PFLP hasn’t been banned long ago for carrying out deadly attacks to advance its agenda of destroying the State of Israel. Representatives of this organization, which openly advocates the use of the most despicable means to achieve its ends, are exploiting the democratic process to gain access to political power and legitimacy. And they are doing it in Germany, a country that should have learned from its own history how fragile democracy can be.
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[Daily Beast - 22 Aug 17] If the Senate intelligence committee gets its way, America’s spy agencies will have to release a flood of information about Russian threats to the U.S.--the kind of threats that Donald Trump may not want made public.
The committee also wants Congress to declare WikiLeaks a "non-state hostile intelligence service," which would open Julian Assange and the pro-transparency organization ‐ which most of the U.S. government considers a handmaiden of Russian intelligence ‐ to new levels of surveillance.
On Friday, the committee quietly published its annual intelligence authorization, a bill that ble$$e$ the next year’$ worth of intelligence operation$. The bill passed the committee late last month on a 14-1 vote, with Democrat Ron Wyden of Oregon as the lone dissenter, owing to what he calls the "legal, constitutional and policy implications" that the WikiLeaks provision may entail.
Among the bill’s major provisions are requirements for the intelligence community to release major public reports into Russian threats to U.S. elections, Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, Moscow’s influence operations, Russian money laundering in the U.S., and more. In short, the Senate committee intends to do a lot more about Russia than investigate its involvement in the 2016 presidential race ‐ namely, box the Trump administration into a more assertive response to Russian aggression.
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The Russia thing is so.... yesterday, can't we just move on ?
Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued subpoenas seeking testimony from executives who worked on a campaign organized by Paul Manafort – including the Podesta Group — an NBC exclusive report published Friday revealed.
The Podesta Group, co-founded by John Podesta, who was chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, was one of six lobbying firms that worked on Manafort’s campaign to get Ukraine into the European Union between 2012 to 2014 – a fact buried in the ninth paragraph of NBC’s report. Link
[Daily Caller] The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah described the far-left extremist movement Antifa as "Vegan ISIS" Thursday night, among a host of other jokes and insults rebuking the group of violent anarchists.
Noah’s jokes follow the establishment media’s change in stance towards the extremist movement, which earned widespread ire following violence in Berkeley last weekend. During the protest, random onlookers, conservatives, and journalists were assaulted by gangs of black-clad "anti-fascists." The group even went after a comedian dressed as a popcorn vendor, deeming him a capitalist.
Naturally, members of Antifa and their left-wing sympathizers did not take Noah’s jokes lightly. From accusations of Nazi sympathizing to all-out death threats, leftists are upset by the comedian’s right to tell jokes.
Responding to a tweet promoting the segment and mocking Antifa, far-left extremists railed against the show and its host ranging between milquetoast criticism like "this is not comedy anymore" to lame insults against moderates who found the segment funny.
Many of the comments were hyperbolic, warning that Antifa are the only thing standing between democracy and full-blown Nazism.
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This is just a replay of the left's response to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. They dance to their masters commands aka who pays the piper. Fascism was good till Uncle Joe said otherwise.
[DAWN] INDIA and Pakistain have more influential holy men per square mile than anyone has ever counted. Some are just rich, others both powerful and rich. Once upon a time their followers were only the poor, superstitious and illiterate. But after the massive resurgence of religion in both countries this base has expanded to include politicians, film and cricket stars, and college-educated people who speak English and drive posh cars.
It is rare for an Indian holy man to bite the dust but one just did. The self-styled messenger of God, Ram Rahim Singh of Dera Sacha Sauda was convicted of two rapes by an Indian court. He is also accused of 52 other rapes, two murders, and storing 400 pairs of testicles in his refrigerators cut from 400 devotees on the promise of getting them nirvana. An avid Modi supporter, Singh travelled in entourages of 100-plus cars and claims 50-60 million followers. Vote-hungry politicians have touched his feet and done deals. After his conviction his crazed followers rioted, convinced of a conspiracy against their God. So far 38 people have died, hundreds injured, cars and public buildings set on fire.
But although Singh is one of India’s bigger holy men he is still small, dispensable fry. The really powerful ones are those who have learned the value of using religion in national politics. Today India is living out the Death Eater Hindutva ideology of Gowalkar and Savarkar with a head of government who is unabashedly committed to Hindu supremacy. This holy man’s clear and evident role in the communal riots of Gujarat
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Notwithstanding the steady increase in number of Moslems joining the terrorist group ISIS from around the world, the group has started to lose territories on a daily basis. Currently, all its routes are closed and it is unable to stem the heavy loss of life, particularly of its snuffies currently besieged in Raqqa. This has raised the question whether the group will be forced to change its military strategy, replacing its pattern of offensive warfare with defensive tactics to pick up the pieces of its shattered legacy.
Video in Spanish Following the surfeit of international media reports on the Barcelona attack, ISIS released a bizarre video, titled ’The Conquest of Barcelona’ that featured the Spanish-speaking bad boy Abu Layth al Qurtubi. Wearing battle fatigues and feigning a Che Guevara look, al Qurtubi speaks softly with his lithe frame shown to the waist only. The video shows how the group is reshaping its war rhetoric and its media campaign. With a ’nasheed’ playing in the background, a Marxist revolutionary look-alike speaks in Spanish to woo new recruits to his cause. This new style of inveigling the impressionable reflects the desperation in the group to regain its popularity among the youth.
[Townhall] U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel issued a temporary injunction Thursday against a law, recently signed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, banning some "dilation and evacuation" second trimester abortions. The law would’ve taken effect Friday.
The legislation specifically prohibited the performance of abortion procedures that extract "the unborn child one piece at a time from the uterus through the use of clamps, grasping forceps, tongs, scissors, or a similar instrument that, through the convergence of two rigid levers, slices, crushes, or grasps, or performs any combination of those actions on, a piece of the unborn child’s body to cut or rip the piece from the body."
Planned Parenthood sued, arguing that the law amounted to an abortion ban after 15 weeks for some women and that D&E abortions were one of the safest abortion procedures for women.
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.....that D&E abortions were one of the safest abortion procedures for women. "
Not so much for the living being you are murdering inside their mother. Aside from the whole religion issue on the reality of killing a soul, somewhere in the second trimester the fetus reaches early stages of viability with some help. Killing them by dissection in the womb seems sickening beyond words, not the act of a civilized society it would seem.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Free Beacon] President Donald Trump on Friday called out James Comey after reports surfaced a day earlier that the former FBI director had drafted a statement to exonerate Hillary Clinton from the investigation into her private email server before key portions of the probe were complete.
[Daily Beast - 22 Aug 17] If the Senate intelligence committee gets its way, America’s spy agencies will have to release a flood of information about Russian threats to the U.S.--the kind of threats that Donald Trump may not want made public.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued subpoenas seeking testimony from executives who worked on a campaign organized by Paul Manafort – including the Podesta Group — an NBC exclusive report published Friday revealed.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Notwithstanding the steady increase in number of 
[Townhall] U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel issued a temporary injunction Thursday against a law, recently signed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, banning some "dilation and evacuation" second trimester abortions. The law would’ve taken effect Friday.
