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Investigate the extremely questionable motives behind the current Independent Counsel headed by Robert Mueller who has assembled an investigation to attempt a coup against the office of President of the United States who was elected in a fair and honest election.

FULL TITLE: Democrats Mobilize Against Rod Rosenstein As Inspector General Investigation Zeroes In On FBI [VIDEO] Democrats are attacking Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s credibility after the Department of Justice released text messages showing a top FBI agent on both the Clinton email investigation and the Russia probe rooting for Clinton while he was investigating her and discussing an unknown “insurance policy” against Trump in case he won the election. The pro-Clinton, anti-Trump messages were, ironically, discovered as part of an investigation into the DOJ and FBI launched by the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (IG) in response...

JERUSALEM — The family of Iraq’s contestant in the Miss Universe Pageant have left the country due to threats to their lives over her modeling in a bikini and posting on social media photos taken with Miss Israel. Miss Iraq, Sarah Idan, lives in the United States and the rest of her family has now fled the country, Miss Israel, Adar Gandelsman, told Hadashot news. Gandelsman said she has been in touch with Idan since the pageant and that the two women have a special relationship. During the competition in Tokyo in November, Miss Israel, Gandelsman and Idan posed for...

I met Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore in August 2003. He was being threatened with impeachment for not removing a Ten Commandments monument he’d commissioned, which was standing in the court building’s rotunda. As he continued to defy those who opposed him, realizing his job was on the line, I felt it was imperative he receive Orthodox Jewish support for his courageous stand. I flew out to Montgomery on a Thursday afternoon to attend a Saturday rally that had been called by Jerry Falwell, Ambassador Alan Keyes, and other religious/conservative stalwarts. I represented the combined membership of various rabbinic groups....

Academy Award-winning actor Dustin Hoffman is just one of many in Hollywood to be accused of sexual misconduct. In November, Hoffman responded to the first accusations that came from Anna Graham Hunter. She wrote in an op-ed for The Hollywood Reporter, as previously reported by Independent Journal Review, that Hoffman grabbed her rear and made sexual comments to her when she was a production assistant on the TV film, “Death of a Salesman.” Hoffman apologized for what happened after the story broke. “[I] feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation," he...

Conventional wisdom is that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is asleep at the wheel – from recusing himself unnecessarily from the Trump-Russia collusion investigation to doing nothing about the politicization and weaponization of the Department of Justice. He also gave free rein to his deputy A.G., Rod Rosenstein, who is in turn allowing Special Counsel Robert Mueller unlimited time, money, and jurisdiction to investigate President Trump's entire life. Last summer, Trump expressed disappointment in Sessions, calling him "beleaguered," wondering why Sessions wasn't looking into Hillary Clinton's emails and true election chicanery. Rudy Giuliani was floated as a possible replacement. Was Trump...

Special counsel Robert Mueller's office has reportedly requested information from Cambridge Analytica, the data firm utilized by the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election. The Wall Street Journal reports that Mueller's team has requested all emails from employees at the firm who worked with the campaign. The request, which wasn't previously known, was voluntary, as was another request the firm complied with from the House Intelligence Committee, the newspaper reported. Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix also interviewed with the House Intelligence Committee over video call this week, according to the report. Nix was reported earlier this year to have...

Repeated edits to reduce Secretary Clinton's culpability in mishandling classified information.

Everyone is familiar with “peer-pressure.”  Adults like to convince themselves that peer-pressure is a juvenile phenomenon, something to which only children and, especially, teenagers are subjected.  Grown-ups, we assure ourselves, are sufficiently tough-minded and strong-willed.  Unlike weaker, immature kids, we are individuals with the courage to go our own way—regardless of who thinks what. This way of thinking is especially self-delusional in the case of contemporary academics, just those who, presumably, are sufficiently discerning to recognize that the ethos of their peers is far from a self-evident Truth. Yet ideological conformity, or Groupthink, is more entrenched in academia than it...

Last week the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case known as Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd., and Jack C. Phillips v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Charlie Craig, and David Mullins. Phillips is the Lakewood, Colorado, baker who, citing religious reasons, refused in 2012 to make a wedding cake for Craig and Mullins, a same-sex couple. So far, Craig and Mullins have been winning. When they took their case to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, it ruled that when a baker refuses to sell a wedding cake to a couple because they're gay, it amounts to an illegal refusal of...

When President Trump took office 10 months ago, the bottom was supposed to drop out of the firearms market. It did not happen. We have the numbers for the National Instant Background Check System (NICS) for the first eleven months of 2017. They are on track to be the second highest year on record. It is hard to see how they can miss that mark.December has been the highest month of the year for eight out of nine years. In two anomalous years, 2013, and 2014, it was the fourth highest and second highest month, respectively. November of 2017...

Soon he'll be talking like Catherine Hepburn too!

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S.-NATO coalition in Afghanistan has pulverized 25 Taliban labs used to process opium and its deadly heroin derivative, depriving the narco-jihadists of $80 million in illegal drug proceeds in the first three weeks of an unprecedented counternarcotics air campaign. Since November 20, U.S. troops and their Afghan allies have been targeting the Taliban jihadists’ opium business in their Helmand stronghold, the top-poppy producing province in Afghanistan. Watch a M142 HIMARS conduct an artillery strike on a Taliban narcotics production facility in Helmand province Dec. 8, destroying nearly $1 million in direct Taliban revenues. "In the face...

Finland will leave the European Union and position itself as the Switzerland of the north to protect its independence if Laura Huhtasaari, the presidential candidate of the eurosceptic Finns Party has her way. Finns Party deputy chairman and presidential candidate Laura Huhtasaari poses for a picture at the Finland's Parliament in Helsinki, Finland December 13, 2017. REUTERS/Tuomas Forsell She also told Reuters in an interview she wants to tighten immigration rules. Huhtasaari -- dubbed “Finland’s Marine Le Pen” after France’s National Front leader -- is a long-shot. But she believes she has a real chance in the January election as...

The Alabama win for Barack Obama’s candidate Doug Jones confirms our thesis that Obama is running the Democratic Party and the anti-Trump resistance. Obama, who recently compared President Trump to Hitler, recorded a robocall in support of the Alabama Democrat, calling him a “fighter for equality, for progress.” His notion of progress means suppressing the white vote and inciting black voters, who now believe by a margin of 72 percent that Trump should be impeached. The grassroots of the Tea Party, evangelical Christians and conservative Catholics in Alabama, couldn’t match the “Brown is the New White” strategy of Obama’s political...

9) The above text explains why Mueller hired the same-old-same-old Hillary crowd for his supposed "independent" investigation into Trump: The same people had to run both investigations because otherwise the new investigators would discover the shenanigans of the old investigators. Putting Strzok and Page on the team was the FBI's way of protecting itself. 10) Nobody should accord this wretched and corrupted pseudo-investigation the figleaf of respectability. Even in the federal justice system, no successful prosecution by this conflicted team would withstand appeal. As to the ostensible crime they're investigating - "collusion" (which, in fact, is not a crime) with...

LONDON — The European Union has told Britain it has three months to decide what sort of future trade deal it wants before it is prepared to begin negotiating a future trade deal. The EU council is today set to agree that "sufficient progress" has been made on Britain's divorce agreement. Leaders of EU member states are expected to agree on Friday morning that talks should be allowed to move onto talks over a transition period. However, talks on a future trade deal are set to be delayed with EU leaders still uncertain as to what May's government are hoping...

WARSAW, Poland – Poland's defense minister says a plane crash that killed the nation's president in 2010 in Russia was preceded by two explosions on board, calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to "take responsibility for what happened."

U.S. senate elect Doug Jones won big with the African American vote. According to the Washington post Jones got 96% of the African American vote. 93% of the men voted for him. African American women led the vote at 98% DeJuana Thompson helped organize a program called "Woke Vote." Organizers targeted hundreds of African American churches, businesses and college students at HBCUs (Historically Black College & Universities) statewide. "We're talking about making sure that every HBCU had a campus coordinator," Thompson said. "We gave them buttons T-shirt's some of the students did a study Jam for 'Woke Vote' and they...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Friday found ex-economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev guilty of taking a bribe. The court established that Ulyukayev had personally taken a bribe from Igor Sechin, the chief executive officer of oil giant Rosneft, a judge said. (Reporting by Polina Nikolskaya; Writing by Maria Tsvetkova; Editing by Andrew Osborn)