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The Obama Foundation stored classified documents in an abandoned furniture warehouse, according to a 2018 letter from the Obama Foundation to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).The letter, available on the Obama Foundation website and dated Sept. 11, 2018, reveals that the Obama Foundation not only acknowledged possessing classified documents but also admitted that they kept them in a facility that did not meet NARA standards for the storage of those documents.The Obama Foundation agreés to transfer up to three million three hundred thousand dollars ($3,300,000) to the National Archives Trust Fund (NATF) to support the move of classified...

Nunes, Gowdy, and Schiff, Republicans and Democrats on the House intelligence committee have issued a series of subpoenas to relevant intelligence agencies for records of; X-National Security Adviser Susan Rice, X-CIA Director John Brennan, and X-Ambassador, Samantha Power, concerning the Russia Probe and related matters. Early April Judicial Watch issued a FoIA request to NSC, demanding records concerning Rices’ government communications on a related range of subjects. House intelligence committee says that legacy NSC staffers, have been slow-walking the subpoenaed materials. “We’ve been waiting since March 15 for this information. //Snipp// The actual records, it seems, have all been transferred...

Although the Left regarded socialism as the answer to the cries of the prisoners of starvation, Lefties were aware that there was something wrong with socialist productivity. Goods were scarce, sacrifices had to be made to assure a better, more abundant future. That, anyway, was how it was explained. But facts are stubborn things, as you know, and they kept seeping out. They had started seeping out soon after Lenin took charge...more

In the long ago days when, as John Powers noted, the Left was joyous, Lefties were able to ascribe the lack of productivity even then an observable characteristic of socialism to its superior morality. Socialism depends, they said, on people being willing to cooperate, to work for the good of others. By contrast, capitalism's motivator is human greed. Of course, one man's greed is another man's self-interest--they've loaded the argument. And, as Paul Newman, one of The Nation's stockholders, can attest...more

John Powers, a Lefty columnist for a Lefty magazine on the Left coast discovered recently that "...over the last two decades, the joy has gone out of the left -- it now feels hedged in by shibboleths and defeatism -- while the right has been having a gas..." Powers also "...discovered that while unread copies of The Nation invariably rose in guilt-inducing stacks, [he] always read The Weekly Standard right away. Why? Because seen purely as a magazine, The Standard is incomparably more alluring..." More

John Powers, a Lefty columnist for a Lefty magazine on the Left coast discovered recently that "...over the last two decades, the joy has gone out of the left -- it now feels hedged in by shibboleths and defeatism -- while the right has been having a gas..." Powers also "...discovered that while unread copies of The Nation invariably rose in guilt-inducing stacks, [he] always read The Weekly Standard right away. Why? Because seen purely as a magazine, The Standard is incomparably more alluring..." MORE