Author: Freedom Watch

Analysis | The Senate vote on the bipartisan Jan. 6 commission showed Trump’s power and a government under duress Washington Post May 29, 2021 Led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), all but a handful of Republican senators joined to scuttle creation of a commission that would have been given the authority and resources to probe more fully what happened and why on that terrible day in January. Absent the use of a filibuster, there were enough votes to let the commission go forward. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on May 19 said that he will oppose…

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Opinion | The Jewish History of Israel Is Over 3,000 Years Old. That’s Why It’s Complicated. By David Wolpe New York Times May 28, 2021 My first visit to Israel was when I was 12 years old. The group was led by my father, a rabbi from Philadelphia. We had been invited to participate in an archaeological dig near the city of Beit Shean, in the country’s north, near the Jordan River Valley. Soon after we arrived, one of my friends happened upon a pottery shard, really an ostracon, a fragment with writing on it. The archaeologist on…

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Trump Rips Paul Ryan, Fox News By Eric Mack Newsmax May 28, 2021 It did not take long for former President Donald Trump to get wind and respond to anti-Trump comments Thursday night by former House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., at the Ronald Reagan Library. Trump scoffed at Ryan’s arrogance to suggest the failed “RINO” (Republican in Name Only) knows enough that he can tell Republicans “how to win elections,” lumping the never Trumper in with Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, the failed presidential candidate he served as running mate for in 2012. Continue Reading…..

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New York prosecutors are treating the Trump Organization like it’s the mob By Jacob Shamsian Business Insider May 28, 2021 NY prosecutors examining the Trump Organization seem to be treating it like it’s run by mobsters. Similar to mob organizations, the Trump Org is run by family members who prosecutors want to flip. They could seek racketeering charges, used in both organized crime and business contexts. Continue Reading…..

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World Health Organization passes motion alleging Israel violating health rights Times of Israel May 27, 2021 The UN’s World Health Organization held a session Tuesday singling out Israel as a violator of Palestinians’ health rights and passed a resolution on the matter, in the only country-specific discussion during its annual assembly, which was largely devoted to the coronavirus pandemic. The delegations of some 25 countries held speeches accusing Israel of violating the health rights of Palestinians and the Druze population in the Golan Heights. The agenda item was slammed by UN Watch, a nonprofit that tracks alleged incidents…

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Encyclopedia Britannica May 26, 2021 When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable…

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POLITICO Playbook: ‘Cloud of nerves’ hovers over Trump land after grand jury report By Rachael Bade, Tara Palmeri, Eugene Daniels, Ryan Lizza POLITICO May 26, 2021 In Trump world, this latest news feels different than the typical barrage of legal issues surrounding Donald Trump because there is pressure on Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg to flip. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images DRIVING THE DAY BREAKING OVERNIGHT — IN MEMORIAM: Former Sen. JOHN WARNER (R-Va.) died Tuesday evening at 94 of heart failure, with his wife Jeanne and daughter Virginia at his side, according to an email sent out overnight…

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