By Michael N. Mattia, AMERICAN THINKER

Now that Hillary Rodham Clinton is the Democrats’ candidate for President of the United States, prepare for the most fraudulent, corrupt and dishonest if not outright criminal election process in the history of this country. That has to be the takeaway from all the recent revelations regarding the Clintons and the DNC coronation of Clinton. Significantly aiding this criminality are Obama and the Democratic Party itself.

Obama has co-opted every federal agency tasked with providing honest oversight of the election process. From the Federal Election Commission to the FBI and ultimately the Justice Department itself, the Clintons and the Democrats know that there will be no negative consequences to any and all law breaking that they undertake to steal the election. Voter intimidation by gangs of Clinton thugs will be given the response that the situation will be “investigated.” In modern day Government usage “investigation” is simply a euphemism for “we intend to do nothing.”
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By Bruce Walker, AMERICAN THINKER

Donald Trump has the right idea about Vladimir Putin and Russia.  Trump is a realist and a nationalist.

The Russian Republic is not the Soviet Union.  During the Cold War, the Kremlin described America as the “Main Enemy,” and Soviet agents as well as communist sympathizers in America colluded against our nation as part of an ideological jihad against us.

Today that Soviet Empire has lost its satellites in the Warsaw Pact nations as well as the old Marxist states of Yugoslavia and Albania, a loss to the old Soviet Empire of about 125 million people.  The disintegration of the Soviet Union itself into twelve nations means that the Russian Republic has 117 million fewer people than the old Soviet Union.  The Russian Republic has only 37% of the population of the old communist empire, which stretched from the Elbe River to Sakhalin.  Read more…

T. Belman. Khan attacked Trump in the DNC and Trump hit back. The MSM were all over Trump and even Trumps’s friends thought he went too far. Apparently not.

By Clarice Feldman, AMERICAN THINKER

Khizr Khan is the father of a U.S. soldier who died in Iraq who spoke poignantly of the loss of his son and then used that platform to attack Donald Trump. On Sunday he tweeted further disparaging remarks about Melania.

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Herzog rejects Netanyahu’s latest unity government overture

Leading coalition partner lashes out at Netanyahu as relations deteriorate over policy, efforts to expand government

TOI STAFF

The right-wing Jewish Home party warned Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that it would no longer be his “punching bag,” as the government appeared to wobble over ongoing clashes between the key coalition partner and the prime minister’s ruling Likud.

“Netanyahu is again shooting inside the armored personnel carrier,” said a statement from Jewish Home.

“Just as he opened fire inside the APC when he voted for the disengagement [from Gaza] and the demolition of Gush Katif [the Jewish settlement bloc in Gaza], just as he fired inside the APC when he released the highest number of terrorists in the country’s history, when he presented Hebron to Yasser Arafat… when he froze [settlement] construction, when he surrendered to Hamas, when he declared the establishment of the state of Palestine at Bar-Ilan [University], and when he counted the number of kippot of religious journalists in the media.”
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Bookworm Room

As you all know, Trump was my last choice during the Republican primaries but by default he’s my first choice against Hillary. I’m not the only one who has had to work my way to making peace with the situation as it is, rather than as I wanted it to be.

Wayne Gruden has written an argument for concerned Christians explaining why Trump, despite being a deeply flawed candidate, is still to be preferred over Hillary. He even addresses the concern so many people have that Trump, once he’s elected, will suddenly cast off the Clark Kent glasses and announce that he’s really “Super Liberal.
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T. Belman. Throughout the year, Bibi yhas been trying to get Herzog into the coalition, so that He is not vulnerable to Bennett Leaving it.

It is obvious to me that Bibi wants to find a way to accept the Arab Peace Initiative. He praised al Sisi for pushing for it just recently. That’s why he maintains the construction freeze. Saudi Arabia and Blair are also involved in the effort. He is also trying to ease the blockade and assumes responsibility for Gazans. I wrote about this in Bibi’s Talking Points.

Prime minister tells reporters that he is reserving the Foreign Ministry portfolio for the Zionist Union leader. ‘

By Barak Ravid, HAARETZ

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told diplomatic correspondents on Sunday that he is interested in broadening his coalition by having the Zionist Union join the government, in part to advance “diplomatic opportunities.” Netanyahu explained that, for that reason, he is still keeping the foreign minister’s position for himself.
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T. Belman. Part of this problem has to do with the fact that the HIgh Court has given the right to the Police not to enforce the law if it will result in violence. A prime example is the Court has ruled that Jews can pray on the Temple Mount but has deferred to the police on whether the law should be enforced. The pendulum must shift back to the rule of law even if violence will result.

A second problem is that in the Umm al-Fahm area, the police are Muslim. This article steers clear of suggesting that that is part of the problem.

Near Umm al-Fahm stands a monument to the weakness of the rule of law in the State of Israel: A giant house, whose illegal construction began 13 years ago and which despite demolition orders and a series of judicial decisions remains standing.

By Yifat Erlich, YNET

Three lots are gleaming white on a mountain range peppered with olive trees. Several weeks ago, a power shovel disrupted the pastoral quiet as it worked to prepare the ground near Umm al-Fahm for farming. But while the land has now been deemed fit for agricultural use, it has not been qualified by law.
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Ted Belman

There are two polls out now after the conventions.

Boom! Latest L.A. Times Daybreak Poll Shows Trump Up Up Up!

Trump; 46.1% (-0.5)
Clinton: 41.9% (+0.2)

The 2016 USC Dornsife / LA Times Presidential Election Poll represents a pioneering approach to tracking changes in Americans’ opinions throughout a campaign for the White House. Around 3000 respondents in our representative panel are asked questions on a regular basis on what they care about most in the election, and on their attitudes toward their preferred candidates. The “Daybreak poll” is updated just after midnight every day of the week.
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By David Rubin, INN

The two major political conventions of 2016, now completed, raised many questions relating to the proper response to Islamic extremism and terrorism, spoken about extensively at the RNC, but almost ignored at the DNC. Furthermore, there were harsh charges of anti-Semitism thrown back and forth, as well as lingering questions about which party would be better for the U.S.-Israel relationship. Admittedly, there have been many doubters about Donald J. Trump, a political novice who achieved great success in the world of business, but from the biblical heartland of Israel, the answer is clear. Take note of the following facts, broken down into ten succinct reasons why American friends of Israel should vote for the GOP candidate to be the next President:

1. Donald Trump has pledged to move the American Embassy to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.

2. Trump has expressed support for Israel’s right to grant building permits for its citizens in Jerusalem, its capital city.
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Christian Science Monitor

The recent military coup and subsequent government crackdown on dissenting Turkish officials, academics, and journalists may have actually helped to heal relations between the Turkish government and the the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), or at least put hostilities on hold. In the wake of the coup, with the Turkish military left weak and open to attack, the Kurds have been oddly silent – a detente which may be the catalyst needed to resume peace talks.

Ayse Sozen Usluer, the Turkish president’s international relations chief, said there has been no policy change toward the PKK, but that the conflict could still be solved politically. “There is always [the] possibility to go back to [the] peace process,” Ms. Usluer told the Voice of America.
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By David Solway, PJ MEDIA

One notices that when the current nomination cycle began, Donald Trump was more often than not referred to by his full name: Donald Trump. Or by his surname: Trump. As time went by, his iconic sobriquet began to be used on a regular basis, generally in a not unkindly way: The Donald, as if he were a reified entity, a theatrical performance, or even a sort of force or condition, like The Weather. Now he is increasingly addressed simply as: Donald. The outsider, the mogul, the thespian has become a household guest, someone many of us know—with the exception of his enemies or professional skeptics—as a friendly and companionable figure. This is the other “nomination” that has occurred.
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T. Belman. In Feb of this year, I co-authored an article with Alex Maistrovoy, titled, Contemplating a US-Russia Alliance in which we advocated the same thing.

By Fritz Pettyjohn, AMERICAN THINKER

In 1973, Henry Kissinger was meeting Brezhnev in Moscow, making preparations for Nixon’s upcoming visit. Old Leonid insisted on taking him boar hunting, where they sat alone in a blind with an interpreter, and the Soviet ruler unburdened his soul about the Chinese Communist regime. “Treacherous barbarians,” he called them, and at that moment Kissinger knew that one of the great initiatives of American diplomacy had succeeded. The Russians wanted an understanding with the United States about their problems with China. The Chinese wanted one themselves, vis-à-vis Russia, and America was in the catbird seat. This is all described vividly in Walter Isaacson’s Kissinger.
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By Yoram Ettinger

According to a study conducted by the University of Lausanne, Israel is one of the top five world high-tech powers, as indicated by a 2015 $1bn investment, in Israel, by Apple, creating a hardware development center. The USA, China, Russia and India are, actively, soliciting high-tech cooperation with Israel. India and Israel negotiate a free trade zone, which would increase their current $5bn trade balance. Israel is second only to Russia in the exportation of military systems to India (Jerusalem Post, July 24, 2016).

$245mn raised by Israeli companies in July, 2016; $2.9bn raised, so far, in 2016 ($1.7bn in the 2nd quarter and $1.1bn in the 1st quarter). For example, SafeBreach (cyber) raised $15mn from HP, Deutsche Telecomm, etc.; Prospera (agricultural tech) raised $7mn from the Silicon Valley-headquartered Bessemer Venture Partners; PowerLinx (business matching) raised $7mn from Dun & Bradstreet, France; and Engie (car maintenance) raised $3.5mn from the San Francisco-based 8Partners, the San Francisco Peninsula-based Motus Ventures. (Globes Business Daily, July 27, 2016), etc..
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By Elliot Abrams, ISRAEL HAYOM

This week the State Department engaged in a remarkable assault on Israel. Both in tone and in content, it marks a new hostility and plenty of sheer ignorance.

The comment, titled “Recent Israeli Settlement Announcements,” ran as follows: “We are deeply concerned by reports today that the Government of Israel has published tenders for 323 units in East Jerusalem settlements. This follows Monday’s announcement of plans for 770 units in the settlement of Gilo.

“We strongly oppose settlement activity, which is corrosive to the cause of peace. These steps by Israeli authorities are the latest examples of what appears to be a steady acceleration of settlement activity that is systematically undermining the prospects for a two-state solution.
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In ultimatum, state comptroller reportedly warns he will back official inquiry into handling of 2014 conflict if his findings are not made public

BY TAMAR PILEGGI, TOI

State Comptroller Yosef Shapira has reportedly warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he will recommend a commission of inquiry into the government’s handling of the 2014 war against Hamas, should the prime minister refuse to make public a report on the 50-day Gaza conflict.

ster or his associates to block the publication of the State Comptroller report — which was expected to excoriate Netanyahu and other senior defense officials over the Israeli leadership’s performance during the conflict — could result in an official inquiry.
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