Editorial: Donald Trump's recent endorsements

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The interesting thing about Mr. Trump's endorsements is that he is doing his endorsing DURING the primaries of Mr. Ryan and Mr. McCain, while Mr. Trump himself has NOT been endorsed by Mr. McCain for the GENERAL election and Mr. Ryan has only given a "hold your nose" endorsement for the same GENERAL election.

This all does show that Mr. Trump is the peace-maker, willing to extend an olive branch to others who might not reciprocate. Will they, we shall see!

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A timely post from  http://www.debbieschlussel.com about the terrorism of Black Lives Matter. This follows this post about IMPEACHMENTS!  This follows this post about rap songs referencing Donald Trump.
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Black Lives Matter, Obama, Lynch, Holder, Cable TV Have 5 Cops’ Blood on Their Hands

By Debbie Schlussel


It’s official: Black Lives Matter is the new terrorism. The Black Lives Matter movement has yet more cops’ blood on their hands. This time, it’s the five police officers murdered in cold blood in Dallas and the other seven officers who were shot, some in very serious condition and fighting to stay alive. But who also has the police officers’ blood on their hands? ALL of the cable news networks (CNN, MSNBC, and yes, FOX News) and all of the other media outlets, who repeatedly played video of the two Black men who were shot by police. And Barack Obama, Loretta Lynch, and Eric Holder, who’ve spent the last few years vilifying police and doing nothing to calm and heal America by asking for an end to the cop-killing violence.







It doesn’t matter who shot and murdered the five police officers in Dallas, though we already know that at least one of the suspects is Black. We know that the Black Lives Matter doesn’t care about cops’ lives. They also don’t care about the fact that more unarmed Whites have been killed by police than Blacks. There is no White Lives Matter movement of protesters on the street. There is no White Lives Matter movement that has fostered the environment in which police officers are murdered in cold blood around the country since the movement started its protests, riots, and resultant looting. Remember, police officers were wantonly murdered in New York and elsewhere around the country after the Black Lives Matter movement started. That happened repeatedly before this latest slaughter in Dallas, last night. The media keeps telling us last night’s murderous Black Lives Matter protest was “peaceful.” Um, no it wasn’t. BLM by definition means open war on cops. And we got the natural result of what they’ve been preaching for two years: “kill the pigs.” This massacre of police officers was no surprise. It was predictable. And to be expected.
Then, there’s Barack Obama, who has a history of attacking police from his bully pulpit at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He began attacking police when he said they “acted stupidly” after a Cambridge, Massachusetts police officer arrested Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. His “Beer Summit” between the two at the White House was just grandstanding phoniness for the cameras because Obama didn’t really make peace with the police. Since the Ferguson incident in which Michael Brown tried to take officer Darren Wilson’s gun and kill him, Barack Obama continued his public assault of police. His speech yesterday, after the two videos of the two Black men tragically killed by police were released, was more egging on of violence against police. He is part of the problem, NOT the solution.
And then there is the media, including “conservative” FOX News, which have been playing the videos of the killing of the Black men non-stop, as if in a loop. Yet, none of them have played any videos of unarmed White men being shot and killed by police. Why is that?
A cellphone video of an unarmed White man shot and killed by police in Fresno was released to the media, yesterday, and yet it was not played on CNNMSNBCFOXNEWS. Why not? Because only Black Lives Matter. Get it?
But even if the media had shown that video and others like it endlessly, would White people march in the streets across America and riot and loot? Would they target police with sniper fire? No. It doesn’t happen. It hasn’t happened. And it won’t happen.
This is a cultural problem in which Black America plays the victim, thinks it is the only target for problems, persecution, and abuse. They have a chip on their shoulder. The police killings of the two Black men in the videos are tragic and sad. And the men didn’t deserve what happened to them, if we are to base our judgments solely on the videos, which show only certain points in time and not the whole picture. But what about the killings of others? Nobody cares.
And then there are Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder. Their (In)Justice Department has looked the other way when the chosen White liberal criminal breaks the law. See Hillary Clinton, etc. But Lynch, Holder, et al worked overtime to go after municipalities like Fergustan and their police departments, even though they begrudgingly, quietly admitted–as they did in the report on Ferguson–that the officer, Darren Wilson, did not violate anyone’s civil rights. Yet, despite this, the Obama-Holder-Lynch Justice Department shoved all kinds of “civil rights” measures down the throat of Ferguson and its police department, as well as other cities across America. All in the name of “stopping” police “racism” that doesn’t exist. They and the Department of Homeland Security warned of White conservative Americans as the terrorist threat on our soil, not the Black Lives Matter movement.
More Black men kill Black men than any other source. And even more Black men would be killed were it not for the police, in many cases White police officers. If I were a cop today, I’d quit. It’s just not worth it. There is open season on them, your life is at risk, and the pay is low plus the hours are long. Every day could be the last day, with incredible risks on the job. Now, there are BLM terrorists shooting them down. Why do this job?
Let’s see what happens on the streets of America’s inner cities and urban settings if there are no police.
I note that even after police were being hunted by animals at the BLM protest in Dallas, the police were concerned with the safety of the protesters and ushering them to shelter. Let’s see what happens to Black Lives Matter protests on unprotected streets. Chaos.
We need a President, we need a media, and we need a Black and Liberal America who act with responsibility, who act like civic citizens.
We don’t have that now. We just have growing anarchy.
Pray for the families of the five police officers who were murdered. Pray for the police officers who are holding on to their dear lives at Dallas hospitals. May the officers who died rest in peace.

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Report of Muslim Congressmen’s ties to Muslim Brotherhood; real story is much worse

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Huffington Post tries to discredit report of Muslim Congressmen’s ties to Muslim Brotherhood; real story is much worse

 By Robert Spencer 11 Comments

Clearly Ellison and Carson have extensive ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, as I explained here. Imagine if they were right-wing Christian Congressman with ties to a militia group that spoke in its literature of “eliminating and destroying Islam from within.” Do you think the media would be actively covering for those Congressmen, as they are for Ellison and Carson?

More on this story. “Huffington Post Tries To Discredit Report Of US Congressmen’s Ties To Global Muslim Brotherhood; Real Story Is Much Worse,” Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Watch, July 5, 2016:

US media is reporting that a witness before a Senate panel has accused two Muslim Congressmen of having spoken at an event organized by the Muslim Brotherhood. According to the Huffington Post article, such accusations are “usually found among fringe groups online”…
The GMBDW notes the reference to “poorly designed websites”, perhaps a new low in attempting to discredit information, but more important is the subtext of the Huffington Post article which clearly carries the implication that allegations against the Congressmen are a product of some sort of “conspiracy thinking.” The merits of the hearing and its witnesses aside, what appears to have been forgotten is that it was Congressman Ellison himself who expressed the most heinous of conspiracy theories when he once compared the 911 attacks against the US  to the 1933 destruction by fire of the Reichstag, the German parliament, likely burned down by the Nazis in order to justify Hitler’s later seizure of emergency powers. As we reported in July 2007, Ellison made the following remarks generally not reported in the US media but which were reported in a British newspaper and which also can heard on a video of the event where they were made:

It’s almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that,’ Mr Ellison said. ‘After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it, and it put the leader [Hitler] of that country in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted.’ To applause from his audience of 300 members of Atheists for Human Rights, Mr Ellison said he would not accuse the Bush administration of planning 9/11 because ‘you know, that’s how they put you in the nut-ball box – dismiss you’. …After his speech was reported, Mr Ellison said he accepted that Osama bin Laden was responsible for 9/11.

As far as Congressman Ellison’s ties to the Global Muslim Brotherhood, the GMBDW has reported numerous examples of such ties which go far beyond the single attendance at the 2008 ISNA convention mentioned above and which can be found in the following posts. Highlights include:

• In October 2007, we reported that Ellison gave the keynote speech at an award dinner where the late Dr. Jamal Barzinji, then Vice-President of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) and one the most important founders of the US Muslim Brotherhood,, was awarded the “Faith in Action Award” by the International Center for Religion & Diplomacy (ICRD).

• In November 2007, we reported that Ellison was one of two keynote speakers at the13th annual banquet of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an important part of the US Muslim Brotherhood that emerged from the US Hamas support infrastructure.

• In December 2008, we reported that Ellison went on a pilgrimage to Mecca that was paid for by the Muslim American Society (MAS), a part of the US Muslim Brotherhood closet to the Egyptian organization.

• In April 2009, we reported that Ellison attended a conference that bought leaders of the US Muslim Brotherhood together with members of the US government, far-left/antiwar political figures, and foreign activists.

• In July 2011, we reported that Ellison was one of the speakers at the 48th annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).

• In September 2012, we reported that Ellison was scheduled to attend the 49th annual ISNA convention along with Global Muslim Brotherhood leaders Tariq Ramadan and Rachid Ghannouchi.

• In November 2012 we reported that Ellison had been a featured speakers at an event held by the Muslim American Citizens Coalition and Public Affairs Council (MACCPAC), another of the myriad US Muslim Brotherhood front groups.

• In February 2016, we reported that Ellison attended the inaugural conference for the “Muslim Councils in the West”, organized by a US Muslim Brotherhood coalition and that was also attended by a wide variety of European Muslim Brotherhood leaders as well as by a prominent US academic supporter of the Global Muslim Brotherhood.

GMBDW reporting on Congressman Carson has included the following relationships with the US Muslim Brotherhood:

• In June 2009, we reported that Congressmen Carson and Keith Ellison, were guest speakers at a social event sponsored by the now defunct Congressional Muslim Staffers Association (CSMA), sponsored by Carson. We subsequently reported on the relationship between the US Muslim Brotherhood and the CMSA.

• In September 2009, we reported that Carson was to be a featured speaker at the annual convention of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), a part of the US Muslim Brotherhood.

• In May 2012, we reported that  Carson was to be a guest speaker at the annual convention of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a part of the US Muslim Brotherhood and considered to be closely tied to the Jamaat-e-Islami organization of Southeast Asia, itself allied with the Global Muslim Brotherhood

• In November 2012, we reported that Nancy Pelosi was the main feature at a fundraising event that included the US Muslim Brotherhood organizations whose leaders sat at the same table with Pelosi. Congressman Carson was one of the sponsors of the event.

• In January 2013, we reported that Carson was in attendance at an ISNA event hosting the newly elected President of Somalia. The meeting also included included Rashad Hussain, the US Envoy to the OIC, and a representative of ICNA.

• In May 2014,  Carson was an invited speaker for the annual joint convention of ISNA and the MAS. That conference also featured Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Tariq Ramadan.

• In October 2014, we discussed an article an article which looked at campaign contributions to Congressman Carson by US Muslim Brotherhood organizations….

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Senate vote TODAY on Sanctuary Cities!

An interesting article from www.numbersusa.com about the Senate sanctuary bill. This follows this post about Hillary Clinton's immigration position. Remember, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! Also, you can read two very interesting books HERE.
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Senate vote TODAY on Sanctuary Cities!

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Senate to vote TODAY on Sanctuary Cities legislation -- Call your Senators and urge them to vote YES!

Dear activists,

The Senate will vote on a bill introduced by Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania that would block certain federal funds for sanctuary cities. We need your urgent phone calls this morning to both of your U.S. Senators asking them to vote YES on the motion to proceed to Sen. Pat Toomey's bill, S.3100.

Sen. Toomey's bill, the Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act, S.3100, would define a "sanctuary city" as any state-level jurisdiction that fails to communicate with federal immigration officers or comply with a detainer request. The bill would also block certain federal grants to sanctuary jurisdictions and protect local police from liability if they act on behalf of DHS.

The Senate could also vote today on Sen. Ted Cruz's "Kate's Law", S.2193. You may remember that Sen. Cruz introduced this legislation after last year's tragic shooting of San Francisco woman Kate Steinle at the hands of a five-times deported illegal alien who had been set free by the city's sanctuary policies. The bill would increase penalties for repeat border crossers.

Call your Senators NOW! Please dial the number below that will connect you to the Capitol Switchboard. When the operator answers, ask to be connected to the offices of your U.S. Senators. Please call both Senators this morning! (202) 224-3121 When your Senator's staffer answers, please tell him/her that it's time for the Senate to take action on ending unlawful Sanctuary Cities and you want the Senator to vote YES on the motion to proceed to both S.3100 (Toomey's Sanctuary Cities legislation) and S.2193 (Cruz's "Kate's Law") when they come to the floor for a vote.

Thank you for your urgent activism!

Chris Chmielenski

 

Editorial: Who should be Trump's VP?

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Who should be Trump's VP? Well, what are you looking for in a VP? First, someone that will help you win an election. Second, someone who can take over if you are unable to finish your term(s). And, third, someone who is close enough to you, that the VP will follow your policies fairly closely.

A bad example for the third rule was George H.W. Bush for Ronald Reagan. After President Reagan finished his terms, Mr. Bush turned his administration to a "kinder, gentler" tone. However, he may have been a good choice for reasons one and two above. I'll leave that for you to ponder.

Now, what does Mr. Trump need. Someone who will fill all of these three qualities. He can look for Midwest swing state help, someone to energize his base, or reach out to broaden the base. The key for doing these is to make sure he doesn't compromise his current base, who might think he's selling out and then they stay home, which is a key to the third characteristic. Someone currently serving, or who has served in the Senate, the House, or as a governor helps prove that the candidate can easily take over.

Many good names have been mentioned. I would look for a good candidate who is young enough to take over eight years from now. My choice, and I realize there are many other good ones, but my choice would be Steven King of Iowa. He is an immigration patriot, and a leader among them. He broadens Trump's base because he was a Ted Cruz supporter and would help bring in some of that camp, and yet he still energizes the base. He is also young enough as a congresman that he can take over in eight years. There are many other good choices such as Kris Kobach or Senator Sessions, but I think Rep. King would also help bring in his swing state of Iowa.

21 Abortion Clinics Have Closed in Texas in Three Years Under Key Pro-Life Law

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21 Abortion Clinics Have Closed in Texas in Three Years Under Key Pro-Life Law

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Everyone who has an interest in the abortion debate is waiting anxiously for the U.S. Supreme Court to hand down an important decision on a Texas abortion law this Monday.

Texas’ law is arguably responsible for saving the lives of tens of thousands of unborn babies by closing abortion clinics that are unable to protect women’s health. The laws protects women’s health and welfare by requiring abortion clinics to meet the kinds of medical and safety standards that legitimate medical centers meet.
At the center of the case is the question of whether the Texas regulations impose an “undue burden” on women’s access to abortion. Abortion advocates challenged the law, the abortion facility regulations and hospital admitting requirements for abortionists, arguing that their abortion clinics should not be held to the same health standards as other outpatient ambulatory facilities.
Since a portion of the law went into effect, 21 abortion clinics closed in Texas because they could not or would not meet the required basic health and safety regulations. The Texas Tribune reported in March that there are 19 abortion facilities currently operating in Texas, down from 40 in 2012. If the Supreme Court upholds the Texas regulations, 10 more possibly could close, according to the report.
The state also has seen a huge drop in the number of abortions, with 9,000 fewer between 2013 and 2014, according to the news outlet.
Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller argued the case before the high court in March, and he was immediately met with skepticism from the pro-abortion members of the high court.
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“According to you, the slightest health improvement is enough to burden the lives of a million women,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor told him.
Justice Anthony Kennedy is the swing vote on almost any abortion case and he appeared sympathetic to the argument that abortion clinics should be expected to comply with sensible medical standards if given enough time, according to the Washington Examiner:

“Regulations sometimes take years to adopt,” Kennedy said. At another point, he suggested the lower district court could delay a final decision for a few more years, until it becomes clear whether clinics remain closed, as opponents of the law predict, or whether they manage to reopen.

Kennedy has supported some abortion limits in the past, including the federal ban on partial-birth abortion. But how far he’s willing to let states go in tamping down on abortion is not clear.

Roger Severino, director of the Heritage Foundation’s DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, watched the oral arguments and said he thought they went as expected. He is hopeful that Justice Kennedy will side with Texas in upholding the law.
“We had the liberal/conservative breakdown in the Court that you would expect among the justices, but Justice Kennedy, in the few questions he asked, showed some hesitation about courts second-guessing the state’s ability to regulate abortion clinics,” Severino said. “Even Justice Breyer acknowledged the state’s intent in regulating abortion clinics was a legitimate desire to help further women’s health and not for some nefarious purpose.”
The pro-life group Texas Right to Life outlined what the court will consider when it decides the case:

Today, the Supreme Court will be considering two explicit questions in the Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstadt case over the Texas law:

(1) Whether, when applying the “undue burden” standard of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a court errs by refusing to consider whether and to what extent laws that restrict abortion for the stated purpose of promoting health actually serve the government’s interest in promoting health; and

(2) whether the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit erred in concluding that this standard permits Texas to enforce, in nearly all circumstances, laws that would cause a significant reduction in the availability of abortion services while failing to advance the State’s interest in promoting health – or any other valid interest.

Both of these questions deal with the “undue burden” standard from Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which has been used to challenge every type of Pro-Life legislation across the country since 1992.  Whether the abortion industry is challenging informed consent laws (like Texas’ Sonogram Bill in 2011), prohibitions on late abortions (as in Arizona in 2014), or higher medical standards (as in the current challenge to House Bill 2), the plaintiffs use the vague and undefined “undue burden” standard in all cases.

The Supreme Court has not directly addressed the issue of abortion since 2007, when the Court upheld the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in Gonzales v. Carhart.

Another scathing report as the H-2B lobby pushes for expansion

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Another scathing report as the H-2B lobby pushes for expansion

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Mother Jones details another scathing report about the H-2B guest worker program, this time from the National Guestworker Alliance.

"According to the NGA report, the US seafood industry has relied heavily on H2-B guestworkers and undocumented immigrants to drive down labor costs..."

The report comes a month after BuzzFeed News published an investigative report detailing the inability (or unwillingness) of the Labor Department to protect workers. In December, BuzzFeed reported findings echoed the NGA report:

"...employers frequently exploit foreign H-2 workers, stealing their wages, housing them in squalid conditions, and even endangering their lives. At the same time, many companies use the program to avoid hiring qualified Americans, who by law are are supposed to get first crack at those jobs."

The H-2B guest worker program has been criticized by a diverse group of organizations and watchdogs including the Equal Justice Center, the Economic Policy Institute, the Center for Immigration Studies, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ACLU, the Filipino Migrant Center, and the Government Accountability Office.
Despite the criticism (or perhaps because of it) there is an effort currently underway in Congress to pass a permanent increase in H-2B visas with little public debate or media attention. They have been mostly successful (there is no mention of the current push in the Mother Jones story).
Details from the National Guestworker Alliance's report include overcrowded housing, unsanitary living conditions, dangerous working conditions, withheld wages, and sexual harassment.
The H-2B expansion lobby argued in The Hill today that "these {guest} workers do the jobs that many Americans simply won’t do."
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A timely post about from www.jihadwatch.org about the Islamic terror group CAIR. This follows this post about a Muslim hostage taking in Texas. This follows this article about American energy independence and preventing money from going to hostile countries. For more, you can read two very interesting books HERE.You can follow me here.

D.C. circuit court: Hamas-linked CAIR must stand trial for massive fraud

 By Robert Spencer 41 Comments

This is an unexpected and welcome victory that could mean the beginning of the end for this unsavory gang of thugs.

“D.C. Circuit: CAIR Must Stand Trial for Massive Fraud,” American Freedom Law Center, June 21, 2016:

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today unanimously reversed a trial court’s ruling dismissing a fraud case brought against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).  The result of the appellate court’s ruling is that CAIR National, operating out of the District of Columbia, must stand trial and allow a jury to hear all of the evidence of the massive fraud and attempted cover up carried out by CAIR and perpetrated against hundreds of CAIR fraud victims.
In January of last year, Judge Paul Friedman, the federal judge presiding over a five-year old lawsuit alleging that CAIR defrauded hundreds of Muslim and non-Muslim clients, issued a shocking ruling when he summarily dismissed the lawsuit, which was brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Immediately, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) and the Law Offices of David Yerushalmi appealed, asking the D.C. Circuit to reverse Judge Friedman and reinstate the plaintiffs’ claims against CAIR.
The appellate court heard oral arguments in February of this year.  Judge Sri Srinivasan, often mentioned as one of the judge’s on the President’s short list to fill a slot on the U.S. Supreme Court, sat as Chief Judge for the 3-judge panel that also included Judge Robert Wilkins, who authored the unanimous decision, and Judge Douglas Ginsburg.
David Yerushalmi, lead counsel for the five plaintiffs in the two consolidated cases alleging that CAIR hired a fake lawyer who defrauded the CAIR clients, explained the decisiveness of the appellate court’s ruling:

“The Court of Appeals not only reversed the trial court, sending the case back for a jury trial, but it carefully went through each fact we argued Judge Friedman either dismissed out-of-hand or ignored completely to justify his clearly erroneous ruling, explaining further why each fact supports our claims against CAIR.”

CAIR, a self-described Muslim public interest law firm, was previously named as a Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the federal criminal trial and conviction of a terrorist funding cell organized around one of the largest Muslim charities, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF).  HLF raised funds for violent jihad on behalf of Hamas, and top CAIR officials were part of the conspiracy.  In addition, several of CAIR’s top executives have been convicted of terror-related crimes.  As a result, the FBI publicly announced that it has terminated any outreach activities with the national organization, which bills itself as “America’s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization.”
The two lawsuits dismissed by Judge Friedman, which were consolidated by the court because they arose out of the same facts, follow an earlier lawsuit that had also alleged that CAIR’s fraudulent conduct amounted to racketeering, a federal RICO crime.  In that case, the court dismissed the RICO counts, concluding that CAIR’s conduct as alleged was fraudulent but not a technical violation of RICO.
The pending lawsuits allege that Morris Days, the “Resident Attorney” and “Manager for Civil Rights” at the now defunct CAIR-MD/VA chapter in Herndon, Virginia, was in fact not an attorney and that he failed to provide legal services for clients who came to CAIR for legal representation.  As alleged, CAIR knew of this fraud and purposefully conspired with Days to keep the CAIR clients from discovering that their legal matters were being mishandled or not handled at all.  Furthermore, the complaints allege that according to CAIR internal documents, there were hundreds of victims of the CAIR fraud scheme.
According to court documents, CAIR knew or should have known that Days was not a lawyer when it hired him.  But, like many criminal organizations, things got worse when CAIR officials were confronted with clear evidence of Days’ fraudulent conduct.  Rather than come clean and attempt to rectify past wrongs, CAIR conspired with its Virginia Chapter to conceal and further the fraud.
To this end, CAIR officials purposefully concealed the truth about Days from their clients, law enforcement, the Virginia and D.C. state bar associations, and the media.  When CAIR did get irate calls from clients about Days’ failure to provide competent legal services, CAIR fraudulently deceived their clients about Days’ relationship to CAIR, suggesting he was never actually employed by CAIR, and even concealing the fact that CAIR had fired him once some of the victims began threatening to sue.
While Judge Friedman agreed that Days and CAIR’s Virginia chapter were liable for fraud, he concluded, after improperly weighing the evidence, that CAIR National in D.C., the named defendant in the lawsuit, was not responsible for Days’ fraudulent conduct.  The appeals court, however, found that Judge Friedman was wrong on each and every fact raised by the plaintiffs, concluding, contrary to Judge Friedman, that each fact supports finding a direct relationship between CAIR National and Days.
David Yerushalmi, who is also AFLC’s co-founder and senior counsel, remarked:

“CAIR engaged in a massive criminal fraud in which literally hundreds of CAIR clients have been victimized.  In his ruling, Judge Friedman inexplicably ignored material facts that establish CAIR National’s liability and then engaged in a transparently disingenuous ‘weighing’ of the factual evidence he did address, which is patently improper when evaluating cross-motions for summary judgment.  We are thankful that the appeals court has rectified the trial court’s errors.  Now, at long last, our clients will go before a jury and get their day in court.”

Robert Muise, co-founder and senior counsel of AFLC, added,

“This ruling is a significant victory.  Not only does it reinstate our claims against CAIR, but it makes plain that we have an incredibly strong case to present to a jury.  In short, CAIR has no way out.  It is a fraudulent organization, and we will get a chance to prove that to a jury.”

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Pentecost and the Book of Ruth

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What connections are there between Pentecost and the book of Ruth?

The book of Ruth is a delightful story of romance, simplicity and purity. It conversationally tells of a mother bereft of husband and sons, yet still faithful to God. Also described is a daughter-in-law widowed of her husband (and childless) who demonstrates outstanding devotion to her mother-in-law and God. Further included in the narration is an upright and generous farmer blessed both by employees and God alike. The historical setting is Bethlehem in Judah in the days of the Judges around 1100 B.C.

A study of the book of Ruth is worthwhile for gleaning great principles and truths.

Although a specific purpose is not clearly stated, there is considerable connection with the meaning of the biblical festival known as the “Feast of Weeks,” the “Feast of Firstfruits” or “Pentecost” (Exodus 23:16 Exodus 23:16And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors out of the field.
American King James Version×; 34:22; Acts 2:1 Acts 2:1And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
American King James Version×). A study of the book of Ruth is worthwhile for gleaning great principles and truths.
Ethnically, Ruth was a Moabitess, only distantly related to the Israelites through Lot, Abraham’s nephew (Genesis 11:27 Genesis 11:27Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
American King James Version×; 19:37). She didn’t grow up worshipping the God of Israel. However, the book of Ruth shows that, in God’s sight, conversion to God’s true religion is incomparably more important than one’s ethnicity.

Royal lineage

Ruth’s marriage into the royal Davidic line foreshadowed the eventual composition of the larger Church to come. The book foreshadows how gentiles would be called to join with “spiritual Israel” upon repentance and faith. In Ruth’s life we also discover how God at times circumvents the norm.

The book foreshadows how gentiles would be called to join with “spiritual Israel” upon repentance and faith.

The author takes care to trace David’s ancestry all the way back to Perez to encompass Abraham’s blessing (Genesis 49:10 Genesis 49:10The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and to him shall the gathering of the people be.
American King James Version×). Interestingly, Perez is the illegitimate, yet chosen, son of Judah and Tamar. This “unexpected” type repeats again with Boaz. He was the son of Salmon by Rahab (Matthew 1:5 Matthew 1:5And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;
American King James Version×). Then later, still contrary to convention, we have David, who wasn’t the eldest son but the youngest. Finally, David’s heir, Solomon, is not the eldest either and was born through inauspicious circumstances of Bathsheba.
Ruth herself was a Moabitess who by marriage to Boaz now symbolically reunites the wayward clan of Lot’s son (Moab) back into Abraham’s family. Ruth thus becomes a vital link to David as his great-grandmother.
God’s generous providence is exhibited by the inclusion of a gentile into the royal lineage of the Messiah. When Ruth says, “Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God” and “The LORD do so to me, and more also, if…’ (Ruth 1:16-17 Ruth 1:16-1716 And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after you: for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge: your people shall be my people, and your God my God: 17 Where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part you and me.
American King James Version×), her words imply that Ruth, who once lived by the gods of Moab, now lives by the standards of Israel’s God.
The setting of Bethlehem, too, is interesting. It is here later that Jesse and David will live. And it is also here, in Bethlehem, that Christ our “Redeemer” is born.

A near kinsman

Boaz acted as the Old Testament “kinsman redeemer,” which also serves as a Messianic type. His actions were based on the “levirate law” given in Deuteronomy 25:5-10 Deuteronomy 25:5-105 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without to a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother to her. 6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. 7 And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother. 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her; 9 Then shall his brother’s wife come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done to that man that will not build up his brother’s house. 10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that has his shoe loosed.
American King James Version×. The Hebrew word gaal describes the one who fulfills this function. The book makes it clear that the gaal alone possessed the right to redeem, yet was under no obligation to do so. The graciousness of God towards sinful humans is a type of the love and generosity exhibited by Boaz towards Ruth.
We are told that Boaz was a righteous man who kept the law (Ruth 2:20 Ruth 2:20And Naomi said to her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said to her, The man is near of kin to us, one of our next kinsmen.
American King James Version×, 9, 11-12; 3:9, 12). But there were others who did not. Boaz encourages Ruth to continue gleaning (according to the law in Leviticus 19:9 Leviticus 19:9And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
American King James Version×) but acknowledges the dangers for a young woman to do so on her own in some fields (Ruth 2:8 Ruth 2:8Then said Boaz to Ruth, Hear you not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:
American King James Version×). Bethlehem appears to have been an exceptional town, considering the chaotic period of the Judges—generally characterized by idolatry, syncretism (mixing of paganism with true faith), social injustice, intertribal rivalries and sexual immorality. However, the way the people of Bethlehem greeted one another (verse 4) shows a degree of conscious allegiance to God.

God is often portrayed in the role of Israel’s near kinsman, because He is the Creator, Redeemer and Savior of His people.

God is often portrayed in the role of Israel’s near kinsman, because He is the Creator, Redeemer and Savior of His people. Redemption from Egypt was not only an act of purchase but also the action of a kinsman moved by love. God told the Israelites, “I have remembered My covenant [with Abraham]… I am the LORD; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem [gaal] you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. I will take you as My people, and I will be your God” (Exodus 6:5-7 Exodus 6:5-75 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. 6 Why say to the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: 7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, which brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
American King James Version×).
When Israel became God’s by redemption as well as by creation, they could trust Him to deliver them in the future. Believers today can also count on God. As our Redeemer, He has made us His own and will act to deliver us.
The near kinsman had to be a blood relative, and Christ became our Brother by the virgin birth to become a human being. The kinsman had to have the money to purchase the forfeited inheritance (Ruth 4:9 Ruth 4:9And Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, of the hand of Naomi.
American King James Version×). Christ alone has the worth to pay the price for sinners. The kinsman had to be willing to buy back the forfeited inheritance (verse 6), even as Christ laid down His life of His own free will. The kinsman also had to be willing to marry the wife of his deceased relative (verse 10), a type of the bride-and-groom relationship between Christ and the Church.

The Day of Pentecost

From this standpoint, the four brief chapters of Ruth are most instructive concerning the redemptive and saving work of Jesus.
God’s Spirit has been available from that first Pentecost after Christ’s resurrection to all who truly repent and are baptized (Acts 21:1 Acts 21:1And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we came with a straight course to Coos, and the day following to Rhodes, and from there to Patara:
American King James Version×, 38-39). The Day of Pentecost is an annual reminder that God poured out His Spirit to establish His Church, the group of believers redeemed by Christ’s sacrifice and led by His Spirit. With these marvelous truths in mind, a study of the small book of Ruth can be uplift and strengthen us as we think about our “near Kinsman” who acts on our behalf.

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