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On Watch in Washington June 8, 2016 Plain Text PDF Version
House Republicans released their election-year agenda Tuesday....
The last agenda, the House GOP's 2010 Pledge to America, had a decidedly mixed record of success, falling short on vows to repeal Obamacare, balance the budget, freeze hiring of new federal employees, permanently ban taxpayer funding for abortions and enforce sanctions against Iran.
Instead, Republicans settled for half-measures: Lawsuits to try to limit the reach of Obamacare, cuts to Congress' own budget and investigations into Planned Parenthood's funding.
"They made good plans, they didn't make smart pledges. They didn't have the votes, didn't have the president," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum and former director of the Congressional Budget Office.
Republicans are hoping for better success this time as they release their 2016 agenda, dubbed "A Better Way." House Speaker Paul D. Ryan will kick things off Tuesday with an anti-poverty address in the Anacostia neighborhood of the District of Columbia.
Mr. Ryan will discuss national security on Thursday, followed by events in the coming weeks on innovation, the Constitution, tax reform and health care, which should include the GOP's long-awaited replacement to Obamacare.
"I think what Ryan's doing is very important," said former Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose 1994 agenda, the "Contract with America," helped Republicans retake the House after decades in the minority. "He's helping start a conversation about solutions rather than just problems. And he is putting the Republican Party in a position of being positive and forward-looking, rather than being 'anti-.'"
The push comes nearly six years after the GOP unveiled its Pledge to America at a family-owned lumber company in Northern Virginia.
In 45 pages Republicans outlined what they would do after riding a tea party wave to the House majority, from cutting taxes to spur the economy to repealing Obamacare and ensuring that suspected terrorists were tried in military, not civilian, courts.
"We recognize that these solutions are ambitious, and that we are proposing them at a time of intense public district in politicians and the political system," its drafters wrote at the time.
House Republicans rode the pledge to victory, taking control of the House on the strength of the tea party revolt.
And in the early going, in 2011, conservatives said the signs were positive. GOP leaders had an Obamacare repeal bill on the floor by mid-January, and they pushed to rein in spending after a series of government bailouts and D.C. directives to lift the country out of a recession.
Congress also quickly passed a bill to repeal Obamacare tax-reporting requirements, and approved a short extension of all of the Bush-era tax cuts.
"There was an active effort to take on President Obama and secure conservative policy victories. The problem is, beyond that point, they seemed to retrench and shy away from direct confrontation," said Dan Holler, a spokesman for Heritage Action, a conservative pressure group.
Yet 2011 "sequester" caps on federal spending have been loosened repeatedly, and the GOP's pledge to cut off Obamacare funding yielded mixed results — a wholesale push led to a government shutdown in 2013, though a piecemeal attack on reimbursements to insurers resulted in a federal court victory last month.
Republicans retook the Senate in 2015, but the party still struggled to exact conservative victories, as Mr. Obama vetoed a fast-track bill to repeal his signature health care law and defund Planned Parenthood over its abortion practice.
Conservatives say Republican leaders in Congress failed to use the tool the Constitution gives them — the power of the purse — to force concessions from the president.
"There was never any real effort to defund Planned Parenthood," Mr. Holler said. "The real effort would have happened on the funding bill."
Other 2010 pledges left unfulfilled were to rein in Mr. Obama's expansive regulations on U.S. businesses and to make all of the Bush-era tax cuts permanent.
By contrast, the 1994 Republican "Contract with America," spearheaded by Mr. Gingrich, led to a series of balanced budgets and even prodded President Bill Clinton into signing an overhaul of welfare.
Mr. Gingrich, however, cautioned against comparing the 2010 pledges to the 1994 contract, saying Republicans now are working in the shadow of the Obama presidency, without the tools to rein him in.
Now Mr. Ryan, who accepted the speaker's gavel after intraparty fighting nudged Speaker John A. Boehner out last fall, wants to enter the post-Obama era as the "party of ideas."
"Let's face it: People know what Republicans are against. Now we are giving you a plan that shows you what we are for," the speaker said over the weekend.
Mr. Ryan said he endorsed Donald Trump, the de facto GOP presidential nominee, last week because the billionaire businessman would help turn the House policy agenda into "laws to help improve people's lives."
But Mr. Ryan has advanced his agenda independently of Mr. Trump, and analysts like Mr. Holtz-Eakin say it should give down-ballot Republicans a platform to stand on outside of Mr. Trump's orbit. (Contributor: By Tom Howell Jr. for The Washington Times)
Since its inception more than 40 years ago, IFA has encouraged non-political prayer and fervent intercession for our nation. From 1976, we have prayerfully participated in 10 presidential election cycles, and we have never violated our mandate. Politically, things are murky in our nation just now, and spiritually confused. Intercessors, keep praying for God's glory and purpose to prevail.
"As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him. For who is God, except the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God?" (Ps. 18:30-31)
Socialism always triggers a downward spiral.
The U.S. economy has been going nowhere for seven years, and there are increasing fears that it is going into a recession with only 38,000 jobs being created last month. At the same time, Venezuela, the country with the largest oil reserves on the planet, is sinking into economic chaos. None of this need happen. The disease is the same — only the fever is higher in Venezuela.
Politicians, at least going back to ancient Rome (with its bread and circuses), quickly understood that they could buy temporary support from the people if they were promised "free stuff." As Margaret Thatcher famously said: "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." The Obama administration, realizing it could not get major tax and spending proposals through Congress, resorted to sleight of hand by lying about the true costs of many of their programs, notably Obamacare. They also used various regulations to enhance their control over the economy without doing serious cost-benefit analysis, which has resulted in a massive misallocation of resources. Some estimates now show the costs of regulations have exceeded the cost of the tax system. And perhaps most destructive of all, they followed near-zero interest rate policies (in part to disguise the true cost of the government debt) that hit savers with what is, in effect, a huge tax increase to finance this scheme. A saver who used to expect perhaps 3 percent on savings, above the rate of inflation, now receives less than the rate of inflation (which is the same as a tax increase). This again has resulted in a massive misallocation of resources from productive to less- or non-productive activities that destroy economic growth and job creation.
The amazing and disappointing fact is that every student or even casual observer of socialism knows that it always fails because it destroys the incentives for hard work, creativity and initiative. Most countries that have tried it end up as thuggish places because more and more coercion is required to control the people. Sixty years ago, Cuba and Venezuela were the richest counties on the Caribbean and were only exceeded by Argentina in per capita income in Latin America.
During the past 60 years, the United States has had real growth of about 3 percent per year — respectable but not spectacular. Poorer developing countries normally grow at a faster rate until their per capita incomes begin to reach the levels of the rich countries, at which point growth tends to slow. The accompanying table contains data of several countries that undertook very different economic policies. The numbers show their per capita income change relative to that of the United States over the 60-year period. Chile, for example, had a per-capita income of only about 23 percent of the U.S. back in 1955, but now has a per-capita income of about 42 percent. For the first half of the period, Chile did not have a coherent set of economic policies, including several years of Marxist economics, and actually became poorer relative to the U.S. But for the last 30 years, Chile has embraced free-market policies within the rule of law, protection of private property and free trade, causing it to grow much faster than the U.S.
Cuba, the darling of the left, has become relatively poorer compared to the United States and almost all of Latin America, with a total loss of civil liberties. And the many naive swallow the Kool-Aid and overlook the continuing disaster. Sixty years ago, South Korea by contrast was desperately poor, much poorer than Cuba or Venezuela, but now is a rich country with a per-capita income 65 percent of the U.S. This miracle was achieved by embracing free-market economics.
Sweden and Switzerland were both high-income developed countries 60 years ago, but while Sweden built a comprehensive welfare state, Switzerland maintained a smaller government approach. The Swedish model ran into difficulty in the 1980s and 1990s, so the level-headed Swedes partially reversed course by reducing tax rates and the relative size of government, including instituting a voucher system for education and Chilean-like largely private social security system, which enabled them to grow again. The smaller government Swiss model worked even better, allowing them to overtake the U.S. in per capita income.
And finally back to Venezuela, which grew rapidly on the basis of oil revenues, and by 1978 per capita incomes were almost 70 percent of those in the United States. But as a result of welfare statism and socialism, its relative incomes are back where they were 60 years ago, the stores are empty and people are hungry.
Socialism has at least a two-century unblemished record of untold human misery. Yet in the eyes of all too many, including much of the press, the romance of the idea dwarfs the reality. Prosperity and freedom can only flourish when the majority stands up to those who advocate the childlike fantasy of socialism. (Contributor: By Richard W. Rahn for The Washington Times - Richard W. Rahn is on the board of the American Council for Capital Formation and is chairman of Improbable Success Productions.)
Read again the first sentence of the article's final paragraph: "Socialism has at least a two-century record of untold human misery." It is clear from history that socialism serves its leaders but makes slaves out of the general population. It breeds dictators rather than leaders who serve. It rises from ignorance of God's Word. Pray for a resurgence of godly servant-leaders in the Church.
"Jesus called them together and said, 'You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.'" (Mt. 20:25-28 NIV)
Some believe that soon after Tuesday's final presidential primaries the FBI will interview Hillary Clinton about her handling of emails while she was secretary of state. What comes next is the subject of much speculation.
One of the better speculators is Bradley Blakeman, who served as a member of President George W. Bush's White House staff.
We spoke in the "green room" at Fox News before our separate interviews. The following is culled from our conversation.
Blakeman says the FBI has deliberately waited to interview Hillary Clinton until after the primaries because the bureau did not want to interfere with the nominating process. He thinks the FBI is "likely" to recommend to the Department of Justice whether or not she should be indicted for violating what she says are agency rules and what others call the law between now and the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, which begins July 25.
If she is indicted before the convention, Blakeman says, it will give the party an opportunity to make changes in the rules that could result in an alternate nominee.
Here is the intriguing part about Blakeman's scenario: "If a grand jury is empaneled, or if she were to be indicted before the convention, the Democrats would have to let her go." If an indictment were to come after the convention, he says, it presents a different problem because each state needs to certify their ballots before November. If an indictment occurs after the states have certified their ballots, it would be nearly impossible to replace Hillary Clinton with another candidate.
Here's where things might get even more interesting. In states where ballots have been certified, the party would have to go to court to ask that Clinton's name be replaced. "They also have another problem," says Blakeman. "Once the convention ends, how do they reconvene to substitute Hillary? They have no rules for that."
What if a court denies a ballot change? Blakeman says the Supreme Court would almost certainly have to decide. That might look to many like a replay of the 2000 election in which the court certified Florida's vote count, awarding the state's electoral votes -- and the election -- to George W. Bush.
But what if the court -- with its one vacancy -- divides 4-4? In that case, the lower court ruling would prevail and if that court decided to strike Hillary Clinton's name from the ballot, a write-in would be the only option.
"Timing is not on Hillary's side," says Blakeman, who thinks "the silver lining for Hillary is that, if she were indicted, there is no doubt Obama would pardon her on January 19 as he walks out the door. She will never have to answer for her crimes."
What about any others who might be indicted, such as top aides Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills? If they are indicted, but not pardoned by the president, will they go public? It's the stuff of big book contracts.
Should any of these scenarios prove true, as Blakeman thinks they might, President Obama, unlike President Ford and his pardon of Richard Nixon, will never have to face the voters and be held accountable for his action.
In this unpredictable election season, any one -- or all -- of these scenarios are possibilities, including the ultimate scenario: the delegates turning to Vice President Joe Biden to save them from Hillary and defeat in November. (Contributor: By Cal Thomas for Town Hall)
IFA's ministry is not speculative. We use these news articles to encourage prayer that God will fulfill His purposes for our nation through His providential guidance among the "players" on the national stage. Rees Howells, intercessor of the last century, said, "Man's extremity is God's opportunity." Pray for a "great awakening" in the Church to lead the nation back to God.
"Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear." (Isa. 59:1-2)
"Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman stays awake in vain." (Psa. 127:1) In this season of fervent political activity, Christians need to keep these words firmly in mind. God will decide who becomes president of the United States, as well as who succeeds in obtaining other offices. It is His universe, His power, and His right (Daniel 2:21).
But He will decide based upon our prayers – their fervency, frequency, and the number of those who care enough to pray. Scriptures that attest to this are Isa 62:6-9 and James 5:16-18. Does God, who is no respecter of persons (Acts 10:34-35), care more for Jerusalem than for the United States wherein there are a thousand times as many Christians?
Satan attacked this country viciously in 1960 when he put in the heart of professional atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair the idea of removing God from every public school in our country. The U.S. Supreme Court was likewise influenced; God was ordered out and He left. Look at our public schools today, and much of the fruit of them. The attack continues because for nearly two centuries the United States was the engine of salvation for the world, giving more money and sending more missionaries than all the rest of the nations in the world combined. Destroy America and that effort may cease so that millions who might otherwise have heard the Gospel face entering the lake of fire rather than the joy of the Lord. "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" (Psa. 11:3). This is no accident, what is happening to our country today. This is war.
It is hard to believe that God's perfect will is to destroy us. But our prayers will determine the outcome. If we are indifferent, God may conclude that we haven't been chastened enough. If we are united, fervent, and consistent in seeking His will, He may be pleased to deliver us. In the latter case, if further destruction be our lot, we will at least know that we sought righteous government consistent with His will. We can be confident that He will say to us regarding this, "Well done." (Contributor: By Jim Kohlmann, IFA Florida State Director)
"Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman stays awake in vain." (Psa. 127:1)
Russia has stepped up its submarine operations and is regularly probing U.S. anti-submarine networks in a new "Battle of the Atlantic," the commander of U.S. 6th Fleet said.
In an article for the U.S. Naval Institute's June issue of Proceedings, Vice Adm. James Foggo III outlined a new era in U.S. and Russian submarine warfare he dubs "The Fourth Battle of the Atlantic."
In his piece, Foggo compares the current uptick in Russian submarine posture to the great submarine battles between the Allies and the Germans in World War I and World War II and the Soviets and the U.S. during the Cold War.
"Once again, an effective, skilled, and technologically advanced Russian submarine force is challenging us. Russian submarines are prowling the Atlantic, testing our defenses, confronting our command of the seas, and preparing the complex underwater battlespace to give them an edge in any future conflict," Foggo wrote.
"Not only have Russia's actions and capabilities increased in alarming and confrontational ways, its national-security policy is aimed at challenging the United States and its NATO allies and partners."
Since the Russian seizure of Crimea in 2014, Russian Navy surface ships, aircraft and submarines have been much more active in presence operations – particularly the submarines.
Russian officials have been open about increased submarine operations over the last two years. Russian Navy head Adm. Viktor Chirkov said in March of 2015 that submarines operations have increased by 50 percent.
"This is logical and necessary to guarantee the security of the state," he said at the time in Russian state-controlled press.
While Russian surface ships and aircraft trail behind their U.S. equivalents technologically, Russia has maintained a strong submarine industrial base since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In late 2014, the U.S. officer in charge of the U.S. submarine construction told a conference he was so impressed with the Russian Navy's new Yassen-class attack submarine he had a model built of the first-in-class attack boat K-329 Severodvinsk.
"We'll be facing tough potential opponents. One only has to look at the Severodvinsk, Russia's version of a [nuclear-guided missile submarine] (SSGN)," then-Program Executive Office submarines Vice Adm. Dave Johnson said at the time.
"I am so impressed with this ship that I had [the Navy] build a model from unclassified data."
In addition to nuclear submarines, the Russians are improving the technological capability of their diesel-electric submarines, including the ability for Russian Kilos to launch long-range Kalibir NK cruise missiles.
"These are the platforms that are the most challenging for us to deal with because of their inherent stealth," Foggo wrote.
"As demonstrated last December by Kalibr launches into Syria from the Eastern Mediterranean, Russian leaders will use such weapons at will, without the same qualms we have about collateral damage."
All told, Foggo outlines an "arc of steel" of Russian submarine strength from the Arctic to the Black Sea.
"Combined with extensive and frequent submarine patrols throughout the North Atlantic and the Norwegian Sea, and forward-deployed forces in Syria, Russia has the capability to hold nearly all NATO maritime forces at risk," he wrote. (Contributor: By Sam LaGrone for USNI News - Sam LaGrone is the editor of USNI News. He was formerly the U.S. Maritime Correspondent for the Washington D.C. bureau of Jane's Defence Weekly and Jane's Navy International. He has covered legislation, acquisition and operations for the Sea Services and spent time underway with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and the Canadian Navy.)
An old hymn reminds us, "Nations may rise and nations fall; Thy changeless purpose rules them all." Is God lining up the nations toward the "final conflict"? Only He knows. Our calling is to spiritual warfare, principally, the ministry of intercession. "Watch and pray," our Lord said, and the Apostle Paul wrote, "Praying always, with all prayer and supplication …" If we obey, we will be ready.
"Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—" (Eph. 6:14-18)
At least 11 U.S. troops have been infected with the Zika virus since January, nearly all of whom traveled to countries where the mosquito-born illness is prevalent, a Pentagon health report published Friday disclosed.
In addition, four dependents of servicemembers — which can include spouses and children — and two military retirees contracted the illness, according to the report. It underscored the risks to military personnel of child-bearing age exposed to the virus during deployments.
A fetus infected with the Zika virus during the first three months of pregnancy has about a 1% to 13% chance of developing microcephaly, an abnormally small head usually caused by incomplete brain development, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Among the 17 infected are four women, though none were pregnant, said Dr. Jose Sanchez, deputy chief of Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch.
Troops suffering from the Zika were four soldiers, three Airmen, a Marine and three members of the Coast Guard, according to Sanchez. The first confirmed case was diagnosed in late January, the report said.
Fifteen of the 17 had traveled to South America or the Caribbean. They included four who visited Columbia, three who went to the Dominican Republic and three who visited Puerto Rico. One person had traveled to Brazil, which is dealing with a Zika epidemic.
"It is a fair assumption that the military is at higher risk for mosquito-borne infections," said Amesh Adalja, a senior associate the Center for Health Security at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "The military is stationed all over the world and often have prolonged outdoor exposure, enhancing the likelihood they will be bitten."
The military should make sure that servicemembers and their families "are made completely aware of the risks and the measures required to protect themselves from both mosquito and sexual transmission," Adalja said. "Mosquito repellents for troops in active Zika zones will be essential, as will minimizing standing water mosquito breeding sites on military bases.
The Pentagon this year ordered heightened monitoring for certain mosquito species at military installations in 27 states and the District of Columbia in response to the Zika virus crisis, according to Military Times. The Pentagon called for monitoring, trapping, testing and eliminating water sources as breeding grounds, the newspaper reported.
The Pentagon also offered to relocate family members of active-duty personnel and civilian Defense Department employees assigned to regions at higher risk for infecting people with the virus, Military Times reported.
More than 600 people in the continental U.S. have been infected with Zika, including 195 pregnant women. All of those cases were related to travel. More than 1,100 cases of Zika, including 146 involving pregnant women, have been detected in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the disease is spreading among local mosquitoes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The true number of Zika cases could be much higher. Only about 20% of people infected with Zika have symptoms, which can include fever, rash, joint pain, pink eye and headache.
Zika is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito species, found in much of the southern U.S., as well as the Americas, Africa and Asia. Scientists say it's possible that Zika also may be spread by the Aedes albopictus, whose range stretches as far north as New England, according to the CDC.
The people at highest risk from the Zika virus are pregnant women because the virus can cause devastating birth defects in fetuses, according to CDC director Thomas Frieden. The CDC encourages pregnant women to avoid traveling to areas with Zika outbreaks.
Infected men also can spread Zika through vaginal, oral or anal sex, according to the CDC. It's not known if infected women can pass the virus to men.
The CDC has issued guidance to help reduce the risk of sexual transmission.
If a man has had a possible Zika exposure and has a pregnant partner, he should wear condoms or abstain from sex for the duration of the woman's pregnancy, according to the CDC.
If a man has had symptoms of Zika, he should consider using condoms or abstaining from sex for six months, according to the CDC.
Men who have traveled to a Zika-affected area, but who have not had symptoms, should consider using condoms or abstaining from sex for eight weeks, according to the CDC.
Women who've traveled to Zika-affected areas should delay trying to get pregnant until eight weeks after their symptoms start; if they don't have symptoms, they should avoid trying to conceive for eight weeks after being exposed. (Contributor: By Greg Zoroya and Liz Szabo for USA Today)
While we have no explanation or analysis as to why this plague-like epidemic is spreading from Brazil to other nations, including our own, we do know from Scripture and history that God is in control and has used such events to draw entire people-groups to Himself. We can pray for healing and for God's mercy in giving science researchers a vaccine. And our U.S. military always needs our prayers.
"As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, The Lord has established His throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all." (Ps. 103:13-18)
A smuggling network has managed to sneak illegal immigrants from Middle Eastern terrorism hotbeds straight to the doorstep of the U.S., including helping one Afghan who authorities say was part of an attack plot in North America.
Immigration officials have identified at least a dozen Middle Eastern men smuggled into the Western Hemisphere by a Brazilian-based network that connected them with Mexicans who guided them to the U.S. border, according to internal government documents reviewed by The Washington Times.
Those smuggled included Palestinians, Pakistanis and the Afghan man who Homeland Security officials said had family ties to the Taliban and was "involved in a plot to conduct an attack in the U.S. and/or Canada." He is in custody, but The Times is withholding his name at the request of law enforcement to protect investigations.
Some of the men handled by the smuggling network were nabbed before they reached the U.S., but others made it into the country. The Afghan man was part of a group of six from "special-interest countries."
The group, guided by two Mexicans employed by the smuggling network, crawled under the border fence in Arizona late last year and made it about 15 miles north before being detected by border surveillance, according to the documents, which were obtained by Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican.
Law enforcement asked The Times to withhold the name of the smuggling network.
It's unclear whether the network succeeded in sneaking other "special interest" illegal immigrants by border officials, but the documents obtained by Mr. Hunter confirm fears of a pipeline that can get would-be illegal immigrants from terrorist hotbeds to the threshold of the U.S.
Just as troubling, the Border Patrol didn't immediately spot the Afghan man's terrorist ties because the database that agents first checked didn't list him. It wasn't until agents checked an FBI database that they learned the Afghan may be a danger, the documents say.
"It's disturbing, in so many ways," said Joe Kasper, Mr. Hunter's chief of staff. "The interdiction of this group … validates once again that the southern border is wide open to more than people looking to enter the U.S. illegally strictly for purposes of looking for work, as the administration wants us to believe. What's worse, federal databases weren't even synced and Border Patrol had no idea who they were arresting and the group was not considered a problem because none of them were considered a priority under the president's enforcement protocol. That's a major problem on its own, and it calls for DHS to figure out the problem — and fast."
Mr. Hunter wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson this week demanding answers about the breakdowns in the process.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the chief agency charged with sniffing out smuggling networks, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which oversees the Border Patrol and initially failed to find the terrorist connections, declined to comment. Homeland Security, which oversees both agencies, didn't provide an answer either.
The group of six men nabbed inside the U.S. — the Afghan and five men identified as Pakistanis — all made asylum claims when they were eventually caught by the Border Patrol. Mr. Hunter said his understanding is that the five men from Pakistan were released based on those claims and have disappeared.
The government documents reviewed by The Times didn't say how much the smugglers charged but did detail some of their operation.
Would-be illegal immigrants were first identified by a contact in the Middle East, who reported them to the smuggling network in Brazil. That network then arranged their travel up South America and through Central America, where some of them were nabbed by U.S. allies.
In the case of the Afghan man with terrorist ties, he was smuggled from Brazil through Peru, then Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico.
He was caught near a ranch 15 miles into the U.S. after his group's movements were detected by one of the Border Patrol's trucks. He told agents his group had crawled under the border fence near Nogales.
In the documents obtained by Mr. Hunter, Homeland Security officials said they considered the case a victory because it showed how they can use apprehensions on the southwest border to trace smuggling networks back to their sources.
But the documents had worrying signs as well. When agents first ran the man through the Terrorist Screening Database, he didn't show up as a danger. Indeed, KNXV-TV in Arizona reported in November that authorities said "records checks revealed no derogatory information about the individuals."
That turns out not to be true, according to the documents. The Afghan man was listed in the FBI's Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment database as having suspect relations.
Mr. Hunter told Mr. Johnson that the discrepancy between the databases was troubling.
The government documents also said some of the special-interest aliens caught at the border were previously identified by authorities in other Latin American countries — but had different sets of biometric identifiers associated with them. That raised questions about whether those countries are sharing accurate information with the U.S.
Networks capable of smuggling potential terrorists have long been a concern, but the Obama administration tamped down those worries, arguing that the southwest border wasn't a likely route for operatives.
Still, evidence has mounted over the past couple of years, including a smuggling ring that sneaked four Turkish men with ties to a U.S.-designated terrorist group into the U.S. in 2014. They paid $8,000 apiece to be smuggled from Istanbul through Paris to Mexico City, where they were stashed in safe houses before being smuggled to the border.
At the time, Mr. Johnson said the men were part of a group fighting the Islamic State and questioned whether they should have even been designated as part of a terrorist group.
But behind the scenes Mr. Johnson's agents were at work trying to roll up smuggling rings under an action dubbed Operation Citadel.
Lev Kubiak, assistant director at ICE Homeland Security Investigations' international operations branch, testified to Congress this year that Operation Citadel resulted in 210 criminal arrests in 2015. One part of the effort, known as Operation Lucero, dismantled 14 human smuggling routes, including some operations designed to move people from the Eastern Hemisphere to Latin America and then into the U.S., he said. (Contributor: By Stephen Dinan for The Washington Times)
Most of us know the meaning of "waiting for the other shoe to drop." In this case, we can either give thanks for an apprehended terrorist or be concerned that he wasn't caught sooner. Meanwhile, our beloved nation limps from crisis to crisis because it is broken and weighed down by corporate sin (abortion), a flagging economy (few new jobs), and increasing deficits. Where to turn but to God?
"Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness." (Lam. 3:22-23)


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Wally K. Daly (born 13 November 1940 in Grangetown, Middlesbrough[1]) is an English writer for television and radio and one-time chairman of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.
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- Butterflies Don't Count (Play for Today), 1978, ISBN 978-0-413-45660-1
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- Love Without Hope (Byker Grove), 1991, ISBN 978-0-563-36261-6
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Over the last two weeks we've logged as many trips to Germany and visited the Audi Forum Ingolstadt on four separate days. Beyond the gratuitous FourSquare mayorships we've netted at Audi's world HQ , the real thing we learned was just how much to see and experience there is going on in and around Audi's grand piazza on any given day.
IAmAudi.com's post earlier this week of a gallery from the Audi Forum Ingolstadt reminded us we'd been sitting on a stash of photos from a visit we'd made ourselves back in November. Like IAmAudi and probably like every other hardcore Audi enthusiast who goes, there are a few must-see spots including billed visitor destinations such as the Museum Mobile, Museum


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BENTON - James Louis LeDure, 71, died at 12:58 p.m. Aug. 10, 2006, at Washington County Memorial Hospital in Potosi.
Born Feb. 26, 1935, in Cape Girardeau, son of the late Louis C. "Clemen" and Lucille Irene Schaefer LeDure, he was a member of the St. Denis Catholic Church in Benton.
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Now that most of us are entering our official full-term week I thought we could share some natural ways to induce labor. Please share what advice you've been given to naturally induce, and what has worked or hasn't worked for you in the past!
Now that most of us are entering our official full-term week I thought we could share some natural ways to induce labor. Please share what advice you've been given to naturally induce, and what has worked or hasn't worked for you in the past!
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I've been taking Primrose Oil since 35 weeks.
And walking all the time. And sexing.
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walking, walking, walking...sigh. i think i'm going to start drinking red raspberry leaf tea too..but only after i find out if this lil' stinker is head down or not yet...cause if she isn't, i do NOT want to induce before i get my c-section! :)
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ive been walking and sex. im seriously thinking about the tea.
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I thought the tea just ripened your cervix??? Or does it help induce if your ready...???hmmm
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LOL "and sexing".
sorry no advice. i haven't even started any walking to get things moving along. i think, at least this week, im not mentally ready to accept that im gonna be holding him soon.
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Honestly we can do these things all we want, but our LOs will come when there ready...lol. I'm sure our husbands or SO won't argue though about the "sexing" lol.
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The tea is better in the beginning really. It is meant to strengthen your utureus to hold the baby. But it does help tone the uterus so if you drink it at the end it is supposed to help with getting things back to normal after baby is born.
A natural way to induce labor is by taking blue and/or black cohosh but generally you should ask your doctor first. It is meant to induce contractions and what not so if your baby isnt ready you def should not be taking it! My midwives have been itching to induce ( they wanted to this week but i said no!) so next time I go if they still want to I am going to suggest doing the cohosh to try and induce naturally rather than with pitocin.
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I am just going to let my little one decide when it's time. Not because I have the patience, because I don't.....but I want nothing to do with sex, I can't drink tea, and I don't have time to walk....at least not until next week when I am off of work!
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I'm all for this but I'm not going to start any methods until NEXT week. I'm nowhere near finished with his room and I've gotta finish unpacking all the gifts from the shower... Plus with my little sisters graduation Saturday, I don't want to go into labor at her party... DH will be too drunk to take me to L & D!
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I walked the zoo this wekeend with my son...and man that hilly walk brought on some major contractions...not to mention it was like 103 degreees outside! I have been taking EPO everyday for a week now. I drink the tea occasionally but it's supposed to tone the uterus, not induce labor. More "sexing: lol
I also heard that if you use accupressure or pressure point massage on these 2 spots it can induce labor/contractions:
the webbing in between your thumb and index finger
4 fingerlengths above your inside ankle...which hurts liek a bitch....at least to me
Also try jumpiong on the bed...worked for me!
And off-roading....also helpful. Just Go driving on a SUPER bumpy road
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Czech driver Kopecký is one of 17 ERC runners on the 30-car entry, which marks the first time this season that a significant number of ERC regulars will be in action on the same event.
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Local hero and event promoter Luis Monzón is seeded four in a MINI John Cooper Works RRC with Formula One race winner Robert Kubica the fifth seed for his ERC debut in a Citroën DS3 RRC.
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Eoin Morgan admitted England had a bad day at the office when slipping to defeat in the second NatWest Series one-day international at Emirates Old Trafford.
Following Friday's washout at Headingley, the tourists moved 1-0 up in the five-match rubber with a comfortable 88-run triumph underpinned by Michael Clarke's 105.
England never looked like overhauling Australia's 315 for seven and captain Morgan told ecb.co.uk: "I think we were poor all round if we are honest with ourselves.
"We should have restricted Australia to 40 or 50 (less) with the ball and with the bat we never really got any big partnerships going."
"We've got to show a bit of character, come back fighting (at Edgbaston) on Wednesday and get a win under our belts."
Although England were ultimately well beaten, several positives could be taken.
Boyd Rankin bowled better than figures of 2-49 suggested, while Kevin Pietersen, Morgan and Jos Buttler all contributed half-centuries, the latter doing so for the first time in ODIs.
Morgan added: "The big fella (Rankin) has bowled particularly well since he's come into international cricket and he's impressed everybody. Looking to the future he's certainly going to be one for Test cricket.
"Kev (also) looked in particularly good form. It's very good to watch at the non-striker's end when he makes everything look so easy … and it would have been very exciting to maybe watch him for 10 or 15 overs more."
On Buttler, the skipper continued: "Everyone within England has seen what he is capable of, certainly in a Somerset shirt, and it's great to see him convert it into an England shirt."
Having frequently offered a bright outlook in press conferences during the Investec Ashes as his side suffered a 3-0 defeat, Clarke was notably reserved when addressing the media in more positive circumstances.
Despite expressing satisfaction at the result, Australia's leader was keen to highlight the work that lies ahead after overseeing his first win over England this summer. George Bailey, who hit 82 today, was in charge for last week's T20 win at the Ageas Bowl.
"It is a good start to the series for us. Today's only the start, though. We've got three more really important games and hopefully we can continue to perform the way we have," said Clarke.
"We won't take anything for granted and I don't want to look too far ahead but at the end of the day it's nice to have won a game against England on this tour.
"We've just got to make sure we keep working hard and keep trying to get better because there's no doubt England will get better from today."
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There has been much press regarding the bee colony collapse disorder and its effects on agriculture. As a gardener, I also have been concerned about whether the loss of honeybees would have a direct effect on my garden production. A recent article, Successful Beekeeping with Your Own Honeybees, suggests that backyard gardeners might consider keeping a hive of bees to improve the pollination rates in their own yard and in neighboring gardens.
So, I was pleasantly surprised last week to discover a couple dozen bees noisily collecting on the flowering wild arugula that I let go to seed. I actually went to the garden to cut some zinnias for a new kitchen bouquet and had to lean over the arugula flowers to get to the zinnias. I was suddenly aware that my middle was hovering quite close to the buzzers, who seemed not at all concerned by my proximity.
As I stepped back to better view the whole scene, I discovered there were many honeybees and bumblebees on the zinnias as well as the arugula, plus a number of different kinds of butterflies. How exciting! The existence of these pollinators must be partially responsible for the abundance of cucumbers, tomatoes and green beans in my new garden this summer. I plan to start a flower garden in the backyard next spring and that surely will attract more bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
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Alaska Torn Over Rights to Live Off the Land
By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK
Published: July 12, 1999
KWETHLUK, Alaska— In the clearings along the broad Kuskokwim River where the Yup'ik Eskimos set up what they call their ''fish camps,'' this is a busy time. Families are racing to catch, cut and cure the fish that will last them a year, and salmon turn scarlet as they hang by the hundreds to dry in the early summer sun.
James Nicori and his family were up until 3 the other morning, stringing fish and stoking the alderwood in the smokehouse, not that the time of day matters too much at a point in the season when it does not get dark at all. In August it will be time for gathering berries and wild celery out in the bush. In the fall the men will hunt caribou.
To a remarkable degree, thousands of native people still live off the land here in the Alaskan tundra, taking 90 percent or more of what they eat every year from the great back country, the rivers and the Bering Sea. ''This,'' Mr. Nicori said, beckoning to the Kuskokwim and the vast bush land beyond, ''is our supermarket.''
But 40 years after Alaska became a state, 20 years after land-claim disputes in the oil rush led Congress to give the people known as ''subsistence gatherers'' priority rights to fish and game, and 10 years after the state's highest court declared that protection unconstitutional because such natural bounty was for the ''common use'' of all Alaskans, the debate has reached a crisis point.
Cheering the natives but enraging sportsmen's groups and the state's commercial fishing industry, which are both largely white, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt announced recently that the Federal Government would take over allocation of fishing rights and schedules in federally owned sections of Alaska, nearly two-thirds of the state, on Oct. 1 unless the State Legislature acted. State lawmakers could keep Washington from doing so, Mr. Babbitt said, if they agreed on a constitutional amendment to guarantee a ''subsistence priority'' in times of shortage for those who rely on the land and rivers here for their primary food supply.
But the state's Republican-controlled Legislature has not reached accord on a measure to put before the voters, prompting the Democratic Governor, Tony Knowles, to warn that they could be letting in ''the Trojan horse of Federal management'' in a state that fiercely values its last-frontier style of independence.
In many ways, the debate over Alaska's subsistence culture starkly echoes those elsewhere over affirmative action, creating similar racial tensions. The natives say the issue is their civil rights, while the sportsmen say the natives are demanding ''special rights'' and unfair quotas.
But this fight is not over schools, contracts or employment, but over food and a way of life that in some respects has remained strikingly unchanged for centuries.
''This is not 19th-century history here, some historical injustice we can do nothing about today,'' said George Irvin, policy director for the Alaskan Federation of Natives, which represents the Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts in their battle for subsistence rights. ''These are the last aboriginal Americans still striving to live as they always have, on their homelands. There has to be room in the American system for them to survive.''
To an outsider, the dispute at first seems eminently solvable. After all, the subsistence gatherers take only 2 percent or 3 percent of the state's fish and game harvest a year, and polls show that at least 60 percent of Alaskans favor granting priority rights to such people. And the issue mainly arises in times of scarcity, which come every few years when regulators determine that fish are running low in some rivers or that caribou or moose herds have thinned.
But allocating these rights can be immensely complicated, which partly explains why the Legislature has so far failed, despite years of trying, to resolve the issue.
Who, exactly, should be defined as a subsistence gatherer? Although subsistence is rooted in native cultures, some white people also live off the land, while many natives live in Anchorage and Fairbanks and are just as likely to shop in a supermarket or eat at McDonald's as a nonnative.
Furthermore, insuring subsistence gatherers the ability to carry out a traditional way of life sometimes means, say, closing off rivers for several weeks to everybody else. That not only irritates those who fish as a hobby but possibly makes the difference between profit and loss in the season of a commercial fishing operator.
Beyond the logistical considerations, it is clear that the issue has touched a deep emotional nerve.
That is particularly true for nonwhite Alaskans, or native peoples, as they prefer to call themselves, who were the majority in Alaska into the 1940's but now make up only about 15 percent of the state's population. Many native leaders complain of mistreatment by the white majority, a sentiment clearly in evidence at a rally in Anchorage in May in which native groups pressed for protection of subsistence rights.
''Apartheid is alive and well and it lives in the Arctic, it lives in our schools, and I'm sad to say it lives in the halls of the State Legislature,'' Desa Jacobsson, who is Gwich'in Indian on her mother's side and Yup'ik Eskimo on her father's, told the crowd. Ms. Jacobsson, who ran unsuccessfully for Governor last year as the Green Party candidate, was jailed briefly several years ago after a subsistence fishing protest.
But strong emotions are also felt by many whites, whose numbers swelled from migration in the oil rush of the 1970's, but also include many who were born here and feel they, too, are natives.


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Officials say the recession's continued impact on the state education budget will force a second year of across-the-board cuts. But it's unclear what the size of those cuts would be.
State Superintendent of Education Joe Morton is forecasting 6 percent. Teacher lobbyist Paul Hubbert says 4.5 to 5.5 percent. And two-year college leader Joan Davis is telling colleges to prepare for 8.5 percent to 10 percent.
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