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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Suicide by "Conservatism"</span></u></b></div>
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<li><u><b><span style="color: blue;">The Death of the West</span></b></u>
 - 75% of French voters opposed the anti-immigration Nation Front Party 
in elections Sunday.  Right of center voters knee-jerked and supported 
the open borders "Conservatives" of the UPM.</li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">Both the Socialists and former "Conservative" UMP President Nicolas Sarkozy </span><span style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="background-color: white;">called for a “mobilization” of voters next week to defeat the anti-immigration National Front.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">The Islamization of Europe goes on and on.</span></li>
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<br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">(<i>New York Times</i>)
  -  French voters turned toward right-leaning parties in local 
elections held Sunday across the country, signaling their disappointment
 and frustration with </span>France<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">’s governing Socialist Party.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However,
 they did not appear to flock in droves to the far-right party, the 
National Front, although it appeared to make a stronger showing than in 
any previous local elections, according to exit polls and some early 
returns on the Interior Ministry’s election website.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“This
 is the first layer of the 2017 presidential election,” said Michaël 
Darmon, the chief political editor at the news network i-Télé.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><span style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></span><span style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Exit polls showed the mainstream conservative party, <b><u>the Union for a Popular Movement, and allied center-right parties taking about <span style="color: red;">30</span> percent of the vote and the National Front about <span style="color: red;">25</span> percent. About <span style="color: red;">20</span> percent went to the Socialists</u></b></span><span style="background-color: white;">, while other left-leaning parties had far smaller numbers.</span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If
 those figures prove accurate once complete returns are in, they will 
mean that the National Front advanced considerably from the 15 percent 
it received in the first round of similar local elections in 2011 and 
that the Socialists lost ground, dropping from 25 percent in 2011.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">Voters on Sunday chose 4,108 representatives on local councils in </span>France<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">’s
 101 departments, which are administrative subdivisions somewhere 
between a state and a county but with relatively little power in the 
highly centralized French government. Parties could put forward a 
two-person ticket; if no team received more than 50 percent of the 
ballots, the top pairs in each district will head to a runoff next 
Sunday.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Leaders
 from each of the three main parties claimed a victory of sorts. Prime 
Minister Manuel Valls, a Socialist, said that even if the Socialists did
 not do well, the total number of voters who cast a ballot for 
left-leaning parties was the same as those on the right.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Mr. Valls and former President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was recently elected to lead the Union for a Popular Movement, or the UMP, </span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u>called for a “mobilization” of voters next week to defeat the National Front.</u></b></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><span style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Mr.
 Sarkozy stopped short of calling on voters to support Socialist 
candidates in the runoffs in order to stop a National Front candidate 
from winning. In contrast, Mr. Valls said </span><span style="background-color: white;">voters should vote for anyone who was running against the National Front. He also <i>implored left-leaning voters</i> to band together “and adopt a clear position against the extreme right.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Before
 the election, many analysts noted that while the conservative and 
center-right parties had managed to form coalitions, the left remained 
fractured. Some French analysts also saw the Socialists’ losses as a 
referendum on the presidency of François Hollande, who has been unable 
to make significant progress on promises to improve the economy, reduce 
unemployment and overhaul the system of social benefits to make them 
more sustainable.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">The National Front, once seen as a fringe party, has </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/world/seeking-new-heights-in-france-national-front-thinks-locally.html" style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;" target="_blank" title="The New York Times, Sept. 30, 2014">sought to broaden its appeal</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"> in
 recent years, seizing on dissatisfaction with Mr. Hollande and the 
economy, disarray within the UMP, and widening resentment of immigrants 
in France. Its leader, Marine Le Pen, projects an image as a pragmatic 
nationalist who is tough, patriotic and accessible.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What
 emerged clearly in this election is the “tripolarization” of the French
 political landscape, said Thomas Guénolé, a political analyst. He 
pointed to the development of three distinct strands: the mainstream 
right and left parties, both contending with internal troubles, and the 
National Front, which has gained ground over the last few elections.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nearly
 half of France’s eligible voters cast their ballots on Sunday. It is 
difficult to get a clear sense of voters’ bottom line, however, until 
after the runoffs. While the National Front historically does well in 
the first round of voting, it has not in the past been able to maintain 
that momentum into the second round. Although it will be a contender, 
few people believe it will even win enough seats to control any 
department in France.</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/23/world/europe/frances-conservative-parties-show-strength-in-local-elections.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Read More . . . . </a><br /><br /></div>
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Open Borders "Conservatives" Win Election

Anti-immigration National Front leader Marine Le Pen Suicide by "Conservatism" The Death of the West - 75% of F...

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US-Trained Militias Far More Terrifying than Taliban

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<li>Neither the Russians nor the Americans ever had enough troops to 
truly control Afghanistan.  To make up for the lack of manpower we now 
see U.S. backed thug-like militias to enforce their own brand of "Law 
& Order".  That will really make the locals love America.</li>
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KABUL, Afghanistan (<i>New York Times</i>)  —  Rahimullah used to be a 
farmer — just a “normal person living an ordinary life,” as he put it. 
Then he formed his own militia last year and found himself swept up in 
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With about 20 men loyal to him, Rahimullah, 56, soon discovered a patron
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 rifles, ammunition, cash, even sandbags for a guard post in Aghu Jan, a
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Then the Americans pulled out, leaving Rahimullah behind as the local 
strongman, and as his village’s only defense against a Taliban takeover.<br />
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<b><u>“We are shivering with fear,”</u></b></span>
 said one resident, Abdul Ahad. Then he explained: He and his neighbors 
did not fear the Taliban nearly as much as they did their protectors, 
Rahimullah’s militiamen, who have turned to kidnappings and extortion.<br />
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Mr. Ahad ran afoul of them in January, he said in a telephone interview.
 Militiamen hauled him to a guard station and beat him so badly that 
neighbors had to use a wheelbarrow to get him home.<br />
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Scattered across Afghanistan, men like Rahimullah continue to hold 
ground and rule villages. They are a significant part of the legacy of 
the American war here, brought to power amid a Special Operations 
counterinsurgency strategy that mobilized anti-Taliban militias in areas
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From the start, some Afghan officials, including former President Hamid 
Karzai, objected to the Americans’ practice of forming militias that did
 not answer directly to the Afghan government. They saw the militias as 
destabilizing forces that undermined the government’s authority and 
competed with efforts to build up large and professional military and 
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Now, many of those concerns have become a daily reality in Afghan villages.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><u>“For God’s sake, take these people away from us,”</u></b></span> Mr. Ahad, 36, said of Rahimullah’s militiamen. “We cannot stand their <b><u><span style="color: red;">brutality</span></u></b>.”<br />
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About 50 miles northeast of Mr. Ahad’s village, other anti-Taliban 
fighters arrested a 13- or 14-year-old boy in January and then killed 
him, the boy’s father said.</div>
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And in the northern province of Kunduz, men in a militia that had 
received American support raped a 15-year-old boy last year after 
forcing him to join, according to a United Nations inquiry.<br />
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From the beginning of the American presence here, the United States 
doled out cash to militias and warlords. Paramilitary forces were raised
 to guard American bases. The C.I.A. trained and funded at least <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/world/asia/21intel.html?_r=2&" target="_blank">six paramilitary </a>forces, with names such as the Khost Protection Force and 0-4, to pursue the Taliban and Al Qaeda.<br />
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The Afghan Local Police program, with nearly <b><u><span style="color: blue;">30,000 Special Forces-trained militiamen</span></u></b>
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Then there are militia groups like Rahimullah’s that have also received 
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In Ghazni Province, the drive to create militias gained momentum after a
 series of anti-Taliban uprisings in 2012 emerged in areas once 
considered lost. Until they pulled out of Ghazni’s districts last year, <span style="background-color: white;"><b><u>American
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vehicles to men who had little or no official connection to the Afghan 
government and were often <span style="color: red;">former insurgents</span> themselves.</u></b></span></div>
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One of them is Abdullah, a militia commander with a chiseled, almost 
gaunt face, who wishes “my brothers,” as he still calls the American 
Special Forces soldiers, had not left late last year. “Whatever they 
wanted me to do, I would do for them,” he said. “If they tell me to kill
 someone, I will kill them.”<br />
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The Americans, he said, had once fought alongside him in Ghazni’s Andar 
district, offering a sense of discipline — not to mention firepower and 
air support.<br />
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Abdullah described the growing desperation and brutality of a war he and
 his 150 men now fight mostly alone against the Taliban. Abdullah said 
11 of his men were killed in their sleep in late January by a Taliban 
infiltrator posing as a new recruit. Then the Taliban followed up with a
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“After they killed my son, they said he was involved in planting bombs 
on roadsides and cooperating with the Taliban fighters,” Mr. Mohammad 
said. But he added that his son had had no involvement with the Taliban.<br />
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Abdullah insisted that he did not kill civilians. The Taliban, he said, not he, were responsible for escalating the brutality.<br />
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Abdullah recalled the Americans lecturing him about the laws of war and 
human rights, but those notions barely seemed to register. He admitted 
to desecrating the bodies of his enemies.<br />
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“Yes, dead bodies are left on the ground,” he said. <b><u><span style="color: blue;">“We drag their dead bodies with a car.”</span></u></b><br />
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“These uprisers, they are like roundworms in your stomach,” said Khial 
Mohammad Hussaini, a tribal elder from Ghazni Province. “They are eating
 everything.”</div>
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Ted Cruz - The Tea Party Opportunity

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<a href="http://articlesoninformation.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">The Tea Party Candidate</span></u></b></span></a></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: white;">There is a reason every nation on earth (except the U.S.) has 
multiple political parties. All societies break down into many different
 factions.  I can't imagine the big government loving, pro wealth 
redistribution GOP nominating a Tea Party candidate for President.  Hell
 would freeze over first.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u>Best case scenario.</u></b> 
 -  I am impressed with Governor Scott Walker who comes to the 
Presidential table with his spine fully intact.  Depending on the 
campaign I can see a possible Walker-Cruz or Walker-Rubio ticket.</span></li>
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(<i>Reason.com</i>)  -  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) just announced that he’s
 running for president at a speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, 
Virginia. He’s the first candidate to make the announcement official in 
the 2016 cycle. Here are five things to know about Cruz and his 
candidacy.<br /><br /><strong>1. He wanted to be the first candidate to announce because he thought it would bring him attention</strong>.
 Being first out of the gate, his campaign hopes, will catch the eye of 
both high-engagement Republican primary voters and the media—and, in the
 process, might slow or stop Gov. Scott Walker’s rapid rise. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/us/politics/ted-cruz-2016-presidential-race.html?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytimes" target="_blank">Via</a><em>The New York Times</em>:</span><blockquote>
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By becoming the first candidate to declare himself officially in the 
race, Republicans briefed on his strategy said, Mr. Cruz hopes to 
reclaim the affection and attention of those on the party’s right wing 
who have begun eyeing other contenders, particularly Gov. Scott Walker 
of Wisconsin. </span></blockquote>
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“It’s the shiny object principle. He wants to be first, get in the 
conversation, not show any doubt or hesitation,” said Dave Carney, a 
longtime Republican strategist. “There’s an advantage to being first. 
He’s now the only one running for president, instead of engaging in this
 Kabuki dance that the others are.”</span></blockquote>
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Of course there’s always a danger to being first, too, which is that by the time the big scrum gets going, you’re old news.<em> </em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><strong>2. <u>He’s targeting tea party conservatives first</u>, social conservatives and libertarians second.</strong> A Houston <em>Chronicle</em><a href="http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/us/article/Ted-Cruz-to-announce-presidential-bid-Monday-6150894.php?t=ec04aca79dc2a96c75&cmpid=twitter-premium" target="_blank">report</a>
 over the weekend sketched out the basic strategy: “Cruz will vie for 
the support of the tea party electorate, his advisers say, but will fare
 well enough with social conservative and libertarian voters to assemble
 a powerful coalition.” The content of the speech, which leaned heavily 
on Cruz’s personal faith, and the location of the announcement, at a 
prominent evangelical college founded by the late Jerry Falwell, make me
 wonder if perhaps he’s targeting social cons as much as tea party 
types—leaving libertarians a distant, lonely second.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><strong>3. He’s practically adored by the GOP’s conservative base.</strong> As Ben Domenech writes in this morning’s <a href="http://bendomenech.com/transom/" target="_blank">Transom</a> newsletter:</span><blockquote>
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Ted Cruz matches up with the activist base better than any other 
significant candidate in a long time. I don’t think people outside of 
that base really understand how powerful Cruz’s appeal is to the 
populist energized conservative voter, which is of course just a faction
 of the right, but is a sizable faction. Cruz’s critics need to hope 
that he is limited to this faction, and incapable of appealing outside 
of it. But that may not prove to be the case, particularly if Cruz is 
able to cut into the appeal of, say, Walker for pro-business types, 
Huckabee for social conservatives, Paul for libertarianish Republicans 
and the like. And he doesn’t just match up with them on policy, he 
matches up with their brashness, their yearning for someone who loves 
the taste of blood in his mouth.</span></blockquote>
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I can vouch for this. I saw Cruz’s speech at the Conservative Political 
Action Conference a few weeks ago, and the crowd ate it up. He was 
speaking their language; it was a rock-concert-like mind-meld between 
speaker and audience. Cruz really connects with these folks, and, 
perhaps just as importantly, he doesn't embarass them like some other 
base-friendly candidates in years past.<br /><br /><b><u>
<strong>4. Cruz is running on a flat ta<span></span>x.</strong>
</u></b> He hasn’t offered a whole lot of details, but he’s said repeatedly that
 he wants to abolish the Internal Revenue Service entirely. And in 
today’s speech, he touted the idea using a familiar pitch, saying his 
goal would be to “let every American fill out his or her taxes on a 
postcard."<br /><br /><strong>5. Cruz is adamantly against ethanol cronyism—even in Iowa.</strong> Cruz has pushed a bill to repeal the Renewable Fuel Standard, and, as Politico’s Morning Energy <a href="http://www.politico.com/morningenergy/" target="_blank">notes</a>, he stood his ground against the RFS in a recent trip to Iowa.</span><blockquote>
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Cruz has co-sponsored legislation that would repeal the Renewable Fuel 
Standard over a period of five years, and when he spoke at an 
agriculture summit in RFS-loving Iowa earlier this month, he stuck to 
his guns. "The answer you'd like me to give is 'I'm for the RFS, darn 
it,'" Cruz responded to Bruce Rastetter, the agribusiness mogul who 
organized the summit. "That'd be the easy thing to do. But people are 
pretty fed up with politicians that run around and tell one group one 
thing and tell another group another thing. Then they go to Washington 
and don't do anything they said they would do."</span></blockquote>
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That’s a real contrast to Scott Walker, <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/09/scott-walker-flip-flops-in-favor-of-fede" target="_blank">who flip-flopped on the issue</a> at a recent Iowa stop. Indeed, Cruz’s clear stance against the federal ethanol mandate makes him somewhat <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/republican-candidates-tiptoe-around-ethanol-subsidies-in-iowa/article/2561208" target="_blank">rare</a> in the GOP field.</span></div>
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