What Will FBI Director James Comey Do With His Clinton Email Milligan

President William Jefferson Clinton was notorious for Mulligans on the golf course. FBI Director Mulligan took a Mulligan Friday with the Clinton emails. We know he received blowback from the FBI agents and Justice Department lawyers who diligently investigated the Clinton emails before he exonerated Secretary Clinton. We know the daily drip of disclosures about the inadequacy of the FBI investigation further reinforces the view that a political fix was at work. FBI Director Comey publicly indicted secretary Clinton on July 5, all but saying she lied on several instances in her statements to the public. However, he refused to indict her, explaining there was insufficient evidence to prosecute Secretary Clinton or her staff for violations of the Espionage Act and closed the file, ignoring possible conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges. He said no evidence of intent was shown (The statute does need intent), but that she was “extremely careless” in handling confidential material. The prosecutorial determination is not in the jurisdiction of the FBI. The FBI can arrest, but not indict or prosecute. Those decisions are for the prosecutors, or the Attorney General herself, in the Department of Justice. How bad was the Clinton investigation once it went up the ladder? Attorney General Lynch met for an hour with President Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac five days before the perfunctory FBI interview with Secretary Clinton. She said they talked about golf, travel, and grandchildren – nothing about retaining her job in the Clinton Administration. The Attorney General has politicized the Department of Justice just as the earlier politicization of the IRS. The FBI interview with secretary Clinton was not under oath, was untaped Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson were granted limited immunity in exchange for turning over their laptops, with the FBI agreeing to subsequently destroy the laptops. The normal procedure would have been a grand jury investigation with a broad issuance of subpoenas. Director Comey fell on his sword for Attorney General Roberta Lynch and President Obama on July 5. He saved the partisan AG from making a blatantly political decision in the heat of the Presidential election. It would have been politically deadly if the President had to pardon Secretary Clinton prior to Election Day. He may still have to do so. The Deputy Director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, did not recuse himself with a major conflict of interest. Terry McAuliffe’s PAC gave $452,000 to his wife’s, Dr. Jill Mcabe, unsuccessful race for a Virginia Senate seat. The Virginia Democratic Party, which he controlled, gave another $207,788 to her campaign. Hillary Clinton headlined a $500,000 fundraiser for Dr. McCabe. All that is perfectly legal. Mr. McCabe was Associate Deputy Director of the FBI at that time. He was promoted last February to Deputy Director, the number 2 in the FBI, and oversaw the Clinton Email investigation. He had a clear conflict of interest. Everyone seems to have ignored the classic maxim: “Not only must justice be done, it must appear to be done.” Director Comey could cloak himself in the credibility and image of the FBI to shield POTUS and the AG. The initial question is why? Three possible answers arise. The first is payback time. We know that Comey prostrated himself before the Obama Administration to get the FBI appointment. Remember the Godfather who asked for a favor to be returned sometime in the future? The chit was called in on the Clinton emails. The second theory is equally troublesome. It became clear early in the FBI investigation that President Obama used a pseudonym to privately communicate with Secretary Clinton through her private, unsecured server. In other words President Obama was equally complicit in the illegal activity. To indict Clinton would implicate the President. The third thesis is practical. You do not indict the President or a Presidential nominee unless you believe you can get a conviction. The odds that a jury in Washington, D.C. would convict a Clinton are exceedingly small. Take your pick Comey was feeling the heat afterwards. He would ignore the WikiLeaks disclosures. He would live with the internal and external blowback. He would let the politicized Department of Justice tamp down any investigation of the Clinton Foundation and the allegations of pay-to-play. He would ignore the inevitable leaks from disgruntled FBI agents. Then came the treasure trove of disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner’s emails along with those of his wife. Thousands and thousands of who knows what. Huma Abedin deleted nothing from her email; no BleachBit for Huma He could not ignore those, or he wished to reacquire a veneer of integrity. He realized that he had contributed to the politicization (or corruption n Donald Trump’s favorite accusation) of corruption in the Justice department and now the FBI. Perhaps he realizes that being further sucked into the muck of the Clintongate Swamp would not be good for his future. He is now receiving the standard Democratic slime attack. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, in his usual manner, is claiming the FBI may be in violation of the Hatch Act. Others are calling Comey’s act of sending the letter as unprofessional. The charge is based on the presupposition that the FBI and Justice Department will not act to interfere with the outcome of the Presidential Campaign. Yet, 4 days before the end of the 1992 Bush-Clinton campaign, a Special Prosecutor who answered to the Justice Department, indicted Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger and indicated President George H. W. Bush was involved in the Iranian Arms for Hostages deal. A judge later dropped the charges. President Clinton would probably have won anyway because President Bush ran a poor campaign, but the indictment cost him votes. . The Clintonisitas continue to spin and misinform. Everything goes back to Russian hacking to rig the United States election. We don’t know who hacked whom, but we now know that John Podesta’s server was compromised because Podesta and his staff fell for a phishing attack apparently from the Ukraine. No matter what the FBI does, or the election results, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not be going to jail. President Obama will pardon her, if necessary. James Comey has his Mulligan. Will he find violations of the Espionage Act, perjury or obstruction of justice, and then do the right act of recommending indictments, or will he fall on his sword again, becoming a complete buffoon and further damaging the image of the FBI.

A Second Letter From Scholars and Writers for America (Trump)

(Sorry about the way the copy and paste came out - Try this link http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/11/01/bill-bennett-f-h-buckley-call-for-gop-unity-and-neverhillary.html) Scholars and Writers for America Statement of Unity We are a group of scholars and writers who support Donald Trump, and who in our previous letter wrote that “given our choices in the presidential election, we believe that Donald Trump is the candidate most likely to restore the promise of America.” We continue to believe this, and today urge opponents of the progressive agenda to put aside any differences and to join with us, as a vote for Donald Trump is the only feasible method of defending the principles of freedom, justice and prosperity we hold in common against the most serious threat we have ever faced, a threat that begins to look like the final defeat of republican government, and the permanent decline of the country we love. Constitutional Governance. Under Obama we have departed from the Founders’ constitution of separation of powers towards one-man rule by the president. With Mrs. Clinton, we’d expect to see an even greater slide towards an all-powerful presidency, and the judges she would appoint could be expected to bless the attendant threat to political liberty. By contrast, Donald Trump has pledged to appoint judges in the mold of Justice Scalia, and his agenda for change is importantly a legislative one. We expect he would work with Congress, as the Founders intended. Corruption in Government. Were Mrs. Clinton elected, “Clinton Cash” would move into the White House. Crony capitalism, the silent killer of the American economy, would increasingly burden entrepreneurs with wasteful regulations that serve to transfer wealth from dispersed lower and middle-class Americans to the rich and well-connected. By contrast, Donald Trump’s proposals for regulatory reform and for ending the revolving door between Congress and K Street lobbyists would serve to promote an honest and just government and to restore economic growth. Economic Stimulus. Donald Trump’s Tax Code and energy proposals would release the engines of economic growth and put America back to work again. With Mrs. Clinton, by contrast, we’d see higher taxes, job-killing regulations and economic malaise. Religious Liberty. We would expect that attacks upon religious institutions, begun under Obama, would increase were Mrs. Clinton elected. By contrast, Donald Trump has pledged to defend our religious institutions. Education. Our K-12 public educational system is a disgrace, and Mrs. Clinton would do nothing to change this. By contrast, Donald Trump’s support for a voucher system for charter and parochial schools would be a most welcome game changer. Oct. 30, 2016 Bruce Abramson, Ph.D., J.D. London Center for Policy Research Stephen J. Allen, Ph.D., J.D. Capital Research Center William Atto University of Dallas, co-editor of “American Progressivism: A Reader” Darren J. Beattie Duke University David J. Benard, Ph.D. Writer David Beiler Writer Bill Bennett former Secretary of Education, author of “America: The Last, Best, Hope” Jay Bergman Central CT State University, author of “Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov” Dennis Binder, S.J.D. Chapman University, author of “Can we Secure the Hallowed Elms of Academe?” Daniel A. Bonevac University of Texas, author of “Deduction: Introductory Symbolic Logic” Andrew Bostom author of “Sharia Versus Freedom” Jan L. Beslow Rockefeller University William M. Briggs Cornell University, author of “Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics” David Bradshaw University of Kentucky Thomas E. Brennan lawyer and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan F.H. Buckley George Mason University, author of “The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America” Chris Buskirk editor and writer, American Greatness Nicholas Capaldi Loyola University New Orleans, co-author of “Liberty and Equality in Political Economy” Jim Capua, Ph.D. writer Lionel Chetwynd Oscar and Emmy nominated producer, director, screenwriter of “Miracle on Ice” and “Hanoi Hilton” James S. Corum, Ph.D. Salford University, author of “Fighting the War on Terror” Glynn Custred CSU-Haywood Emeritus, author of “A History of Anthropology as Holistic Science” Donn Dears author of “Nothing to Fear” John C. Eastman Chapman University Fowler School of Law and the Claremont Institute, author of “Born in the U.S.A? Reassessing Birthright Citizenship in the Wake of 9/11” Edward Erler CSU San Bernardino, co-author of “The Founders of Citizenship and Immigration: Principles and Challenges in America” Edward Erler CSU San Bernardino, co-author of “The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration: Principles and Challenges in America” Clarice Feldman lawyer and writer Peter J. Ferrara Heartland Institute, author of “Power to the People: The New Road to Freedom and Prosperity for the Poor, Seniors and Those Most In Need of the World’s Best Health Care” Philip R. Fine University of Alabama at Birmingham emeritus Burton W. Folsom, Jr. Hillsdale College, co-author of “The Myth of the Robber Barons” John Fonte, Ph.D. author of “Sovereignty or Submission” William A. Frank University of Dallas, author of “Duns Scotus, Metaphysician” Neal B. Freeman writer, businessman, Peabody Award-winning television producer Bruce Frohnen Ohio Northern University, author of “Constitutional Morality and the Rise of Quasi-Law” (with George W. Carey) George Gilder author of “Wealth and Poverty” Tom Giovanetti writer Esther Goldberg lawyer and writer for The American Spectator Mary Grabar co-author of “The Crisis in American Journalism and the Conservative Response” Lino Graglia University of Texas–Austin, author of “Disaster by Decree” David P. Goldman author of “How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)” Darren Guerra Biola University, author of “Perfecting the Constitution: The Case for the Article V Amendment Process” Leon Hadar, Ph.D. author of “Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle East” Susan Hanssen University of Dallas, author of “Shall We Go to Rome?: The Last Days of Henry Adams” Bruce Heiden writer Anne Henderschott Franciscan University of Steubenville, co-author of “Renewal: How a New Generation of Faithful Priests and Bishops is Revitalizing the Catholic Church” Mytheos Holt The Federalist David Horowitz editor and author of “The Left in Power: Clinton to Obama” Deal Hudson, Ph.D. editor and author of “An American Conversion” Carol Iannone editor and writer Christina Jeffrey, Ph.D. author of “The UN/State Department Refugee Program Comes to Spartanburg” Douglas Jeffrey Hillsdale College, editor of Imprimis Marjorie Jeffrey writer Robert C. Jeffrey Wofford College Stephen M. Johnson, Ph.D. church historian Brian T. Kennedy writer, The American Strategy Group Charles Kesler Claremont McKenna College, editor of Claremont Review of Books, author of “I am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism” Roger Kimball editor and author of “The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia” Robert D. King University of Texas—Austin, author of “Nehru and the Language Politics of India” Michael Kochin Tel Aviv University Robert C. Koons University of Texas—Austin, co-author of “Metaphysics: The Fundamentals” Michael Ledeen, Ph.D. co-author of NY Times best-seller “Field of Fight” Seth Leibsohn radio host and co-author of “The Fight of Our Lives: Knowing the Enemy, Speaking the Truth, and Choosing to Win the War Against Radical Islam” Thomas Lifson, Ph.D. editor and writer, American Thinker Margaret Lindsay, Ph.D. writer Thomas Lindsay, Ph.D. co-author of “Investigating American Democracy” Robert Oscar Lopez Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, author of “The Colorful Conservative: American Conversations with the Ancients from Wheatley to Whitman” Herb London, Ph.D. author of “The Encyclopedia of Militant Islam” John R. Lott, Jr., Ph.D. Economist, author of “More Guns, Less Crime” Doug Mainwaring author of “Marriage Ground Zero” (forthcoming) Ted Roosevelt Malloch Oxford University, co-author of “America’s Spiritual Capital” Ken Masugi Johns Hopkins University, co-author of “The Supreme Court and American Constitutionalism” Daniel McCarthy editor and writer, contributor to “Dilemmas of American Conservatism” Thomas C. McCollum III author of “Uncle Norm” Scott McConnell author of “Ex-Neocon” Bruce D. McCullough Drexel University Charles McKinney Crisis Roger Meiners University of Texas—Arlington, author of “Gridlock in Government” Allen Mendenhall Faulkner University, author of “Literature and Liberty” Tiffany Jones Miller University of Dallas Brian Patrick Mitchell author of “Eight Ways to Run the Country” Ed Morrow writer Laurie Morrow, Ph.D. co-author of “Conversations on Philanthropy” Steve Mosher Population Research Institute Maureen Mullarkey writer, The Federalist William Murchison author of “The Cost of Liberty: The Life of John Dickinson” Deroy Murdock columnist and writer George Neumayr co-author of “No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom” Marita Noon author of “Energy Freedom” Michael J. O’Shea writer Svetozar Pejovich Texas A&M emeritus, author of “The Economics of Property Rights” Ronald J. Pestritto Hillsdale College, author of “Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism” James Piereson, Ph.D. author of “Shattered Consensus: The Rise and Decline of America’s Postwar Political Order” Julie Ponzi editor and writer, American Greatness Sidney Powell author of “Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice” Stephen B. Presser Northwestern University, author of “Law Professors: Three Centuries of Shaping American Law (forthcoming” Frank Price screenwriter and producer, former CEO Columbia Pictures, former president Universal Pictures Mark Pulliam lawyer and writer Eric Rasmusen University of Indiana, co-author of “Measuring Judicial Independence: The Political Economy of Judging in Japan” Alfred Regnery lawyer and author of “Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism” D.N. Robinson Oxford University, author of “The American Founding: Its Intellectual and Moral Framework” Erik S. Root, Ph.D. Roger Bacon Academy, author of “All Honor to Jefferson?” Milton Rosenberg University of Chicago emeritus Constance Rossum University of La Verne, co-author of “Rehabilitating Rehabilitation” Ralph A. Rossum Claremont McKenna College, author of “Antonin Scalia’s Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition” Ronald Rotunda Chapman University, co-author of “Treatise on Constitutional Law” Paul Rubin Emory University Lisa Schiffren writer, former White House speechwriter Harold See Belmont University Roger L. Simon Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, co-founder PJ Media, author of “I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism is Destroying Our Republic, If It Hasn’t Already” S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. author of “Ecology in Action” Scott Soames University of Southern California, author of “The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy” Larry Schweikart University of Dayton, retired, co-author of NY Times bestseller “A Patrior’s History of the United States” Ross Terrill Dennis Teti Frank J. Tipler Tulane University James Trefil George Mason University, author of “The Encyclopedia of Science and Technology” Michael P. Tremoglie author of “A Sense of Duty” Tina Trent R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. editor and author of “The Death of Liberalism” Bradley C.S. Watson Saint Vincent College, author of “The Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence” Brandon Weichert Diana West Thomas G. West author of “Vindicating the Founders” Victor Willaims Chair, Lawyers and Law Professors for Trump Scot J. Zentner CSU San Bernardino, author of “Liberalism and Executive Power: Woodrow Wilson and the American Founders” John Zmirak Timothy W. Caspar Hillsdale College E. Christian Kopff University of Colorado–Boulder Steven C. Michael University of Illinois—Urbana Callista Gingrich co-author of “Rediscovering God in America” Newt Gingrich former Speaker of the House, co-author of “A Nation Like No Other: Why American Exceptionalism Matters” Statement of Support Given our choices in the presidential election, we believe that Donald J. Trump is the candidate most likely to restore the promise of America, and we urge you to support him as we do. Jeffrey H. Anderson, Ph.D. author of “An Alternative to Obamacare” and “The Main Street Tax Plan” Hadley Arkes Amherst College emeritus, author of “Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths: The Touchstone of the Natural Law” Larry P. Arnn Hillsdale College, author of “Churchill’s Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government” Stephen H. Balch Texas Tech University, National Humanities Medal, co-author of “Western Civilization and the Academy” Mark Bauerlein Emory University, author of “The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking” Darren J. Beattie Duke University, author of “Aufhebung: Political Ideology in the post-Cold War West (forthcoming)” Bill Bennett former Secretary of Education, author of “America: The Last, Best, Hope” Jay Bergman Central CT State University, author of “Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov” Dennis Binder, S.J.D. Chapman University, author of “Can we Secure the Hallowed Elms of Academe?” Daniel A. Bonevac University of Texas, author of “Deduction: Introductory Symbolic Logic” Conrad Black author of “Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom” James Bowman Ethics and Public Policy Center, author of “Honor: A History” Thomas E. Brennan lawyer and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan F.H. Buckley George Mason University, author of “The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America” Chris Buskirk editor and writer, American Greatness Nicholas Capaldi Loyola University New Orleans, author of “Liberty and Equality in Political Economy” James Capua, Ph.D writer Lionel Chetwynd Oscar and Emmy nominated producer, director, screenwriter of “Miracle on Ice” and “Hanoi Hilton” Lynn Chu Writers’ Representatives, LLC Mickey Craig Hillsdale College Glynn Custred CSU-Haywood emeritus, author of “A History of Anthropology as a Holistic Science” Donn Dears author of “Nothing to Fear” David Deming University of Oklahoma Marshall DeRosa Florida Atlantic University John C. Eastman Chapman University Fowler School of Law, author of “Born in the U.S.A.? Reassessing Birthright Citizenship in the Wake of 9/11” Edward Erler CSU San Bernardino, co-author of “The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration: Principles and Challenges in America” Clarice Feldman lawyer and writer Peter J. Ferrara Heartland Institute, author of “Power to the People: The New Road to Freedom and Prosperity for the Poor, Seniors and Those Most In Need of the World’s Best Health Care” Burton W. Folsom, Jr. co-author of “The Myth of the Robber Barons” John D. Fonte, Ph.D. author of “Sovereignty or Submission” William A. Frank University of Dallas, author of “Duns Scotus, Metaphysician” Neal B. Freeman writer and businessman, Peabody Award-winning television producer Bruce Frohnen Ohio Northern University, co-author of “Constitutional Morality and the Rise of Quasi-Law” George Gilder author of “Wealth and Poverty” and “The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers But the Economy Never Does” Callista Gingrich co-author of “Rediscovering God in America” Newt Gingrich, Ph.D. former Speaker of the House, co-author of “A Nation Like No Other: Why American Exceptionalism Matters” Tom Giovanetti writer Esther Goldberg lawyer and writer for The American Spectator Mary Grabar co-author of “The Crisis in American Journalism and the Conservative Response” David P. Goldman author of “How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)” Darren Guerra Biola University, author of “Perfecting the Constitution: The Case for the Article V Amendment Process” Susan Hanssen University of Dallas, author of “Shall We Go to Rome?: The Last Days of Henry Adams” Anne Hendershott Franciscan University of Steubenville, co-author of “Renewal: How a New Generation of Faithful Priests and Bishops Is Revitalizing the Catholic Church” Phillip Henderson Catholic University of America, author of “Managing the Presidency: The Eisenhower Legacy” David Horowitz editor and author of “The Left In Power: Clinton to Obama” Deal Hudson, Ph.D. editor and author of “An American Conversion” Carol Iannone editor and writer Christina Jeffrey, Ph.D. author of “The UN/State Department Refugee Program Comes to Spartanburg” Douglas Jeffrey Hillsdale College, editor of Imprimis Marjorie Jeffrey writer Robert C. Jeffrey Wofford College Brian T. Kennedy writer, The American Strategy Group Jack Kerwick Rowan College, author of “Misguided Guardians: The Conservative Case Against Neoconservatism” (forthcoming) Charles Kesler Claremont McKenna College, editor Claremont Review of Books, author of “I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism” Roger Kimball editor and author of “The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia” Robert D. King University of Texas—Austin, author of “Nehru and the Language of Politics in India” Michael Kochin Tel Aviv University Robert C. Koons University of Texas—Austin, co-author of “Metaphysics: The Fundamentals” E. Christian Kopff University of Colorado Boulder, author of “Virgil and the Cyclic Epics” Lawrence Kudlow co-author of “JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity” Michael Ledeen, Ph.D. co-author of NY Times best-seller “Field of Fight” Seth Leibsohn radio host and co-author of “The Fight of Our Lives: Knowing the Enemy, Speaking the Truth, and Choosing to Win the War Against Radical Islam” Thomas Lifson, Ph.D. editor and writer, American Thinker Margaret Lindsay, Ph.D. writer Thomas Lindsay, Ph.D. co-author of “Investigating American Democracy” Roger Meiners University of Texas—Arlington, author of “Gridlock in Government” Herb London, Ph.D. author of “The Encyclopedia of Militant Islam” John R. Lott, Jr., Ph.D. Economist, author of “More Guns, Less Crime” Ted Roosevelt Malloch Oxford University, co-author of “America’s Spiritual Capital” Ken Masugi Johns Hopkins University, co-author of “The Supreme Court and American Constitutionalism” Daniel McCarthy editor and writer, contributor to “Dilemmas of American Conservatism” Robert Oscar Lopez Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, author of “The Colorful Conservative: American Conversations with the Ancients from Wheatley to Whitman” Allen Mendenhall Faulkner University, author of “Literature and Liberty” Tiffany Jones Miller University of Dallas Brian Patrick Mitchell Academy of Philosophy and Letters Laurie Morrow, Ph.D. co-author of “Conversations on Philanthropy” Steve Moore co-author of “Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy” Steve Mosher Population Research Institute William Murchison author of “The Cost of Liberty: The Life of John Dickinson Deroy Murdock columnist and writer George Neumayr co-author of “No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom” Marita Noon author of “Energy Freedom” Michael J. O’Shea writer David Palm Azusa Pacific University Svetozar Pejovich Texas A & M emeritus, author of “The Economics of Property Rights” Ronald J. Pestritto Hillsdale College, author of “Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism” Fran Fawcett Peterson writer for American Thinker James Piereson, Ph.D. author of “Shattered Consensus: The Rise and Decline of America’s Postwar Political Order” Julie Ponzi editor and writer, American Greatness Stephen B. Presser Northwestern University, author of “Law Professors: Three Centuries of Shaping American Law (forthcoming) Frank Price screenwriter and producer, former CEO Columbia Pictures, former president Universal Pictures Mark Pulliam lawyer and writer Eric Rasmusen University of Indiana, co-author of “Measuring Judicial Independence: The Political Economy of Judging in Japan” Alfred Regnery lawyer and author of “Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism” R.R. Reno editor and author of “In the Ruins of the Church” D.N. Robinson Oxford University, author of “The American Founding: Its Intellectual and Moral Framework Erik S. Root, Ph.D. Roger Bacon Academy, author of “All Honor to Jefferson?” Milton Rosenberg University of Chicago emeritus Constance Rossum Constance Rossum, University of La Verne, co-author of “Rehabilitating Rehabilitation” Ralph A. Rossum Claremont McKenna College, author of “Antonin Scalia’s Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition” Ronald Rotunda Chapman University, co-author of “Principles of Constitutional Law” Lisa Schiffren writer, former White House speechwriter Harold See Belmont University Roger L. Simon Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, co-founder PJ Media, author of “I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is Destroying Our Republic, If It Hasn’t Already” S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. University of Virginia emeritus, author of “Global Climate Change: Human and Natural Influences” Scott Soames University of Southern California, author of “The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy” Don Surber author of “Trump the Press” Larry Schweikart University of Dayton, retired, co-author of NY Times bestseller “A Patriot’s History of the United States” Carol Swain Vanderbilt University, author of “Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America’s Faith and Promise” Peter Thiel co-founder of PayPal, author of “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future” James Trefil George Mason University, author of “The Encyclopedia of Science and Technology” R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. editor and author of “The Death of Liberalism” Jeffrey Wallin co-author of “An Uncertain Legacy: Essays on the Pursuit of Liberty” Bradley C.S. Watson Saint Vincent College, author of “Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence” Robert Weissberg University of Illinois emeritus, author of “Bad Students, Not Bad Schools” Thomas G. West author of “Vindicating the Founders” Victor Williams lawyer and writer S. Stanley Young North Carolina State University Scot J. Zentner CSU San Bernardino, author of “Liberalism and Executive Power: Woodrow Wilson and the American Founders” Timothy W. Caspar Hillsdale College, author of “Recovering the Ancient View of Founding: A Commentary on Cicero’s De Legibus” Arthur Herman, Ph.D. author “Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior” D. Brian Scarnecchia Ave Maria University, author of “Bioethics, Law and Human Life Issues” Roger Beckett Ashland University Michael Doran Hudson Institute, former senior director of the National Security Council Lino Gragila University of Texas — Austin, author of “Disaster by Decree” Diana West author of “The Death of the Grown-Up” Andrew Bostom Brown University, author of “Sharia versus Freedom” Dennis Teti writer Charles C. Johnson author of “Why Coolidge Matters” Bruce Heiden Ohio State University, author of “Homer’s Cosmic Fabrication” Leon Hadar, Ph.D. author of “Sandstorm: Policy Failure in the Middle-East” Ronald J. Rychlak University of Mississippi, author of “Disinformation” Doug Mainwaring author of “Marriage Ground Zero” (forthcoming) Michael P. Tremoglie writer J. Eric Wise lawyer and writer Brandon J. Weichert writer David Bradshaw University of Kentucky Samuel J. Mikolaski, D.Phil. writer Thomas C. McCollum, III novelist James S. Corum, Ph.D. co-author of “Fighting the War on Terror” Stephen D. Cooper Marshall University, author of “Watching the Watchdog: Bloggers as the Fifth Estate” Michael A. Livingston Rutgers University, author of “The Fascists and the Jews of Italy: Mussolini’s Race Laws, 1938-1943″ Tina Trent, Ph.D. co-author of “Crisis in American Journalism and the Conservative Response” Paul Driessen lawyer and author of “Eco-Imperialism” Charles Akemann University of California, Santa Barbara Paul Rubin Emory University, author of “Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom” Bruce Abramson Senior Fellow, the London Center for Policy Research, author of “An American Vision for the Middle East” Sean K. Anderson Idaho State University, co-author of “The Historical Dictionary of Terrorism” Christine P. Ries Georgia Institute of Technology Robert Maginnis author of “Deadly Consequences” James M. Holland University of Akron Steven C. Michael University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Ross Terrill, Ph.D. author of “The New Chinese Empire” B. D. McCullough Drexel University, co-author of “Fundamentals of Predictive Analysis” Diana Klebanow, Ph.D. co-author of “People’s Lawyers: Crusaders for Justice in American History” Ruthie Blum author of “To Hell in a Handbasket” The views expressed do not represent the opinions of the colleges, universities and institutions of those who have signed this letter. For further information, please contact Frank Buckley at fbuckley@gmu.edu.

What to Expect From the Clinton Administration

A dazzling array of drab pantsuits A scandal a day A perpetual cloud hanging over the White House Congressional hearings ad nauseam No (boring) press conferences The cackle Snarly humor Daily fodder for talk radio and late night TV hosts A for sale sign on the White House, starting with the Lincoln Bedroom Endless repeats of "The Price is Right" and "Let's Make a Deal" The Big Dog loose again in the White House, Huma in the Dog House, and the Weiner Mobile caged in the Pen Clinton Justice FBI Director James Comey collecting unemployment An audit of the Trump Foundation Annual IRS audits for those of us who signed the Scholars and Authors for Trump Letter

Operation FUBAR: The Pentagon is Hounding California National Guard Members for the return of their Enlistment Bonuses Plus Penalties

Who is the Pentagon Bureaucrat Hounding California National Guard members for the Return of their Enlistment Bonuses? The story broke yesterday that the Pentagon is seeking the return of enlistment bonuses paid to California National Guard members a decade ago for their reimbursement. The Pentagon seeks $20 million from 10,500 soldiers. It is executing a blitzkrieg on their finances. The Pentagon is not seeking to return their broken and missing limbs, their shattered psyches from PTSD, or their lives. The Pentagon will let them retain their purple hearts. The heartless, anti-military Obama Administration is seeking not only the amount of the original bonuses, but also a 1% processing fee, interest and penalties. It is showing a fury against our brave soldiers, a fury not shown against the nation’s enemies, a fury previously hidden in the Obama Administration, a fury not shown in Afghanistan or Iraq, a fury against our wounded warriors. $1.7 trillion in cash to Iran’s murderous mullahs, but $20 million back from our valiant warriors. The Pentagon claims that an audit showed enlistment improper bonuses were paid through the California National Guard, and thus need to be repaid. If anyone screwed up on the enlistment bonuses, it was California, but the Pentagon is only seeking the money back from the innocent soldiers who put their lives on the line for their country. I have to believe the Secretary of Defense and other top management officials in the Pentagon would not be so stupid as to sign off on this FUBAR, which we will now label Operation FUBAR. We have to presume that the politically savvy Top Brass would understand the political blowback and public relations nightmare of stiffing our valiant warriors in Operation FUBAR. If they signed off on it, then we are in worse shape than thought. The VA Scandal is an ongoing nightmare for the Pentagon. Operation FUBAR magnifies the Administration’s disregard for the military. Operation FUBAR smacks of a decision by a low echelon, pencil pushing, bean counting bureaucrat.

Donald Trump Is Right in Refusing to Immediately Sign On to the November Election Returns; A Rigger Election is a Distinct Possibility

Chris Wallace asked Donald Trump if he would accept the election returns Trump answered we “would look at it at the time.” The media went ballistic, as if Donald Trump was caught in flagrante delicto committing treason. They claim it is impossible to rig a national election. Yet the Democrats are crying “The Russians Are Coming; The Russians Are Coming” as Vladimir Putin is attempting to control the American election. You don’t have to rig the vote nationally, but only in a few states, and just a few counties in those states. Mayor Daley in Chicago and “Landslide” Lyndon Johnson in Texas proved that you could rig the vote in 1960 to elected JFK President. Landslide Lyndon earned his nickname with his fraudulent 87 vote victory in the 1948 Senate Democratic primary in Texas. Remember Al Gore and Florida in 2000. He contested the Florida vote. We learned all about hanging chads and butterfly ballots. Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic Party and the connivance of the Florida Supreme Court tried to reverse the voting results and deliver the state and national election to Al Gore. Their mantra was “All votes count,” but they tried to exclude the absentee military votes, which are often delayed in reaching Florida. The Supreme Court 7-2 ended that madness, but even years later Senator Hillary Clinton joined the Democratic chorus in proclaiming President George W. Bush was “selected, not elected.” Donald trump believes the election is rigged. Why not? Senator Bernard Sanders believed the Democratic primary season was rigged for Secretary Clinton. He was right; the Wiki Leaks disclosures affirm that theory. The Justice Department said it will selectively monitor polling booths. The Justice Department has become a political arm of the Obama Administration. FBI Director James Comey has subverted the FBI to the Obama Administration and Clinton campaign over her emails. The Internal Revenue Service, which was caught discriminating against The Tea Party and other conservative organizations, is still slow balling them. A Federal judge just ordered the IRS to expedite the Tea Party applications by November 11, 2016, three days after the Presidential election. The Republicans want voter ID. The Democrats oppose it. Why? Voter fraud Early voting by mail is especially susceptible to fraudulent voting. Anecdotal evidence exists of mass signature signings in dormitories and nursing homes, and registering large numbers of non-citizens. Virginia Governor, Terry McAuliffe, an old friend, ally and bagman, of the Clintons, attempted to register almost all 200,000 ex-cons in Virginia; most of whom will vote Democratic. The Virginia Supreme Court overturned that, but he is back to granting the vote to at least 13,000 ex-cons. Florida showed that only a few votes can determine the election. Virginia is a key battleground state this election. Donald Trump will have trouble winning the election if he loses Virginia. Donald Trump believes the election may be rigged. The Veritas Tapes show Democratic operatives hiring “thugs” to ferment violence at Trump rallies. The Veritas tapes show the Democratic operative telling how to organize fraudulent voting. Scott Foval bragged they were doing it for 50 years. James Cramer, one of the operatives, visited the White House 342 times during the Obama Administration and met with the President 47 times. Dirty tricks! Of course Donald Trump believes the election may be rigged.

The Democratic National Committee Bus Sewage Discharge Exemplifies This Year's Presidential Campaign

Workers at the O’Reilly Auto Parts store at 525 Grayson Highway, Lawrenceville, Georgia yesterday noticed a bus dumping human waste (sewage) onto the roadway and into a sewer. Toilet paper was in the foul smelling The hazardous wastes were cleaned by a Gwinnett County Haz Mat Team. The bus was a Democratic National Campaign bus in Georgia. The Democrats are normally for cleaning the environment, not polluting it. The DNC spinned it today. They couldn’t deny it. The store manager took photos of the bus. The big signs on the bus said: “HILLARYCLINTON.com Stronger Together” “I’m with her” How do you spin dumping raw sewage into a storm drain? The DNC said it was “an honest mistake.” The driver noticed the sewage tank was full and leaking. The driver was concerned that continuing would put other drivers on the road at risk. It’s a criminal act, referred to the Georgia Environmental Protection Department. This year’s election is figuratively and literally in the gutter. This year’s campaign is in the gutter. Here are issues that the American people are deciding for the future: Benghazi Budget Deficit Campaign Financing China Civil Rights Climate Change Clinton Foundation College Tuition Drugs Energy Entitlements Environment Family Values Guns Immigration Inequality Infrastructure Iran Keystone Pipeline Medicare Medicaid Middle Class MidEast Minimum East ObamaCare Police Religious Rights and Freedom Reproductive Rights Russia Social Security Supreme Court Syria Taxation Terrorism Voting Rights Women’s Rights Not Donald Trump’s sex life and misogynist remarks Not Bill Clinton’s rapacious behavior The past two weeks have been about a 12 year old tape. Sex sells Salacious attracts attention – not so much the real issues The issues facing America’s future are not Donald or Bill’s sex life. Donald Trump had warned earlier in the campaign that if the Clintons made an issue of his morals, then he would respond with Bill Clinton’s. The Clintons did not raise his past, but an accommodating media did. The Clinton Campaign jumped on board. Donald Trump fulfilled his threat. He pulled the Clintons into the gutter with him. The media started it. The sewage truck exemplifies it.

The Republicans Should Heed the Lessons of 1964 and 1974

The media is highlighting the “Civil War” within the Republican Party; Donald Trump’s “doomed” campaign is supposedly tearing the Party apart, as distinguished Republicans repudiate him, seemingly en masse. Dump Trump, they say. Oh, the memories of 1964. A conservative Senator from Arizona, Barry Goldwater, wrestled the Republican nomination away from the eastern Republican establishment, which would be referred to today as Rhinos. Goldwater’s supporters were as ardent as this year’s Donald Trump’s. The Rockefellers, et al, were enraged. Goldwater was conservative. He questioned Social Security. Primary opponent after primary opponent, ending with Governor Scranton of Pennsylvania, fell to the Goldwater onslaught. The outrage from the Republicans was even greater than that today against Donald Trump. The media piped in, trashing him as a dangerous, radical, reckless conservative. It’s echoed in the anti-trump animus of today’s media. He was dangerous war mongrel. President Johnson’s campaign piled on with the Daisy Ad, all the while LBJ was secretly plotting to escalate the Vietnam War. I was an impressionable 18 year old who bought into the anti-Goldwater hysteria. LBJ won in a landslide. The Republicans went down in flames in the November election. Yes, the turnout for the Democrats was high. But the turnout of dispirited Republican was low. The Republican establishment lost. 1964 marked the beginning of the end for the then traditional Republican establishment. They candidates, including incumbents, went down in the Democratic landslide. The Democrats picked up 37 House seats giving then 291 to 144 Republicans, a 2:1 ratio. They gained 2 Senate seats to 68 compared to a sparse 32 for the republicans. GOP candidates and incumbents across the board in state houses and local races were overwhelmingly defeated. Conservatives, from the West lost the battle in 1964, but won the GOP in 1980. Barry Goldwater may have lost, but he gave rise to Ronald Reagan, who chose George H.W. Bush from the eastern establishment as his Vice President. 1968 witnessed the election of former Vice President Richard Nixon. President Nixon won a landslide reelection in 1992, but the Democrats held onto the House of Representatives and Senate with large majorities. Watergate broke. The media was up in arms and the Democrats used their control of Congress’ committees to destroy the Nixon Administration through nationally televised Congressional hearings. Republicans abandoned President Nixon. Indeed, Senator Goldwater led a committee of Republicans to tell Nixon it was time to resign. The dispirited Republicans stayed home in November. The Democrats thereby achieved enormous majorities in both branches of Congress. They gained 5 Senate seats to 61 and 1 House seat to 291. 1976 was no better for the Republicans. The Democrats retained their 61 Senate seats, but gained the Presidency and an additional seat in the House. It’s looking like Déjà vu all over again. Republican office holders abandon their candidate, alienating the base of the Party. If the base stays home, the omens are poor for the Republican control not only of Congress, but the state houses. Donald Trump may be this year’s version of Sharron Angle, Christina O’Donnell, Todd Akin or Richard Mourdock. He may be the wrong messenger, but the Republican base likes the message. If the Republican turnout is low, the resulting Clinton landslide will be devastating to the GOP, as in 1964 and 1974. The establishment may blame trump, but the republican voters will take it out on the republican establishment in future elections.

The Crocodile Tears and Feigned Hysteria of the Democrats and the Media As they Practice the Politics of Personal Destruction Against Donald Trump

No one should be surprised by the 12 year old misogynist tape of Donald Trump. Donald Trump has been and is The Donald. Knowing it and seeing it though are two different matters. Of course the tape is shocking, outrageous, and damming. The response though of the Democrats and the Media is equally shocking, outrageous, and damming. The Democrats are the party of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a notorious womanizer. The Democrats are the party of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, a notorious and crude womanizer. The Democrats are the party of the lionized reprobate Senator Ted Kennedy, responsible for the death of a young woman, Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick, and didn’t report it until the next day. The Democrats are the party of Senator Chris Dodd (Dodd-Frank), who accompanied Senator Ted Kennedy on escapades, including an infamous threesome with a waitress. More recently, the Democrats are the party of the reprobate President William Jefferson Clinton, who puts all the rest to shame. None of them were ever accused of raping a woman. None of them had their law license suspended. And none of them paid $850,000 to one of their victims. And yet, President Clinton received a pass from the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, and the feminist movement because they agreed with his politics, while they practice the politics of personal destruction against Donald trump. The Democrats and media practice the politics of personal destruction because it works. for them. The mainstream media is having a field day taking out Donald Trump, but let us remember that their outrage is highly selective. ABC’s late, revered anchor Peter Jennings was a rabid womanizer. The shock of Hollywood, notorious for the casting couch, drugs, alcohol, depravity and licentious behavior is a hoot. It’s especially hypocritical to hear former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the same Arnold Schwarzenegger who has been accused of sexually harassing women and who fathered the son of his household maid, declaim Donald Trump. Hollywood ignored for decades Bill Cosby’s sexual assaults on drugged women. Hollywood wanted Roman Polanski to return to the United states free of charges of statutory rape to which he pled guilty. Hollywood, the shining example of virtue! And then there’s Hillary Clinton, complicit in her husband’s activities. Donald Trump was right in accusing her and her accomplices of silencing the women (victims) who threatened her husband’s Presidential election I don’t countenance Donald Trump’s behavior, but we have bigger issues in this campaign.

The Sayings of Chairman Hillary: The Inner and Outer Thoughts of Hillary Clinton

The Janus faced Hillary: “You need both a public and a private position.” The eternal dreamer: “My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, sometime in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it ….” The Obama elitist: “To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it.” The condescending Clinton on the other basket: “people who feel government has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and futures, and they are just desperate for change …. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.” Contempt for the American people: “Lester, I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone.” Her real views on African Americans: “The main reason behind successful immigration should be painfully obvious to even the most dimwitted of observers: Some groups of people are almost always highly successful given only half a chance (Jews*, Hindus/Sikhs, Chinese people, for example), while others (Muslims, blacks** and Roma***, for instance) fare badly almost irrespective of circumstances.” Hillary Clinton, the feminist: “Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.” On Gennifer Flowers: “some failed cabaret singer who doesn’t even have much of a resume to fall back on” and “trailer trash.” On Monica Lewinsky: a “narcissistic loony toon” On a 12 year old rape victim: “I have been informed that the complainant is emotionally unstable with a tendency to seek out older men and engage in fantasizing.” On immigration: All her grandparents, including the three born in the United States, were immigrants to the United States. The Brian Williams Hillary in Bosnia: ‘I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.” The Hillary Nixonian moment: “What I did was allowed. It was allowed by the State Department. The State Department has confirmed that.” Hillary Clinton in Coal Country: “We are going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” Hillary on poverty: “You must remember that we came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.” Hillary to Wall Street: “I’m kind of removed from the struggles of the middle class.” Hillary the hypocrite: She cried out against inequality in an April speech while wearing a $12,495 Armani tweed suit. To quote Hillary Clinton: “What difference does it make?”

How Much More Can We Trivialize This election?

This election is clearly about the future of America. Will the United States continue down the Obama road of transformation into stagnation, government healthcare, weakened national security, slow job growth, bankrupting governmental pensions, and the list goes on? Or will this election be about restoring American greatness and exceptionalism? Will this election be about jobs and restoring upper mobility? What are the respective roles of the state and the individual? Those are the stakes in this election. How much time will we spend fact checking arcane points? Do we need someone to fact check the fact checkers? These are the trivial points. The New York times ran a front page article on Senator Marco Rubio’s speeding tickets, mostly by his wife. The New York Times ran a front page article on senator Marco Rubio’s luxury boat, which turned out to be a fishing boat. The New York Times criticized Senator Marco Rubio for his student loans. We hear stories of Donald trump’s hand and penis size. What difference does it make how "Nevada" is pronounced? We hear stories at the debate about Donald Trump insulting Miss Universe 2 decades ago over her weight. We hear a misogynist trump tape from 12 years ago. Russia threatens the United States, and Trump’s tape leads the news, displacing even a hurricane. If we want to go to that level, then he may be a MCP, but unlike President Clinton, he never raped a woman, nor have his wife organize a campaign to muzzle bimbo eruptions. Yet, this is the election we have. The Democratic candidate can’t run on her record, so she has to demonize him. Trump can’t run a campaign away from his inner self. Are you better off than you were 4 years ago? That is not a trivial question.