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The problem

“Drug overdose was the leading cause of accidental death in the US,

with 64,070 lethal drug overdoses in 2016. An estimated 53,332 have been linked to opioids of some type, which is an increase of 61% from 2015,” according to Nick Szubiak, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, National Council for Behavioral Health. He observes that the epidemic is partially being fueled by the early myth started by a letter published in New England Journal

of Medicine in 1980 that opioids were non-addictive. In addition to that, there has been unrestricted prescribing of medications, and increase of availability and potency of less expensive heroin.

Dr. Lantie Jorandby, is board certified in addiction psychiatry. She is currently with the Amen Clinics in the Washington. DC area. Having been involved in Medical Assistance Treatment clinics providing suboxone and methadone within the VA system, Dr. Jorandby has observed, “egregious over-prescribing in the primary care setting in the VA system.” This over prescribing, she says, is usually done by “well-meaning” doctors, getting stuck in a cycle of prescribing dangerously high levels of opiates. She added “the system perpetuates when patients complain that their

doctors want to stop their opiates, putting doctors in a bind with their jobs.” She has heard “reports of patients threatening doctors if they try to take them off of opiates, creating a perfect storm,” she says. Many people are prescribed a full 60 pill prescription, when a few pills would do the trick.

Perpetuating the problemExplaining that the medical

community has been trained to prescribe for longer periods of time like ten to thirty days, Carolyn Castro-Donlan, Ph.D. suggested that there might need to be a different type of training for prescribing medications. She has been working with addictions since the 80’s when she was a nurse. She is now a consultant, currently collaborating on Medical Assisted Treatment using suboxone for maintenance,

detox or helping patients taper off opioids slowly. She observes that one of the biggest problems is that prescription monitoring across states lines is inadequate and needs to be universal. Often, she says, this is how addictions can be perpetuated.

What we can agree onThey agree that there is way too

much over prescribing of opioids, so perhaps we should find a way to train differently in this area and/or regulate how much can be prescribed and in what way. On this same issue, we should probably monitor prescriptions of opioids across state lines, as suggested by Castro-Donlan. It’s way too easy for people to drive from one doctor to the other to load up on pain meds with no way of tracking whether or not there’s an obvious problem.

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Is it Really Our Job To Save The Addict?

Commentary

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Another thing most of the professionals agreed on was Medically Assisted Treatment using suboxone or methadone for people struggling with addiction. If we could develop treatment that involves time-limited withdrawal support, coupled with therapeutic support to address underlying issues, that there should be a way to do that. Carolyn Castro-Donlan, PhD emphasizes that the withdrawal symptoms won’t kill you, but she said it sure feels like they will when you are going through it, and it might just be the humane way to allow someone to quit.

We are bombarded with societal messages that we are not enough. We need more money, a faster car, a slimmer figure, and stronger deodorant if we are to be acceptable and loved. We are sent messages that we should never be in pain or suffer in any way. Jorandby and Castro-Donlan also agreed that connecting to a spiritual source through meditation, prayer, and gratitude is an important place to begin to find our true worth as human beings. Mindfulness principles like meditation and gratitude have been shown through multiple studies to actually change the brain. So, while the addiction changes the brain and alters perception in one way, meditation and gratitude are scientifically proven strategies for emotional strength and growth. So instead of looking outside of ourselves for ways to escape from our problems and stressors, we build resilience from inside.

And more than anything else, they agreed that education for prevention should start early, and awareness for reducing stigma is vital. People do not seek treatment often due to fear and shame. We are not talking about the “dregs of society” if there is such a thing; we are talking about housewives who take their kids to soccer each week, high school students who get injured in sports, businessmen and women who work hard every day, who started out with pain meds and find themselves on that slippery slope, leading to hopelessness and destruction. “Addicts are not stupid. Neither are they weak, but rather highly intelligent,” says Rev. Dr. Wesley Shortridge of Bealeton, VA.

Where to startI don’t necessarily think the conversation should focus on whether or

not it’s a choice, or whether or not society is co-dependent, but rather what we can agree on.

We may not be able to save every person who struggles with substance abuse, but we can at least do what we can to lessen availability and move in a healthier direction. Reverend Shortridge says, “We need to build a society that doesn’t need it.” And beginning with the suggestions above, that most seem to agree on, might be a good place to start.

1. Prevention by training in mindfulness principles, beginning with even very young students.

2. Raising awareness and offering education to reduce stigma and enhance understanding.

3. Putting some regulations around prescribing practices to limit availability.

4. Offering limited and focused Medically Assisted Treatment, coupled with therapy, for the purpose of a better recovery.

Marianne Clyde is an expert in Mental Health in the workplace. Speaking to businesses and associations about empowerment, team building and relationship networking, she is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, in practice for over 27 years, energizing speaker and dauntless world traveler. She lived in Japan for over 8 years and has spent time in at least 20 developing countries, teaching about recovery from trauma, personal empowerment and interpersonal relationships. She has written and published numerous articles, appeared on radio and television worldwide, commenting on topics ranging from gun violence to having a happy marriage. Host and producer of her own TV shows, she has also hosted a call in radio show and has produced Moments of Mindfulness Meditation CD.

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Platitudes and Glittering Generalities

We are living in strange times. Virtual money, virtual friends, virtual reality. And regrettably, we are currently burdened with virtual leaders and virtual health insurance coverage.

Last month’s Gallup poll revealed that by a huge margin the “most important problem facing the country today” was dissatisfaction with the government. Our representatives in Washington spend more time meeting with moneyed “stakeholders” than fashioning constitutional legislation based on what their constituents voted

for. When our “representatives” occasionally take a break from sniping at the White House or one another, they offer platitudes and intangibles to distract us from their ineffectiveness. Sustainability, the rich, social (in)justice, the common good, a living wage, a better health care system are glittering generalities, known in some circles as propaganda.

Operating under the cloak of munificence and on the premise (or pretense) that the financial and physical best interests of everyday people were at heart, the proponents of the unipartisan Affordable Care Act produced an unrecognizable version of insurance. Health insurance in the United States grew out of concerns for the high cost of serious injuries due to the wide use of machinery in the early 1900s. The ACA – to quote

President Obama – “fundamentally changed” the American the health insurance market to forcibly insure individuals for every medical issue no matter how minor. Of course, the promised benefits were illusory since most patients would never meet the high deductible. The ACA robbed us of choice in the insurance market. No more inexpensive major medical insurance policies for those over the ripe old age of 30.

Predictably, nearly half of ACA marketplace enrollees polled in a Kaiser Family Foundation health reform survey report that their premiums, deductibles, and copays have been going up and will create a “financial burden.” And sixty percent of those with any kind of private insurance expect their premiums to go up “a lot.” Their perception is based in reality. In the 20 states where the information was available the 2018 premium increases range from 33 to 49 percent.

As for the negative effects on the other half of the patient-physician relationship, a recent Mayo Clinic study verified that the government-mandated electronic health records are contributing to increasing rates of physician burnout. A majority of those surveyed indicated their electronic medical record systems were causing a clinical burden, resulting in emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a reduced sense of personal accomplishment.

Moreover, the new complex metrics required under the Medicare Access and CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), have become a new source of frustration and increased clerical duties.

The ACA and its progeny must go. Responsive government is

based on an exchange of ideas with the voters and accordingly, constitutional laws that advance the interests the citizenry. The ACA appeared to respond to the wishes of corporate lobbyists and social engineers, not the public at large.

Dissatisfied with the government? Reject the political pap and decide whether you would rather pay $600 per month and a $5,000 deductible for services that you do not want or need or have the ability to buy inexpensive major medical insurance and pay out- of-pocket for routine office visits. Keeping in mind the hacking of 143 million Equifax records, do you want your medical records housed and managed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology or in your doctor’s office? For many, the answer is clear. Support policies that put the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship first, last, and always. MARILYN M. SINGLETON, M.D., J.D.Dr. Singleton is a board-certified anesthesiologist and Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) Board member. She graduated from Stanford and earned her MD at UCSF Medical School. Dr. Singleton completed 2 years of Surgery residency at UCSF, then her Anesthesia residency at Harvard’s Beth Israel Hospital. While still working in the operating room, she attended UC Berkeley Law School, focusing on constitutional law and administrative law. She interned at the National Health Law Project and practiced insurance and health law. She teaches classes in the recognition of elder abuse and constitutional law for non-lawyers.

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The Penny Press Tips Its Cap To:Arizona’s appropriately named junior Senator, Jeff Flake for deciding to quit instead of getting beat in a GOP primary. Maybe he can get a job somewhere.

An external auditor next month who will make recommendations on how to rein in gifts and travel costs at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority after a Review-Journal investigation identified excessive spending by the agency. That agency has been a cesspool for years and now, maybe there’s a chance that what happened in Vegas will be seen by the world for what it is. Payola.

The Penny Press Sends A Bronx Cheer And A Bouquet of Weeds To:The Southern Nevada Health District which had to hold a meeting called by the Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce on behalf of members who own restaurants but feared retaliation if they themselves complained. Bill Wong, a member of the Asian Chamber’s board of directors, said members feel discriminated against in part because health inspectors often come without translators. And enforce many rules subjectively. Washington is not the only swamp. www.pennypressnv.com

Tips Of Our Capand

Bronx Cheers

Commentary: Marilyn Singleton

The decision by Arizona’s appropriately named junior Senator, Jeff Flake, to leave the Senate appears to be another of the great things President Trump is responsible for.

Most Trump supporters I talk to—and it is a lot of people I’ve never met—voted for him to burn down the house. And the Senate. And the rest of Washington.

The average guy simply hates Washington and has little to no respect for the people who inhabit the city and its environs. So when you see two “strategists” screaming at each other on Fox News or CNN, keep in mind that they are talking to each other but not most of the voters in the United States.

Don’t believe me?

Go to SportsMediaWatch.com and look at the week by week NFL ratings. There is lots of red highlighting.

That’s what happens when the overpaid morons think they have the right to abuse the fans who write their paychecks.

Look at soon to be former Senators Flake and Bob Corker who, as Trump so perfectly put it, couldn’t get elected dogcatcher, announced their retirement and painted Trump as a horrible President.

In two years, nobody will remember who Corker and Flake are but Trump will still be President and draining the swamp.

And then, there’s the moron billionaire who launched a $10,000,000 ad campaign to demand Trump’s impeachment.

Seriously?

Even better, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is struggling to keep her job.

Trump would rather she stays.

Because she’s such an easy target.

But none of that matters to CNN, MSNBC and the three broadcast networks. They still think Americans are stupid

enough to believe the same old crap they’ve been dishing out for the last four years.

And when a nominal Republican such as Corker or Flake quits, they see it as something the American public actually cares about. They are headed down the same rabbit hole as their sports divisions.

If I was a gambler, I’d be seeking long odds against Dean Heller of Nevada getting re-elected because—assuming Heller doesn’t follow Flake’s path—he’s made so many people in Nevada mad he will probably lose his primary to Danny Tarkanian. It’s a shame you can’t place that bet in Nevada.

Here’s my point:

Anybody—in or out of the media—who actually thinks that Trump has no majority of the American voters is, in terms everybody should understand, smoking crack. Listen to what—of all people—Lindsey Graham told Fox News on Trump’s Afghanistan speech:

“I’m proud, I’m relieved. I’m proud of the fact that President Trump made a national security decision, not a political decision. I’m proud of the fact that he listened to the generals and most proud of the fact that he shows the will to stand up to radical Islam. I’m relieved that he did not take the advice to withdraw which would’ve been disastrous, or create a mercenary army. So I’m very pleased, very thoughtful, very inspiring speech, and I can assure you, a lot of people in Congress will be behind the president.”

That’s Lindsey Graham who Trump beat like a drum in the primaries.

The concept that Trump can’t govern effectively is held by a small minority and it’s getting smaller.

The opposition needs to figure out who supports it. So far, I have not met too many.

FRED WEINBERG

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Will Populism Prevail This Time Around?

During a recent interview on MSNB, the ever-nasty Tom Brokaw exclaimed that President Trump and “some people on the right” want “to destroy the prevailing culture in this country.”

I hate to rattle your cage, Tommy, but of course Donald Trump and “some people on the right” want to destroy the prevailing culture in America. Given that the prevailing culture is the antithesis of the culture the Founding Fathers envisioned — the culture that laid the groundwork for a new nation — why wouldn’t everyday Americans want to destroy it? The groundwork I’m referring to is set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and it defined the American way of life for nearly 200 years.

Today’s prevailing culture began emerging in the turbulent sixties and was forced upon traditional Americans for eight painful years by the first American-hating president in history. To make certain there was no doubt in anyone’s mind as to his intentions, he clearly warned us, prior to taking office, that he fully intended to “fundamentally change the United States of America.”

As America’s culture deteriorated into a moral cesspool, to millions of people who longed for a return to the America they grew up in, the nostalgic lyrics of Simon and Garfunkel — Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you. — brought back pleasant memories.

Today, however, anti-Americanism is firmly entrenched in our “prevailing culture,” a culture that Radical Leftist like Brokaw want to make us believe is the true culture of America. It is not. Traditional values that were once embedded in America’s moral compass are anathema to a new generation that has been taught to hate free speech, Judeo-Christian ethics, the sanctity of life, the right to self-defense, and much more.

Thus, when young people hear about the wholesomeness of the “good old days,” they dismiss it as unenlightened gibberish by old timers whom the death panels should eliminate post haste. How can someone who can’t even sync up a smartphone to a computer possibly know anything about life? After all, the very meaning of life is to be proficient with digital gadgets; everything else is just passing time.

Which brings me to Laura Ingraham’s new book, Billionaire at the Barricades. It’s the first book in years that I’ve been able to read all the way through without getting bored. In a delightfully simple but profound way, Ingraham explains the Trump phenomenon that has had establishment folks in a state of apoplexy for nearly two and a half years.

The underlying theme of Ingraham’s book is that populism is now the most powerful force in the political narrative in this country. It began with the inspiring presidential bid of Barry Goldwater in 1964, followed by Richard Nixon’s remarkable political comeback in winning the 1968 presidential election. While there’s no question that Nixon was an immensely flawed man, his appeal to the “silent majority” was clearly a populist theme.

Unfortunately, Nixon’s Watergate demise opened the door for establishment dunce Gerald Ford, which in turn opened the door for leftwing dunce Jimmy Carter, which in turn threw the door wide open for populist Ronald Reagan. As Donald Trump would do thirty-six years later, Reagan astonished his establishment critics by riding his populist message all the way to the White House.

Unfortunately, though Reagan’s intellect and rhetoric were conservative, his policies often veered off course (e.g., amnesty for 3 million illegal

immigrants). Even so, his tax cuts and pullback on government regulations were enough to explode the economy, proving once again that given the slightest opening, the free market always produces vibrant economic growth and a better life for all those who are willing to work.

Following Reagan, the U.S. muddled its way through George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush before Americans got diverted by the excitement over a half-black presidential candidate with a Marxist-riddled, community-organizing background. While Barack Obama failed to totally destroy the U.S. economy as he had hoped, he did succeed in entrenching the anti-American culture of the Radical Left.

What Obama never expected, however, was a counter-revolutionary populist movement led by, of all people, a blue-collar billionaire. Just as Jimmy Carter’s breathtaking incompetence and hardline socialist views opened the door for populist Ronald Reagan, so, too, did Barack Obama’s attempt to bring down America open the door for populist Donald Trump.

Now, here we are in 2017, and Obama, Hillary, and their hate-fueled Radical Left supporters have never recovered from the 2016 election. The good news is that, through sheer stubbornness and stupidity, they are doing more to irrevocably harm the Democratic Party than Trump is. They really and truly have no clue.

Unfortunately, establishment Republicans hate Trump even more than the Radical Left, chiefly because he is not wedded to an ideology. They simply cannot accept the fact that he’s a populist who is driven by common sense rather than a set of ideological principles. The establishment finds this to be a terrifying situation, because if Trump is successful, it could put the business-as-usual good life in Washington on hold for decades to come.

The strength of the populist movement will be clear for all to see after the Republicans’ landslide victories in 2018, but it’s critical that rank-and-file populists remain vigilant and not fall asleep at the wheel after each triumph. The rise, then silence, of the Tea Party movement is the most recent example of this danger, and it almost led to the death knell for America, first with the election of Barack Obama, then with the candidacy of Horrible Hillary.

When you think about the destruction Hillary would have brought about had she been elected, it’s pretty scary. Can there be any doubt she would have made the vile new culture that Tom Brokaw so warmly embraces an irreversible fact of life for Americans through laws banning everything from gun ownership to free speech for conservatives? She is living proof of why populists cannot afford to take naps.

Whatever complaints you may have about Trump’s egomaniacal ways, verbal clumsiness, and lack of ideological principles, he likely is America’s last, best hope for destroying, at least for decades, the cancerous policies of the Radical Left and the resistance of the Republican establishment.

As Trump famously said during his campaign, “What have you got to lose?” ROBERT RINGERRobert Ringer (© 2017)is a New York Times #1 bestselling author who has appeared on numerous national radio and television shows, including The Tonight Show, Today, The Dennis Miller Show, Good Morning America, ABC Nightline, The Charlie Rose Show, as well as Fox News and Fox Business. To sign up for a free subscription to his mind-expanding daily insights, visit www.robertringer.com.

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The CNN SmearbundJohn Stossel wrote a nice piece entitled “A CNN Smear” which

appeared on Townhall and the local paper. Having been ambushed by CNN and its reporter Drew Griffin myself, I can feel for Pebble Limited Partnership (PLP) CEO Tom Collier whose comments were obviously edited to make him look like an environment-hating Republican crony who went to Washington as soon as Trump took office to take advantage of his political juice.

No doubt Mr. Griffin and his producer told Collier, when discussing the interview, used words to the effect, “don’t worry, we don’t want to talk about your Pebble project in particular. We just want your take on mining in Alaska generally.”

Of course as Griffin tells the story Collier went to Washington to speak with EPA head Scott Pruitt about lifting the Obama Administration EPA’s pre-emptive veto on applying for a permit for the mine. And within an hour, “EPA staffers were shocked to receive this email obtained exclusively by CNN which says ‘we have been directed by the administrator to withdraw restrictions’ ... (P)rotection of that pristine area was being removed.”

The fact is, as Paul Lebo writes for Seeking Alpha,“the EPA had agreed to lift the veto toward the end of the Obama

administration, but then in the final days in office failed to conclude the agreement. This is noteworthy as it sheds light that the prior EPA had reached a verbal agreement to lift the veto and thus for the new administrator to follow through on the agreement after his review of the situation appears to be a very conservative and appropriate course of action.”

Bur, as Griffin put it, “This looks like the head of a gold mine went to a new administrator and got him to reverse what an entire department

had worked on for years.”And while CNN portrayed the proposed Pebble mine trashing miles

of pristine salmon breeding grounds, the mine is to be located 100 miles away.

Lebo explains,“What CNN did not report is that Pebble sits just over 100 miles from

Bristol Bay, and is 1,000 feet above sea level. Only two tributaries near Pebble feed into Bristol Bay, and these two tributaries account for less than 1% of Bristol Bay’s water flow.”

CNN’s Griffin called Collier “a guy who wants to mine gold in an area that many scientists believe will destroy one of the most pristine sockeye salmon sporting grounds in the whole world.”

Griffin forgot to mention that Collier is “a Democrat who once ran environment policy for President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore,” Stossel writes.

The project is a long way from being a mine. Lebo writes,“Importantly, we further note that the lifting of the veto does not

guarantee that the mine permit will be approved. It is merely a process issue whereby Pebble should be allowed to submit a permit for scientific review, a prospect with which many Alaskans are in agreement.”

CNN didn’t mention that the mine has been downsized and a number of safety measures put in place for the proposed mine that will take years to be approved and built. If the mine comes to fruition, the Community benefits would include,“Estimated annual revenue to the Lake & Peninsula Borough would be $19-21 million per year. Estimated annual state revenue would be $49-66 million per year and estimated total job creation for Alaskans would be 1,500-2,000.”

CNN doesn’t let any facts get in the way of their agenda of demonizing business.

DOUG FRENCH

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Commentary: Doug French

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Why is Socialized Medicine Still Being Pushed by Democrats?

The newest reports coming out of the National Health Service (NHS) in the U.K. are genuinely frightening. The latest plans from the NHS is Hertfordshire are considered to be the some of the more extreme measures introduced yet. The new rules will ration care to smokers and the obese. The NHS will mandate smokers quit smoking and take a breathalyzer test before getting treatment, and those considered obese will have to lose weight.

Many pushers of socialized medicine have said rationing doesn’t happen in civilized countries. Many love to say everyone gets great healthcare in countries with socialized medicine unless you’re overweight or happen to smoke.

But the fun doesn’t stop in the U.K. There are examples of failed socialized medicine across the globe the politicians would only open their eyes.

A recent survey of Canadian wait times was shocking. The survey found an average wait time of 20 weeks for medically necessary treatment. 20 weeks may seem like a lot, but if you live in New Brunswick province, you’re waiting for 38.8 weeks. 20 weeks is double the wait time it was in 1993.

Sweden was once a health care model for the world. But that is hardly the case anymore. The 2016 Euro Health Consumer Index painted a grim picture of the Bernie loving Swedish healthcare stating, “the notoriously poor Swedish accessibility situation seems very difficult to rectify, in spite of state government efforts to stimulate the decentralized county-operated healthcare system to shorten waiting lists by throwing money at the problem (“Queue-billions”). Sweden now has the highest healthcare spend per capita, (after the three super-wealthy countries, see Section 4.1) together with The Netherlands and Austria. “Throwing money at a problem” is obviously not an effective way of problem-solving…. Particularly cancer care waits, not least in the capital Stockholm, seem inhumane!”

Bernie Sanders is constantly praising Sweden’s model as a goal for the U.S. Perhaps the Democrat Senator from Vermont should take a trip there and do a little research.

Socialism has not only collapsed the healthcare system in Venezuela, it has also collapsed the economy and is well on its way to collapsing the country. The system

is working so poorly in Venezuela that the leadership fires people that give bad news.Health Minister Antonieta Caporale was fired after releasing data that showed a 76

percent increase in malaria, a 66 percent increase in pregnancy-related deaths, and a 30 percent increase in infant mortality. Those don’t sound like the numbers of a successful healthcare system.

Cuba is another socialized nation that has earned praise from the left. If only they took a closer look. Cuban doctors are exported like products to foreign countries to serve as revenue raisers for the central government. Many Cuban doctors are now suing the Cuban government and host governments on the grounds of slavery. The doctors are treated like indentured servants and must do what the government tells them to do. What do you think will happen to medical school enrollment in the U.S. if this was how doctors were treated?

While patients are being denied care in national healthcare systems around the world, Sanders is driving the bus to lead the U.S. into oblivion. Sanders has introduced S. 1804, Medicare for All Act of 2017, a bill that would absolutely put the government in charge of your healthcare. It is further disturbing 16 Members of the Senate have cosponsored the bill. It is scary to think 35 percent of Democrats in the Senate are pushing for a failed system.

Why do socialized healthcare advocates continue to want systems that have clearly failed? This is not theory. Multiple month wait times in Europe, slavery in Cuba, and a total collapse in Venezuela are petri dishes to study. When you study them, socialized medicine doesn’t work.

With all the access Members of Congress have to news sources, healthcare data, and foreign government information you figure they would be able to see a pattern. Will you please quit trying to force the U.S. into a failed system and allow us to have a healthcare system based on the free market? You know, the same principles that lowered the prices and raised the quality of TVs, cars, and computers.

President Trump campaigned to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Speaker Paul Ryan promised to repeal and replace Obamacare. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed to repeal and replace Obamacare. Now news reports out of the U.K. are giving Congress a real reason to worry about the rationing and cruelty of socialized medicine. Will somebody please repeal and replace Obamacare before it’s too late? PRINTUS LeBLANCPrintus LeBlanc is a contributing editor at Americans for Limited Government.

Commentary: Printus LeBlanc

Was the real Russian collusion the Uranium One deal?

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is calling upon Attorney General Jeff Sessions to assist him in ridding the federal government of the corruption the Obama Administration perpetuated. After recent news stories surfaced highlighting an ethically questionable business deal which gave the Russian nuclear industry significant control over the U.S. uranium supply, Grassley wants Sessions to allow an FBI informant alleging that a Justice Department prosecution of a Russian company engaged in bribery was slowed down to grease the wheels of the Uranium One deal.

In a breaking news story this week published in The Hill this week, John Solomon and Alison Spann explain, “Rather than bring immediate charges in 2010, however, the Department of Justice (DOJ) continued investigating the matter for nearly four more years, essentially leaving the American public and Congress in the dark about Russian nuclear corruption on U.S. soil during a period when the Obama administration made two major decisions benefiting Putin’s commercial nuclear ambitions.”

The deal allowed a Russian state-owned corporation to acquire 20 percent of the U.S. uranium supply — and funneled millions to the Clinton Foundation. Consider the timeline.

It began on June 8, 2010, when Uranium One announced their intention to broker a deal with the United States to acquire notably more uranium supply. Just a day later on June 9, 2010, husband to the serving Secretary of State and former President Bill Clinton was hired to give a speech for $500,000 to the Russian bank Renaissance Capital, which occurred on June 29, a bank that would later talk up uranium markets and even promote Uranium One stocks.

As the New York Times of April 2015 reported, “As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to identify all donors publicly. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.”

As Sarah Carter explains in her comprehensive article investigating the matter, “The deal which required approval by [the Committee on Foreign Investment] CFIUS, an inter-agency committee who reviews transactions that leads to a change of control of a U.S. business to a foreign person or entity that may have an impact on the national security of the United States. At the time of the Uranium One deal the panel was chaired by then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and included then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-Attorney General Eric Holder.” The committee is supposed to ensure transactions that lead to a change of control of a business to a foreign person or entity does not negatively impact national security of the United States.

While the transaction moved forward, there was one problem. By 2010 when the deal was in its infant stages, the FBI informant claims the agency already had more than enough evidence to halt the transaction for obvious corruption and bribery.

The case was being led by some familiar faces: Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, who now serves as Trump’s deputy attorney general, and Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who is currently the deputy FBI director, led the investigation.

In the three-year period, while the investigation was oddly stalled, the Clinton foundation was fueled.

This transaction clearly generated some unanswered questions, but the individual with the answers is being silenced.

The FBI informant who produced information to Carter and Solomon cannot testify before Congress because of a nondisclosure agreement and threats he received from the Obama Administration, Grassley is encouraging Sessions to lift this gag order to give the informant a chance to testify.

The informant’s lawyer, Victoria Toensing, has been speaking on his behalf encouraging Sessions to life the order as well, she explains, “My client has specific information about contributions and bribes to various entities and people in the United States, but he cannot go any further than that because he has not been released from his non disclosure agreement… In 2016 he filed a civil action [to life the agreement] and he was threatened by the Loretta Lynch Justice Department..who claimed that his liberty would be in jeopardy.”

She continues to note, “Chairman Grassley sent me a letter and said he wants my client to be interviewed, so what is the Justice Department going to do because it is unconstitutional for the executive branch to tell somebody not to give information to the legislative branch.”

The real question is why would the Justice Department block this testimony? What have they got to hide?

In a statement, Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning urged the whistleblower’s testimony: “The first step Attorney General Jeff Sessions must take is to clear the whistleblower to testify about the corruption that he or she is alleging. Only through that testimony and subsequent thorough investigation led by Sessions, not involving any of the accused, can the interests of the U.S. government and its people be served. If the Russians exerted influence at the highest levels of the Justice Department and the FBI in order to obtain approval of the takeover of 20 percent of the U.S. uranium reserves, then that sale should be nullified and the people who facilitated it should be imprisoned.”

Grassley is taking the right steps to restore the rule of law in the country; now Sessions must follow the constitution and assist him by lifting this gag order. This will finally provide the real Russia corruption story; the story of the Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton utilizing bribery to fund their interests. NATALIA CASTRONatalia Castro is a contributing editor for Americans for Limited GovernmentCorrection: Renaissance Capital later promoted Uranium One as a stock buying opportunity, not former President Bill Clinton.

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Illegal Alien Words and Actions Killing Their Own Cause

When it comes to illegal aliens, I’ve not been in the camp of “deport ‘em all and let God sort ‘em out.” But the way some of these trespassers have been acting lately is causing me to have second thoughts.

Democrats on Capitol Hill recently staged a dog-and-pony show featuring insulting, in-your-face, illegal aliens who object to President Donald Trump’s immigration reform policies, especially as it applies to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. The so-called “dreamers.”

“The president does not care about our children and our families,” accused Lenka Mendoza, as reported by Breitbart News. “Trump and his government supposed priorities are nothing else but an anti-immigrant and white-supremacist agenda that don’t solve anything.”

“White-supremacist agenda”? Somebody needs to read “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” And it’s not “anti-immigrant.” It’s anti-ILLEGAL immigrant. At least be intellectually honest in debating this issue if you want to be taken seriously.

Now here’s the kicker: As Breitbart reports, Mendoza is “an unskilled illegal alien who has been living in the United States for 17 years.” And yet her smear of Republicans who oppose illegal immigration was delivered by…wait for it…a TRANSLATOR.

Over 17 years Ms. Mendoza hasn’t even taken the time to bother learning English. Lovely.

A second illegal alien, Ingrid Vaca, then took to the microphone and declared, “DACA was taken away by Trump and his racist advisors, Jeff Sessions and Steven Miller … We will not let racist men negotiate with our kids’ lives. … We will not allow our families to be broken up … A mother’s love is stronger than the racists from the White House.”

These incendiary accusations are absolutely outrageous. Just because someone supports enforcement of our nation’s existing immigration laws doesn’t make them a racist. Knock it off.

A third illegal alien, Luis Condorimay, piled on…“There are politicians in power right now who want to deport my

father and my mother, who want to separate me from my little sister. … They say they have heart for us, they say they understand our pain, but all they really want to do is hurt our families and continue to separate us as they have done for the past many years.”

The gigantic flaw in both Vaca’s and Condorimay’s belly-aching is that there’s absolutely no reason whatsoever that any illegal alien family needs to be broken up or separated. Prospective deportees are more than welcome to take their families with them when they return to their home country. Problem solved.

For her part, Democrat House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi chimed in that the Trump administration’s immigration reform proposals were “trash” and “brutal” as her home state of California moved to become a “sanctuary state.”

None of this is helpful to actually fixing this problem. And as the illegal alien crowd becomes ever more militant and obnoxious, the odds of Nevadans approving an expected ballot measure to ban sanctuary cities and ditch DACA become more and more likely even among those who are otherwise empathetic to the plight of “dreamers.”

Cool it with the vinegar and try a little honey.

CHUCK MUTH

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