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Wall Street Journal: Dynamic of GOP Race Hinges On Today’s Primaries

Tuesday, March 15th, 2016

WSJ(WSJ) A Sweep of Today’s Republican Primaries May Force a Race Between Donald Trump & Ted Cruz

Real Clear Politics: Donald Trump Leads In Most Major Polls Ahead Of Tuesday’s GOP Primaries

Monday, March 14th, 2016

GOP Polls Ahead Of Super Tuesday(RCP) GOP Frontrunner Donald Trump Leads Rubio & Cruz Ahead of Tuesday’s GOP Primaries

Related: Republican Support for Donald Trump Now 45.4% – Ted Cruz 23.4% – Rubio 12.5% –Reuters

Donald Trump Loses Lead in New Nationwide NBC News/WSJ Poll

Wednesday, February 17th, 2016

NBC News WSJ Poll(LA Times) Donald Trump has been toppled by Sen. Ted Cruz for the Republican nomination for president, according to a new NBC News/WSJ poll.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz now is the first choice of GOP Primary Voters nationwide at 28% to 26% for Donald Trump, followed by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 17% – Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 11% – Dr. Ben Carson at 10% and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 4%

The results from the poll conducted subsequent to Donald Trump’s victory in New Hampshire and Saturday’s GOP Debate in South Carolina are a significant reversal from last month when Trump held a 13 pt lead over Cruz — 33% to 20%

Related: Atty for Trump Sends Ted Cruz ‘Cease & Desist’ Letter

As China Threatens Taiwan, Hillary Clinton and Most Republican Presidential Hopefuls Are Silent

Friday, January 22nd, 2016

Hillary Clinton ChinaActivists Shocked That Hillary Clinton Vowed Not to Let Human Rights Concerns Hinder Cooperation with the China Regime –CDT 2009

(WSJ) Taiwan held an historic election this week, with voters giving a landslide victory to the opposition and making DPP Tsai Ing-wen its first female president. The result has major implications for China, the United States and Asia, the wealthiest and most populous region in the world but did America’s future leaders notice?

Hillary Clinton who hopes to be the first female president and boasts of engineering the U.S. pivot to Asia said nothing about Taiwan this week. Clinton highlighted the tainted water scandal in Michigan, published paeans to Obama’s leadership and Tweeted about the scourge of “mansplaining” but there was no press release congratulating Taiwan and Tsai Ing-wen and no statement from the campaign trail.

Some Republicans did better. “Taiwan’s latest election once again shows the island to be a thriving democracy,” Marco Rubio said in a statement, calling for expanded economic, political and security cooperation with “one of America’s oldest and most loyal friends in Asia.”

Ted Cruz said, Taiwanese citizens “tenacious witness to the promise of liberty is a beacon of light to their neighbors, yearning to be free. America honors our friend and ally today.”

Former Florida Gov Jeb Bush, NJ Gov Chris Christie and Ohio Gov John Kasich may share these sentiments but they didn’t say so. Donald Trump was similarly mute.

U.S. foreign policy isn’t determined solely by what candidates do or don’t say while campaigning and thank goodness for that but campaign rhetoric reflects popular priorities and the general failure to note Taiwan’s election isn’t an isolated event. It reflects a too common practice of misunderstanding Taiwan’s importance as a U.S. partner, Asian bellweather and target of China (regime) aggression.

The U.S. assesses that preparing to fight Taiwan remains the ‘primary mission’ of China’s military. Taiwan once enjoyed technological military superiority along with ‘the inherent geographic advantages of island defense’ a Pentagon report to Congress said last year but recent Chinese modernization has ‘eroded or negated many of these factors.’

China’s Communists consider Taiwan a renegade province and threaten war if the island won’t voluntarily unify with China. — China State TV last year showed a military drill in which PLA soldiers stormed a replica of Taiwan’s presidential office…the phrase ‘use force to unify Taiwan’ exploded on Chinese social-media after this weeks election of DPP Tsai Ing-wen, whose platform emphasized Taiwan’s right to democratic self-government.

The U.S. pivot to Asia sought to deter Chinese aggression but ignored Taiwan. William Stanton, the career diplomat who represented the United States in Taipei from 2009-2012 said that, ‘the biggest failure of the Obama Administration’s policy towards China has been its handling of Taiwan, including ‘the omission of any references to Taiwan in describing the U.S. policy of reorientation to Asia.’ The U.S. last month announced a modest arms sale to Taiwan but that followed an unprecedented four year hiatus.

Taiwan’s size and economy certainly don’t justify its being overlooked. It has 23 million people, as many as Australia and more than most countries in the world. Largely due to its electronic exports, its America’s 10th largest trading partner ahead of India.

It’s peaceful transition from authoritarianism to democracy starting in the 1980s should be a model for the world, Chinese leaders and their boosters in the West sometime speak of a ‘Beijing model’ challenging the liberal-democratic ‘Washington consensus’ but Taiwan’s election showed how poor China looks in comparison.

China imprisons female human rights activists, lawyers and journalists; Taiwan has a female president-elect. Chinese citizens go to jail for asking their leaders to disclose personal assets; Taiwan president-elect Tsai Ing-wen asset disclosure was barely even noticed. — The Chinese doctor who became a national hero for curbing the 2003 SARS outbreak Jiang Yanyong, was soon detained for discussing the Tiananmen Square Massacre; Taiwan’s SARS hero Dr. Chen Chien-jen is now vice president-elect.

Then there is Hong Kong, where Beijing ‘promised’ to respect civil liberties and thereby create a model for Taiwan to come under its sovereignty. With Beijing’s promise of democracy now broken and mainland China agents accused of abducting government critics off Hong Kong streets, its no wonder, Taiwanese back politicians who pledge to preserve their distance from Beijing.

Studying a map reveals other aspects of Taiwan’s importance. Taiwan sits at the center of the Western Pacific’s ‘first island chain’ which stretches from Indonesia in the south to Japan in the north, bounding China’s coast and limiting Beijing’s ability to threaten the open ocean militarily. China’s control of Taiwan would mean that Chinese submarines based on the island’s east coast, with free access up and down the Pacific.

U.S. allies such as Japan consider Taiwan essential to their own security. The erosion of U.S. attention to Taiwan–and certainly the abandonment of Taiwan that some American scholars propose, could shatter U.S. alliances in Asia, which grave regional security consequences such as Japan and South Korea going nuclear.

So the election of Tsai Ing-wen, would be a good moment for Taiwan to regain American’s attention. China’s attempts to bully Taipei’s new government economically, diplomatically or militarily may soon force the U.S. to pay great attention to some crisis but that only underscores the issue’s importance now. Something for presidential hopefuls to consider as they traverse Iowa and New Hampshire.

Update: On Birthright Citizenship and Donald Trump’s Children — An Apology

Sunday, September 6th, 2015

Trump Children

(Adobo Chronicles) At least three (some may argue four) of Donald Trump’s five children are ‘Anchor Babies’ and could face deportation by ICE under Trump’s own immigration proposal. — Wrong!

While it is true, Mr. Trump’s first wife Ivana was born what’s now the Czech Republic, was living in Canada until at least 1976 and did not become a U.S. Citizen until 1988 and that: Donald Trump, Jr was born in 1977 Ivanka was born in 1981 and Eric was born in 1984

It is clear upon further investigation, that my initial premise questioning whether or not Mr. Trump is the biological father of the three Trump children was wrong and I’m sorry.

I should not have made the claims that I had without more evidence to support it and for this I apologize.

Mr. Trump is the biological father of the three Trump children mentioned herein and as a result thereof I apologize for suggesting otherwise without more evidence than I had to support my initial claim.

As to Trump’s position on ‘anchor babies’ I find it to be constitutionally flawed as I have earlier written and again here. Trump can not support the position that he makes in law or fact.

As for, Donald Trump, Jr together with his siblings Ivanka and Eric, they are in-fact American born citizens just as certain as Sen. Ted Cruz is and is eligible to seek the presidency as Neal Katyal and Paul Clement argued in a well reasoned and sound legal treatise at 128 Harvard Law Review F. 161

Regardless of my erroneous argument earlier made here, Donald Trump’s ‘immigration proposal’ challenging the Constitutionality of birthright citizenship of babies born to ‘undocumented (or as some would prefer illegal) immigrant’ mothers remains seriously flawed pursuant to the 14th Amendment and 117 years of legal precedent established by U.S. -v- Wong Kim Ark 169 U.S. 649 (1898)

In 2010 I argued here when the State of Arizona was attempting to deny birthright citizenship to babies born of undocumented immigrant mothers, Arizona has:

“…reopened century old wounds, resurrecting prejudice, bigotry and hatred of others–was immorally shameful” and violative of the Constitution.

In 2012 the U.S. Supreme Ct in the matter of Arizona -v- United States, Case No. 11-182 declared Arizona statute ‘S.B. 1070’ unconstitutional.

Is the NY Times Fair, Bias or Racist in Coverage of Republican Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz?

Wednesday, March 25th, 2015

NY Times BiasIs the NY Times Fair, Bias or Racist? –Image: BCP@Twitter

NY Times February 2007 When Sen. Obama Enters Race for President:

“Speaking smoothly and comfortably, Mr. Obama offered a generational call to arms, portraying his campaign less as a candidacy and more as a movement.”

NY Times March, 2015 When Sen Ted Cruz Enters Race for President:

“Mr. Cruz’s tenure in Washington has been marked by accusations of demagogy. He sometimes deploys the soaring dictation of a preacher while stalking out uncompromising and rigid conservative positions, often playing the role of a political flamethrower.”

H/T: Megyn Kelly

Texas Conservative Republican Senator Ted Cruz Announces Bid for Presidency

Monday, March 23rd, 2015

Ted CruzTexas Senator @Ted Cruz Makes It Official

Sen Ted Cruz: Obama Is Not a Monarch

Wednesday, November 19th, 2014

A Lame Duck MoveA Lame Duck Move –Cartoon: AF Branco/Comically Incorrect

(Politico/SenTedCruz) The Constitution designs a system of checks and balances for our nation and executive amnesty for immigrants here illegally unilaterally decreed from the White Hose would seriously undermine the rule of law.

Our founders repeatedly warned about the dangers of unlimited power within the executive branch; Congress should heed those words as the president threatens to grant amnesty to millions of people that have come to our country illegally.

To be clear, the dispute over executive amnesty is not between President Obama and Republicans on Congress, it is a dispute between President Obama and the American people. The Democrats suffered historic losses in the midterm elections largely over the prospect of the president’s executive amnesty.

President Obama was correct: His policies were on the ballot across the nation in 2014 the elections were a referendum on amnesty and the voters soundly rejected it. There was no ambiguity. 

Undeterred, President Obama appears to be going forward. It is lawless. It is unconstitutional. He is defiant and angry at the American people. If he acts by executive diktat, President Obama will not be acting as a president, he will be acting as a monarch.

Thankfully, the framers of the Constitution, wary of the dangers of monarchy, gave the Congress tools to reign in abuses of power. They believed that if a president wants to change the law he cannot act alone…

Rest here from Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX)

While Obama Claims To End the War on Islamic Terrorism & Americans Become Complacent…

Saturday, June 28th, 2014

New 911Islamic Jihadist #CalamityWillBefallUS  “Coming Soon” Claims
New 11 Sept By ISIS –Image: 0ff2020@Twitter

911 ThreatJihadists Make New 9/11 Threat Claiming: “This Scene Will Be Seen By #Americans But Where? Unexpected Place -Image: Abo Suhib1@Twitter

Islamic Jihadist Explosive BeltIslamic Jihadist Wearing Explosive Vest Writes: “I Really Need Hug You, Can I ?” @FLOTUS –Image: ISIS (hnanah1@Twitter)

Muslims Threat to U.S. CongressMuslims Threaten: #USA @Oprah @Kingsthings @BarackObama @John Kerry @NY Times @CondiRice –Image: ISIS/Off2020@Twitter

Islamic JihadistThreaten CongressIslamic Jihadists Threaten @SenMikeLee @Allen West @SenTedCruz @SenMarcoRubio @NancyPelosi –Image: boe9eod@Twitter

Islamic Jihadists Threaten CompaniesIslamic Jihadists Threatens Commerce & Americans Claiming to “Have So Many Targets” Using Knives, Bullets or Explosion @Barack Obama –Image: iabdulla@Twitter

ISIS Teaching Children to Be JihadistsISIS Teaching Children to Be the Next Generation of Jihadists
Image: Prophet’s Khilafa@Twitter

Islamic Terror Threaten Poison Gas AttackIslamic Jihadist Threatens Poison Gas Attacks on Americans
Image: Sahe85@Twitter

Sudanese Mother Sentenced to Death for Converting to Christianity Freed From Prison

Monday, June 23rd, 2014

Meriam Released(Life News) Meriam Ibrahim & Children Released From Sudan Prison Now They Need to be on Plane to U.S. –Image: Dominic Sputo@Twitter

Sen Ted CruzSen Ted Cruz Led Fight to Save Meriam Ibrahim

Related: Support Legislation to Grant Legal Status to Meriam Ibrahim

38 House Members Called on State Dept to Press Sudan to #SaveMeriam