Of course, you've heard about it by now.  17 students and staff dead at a high school in Parkland, Fl.  It's awful, of course.  But immediately afterward, of course, we hear all the braying for tighter firearm laws.  Never mind the fact that "gun control" has never worked (at least if you view the aim of it as reduction of crime, rather than reduction of firearm ownership, leading of course to a complete, virtual or for most of the population, a de facto firearms ban (One way of doing a de facto ban would be to make firearms, licensing or ammunition almost impossible to obtain either by excessive regulation or by driving costs through the roof.))

This effort to mount demonstrations both in Florida and nationwide is supposedly spontaneous.  Yet, it seems to me that this sprung up entirely too quickly and has been entirely too well-mobilized to be spontaneous.  There are materials to be paid for (Most of the protest signs I've seen are entirely too "made-for-TV" or "made-for-movies" for me.  And most of the rest of them looked professionally-produced.  This immediately sent red flags up sky-high for me.)  Transportation to the State Capitol?  Who paid for that?  There's a march being planned for Washington, D.C.  Who's paying for the transportation there and back?  Is public funding being used?  If so, certainly there is something illegal about that!

I don't mean to sound insensitive, but this does offer us opportunities to make some needed changes.  Then, these people and others will not have died entirely in vain.  The shooter, 19-year-old Nicholas Cruz, has been described as autistic, depressed and having had some other difficulties.  First of all, he didn't have a very good chance at life, with both his parents dying when he was very young.  He was taken in by foster parents.  His foster dad also died quite some time back.  This isn't exactly a normal childhood.  One thing I found strange was that one of his relatives (the report didn't identify whom) said that, "We've had this monster (italics mine) under our roof" a day or two after the shootings.  It seems to me that even if someone I loved had done something horrible such as this I would be much more hesitant to call him a "monster" at least so early in the process.  What amount of love was truly there?  Was the person saying this under duress?  Were the neighbors threatening this person and his or her family?  All this should be investigated and if appropriate, prosecuted.  We need an increased emphasis on the traditional family, including help through our governments to buttress the family.  Progressives have worked for a century or more to destroy the traditional American family.  This has to be reversed.

Those funny-looking jet contrails in our skies.  You know:  the ones that just stay, and stay, and stay.  We need to find out what's being sprayed in our skies and why!  And we need to do independent research on the subject, not just accept the answers of others.  Contrails didn't stick around like that when I was a kid and I doubt that they did when you were if you're over, say, 45.

We need to start having the Food and Drug Administration do honest research on what goes into our food.  This could at least in part explain the sudden increase in autism.  The fact that they use corporate-funded studies as evidence is absolutely mind-blowing!  It's the fox guarding the henhouse!  We also need to investigate why so many children are becoming depressed.  I'd say
fractured, dysfunctional families is a good place to start.

Let's not ignore one fact:  this mass shooting would never have happened if the FBI had done it's damn job!  This was a failure of the system which was entirely preventable without any change in gun laws!  One thing has to be said about their response to this, though.  At least they had the decency to admit it, and quickly, when they screwed up.

And one final point:  to claim that violence on television, in song lyrics and in video games somehow does not influence people's attitudes and behavior is positively stupid (And yes, it's time to call things which are obviously stupid stupid, regardless of who gets offended or how badly.).  If this was so, advertisers (who are some pretty smart folks) would not spend billions of dollars each year on advertising!  And to say that the awful things which are stated or implied by the lyrics of much rap music and a few genres of rock 'n' roll are merely free speech is positively ludicrous!  At the very least, we need a rating system which is realistic and enforced, with clerks going to jail for selling to underage people in much the same way as bartenders do.

So far, even the President seems to be going the easy, wrong direction when it comes to changes to deal with this phenomenon.  He has issued a memorandum banning bump-stocks and is talking about "an improved background check system".  Does that mean a more intrusive system?  Does it mean a system which makes it more onerous to buy a gun?  I am not in favor of these things.  However, I have a few suggestions.  They are:

1.  The latest brain research indicates that females are typically not adult until between 23 and 25 years of age and males not until between 25 and 27 years of age.  I would support an increase in the minimum age to buy a firearm to 23 for women and 25 for men.  I know I surely did some really strange and stupid things between 18 and 25!

2.  I do not support our medical records being even more public than they currently are.  In fact, I think that we should go back to it being more difficult for government and others to get access to our medical records.  Without extremely good reason, those records should be between you and your doctor!  However, if you have been adjudicated unable to take care of your own affairs, you should not be able to own or possess a firearm.  I would say that a felony record should preclude you owning or possessing a firearm, except that we have made so many things felonies that I think that's overarching.  How about this?  If you have been convicted (note I did not say, "under suspicion of", "arrested for", or "charged with".  I believe that an arrest or a charge does not make you guilty of anything and I am entirely uncomfortable with giving police that much power to affect someone's life who may be innocent.

In conclusion, I too weep for the parents of Parkland, Florida, but we need to be very careful where we proceed from here.  There are a number of steps which can be taken and have not been taken which could actually work to reduce the occurrence of these types of events without abrogating peoples firearm rights and the Second Amendment and therefore our Constitution.  And there is a very powerful, very well-funded and very well-organized movement that at the top (not toward the bottom necessarily, where there are I'm sure many well-meaning people who are simply responding to emotion and are being manipulated) is entirely devoted to making the United States of America a sheep-like, entirely-controlled and entirely defenseless society! 

A Tragedy . . Some Context . . and Some Perspective

17 people killed at a high school in Florida.  A tragedy almost beyond words.  I've received no word yet on whether they were students or staff, or how many of each were killed.  I've also received no word on the number of injured.  It's every modern American parent's worst nightmare.

We hear the same mantra, the same calls, many from the same reliable sources, either directly or by inference calling for gun control, be it limits on accessories ("bump stocks" and large magazines), outright bans on certain types of firearms, bans on private firearm ownership (which would put the U.S. population at the mercy of its' government), bans on private sales of firearms, making private sellers go through the arduous process of forcing buyers through FBI background checks (never mind the fact that the FBI had the shooter in this case on its' watch list last year, yet did nothing to prevent the tragedy at
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasacks/the-fbi-was-warned-about-a-school-shooting-threat-from).

Bennight, the reporter of the "professional school shooter" video, reported it to You Tube, which took out the "professional school shooter" language.  However, despite allegations of taking down numerous allegedly-right-wing news feeds, YouTube, rather than taking down the "school shooter" video immediately, left it up until the evening after the shootings.  So much for filtering systems.

I have a few ideas regarding how to prevent such situations from happening in the future without abrogating our Second Amendment rights.  They are:

1.  Every school district in the country should pay for professionally-done total security assessments of all of their schools.

2.  Every district should implement Israeli-style security at all of their schools.  That means there's one way in to each school.  All of the other easy access points (doors, windows large enough for a person to easily fit through without being noticed, etc.) should be exit only (this also satisfies fire codes).  That one way in involves a student or staff member (They can go nuts too!) going through a metal detector with armed ex-military or ex-police in attendance.  There should be no "Well, I know this guy (or gal).  He (or she) is okay."  There should be no "Hey, I can't go through this right now.  I'm late for class!"  Too bad!  Go through the metal detector!  And while we're at it, let's take a look inside that bag!  Yes, bags and large bulges, any large hats, anything that raises any suspicion, should be checked!  And no excuses, girls!  If a girl has a suspicious bulge, etc., if necessary, a woman should be called in to check the person (and yes, this includes staff)!

3.  I remember that when I was a youngster, I lived next to a family which had a significant amount of violence in their home.  They had, from time to time, several long guns which they kept in their utility room next to an outside door!  Yet, I never heard gunshots ring out.  I never heard anyone threaten to shoot anyone else.  I saw someone being carted out on a stretcher once but that was for a different reason.  My father and I have marveled (and thanked God for it) that we didn't see people carted out of that house more often, including possibly shot and/or dead.  I remember one time when I expressed interest in the guns.  I was told by one of the children in the family in no uncertain terms that we never touched those guns!  The reasons were simple:  not only might someone get hurt (that was unspoken) but the father in the family would kick our asses!  Yes, we had fathers in the home who we were thoroughly convinced (rightly or wrongly) would kick our butts if we merely stepped out of line, much less did something like that!  There has been research done that indicated that adolescent male African elephants will do a massive amount of destruction if brought up in a herd that has no adult males.  These adolescent male elephants hyper-masculinize.  Yet, if there are adult males, the adolescents toe the line, and quickly!  I wonder why!  

In closing, I have to note, as President Trump has, that mental illness may have played a role in this catastrophe.  Relatives have told others that the shooter was autistic and possibly on psychotropic medications to deal with emotional issues (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-school-shooting-cruz-20180214-story.html).

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Kushner Scandal May Be "Tempest In Teapot"

Another so-called Trump Administration "scandal" may not be as it appears.
So the story goes, Presidential advisor Jared Kushner talked with the Russian Ambassador to the United States about setting up a direct line of communication between the two of the world's three superpowers.  According to one source, however, the conversation was about a "simple one-off" communication with the Russians over Syria, and was not initially suggested by Kushner.  According to Fox News, this was suggested by Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak.  However, according to Fox, Kushner suggested that Russian equipment be used to thwart attempts to surveil the incoming administration.
So, let's get the facts straight:  the Russian ambassador suggested the conversation.  Kushner did not suggest it.  However, when spoken with about this, he suggested that the conversation take place over Russian-designed equipment so as to thwart any attempt by U.S. intelligence personnel to listen in on the call.  It concerns me that the Trump Administration would want to talk with the Russians without the intelligence community listening in.  However, such direct communication has been very important at times.  Consider the fact that during the Kennedy years there was the "red phone", which was a permanent link.  Consider also the fact that during the Cuban missile crisis that direct line probably prevented World War III.  However, considering the way intelligence officials and others seem to be interested in scuttling the Trump presidency, the suggestion that there be a private communication link does not surprise me.  In fact, it may be a very intelligent move.  So, the intelligence apparatus of this country may have made it easier for the Trump Administration to conduct back-room deals and still have the support of the public.  Confusing world, isn't it?  In effect, they may have discredited themselves.

Trump Has Right To Tell Comey To Back Off Flynn Investigation, Says Top Legal Expert

Famed attorney and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has confirmed what I suspected:  that President Trump has the Constitutional right to tell the FBI's Director to back off an investigation.  Here's more from CNN:  http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/05/20/trump-impeachment-dershowitz-cabrera-segment.cnn

Welcome To the Brave New World . .

http://www.zdnet.com/article/neurala-partners-with-lindbergh-foundation-to-use-drones-to-combat-poaching/?loc=newsletter_small_thumb&ftag=TRE6a12a91&bhid=20337076602077087305307734676428

I wonder how long it'll be before the "powers-that-be" use this technology to watch US?  Or, perhaps they already are . .

Is Google Taking Sides In The War Between Mainstream and Alternative Media?

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It seems to me that this could be, as Google states, a method of helping viewers to discern which stories are true, which are false and which are misleading.  But, who checks the checkers?  I have a far better suggestion:  DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH if you have the time!  And, in any event, employ your own common sense and life experience, allowing for the fact that some events aren't going to correlate with anything in your experience but are nonetheless true.

Swedish Workers Willingly Getting Microchipped

Big Brother continues his march forward, this time in Scandinavia.  Here's the scoop, from Constitution:  http://constitution.com/swedish-workers-getting-routine-microchip-implants/.

House Intelligence Committee Trips To White House Normal, Sources Say

The House Intelligence Committee head routinely travels to the White House to receive extremely sensitive data.  This, from the Constitution:

constitution.com/report-nunes-nothing-ordinary-viewing-classified-intel-white-house/

A Note On My Links

This question has come up:  why are my links in code, instead of plain English?  The reason is simple:  I think that you deserve to KNOW the sources of the materiel to which you are linking.  You can check to see who owns the domains of the sites to which you are linking by contacting http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup (WhatIsMyAddress) or https://whois.icann.org/en (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).  Be assured that I care about you.

Is Trump "Crazy Like A Fox"?

So, it's Sunday night.  The big health bill is supposedly dead, having been 'withdrawn' in the House.  President Trump says he's "moving on" to tax reform.  All the pundits are either bemoaning or cheering the supposed 'death' of the health insurance bill, H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act of 2017.  But here's another scenario.  I heard someone, I do not know whom, express this on patriot radio yesterday evening (I think that it was on The Liberty Net (http://3950.net/live/)).  He brought up the possibility that Trump, by announcing that he is "moving on" to something else, puts huge pressure on the House to come up with a health bill that they can agree on and that the Senate will pass.  If the House doesn't pass anything Trump can claim, rightly, that the House didn't pass anything.  This could put huge pressure on the Speakership of Paul Ryan.  Thus, it is possible that Trump, figuring Ryan to have been an enemy on health care, is "giving (him) enough rope to hang himself".  It's a possibility.

Get Ready For More Idiot Protests

This summer promises to be long and hot in the U.S.  Our nation's left political wing is planning to make it that way.  Corporate America is even joining in the act: 

https://www.mail.com/news/us/5048398-meetup-takes-risky-leap-trump-resistance.html#.7518-stage-hero1-1

Here's one interesting question:  can a corporation which plans or assists in planning these things be sued due to damages?  Does that require violence to have broken out or can a corporation be sued over damages caused by a peaceful protest?

Trump 1; Dems, Liberals and Other Psychopaths 0

Alright, let's get this straight.  This is how I have it between President Donald Trump and the various Dems, RINO's, liberals and other malcontents.  The President says that the Obama Administration bugged Trump Tower.  The Dems and other malcontents (including, yes, YOU, Senator John McCain) seem to think that the Trump transition team colluded with the Russians and that the Russians somehow influenced the 2016 presidential election.  President Trump HAS STATED that he got news of the bugging of Trump Tower from two New York Times articles.  So, so much of the talking heads and Congress crowing about how he has to come up with "proof" and mentioning some kind of idiot "deadline" to which the President is not beholden anyway.  The research has been done; the Times did articles on FISA court warrant applications which were submitted by the Obama Administration for permission to conduct surveillance at Trump Tower.  The first application was rejected (which is rare with the FISA court.  Usually they pretty much rubber-stamp these things.)  So, that first application must have been a real humdinger.  The second was accepted.  Would an administration have gone to the trouble to apply for a FISA court warrant without intending to use it?  I doubt that.  So, in all likelihood, there was really surveillance.  By the way, the Times is what we ordinarily refer to in the news biz as an "authoritative source" (Whether it should be considered such is a discussion worthy of much time on another day.)  Secondly, the Obama Administration has a well-documented history of using federal agencies to persecute opponents.  Remember the IRS scandal?  So, in all likelihood, yes, surveillance of some type went on.  Whether Trump used the precisely correct word for the method of surveillance is unimportant.  The aforementioned malcontents claim that the Trump transition team was in communication with Russians.  So what?  It would be understandable and so I hear, routine, for the Russians to speak with someone representing a potential new administration.  Was the Trump team aware of any Russian involvement in the purloining of carelessly-guarded emails from the Clinton campaign?  There's no proof of it.  Were the Russians involved in any theft of said emails?  Our security organs say that there are indications of that but offer no proof of it.  Did the Russians try to hack either campaign?  They've admitted that they tried to hack both of them but claim that they had no success.  Did they try to influence American public opinion?  There's no proof of it but I'll go ahead and say "yes" because this is something that modern advanced nations routinely do, including our own!  Anyone remember President Obama's trip to Israel?  How about the fact that he sent an entire team there, I'm sure at our expense, to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?  The pot is calling the kettle black!  While I remain open to further developments, it seems to me that right now, the score is "Trump 1, Malcontents 0".  Right now, this is taking an inordinate amount of the time, attention and resources (that means "money", as in "taxpayer money", as in your and my money) of the United States government.  If this proves to be a red herring, as I suspect, those responsible for this should be held accountable. 

CNN Loses Feed When Congressman Tells An "Inconvenient Truth"

Do you think that your mainstream media is free and unbiased?  You may want to have a look at this, from Constitution:

http://constitution.com/cnn-cuts-feed-congressman-says-refugees-account-30-terrorism-investigations/

I admit that there's no proof that CNN cut the feed.  Still, I think it's curious that the signal 'went dead' while the alleged connection between immigration and terrorism was being discussed, don't you?

Should There Be A "Bloody Monday" In the Trump Administration?

Certain Demoncrats are now calling for the head of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.  Isn't it funny how they easily they turn on a man who was so recently one of their own (a member of the Senate).  But wait!  Let's take a closer look at this:  certain of this party "investigate" a couple of conversations that Sessions admittedly had with the Russian Ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak.  The reason I put the word "investigate" in quotes is because I believe that this is totally political and that if there was no political benefit to it, the Dems would drop it like a hot rock.  So, Sessions talked with the Russians?  So what?  The last time I checked that wasn't a crime, and in fact the Dems have done it too: 

https://unclesamsmisguidedchildren.com/democrat-hypocrisy-sessions-talked-to-the-russians-so-did-they/

Meanwhile, the Left continues to behave like spoiled children:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/02/right-cue-soros-financed-moveon-org-holds-protest-demanding-sessions-resignation/

And a trial lawyer says Attorney General Sessions certainly didn't commit perjury:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/03/02/trial-lawyer-jeff-sessions-absolutely-not-perjure/

Meanwhile, libs still seem to live in an alternate universe, and the Dems still can't seem to prove any conversations between the Trump campaign or representatives of it and the Russian government:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2017/0302/The-Trump-administration-s-deepening-Russia-problem

Meanwhile, WE'VE been messing with other nations' elections:

https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/#Press%20Release%20(English)

Here's a link to the specific espionage orders:

https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/#release

 

Meanwhile, has it occurred to you that this may be planned?

http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/civil-war-ii/

Look, here's the bottom line:  it's pretty obvious that this has been planned.  The left is being directed by a very cynical cabal the aim of which is to destabilize this President and to destabilize our nation.  It is very well funded.  I can't prove that now but I look for the opportunity.  When and if it presents itself to me I will present the proof of my assertion to you.  The progressive left has attempted to get its' agenda passed for over 100 years.  This started with passage of the 16th and 17th Amendments.  The 16th Amendment made it legal for Congress to tax Americans individually.  Before this, to tax legally, Congress had to charge the States and states in turn could tax their citizens to recover the money.  In fact, it put the boot of the federal government, a most powerful and at times cruel taskmaster, directly on the shoulders of the citizens.  Then the 17th Amendment was passed.  This changed the Constitution to mandate the direct election of U.S. Senators.  This took a huge amount of power out of the hands of the States.  I've heard that this was promoted as increasing democracy.  It did anything but.  It cut out of the loop (the role of electing Senators) state legislators, politicians, people many of whom I'm sure thought like politicians and could figure out what these people were up to.  It also assured the sending to Washington of representatives who eventually would begin to feel separated from and likely superior to the people back home and who could be persuaded to follow a progressive agenda.  The Left almost had this accomplished; the socialistic, top-down, ruled-by-a-global-elite if possible leftists' paradise (hell to the rest of us).  Then we came along!  That is, the rest of us, average Americans who just go to work every day, try our best to be a decent spouse (in some cases) and to raise our children to be moral, happy, productive human beings.  They thought they had it in their grasp and then . . gone!!

This much is apparent.  Barack Obama, while remarking continually about a "smooth transition", has assured anything but.  He has done what he usually does.  I've believed for many years that when the former President is attempting to draw attention to what he's doing with his right hand, you need to watch the left!  It's that hand with which he is usually performing his most nefarious deeds.  While Democrats in the Senate, oddly enough with little power to do so, have managed to slow approval of President Trump's nominations to almost a standstill, Republicans have at least put up with this nonsense and may be tacitly going along.  This keeps Obama appointees in their jobs all over the Executive Branch.  This includes the national security apparatus.  The Trump Administration continues to be beset with leaks, damaging to it even if inconsequential.  For the most part, these leaks seem to be coming from our national security organs.  We need to make sure that a couple of things happen.  First, President Trump absolutely needs Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.  He needs McConnell's help in being willing to bounce the Dems on their pointy little heads, repeatedly if necessary (and it will be).  Remind them that there is a price to be paid for losing and that unless they're willing to go along with the program or at least compromise, that price will be paid by them.  Individually.  Now, McConnell is a spaghetti-spined weasel, so he will probably also need convincing.  I suggest phone calls.  His office phone number is (202) 224-2541.  While we're at it, the web address for the U.S. Senate is https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm.  That's just in case you might want to contact your senators.  Secondly, there needs to be a "Bloody Monday".  Trump has to be careful about this because these people are in many different places in government.  Obama made sure he had his own people all over the place.  Others are G.W. Bush appointees who may or may not be empathetic with Trump's views and plans.  Firing too many of these people at once could be very dangerous to national security.  In fact, having as many positions vacant as we have is dangerous to national security.  I think Trump has been doing an amazing job of operating the Executive Branch at about half-staff but he needs a full staff nonetheless.  You can thank the Dems in the Senate for the fact that he doesn't have that and for any danger which this poses to the country.   

President Donald J. Trump has been receiving a shellacking from the mainstream media and Congress as of late, apparently aided by our country's national security apparatus (And don't feed me this malarkey about Trump making an enemy of the national security apparatus.  These people are supposed to be professionals.  They are not supposed to let their personal feelings get in the way of how they do their jobs.) 

And Just When You Thought You Were Rid Of the Obama Administration

The Obama Administration has left a number of stumbling blocks in the way of any successor but the following information should make the blood of any real, patriotic American run cold.  From The Great American Daily: 

http://greatamericandaily.com/2017/02/09/loretta-lynch-frightening-move-office/.

Let's take this apart a little at a time.  "America’s 60,000-person-strong domestic spying apparatus — to make available raw spying data to all other federal intelligence agencies, which then can pass it on to their counterparts in foreign countries and in the 50 states upon request. She did so, she claimed, for administrative convenience. Yet in doing this, she violated basic constitutional principles that were erected centuries ago to prevent just what she did…"  First, let's take on the potential domestic effect of this.  This reduces what standards of proof may be imposed if a warrant would otherwise be necessary.  That standard may be encased in law but let's face it, it is also in certain situations at least up to an individual judge.  The standard is reduced to "governmental need".  Aren't you glad that your privacy will no longer serve as a bulwark against "governmental need"?  Now here's the really frightening news:  according to the article, this will also make your information (which should be private but isn't because of NSA spying) available to Lord-knows-whom worldwide.  To my mind, this opens at least a couple of possibilities:  that your information will be for sale, perhaps from our own government employees to any of a wide variety of characters worldwide with a wide variety of interests.  The other possibility is truly terrifying.  That is that domestic or foreign interests will be able to use your information to find and subjugate you.  Do you think that's impossible?  Consider what's happening on the streets of the U.S. right now.  What do successful revolutionaries do to overthrow a government?  They get the systems set up!  After you destroy or render ineffective the current system you must have something with which to replace it!  Communications, lines of authority, etc., all have to be constructed.  Funding must be acquired.  If necessary or advantageous, the appropriate government officials must/should be bribed/corrupted/subverted.  You have to find out just how far the people within the current system will let you push.  I believe that's what's happening right now.         

Are Illegals And Other Immigrants Voting In U.S. Elections? Here's Some Information On That:

President Donald Trump has claimed that three-to-five-million illegals voted in the last U.S. Presidential election.  "Impossible!", you say?  Here's some information on that from the Federation For American Immigration Reform:

http://www.fairus.org/issue/noncitizens-voting-violations-and-u-s-election

I'll grant you that the Federation is an immigration reform advocacy group.  Yet I still believe that this article is worth consideration.  If you wish to do so, research the facts in this article more thoroughly and get back to me on the issue at RedneckFriend@mail.com.  I look forward to hearing from you!

How Unusual Is President Trump's Use Of Executive Orders?

There's considerable controversy concerning President Trump's use of executive orders.  Here's a report from the Christian Science Monitor comparing his record to that of his predecessor:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2017/0201/How-unusual-is-Trump-s-use-of-executive-orders?cmpid=ema:nws:Daily%2520Newsletter%2520%2802-01-2017%29&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20170201_Newsletter:%20Daily&utm_term=Daily

President Donald Trump issued six executive orders in his first week in office.  That would average out to 312 executive orders in his first year in office if he keeps up this pace.  To contrast, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued 573 executive orders in 1933.

Trump Claims Millions Of Illegals Voted In Last Election. He Couldn't Be Right, Could He?

President Donald Trump says that"three-to-five million" illegals voted in last November's election.  His opponents are claiming that this didn't happen, with some so-called "experts" even saying that the scenario is"impossible".  However, former President Barack Obama, before the election, actually noted that the status of illegals would not be questioned if they went to polling places.  This, from WND:

http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/obama-encourages-illegal-aliens-to-vote/

So, former President Obama wasn't urging illegals to vote?  No, he was not actually encouraging illegals to vote, but he not only put the idea in front of them, he told them how to do it!