We began last week's letter with a report that the Mississippi State Flag bearing the Confederate Battle Flag was recently removed from the US Capitol. While speaking to University students on Wednesday the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, was asked about the flag's removal.

A Georgetown student asked about a recent decision from House Administration Committee Chairwoman Candice Miller (R-Mich.) to replace the state flags that hang in a Capitol hallway with images of state and territory commemorative coins. Specifically, the student said that the decision "renewed, northern Republican reconstruction" and "the erasure of Southern symbols, as well as ostracization of Southern voters by the GOP."

Ryan began by almost laughing off that characterization. "Hmm," Ryan said. "I never looked at it that way."

"Northern re-" Ryan continued, thinking better of repeating the phrase. "That's interesting. Yeah, I'm from Wisconsin, so guilty as a northerner."

Ryan then repeated a line he told reporters last week - that he supported Miller's decision to go with images of state coins in the Capitol hallway. But he went further.

"We discussed it," Ryan said of Miller's decision. "And I thought it was the right thing to do."
Then he offered his stern rebuke of the Confederate flag.

"This symbol does insult," Ryan said. "This symbol, I think, does more to divide this country than to unify this country."
 
"But I got to tell you, if, in the Capitol, we're going to have symbols, we're going to have symbols that unify people, that don't divide people, and that's just the way we think."


Confederate flag will fly at The Citadel, for now

This week the House Armed Services Committee rejected a measure, championed by U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-Columbia, that would have forced The Citadel to choose between displaying the flag and federal money for its Reserve Officers' Training Corps program.

"I am greatly disappointed that a majority of Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee have voted to keep the Confederate battle flag flying in a place of worship at The Citadel," Clyburn said in a statement. "Americans' tax dollars should not be directed to institutions where it is flown."

The amendment, proposed by U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., would have barred the Defense Department from giving federal money to ROTC programs at any school that flies the Confederate flag.
The Citadel, a public military college in Charleston, is the only school that fits that description. It has displayed a Confederate flag in its Summerall Chapel since 1939.

"It is not appropriate to fly (the flag) over institutions that train our next generation of military officers, and it is bizarre to allow the flag to fly above an academy when the military services do not allow the same flag to be displayed in servicemembers' rooms," Smith said. "They should have voted to take it down instead of dodging the issue."

Gov. Nikki Haley, who just happened to be on Capitol Hill Thursday to testify to Congress stated that, "They could very easily move the Confederate flag to the museum, which is right next door to where it's being housed now." Haley would happily use her position as South Carolina's top executive to order the flag removed from the Citadel but first, the State Legislature would have to make an exception for the college to a State law called the Heritage Act. "They would need to open the Heritage Act," the Governor said, "just for that specific facility and handle it accordingly."

Last summer, the Citadel Board of Visitors voted 9-3 to remove the flag. However, leaders of the South Carolina Legislature have said that they have no desire to modify the Heritage Act. "The Heritage Act continues to be the law of the state," House Speaker Jay Lucas, R-Darlington, told The Greenville News. "And until it is changed, we plan on complying with the Heritage Act. That's really all I will say about it."

Sen. Chip Campsen, R-Charleston, said legislative leaders, including Lucas, has said they are not interested in amending the Heritage Act. "There's a thousand battles that could be fought with every community park or square, or cornerstone or building or monument," he said. "We would fight those battles ad infinitum. No, I don't think it should be amended."

However, state Sen. Joel Lourie, D-Richland, said the Heritage Act needs to be revisited, "If it precludes The Citadel from removing the Confederate flag," he said, "if it precludes the town of Greenwood from changing its monuments, if it precludes Columbia from changing streets named after Confederates."

In his response to the failure of Smith's amendment Thursday, Clyburn said he wasn't going to stop fighting to remove the flag. "In the coming weeks and months, I plan to give House Republicans additional opportunities to do the right thing," he said.

The following are excerpts from an eMail that I received from one of our readers:

"We, as a Southern people are disheartened. We are used to losing a fight here and there but the tide has turned so heavily upon us (even in the South) that it is almost like the March Through GA all over again."
 
"I have been to seven memorial service this month and five of them yesterday. They were sparsely attended by the rank and file and even more so by the public. In some ways were are at the same juncture as when Gen. S.D. Lee delivered the CHARGE - our membership is aging and dying and few are filling the ranks. My re-enactment unit and SCV Camp both have the blessing of many youth but a good number of those will depart for college soon - after that, who knows where more will come from?"
 
"My guess is that Southern people will cease to exist in any cohesive form after our generation passes."
 
This dear friend wrote from Georgia, not too many miles from South Carolina, not knowing what was at the very moment he was typing was transpiring in our nation's capital.

So it seems that the attack against our Flag and upon our heritage both at the Citadel and throughout the entire State of South Carolina is about to come in full force. The governor and certain scallywag politicians are either unable to do it, or too cowardly to do it, by themselves. So they have enlisted the Federal government to help them. So our compatriots in South Carolina will from both Columbia and D.C. in what promises to be a relentless tag team effort that will not let up until it has eradicated every last vestige of Southern culture in South Carolina. When they finish with South Carolina, they WILL attack elsewhere, likely Georgia. Instead of Sherman's "March to the sea" (a west to east movement) the attack will start in South Carolina and sweep westerly across Dixie like a tornado tearing up an Oklahoma prairie trailer park. Suit up boys!
 

Ted Cruz often speaks with an evangelical fervor from the pulpit, uh, the lectern, at his political rallies. Surprisingly, he was attacked from the right recently, a place he likely never thought he was vulnerable. Americans United for Values has criticized Cruz for not tithing or giving ten percent of his income to charities. In fact, Cruz' tax returns show his charitable giving to be a miserly one percent.

Also brought to light was an incident in 1997 when Michael Wayne Haley was arrested after stealing a calculator from Walmart. This was a crime that merited a maximum two-year prison term. But prosecutors incorrectly applied a habitual offender law. Neither the judge nor the defense lawyer caught the error and Haley was sentenced to 16 years. Eventually, the mistake came to light and the prosecutor tried to fix it. Ted Cruz was solicitor general of Texas at the time. Instead of just letting Haley go for time served, Cruz took the case to the Supreme Court to keep Haley in prison for the full 16 years. This case, like his charitable giving record, reveals much about Lyin' Ted Cruz' character.

Ted Cruz is running as the strongly evangelical and Christian candidate. But in his career and public presentation Cruz seems a stranger to most of what would generally be considered the Christian virtues: humility, mercy, compassion and grace. Cruz's behavior in the Haley case is almost the dictionary definition of pharisaism: an overzealous application of the letter of the law in a way that violates the spirit of the law, as well as fairness and mercy."

Unfortunately, Cruz's ascension among his political base is based on tales such as this one and such self-righteous moral fervor. Ted Cruz worked tirelessly to get a guy who stole a calculator from Walmart to serve sixteen years in prison for his crime. Surely, the phrase "compassionate conservative" is an oxymoron and a ruse to get just a few more votes from well meaning people on both sides of the political divide.

The reality is that Ted Cruz is just a mean-spirited man using religion as a cover for his desire to control and punish. And this is why Lyin' Ted chose, of all people, Carly FemiNAZI as his "running mate" on Wednesday. They are two spectacular failed approximations of each other. They campaign alike, too.
Both of them have a fun sense of biography. Ted Cruz comes from the Ivy League and once clerked for William Rehnquist and cynically portrays himself as a down-home duck-huntin' yahoo while Fiorina cratered two companies and blames every economic woe on bureaucracy, despite the latter being impotent enough that it didn't stop HP from using a third party to circumvent U.S. sanctions against Iran during her tenure. She also wants to fight for American jobs, despite shipping 30,000 of them to China, equivalent to half the population of Palo Alto, where her company was headquartered.

Both are great at following a script when it comes to a really good lie. Just as Ted Cruz reliably lets you know that we are one liberal Supreme Court justice away from sandblasting all the crosses and Stars of David off the headstones at Arlington National Cemetery, Fiorina hit her marks over and over again during the debates. Remember the impassioned testimony at seeing a video of an abortion that didn't exist? Then there was the litany of absurd national security moves on day one. After "calling [her] good friend Bibi Netanyahu," she would start pushing more paper military commands around the map than Hitler in the bunker during the last ten days.

But there's one script Fiorina followed that Cruz is especially interested in. The core substance of Fiorina's campaign was this: I, Carly Fiorina, female person, will attack bad-woman Hillary Clinton for you. It makes sense, up until you notice all the ways it doesn't.

A move like this presupposes that conservative women voters needed a feminine mouthpiece to hate Hillary Clinton, instead of relying on everything they already believe in. If you're a woman member of the party you don't need a woman running against a woman avatar of ideas you oppose to clarify the issues for you.

If Carly Fiorina is an alternative, the question is to what? Ted hopes that the short answer members in his party will see is, "Donald Trump." But that dog only hunts if the party members want to be saved from Donald. Based on the outcomes of the last several contests, all being won by Trump in Landslides with Cruz coming in third to John Kasich (in New York City he actually came in 4th behind Ben Carson) it would appear that it is Lyin' Ted, not Donald Trump, that the party wants to be saved from. Maybe thats why on Thursday former House speaker John Boehner called Cruz, "Lucifer in the flesh."

The only constructive thing Carly Fiorina does is to add one delegate to whatever mathematically insufficient total Lyin' Ted winds up with.


 
AN  EDITORIAL FROM ONE OF OUR REAERS

I am often asked why I, a Southerner, Christian, Libertarian, and intellectual, would publicly support Donald Trump; a man of no fixed ideology, no apparent religious beliefs, multiple marriages, visible ties to the Clintons, and whose taste and sophistication tends to resemble that of a nouveau riche rhinoceros. It is a reasonable question.  
 
The answer is as simple as it is conclusive and convincing. Donald Trump is the only candidate in either major party whose personal interests are aligned with those of the American public rather than with the interests of the anti-nationalist elite who see America as nothing more than lines on a map and Americans as nothing more than 300 million economic units in the global economy.
 
The reason I trust Donald Trump, despite all his rhetorical meanderings, is that he is a traitor to his class. Unlike Hillary Clinton and Ted Cruz, both ordinary people who sold their souls in order to be granted a seat at the table of the Great Game, Donald Trump was born a member of the elite and he has always been welcome in the inner circles of both political parties. When I met him in 1988, it was at the Republican National Convention in New Orleans, where he was the personal guest of George Bush in his private suite there. Like the Bushes, like the Clintons, Trump is truly neither Republican nor Democrat. He is a lifetime member of America's bi-factional ruling party.
 
So Donald Trump was already a man of great wealth, influence, connections and power. He did not need to run for president in order to make a name for himself or to launch a public speaking career at $200,000 a pop. Nor does it make sense to claim that he is running for president in order to assuage his formidable ego. Quite to the contrary, he has been under furious attack and criticism from the media as well as from the wealthy elites his rivals are most desperate to please, and it is only his tremendous ego that permits him to survive it. He is enduring this relentless, bipartisan assault because the ruling party knows he has chosen the American people over them.
 
Ask yourself this: why did Donald Trump run for president in the first place? I believe that the real reason is that he, like you, is deeply concerned about the current state of the United States of America, and he, like you, fears for its future.
 
Donald Trump may live in wealthy neighborhoods, but that doesn't mean he is indifferent to the fact that America has endured the largest invasion in human history, 60 million immigrants since 1965. Donald Trump may have filed for corporate bankruptcy four times, but that doesn't mean he is an enthusiastic servant to Wall Street, Goldman Sachs, and the International Monetary Fund. Donald Trump may not be academically inclined or ideologically consistent, but that doesn't mean he fails to understand that it makes no sense for Americans to go to war for democracy abroad while their democratically expressed will is repeatedly thwarted at home.

I support Donald Trump because he loves the America that once was, and he is willing to put both his body and his reputation on the line in order to restore America to that unique state that was the envy of the entire world. That is what he means by Make America Great Again.
 
If you cannot bring yourself to trust in Trump's words, then you can safely trust in his vanity. It is true, of course, that every recent president has betrayed his supporters: George H.W. Bush raised taxes, Bill Clinton had sex with that woman, George W. Bush embraced an arrogant foreign policy, and Barack Obama has waged war from Syria to Ukraine. Will not Donald Trump do the same?
 
It is possible, but unlikely. Donald Trump loves to be loved by the American people. And it defies everything we know about human nature to believe that he will throw away that intoxicating populist love in favor of the approval of an anti-nationalist elite whose affections he has already rejected.
 
Donald Trump not only wants to make America great again, he wants America to be American. That is what distinguishes him from Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. And that is why I support him.

SEARCHING FOR LINCOLN

One of our readers produced a documentary that you must see. Go to searchingforlincoln.com 
 
 
 
WILL ROBERT E LEE ELEMENTARY BE RENAMED ADOLF HITLER ELEMENTARY?
 
Austin, Texas school officials want to rename Robert E. Lee Elementary, and they decided to create an online poll to have the public's input.
The school has received more than 240 suggestions as possibilities to replace the school's name:
 
Donald J. Trump Elementary: 45 nominations
Robert E. Lee Elementary: 34 nominations
Russell Lee Elementary: 32 nominations
Harper Lee Elementary: 30 nominations
Elisabet Ney Elementary: 15 nominations
Lee Elementary: 13 nominations
Adolf Hitler Elementary: 8 nominations
Waller Creek Elementary: 8 nominations
Dr. Frances J. Nesmith Elementary School: 7 nominations
Guy Bizzell Elementary: 6 nominations
 
But these are only the top 10. Here are the others: Adam Lanza's School of Fun, Bee Movie, Bleeding Heart Liberal Elementary, Boaty McBoatface Elementary School, Forgetting the Past Dooms You to Repeat It Elementary, Garfunkel, Hypothetical Perfect Person Memorial Elementary School, John Cena Elementary and Schooly McSchoolerson.
 
The Austin school board will pick the new name on May 23.

"We are being lied to on a scale unimaginable by George Orwell."...Citizen Wells

Previously we had reported that Montgomery Sibley's US Supreme Court Application to be relieved from Restraining Order which had been denied by the Chief Justice was refiled to the office of Justice Clarence Thomas and Thomas put it on the conference docket. This means that the full Court will hear the matter despite the Chief Justice's objection.

I did several Google and Bing searches this week and NOTHING comes up to indicate that the Court is about to consider this matter. Every item that comes up trumpeted the fact that the Chief Justice had denied the application.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the matter TODAY. The media is saying nothing. I guess the possibility of Ted Cruz phone number being found in the DC Madame's phone records no longer interests the media? But according to the Supreme Court's website the matter is still on today's schedule:
Montgomery Sibley's US Supreme Court Application to be relieved from Restraining Order distributed for Conference of April 29, 2016.

No. 15A1016

Title: Montgomery Blair Sibley, Applicant  v.  United States District Court for the District of Columbia

Docketed: April 1, 2016

Lower Ct: United States District Court for the District of Columbia

 
  Case Nos.: (1:07-cr-00046-RWR-1)

 
~~~Date~~~
~~~~~~~Proceedings  and  Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Mar 28 2016
Application (15A1016) for a stay, submitted to The Chief Justice.

Apr 4 2016
Application (15A1016) denied by The Chief Justice.

Apr 6 2016
Application (15A1016) refiled and submitted to Justice Thomas.

Apr 13 2016
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of April 29, 2016.

Here is a link to the Supreme Court website: http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfilesa1016.htm 



ATTORNEY JIM GEORGE - WHY I DEFENDED THE CONFEDERATE FLAG 
 
Since clerking for Justice Thurgood Marshall in the early 1970s, I've returned to the U.S. Supreme Court three times in the service of clients. Each case has been significant in its own way, and each garnered its share of news coverage. But none was as controversial as Walker v. Sons of Confederate Veterans, which I argued.

The facts of the case are straightforward. As it had done successfully in seven other states, a historical society called the Sons of Confederate Veterans applied to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles for a license plate bearing an image of the Confederate battle flag. A DMV board initially approved the request, but it reversed itself after one of the agency's senior executives complained, citing a state law allowing the refusal of a design that "might be offensive to any member of the public."

The Sons of Confederate Veterans sued, claiming its right to free speech had been violated. If organizations as diverse as the University of Notre Dame, the World Wildlife Fund and Mighty Fine Burgers are allowed to create Texas license plates, the group argued, then it should be afforded the same opportunity.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans case went all the way to the nation's highest court, where I argued on the group's behalf.

What, pray tell, was I thinking? That's the question that clogged my inbox in the days following my argument. Friends, family and former associates demanded to know why a protégé of the Supreme Court's first African-American justice would go to bat for a cause they believed to be racist.

My answer is simple: Controversial speech is the only speech that truly needs protecting. If there were no benefit to the open debate of contentious ideas, our nation's founders would not have seen fit to safeguard it.

Let's assume the DMV was correct when it asserted, in effect, that the Confederate battle flag is first and foremost a symbol of slavery and that its appearance is likely to offend someone. (Let's also ignore, for a moment, that Texas was a member of the Confederacy, that every employee of a state agency gets to stay home on Confederate Heroes Day and that the Capitol grounds contain several statues of prominent Southern rebels.) Would state authorities be justified in banning the sale of bumper stickers featuring the flag's image?

I believe most of us would agree that no, they would not be.

But what about this case, which deals with specialty license plates? Surely the state can refuse to manufacture a license plate it finds controversial.

Again, I believe it cannot. I believe Texas abandoned that option when it opened the door to license plate designs from anyone willing to pay $8,000, which covers the state's costs.

Today, Texas drivers can choose from hundreds of license plate designs, netting the state millions of dollars in annual fees. Available plates include "Choose Life" (created by the anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life), "One State Under God" (created by a Nacogdoches-based ministry) and "Don't Tread On Me" (promoted by the Foundation for Moral Law, a nonprofit with Tea Party leanings).

I believe that the state has unwittingly created a new kind of public forum, to borrow a phrase from Justice Anthony Kennedy. It has opened a 6-by-12-inch space for private speech, plain and simple. The state may own the plates, but only the driver can choose the message that's right for her, and only she can walk out and bolt it onto her car.

If you look around, you'll notice that our world is filling up with all sorts of new public forums. What kind of speech should Facebook be policing, if any? Is Twitter right to ban certain users because of the content of their tweets? These are complicated issues that our legal system is only beginning to explore.

Make no mistake: Modern-day Texas needs to come to terms with its past as a part of the Deep South, and whether or not displaying the Confederate battle flag adds to that debate is a conversation worth having. No good conversation was begun, though, with one side stopping the other from speaking.


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The Mississippi flag, featuring the Confederate battle emblem, will no longer hang in the tunnel at the U.S. Capitol where each State flag has been displayed.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., had called on Congress to remove all items bearing the Confederate battle flag, including his state flag. When Congress failed to do so, Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich. (chairwoman of the House Administration Committee) ordered the Capital architect to replace every State's flag with with prints of each state's commemorative quarter. This enabled her and Rep. Thompson to remove the Battle Flag emblem without an act of the full congress. So what if that means 49 other States can no longer display their flags!
 
Congresswoman Miller issued a statement that, "Given the controversy surrounding confederate imagery, I decided to install a new display... I am well aware of how many Americans negatively view the Confederate flag, and, personally, I am very sympathetic to these views.  However, I also believe that it is not the business of the federal government to dictate what flag each state flies.''
 
The removed flags had been displayed on the wall in the tunnel that runs between a House office building and the Capitol. Visitors and members of Congress travel between the office building and the Capitol by walking or taking small subway cars that go by the flags.
 
"I am pleased that the Architect of the Capitol will no longer display symbols of hatred and bigotry in the esteemed halls of the United States House of Representatives,'' Thompson said in a statement. "As I said last summer, this is the People's House and we should ensure that we, as an institution, refuse to condone symbols that seek to divide us.''
 
The committee's move Thursday puts the spotlight back on the State of Mississippi, where battles are brewing to remove Confederate flags and statues from public places. Some communities, towns and universities in Mississippi have removed the flag. Carlos Moore, an attorney from Mississippi, recently filed a lawsuit to remove it from public spaces.
 
Mississippi's Republican senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker have said they think the flag should be changed but said the decision should be made at the State level.
 
Congresswoman Miller has said that while State flags are being removed from the "common" areas of the Capital grounds, individual members of Congress can continue to display their state flags in their respective offices. Here statement said specifically that, "This is the 'People's House' where each congressional district sends their designated representative to be their voice in the halls of Congress. With that, it is common practice for each member of Congress to display their state flag, alongside of the American flag, outside their individual offices and in this way all state flags are displayed on Capitol Hill.''
 
Other Mississippi lawmakers still display the State flag outside their offices. Thompson has removed his.

The headline of the Drudge Report says it all. Trump Wins in a Landslide.

In politics a landslide is defined as a 10 point spread in vote percentages. A 55 to 45 win is a landslide.
  
Donald Trump crushed his competition Tuesday in New York by a 36% margin, a landslide times 3.5!

Trump 60.5%, Kasich 25%, and Ted Cruz 14.5%.

As a result, Trump garnered 91 of New York's 95 convention delegates, and Kasich got only 4. Ted Cruz got ZERO.

Trump now leads nearest competitor Ted Cruz by an 844 to 559 delegate margin. The Trump margin of victory was so huge that it makes it a mathematical impossibility for the junior senator from Alberta, Canada to gain the nomination on the first ballot.

Trump's win in his "favorite son" state of New York was the largest margin in that state's history at 60,5%. An interesting comparison is that although Cruz eeked out a "favorite son" victory in Texas, his margin of victory, at 43.8%, was the LOWEST ever for a "favorite son" in any state in American history.

As a result, Cruz had a full apoplectic meltdown on Wednesday.  During a radio appearance an unhinged Senator Cruz began lashing out and screaming at Sean Hannity. The internet quickly lit up as people discussed the on-air meltdown wondering what could have possibly triggered such grossly unstable behavior. 

My guess is because Cruz's rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was attended by just 22 people. While Trump and Kasich are drawing Thousands in Philly (a city of over 1.6 million) only 22 people came out to hear candidate Cruz whine about Donald Trump. Apparently there is not much support for "Lyin' Ted Cruz" in the city of "brotherly love."

But the 22 folks who did take the time to turn out to the Cruz rally, if you can call 22 people setting in an otherwise empty auditorium a rally, were treated to one doozy of a concession speech!

In his speech after losing the New York primary, Senator Ted Cruz told the faithful few that he's starting to "Feel the Bern!" According to Cruz he and Senator Bernie Sanders are "outsiders" who "don't find our fuel in bundlers and special interests. But rather directly from the people."

Let me just say that Cruz's comparison to Sanders is a BIG stretch.

Sanders opposes super PACs that can raise unlimited amounts of money from big donors. Cruz has FIVE Super PACs, including four Keep the Promise super PACs that have raised $42.8 million largely from a small number of big special interest donors in the energy and finance industries.

Cruz's national finance committee offers "bundling benefits" based on how much fundraisers bring in to the campaign. "Founders" who raise $500,000 receive among other benefits an "invitation to a special retreat" with Cruz and his wife. Other levels include: statesmen ($250,000), generals ($100,000) and federalists ($50,000); each with their own sets of benefits.

Small donors - those giving $200 or less - account for 28 percent of Cruz's total campaign funds, as of Feb. 29. But Sanders has received 56 percent of his funds from small donors, and six other GOP candidates, including Donald Trump, have a higher percentage of small donors than Cruz.

Cruz compared himself to Sanders, the populist independent senator running for the Democratic nomination noting that Sanders too lost in New York and that they are each in second place, trailing their parties' respective presumptive nominees Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton. The comparison should have ended there.

Cruz said that, "Bernie Sanders is an outsider... Our campaigns don't find our fuel in bundlers and special interests. But rather directly from the people."

There are some similarities between Cruz and Sanders in that both are probably not people you should trust to be left alone in a room with your children, but where they get their money from is NOT one of them. Sanders has received less than $4,000 from PACs while Cruz has received hundreds of times that amount. There are significant differences between the two candidates, beginning when it comes to the support of super PACs.

Sanders has famously eschewed super PACs and criticized pro-Clinton super PACs that have accepted money from Wall Street interests. But Cruz has embraced super PACs.

As we have reported, Cruz has the support of a network of super PACs under the umbrella of Keep the Promise that have been largely funded by major donors:

Keep the Promise I was formed with an $11 million donation from Robert Mercer, the co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies, a $25 billion private hedge fund firm. The super PAC has raised a total of $12 million with the rest coming from only 13 other donors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Keep the Promise II received only one donation - $10 million from Quantum Energy Partners cofounder Toby Neugebauer, who also made a $1,000 donation to Keep the Promise I.

Keep the Promise III raised nearly all of its $16.5 million in contributions from members of the Wilks family. Brothers Farris and Daniel Wilks made their fortune as the owners of Frac Tech, a family business that sold rigs used by fracking operators. Daniel and his wife, Staci, contributed $5 million to the super PAC, and Farris and his wife, JoAnn, contributed $10 million. (This PAC is also known as Reigniting the Promise, which is the name of its website.)

Keep the Promise PAC has raised $4.4 million, including $1 million from Richard Uihlein, chief executive officer of Uline; $500,000 from Robert McNair, the founder, chairman and CEO of the Houston Texans of the National Football League; $300,000 from Thomas Patrick, chairman of the investment management firm New Vernon Capital; and $250,000 from John Childs, chairman of the private equity firm J.W. Childs & Associates. The four men account for more than half of the PACs funding.

Stand for Truth, another pro-Cruz PAC, has raised $9 million, including $1 million from Trinity Equity, a private equity group based in Texas, and $250,000 each from Herzog Railroad Services in Missouri and Tranquil Path Investments of Utah. Such corporate donations were once illegal until the Supreme Court struck down the ban in its Citizens United ruling.

How unusual are these large contributions to the pro-Cruz PACs? The Center for Responsive Politics ranks the top donors to outside committees and three of the top five are donors to pro-Cruz PACs: Mercer ranks No. 1; Farris and JoAnn Wilks rank third; and Neugebauer ranks fourth.

The Associated Press last year wrote a story on Cruz's campaign fundraising that said the campaign was offering large money special interest donors "coveted access" to Cruz and his wife, Heidi. For those bundling $500,000 there will be a quarterly donor retreat and a quarterly dinner at the home of Ted and Heidi Cruz. Those giving $250,000 will be able to attend the quarterly retreat but will not be invited to the Cruz' home.

Will Ted and Heidi be serving Campbell's Chunky Soup at their quarterly dinners?

Those giving just $100,000 will still receive quarterly access to Cruz in a lesser setting.

The Cruz campaign does not hide any of this. The campaign posted a link to a Washington Post article on its website with the headline, "Washington Post: Cruz's secret fundraising strength: A network of wealthy donors." That story compared Cruz not to Sanders but to President Obama.

The Post article said that the structure of his donor base closely resembles that of President Obama, whose vaunted fundraising operation intensely focused on major special interest bundlers, bringing in a record $783 million for his 2012 reelection.

But unlike Obama - or Clinton - Cruz has not released his list of top bundlers. Cruz had said in a CNN interview in August of last year that he would release a list of major bundlers. Still waiting!

On his website we could not find a list of Cruz's top bundlers and the Cruz campaign did not get back to us when we asked for one. In March, the Cruz campaign did post names ofnew finance committee members who joined his team from other campaigns, including from the Jeb Bush campaign. If we get a list of his top bundlers, we will post it.

Hillary Clinton lists on her website the names of her bundlers who raised $100,000 or more - a group she calls "Hillblazers."

Small Donors

One measure of a candidate's populist appeal is the percentage of small donations that a campaign receives. By small, we are talking about donors who gave $200 or less. Any amount above that must be itemized, meaning the campaign must disclose the person's name, address and occupation.

As of Feb. 29, Sanders - who has been the butt of jokes for repeatedly saying his average donation is $27 - has received $76.7 million in small donations.

On the opposite end of that are those donors who "max out" to a candidate's campaign committee by giving the maximum amount of $2,700 per election. By that measure, 22 percent of Cruz's money has come from donors who "maxed out," compared with only 3 percent for Sanders.

When it comes to raising campaign funds, Cruz is no Bernie Sanders, despite his claim that he and Sanders "don't find our fuel in bundlers and special interests. But rather directly from the people."

So when it comes to money, and more specifically where it comes from, the Canadian immigrant to Texas whose daddy has told him since he was a little boy that "God had anointed him to be President of the United States" has truly earned his nickname, "Lyin' Ted." 

Yesterday's news cycle broke the story that Obama's parting gift to the country will be that Andrew Jackson, or at least his image, will share the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman. Tubman, in fact, would be the one on the front of the bill; Jackson would ride in back. News items described this Treasury Department decision in a way that made Jackson seem impossible to support: A slave-owning president was being shoved aside in favor of a heroic escaped slave.
 
Travelling the country over the last two decades, speaking to tens of thousands in hundreds of venues, I have met countless people named both "Andrew" and "Jackson" after Andrew Jackson. Military men still admire his combat service. An older generation venerates his incredible persistence. Many Southerners were raised to venerate him. And the debate over changing the $20 has prompted a number of conservative figures to denounce what they see as a politically correct rewriting of history.
 
So who was Andrew Jackson?
 
Jackson lived outside Nashville, none too close to Knoxville given the transportation of his day - but the city still has at least one building Jackson was known to have visited in the early 1800's. That his exact whereabouts in one building or another would even be remembered two hundred years later suggests how famous Jackson was then, and how his memory has endured.
 
Daniel Feller is the scholar who serves as the editor of Jackson's papers at the University of Tennessee. While Feller has freely criticized Jackson for his flaws he also regularly recounts the reasons that Jackson is venerated. Feller is a good starting point for someone who wants to do in depth study of the nation's 7th president.
 
There is so much more to Jackson than having been the hero of the Battle of New Orleans, his most famous victory as a general. Jackson was an orphan who rose from humble beginnings to be president from 1829 to 1837. He was the first president who started so low in life.
 
He governed as a president opposed to moneyed interests. His may have been a wildly irresponsible campaign, but he attacked moneyed interests who had attached themselves to this nation's infant government and who were sucking the life out of our nation.
 
Jackson saw excessive power among the wealthy men of his day as a danger to the republic. Feller sees parallels between Jackson's rhetoric of the 1830's and the modern-day language of presidential candidates on both sides, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
 
Jackson is also known for holding the Union together. The crisis that caused the WBTS might have come 30 years earlier than it did, but for Jackson's forcefulness in the 1830's.
 
Jackson was unashamedly Southern both in his birth, and in his sentiment. He was born near the then-unmarked border between North and South Carolina. But he had too much "sweat equity" invested in his country to set quietly by as others in his home State who did not have the same investment sought to casually disband it.
 
During the American Revolutionary War, Jackson, whose family supported the revolutionary cause, acted as a courier. At age 13, he was captured and mistreated by his British captors. After the war he became a lawyer. He was elected to political office, first to the U.S. House of Representatives and then to the U.S. Senate.

In 1801, Jackson was appointed colonel in the Tennessee militia, which became his political as well as military base.
 
He gained national fame through his role in the War of 1812, most famously where he won a decisive victory over the main British invasion army at the Battle of New Orleans, albeit some weeks after the Treaty of Ghent had already been signed (unbeknownst to the combatants).
 
In response to conflict with the Seminole in Spanish Florida, he invaded the territory in 1818. This led directly to the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 which formally transferred Florida from Spain to the United States.
 
He was one of the three original investors who founded Memphis, Tennessee, in 1819.
 
After winning election to the Senate, Jackson decided to run for president in 1824. He narrowly lost to John Quincy Adams, supposedly by a "corrupt bargain" between Adams and Speaker of the House Henry Clay, who was also a candidate. Jackson's supporters then founded what became the Democratic Party. He ran again in 1828 against Adams. Building on his base in the West and with new support from Virginia and New York, he won by a landslide.
 
In keeping with his platform of economic decentralization, Jackson vetoed the renewal of the Charter for the unconstitutional Central Bank. Many thought this put his chances for re-election in jeopardy. However, having defended the country from self-seeking bankers, he was able to defeat Clay in the election that year. He thoroughly dismantled the bank by the time its charter expired in 1836. Our nation would not have a Central Bank again until 1916 (Federal Reserve).
 
Jackson's name has been associated with Jacksonian democracy or the spread of democracy in terms of the passing of political power from established elites to ordinary voters based in political parties. Jackson's philosophy as President followed much in the same line as Thomas Jefferson, advocating Republican values held by the Revolutionary War generation. Jackson's presidency held a high moral tone; having as a planter himself agrarian sympathies, a limited view of states rights and the federal government.
 
Jackson believed that the president's authority was derived from the people and the presidential office was above party politics. Instead of choosing party favorites, Jackson chose "plain, businessmen." Martin Van Buren as Secretary of State, John Eaton Secretary of War, Samuel Ingham Secretary of Treasury, John Branch Secretary of Navy, John Berrien as Attorney General, and William T. Barry as postmaster general.
 
In an effort to purge the government from corruption of previous administrations, Jackson launched presidential investigations into all executive Cabinet offices and departments. During Jackson's tenure in office, large amounts of public money were put in the hands of public officials. Jackson, who believed appointees should be hired by merit, withdrew many candidates he believed were lax in their handling of monies. Jackson asked Congress to reform embezzlement laws, reduce fraudulent applications for federal pensions, revenue laws to prevent evasion of custom duties, and laws to improve government accounting. Jackson's Postmaster Barry resigned after a Congressional investigation into the postal service revealed mismanagement of mail services, collusion and favoritism in awarding lucrative contracts, failure to audit accounts and supervise contract performances. Jackson replaced Barry with Amos Kendall, who went on to implement much needed reforms in the Postal Service.

The first recorded physical attack on a U.S. president was directed at Jackson. Jackson had ordered the dismissal of Robert B. Randolph from the Navy for embezzlement. On May 6, 1833, Jackson sailed on USS Cygnet to Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he was to lay the cornerstone on a monument near the grave of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother. During a stopover near Alexandria, Randolph appeared and struck the President. He fled the scene chased by several members of Jackson's party, including the well-known writer Washington Irving. Jackson decided not to press charges.
 
On January 30, 1835, what is believed to be the first attempt to kill a sitting President of the United States occurred just outside the United States Capitol. When Jackson was leaving through the East Portico after the funeral of South Carolina Representative Warren R. Davis, Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter from England, aimed a pistol at Jackson, which misfired. Lawrence pulled out a second pistol, which also misfired. Historians believe the humid weather contributed to the double misfiring. Lawrence was restrained, and legend says that Jackson attacked Lawrence with his cane. Others present, including David Crockett, restrained and disarmed Lawrence.
 
Afterwards, due to public curiosity concerning the double misfires, the pistols were tested and retested. Each time they performed perfectly. Many believed that Jackson had been protected by the same Providence that they believed also protected their young nation. The incident became a part of the Jacksonian mythos.
 
Jackson formally recognized the Republic of Texas on the last day of his Presidency, March 3, 1837. Jackson's strong position in favor of the annexation of Texas led him to support James K. Polk for the Democratic nomination in the 1844 Presidential Election. Jackson's support played an important role in Polk winning the nomination and the general election.
 
After serving two terms as president, Jackson retired to his Hermitage plantation in 1837. Although he suffered ill health, Jackson continued to denounce the "perfidy and treachery" of banks and remained influential in both national and state politics.
 
Jackson died at his plantation on June 8, 1845, at the age of 78, of chronic tuberculosis, dropsy, and heart failure.

While Jackson was opposed to the idea of South Carolina seceeding in the 1830's I truly believe that had he lived, he would have supported the State's secession in the 1860's.

Now with the effort to remove him from our nation's currency, Andrew Jackson is still awash in a storm of controversy.The reason is simple; Andrew Jackson is inextricably woven into the fabric of America.

Jackson helped to inspire a uniquely American sense of promise and hope; the idea that anyone can succeed through hard work and natural ability, rather than through unearned power and privilege.

"I thank God that my life has been spent in a land of liberty and that He has given me a heart to love my country with the affection of a son."
              -- Andrew Jackson 
 

MORBID DISPLAY OF CONFEDERATE BODY PARTS IN MARYLAND MUSEUM?

An April 13, 1866 article in the Atlanta, Georgia "Intelligencer" revealed that Confederate Admiral Semmes was released from Federal prison on April 6 by order of the President, on his original parole given under the Johnson-Sherman convention. 
     
I am of the sincere opinion that Heinrich Hartmann "Henry" Wirz, Swiss-born commander  of Camp Sumter, the Confederate prisoner-of-war camp near Andersonville, Georgia should have also have been released from prison under the same parole stipulations of the Johnson-Sherman convention.  Instead, he was illegally tried and executed relating to his command of the camp.   
    
After an autopsy removed some of Wirz's body parts, his partial remains were eventually reburied at Mount Olivet cemetery In Washington, DC.  I have heard that some of these human remains were sent around the country and displayed as some type of morbid sideshow, despite President U.S. Grant issuing an order to bury an "entire" body.  I have read that Wirz's arm and certain neck bones remain on public display at the National Museum of Medicine and Health located in Silver Spring, Maryland.  
    
News stories dealing with the bones of deceased soldiers and the desire to rebury their remains are relatively common. Why is the Wirz case different?  

Petitions and appeals to end this 150 year reign of blatant Northern barbarity, by burying all mortal remains, have been arrogantly unheeded.
 
John Wayne Dobson
Macon, Georgia
 
 
 
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Chaplain Ed

A lot has happened this week, historically that is. This week marked anniversaries of Lincoln's assassination, Jackie Robinson breaking the "color barrier" in baseball, the sinking of the Titanic, and lots more.

And while this past week's news cycles seemed pretty non-eventful - a lot has actually happened. For example, right now, today, Jewish presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is at the Vatican, by invitation of the Pope, to lecture the top leaders of the Catholic Church on "economic justice." While the Pope and Bernie may not agree on much theologically it would seem both are socialists who share the same ideas when it comes to economics. I also found out that Ted Cruz and I have something in common - I'll share it with you later.
 
"WHOLESALE ERASURE" OF CONFEDERATE PAST

Because of the light news cycles it is easy to assume that there were no real threats to our heritage this week. But such would simply not be correct. For example, this week there was a meeting at City Hall in Alexandria, Virginia to begin the planning of what will result in the city's removal of every Confederate monument, to rename every street named for a Confederate hero, etc. While that meeting did not result in any direct threat against a specific monument or street we will monitor this because if they are having these meetings the attacks are coming.

This week's meeting in Alexandria was not an isolated meeting? It was one in a series of ongoing meetings that the City has been holding for the last four months!
The city's Communications Director, Craig Fifer, noted that the City Charter gives the City power to name streets that supersedes the state level authority, including possibly renaming Jefferson Davis Highway. Most of the group agreed on renaming the highway.
 
With over 60 streets in the city potentially named after Confederate leaders..."It's huge and it's going to cascade," said Elizabeth McCall, representing the Historic Alexandria Resources Commission. McCall insists that, "more needs to be done to honor African American heritage in the city," but agrees that "wholesale erasure" of the city's Confederate past is a slippery slope.
 
"It is," agreed fellow committeeman Eugene Thompson, "but I want us to have that conversation."
 
 
MARION COUNTY, FLORIDA will "RELOCATE" FLAG

For over a year we have been actively fighting a battle to keep the 3rd National Flag flying in Marion County. The City of Ocala removed the flag. The County Commissioners voted to restore it. We reported the restoration of the flag as a heritage victory. But the forces of evil would not stop.
 
Each Commissioner's meeting the NAACP or some other liberal group would raise the subject anew and each meeting we would manage to postpone the discussion. Until about 6 months ago when the County Commission finally voted to take the Confederate flag away from the front of the McPherson Governmental Complex, replace the roadside display with something else, and relocate the Confederate flag elsewhere - in a spot much less visible from the roadway. And also, the 3rd National would be replaced with a "less offensive" Confederate Flag, possibly the 1st National.
 
But today the Confederate flag is still flying in the same place, plain for all to see as they pass by on 25th Avenue just south of Fort King Street.
 
So what happened to the plan? It's been very slowly being worked.
 
When the Commissioners voted to remove the flag they stated, on the record, that the, "plan would take time to develop --- and that the existing flag display would remain in place while details were worked out." That is Marion County secret code meaning that all would remain as it is for at least a few years. Ocala is called "Slowcalla" for a reason.
 
Essentially, with the help of sympathetic public officials, we have been able to delay the movement of the flag through bureaucratic stalling and "explorations." And the enemies of our heritage seemed content enough to allow the "stalling." Maybe because they too know that is how this place works and after all, the vote did go their way, even if the actual implementation would be slow to materialize.
 
But recently, a liberal reporter for our Yankee owned local newspaper has decided to stir the pot on this and to keep stirring. The County announced on Wednesday an accelerated timetable for the final removal of the Flag that will happen within the next few days.
 
The current display of flags will be replaced with flags "relevant" to the nearby Fallen Officers Memorial. The new flags will be those of the Ocala Police Department, Marion County Sheriff's Office and Florida Highway Patrol. The American flag will continue to fly, as well.
 
"The priority is to have the agency flags in place at the current display before the Fallen Officer Memorial ceremony on May 19," county government said in a statement issued in response to a Star-Banner inquiry.
 
As for the historic flags: "They will be moved to a new display elsewhere on campus. The Confederate flag now flying is from 1865. The new one will be the first Confederate flag, which flew between March 1861 and May 1863."
 
"The final historical flag display (which is currently in the design phase) will consist of the flag display as well as permanent interpretive signage or monuments. Private donations that will go toward the permanent display are still being received. So far, $25,000 has been privately donated," the county statement said.
 
There will be "some time" between May 19 and when the final historical flag display site is ready. This means that just as there was a delay in taking the flag down, there will be a delay in putting up its "less offensive" replacement in a location where nobody is going to ever see it anyway.
 
In November, two men were arrested and accused of trying to vandalize the Confederate flag at McPherson. One man said the plan was to lower the flag to half staff and put a sticker from the group Anonymous on the ground beneath. Ocala police thwarted the effort.
 
One man pleaded guilty and was ordered to complete 20 hours of community service; prosecutors didn't bring charges against the second.
 
Community activist Delphine Herbert, an outspoken critic of the County Commission, responded to the announcement to remove the flag by saying: "Our county commissioners operate as if Ocala/Marion County was still a small sleepy Southern enclave inhabited mainly by good ol' boys rather than an ever increasingly diverse population of almost a third of a million people who come not only from the north but from the far reaches of the world."
 
The current display, which will remain on display for at least the next week, includes all the flags that have flown over Florida, including the Confederate flag.
                  

SUPPORT CLINTON - NOT HILLARY

Come to Old Clinton and take a step back in time on April 30 & May 1, 2016, when re-enactors from the Southeast recreate the Battles of Sunshine Church, which took place in July of 1864, and Griswoldville, which took place in November of 1864 during Sherman's March to the Sea.

The 16th Georgia will sponsor a children's battle and a Ladies Tea. The National Naval Civil War Museum in Columbus is to bring a Naval Display/Marine, with replica cannon like those once made in Macon
The entire event takes place in the Old Clinton Historic District, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Self-guided walking tour information will be available, and guided tours are available by pre-reservation.

Crafts of the era will be demonstrated; "modern" arts and crafts will also be available for purchase; and "modern" as well as food of the period will be served.

Gates open at 9:00 A.M. Battle at 2:05 each day. Admission/Contribution each day: Adults - $5; Students 18 and under $3; Children under 6 - Free. Memorial service - Free.
 
Clinton is located 12 miles NE of Macon, 1-½ miles SE of Gray, one block west off US Hwy 129. For more information contact Earlene Hamilton at 478-986-6383 or the Jones County-Gray Chamber of Commerce & Visitor's Center at 478-986-1123.



Confederate Memorial Day at Landmark Baptist Church 
 
Archer, Florida

April 23 & 24, 2016
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CLARENCE THOMAS ?'s TED CRUZ HOOKER CONNECTION

On Wednesday, Justice Thomas -- disagreeing with Chief Justice Roberts' denial of attorney Montgomery Blair Sibley's petition to release the sealed phone records of the late DC Madame (records that allegedly document Ted Cruz being a client of the infamous prostitute) -- has referred the original petition for determination by the entire Supreme Court at their Conference on April 29th. 
 
Attorney Sibley has responded by saying, "More waiting for Lady Justice to grind out her answer.  But at least all of the Justices will be on record as to whether they will continue the muzzling of my First Amendment Political Speech so that We the People can govern ourselves accordingly."

Is this a true investigation on the part of Justice Thomas? Or is it a well calculated political stall intended to keep the lid on this until the 6 remaining April primaries have been completed?


WHAT DO TED CRUZ AND I HAVE IN COMMON?

We both like soup.

I am not sharing this story in hopes of promoting or denigrating Senator Cruz. I just saw this on the  TV last night and thought CRAZY!


Newlywed Ted Cruz celebrates his marriage by buying 100 cans of Campbell's Chunky soup. 

During last night's CNN town hall  America got another glimpse into the life of Heidi and Ted Cruz.
The story defies any logical explanation, so I'll let Heidi do the talking:
 
When I married Ted, we got back from our honeymoon, and he went off to the store and came home by himself. And I was completely shocked to see that he arrived back at our apartment with literally 100 cans of Campbell's Chunky soup. I never bought 100 of anything.
This was shocking to me, so we had a tough conversation about it. I said, "You don't buy 100 of anything, much less canned soup. We can't do this. I'll be making things." He said, "No, I know you. you won't be making things."

So the next morning, it was a weekend morning, I loaded up our car before he woke up and returned every single can. And when I got home, I called my mother just to make sure I'd done the right thing as a newlywed. And she emphatically disagreed with me. And so when Ted opened the pantry, I had to quickly tell him that I would go back and buy those cans again. 
 
Questions abound.

First and foremost-why?

What did this "tough conversation" consist of?

Did Heidi really go back to the store to re-buy 100 cans of soup? Did she re-buy the soup in the same variety and quantity?

How long does it take Ted to finish 100 cans of soup?

Heidi, are you okay? You know you can tell us if you're not okay?

We've reached out to Campbell's for comment and will update if and when we hear back.
 

THERE IS MORE TO THIS THAN THE MEDIA REPORTS

New Jersey Secretary of State, Kim Guadagno has chosen not to over-rule Administrative Law Judge Jeff S. Masin's decision on Ted Cruz's eligibility to be on New Jersey's Presidential Primary Ballot.

After reading Judge Masin's opinion in this matter I can say without reservation that Ted Cruz is a natural-born citizen .... of Canada - but certainly not the United States.
 
Come to find out, Ted's mother was not a US citizen, as he claims.
 
Ted's father was a bigamist. While married in Cuba, he ran off to Canada with his new girlfriend - Ted's eventual mother. The senior Cruz gave an interview with NPR and said:
 
"I worked in Canada for eight years, and while I was in Canada, I became a Canadian citizen."
 
Ted was born on Dec. 21st, 1970, shortly after citizenship was granted to both parents. To be granted Canadian citizenship, one must live in Canada for 5 years - a crucial point! The only exception to that is if one of the spouses is a citizen of the mother country, England.
 
Ted's mother, Eleanor, was originally married to a British mathematician. Although they met and married in Texas in 1956, 4 years later, they moved back to his hometown, London, in 1960. A year later, she abandoned the marriage without notice. Her husband filed for divorce in 1962. Accounts vary slightly, but she probably returned to her family in Texas in 1966, having acquired British citizenship while there.
 
Soon after, she met Ted's father and they fled to Canada, probably so that Rafael would not have to deal with a messy and expensive divorce.  
 
Eleanor and Raphael were married in Canada in 1969 and a year later, Ted was born in late 1970 to parents who were full Canadian citizens by then. Remember, the ONLY way citizenship could have been granted so quickly was if Eleanor claimed British citizenship.
 
Canadian Immigration and Naturalization officials have reportedly confirmed that Ted Cruz was a natural-born citizen of Canada, the son of two parents who had recently applied for and received citizenship prior to Ted's birth.
 
"He's a Canadian," said Toronto lawyer Stephen Green, past chairman of the Canadian Bar Association's Citizenship and Immigration Section.    

It was Ted Cruz, himself, who released his Canadian birth certificate and "renounced" his Canadian citizenship.
 
In addition, we know by the admission of Ted's father, Raphael, that he was never a U.S. citizen until 2005. We also know that regardless of whether his mother gave up her U.S. citizenship to become a British citizen no longer matters because Canada did not allow dual citizenship and so both Raphael and Eleanor had to give up any other citizenship they may have held to become Canadian citizens.
 
In any case, we now know that all three, Raphael, Eleanor, and Ted Cruz returned to the U.S. in 1974 as Canadian citizens.

So, Ted Cruz is certainly not a natural-born U.S. citizen, in fact, it is questionable whether he is even a U.S. citizen today, and that is probably why he has sealed his birth records.
 
Which is why Judge Masin did not rule on anything. After the hearing, the judge did not issue a ruling. Rather, he issued an "opinion" to the Secretary of State. The media is trumpeting a "ruling" when no ruling was issued.
 
It is Judge Masin's opinion that Ted Cruz is eligible to be nominated as a Republican Candidate for president and therefore his name can appear on a ballot in a Republican Primary. As for whether or not Ted is actually eligible to be president, Judge Masin's opinion is that: "the issue can never be entirely free of doubt, at least barring a definitive ruling of the United States Supreme Court."
 
Needless to say there is a LOT to this story that the Media is NOT telling us. Now that at least some of it, Ted's mother being a British and not US Citizen, etc., has come out in court, is it coincidental that certain people on both the right and the left are all of the sudden this week starting to warm up to Donald Trump?
 
    
TEBOW FOR CONGRESS? 

Rumors are circulating that former University of Florida football star Tim Tebow may run for Congress.
Speculation emerged after U.S. Congressman Ander Crenshaw, 71, unexpectedly announced that he is not running for reelection in November for the safe Republican seat after 16 years in federal office.
Crenshaw represents Florida's fourth Congressional district in the Jacksonville area, which is also Tebow's home.

Tebow, 28, a devout Christian, recently acknowledged that he considered the possibility of a career in elected politics intriguing.

"Republican sources told the Examiner that they are reaching out to Tebow in hopes he will consider a bid. They are even quietly pulling together a potential campaign team that he could use for the upcoming August 30 primary," the Washington Examiner reported about the Tebow for Congress rumors.

ITS BASEBALL SEASON AGAIN

As you know, April marks the beginning of baseball season.

As we reported at length in several of last year's issues, baseball was a favorite game of both Southern soldiers and of POW's during the WBTS. So this week's offer is a baseball offer.

We at Dixie Heritage remain vigilant in our efforts to promote and defend our Southern Heritage. Your weekly gifts help us to stay active in the fight.

Everyone who gives a gift of $12 or more to Dixie Heritage this week will receive a CD-Rom containing the textbook and audio lessons of a college course on the history of baseball. This course specifically covers the early history of baseball as it was played by our southern ancestors during the WBTS. 

Here is the video we posted to youtube last June. The Dixie Heritage tribute o 1860's baseball:

BLACK JUDGE RULES CONFEDERATE FLAG IS "UNAMERICAN"
 
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A federal judge says the Confederate emblem on the Mississippi flag is "anti-American" because it represents those who fought to leave the United States.
 
But U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves is not yet saying whether he will fully consider a lawsuit that seeks to eliminate the flag as a state symbol.
 
Reeves heard arguments Tuesday over motions in a lawsuit filed by Carlos Moore, an African-American attorney who's asking Reeves to declare the flag an unconstitutional relic of slavery.
 
Reeves must decide two questions: whether Moore has legal standing to sue the state, and whether flag design is an issue that can be decided by a court.
 
An assistant state attorney general, Doug Miracle, argues flag design is a political question that should be decided by the Legislature.
 
 
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Chaplain Ed

I would like to start off this week by sharing an editorial that appeared in the April edition of Georgia's Howling Dawg:

WILL CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY 2016 BE DIFFERENT?
 
For years, Confederate Memorial Day and Robert E. Lee's birthday have been on Georgia's official State holiday calendar but around the summer of 2015 the two holidays were struck from the official calendar. It was a cowardly, political move, of course, by those who often preach equality and civil rights - tolerance ... and not so much achieved by those who are the traditional enemies of our beloved heritage but those who have been fair-weather supporters - chiefly turn coat, history-ignorant native Southerners and politicians who would gladly change position depending on which way the wind blows. They deserve our greatest degree of disdain.
 
I would like to write that nothing has changed as far as the prospect of 2016 Confederate Memorial Day services but that would not be quite true. While all the organizations in our area, who normally sponsor such commemorations, will likely continue doing so, some have asked that we not alert nor invite the media to them. This is presumably being done to draw less attention and protect those who devotedly attend. Too, I believe that the faithful who normally and loyally pay such annual respects will still seek out the times and locations and be there, as usual, if they can. Moreover, who needs the scurrilous media anyway? They are seldom there to support us but rather to make a spectacle of what we and discredit our Cause in any way they can. We have next to nothing to gain from their presence and much to lose. Thus, please understand why this newsletter will not list specific services and locations in this issue as it has done in times before, neither will it furnish any such information to the media.....Some of us will live to fight another day.

JWD



A Conversation on the Street with H.K. Edgerton
   
On Saturday morning, March 12, 2016 I would don my Dixie Outfitter shirt, and with the Southern Cross in hand make my way up Highway 9 towards the Continental Divide outside the Town of Black Mountain, North Carolina. I call it my training route, as I use it to prepare for planned Marches.

I had scarcely traveled more than two miles when a elderly White man who had parked his car alongside the road would beckon to me. "Young man, can I get a moment of your time?"

"Yes sir," would be my reply.

"I have watched you march up and down this highway for some years now. I was born and raised in Chicago, and came South almost 5 decades ago seeking to find peace and safety for my wife and children. I am told and have read that you are a brave and honorable man, and truly hope that you can take what I have to say to you without any offense intended.  My great, great grandfather was a Northern slave trader,, and he told stories about the African people's inhumanity towards each other that would make Al Capone weep. The cannibalism, the rape, the murder, and selling of millions of its own people into worldwide slavery.  And having said all of that, I wouldn't have had the courage to stop you if I had not observed how your people treated Trump in my home State of Illinois. I don't understand how the black man in America is so easily duped in the theater of politics. Trump is the best thing for them since your President Jefferson Davis. And I hope and believe that you are smart enough to figure out what I mean. In a city where Black on Black crime runs rampant; how can your people accuse any White man of bigotry and hate, or even utter the words that "'lack lives matter?' On the same day of the tragedy in Charleston, S.C., and the many days that have followed; the carnage left behind by Black folks killing each other in America has no parallel. And you can't blame that on the flag that you carry. And I want you to know that I love the North, but feel deeply that it was wrong what our people did to your South. And if I did not feel that God had packed his bags and came here to your homeland; I would still be there. And, I believe that the further you get away from being Southern; the further you get away from Jesus Christ, my Lord and Master."

And then with tears now trickling from his eyes, he asked if I would give a Yankee one of those hugs I was famous for? And I did.

It was an irony for me that he had mentioned President Davis as I am set to give the Keynote address for Confederate Memorial Day on Saturday, April 23, 2016 at Beauvoir, Mississippi, the home and final resting place of President Davis.

God bless you!"
Your brother,        
HK                        

Virginia, high school student rally in support of the Confederate Flag
 
After school administrators at Staunton River High School in Montea, Virginia, enforced its policy, telling students that the Confederate flag was banned from vehicles in the school's parking lot, a group of students organized to sponsor a parade of cars emblazoned with the flag to express their First Amendment rights.
 
According to WDBJ, CBS Channel 7, students Chas Goodson and Zachary Barton were told to leave their flags at home but felt the school was attempting to shut down their Constitutional right to free expression.
 
"We're doing all of this to stand up for our First Amendment rights," Goodson told the media.
 
The pair of students said they outfitted their vehicles with the Confederate symbol in memory of recently-passed country music legend Merle Haggard but were confronted by school administrators over the flags.
 
The pair also noted their ancestors served in the WBTS and the flag was a nod to their ancestry.
 
"We are very proud of our heritage and we want to be able to show it," Barton told Channel 7. "We were given our First Amendment right for a reason and we want to be able to use it."
 
School administrations hastened to claim they have no intention of stomping on anyone's First Amendment rights.....large banners and flags had already been banned on vehicles in the school parking lot, even if they are large U.S. flags.
 
But the students who organized the parade of autos said their response isn't over. Students and parents also went to the campus and marched with their flags too, some representing a group called "Battle Flag Rally for Freedom."
 
"It's not about hate. It's about the heritage," said Jason Wright, a Staunton River High student. "When schools try to take away our American flags and stuff and tell us we can't fly them at school, that's not right."
 
The students say they intend to rally again sometime next week.
 
The "Battle Flag Rally for Freedom" group has a Facebook page where they describe themselves as a peaceful group.
 
"We promote peaceful rallies for the support of Confederate and American values. We support the Constitution of the Confederacy & the U.S.A. no hate."
 
 
MTA Subway Train Model Features a Confederate Flag
 
These are photos of a model subway car recently purchased at a toy shop in Brooklyn. At first glance everything looks normal:

Let's take a closer look at those New Yorkers riding the subway:

Is that a Confederate flag shirt?   
 
These model train cars can be purchased at the Transit Museum Store at Grand Central Terminal for just $11. Scoop them up quick before the liberals have them destroyed and replaced with smiling minority figures wearing Bernie T-shirts.

Speaking of Bernie - check out this billboard: 

Here is a follow-up to a story that we helped to break last week:

SUPREME COURT PROTECTING TED CRUZ?
Attorney Montgomery Blair Sibley reports that on Tuesday Chief Justice Roberts denied his Application to be relieved from the Restraining Order which prohibits him from releasing any of the D.C. Madam Jeane Palfrey's Escort Service Records.

This follows: (i) the refusal of the U.S. District Court to allow him to file a Motion to Modify that Restraining Order and (ii) the refusal of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to rule upon his Petition which sought to Order the District Court Clerk to file his Motion to Modify.

It is believed that these records, which Attorney Sibley wants to release to the media but are currently under a "gag" order, document Ted Cruz having been a client of the infamous D.C. Madame's prostitution service. 

Sibley said on Wednesday: 
 
"Before I simply release the records in my possession, I must exhaust all judicial remedies. Accordingly, invoking Supreme Court Rule 22.4, I am renewing the Application with a second Justice, the estimable Clarence Thomas.  I will wait to see what he says before taking my next step."
 
"But permit me to make this observation:  On January 19, 2016, I sought to be released from a 'gag order' covering First Amendment protected political speech and to date -- seventy eight (78) days later -- I have yet to be allowed to even file that request in the proper court.  Can anyone deny that justice delayed is justice denied in this instance?"  

You can keep up with this story by reading Attorney Sibley's blog at: http://amoprobos.blogspot.com/ 
     
 
Connecting the Dots - Donald Trump and Jefferson Davis

An interesting factoid that I stumbled upon this week is that Donald gave $25,000 for the post-Katrina restoration of Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis' retirement estate on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

But more interesting is a statement reportedly coming out of a closed door meeting of GOP "party bosses" this week that, "If Donald Trump becomes our nominee, the GOP will look a lot less like the 'Party of Lincoln' and a lot more like the party of Jefferson Davis."

Huffington Post, a publication which I wouldn't even use to paper train a puppy, ran an interesting editorial calling Trump a modern day Jefferson Davis and saying that The Donald is trying to incite a "second American Civil War."

BUZZFLASH HEADLINE: "Trump Reincarnates Jefferson Davis"

There was also an ongoing effort to replace the recently removed statue of Jefferson Davis on the University of Texas campus in Austin with a statue of Donald Trump.

Here is something that is simply NOT being reported in the mainstream media:

Ted Cruz Must Prove Eligibility to New Jersey Secretary of State in Hearing April 11th 
 
Professor Victor Williams is a little-known candidate for president of the United States in 2016 whose name may soon become a household word. He is on the ballot in nine states and has chosen to use his "Competitor Candidate Standing" to potentially strike and disqualify Canadian born Ted Cruz from 8 State Ballots.

Williams, an attorney and law professor, also pledges he will litigate to invalidate fraudulent elections should Ted Cruz not be disqualified.

Each filing alleges that Rafael Ted Cruz obtained ballot access by fraudulently, misrepresenting his eligibility as a Canadian-born, and not a natural born American citizen. Each charge demands that the Secretary of State provide Williams with immediate remedy for ballot fraud in specific ways.
New Jersey may be of concern for particular concern for the Canadian immigrant.

On April 8, 2016 Mr. Williams posted an alert on his campaign website 
headlined "Ted Cruz risks primary disqualification in New Jersey resulting from charges of ballot access fraud."

He goes on to detail that a primary ballot disqualification hearing has been scheduled by the Secretary of State for Monday, April 11 at 9:00 a.m. in Mercerville, New Jersey.

The alert states, "Williams demands that Cruz be disqualified from several late-primary ballots: 'Cruz committed ballot access fraud in each state when he falsely swore that he was a 'natural born' American citizen.' Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada and held his resulting Canadian citizenship until May 2014.  Cruz is a naturalized  (not natural born) American citizen."

Cruz may not even be a naturalized US citizen as he has not provided that proof either and has been unwilling to do so. We'll hopefully learn the truth in that regard on April 11th as well.



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Last week there wasn't a whole lot happening on the "Heritage front" but that has changed this week as new shots against our heritage have been fired in three states this week. Plus the presidential race has gotten even more interesting. So this will be a longer issue that usual but worth the time it will take you to read it.


We will start with Heritage news:

FLAG COMES DOWN IN MARYLAND

Last week we reported a heritage victory about a Battle Flag that had been prominently raised 40 feet behind the sign along the side of Md. Rt. 234 welcoming visitors into St. Mary's County from neighboring Charles County.

In response to complaints about the flag St. Mary's County Commissioner John O'Connor investigated and determined that the flag was on private property. His official response was that, "It's not about like, dislike, heritage or hatred on something like this. It's about the Constitution and the First Amendment. It doesn't matter what flag that person is flying. That's private property and they have every right to fly whatever flag they may want to fly." Local officials made it plain that they would not take any action to remove the flag. The gentleman who raised the flag determined to keep it up. That was last week.

This week, the flag raised by the owner of Budds Creek Motocross Park, Jonathan Beasely, was removed and replaced with the "First National" flag.

Beasely says he's been flying lesser-known Confederate flags on his property for 30 years and, "Nobody ever said a word because nobody knows what it is, except the people who are in the Sons of Confederate Veterans or knowledgeable with the flag," speaking of the lesser-known flags.

In April, Beasely will be hosting an annual music festival on his property called Buddsfest. Tickets, according to the festival website, sell for $40 each and get you in to hear a rather impressive list of bands scheduled to perform on the festival stage. Only one problem the police refused to provide security for the festival.

Beasely, who says the local police department has provided security for his event for over 30 years, has withheld their services this year in response to his flying of the Battle Flag. By replacing it with a "lesser known" flag he hopes that he can regain police security services for the festival.

ALSO IN MARYLAND

St. Mary's College is blaming a string of recent dormitory fires on the display, by two students, of the Battle Flag, during the college's annual Easter Egg Hunt, and previously at a student led drinking party.
The school's annual Easter Egg Hunt is unlike most other Easter Egg Hunts is different because at St. Mary's the Seniors hide "eggs" (actually beer bottles) around the campus for the Freshman to find.

At both events this year, a few of this year's beer bottles had a Confederate Flag printed on their labels. So the Administration now wants to cite that as the reason why someone, who they just can't seem to catch, has been setting a single wooden chair on fire in a dormitory building during the morning hours between 2-3 am.

Rather than catch the firebug the school's Administration is planning a referendum on the Battle Flag and the "violence" that it "incites."
 
 
Rally protests sale of Confederate flag merchandise

BEREA, Ky. (WTVQ) - The group Berea United for Racial Justice (BURJ) is holding a rally outside the Berea Chamber of Commerce (BCOC), to protest the sale of Confederate flag merchandise at the annual Spoonbread Festival.

The Rally started at 10:30 a.m., and brought members of BURJ, Bereans4Mike Brown, and others in the city concerned about the sale of these items.

Organizers point out that while the Kentucky State Fair and the State Park System have both banned the sale of Confederate flag merchandise, the Berea Chamber of Commerce, which organizes the festival, still allows Confederate flag merchandise.


INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla. -- where school leaders could decide if they will ban the Confederate flag from campus. This comes after several reports by the local NAACP blaming "racial tension" at Indian River Schools this school year as a result of the display or use of the flag.

At the beginning of the school year, cellphone video captured someone ripping a Confederate flag from a truck parked on school property.

Just this month, some Vero Beach High School students were disciplined for passing around a flyer that read "The south will rise again" with the picture of a Confederate flag.

"As the tumultuous atmospheres in our nation goes up, so does the atmosphere in our schools," said Tony Brown, President of the Indian River County chapter of the NAACP.

Brown is now pushing the school district to officially ban Confederate flags from being worn on clothing, or displayed in any other way on school property.

At Tuesday's school board meeting, Brown spoke to the board about his concerns with the flyer that was passed to other students, and also brought up his desire to see the flag banned.

Brown says board members seemed supportive of the idea. The Indian River County School District would not comment.


SOUTH CAROLINA unlikely to decide flag display

The Chairman of the South Carolina museum storing the Confederate Flag removed from Statehouse grounds last summer says he doesn't expect the Legislature to make any decisions on its display this year.

George Dorn also suggested Thursday that the museum's governing board take no position on a House proposal that could result in the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum moving to Charleston.
But the commander of South Carolina's Sons of Confederate Veterans says his chapter opposes that idea. Leland Summers, a board member, says the 120-year-old museum needs to stay in the state's central, capital city.

The board recommended spending $3.6 million to renovate the museum and display the flag. The House instead advanced a budget plan requiring an analysis of Charleston museum space and moving cost estimates.   

CRUZ ACCUSES KASICH OF BEING FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS
 
That may be the only polite news regarding Ted Cruz this week!

Billionaire George Soros is known to have given millions of dollars to liberal causes and is a strong backer of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. However, this week second place GOP candidate Ted Cruz has been telling Wisconsin voters that, "Hundreds of thousands of dollars from George Soros," reads the text of a new ad by TrusTED Leadership, one of Ted's SuperPACs.

The ad hit the airwaves Tuesday and is scheduled to continue through Wisconsin's winner-take-all election next week. It drew immediate complains from the Kasich campaign for its inaccuracy.

While it is true that many friends and business associates of George Soros or his many companies have donated to all of the Republican candidates neither Soros himself, or any of his companies, have contributed to Kasich or any Republican groups.

Kasich's people filed complaints late Tuesday with television stations demanding they pull the TrusTED Leadership ads because of the, "false, misleading, and deceptive statement," that Soros is funding Kasich.
Matt David, senior strategist for Kasich called the Cruz ad claims "absurd."

At the same time, Ted has been busy saying the same thing about last week's National Enquirer article alleging that he has had affairs with five women.

Why are we bringing that up again this week? Because:

TED CRUZ DOES NOT DENY UNFAITHFULNESS TO HEIDI

Specifically, on Monday, at a press conference, Ted declined to answer a question on Monday about whether he has ever been unfaithful to his wife Heidi.

'Senator Cruz,' DailyMail.com asked him, 'can you please swat down more definitively this National Enquirer piece by telling us on the record that you've never been unfaithful to your wife?'

Instead of making a blanket declaration that he has been faithful during the entirety of his 14-year marriage - a move that would effectively end the vicious news cycle - Cruz stood silently as campaign surrogate Carly Fiorina leapt in to intercept the question and change the subject.

DailyMail.com directed the question a second time at Cruz when Fiorina had finished.

'Senator I'm sorry, this is a very serious question about your character,' the second question came.
"Will you just - if the answer is, 'Yes, I've always been faithful to my wife,' can you just say so please?"

Rather than do so he once again regurgitated his practiced answer that the National Enquirer story was false, calling it 'complete garbage.'

Regarding the National Enquirer story, many will question the legitimacy of the source - the National Enquirer - and rightly so. They're a tabloid after all. But remember this - the National Enquirer broke the John Edwards scandal, Tiger Woods scandal, the Gary Hart scandal, and the Jesse Jackson scandal. When it comes to exposing the affairs of politicians, they've got a pretty good record.

But the reporter from DailyMail.com did not ask about the National Enquirer article. He is assuming it to be false. What he was asking, related but not, is whether Ted Cruz has ever cheaTED? Since Ted has now refused to answer that question several times this week we have to ask if maybe Ted has cheaTED?

But that's not the only evidence that has surfaced indicating that Ted may soon be busTED?

Facebook has been chocked full of reports that Heidi Cruz filed divorce papers back in 2011 and again in 2013. The reason she allegedly cited for the dissolution of marriage was "infidelity." Now that is unconfirmed. And this is also complicated by the fact that most legal documents in Texas and elsewhere regarding Ted Cruz have been "sealed" by courts at Ted's request. So as long as the documents are "sealed" investigators and media agents have no way of confirming the reports.

And Ted will not issue a statement in response to them.

The mainstream media is pretty much giving Ted a pass on this, choosing instead to resurrect news stories from last week. It really got bad when a panel on Don Lemon's CNN show insisted on talking about Ted's refusal to address the DailyMail.com reporter and other reports by lesser media sources. When the panel refused the instruction of Lemon and CNN's off camera editors that CNN has determined Ted Cruz' sex scandal off limits (the panel kept talking about it) CNN terminated its broadcast, then aired a commercial, and switched to alternate programming.

Still, this just will not go away for poor Ted.  
 
SUPREME COURT MOTION MAY DOCUMENT TED CRUZ VISITS TO PROSTITUTE

Monday, a motion was filed asking the Supreme Court to allow a Florida attorney to release to the public view documents in his possession that will supposedly prove that one of the candidates in this primary (presumably Ted Cruz) had frequented prostitutes.

The former attorney for the "D.C. Madam" has asked the Supreme Court to allow him to release records of Deborah Jeane Palfrey's escort service, including customer names, addresses and Social Security numbers, because they allegedly could affect the 2016 presidential election.

In an application to the high court, filed Monday, Montgomery Blair Sibley is asking to be released from a judge's 2007 restraining order which prohibited him from sharing Palfrey's telephone records, during the much-publicized run-up to her federal trial for racketeering, money laundering and mail fraud. And, if the Supreme Court won't hear his argument, Sibley says he will release the identifying information of Palfrey's customers anyway.

Early this year, Sibley filed a motion to modify the 2007 court order prohibiting him from releasing the records. In February, D.C.'s U.S. district court rejected his motion to have the order lifted.

So Sibley attempted to file a motion in the Federal Appeal's Court where Chief Judge Richard Roberts would not allow the Clerk to permit Sibley's motion to be filed at all.

In his Monday filing to the Supreme Court, Sibley argues that if the Supreme Court doesn't rule that he should be allowed to simply file the motion to modify the restraining order, allowing him to release the subpoenaed information, that this will "appear to many to intentionally favor one Presidential candidate over others." The filing goes on to say that, "Such a result will further erode the faith of the People in a fair and impartial judiciary."

The documents in question are 5 years of Verizon phone records that will document the names on the "D.C. Madam" client list.

Before the records were sealed, news agencies reportedly reviewed the phone records and a number of Beltway insiders were named in the scandal, including Deputy Secretary of State Randall Tobias (who resigned as a result) and Senator David Vitter whose bid for the Governorship of Louisiana was destroyed by the revelation.

Many on the list were not thought to be consequential enough to report on. That would seem to indicate that the person Sibley is talking about is not Clinton or Trump since they were already in public eye. Even though their profiles weren't as high, Kasich and Sanders were both serving in Congress by then, and, like Vitter, they would have drawn attention had their numbers been on the list. That leaves Cruz.

Now the ANNONYMOUS video makes sense.

A couple weeks ago ANNONYMOUS released a video claiming they had info Cruz would not want to go public and urged him to get out of the race or they would send the info to media outlets and start leaking it on twitter. The video specifically asked if he remembered visiting prostitutes.

Around that time a twitter hashtag #theThing started trending that hinted at some misdeed(s) by Cruz including a video. That video is believed to be a possible basis for the National Enquirer article.
The Enquirer story, alleging his cheating, included the claim a prostitute was involved.

The lawyer who is making the request to release the records also noted that ANNONYMOUS had joined the conversation on a blog where he's been posting developments in the legal processing of his request. You can read attorney Sibley's blog and ANNOYMOUS posts to it at:  amoprobos.blogspot.com  

Trump and Cruz Suckered into Destroying Each Other?
 
The "War on the Wives" between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz should have conservatives asking "Cui bono?" an old Latin legal term meaning "Who benefits?"
 
And the answer of course is that only the Republican establishment and the Washington Cartel would accomplish benefit from the war that is breeding this intensely personal hostility. 
 
So, let's take a look at where this all came from and how it started - and who started it. 
 
The War on the Wives began when "Make America Awesome," an independent Super PAC (really more of a fundraising mill) run by liberal establishment Republican consultant Liz Mair, ran an ad attacking Donald Trump through his wife, Melania. 
 
Note Liz Mair's liberal past and record of failed campaigns when Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker briefly hired her before his campaign tanked. 
 
The ad repurposed a British GQ spread in which Mrs. Trump appeared to be nude. Mair put a $400,000 buy behind the digital ad which appeared right before the March 22 primaries mostly in Utah, but also apparently in Arizona as well. 
 
The result, entirely predictable to anyone who has been observing Trump and his campaign, was that Trump unloaded both barrels against Ted Cruz and his wife Heidi.
 
Naturally, Cruz responded with "lay-off my wife" just as he did when the establishment media attacked his children back during the Christmas holidays. 
 
And then the "Cruz is having multiple affairs" story appeared in the National Enquirer.
Cruz (understandably) took the bait and attacked Trump for planting the story and has now declined to say that he will support whomever the GOP nominee is - something he'd been promising for months.  
 
"I don't make a habit out of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my family, and Donald Trump is not going to be the Republican nominee," Cruz told reporters.

Cui bono? 
 
Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, the two smartest guys in the contest for the GOP presidential nomination, are being played for suckers by the Republican establishment, Washington power brokers, and their allies in the Media. 
 
The establishment's goal is to sow as much chaos as possible in the lead-up to the Republican National Convention so that no candidate reaches the magic number of the 1237 delegates necessary to win the nomination on the first ballot.

At that point the insiders of the Republican establishment will step in to choose their preferred candidate (our money is on House Speaker Paul Ryan but know that somewhere in Utah Mitt Romney is at a beauty parlor getting a manicure and practicing his convention acceptance speech to a hair stylist) to derail the  conservative revolution now threatening the establishment stranglehold on Washington. 
 
Both Trump and Cruz supporters need to be smart about who the real political enemy is in this contest - it is the Republican establishment, not the other candidate. By attacking each other rather than addressing issues and exposing the establishment and Media manipulations for what they are the remainder of the Republican primaries are playing right into the establishment's hands.


TRUMP HAS CLOSED DOOR MEETING AT RNC THURSDAY
 
On Thursday Donald Trump left his campaigning in Wisconsin for a closed door meeting at RNC Headquarters in D.C.

After a wild week for Trump, the RNC reportedly requested a private sit-down with Trump to discuss some of the comments Trump has made in the past week.

According to Politico, the closed door meeting between Trump and RNC chairman Reince Priebus covered a variety of topics, but apparently the primary focus of the meeting was a simple one: delegates. The delegates that Trump needs in order to win the nomination, the delegates he'd be fighting over if there's a contested convention this summer, the very same delegates that Trump claims were stolen from him due to 'unfair' rules the RNC imposed in states like Louisiana - which saw Trump, who won the state, receive the same number of delegates as Cruz who came in second.

The controversial decision by the RNC was called into question by Trump shortly after his victory was announced. Donald Trump threatened to sue the RNC over the debacle, a threat that may have been addressed at this secretive meeting between Donald Trump and Reince Priebus.

Trump has always had a troubled relationship with the RNC, suggesting numerous times he might dump the GOP in favor of a third-party run in the general election, despite signing a pledge that he wouldn't do so. For his part, at least publically, Reince Priebus stands behind Trump, stating that the RNC will back Trump if he wins the nomination - Priebus reiterated the RNC would stand behind whoever wins the nomination.

The closed-door meeting was held at the RNC's Washington DC office, and lasted about an hour, reports NBC News. Taking a break from TV interviews, Trump spent the day meeting with the RNC, and his own foreign policy team.

It's unclear, just what was discussed in the closed-door meeting between Trump and RNC chairman Reince Priebus, but Politico reports that security shut down the fourth floor of the building in order to keep the talks as private as possible. Just after the meeting, Trump tweeted out thanks to RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, stating that the meeting was productive and civil.

"Just had a very nice meeting with Reince Priebus and the GOP. Looking forward to bringing the Party together - and it will happen!" Trump tweeted shortly after the meeting.
 

COURT RULES NEW ORLEANS MONUMENTS STAY IN PLACE
 
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeal issued an order on March 25 that prevents the city of New Orleans from taking down Confederate monuments while a lawsuit challenging its ability to do so makes its way through court.
 
U.S District Judge Carl Barbier had previously rejected a request to block city action while a federal lawsuit was being considered.
 
John Dunlap III, the attorney representing the Louisiana Landmarks Commission, said that while their main case must still be heard in Barbier's court, the appellate panel's decision Friday provides hope the plaintiffs will prevail.
 
"Obviously, the 5th Circuit thinks there's some merit to the arguments that the city's failure to follow own ordinances violates the U.S. and Louisiana constitutions," Dunlap said.
 
The 5th Circuit judges that considered the injunction appeal were Judges Edith Brown Clement, Jennifer Walker Elrod and Leslie Southwick, according to a two-page document filed at the court.
 
The plaintiffs didn't earn a complete victory at the appellate level, as the panel denied a request to have their appeal expedited. This essentially keeps the case on the standard docket in Barbier's court, meaning arguments and briefings could last for months, Dunlap said.  
 
Pierre McGraw, president of the Monumental Task Force board, issued a statement Friday afternoon: "We appreciate the unanimous decision of the panel of federal judges, which acknowledges that removing the monuments is premature. This action will allow for a full review of the constitutional and statutory issues at stake in this case," he said.
 
There is a similar case in state court that is also awaiting appeal. Orleans Civil District Judge Piper Griffin ruled in February that the Monumental Task Force, volunteers who maintain and repair fixture displays around the city, can't claim ownership of the monuments. Dunlap said that with signs pointing toward defeat before the state's Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal, his goal is to bring the case to the Louisiana Supreme Court where the issue of constitutionality can be determined. 
 
Since gaining City Council approval to remove the monuments, Mayor Landrieu has been unable to hire a contractor to remove the monuments. The preferred contractor it first selected backed out of the job. The mayor's office then announced the project would be awarded through a public bidding process, but the city pulled a list of interested contractors from its website. The deadline for obtaining more bids has been extended to April 22.  
 
Sarah McLaughlin, the mayor's communication director, said in an email "the city is evaluating the implications that this ruling may have on the bid process." 
 
 
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