A Newsletter for Conservative Republicans

FLYING HIGH…AND DIGGING AND BORING TO KEEP BREVARD COUNTY RED AND GET CONSERVATIVES ELECTED

Editor and Publisher: Stuart Gorin Designer and Assistant Publisher: Frank Montelione

Number 104 July 2018

CANDIDATES ATTEND BREVARD REPUBLICAN PICNIC FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK: Nearly 800 Brevard County, Florida residents attended the MY TWO CENTS biannual picnic organized by the Brevard Republican By Stuart Gorin Executive Committee (BREC) and the Council of Clubs in

It’s an inconvenient truth that while the left Melbourne on July 8, listening to dozens of candidates for a and its media allies are calling President variety of offices, visiting their campaign tables plus those set Trump “a cruel, heartless monster” and up by Republican clubs in the county, voting in an unofficial other harsh labels for jailing illegals who straw poll, and enjoying music and a BBQ luncheon. cross our borders, this is a policy straight out of the Obama administration. Democrats know this of course but are just playing politics as usual – pulling any trick they can to try to derail the president’s agenda.

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Stanford University sophomore John David Rice-Cameron is president of the College Republicans and helped organize a “Make Stanford Great Again” event on campus. He also serves as activism director for the statewide California College Republicans. Irony of ironies, his mother is none other than onetime Obama administration official Susan Rice – she of the infamous “Benghazi due to a video” fame. While the event was open to anyone, BREC Chairman Rick -0- Lacey said about 90 percent of the attendees were registered Alleged “comedian” Michelle Wolf now says that abortion Republicans. “We would greatly appreciate your help in “should be on the Dollar Menu at McDonald’s.” Under this supporting President Trump by electing a great Republican disgusting scenario, should the short order cook have a separate team,” he told the crowd, reminding everyone that the primary alcove in which to operate? election is August 28 and the general election is November 6. -0-

The Florida Education Association – the state’s teachers’ union – Brevard Supervisor of Elections Lori Scott, who has assigned “grades” to members of the State Legislature based announced that 652 people participated in the Republican on how well they “supported public education” in Tallahassee. straw poll, reported the following results: Only Democrats were among the legislators who received A’s, and only Republicans were among those who received F’s. How (Continued on Page 2) surprising! As the old ditty goes, “Just look for the union label.”

-0- INSIDE: “If it wasn’t for double standards,” said Conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren, “the Left would have no standards at New Millennium Forum ...... page 2 all.” So as an example, just think of the Trump (both Donald and Supreme Court ...... page 3 Ivanka) Derangement Syndrome case of the C-word uttered without consequence by alleged “comedian” Samantha B-word. Kavanaugh Pick ...... page 4 -0- More My Two Cents next month. Political Cartoons and Photos ...... pages 13 thru 16 [1]

In the U.S. Senate race: Governor Rick Scott – 551 votes; NEW MILLENNIUM CONSERVATIVE CLUB businessman Roque De La Fuente – 48. FORUM FOR COUNTY COMMISSION SEAT

Governor race: Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam – 229; U.S. Congressman Ron DeSantis – 192; Republican Liberty Caucus Florida Chairman Bob White – 149.

Attorney General race: attorney Frank White – 280; attorney Ashley Moody – 227.

Commissioner of Agriculture race: State Representative Matt Caldwell – 215; State Senator Denise Grimsley – 214.

District 50 State Representative race: college professor George Collins – 275; incumbent representative Rene Plasencia – 228.

District 51 State Representative race: Tyler Sirois, executive director of the Office of the State Attorney for the 18th Veteran politician Chuck Nelson (right) and political Judicial Circuit – 285; Cocoa, Florida Mayor Henry Parrish – newcomer Bryan Lober (left) – the two Republican 208. candidates for the District 2 seat on the Brevard County, District 52 State Representative race: Republican Liberty Florida, County Commission, squared off in a forum before Caucus national chair Matt Nye – 284; incumbent Thad the New Millennium Conservative Club on July 16. Altman – 271. Nelson, who is once again seeking the position he previously District 2 Brevard County Commission race: former held for eight years, said he offers the leadership skills that the commissioner Chuck Nelson – 264; attorney Bryan Lober – commission needs, and with 30 years experience in such 224. positions as county parks and recreation director and executive director of the Merritt Island Redevelopment District 4 Brevard County Commission race: incumbent Curt Agency, he knows what will work and what will not. Smith – 286; former commissioner Trudie Infantini – 267. Lober, an attorney focusing on family law issues and who is District 5 Canaveral Port Authority race: attorney Robyn self-funding his campaign, said he has no financial ties to Hattaway – 276; former commissioner Malcolm McLouth – anyone, and will not be a ‘yes-person’ or rubber stamp to other 182. commissioners, implying that Nelson was during his earlier terms. In retort and commenting that he is a long-time Merritt Non-partisan Group 9 Circuit Judge race: attorney Adam Island resident while his opponent is relatively new to the Pollack – 245; incumbent Melissa Souto – 142. area, Nelson said he always made decisions that were best for his community. Non-partisan Group 2 County Court Judge race: attorney Katie Jacobus – 284; attorney Rod Kernan – 151. Comparing himself to the President, Lober – who serves as treasurer of the Trump Club of Brevard – said that as a Non-partisan District 1 Brevard School Board race: teacher conservative, he is against wasting tax money on unnecessary David Meader – 220; incumbent Misty Belford – 212. projects. Discussing problems with the Indian River Lagoon, Non-partisan District 2 Brevard School Board race: teacher Lober said trained scientists are needed to tell the Charles Parker – 179; businessman Frank Sullivan – 161. commissioners what to do, that monitoring stations are needed to study nutrients in the water, and demucking the lagoon is Non-partisan District 5 Brevard School Board race: former only a bandaid, short term solution. Nelson countered that teacher Katye Campbell – 233; incumbent Andy Ziegler – muck is the problem in the lagoon, and that scientists already 168; former teacher Dean Paterakis – 80. have put a plan together.

Non-partisan Seat 4 Palm Bay City Council race: incumbent In preparing the county budget, the candidates were asked if Tres Holton – 185; businessman Thomas Gaume – 106; charitable organizations should receive funding. Lober said businessman Kenny Johnson – 103. “no,” and Nelson mentioned Meals on Wheels as a program that helps keep seniors at home rather than in nursing homes, Non-partisan Seat 5 Palm Bay City Council race: incumbent so that helps with Medicaid. He added that groups receiving Jeff Bailey – 194; businessman Aaron Parr – 115. county funding have to be held accountable.

Non-partisan Seat 5 Titusville City Council race: incumbent Asked about Community Redevelopment Agencies, Nelson Jo Lynn Nelson – 169; challenger Steven Heisler, who is said the Merritt Island CRA – which is audited – is run by the involved in stage production lighting – 139. county, and provides needs, including creating landscaping [2] and parking lots in some locations. Lober said he is not ban on travel to the United States by people from five Muslim- categorically opposed to CRAs, but they are not all created majority countries – Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen – equal, and those with a 30-year lifetime are excessive. as well as from Venezuela and North Korea. In endorsing the president’s power to control immigration, the majority Despite the rhetoric, the two candidates did shake hands at the justices said this power was delegated by Congress over end of the forum. Their respective websites are decades of lawmaking and was not undermined by statements www.chucknelson.us and www.votelober.com. he had made about the dangers that radical Muslims pose to the nation. The forum was open to the two Democrat candidates for the County Commission seat, but they did not respond to the It also dealt a blow on June 26 to a California law that required invitation. anti-abortion clinics to post information about where women can obtain abortions and contraceptives from the state. That Also at the New Millennium ruling said such notices for licensed facilities likely violate the Conservative Club meeting, Florida First Amendment, and notices for unlicensed facilities unduly gubernatorial candidate Bob White burden protected speech. said he is the “outsider against the political establishment” in the race to The Court decided on June 25 that in light of an earlier ruling succeed term-limited Governor Rick in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a Scott. same-sex wedding, another case – that of Washington State florist Baronelle Stutzman, who declined to create an White, the chairman of both the arrangement for a similar wedding – the Washington State Republican Liberty Caucus of Florida Supreme Court needed to reconsider its original ruling. But if and the Republican Liberty Caucus of the state court stands by its original unanimous decision, the Central East Florida, said he has put matter could once again return to the U.S. Supreme Court. 70,000 miles on his car traversing the state campaigning and speaking to different groups. Also, on June 25, the Court sidestepped on the issue of partisan gerrymandering in North Carolina, just as it had Other Republican candidates in the race are part of the earlier in the month in cases in Maryland and Wisconsin. In “collective political establishment” that works for politicians, an unsigned ruling, it told the U.S. District court for the lobbyists and special interest groups, he said, adding that he Middle District of North Carolina to reconsider its decision to wants to give the people their voice back. strike down two Republican-drawn congressional districts as A Florida native who has spent 34 years in Brevard County, “racial gerrymandering.” Republican officials did not dispute White said he is the strongest pro-Second Amendment their intent to give the party a “leg up,” but argued there was candidate on the ballot, and his important issues include not enough to prove an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander support for environmental issues that help Florida, ending occurred. Common Core in schools, the under-employment that exists Supreme Court Justice Anthony in the job market, stopping the practice of paying companies Kennedy, who was nominated to his to move to the state, and cutting back the licensing laws that position by President Ronald Reagan in adversely affect businesses. 1987, announced his retirement in a letter For more information, visit his website: to President Donald Trump on June 27. www.bobforflorida.com. The retirement will be effective July 31, and Trump considered a list of potential replacements provided by The Federalist SUPREME COURT ENDS 2017-18 SESSION Society.

The U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2017-18 term on June 30, Kennedy wrote in his letter: “For a member of the legal with the conservative wing prevailing 5-4 in several major profession it is the highest of honors to serve on this court. cases announced during the final week. Please permit me by this letter to express my profound gratitude for having had the privilege to seek in each case how Dealing a blow to organized labor, the High Court ruled on best to know, interpret, and defend the Constitution and the June 27 that public employee unions in 22 states are not laws that must always conform to its mandates and promises.” entitled to require workers – including teachers and police – to pay union dues if they do not wish to. The ruling overturned The 81-year-old Kennedy, a Republican, often established a 1977 precedent that did allow the collection of so-called himself as a swing vote for the Court’s liberal justices, casting agency “fees” from millions of non-union workers in lieu of the deciding vote on issues ranging from abortion and union dues, to fund such non-political activities as collective affirmative action to capital punishment and gay rights bargaining. Following the announcement, Senate Majority Leader On June 26, the Court gave the President a victory in one of Mitch McConnell said the upper chamber will hold a his central presidential proclamation initiatives, upholding the replacement vote this fall. [3]

KAVANAUGH LATEST SUPREME COURT PICK from Yale Law School, and earlier in his career, he worked on the team investigating former President Bill Clinton, clerked It did not take long for Democrats and others on the Left to for Justice Kennedy, and served as a White House aide to criticize President Donald Trump’s selection to replace former President George W. Bush. Justice Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. Actually, the attacks began even before Federal Appeals “If confirmed by the Senate, I will keep an open mind in Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh was announced as the every case,” said Kavanaugh, who added that he was nominee. “humbled” and “grateful” for being nominated to the court. If confirmed, he also will be replacing a swing vote on the bench Two days ahead of time, the Leadership Institute (LI) sent with a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. Kennedy sided with reporter Cabot Phillips to New York University, and he liberals in key decisions on abortion and gay rights, issues that filmed numerous students who were quite vocal in their will be flash points in Kavanaugh's confirmation battle. agreement that the person selected – unnamed, of course – was a racist, an extremist, an expletive deleted, and someone Leonard Leo, who was on leave of absence as executive vice who will overturn Roe-v-Wade. These students are SO WELL president of the Federalist Society, was the man serving as an informed. outside adviser to the President for judicial nominations. The Society helped create the original list of potential Supreme The video of the students’ comments received more than Court candidates. Leo said that Kavanaugh “has spent his 550,000 YouTube views in its first 48 hours, and LI entire life dedicated to defending the Constitution and the rule President Morton Blackwell said the students “gave such of law. He understands what makes a judge most fair is that ridiculous leftist answers that I couldn’t help but to laugh at you interpret the law as written.” the absurdity.” The National Rifle Association said Kavanaugh’s record on the Second Amendment is “impressive,” and Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan Gottleib stated, “We’re encouraged by this nomination because, by adding Judge Kavanaugh, we might see the High Court become more willing to accept and rule on important Second Amendment issues, such as right-to-carry.”

The website www.2ndvote.com, the conservative watchdog for corporate activism, said liberal groups are freaking out over Kavanaugh’s nomination, and their anti-American values and partisanship are pathetically obvious. It lists numerous corporations in the United States that donate to such organizations as Planned Parenthood, NARAL, Human Then, once the President did introduce the 53-year-old jurist Rights Campaign and the Center for American Progress – and to a White House gathering and a nationally-televised it urges Americans to stop sending money to corporations that audience on July 9, it was time for the Senate Democrats to do so. go on talk shows on the liberal networks to parrot what the students said earlier, and to pledge to do everything in their At press time, Kavanaugh was still visiting members of the power to halt the nomination. Senate and awaiting a confirmation hearing.

Trump needs 51 votes in the Senate for confirmation, and there are several Republican members who could waiver, so AUDACITY AND INHUMANITY he is doing all he can to encourage Democrat senators in red states that he won in 2016 to support the nominee. Three of This month we have a large number and report the following: them did vote last year to confirm Justice Neil Gorsuch. --A group of thugs in London, who savagely targeted and “There is no one in America more qualified for this position nearly beat to death a retired British politician – 74-year-old and no one more deserving,” said Trump, who expressed Sir Christopher Meyer, a former ambassador to the United confidence that Kavanaugh will set aside his political views States – for the “crime” of welcoming President Trump to the “to do what the law and the Constitution require.” His United Kingdom. To date, police have arrested two teenagers nomination is setting up a fierce confirmation battle as he suspected in the assault. seeks to cement conservative control of the nation’s highest --Canadian radio broadcaster Alex Pierson, for a tasteless court. tweet she sent out following the tragic death of U.S. Secret Kavanaugh, who has been on the influential U.S. Court of Service Special Agent Nole Remagen. The 42-year-old agent, Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for 12 years, was who leaves behind a wife and two young children, suffered a accompanied to the announcement by his wife and two stroke while on assignment for President Trump’s overseas daughters, and his parents were in the audience. He graduated trip and died in Scotland. Pierson’s despicable comment was: [4]

“Let me guess – Trump made him taste the food before the establishment without being served because she worked throwing the FBI and security advisors under the bus.” for President Trump. Wilkinson, who employs several LGBT workers, said the president’s desire to ban transgender people --The “wonderful folks” at Facebook, for not allowing on its from the military against her beliefs. Sanders confirmed that site part of a document posted by “The Vindicator,” a small she always does her best to treat people respectfully – even Texas newspaper, calling the information “hate speech.” The those with whom she disagrees. So, here’s a restaurant in the document involved? Only our Declaration of Independence. Old Dominion state that need not be patronized. Hate speech? It was only after the resulting firestorm of protest that erupted that Facebook restored the posting with an --“Washington Com-Post” writer Adam Bernstein, for apology, saying it had “made a mistake.” trashing the late conservative commentator and political analyst Charles Krauthammer, by bizarrely calling the soft- -- Vox, the four-year-old self-described “general interest news spoken man of thought an “intellectual provocateur who st th site for the 21 century,” for claiming on the 4 of July that it championed the muscular foreign policy of neo-conservatism should be a “day of mourning” because the American that helped lay the ideological groundwork for the 2003 U.S.- revolution was a “monumental mistake” that only benefited led invasion of Iraq.” The “Conservative Tribune” said the white people. It also declared that rather than our democratic newspaper – ironically where Krauthammer once worked and republic, “a constitutional monarchy is the best system of earned his Pulitzer Prize – “couldn’t help itself from trying to government known to man.” There’s nothing like our freedom smear his legacy by hitting below the belt in its obituary.” of the press, eh? --CNN legal and national security analyst Asha Rangappa, for --Anchor Katy Tur, for suggesting on MSNBC that our U.S. blaming President Trump’s comments about the news media Constitution is obsolete because we live in a progressive era in general for the horrific shooting at the Capital Gazette and because it was written “a long time ago.” newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland, that claimed several lives. And, former MSNBC host and current Young Turks host --California Democrat Senator Kamala Harris, who ignited Cenk Uygur, who tweeted that Trump “has blood on his Fourth of July fireworks herself by tweeting on social media hands.” But other news reports confirmed that the shooter – that the Declaration of Independence was signed by “eight Jarrod Ramos – had a long-running feud with the newspaper, immigrants.” While attempting to politicize the event, she including a failed 2012 legal battle. apparently didn’t realize that whether they were born in the Old World or the New World, all 56 Declaration signers at the --The Board of the Association for Library Service to time were British subjects. Children (ALSC), which is part of the American Library Association, for changing the name of its Laura Ingalls Wilder --California Democrat Congresswoman Maxine “Slapsie Award to the Children’s Literature Legacy Award, because Maxie” Waters, for telling a rally with her leftist supporters after more than a half-century of honoring the author of the that if they see anybody from the Trump administration “in a “Little House on the Prairie” series, the board’s members now restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get feel her books, in their depictions of Native Americans and out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and African-Americans, include “expressions of stereotypical you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” attitudes inconsistent with ALSC's core values of --An open letter by a group of about 200 progressive blacks, inclusiveness, integrity and respect, and responsiveness." who accused Democrat leaders critical of Waters’ remarks as Wilder’s writings were typical of their era – a time that the being “racist,” and said it disparaged “all black women.” Left is determined to eradicate from American history.

--San Francisco’s Department of Elections, which --The Mountain Ridge Middle School in West Virginia, for astoundingly issued new voter registration guidelines that will under the guise of teaching about world religions, assigned its give illegal immigrants the right to vote for the city’s Board seventh-grade class to write the Islamic conversion creed, of Education this November. To be able to register, non- “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger citizens – including illegal immigrants – must be residents of of Allah,” in Arabic as part of “calligraphy practice.” The San Francisco, 18 years old, and have children under the age Thomas More Law Center is representing the father of one of of 19 who also live in San Francisco. The city thus becomes the students in his dispute with the school, charging it with the first one in California to let non-citizens, including illegal indoctrination, adding that students were not given immigrants, have access to the ballot box. calligraphy assignments about Christianity or Judaism.

--California bureaucrats, for ordering gun owners through a --U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman, an Obama appointee, for new law to register their weapons by a deadline, and then saying the Trump administration acted in “bad faith” for forcing them to “face becoming criminals” because the state wanting to add a citizenship question onto the upcoming 2020 failed to provide a workable registration system for them. census form. Several Democrat-led states and immigration activists are trying to oust the question, saying they believe --Stephanie Wilkinson, co-owner of The Red Hen restaurant it’s being used to scare immigrants away from participating in in Lexington, Virginia, who asked White House Press the census, and that would deny the states some federal cash Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family to leave given out on the basis of population. [5]

--Officials at Pennsylvania’s East Penn School District, for engage, but that would not accomplish anything. As president, forcing students at a high school in Emmaus to watch LGBT I cannot make decisions on foreign policy in a futile effort to videos selected by the “student-led” Gay-Straight Alliance appease partisan critics or the media or Democrats who want this past April, while refusing to allow parents to view them. to do nothing but resist and obstruct.” The president also said he spent a great deal of time talking about Russian --The National Education Association – which, of course, is a interference in the 2016 U.S. election, however Putin denied union – for giving its “highest honor” President’s Award to Russian involvement. former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick at its Human and Civil Rights Award Ceremony, citing his refusal to stand for TRUMP PARDONS. By press time, President Trump has the national anthem as “a profound non-violent statement issued nine pardons or commutations of sentence…. Full about the treatment of black people in this country.” pardons were granted on July 10 to Oregon cattle ranchers Dwight Hammond and his son, Steven, who were jailed after --Owners of the Academy Sports store in Tallahassee, Florida, a controlled burn on their property unintentionally leaked onto for firing store manager Dean Crouch after he tackled an a small portion of public grazing land. After serving a prison armed thief, recovered a stolen gun and boxes of ammunition, sentence and being released, the Obama administration had and held the perpetrator for the police. While others praised demanded they go back into court where they were sentenced the manager as a selfless hero who could have saved lives by to further prison time under an anti-terrorism law, even though his quick thinking – the thief had threatened to shoot people – there was no evidence presented that the ranchers had planned the store owners immediately ended the manager’s or engaged in terrorism in any way….On June 6, the president employment “because he put his hands on” the thief. A commuted the life sentence handed 21 years ago to Alice lawsuit for wrongful termination was being considered. Marie Johnson, a grandmother who was convicted of a UPDATE: One week later, after expressions of support and nonviolent, first offense drug crime…. A full pardon was job offers flowed in from all over the country, Academy given on May 31 to conservative film maker Dinesh D'Souza, Sports offered Crouch his job back, and he accepted. who was convicted of violating campaign finance laws. A White House statement said that in the President’s opinion, --Planet Fitness health clubs in both Florida and Michigan, for D’Souza was a victim of selective prosecution…. Boxing allowing men access to the women’s locker rooms and champion Jack Johnson, who was convicted in 1913 by an all- showers, and when naked men in both locations harassed white jury for traveling with his white girlfriend in violation women who then complained to management, both facilities of the Mann Act, was posthumously pardoned on May terminated the club memberships – of the women. 24….On April 13, Trump pardoned Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in THIS AND THAT connection with a CIA leak. Libby’s conviction had been commuted in 2007 by then-President George W. Bush….Kristian Saucier, a former member of the U.S. Navy who took photos of the ship he was on and was convicted of unauthorized possession and retention of national defense information, was pardoned on March 9….Last year, in December, the president commuted the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin, the former chief executive of a kosher meatpacking plant who was convicted of money laundering and serving 27 years….In August 2017, Trump issued his first pardon, to former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of criminal contempt for ignoring a judge’s order not to detain suspected undocumented immigrants.

RECENT WHITE HOUSE, SENATE ACTIONS. Former Fox News executive Bill Shine will join the White House as

TRUMP-PUTIN SUMMIT. Following a two-hour one-on- assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff for one meeting in Helsinki, Finalnd, on July 16, President Trump communications. The White House said in a statement on July and Russian President Vladimir Putin told a joint news 5 that Shine “brings over two decades of television conference they both hoped for better relations between their programming, communications experience to the role” two countries. Among other subjects, they discussed trade, ….Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott China, nuclear non-proliferation and military issues, and they Pruitt resigned on July 5 following several months of said they pledged to cooperate on matters where their interests controversies regarding his spending taxpayer money for coincide, and work to bridge those areas where they disagree. travel and security, his close relationships with lobbyists and Expressing hope for improved relations moving forward, industry and allegations he used government resources and Putin said the Cold War “is a thing of the past.” Commenting staff for personal gain. On July 9, Andrew Wheeler, the that their meeting “went very well,” Trump said, “Nothing deputy administrator at the EPA became acting administrator. would be easier politically than to refuse to meet, to refuse to In accepting Pruitt’s resignation, President Trump said that [6] within the agency he has done “an outstanding job, and I will always available to help veterans with any information they always be thankful to him for this” ….Following the need from the Veterans Administration. Regarding tax resignation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement reform, Posey said there is “no downside” to the across-the- Agency Director Thomas Homan, on June 29, Department board measure that the President signed earlier in the year. of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielson Another measure that he has introduced in the House, he said, appointed ICE’s deputy director, Ronald Vitiello as its acting is to allow senior citizens to have a new easier-to-use tax form. director…. President Trump named Congressional economics Posey also expressed his pleasure over Trump’s cutting of aide and financial lobbyist Shahira Knight as White House regulations that hurt businesses and were killing jobs. But now Legislative Affairs Director, succeeding Marc Short….On with the rollbacks, he said, companies are facing the problems June 28, the Senate confirmed businesswoman Robin of fulfilling their orders rapidly. Posey, who has no primary Bernstein to be U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic; election opposition but will face a Democrat challenger in former chairman of the New York State Republican November, has served Brevardians in Congress since 2009. Committee Joseph Mondello to Trinidad and Tobago; hotel Prior to his talk, club president Ron Ziegler noted that magnate Gordon Sondland to the European Union; retired Heritage Isle is its own precinct in the county – number 429 – U.S. Navy Admiral Harry Harris, Jr. to South Korea; and consists of 500 more registered Republicans than businessman Ronald Gidwitz to Belgium; and career Democrats. Foreign Service Officer Brian Nichols to Zimbabwe….On May 24, attorney James Evans was confirmed as U.S. NORTH BREVARD REPUBLICAN CLUB AND Ambassador to Luxembourg, and businessman David TRUMP CLUB OF BREVARD. Cornstein to Hungary. At a joint meeting of the two clubs in Titusville on July 18, Florida THE IRS AND CONSERVATIVE GROUPS. It has taken District 79 State Representative five years to learn the truth about the problems that Tea Party Matt Caldwell – one of four and other conservative non-profit groups faced when trying to Republicans seeking the open seat obtain authorization from the IRS to be able to receive for Florida Commissioner of charitable donations. The Washington-based conservative Agriculture and Consumer Services educational foundation Judicial Watch finally received and – said his tenure in the legislature released internal IRS documents showing that Lois Lerner, the included chairing subcommittees former director of exempt organizations, admitted that the IRS and committees related to had a policy of improperly and deliberately delaying agriculture, natural resources and government accountability. applications for tax-exempt status from conservative non- While in the legislature, he added, he worked with current profit groups. Someone on Capitol Hill had urged her in April Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam on legislation 2013 to “audit so many that it becomes financially ruinous” related to the office. Noting that agriculture is the backbone for the organizations. So, who was this person? His name is of nearly every county in Florida, Caldwell said farmers put Henry Kerner, and he was the staff director working for none food on the table not only for 20 million Floridians, but also other than RINO Arizona Senator John McCain, the chief people across the nation and the world. Discussing the North sponsor of the McCain-Feingold Act, who was unhappy that American Free Trade Association (NAFTA), he said it is not the Supreme Court overturned portions of the Act with the actually free-trade or fair trade, it negatively affects our Citizens United decision. When Judicial Watch reported on farmers and producers, and was flawed dating back to its this earlier – based on blacked-out documents – McCain inception. “Water is our most important resource,” he said, called it false reporting. Now, however, unredacted notes and if elected, he promised to partner with the districts, were found among subsequent documents. counties and cities in Florida to construct and operate regional water supply facilities, including reservoirs, desalinization, HERITAGE ISLE REPUBLICAN and re-use facilities. Water supply facilities, he said, will CLUB. Addressing several dozen relieve the pressure on aquifer and surface water. Caldwell members of the Heritage Isle Republican said overreach is the number one obstacle to small businesses, th Club on July 5, 8 District U.S. and he promises to get government out of the way so Congressman Bill Posey discussed issues commerce rules. Pointing out that it is also the Agriculture near and dear to his heart on Capitol Hill, Commissioner’s duty to uphold concealed carry and other 2nd stressing his support for the U.S. space Amendment rights, he said he is a supporter of the NRA and program, for military veterans, and for tax has received the endorsement of its Political Victory Fund, as reform. Posey said he was very pleased that President Trump well as the endorsement of Brevard County Sheriff Wayne signed the reauthorization bill for NASA’s budget, which will Ivey. Since announcing his candidacy 15 months ago, help with future Moon and Mars programs. Explaining that he Caldwell said he has traveled 80,000 miles throughout the often looks for bipartisan support for bills he introduces, he state, speaking and meeting with citizens. His website is noted that last month, the House passed his Commercial Space www.votecaldwell.org. The North Brevard Republican Club, Support Vehicle Act, which streamlines licensing and permit joining with the Space Coast Republican Club, opened an processing for hybrid launch vehicles to allow for commercial office at 4356 S. Hopkins Avenue in Titusville. It is open space support flights. Members of his office staff, he said, are Tuesdays through Saturdays and its office phone is 321-349- [7]

7971…. The Trump Club of Brevard, at its June meeting, priorities would be combatting citrus greening and palm tree heard from Shawn Frost, chairman of the Sebastian, Florida- diseases. Noting that the Constitution is the law of the land, based Education Priority Fund, who spoke about the 13 he expressed deep concern for America’s future because of proposed constitutional amendments that will be on Florida’s what is occurring here from the left, the media, and the New November ballot. He pointed out that 60 percent of voters World Order liberals. “We are a nation of law and order,” statewide will be needed for an amendment to pass, and he McCalister said, “and assault and destruction of property is was especially supportive of Amendment 8, which calls for not a First Amendment right.” Violators, he said, need to be term limits of two-consecutive four-year terms for members prosecuted. He also called for stopping the flow of illegal of county school boards. immigrants into the country, and an end to liberal giveaways. “The Democrats see Florida as a beachhead to try to take back ACT! FOR AMERICA SPACE COAST CHAPTER. Dr. the White House in 2020,” McCalister added, stressing that Zuhdi Jasser, president and founder of their effort needs to be stopped. For more information, visit the American Islamic Forum for the website is: www.mikemccalister.com. Democracy (AIFD), spoke via Skype with ACT! chapter members on July 12, stressing that his organization’s mission is to advocate for the preservation of liberty and freedom through the “separation of mosque and state.” A

devout Muslim as well as a U.S. citizen, Jasser believes that acts of Islamic terrorism are rooted in the The Volusia County, Florida, branch of Americans for ideology of political Islam, and he is critical of the Muslim Prosperity will hold its free Family Freedom Picnic at its Brotherhood, the Council on American-Islamic Relations Holly Hill Office – 102 2nd Street, Suite 101 – on Sunday, July (CAIR) and other groups that support mixing Islam with 29 from 10am to 3pm. There will be food, fun, games and politics. “Political Islam is the enemy,” he said, adding that prizes! Come out and meet other like-minded people in your Islamists believe shariah law is superior to America’s community, and of course, children are welcomed! AFP fights constitutional republic. Jasser said America needs a national for freedom, noting that “America was founded by ordinary conversation to combat the Islamist ideology, and “battle for citizens who stood up and fought for their freedoms…at the soul of Islam.” AIFD, he said, firmly stands for universal Americans For Prosperity, we continue that same fight human rights, including gender equality, freedom of today.” The organization says there are many ways for conscience, and freedom of speech and expression. The son someone to be involved in the cause, such as canvassing of Syrian immigrants, Jasser is a physician and a former U.S. neighborhoods or using phone banks. The third Saturday of Navy Lieutenant Commander. He is based in Arizona, and is every month is AFP’s National Day of Action, when activists the author of “A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American nationwide join together to make a difference at the local, Muslim Patriot’s Fight to Save His Faith”….Also at the ACT! state and national level. For more information, contact Robin meeting, member Tony Verzi, reporting on Refugee French, Americans For Prosperity – FL Field Director at Resettlement, said that for the first time in three decades, a [email protected]. newspaper report said the United States took in fewer refugees than the rest of the world combined, and this inferred criticism CRY ME A RIVER. Art student Nemo Miller at the of President Trump, since it was “our job” to take in more than University of Utah built a “cry closet” inside the campus that. Verzi added, “All I can say is elections have library during finals week as a “safe space” to help students consequences, and ‘Go President Trump.’” “cope with their testing anxiety.” The interior of the closet reportedly was lined with soft materials and piled high with RONALD REAGAN CLUBS. Retired U.S. Army Colonel stuffed animals to soothe the nerves of the snowflake students. Mike McCalister, one of four Reporting on this momentous activity, radio talk show host Republicans seeking to become the next Rush Limbaugh wrote in his “Limbaugh Letter” that there Commissioner of Agriculture & was no mention of pacifiers, “so apparently it is BYOB – Consumer Services in Florida, told the bring your own binky.” Ronald Reagan Clubs members in Suntree on June 25 that his military EXPERTS’ EXCERPTS experience, ownership of a palm tree farm, and education in agriculture and Senior Editor Ramesh Ponnuru, business qualify him for the position. He writing on the need for a conservative said he is committed to protecting Florida’s families, freedom, political agenda in “National Review” food, water and animals. The consumer services aspect of the magazine: job, he reminded the attendees, include, among other things, responsibility for conceal weapons permits, vehicle repair “Only after conservatives have an agenda stations, and protection from price gouging and fuel pump can politicians decide which items on it “skimmer” scams. If elected, McCalister said among his they wish to advance, when, and how. Only once we have goals can we make [8] intelligent compromises based on achieving them. My own team unmasked the names of U.S. citizens who had been list of what conservatives should seek would begin with four improperly surveilled. Many of those names then were areas where government policy is badly in need of reform. illegally leaked to the press. Democrats seem indifferent to the The first is health care. Republican politicians may wish for fact that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign paid a Obamacare to be behind them as an issue, but reality is not foreign agent, Christopher Steele, to compile dirt on going to oblige…We need our own solutions. Those solutions Republican candidate Donald Trump – largely by trafficking should aim, above all, to create a market in which nearly in unverified rumors from Russian interests. Obama everyone can buy at least a cheap, renewable policy that administration officials leaked details from that dossier. Civil protects him against catastrophic costs – and can buy more libertarians appear unconcerned that the Department of than that if he is willing and able to spend more. Deregulation Justice sought to deceive the Foreign Intelligence will be needed to accomplish this goal…. Second, Surveillance Court, getting it to grant warrants to allow the conservatives out to take on the higher-education cartel. surveillance of U.S. citizens based on the suspect and Tuitions have kept rising, and dropout rates are unacceptably politically motivated Steele dossier. Few are upset that former high…In reforming this system, we should open up multiple CIA director John Brennan and former Director of National fronts. We should create new options for financing college, Intelligence James Clapper have lied under oath to Congress such as income-share agreements…We should expand on-line on matters pertaining to surveillance. Rather than being learning options…We should clear the way for professional investigated by the media, both are now making frequent certificates, apprenticeships, and other paths to gaining skills media appearances. The FBI cannot remain credible when its for well-paid employment that do not require a college former director, James Comey, leaks confidential memos degree…. Third, we need to bring federal spending under about meetings with the president to the media – with the control. If we are serious about that goal, there is no expressed intent of leveraging the appointment of a special alternative to tackling the growth of the entitlement programs, counsel, Robert Mueller, who turned out to be a longtime especially Social Security and Medicare…We should move friend of Comey’s….Those in the Obama administration, the toward a more rational system that guarantees against poverty Clinton campaign, and the media formed an echo chamber. – by setting a minimum benefit at or higher than the poverty All convinced themselves that any means necessary to level…If we changed the program so that average benefit achieve the noble ends of precluding a Trump presidency levels rose to keep up with inflation but no faster than that, we were justified. The danger of such groupthink continues; even would solve 94 percent of the program’s solvency…Medicare now they are unaware of the impending bomb that is about to should be reformed in accordance with the same go off. Public opinion has radically changed. A majority of principles….Fourth, we need immigration reform. Around 40 Americans believe the Muller investigation is politically percent of illegal immigrants to our country came here legally motivated, according to a CBS News poll….There is a but overstayed their visas. A wall, whatever its merits, would reckoning on the horizon. It has nothing to do with Donald not address this problem. If we want to instill respect for the Trump or Hillary Clinton. Instead, the traditional, self- law and have control over whom we let in, we have to make appointed watchdogs of government overreach have turned employers verify the legal status of new hires –and give them into the carnivores of civil liberties.” the tools to do so…Legal immigration needs to be reformed, too. It should be oriented more toward the recruitment of high- Political analyst Ben Crystal, writing for skilled immigrants and less toward the reunification of “Personal Liberty Digest” on the leftist leanings of the New York Times: extended families….There is much more to do. The conservative themes of decentralization, local control, “In a rant which appeared in Friday's (July markets, accountability, national self-confidence: If they are 6) New York Times, the editorial board of not to be lifeless abstractions, they must be put into practice what many consider the global paper of and shown to work. Wherever they stand on Trump, record, shrieked ‘Democrats: Do Not conservatives have to engage in this task.” Surrender the Judiciary.’ While still trying to comprehend how The Times' chief Historian and columnist Victor Davis muckety-mucks managed to conclude the Hanson, writing on civil liberties Judiciary belonged to the Democrats to begin with, I slogged carnivores in “National Review”: into an editorial which not only belied The Times' previous “The Democrat Party, the investigative claim that ‘conservatives weaponized the First Amendment,’ media, and liberalism itself are now it murdered it and threw it in the dumpster out back…The weirdly on the side of the reactionary Times referred to their screed as a ‘call to arms.’ I say it was administrative state. They have either as outright an endorsement of violence against everyone to the downplayed or excused Watergate-like right of the Castro brothers. In the second paragraph, they urge abuses of power by the former Barack Democrats ‘to take a page from The Godfather and go to the Obama administration. Liberal mattresses on this issue’…. The writer(s) dehumanizingly journalists apparently have few concerns that the FBI labels President Donald Trump, who as of the publication had apparently used at least one secret informant to gather yet to announce his choice to fill the Supreme Court seat of information about the 2016 Trump campaign. Nor are they retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, as ‘toxic,’ and the endless much bothered that members of the Obama national-security – and somewhat premature – leftist whining as a ‘fire raging [9] against Mr. Trump and his nominees’…. This bizarrely Collins says she will not support a Supreme Court nominee hostile tirade wasn't birthed in some Soros-funded, left-wing ‘who demonstrated hostility to Roe v. Wade’…. Perhaps hate blog. It wasn't the inane ramblings of Rep. Maxine Collins finds taking a position on whether the unborn child is Waters (Very D – Californistan). This is The New York human life, like Obama, above her pay grade. Collins, and Times. The penthouse of the left's intellectual ivory tower. others, tell us that Roe v. Wade is ‘settled law’ and therefore And amid a spike in attacks by liberals on everyone and now intrinsically part of American life. To overturn it, they anyone who commits the crime of getting sideways with their say, would create intolerable disruptions. I reject this bogus dogma, from Trump cabinet Secretaries to kids in idea…. Abortion is a symptom of, not the cause of, the ‘MAGA’hats, they think the best plan is to recommend the tensions and confusion in our nation. Our real problem is the Democrats go full Sopranos. I suppose I should deplore The abandonment of our society to the crass, gross ideas of an Times and their barely disguised endorsement of the war so empty and false materialism that can only take us to oblivion.” many of their fellow leftists are already fighting. But instead, I'm gonna call their bluff. Enough talk. Bring it. And I'm not THOUGHTS TO PONDER talking thinly veiled threats and weird impeachment fantasies. Let those freak flags fly. Campaign on turning America into “Faith in America is on the rise because President Trump and North Venezuela. Make your entire 2018 and 2020 campaign our administration have been returning America to the theme ‘Vote Democrat: we're socialists who believe in principles that have always been the source of our national violence, hate, pervasive poverty, defenseless citizens, a greatness and strength. We’ve been expanding freedom, suspension of the Constitution and an end to individual cutting taxes, rolling back the regulatory state, and returning liberties!’ Cry ‘havoc,’ and let slip the poodles of war.” authority to the people and to the states. We’ve been upholding the Constitution and defending the God-given Star Parker, president of the Center for Urban Renewal and liberties enshrined in our Declaration of Independence, Education, writing on abortion and the including the unalienable right to life.” Constitution on www.gopusa.com: --Vice President Mike Pence -0- “As we enter into what surely will be another contentious confirmation process “In the high court’s term that just ended this week, ‘King for a new Supreme Court justice, let’s Kennedy’ – called that because he has been the deciding consider underlying realities that deeply swing vote in so many cases – sided with the conservative divide us and make it so hard to agree block of the court in all 19 cases that were decided by a 5-4 about how our Constitution should be interpreted and applied. vote….Unfortunately, Kennedy had a bad habit of siding with The Declaration of Independence lays the groundwork for us. the liberal justices when it came to ‘politically correct’ social It tells us that all men are endowed by their Creator ‘with issues and causes, such as capital punishment, abortion and certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, gay rights….The good, the bad and the ugly of Kennedy’s and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, legacy is that he faithfully applied the Constitution and governments are instituted among men.’ The important news applicable law as written – except when he didn’t.” here, if you accept the founding document of our nation, is --American Civil Rights Union Policy Board Member that human rights are not created by government. They Hans von Spakovsky, writing on retiring precede it. The point of government is to build a fence around Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and protect these rights – these truths – articulated in the -0- Declaration. Regarding life, the Declaration tells us that the role of government is to protect it. This explains the rancor “Who truly is responsible for the 2,000 alien kids who, surrounding Roe v. Wade and legal abortion that is becoming according to the Associated Press, recently have been center stage to our court confirmation deliberations. Legal separated from their detained illegal alien parents? There is a abortion is, at its core, about whether unborn children should lot of blame to share. That includes President Bill Clinton and be included in what we consider mankind. If yes, they must the alien parents themselves, as well as the courts and be protected, like all life. The ‘pro-life’ movement is clear on immigration policies foolishly created by the Obama this. The unborn child is living and must be protected. administration…. You would not know that based on the Where’s the other side coming from? Most telling is from absurdly biased coverage and virulent protests that have then-candidate Barack Obama, who told Pastor Rick Warren, occurred. The Trump administration is simply doing what it in response to Warren’s question, at what point ‘does a baby is constitutionally charged with doing – enforcing the law.” get human rights?’ that the answer ‘is above my pay grade.’ -- Another von Spakovsky comment President Obama was an aggressive advocate for abortion and -0- was the first sitting president to address the annual meeting of Planned Parenthood…Recently, Maine Republican Senator “The prospect of overturning Roe v. Wade will be at the Susan Collins expressed dismay at border security policies foreground of the battle over Justice Anthony Kennedy’s that separate children from their parents. Collins called this replacement, and it should be. Roe is judicially wrought social ‘traumatizing to children, who are innocent victims, and it is legislation pretending to the status of constitutional law…. contrary to our values in this country.’ At the same time, The best case that can be made for Roe is that it is a mistaken decision on the books for nearly 50 years now, so it has to be [10] honored as a precedent. But the court is not, and shouldn’t be, yourself and to be an individual. And to explore different in the practice of standing by fundamentally flawed decisions. concepts and different ideas and to not agree with the person Brown v. Board of Education overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, next to you, but to still be able to have a simple discourse.” which upheld segregated education, almost 60 years later…. --Turning Point USA Communications Director Roe is bad law and bad democracy. It has no sound Candace Owens constitutional basis and deserves to go the way of the court’s -0- other embarrassments and misfires.” --“National Review” Editor Rich Lowry “President Trump was elected by the people. We were tired of -0- criminals running our once great country. We were ready for a successful businessman instead of the same ‘old’ politicians “Newly arrived illegals ought to be immediately deported, like Hillary and Sanders manipulating uneducated, low- without the facade of quick prosecution, payment of a small information voters into giving away more of our tax dollars to fine and lengthy detainment or release on their own those who padded the campaign chests of liberals…. President recognizance – which would eventually result in more illegals Trump is bringing jobs back to the United States as well as surreptitiously living in our country. If word circulated creating more jobs. With un-employment at the lowest in quickly throughout Central and South America that all illegal history, while our GDP growth is the highest, we don’t have immigrants will be immediately returned to their country of enough qualified employees to fill the jobs being created by origin, it should have a deterrent effect on illegal immigrant Trump.” activity. Who would want to spend thousands of dollars to --Investment advisor Scott Olson travel across multiple borders and thousands of miles, only to -0- be repatriated to their original country immediately when caught at our border?” “Cancelling large scale combined military exercises in South --Author and political observer Don Gilleland Korea while the details of the Trump-Kim peace process are -0- being worked through is a calculated risk, but it is probably worth the effort…. President Trump believes that Kim Jong- “Stephanie Wilkinson is being feted as a hero and glorified by un is serious about wanting peace. However, until we see the liberal press for really ‘sticking it to the man’ by ruining concrete evidence such as withdrawing thousands of artillery somebody’s dinner plans. At the end of the day, what this pieces in range of the South Korean capital, the allies are well situation shows is that the liberals are utterly without a set of advised to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Even if moral standards, a set of base principles, from which to draw Mr. Kim is sincere, a coup by hardliners could bring us back ethical conclusions. In other words, they have no sense of to the bad old days of the pre-Trump-Kim summit. President right or wrong; they have only the concepts of ‘with me’ and Reagan was right when he declared: ‘trust but verify.’” ‘against me.’” --Retired Marine Corps Colonel Gary Anderson --“Liberty News Now” writer Adam Campbell, -0- on The Red Hen restaurant incident against White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders “In 40 years, Cato has grown substantially in both size and -0- influence and has played a major role in the mainstreaming of libertarianism…. The core of the Cato Institute will always be “There is no insult, no slander, that is beyond the pale for the ideas – and unlike other institutions in Washington, our ideas crazed radical left…. There seems to be a direct relationship don’t change depending on which party is in power, or which between every percentage point increase in Trump’s favorable views are most fashionable at the time. We are proud to look rating and the increasing ferocity of the attacks….My loyalty back to our founding and point to our unwavering support for is to my own conservative beliefs and the policies that liberty in every aspect of life, at every time, for everyone. This advance them. So, I say to my friends on the left – and I think is what makes Cato a unique and important institution.” I speak for many others – as long as you obsess on the Trump --Cato Institute President Peter Goettler and Chairman personality, as long as you offer up big government and Big Robert Levy Brother policies and as long as you turn the world of common -0- sense on its head with elitist administered political correctness, I will have to prefer the policies of the Trump “Guess which state has the highest poverty rate in the country? administration. It is the policies, stupid!” Not Mississippi, New Mexico or West Virginia. It’s --Political commentator Larry Horist California – where nearly one out of five residents are poor. -0- That’s according to the Census Bureau. While California accounts for 12 percent of America’s population, it accounts “The reason that we’re seeing so many people flee the left – I for one-third of America’s welfare checks. California leads like to call them liberal refugees, like myself – is because they the country in food stamp use. California has more people on do not allow you to think freely. If you agree with them 95 welfare than most countries around the world…. Thanks to percent and disagree on 5 percent, you are essentially illegal immigration … thanks to the joys of diversity … thanks excommunicated. You’re not allowed to be a liberal anymore. to liberal politicians and voters … California is a hellhole.” You’re not allowed to be a Democrat anymore. There’s a lot --Political commentator Wayne Allyn Root more wiggle room on the right, center-right, to express -0- [11]

“Former President Barack Obama was ‘actually my greatest disappointment,’ liberal megadonor George Soros said in an interview published by ‘The New York Times’ on Tuesday (July 17). An early supporter of Mr. Obama’s 2008 election campaign, Mr. Soros told The Times that he felt let down on a professional level by the lack of attention he received from the former president during his eight years in office. Mr. Obama ‘closed the door on me’ after he was elected, Mr. Soros said in the interview. ‘He made one phone call thanking me for my support, which was meant to last for five minutes, and I engaged him, and he had to spend another three minutes with me, so I dragged it out to eight minutes.’” --“Washington Times” writer Andrew Blake -0-

“The cases swing, I don’t.” --Retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, on the so-called 5-4 “swing voter” title given to him over the years

UPCOMING BREVARD COUNTY EVENTS

August 1 – Trump Club of Brevard candidate forum, Tequila Azul Restaurant, Viera, 6 pm.

August 2 – Heritage Isle Republican Club meeting, One Senior Place, Viera, 10 am.

August 6 – Republican Liberty Caucus of Central East Florida meeting, Memaw’s Restaurant, Melbourne, 7 pm.

August 7 – Brevard Federated Republican Women meeting, Duran Golf Club, Viera, 11 am.

August 8 – Brevard Republican Executive Committee meeting, Government Complex Building C, Viera, 7 pm.

August 9 – ACT! For America Space Coast Chapter meeting, Government Complex Building C, Viera, 6:30 pm.

August 13 – The Space Coast Patriots meeting, Merritt Island Library, 6 pm.

August 16 – Republican Women’s Network of South Brevard meeting, Eau Gallie Yacht Club, 11 am.

August 20 – New Millennium Conservative Club meeting, Suntree-Viera Library, 6:30 pm.

August 21 – North Brevard Republican Club meeting, Blue Heron Restaurant, Great Outdoors, outside Titusville, 7 pm.

August 22 – Space Coast Republican Club meeting, Red Lobster, Merritt Island, 11 am.

August 27 – Ronald Reagan Clubs meeting, Tuscany Grill restaurant, Suntree, 7 pm.

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COMICAL CLOSER

A major research institution has discovered the densest element yet known in the Universe. It has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 225 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 311. These particles are held together by dense forces called morons, and as they randomly interact with elements in the atmosphere, they form isodopes as they reach a density of voting concentration. The name of the new element is Pelosium, and its symbol is PU.

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