Mike Huckabee: Chick-fil-A 'surrendered to anti-Christian hate groups' and 'betrayed loyal customers' By Caleb Parke

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/mike-huckabee-chick-fil-a-surrended-anti-christian-hate-groups

November 19, 2019
Fox News

Despite being closed on Sunday, Chick-fil-A is still the third largest fast food chain in the country. But there's growing liberal backlash against its conservative Christian values, and its philanthropic support. Shouldn't a business be able to donate to the cause of their choice? Christopher Hale and Shane Idleman are here to debate this growing religious freedom conflict.

Mike Huckabee has long championed Chick-fil-A in the face of attacks from the left but after the company's announcement Monday to stop donating to two Christian organizations, he has changed his tune.

The company announced it was donating to initiatives that further its “mission of nourishing the potential in every child.” It said that in 2020 it would stop donating to two Christian organizations, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and The Salvation Army, that have been accused by gay rights activists of having anti-LGBTQ views.

"In Aug. 2012, I coordinated a national Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day after they were being bullied by militant hate groups," the former Arkansas governor tweeted Monday. "Today, Chick-fil-A betrayed local customers for $$. I regret believing they would stay true to convictions of founder Truett Cathy. Sad."

The prominent conservative Christian leader added that the popular chicken chain's move was seen as "surrendering to critics and betraying loyal customers to appease those who despise them."

Huckabee wasn't alone, though, as many expressed their disappointment and anger online, questioning if the company will stay true to the faith and family values.

Billy Hallowell, the author of "Pure Flix," a Christian production company, said "the fact that the mainstream media has reduced the Salvation Army -- one of the most important humanitarian groups around -- to an 'anti-LGBTQ organization,' tells us everything we need to know about our current culture."

He added that the decision was a bad one because it made no one happy.

"The most insane part of Chick-fil-A's decision," Hallowell said, "it does little to appease those who have long loathed the company. Meanwhile, it does everything to alienate those who have backed the company endlessly against attacks."

The national gay rights group, GLAAD, said the company's statement should be greeted with "cautious optimism" but more work needs to be done.

"Chick-fil-A still lacks policies to ensure safe workplaces for LGBTQ employees and should unequivocally speak out against the anti-LGBTQ reputation that their brand represents," Drew Anderson, GLAAD's director of campaigns and rapid response, told CNN.

Fox Business Network host Charles Payne called Chick-fil-A's decision "bewildering."

"Christians fought for the company against wave after wave of criticism. The Salvation Army helps everyone. I never thought it was political," Payne said. "Then again, I never thought a chicken sandwich could be political."

Chick-fil-A has received a barrage of negative comments on its latest social media posts, with many saying they are no longer going to go out of their way to go there.

President Trump Letter to Speaker Pelosi: “You are declaring open war on American democracy”… By The Last Refuge

Source: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/17/president-trump-letter-to-speaker-pelosi-you-are-declaring-open-war-on-american-democracy/
December 17, 2019

President Donald Trump sends a seven-page letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi outlining the executive concerns with the bastardization of a legislative impeachment process that will forever change the landscape of our constitutional republic.

…”You are turning a policy disagreement between two branches into an impeachable offense – it is no more legitimate than the executive branch charging members of congress with crimes for the lawful exercise of legislative power”…

[pdf link is HERE and full letter embed below]

Inspector General Finds ’17 Significant Errors’ in Applications for Spying on Trump Campaign Associate By Ivan Pentchoukov

Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/inspector-general-finds-17-significant-errors-in-applications-for-spying-on-trump-campaign-associate_3169251.html

December 9, 2019 Updated: December 10, 2019

Inspector General Michael Horowitz found that the four warrant applications to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page contained 17 significant errors, according to a report released on Dec. 9.

“We identified at least 17 significant errors or omissions in the Carter Page FISA applications, and many additional errors in the Woods Procedures,” the report states, referring to the procedures guiding the verification of claims in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications.

“These errors and omissions resulted from case agents providing wrong or incomplete information to OI and failing to flag important issues for discussion,” the report continues, referring to the Office of Intelligence and the National Security Division at the FBI.

Horowitz concluded that the errors and other failures constitute “serious performance failures by the supervisory and non-supervisory agents.”

The cover page of the report issued by the Department of Justice inspector general is photographed in Washington, on Dec. 9, 2019. (Jon Elswick/AP Photo)

In late October 2016, the FBI secured a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil Trump-campaign associate Carter Page. The bureau renewed the warrant three times, surveilling Page for a total of twelve months.

The FISA warrant application featured claims from an unverified dossier of opposition research on Trump. Former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele compiled the dossier by using second- and third-hand sources with ties to the Kremlin.

“Steele himself was not the originating source of any of the factual information in his reporting. Steele instead relied on a Primary Sub-source for information, who used his/her network of sub-sources to gather information that was then passed to Steele,” the report said.

The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee ultimately paid for Steele’s work, a fact the FBI did not disclose in the warrant application.

While the extent of the surveillance granted in Page’s case remains classified, FISA warrants allow for some of the most intrusive spying under the law. Under the so-called “two-hop” rule, investigators could collect the communications of every person Page interacted with as well every person who communicated with Page’s contacts. As a result, it is possible that the FBI obtained the communications of the entire Trump campaign, both retroactively and in real-time.

A number of FBI officials directly involved in preparing and signing the FISA warrants have all either left or been fired from the bureau, including Director James Comey, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok.

The scandal surrounding the surveillance warrants was amplified by the discovery of biased text messages between Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page, with whom Strzok was having an extramarital affair. Strzok and Page vented their hatred of Trump, spoke of his slim chances of winning the election, committed to stopping him from being elected, discussed an “insurance policy” in the unlikely event of a Trump victory and mulled “impeachment” once around the time they joined special counsel Robert Mueller’s team.

Strzok led the investigation of the Trump campaign and the probe of Hillary Clinton’s use of an unauthorized private email server for government work. In a report on the review of the Clinton-email probe, Horowitz concluded that Strzok and Page’s biased messages “cast a cloud” over the investigation, but was unable to find evidence to support the claim that the bias had an effect on any investigative decisions.

Horowitz formally announced the investigation into the Carter Page FISA in March 2018. He submitted a draft report to the DOJ in September. Horowitz said at the time that his team reviewed more than 1 million documents and interviewed more than 100 witnesses.

FISA REPORT Compressed by Victor I Nava on Scribd

Obituary - Lundy

Charles S. Lundy, November 15, 2019. Husband of Toby Lundy. Father of Suzanne (Robert) Zlotnick and Sheryl (Avishai) Tetro. Grandfather of David (Baxter Townsend) Zlotnick, Joshua Zlotnick, Arielle Tetro, and Rachel Tetro. Contributions may be made to Congregation Beth Solomon, Congregation Shaare Shamayim, or Hadassah.

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Source: https://www.jewishexponent.com/death_notice/lundy-5/

Adelman-Lundy

Source: https://www.jewishexponent.com/mazel_tov/adelman-lundy/

By Robert Leiter - April 1, 2010

Toby (nee Adelman) and Charles "Kash" Lundy marked the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary on March 26 at a luncheon with family and friends. Joining in the celebration were their children, Suzanne and Robert Zlotnick, and Sheryl and Avishay Tetro, along with two grandsons and two granddaughters.