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The enrichment of Bill and Hillary Clinton Part II

The enrichment of Bill and Hillary Clinton Part II

Boston Patriot

Uranium, Kazakhstan and Russia

My previous posting painted a broad brush portrait of Bill and Hillary Clinton's modus operandi. It showed how they amassed a fortune of more than $100 million between 2001 and 2012, and solicited donations to the Clinton Foundation to further their political and financial goals, and their use of political power and connections to effect U.S. policy, which enriched their friends and donors. In this piece, we will focus on the details of one of the Clinton's most shameful transactions which illustrated this corrupt pattern of self-enrichment, influence-peddling and using their power to help their friends achieve their goals. All of the details below emanate from Peter Schweizer's masterful book, "Clinton Cash," which has more than 50 pages of footnotes backing up his work.

The perversion of the establishment clause
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The perversion of the establishment clause

Zack Pruitt

A football coach in Washington was recently suspended from his duties because he made a habit of praying at midfield following games. Players or students were never asked or required to participate, but some did join him voluntarily for a postgame prayer that typically lasted 15 to 20 seconds. Prior to his suspension, the coach was ordered to stop praying because school officials, citing the Supreme Court, said they did not want to be seen as endorsing religion. The school district said that "students required to be present by virtue of their participation in football or cheerleading will necessarily suffer a degree of coercion to participate in religious activity when their coaches lead or endorse it."

Around the time of the founding of this country, religion was an integral part of daily activities in both government and schools. The Bible was a textbook in many schools, church services were held in the Capitol building, and prayer in both forums was commonplace and routine. The Founding Fathers that wrote the First Amendment lived in such a world and valued its ideals, but in reaction to the heavy hand of the Church of England, they thought it prudent to enshrine that there would be no national church denomination in their new country.

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