Today is the launch day for Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence 

President Trump gives a speech at the United Nations

Trump read a 41 minute speech at the UN in NYC today which is good that he stayed on script. Here are some of the highlights:

• He told North Korea that he would destroy the entire country if they attacked anybody.
• U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his standoff with North Korea over its nuclear challenge on Tuesday, threatening to “totally destroy” the country of 26 million people and mocking its leader, Kim Jong Un, as a “rocket man.”
• “The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.  Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.  The United States is ready, willing and able, but hopefully this will not be necessary. “
• Then, Iran hinting that the nuke deal might not be carried forward. I don’t believe that, I do think that President Trump will carry it forward.
• “The Iran Deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into.  Frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the United States, and I don’t think you’ve heard the last of it -- believe me. It is time for the entire world to join us in demanding that Iran's government end its pursuit of death and destruction.  It is time for the regime to free all Americans and citizens of other nations that they have unjustly detained.  And above all, Iran's government must stop supporting terrorists, begin serving its own people, and respect the sovereign rights of its neighbors.”
• The most interesting part of the speech for me was when President Trump laid into Cuba and Venezuela, two countries that really don’t have much to do with the state of the world right now. The point that Trump was trying to make was that Communism and Socialism don’t work anywhere. He was trying to say that these two places are disasters and that he will take action against Venezuela, he’s revoked the detente with Cuba because they don’t work, they persecute their people and Communism and Socialism are the worst. Then President Trump paused, I think he was looking for some applause and there was nothing, stone, cold silence. It occurred to me how many countries still think that Socialism is a viable option.
• Lastly, Trump talked about nationalism and instead of saying the United States is the best country in the world and everyone else comes second he said: “In foreign affairs, we are renewing this founding principle of sovereignty.  Our government's first duty is to its people, to our citizens -- to serve their needs, to ensure their safety, to preserve their rights, and to defend their values. As President of the United States, I will always put America first, just like you, as the leaders of your countries will always, and should always, put your countries first.” 

Stewart Patrick gives his thoughts on Trump’s UN speech

Stewart Patrick is the Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and Author, The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World. 

Mr. Patrick says if he were to grade President Trump’s speech, he would give it a solid B. This is because Trump far exceeded everyone’s expectations. He delivered a message for his base while reassuring that he wants to make the United Nations work. 

Trump’s two strongest points in the speech were:

1. In his speech he tied together nationalist themes that his base wanted to hear, while showing that is compatible with national cooperation. He also made the point that sovereignty is not the enemy of the United Nations. It is a place where independent nations come together to try to solve problems and I think that was really valued there.
2. The other strong point was the focus on accountability. He said we’re not going to get rid of the United Nations, but we want money for performance. Trump also wants the UN to be more effective than they currently are. 

Trump’s weaker points in the speech:

1. There wasn’t a lot on what democracy stands for. I understand the fatigue with talking about that, but I do think that just having a sovereignty approach to international affairs is that you give a path conceivably to thugs.

Paul Manafort finds himself in a precarious position on Russia

Today, the left wing media ran wild with the story of Robert Mueller and Paul Manafort. The media makes all of this stuff up, but I will not be surprised if Paul Manafort gets in trouble on the issue of Russian interference with the election. 

While more than a dozen Trump associates are considered to be central players in the Russia investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller has been pursuing Paul Manafort with scorched-earth tactics that seem calculated to inspire fear—or force his cooperation. Among the most aggressive moves was a July 26 raid on Manafort’s home in Virginia, in which F.B.I. agents searched the former political operative’s property for evidence related to the Russia probe on the same day Manafort was set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. But new details of Mueller’s visit, reported by The New York Times on Monday evening, are particularly shocking:

Paul J. Manafort was in bed early one morning in July when federal agents bearing a search warrant picked the lock on his front door and raided his Virginia home. They took binders stuffed with documents and copied his computer files, looking for evidence that Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, set up secret offshore bank accounts. They even photographed the expensive suits in his closet.

The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, then followed the house search with a warning: His prosecutors told Mr. Manafort they planned to indict him, said two people close to the investigation. 

The very fact that the F.B.I. raided Manafort’s home is telling: the former Trump campaign manager is reportedly under investigation for potentially violating tax laws, money laundering, and the failure to disclose foreign lobbying on behalf of pro-Russian interests. In order for Mueller to obtain the warrant to search and enter Manafort’s home unannounced, his team would have had to convince a judge not only that the home contained evidence of a crime, but that Manafort was likely to destroy evidence. “Clearly they didn’t trust him,” Jimmy Gurulé, a Notre Dame law professor and former federal prosecutor, told the Times. “This is more consistent with how you’d go after an organized crime syndicate,” he added. (Manafort has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.)

If Mueller’s tactics are extraordinary, it may be because the F.B.I. does not view this as a typical white-collar case. Also on Monday, CNN reported that U.S. law enforcement had wiretapped Manafort under a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant as early as 2014, when he came under investigation by the F.B.I. for work that he conducted as a political consultant for the pro-Kremlin Party of Regions in Ukraine. According to CNN, Manafort was under surveillance before the 2016 election, but the work was discontinued due to a lack of evidence at some point last year. The F.B.I. later obtained a new FISA warrant, which reportedly extended into early 2017 and was part of the probe into whether members of the Trump campaign worked with the Kremlin to derail Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.

The never-ending Obamacare repeal bill

It wasn't that long ago that the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act died once and for all in the Senate. 

Or so many thought. 

But the repeal effort has risen once again from the ashes in the form of a bill known as Cassidy-Graham.

The bill, introduced Sept. 13 by Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., with little hope of going anywhere, has gained steam in its short life and now looks like it may actually come to a vote in the Senate in the coming days.

Many opponents say the bill will result in millions of people losing their insurance coverage.

"The Graham-Cassidy plan would take health insurance coverage away from millions of people, eliminate critical public health funding, devastate the Medicaid program, increase out-of-pocket costs and weaken or eliminate protections for people living with pre-existing conditions," says Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, in a statement. 

Here's what it does: 

Cassidy-Graham essentially deconstructs all of the major programs created by the Affordable Care Act, gathers up the money and hands it over to states to run their own health care programs. 

It gets rid of both the subsidies that help people buy individual health insurance policies and the reimbursements to insurance companies for offering price breaks on copayments and deductibles to the lowest-income customers. 

It rolls back the Obamacare Medicaid expansion that was adopted by 31 states and Washington, D.C., and it eliminates the Basic Health Program that was created under the ACA and implemented in New York and Minnesota. 

All the money that currently goes to those initiatives would instead be distributed to the states as block grants that would particularly benefit those states that did not expand Medicaid earlier and those states with lower health care costs.

DHS reports that crossing the Mexico border is harder than it has been for 50 years

This report is the opinion of the DHS who works for President Trump, so we have to be a little skeptical about it. 

Border security improvements began during the second George W. Bush administration and continued with varying degrees of success under President Barack Obama. The gains have continued under President Donald Trump, with border arrests down about 22 percent in fiscal year 2017 compared to the same period in fiscal year 2016, despite a recent uptick. 

Border Patrol assessments using interdiction rates show that 55 to 85 percent of illegal crossers are apprehended or interdicted today versus 35 to 70 percent a decade ago. 

DHS estimates there were about 170,000 illegal crossings in 2016, 91 percent fewer than in 2000, when an estimated 1.8 million illegal aliens successfully crossed the border between ports of entry.

Gallup Poll: 28 Percent Satisfied With Way US Is Being Governed

Less than a third of Americans are satisfied with how the country is being governed, down from last year, Gallup reports. 

Gallup asked in a survey, "Would you say you are satisfied or dissatisfied with the way the nation is being governed?”

• 28 percent said satisfied.
• 71 percent said dissatisfied.
• Last year, 33 percent said satisfied.
• Last year, 67 percent said dissatisfied.

The previous high came in September 2002, when 59 percent of Americans were satisfied with the way the country was being governed. 

Gallup notes that previous lows came in 2011, when the country's credit rating got downgraded, and in October 2013, during the federal shutdown.  

Gallup polled 1,022 adults living in the United States by phone Sept. 6 -10. The poll has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.

Ratings Drop for The Emmys 

Yesterday, I mentioned how I watched 3 minutes of the Emmys and it was so smug that I had to change the channel. According to the ratings no one else watched the Emmys either. In total they had about 11 Million viewers, which is nothing. The reason is because people are getting tired of celebrities telling you what to think and bashing traditional conservatives.

• The 2016 show was down 5% from the 2015 show, which was the previous low.
• Among adults 18-49, this year’s Emmys snagged a 2.5 rating. 
• That’s down 10% from the Jimmy Kimmel hosted show of last year, the previous demo low.
• Down from the 2013 show, the 2014 Emmys was the last time the broadcast did better than 12 million viewers, with a total audience of 15.59 million tuning in.
• Back in 2013, the Neil Patrick Harris hosted Emmy’s delivered 17.63 million viewers and a rating of 4.9 among adults 18-49.

Killing England is out today and it is the 7th Killing book!

To help explain what the book is about I can demonstrate with a situation that is going on in Dallas, TX. The Dallas School Board wants to rename schools named after George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. Why? Because those men in the eyes of the school board are offensive in some way. This is political correctness madness, insanity, destroying our history. Killing England is seen through the eyes of Washington, Jefferson and Franklin, the 3 men that were revolutionary to our country.

Everybody in Dallas should be at the next school board meetings to say don’t change the names! However, in order to win the debate, you have to know what you’re talking about, to know who these 3 men were. 

Mail Time!

• Bill, you let Dr. Austan Goolsbee get away with saying that President Trump doesn’t have diplomatic skills, really?
• My Aunt Emily turns 95 this week and she’s reading Killing the Rising Sun, I got it for her when I became a Premium Member. She would really like to read Old School so of course I’m giving that to her for her birthday.
• Bill, I agree 100% on what you said about the thugs that are causing all of the problems here in St. Louis. They need to be prosecuted to the fullest.
• Last night’s podcast was the best ever because we addressed the Emmys. The Trump bashing has to stop.