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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
The spreading revolt of the peasants
by Wesley Pruden
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Top Headlines
Gen. John Kelly tapped for Department of Homeland Security, another great Trump pick, but Leftmedia fear "too many generals." (The Daily Signal)
Now that Trump's won, media suddenly notices that a lot of new jobs are crappy. (Hot Air)
Stein's Wisconsin recount for liar-Clinton produces net gains ... for Trump. (Fox News)
Judicial order halts Stein's Michigan recount for liar-Clinton. (Detroit Free Press)
WashPo columnist repeats fake news while complaining about repeating fake news. (Washington Examiner)
The latest and hopefully last chapter of liar-nObama's social engineering military experiments — Naval Academy hosting "Transgender 101" training for midshipmen. (Washington Free Beacon)
Two charged with arson in Gatlinburg wildfires that killed 14. (Fox News)
Two police officers shot, one killed, in Georgia. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
How long will Hollywood put up with social justice warriors after latest attacks? Probably always. (National Review)
Despite objections and a pending congressional resolution, Black History Museum has "no plans" to recognize Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. (The Washington Times)
Policy: A pro-growth agenda for the 115th Congress. It would be about time. (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
Policy: Short-term spending bill: The good and the bad. (The Daily Signal) ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/digests/46345
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Larry Elder: "Following Mitt Romney's 2012 defeat, Democrats and pundits predicted GOP defeats as far as the eye could see, because there aren't enough white voters for Republicans to win. But now the narrative is, 'Trump won by appealing to white voters.' Could they please pick one and stick to it? ... If Democrats truly believe that racism carried the day for Trump, they're even more out of touch than initially thought. Given that line of reasoning, they will be hard-pressed to get back the middle-class and working-class Americans they lost this cycle. If Democrats think Trump won by 'catering to racists,' just wait until the economy improves under Trump, and more Latinos and blacks stop voting like victicrats. Just wait until blacks and Hispanics start voting to continue the policies that caused an improvement in their economic conditions and for education policies like Trump's pro-voucher stance. Then Democrats will 'really' start losing." ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/digests/46345
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https://patriotpost.us/digests/46345
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Larry Elder: "Following Mitt Romney's 2012 defeat, Democrats and pundits predicted GOP defeats as far as the eye could see, because there aren't enough white voters for Republicans to win. But now the narrative is, 'Trump won by appealing to white voters.' Could they please pick one and stick to it? ... If Democrats truly believe that racism carried the day for Trump, they're even more out of touch than initially thought. Given that line of reasoning, they will be hard-pressed to get back the middle-class and working-class Americans they lost this cycle. If Democrats think Trump won by 'catering to racists,' just wait until the economy improves under Trump, and more Latinos and blacks stop voting like victicrats. Just wait until blacks and Hispanics start voting to continue the policies that caused an improvement in their economic conditions and for education policies like Trump's pro-voucher stance. Then Democrats will 'really' start losing." ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/digests/46345
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Watch What Iran Does, But Also
Listen To What They Say
by Kenneth R. Timmerman
{frontpagemag.com} ~ President-Elect Trump will be tested by the Islamic state of Iran soon after taking office on January 20. It could come the very day of his inauguration with an enormous, if superficial head-fake... as they gave President Reagan by releasing our U.S. diplomat-hostages the very minute he swore the oath of office. Or it could come later, in a less benign form. But this much is certain: that test will come, and the foreign policy establishment in Washington will fail to see it coming and mistakenly interpret it once it occurs. Again. Establishment analysts focus on Iran’s actions. In itself, that is not a bad thing, but it’s kind of like buying a peach at an American supermarket because of its wonderful good looks, only to cut it open at home to find it wooden and tasteless...
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Nation of Islam Tears Down
Keith Ellison's Lies About His Past
by Daniel Greenfield
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Keith Ellison, his apologists and his defenders have kept telling one lie about his past with the Nation of Islam. The refrain is that all he did was help out with the Million Man March. Just like liar-nObama... Of course that's a lie. As has been often documented, he had an extensive history with the racist hate group which believes that white people were created by a mad scientist and will be exterminated by UFOs. (It varies from vanilla Islam in some ways.) Keith Ellison and I were then both 31 years old. He was on record as defending Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism since at least 1989, under the alias of Keith Hakim. But unlike the CBC, which immediately suspended its ties with the Nation of Islam after the vote, Ellison apparently saw no reason to rethink his position. In fact, he continued to identify with Farrakhan and work actively for the Nation of Islam for years after Muhammad’s speech...
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Lawmakers Hit Stein With Horrible News…
Move to Confiscate Recount Warchest
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Americans from both major political parties have been outraged over former Green Party nominee Jill Stein’s attempts to launch recounts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin... states that were key to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. In Michigan especially, where taxpayers would have had to fork over millions for the recount, some lawmakers were trying to pass legislation that would ensure that something like this never happens again — while leaving the door open for the possibility of legitimate recount efforts in the future, Detroit Free Press reported. A bill that passed the Michigan House Elections Committee on Tuesday would make it so that candidates who lose the election by more than 5 percent would have to pay the entire cost of the recount... http://conservativetribune.com/lawmakers-hit-stein-news-recount/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=CTBreaking&utm_content=2016-12-08
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Trump Early Successes, Popularity
Driving Liberal Media Berserk
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs offers a few thoughts on the “national left-wing media that continues to grapple uncomfortably with President-elect Trump’s success... Trump’s popularity today hit a new high in the latest Bloomberg survey, 50% favorability, that’s up from 37% Election Day, up from 33% back in August. And with 42 days left until Trump’s inauguration and Mr. Trump’s negotiating skills may be responsible yet for another coup targeting the 700,000 Apple employees working in China.” Dobbs notes, “Foxconn, the largest electronics company manufacturing Apple products and assembling them now in preliminary discussions apparently to expand operations where? Well, the United States, of course. It follows, doesn’t it? The news comes right after Trump’s meeting with the CEO of Japan’s SoftBank and another deal to invest $50 Billion in the United States, potentially creating 50,000 new jobs...
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Funding Terrorism - The Buck Stops Here
by PATRICK DUNLEAVY
by PATRICK DUNLEAVY
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ "Follow the money" - that fundamental rule for investigating organized crime - also holds true for uncovering terrorist organizations. But if the search leads to your own doorstep, immediate and decisive action must be taken... This may be the case for the U.S. government in light of recent statements by Mahmoud Abbas, the current president of the Palestinian Authority. The 81-year-old Abbas, who has been president since 2005, is calling for unifying the Fatah party government with Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. President Bill liar-Clinton's executive order first labeled Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization in 1995. Hamas was included among terrorist groups whose "grave acts of violence ... disrupt the Middle East peace process and constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States."...
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The spreading revolt of the peasants
by Wesley Pruden
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ The populist saber continues to cut the elites down to size. The elites, who think they know it all and are uniquely qualified to tell everyone else how to live, took another pasting Sunday in the Italian elections. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi felt so humiliated by voter rejection of his proposals for constitutional reform that he quit on the spot.
That's 3 for 3 for the peasants. Europe hasn't seen such a sacking fit in years. David Cameron quit as prime minister in Britain after the kingdom voted earlier this year to say goodbye to Europe, and then Francois Hollande, the president of France, looked back and saw something gaining on him.
The most unpopular president since 1940, when France was about to fall, said he has had enough, and wouldn't stand for an election that everybody said he couldn't win, next year.
The Germans have a chance to make it 4 for 4 next year, when Angela Merkel stands for a fourth term, and though she may be the favorite, in the present climate she's anything but a sure bet, and maybe not even a good one. Throwing the rascals out has become a game everyone wants to play, and the world has rarely seen so many deserving rascals.
Barack liar-nObama, who is Europe's favorite American president, can only be pleased that he isn't running for anything next year but the streetcar, to take him to his new digs just down the street from the mosque where he might be content to listen to the evening call to prayer, which he calls "the prettiest sound on earth," but this particular mosque plays no such call. He'll have to get it on YouTube. The neighborhood is fairly finicky about noise.
Only yesterday the big media was agog with speculation about the funeral rites for the Republicans, who were about to be drowned and good riddance by the coming tidal wave bringing liar-Hillary Clinton office. Alas, the tide turned, as tides will do, and brought the Donald to power if not yet much glory instead.
Now it's the Democrats who are lepers in the land. The same wise men who were writing obituaries for the Grand Old Party are recycling them as obsequies for the party of the people. That would be the party that lost the White House, the Senate, the House and so many governors, mayors and state houses that everybody but Jill Stein has quit counting.
The Democratic grassroots, however, are bubbling and on the boil, if not with optimism at least innovation. Students at California State College at San Marcos think white folks are the problem and the solution is getting rid of them.
The students organized a "Whiteness Forum," setting up more than a dozen displays with imaginative themes, including "Gentrification is the New Colonialism" (no one ever met a real-estate developer in a homeless shelter), "Whiteness in the Courts" (blacks are five times more likely to go to prison than white folks and Latinos are three times more likely), and "the hegemonic ideals of the beauty standard" must go. The First Amendment, which not so long ago everybody regarded as the most important item in the Bill of Rights, continues to get a bad rap on campus.
Jake Goldberg, a student at Tufts University, offered a resolution to the Student Senate affirming free speech and it was defeated 26 to zilch.
The Senate president chided Mr. Goldberg for even offering the resolution.
"I think clarity in itself is subjective so I don't really know what we're voting on, which is why I oppose it."
Another senator said 50 percent of Tufts students are from other countries where there is no free speech and free-speech issues are handled better than in America, and saying First Amendment rights are the best kind of rights "is not okay." Hurting someone's feelings is the most heinous of all crimes on campus.
The best news for the Republicans this week is not from Europe or the campus but from Nancy Pulosi, fresh from winning another term as the leader of the Democratic minority in the House. She told a CBS interviewer that her party doesn't have to worry because "I don't think the people want a new direction."
The interlocutor, John Dickerson, reminded her that over the past eight years "the numbers are ghastly for the Democrats, with the party getting clobbered at every level, over multiple elections. That seems like a real crisis for the party." No, no, Mrs. Pulosi replied. "You're forgetting that we went up so high in 2006 and 2008."
According to the five stages of grief, everybody should be moving on by now.
That's 3 for 3 for the peasants. Europe hasn't seen such a sacking fit in years. David Cameron quit as prime minister in Britain after the kingdom voted earlier this year to say goodbye to Europe, and then Francois Hollande, the president of France, looked back and saw something gaining on him.
The most unpopular president since 1940, when France was about to fall, said he has had enough, and wouldn't stand for an election that everybody said he couldn't win, next year.
The Germans have a chance to make it 4 for 4 next year, when Angela Merkel stands for a fourth term, and though she may be the favorite, in the present climate she's anything but a sure bet, and maybe not even a good one. Throwing the rascals out has become a game everyone wants to play, and the world has rarely seen so many deserving rascals.
Barack liar-nObama, who is Europe's favorite American president, can only be pleased that he isn't running for anything next year but the streetcar, to take him to his new digs just down the street from the mosque where he might be content to listen to the evening call to prayer, which he calls "the prettiest sound on earth," but this particular mosque plays no such call. He'll have to get it on YouTube. The neighborhood is fairly finicky about noise.
Only yesterday the big media was agog with speculation about the funeral rites for the Republicans, who were about to be drowned and good riddance by the coming tidal wave bringing liar-Hillary Clinton office. Alas, the tide turned, as tides will do, and brought the Donald to power if not yet much glory instead.
Now it's the Democrats who are lepers in the land. The same wise men who were writing obituaries for the Grand Old Party are recycling them as obsequies for the party of the people. That would be the party that lost the White House, the Senate, the House and so many governors, mayors and state houses that everybody but Jill Stein has quit counting.
The Democratic grassroots, however, are bubbling and on the boil, if not with optimism at least innovation. Students at California State College at San Marcos think white folks are the problem and the solution is getting rid of them.
The students organized a "Whiteness Forum," setting up more than a dozen displays with imaginative themes, including "Gentrification is the New Colonialism" (no one ever met a real-estate developer in a homeless shelter), "Whiteness in the Courts" (blacks are five times more likely to go to prison than white folks and Latinos are three times more likely), and "the hegemonic ideals of the beauty standard" must go. The First Amendment, which not so long ago everybody regarded as the most important item in the Bill of Rights, continues to get a bad rap on campus.
Jake Goldberg, a student at Tufts University, offered a resolution to the Student Senate affirming free speech and it was defeated 26 to zilch.
The Senate president chided Mr. Goldberg for even offering the resolution.
"I think clarity in itself is subjective so I don't really know what we're voting on, which is why I oppose it."
Another senator said 50 percent of Tufts students are from other countries where there is no free speech and free-speech issues are handled better than in America, and saying First Amendment rights are the best kind of rights "is not okay." Hurting someone's feelings is the most heinous of all crimes on campus.
The best news for the Republicans this week is not from Europe or the campus but from Nancy Pulosi, fresh from winning another term as the leader of the Democratic minority in the House. She told a CBS interviewer that her party doesn't have to worry because "I don't think the people want a new direction."
The interlocutor, John Dickerson, reminded her that over the past eight years "the numbers are ghastly for the Democrats, with the party getting clobbered at every level, over multiple elections. That seems like a real crisis for the party." No, no, Mrs. Pulosi replied. "You're forgetting that we went up so high in 2006 and 2008."
According to the five stages of grief, everybody should be moving on by now.
But some folks are still stuck in denial.
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