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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
The Left Continues to Self-Destruct
by Michael Brown
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Top Headlines 
Tennessee arson wildfires leave 7 dead. Fortunately, rain has put most fires out. (NBC affiliate)
Overwhelmed Border Patrol Agents are spending an increasing amount of time taking care of kids and families instead of enforcing border law. (Washington Free Beacon)
Texas Gov. Greg Abbot announced this week that he's "going to sign a law that bans sanctuary cities." The timing will undoubtedly sit well with incoming president Donald Trump. (The Hill)
Black officer not charged in shooting death of black man who brandished a stolen gun — and didn't comply with police orders. (Fox News)
A Tacoma police officer was fatally shot while responding to a domestic violence call. (The News Tribune)
California's new cow fart regulations stink. (Reason)
Fake news alert: A bisexual student in Chicago falsely claimed she was antagonized by "anti-gay" Trump supporters. (Washington Times)
Trump vocalizes opposition to flag burning. Naturally, protesters burned flags outside Trump's hotel. (The Hill)
"Far more costly than previously thought": Thanks in part to liar-nObama's unilateral rule, taxpayers are projected to dole out $108 billion in student loan forgiveness. (Wall Street Journal)
Levi's prefers defenseless shoppers, bans firearms from its stores. (Pajamas Media)
~The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Larry Elder: "Every sane person expects Green Party candidate Jill Stein's attempt to overturn the election with her vote recount effort to crash and burn. Given this, why would the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign file a motion in support of a Stein-initiated request for a hand vote recount in Wisconsin? Under the reasonable assumption that what's good for the liar-Clintons is good for the liar-Clintons, one is left with but one conclusion. liar-Hillary Clinton's political death is premature. After the election, Donald Trump analysts, having seen the liar-Clintons pull a raft of rabbits out of a hat, should know better. There is no such thing as the 'end of the era of the liar-Clintons.' With the Democrats' Trump Derangement Syndrome already in full bloom, and the clowns at MSNBC practically drafting articles of impeachment of President-elect Trump, liar-Hillary Clinton expects the Trump presidency to be a disaster, or at least to be quasi-credibly attacked as such — which is the same thing. Health permitting, she's gearing up for another shot in 2020. In fact, it's inaccurate to say 'gearing up.' She never stopped." ~The Patriot Post
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TWO-TIME LOSERS: liar-Clintons
“STUNNED” As Recount Falls Apart
by William Smith
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s desperate attempt to overturn the presidential election results in key states is coming apart at the seams... After decades of getting everything they want, the liar-Clintons are finally tasting the bitter rejection of the American people — and the mounting recount failures, combined with the election results, have reportedly left husband Bill liar-Clinton dazed and dumbfounded. liar-Hillary’s last ditch attempt at a recount, spear-headed by over six million in donations by heavily Democratic backers to Green Party candidate Jill Stein, is facing increasing difficulties and missteps. In Wisconsin, Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn has refused to order local officials to conduct the state’s presidential recount by hand, acknowledging that Stein’s wild conspiracy theory of Russians hacking voting equipment had zero evidence...
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The UN's Palestine Language
by A.J. Caschetta
by A.J. Caschetta
{meforum.org} ~ US President-elect Donald Trump won the White House promising to reform our dysfunctional government. But will he also stand up to the even more dysfunctional United Nations?... As the Trump campaign emphasized in a position paper released November 2, the UN has long displayed "enormous anti-Israel bias." For decades, UN agencies have slandered the Jewish state, most recently with the April 2016 accusation that it has been "planting Jewish fake graves" in Palestinian territory, with UNESCO declaring last year that the ancient Jewish Biblical sites Rachel's Tomb and the Cave of the Patriarchs are actually Muslim holy sites, and with its declaration last month that the Temple Mount, where the First and Second Jewish Temples were destroyed in 587 BCE and 70 CE, is an Islamic site with no connection to Judaism...How can they claim that when they know their wrong. http://www.meforum.org/6396/un-palestine-language?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=907cd7ccac-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-907cd7ccac-33703665
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Congressional Panel Finds Planned
Parenthood and Others Broke Law
Selling Aborted Baby Parts
by Cheryl Sullenger
{lifenews.com} ~ The House Select Panel on Infant Lives has released a list of nine criminal and regulatory referrals against abortion providers and/or fetal tissue procurement companies made as a result of their investigation into the illegal practice of selling aborted baby remains for profit... The list was released in advance of an expected vote today on H. Res. 933, which would cover the expenses of the Select Panel’s work through the end of the year. Floor debate is currently scheduled to begin around 2:30pm ET, with 30 minutes for debate allotted to each of the two sides. The Select Panel was created in October 2015, in response to undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress that showed Planned Parenthood officials haggling to achieve the highest price for aborted baby tissue and organs that were to be provided to a middle-man organ procurement business... http://www.lifenews.com/2016/12/01/congressional-panel-finds-planned-parenthood-and-others-broke-law-selling-aborted-baby-parts/
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Funding to Domestic Programs Being Cut
to Fund Illegal Immigrant Minors
by Raven Clabough
{thenewamerican.com} ~ The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reports that the Department of Health and Human Services is cutting funding to domestic programs to pay for room and board for illegal alien youths... HHS must come up with $167 million to cover the costs to feed and shelter the unaccompanied minors through December 9 and has turned to other programs, including Medicare, for the money. And while the programs from which the money is being transferred are unconstitutional uses of taxpayer dollars, the move underscores that the American people are not this administration's priority. According to Jessica Vaughan, policy director for the Center for Immigration Studies, approximately 255 illegal alien youths have been taken into custody by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) every day this month, resulting in the largest number of illegal alien children in government care. As a result, the ORR is in need of more funding to cover the costs associated with caring for the arrivals and is resorting to taking money from domestic programs to cover current costs... http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/24739-funding-to-domestic-programs-being-cut-to-fund-illegal-immigrant-minors
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Pastor to Black Lives Matter:
'Stop Blaming Police'
by Mark Tapson
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Promoting his new book Black Self-Genocide: What Black Lives Matter Won't Say, Christian pastor Bishop Wellington Boone told Fox & Friends hosts Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade Wednesday... that the Black Lives Matter movement gets it all wrong on violence in the black community: it is black Americans, not police officers, who are to blame. Boone says in his book that inner city gangs are the real problem, not white police officers: "I am a Black American man. If I walk down the streets of any inner-city in America, I am in far more danger from people of my own race than from any White police. This is not a new phenomenon." The bestselling author told the hosts that instilling a stronger sense of faith and family within black communities would help diminish the violence, and toward that end he hopes to rally fellow black pastors to help spread the message...
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The Left Continues to Self-Destruct
by Michael Brown
{stream.org} ~ Rather than learn some valuable lessons from the resounding electoral victory of Donald Trump and the Republican Party, it appears that the left is lurching further leftward, thereby paving the way to its own demise.
Here are some recent examples.
The Washington Examiner claims, according to inside sources, that “CNN is taking an increasingly negative approach toward its coverage of President-elect Trump, causing at least some tension within the network.”
Another inside source told the Examiner that “CNN has always pledged to hold Trump accountable and that’s what we should be doing.” However, “Since the election, CNN has out MSNBCed MSNBC,” meaning, become even more liberal than the very liberal MSNBC. “In the long term,” the source said,“that’s a dangerous place to be.”
Does CNN not recognize that its reputation for being the liar-Clinton News Network has greatly damaged its credibility? Does the network not understand that appearing to be even more blatantly biased against the president-elect will do far more harm than good?
Perhaps even worse is a major article in the Washington Post, claiming (in the words of the Post’s Executive Editor Marty Baron) that a “Russian propaganda effort helped spread fake news during election,” according to “independent researchers.” (These “independent researchers” are behind the anonymous PropOrNot website, which was the primary source of the attempted exposé.)
According to Ben Norton and Glenn Greenwald, writing on TheIntercept.com on November 26, “This Post report was one of the most widely circulated political news articles on social media over the last 48 hours, with dozens, perhaps hundreds, of U.S. journalists and pundits with large platforms hailing it as an earth-shattering exposé. It was the most-read piece on the entire Post website on Friday after it was published.”
And what, exactly, did this article claim? (Remember that we’re talking about the Washington Post, not the National Enquirer.) Norton and Greenwald explain, “The group’s list of Russian disinformation outlets includes WikiLeaks and the Drudge Report, as well as liar-Clinton-critical left-wing websites such as Truthout, Black Agenda Report, Truthdig, and Naked Capitalism, as well as libertarian venues such as Antiwar.com and the Ron Paul Institute.”
So, it is the evil and ubiquitous Russian Empire that is fueling the right-wing fires of Drudge Report (which, of course, is simply a news aggregator rather than a news manufacturer) along with the libertarian fires of the Ron Paul Institute. Who knew?
So much for the liberal media being careful not to discredit itself in the aftermath of its election misreporting, because of which one can only wonder how long the New York Times slightly introspective mea culpa will last and how deep it will go.
The Times did, though, make a strong appeal for the Democrats to put their emphasis back on the economy rather than on leftist agenda items. But have the Democrats learned their lesson? Their consideration of Rep. Keith Ellison for party chair indicates that they are not getting the message either.
As noted by Fred Lucas on The Stream, “The leading candidate to be the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., has said he wants the Democratic Party to come out against the Second Amendment, compared the 9/11 attacks to the Nazi Reichstag fire, and was affiliated with the controversial Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.”
Lucas also points out that Ellison “once said eventual nominee liar-Hillary Clinton would have to prove she’s not a Republican to get his support.” Seriously?
Do the Democrats really think that identifying a radical-left Muslim as their party chairman will help them regain political power in America? Have they learned nothing from the Trump victory?
To give just one more example of the left’s failure to put its finger on the pulse of America, consider ESPN’s response to the death of Fidel Castro. But first, to put this in context, note that, in the month of October alone, ESPN lost 621,000 subscribers, which is a staggering number. And while it is impossible to state with certainty that some of this loss was due to ESPN’s liberal political views (baseball legend Curt Schilling accused ESPN of being “bigoted and intolerant” towards conservatives like himself), note that in January, 2016, an ESPN memo advised that “we should refrain from political editorializing, personal attacks or ‘drive-by’ comments regarding the candidates and their campaigns (including but not limited to on platforms such as Twitter or other social media).”
How, then, did ESPN report the death of the Cuban dictator? It praised him for his sporting accomplishments, with the headline of the 1,100 word article reading, “Fidel Castro, 90, fused sports into Cuba’s national identity.”
To be fair, the extended obituary did speak candidly (albeit non-condemningly) of Castro’s conflicts with America and did mention the negative effects of some of his economic policies. But rather than devote even one syllable to the many atrocities committed by Castro, ESPN chose to celebrate Cuba’s athletic prowess, noting, “Soon after coming to power, Castro recognized the potential benefits of national excellence in athletics and Cuba eventually became one of the strongest sporting nations in the world — despite a population only slightly greater than New York City’s.”
Yes, ESPN reminds us, “At the Olympics, Castro’s athletes were at their best,” closing the article with a recent (and representative) quote from Castro, one meant to present his defiance of America in a positive light. What fight he had, to the end!
In light of this small but representative sampling, I have a word of free advice for the “progressive” left wing, including CNN, the Washington Post, the Democratic Party, and ESPN: Just as Communism rose and fell, you too will go into extended decline unless you learn from the error of your ways and make a course correction.
For the media, that means reporting the news rather than manufacturing the news and striving for unbiased, honest reporting. For the Democrats, that means stepping back from radical leftist causes. For ESPN, it means staying out of politics and being a network devoted entirely to sports.
Will the left learn? I do hope so, but I’m not holding my breath.
Here are some recent examples.
The Washington Examiner claims, according to inside sources, that “CNN is taking an increasingly negative approach toward its coverage of President-elect Trump, causing at least some tension within the network.”
Another inside source told the Examiner that “CNN has always pledged to hold Trump accountable and that’s what we should be doing.” However, “Since the election, CNN has out MSNBCed MSNBC,” meaning, become even more liberal than the very liberal MSNBC. “In the long term,” the source said,“that’s a dangerous place to be.”
Does CNN not recognize that its reputation for being the liar-Clinton News Network has greatly damaged its credibility? Does the network not understand that appearing to be even more blatantly biased against the president-elect will do far more harm than good?
Perhaps even worse is a major article in the Washington Post, claiming (in the words of the Post’s Executive Editor Marty Baron) that a “Russian propaganda effort helped spread fake news during election,” according to “independent researchers.” (These “independent researchers” are behind the anonymous PropOrNot website, which was the primary source of the attempted exposé.)
According to Ben Norton and Glenn Greenwald, writing on TheIntercept.com on November 26, “This Post report was one of the most widely circulated political news articles on social media over the last 48 hours, with dozens, perhaps hundreds, of U.S. journalists and pundits with large platforms hailing it as an earth-shattering exposé. It was the most-read piece on the entire Post website on Friday after it was published.”
And what, exactly, did this article claim? (Remember that we’re talking about the Washington Post, not the National Enquirer.) Norton and Greenwald explain, “The group’s list of Russian disinformation outlets includes WikiLeaks and the Drudge Report, as well as liar-Clinton-critical left-wing websites such as Truthout, Black Agenda Report, Truthdig, and Naked Capitalism, as well as libertarian venues such as Antiwar.com and the Ron Paul Institute.”
So, it is the evil and ubiquitous Russian Empire that is fueling the right-wing fires of Drudge Report (which, of course, is simply a news aggregator rather than a news manufacturer) along with the libertarian fires of the Ron Paul Institute. Who knew?
So much for the liberal media being careful not to discredit itself in the aftermath of its election misreporting, because of which one can only wonder how long the New York Times slightly introspective mea culpa will last and how deep it will go.
The Times did, though, make a strong appeal for the Democrats to put their emphasis back on the economy rather than on leftist agenda items. But have the Democrats learned their lesson? Their consideration of Rep. Keith Ellison for party chair indicates that they are not getting the message either.
As noted by Fred Lucas on The Stream, “The leading candidate to be the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., has said he wants the Democratic Party to come out against the Second Amendment, compared the 9/11 attacks to the Nazi Reichstag fire, and was affiliated with the controversial Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.”
Lucas also points out that Ellison “once said eventual nominee liar-Hillary Clinton would have to prove she’s not a Republican to get his support.” Seriously?
Do the Democrats really think that identifying a radical-left Muslim as their party chairman will help them regain political power in America? Have they learned nothing from the Trump victory?
To give just one more example of the left’s failure to put its finger on the pulse of America, consider ESPN’s response to the death of Fidel Castro. But first, to put this in context, note that, in the month of October alone, ESPN lost 621,000 subscribers, which is a staggering number. And while it is impossible to state with certainty that some of this loss was due to ESPN’s liberal political views (baseball legend Curt Schilling accused ESPN of being “bigoted and intolerant” towards conservatives like himself), note that in January, 2016, an ESPN memo advised that “we should refrain from political editorializing, personal attacks or ‘drive-by’ comments regarding the candidates and their campaigns (including but not limited to on platforms such as Twitter or other social media).”
How, then, did ESPN report the death of the Cuban dictator? It praised him for his sporting accomplishments, with the headline of the 1,100 word article reading, “Fidel Castro, 90, fused sports into Cuba’s national identity.”
To be fair, the extended obituary did speak candidly (albeit non-condemningly) of Castro’s conflicts with America and did mention the negative effects of some of his economic policies. But rather than devote even one syllable to the many atrocities committed by Castro, ESPN chose to celebrate Cuba’s athletic prowess, noting, “Soon after coming to power, Castro recognized the potential benefits of national excellence in athletics and Cuba eventually became one of the strongest sporting nations in the world — despite a population only slightly greater than New York City’s.”
Yes, ESPN reminds us, “At the Olympics, Castro’s athletes were at their best,” closing the article with a recent (and representative) quote from Castro, one meant to present his defiance of America in a positive light. What fight he had, to the end!
In light of this small but representative sampling, I have a word of free advice for the “progressive” left wing, including CNN, the Washington Post, the Democratic Party, and ESPN: Just as Communism rose and fell, you too will go into extended decline unless you learn from the error of your ways and make a course correction.
For the media, that means reporting the news rather than manufacturing the news and striving for unbiased, honest reporting. For the Democrats, that means stepping back from radical leftist causes. For ESPN, it means staying out of politics and being a network devoted entirely to sports.
Will the left learn? I do hope so, but I’m not holding my breath.
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