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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
Cheap shots, Russian hackers and fake news
by Erik Rush
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Top Headlines
Welcome to our retooled Top Headlines section. Our objective is to save you time by reviewing hundreds of news and policy sites every morning. In addition to our top-of-the-fold Right Analysis and Hook summaries, here are more of today's top stories.
Trump names former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao (wife of Senate Leader Mitch McCon-nell) Transportation Secretary. (USA Today)
Trump picks Wall Street investment guru Steve Mnuchin to lead Treasury. (Wall Street Journal)
Trump deals with Carrier to keep jobs in America — a key campaign promise and he is not in the White House yet. (Bloomberg)
Economy likely won't top 3% for the year — goodbye, Barack liar-nObama. (Washington Free Beacon)
Trump's difficult transition from business to the presidency. (USA Today)
Nancy Pulosi survives challenge, retains failed Democrat leadership role. (Washington Post)
Keith Ellison, leading candidate for the DNC, took a 2008 trip to Saudi Arabia to meet with a radical cleric and a bank that funds suicide bombings. (Washington Free Beacon)
Surprise! liar-nObama's "Iranian nuke deal" is working as planned — U.S. cash has already been diverted to armies. (Washington Times)
While Veterans suffer... a grinch at the VA is busy trashing an employee's Christmas tree. (Washington Examiner)
Free speech update: Web hosting company shuts down conservative site boycotting Target stores. (Daily Signal)
"Ready for Michelle" PACs urge the first lady toward a 2020 run. Ready for another liar-nObama? (The Hill)
And for fun, a little satire: U.S. Christians brace for a brutal onslaught of "Happy Holidays" attacks. (Babylon Bee) ~The Patriot Post
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Star Parker: "If the teachers unions are outraged by Donald Trump's selection of Betsy DeVos as the new secretary of education, our president-elect must have made a good choice. ... [F]or those with the least power, the poor, parents are totally locked into failing schools controlled by bureaucrats and unions. If giving parents education choice was a bad idea, why do so many want it? ... Betsy DeVos' special interest is advancing freedom by bringing education opportunities to poor children. The unions' special interest is keeping a stranglehold on public schools and looking out for their members and their left-wing agenda. ... A headline on the National Education Association website says, 'Transgender students thrive in supportive schools.' Can you imagine the NEA worrying about Christian children getting biblical values? Parents should be free to choose a school embracing transgender values or Christian values. It should be up to them, not unions or bureaucrats. Having known Betsy DeVos for years, I am confident that unions will find their fears justified, and that our new secretary of education will provide leadership to significantly improve education in our country by bringing freedom and choice to families." ~The Patriot Post
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Keith Ellison - The Wrong Man
at the Wrong Time
by Alan M. Dershowitz
by Alan M. Dershowitz
Congressman KeithEllison's LouisFarrakhan
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ What should a political party that has just lost its white working-class, blue-collar base to a "make America great again" nationalist do to try to regain these voters?... Why not appoint as the new head of the party a radical left-wing ideologue who has a long history of supporting an anti-American, anti-white, anti-Semitic Nation of Islam racist? Such an appointment will surely bring back rust-belt voters who have lost their jobs to globalization and free trade! Is this really the thinking of those Democratic leaders who are pushing for Keith Ellison to head the Democratic National Committee? Keith Ellison is, by all accounts, a decent guy, who is well liked by his congressional colleagues. But it is hard to imagine a worse candidate to take over the DNC at this time. Ellison represents the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party, just when the party -- if it is to win again -- must move to the center in order to bring back the voters it lost to Trump. The Democrats didn't lose because their candidates weren't left enough. They won the votes of liberals. The radical voters they lost to Jill Stein were small in number and are not likely to be influenced by the appointment of Ellison. The centrist voters they lost to Trump will only be further alienated by the appointment of a left-wing ideologue, who seems to care more about global issues than jobs in Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan. Ellison's selection certainly wouldn't help among Jewish voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania or pro-Israel Christian voters around the country...
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Attentional Millennials: We Owe You Nothing!
by Dave Hodges
{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ In a recent poll, and by a 2 to 1 margin, Millennial’s say they would rather have Fidel Castro as President over Donald Trump. Yes, America, this is what we have raised, a generation that wants something for nothing... Some should ask these illiterate Castro lovers one question: How did Cubans fare under this despot? The following video explores the mindset of so many of our young people and how they got this way. The implications for America are very dire.
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Flag burning and the difference
between speech and expression
by Rebecca Burgess
Supporters of the “NYC Revolution Club” burn the flag
{aei.org} ~ During and in the decade following the Vietnam War, flag burning of American flags by American citizens in public protest became a near-celebrated thing... as plaintiff Gregory Johnson successfully defended a right before the Supreme Court to go unpenalized for such behavior (Texas v. Johnson). A newfound right to freedom of expression rather than speech was suddenly found by a closely divided Court (5-4) within the hidden corners of the Constitution. Fast forward thirty-plus years, and others burning the American flag in the wake of Trump’s election to the presidency are reprising the role of Johnson among others —then protesting the election of Ronald Reagan. But in 1984, when Johnson stole and burned a flag, it was within the context of 48 out of 50 states plus federal statute forbidding it. Then, writing for the five-justice majority, Justice William Brennan wrote that Texas had punished Johnson for exercising the “freedom that the flag’s cherished emblem represents,” meaning that by preventing Johnson from expressing a political inclination through arson, it was Texas, not Johnson, who committed an offense against the flag... https://www.aei.org/publication/flag-burning-and-the-difference-between-speech-and-expression/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=120116
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Stop Bigotry Against Christians in America. Demand Federal Religious Liberty Legislation
by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ Yesterday, Kate Aurthur at BuzzFeed maliciously targeted Chip and Joanna Gaines because they are Bible believing Christians. Aurthur’s article at BuzzFeed attempted to harm them and their television success because the church they attend supports real marriage... which BuzzFeed’s editorial policy decries as bigotry. Over the past several years, the gay mafia has specifically targeted Christian small businesses for harassment. Christian florists, bakers, photographers, t-shirt printers, pizza restauranteurs etc. have seen gay activists come into their businesses, made demands they gay activists knew would put these Christians in conflict with their religious beliefs, then turned to various state governments to punish those Christians who refused to violate their faith. It is a recurring pattern and the activists are now less and less likely to even deny they are intentionally targeting Christians...
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Only 4 states can stop vote fraud
by Leo Hohmann
by Leo Hohmann
{wnd.com} ~ The raging debate about voter fraud has been hijacked by the left, says a leading expert on the issue, and the left is driving the narrative in a false direction using slick deception... The question is: What will President-elect Donald Trump do about it? When people think about “voter fraud,” they tend to think about the dead voting, people voting in multiple precincts or party machines paying homeless people to cast ballots. While those are all legitimate concerns, the mass fraud happens long before the vote is cast – at the point of registration – says Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and co-author of the book, “Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk.”...
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Cheap shots, Russian hackers and fake news
by Erik Rush
{wnd.com} ~ At the risk of waxing redundant, I would like to suggest that all of my fellow citizens who put time, effort and sundry mental and emotional energies into preventing a liar-Hillary Clinton presidency take note of some of the recent top news stories in the context of November’s general election. This is in part because these factors drive home the character of the political left; they also illustrate the footing upon which the American left has found themselves (or believe they have found themselves) since the election. The latter can be used as a tactical advantage, so to speak, for our side moving forward.
In my Nov. 16 column, I covered the mental indolence and emotional dysfunction attendant to the left’s reaction to the election of Donald Trump to the office of president. In my column of Nov. 23, I warned that we ought not be surprised at anything our political adversaries do strategically (such as their strategy is) in reaction to that outcome between now and January.
In one instance, I suggested that the rash of cop killings we’d seen in the weeks following the election might be in direct response to the election, whether these were the work of disgruntled lone wolves or the subtle handiwork of shadowy organizers (perhaps even community organizers) seeking to flex their muscle even as they were being escorted from the ring, beaten and bloodied.
How interesting it is, then, that on the heels of my cautionary words, we are now being advised that there was a “massive surge” in the number of illegal border crossings in the months leading up to the November election, with 46,195 illegal aliens apprehended along the our border with Mexico in October alone, rivaling June 2014 – the period when 57,862 were apprehended during the infamous Unaccompanied Alien Children tsunami. As WND readers know, the latter was handily orchestrated by the liar-nObama administration, although they and the press characterized it as spontaneous. Please note that the October 2016 figure represents apprehended illegal border crossers only; we obviously have no data on those who successfully got through, or who among them might present a clear and present danger to our national security.
Then, we have the feeble but very high-profile efforts on the part of liar-Hillary Clinton supporters who contend that Trump’s election was not legitimate. The suggestion that the election was compromised to favor Trump by Russian hackers operating out of the basement of the Kremlin is a patently embarrassing one, but it obviously has not been discredited by the establishment press. Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential nominee, who is in all likelihood acting as a surrogate for the liar-Clinton campaign as to avoid making them appear sore losers, is spearheading the effort to force election recounts in Wisconsin and other states. While it is unlikely that Stein and her compatriots actually believe their labors will result in a different outcome, engendering widespread ambivalence and resentment would probably be sufficient for them given the manner in which the left operates.
The new “fake news” boogeyman is another creation of these embattled losers. In capitalizing on an obscure blog and running with the theme, the left is hoping to encourage mainstream news consumers that it is only left-anointed, ideologically kindred news sources that can be trusted to inform them of “The Truth.” Widely discrediting the alternative media sources, blogs and social media outlets from which increasing numbers of Americans are now getting their news could, in theory, accomplish this.
A desperate ploy to be sure, but consider with whom we’re dealing and the fact that they are quite off balance right now.
Lastly, reaction to the passing of Cuba’s communist dictator Fidel Castro has been a great litmus test for those who are wholly in the tank for socialism. In my view, anyone who believes that this man was anything other than a thug and serial murderer should be on a watch list of dangerous American subversives. Characterizing Castro as a “great revolutionary leader” not only reveals such individuals as, well, dangerous subversives, but is a slap in the face to all who have sacrificed, fought and died in the struggle against communism. The left has been lionizing and propagandizing Castro for decades, so it stands to reason that they would wish to use his death to enhance their brand in the face of the populist backlash against socialism in America and other Western nations.
If we are going to continue dialing back the progress the left has made over the last hundred years, we have far more work to do than electing a president who has the potential to be transformational (even if his bona fides do not pass conservatives’ muster). If those Americans who voted for Trump wish to be effective in regaining that which they have lost and in preserving their liberties and mundane comforts in the long term, then they must be made viscerally aware that this is one in the same with stultifying the momentum of the political left once and for all.
In my Nov. 16 column, I covered the mental indolence and emotional dysfunction attendant to the left’s reaction to the election of Donald Trump to the office of president. In my column of Nov. 23, I warned that we ought not be surprised at anything our political adversaries do strategically (such as their strategy is) in reaction to that outcome between now and January.
In one instance, I suggested that the rash of cop killings we’d seen in the weeks following the election might be in direct response to the election, whether these were the work of disgruntled lone wolves or the subtle handiwork of shadowy organizers (perhaps even community organizers) seeking to flex their muscle even as they were being escorted from the ring, beaten and bloodied.
How interesting it is, then, that on the heels of my cautionary words, we are now being advised that there was a “massive surge” in the number of illegal border crossings in the months leading up to the November election, with 46,195 illegal aliens apprehended along the our border with Mexico in October alone, rivaling June 2014 – the period when 57,862 were apprehended during the infamous Unaccompanied Alien Children tsunami. As WND readers know, the latter was handily orchestrated by the liar-nObama administration, although they and the press characterized it as spontaneous. Please note that the October 2016 figure represents apprehended illegal border crossers only; we obviously have no data on those who successfully got through, or who among them might present a clear and present danger to our national security.
Then, we have the feeble but very high-profile efforts on the part of liar-Hillary Clinton supporters who contend that Trump’s election was not legitimate. The suggestion that the election was compromised to favor Trump by Russian hackers operating out of the basement of the Kremlin is a patently embarrassing one, but it obviously has not been discredited by the establishment press. Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential nominee, who is in all likelihood acting as a surrogate for the liar-Clinton campaign as to avoid making them appear sore losers, is spearheading the effort to force election recounts in Wisconsin and other states. While it is unlikely that Stein and her compatriots actually believe their labors will result in a different outcome, engendering widespread ambivalence and resentment would probably be sufficient for them given the manner in which the left operates.
The new “fake news” boogeyman is another creation of these embattled losers. In capitalizing on an obscure blog and running with the theme, the left is hoping to encourage mainstream news consumers that it is only left-anointed, ideologically kindred news sources that can be trusted to inform them of “The Truth.” Widely discrediting the alternative media sources, blogs and social media outlets from which increasing numbers of Americans are now getting their news could, in theory, accomplish this.
A desperate ploy to be sure, but consider with whom we’re dealing and the fact that they are quite off balance right now.
Lastly, reaction to the passing of Cuba’s communist dictator Fidel Castro has been a great litmus test for those who are wholly in the tank for socialism. In my view, anyone who believes that this man was anything other than a thug and serial murderer should be on a watch list of dangerous American subversives. Characterizing Castro as a “great revolutionary leader” not only reveals such individuals as, well, dangerous subversives, but is a slap in the face to all who have sacrificed, fought and died in the struggle against communism. The left has been lionizing and propagandizing Castro for decades, so it stands to reason that they would wish to use his death to enhance their brand in the face of the populist backlash against socialism in America and other Western nations.
If we are going to continue dialing back the progress the left has made over the last hundred years, we have far more work to do than electing a president who has the potential to be transformational (even if his bona fides do not pass conservatives’ muster). If those Americans who voted for Trump wish to be effective in regaining that which they have lost and in preserving their liberties and mundane comforts in the long term, then they must be made viscerally aware that this is one in the same with stultifying the momentum of the political left once and for all.
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