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Big Personnel Changes Afoot in the White House

by Nate Jackson

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Tuesday Top Headlines

by Media Editors:  Trump, Democrats start border wall negotiations (The Hill)

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Asylum claims at the border soar 67% (The Washington Times)

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Judge rules Trump administration justified in ending scumbag/liar-nObama-era immigration program (Associated Press)

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Survey finds 158 million migrants want to move to the U.S. (Washington Examiner)

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Brett Kavanaugh sides with leftist justices in declining to hear Planned Parenthood defunding case (Washington Examiner)

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2020 Democrat primary: California and Texas look to become the new Iowa and New Hampshire (NBC News)

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Pulosi, rebels discuss limiting her time as speaker to four years (Politico)

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Job openings back over seven million and near a record high (CNBC)

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Small-business optimism dips over fears of an economic slowdown (CNBC)

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Stocks are on track for the worst year in a decade (CNBC)

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Steel industry booming after Trump tariffs (Washington Examiner)

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Trump EPA prepares to roll back scumbag/liar-nObama-era clean water rules (USA Today)

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Budget deficit soars in first two months of fiscal year (The Hill)

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Macron surrenders to “yellow vests” in blow to climate movement: “The government did not listen” (The Washington Times)

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Five missing Marines declared dead in warplanes crash off Japan (Associated Press)

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Judge rules Americans can secretly record public officials (The Washington Times)

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Humor: Heisman winner proves if you work hard and believe in yourself, you too can have journalists try to ruin your life by combing through your old tweets (The Babylon Bee)

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Policy: On gender, the science is deafening (The Daily Signal)

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Policy: When college degrees impede opportunity (Inside Higher Ed)  

 

~The Patriot Post  

https://patriotpost.us/articles/59967?mailing_id=3935&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3935&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Climate Change Alarmism Is the 

World’s Leading Cause of Hot Gas

by David Harsanyi

{dailysignal.com} ~ Even as anti-gas tax riots raged in France this week, naturalist David Attenborough warned a crowd at a United Nations climate change summit in Poland... that “the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.” U.N. General Assembly President Maria Espinosa told the media that “mankind” is “in danger of disappearing” if climate change is allowed to progress at its current rate. Speakers, who flew in to swap doomsday stories, advocated radical changes to avoid this imminent environmental apocalypse. These days, “the point of no return” is almost always in view, yet always just out of reach. Sorry, but by now, this rhetoric is familiar. You can go back to 1970, when Harvard biologist George Wald, riding a wave of popular environmental panic during the decade, estimated, “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” Or you can go back to 1977, when Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s future science “czar,” John Holdren, co-authored a book with Paul R. Ehrlich predicting that global warming could lead to the deaths of 1 billion starving people by 2020. The authors theorized, “Population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution.”...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/12/08/climate-change-alarmism-is-the-worlds-leading-cause-of-hot-gas/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRGbVlUZ3pNR1V3TmpVNSIsInQiOiI3OE5cL09LN3RrS1l4dm5sdXdKN0VtVHlwSGtQY1kxNlNxT2JXbVwvM3Q4SlZndTBlVDBDZDA3amNBWHBmajJZU0VTQStielQyd00wXC9uUWtzaUh4aFwvamdKSzFHSzBKc1dBdVU2WVVjazRXZnkxdHpTTmFsSjc4TjZQZERjWVIrajUifQ%3D%3D

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Ex-communist nation poised to revert to past

by wnd.com  

{wnd.com} ~ The chief of an international religious-liberty organization is warning that lawmakers in Bulgaria are considering legislation reminiscent of the nation’s communist past... Gregor Puppinck, director general of the European Center for Law and Justice, an affiliate of the American Center for Law and Justice, says the bill “would significantly restrict religious freedom and impair the free exercise of Christians in the former communist nation.” Bulgaria was under communist rule and the hegemony of the Soviet Union until the revolutions of 1989. Now, the nation’s three main political parties are working on a plan to amend their Religion Denominations Act. The bill aims to prevent “interference of foreign countries, institutions and persons into religions and religious affairs.” The intent is to restrict the spread of radical Islam, but in its current draft, Puppinck warned, it “imposes heavy restrictions on foreigners to perform religious duties in the country and on donations from outside of Bulgaria.” “This would,” he said, “jeopardize the educational activities, cultural events, volunteer initiatives and medical centers of the non-Orthodox Christian communities...

https://www.wnd.com/2018/12/ex-communist-nation-poised-to-revert-to-past/

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We Hear You: How to ‘Wield the Most 

Effective Weapon Against Tyranny’

by Ken McIntyre

{dailysignal.com} ~ Thanks to The Daily Signal and The Heritage Foundation for presenting articles such as Rob Bluey’s podcast interview with Sebastian Gorka on the threats, both foreign and domestic, to our great country... “Sebastian Gorka on the Biggest Threat Facing America and What Trump Is Doing About It”. I have supported and will continue to support The Heritage Foundation in its efforts to wield the most effective weapon against tyranny—a well-informed electorate through education and protection of basic freedoms of speech, expression, and the press. My dad landed on Red Beach on the Pacific atoll of Iwo Jima as a 19-year-old Marine in February 1945. Though he was wounded twice and survived for 30 days of combat before being medically evacuated, he never talked about his experience until his later days, when he realized the importance of sharing. One day as we sat in the yard swing trying to stay comfortable in the stifling heat of a west central Georgia summer, just out of the blue, he felt compelled to share something with his 25-year-old son that I will never forget. No, it wasn’t specifically about his combat experience. It was about modern-day warfare, the combat we find ourselves locked in today. He said: “Son, the very freedoms I risked my life to defend will slowly disappear in your lifetime.” I had no clue why he said that and what he meant by what he said. He said it most emphatically and with a tone of regret...

https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/12/09/we-hear-you-how-to-wield-the-most-effective-weapon-against-tyranny/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRGbVlUZ3pNR1V3TmpVNSIsInQiOiI3OE5cL09LN3RrS1l4dm5sdXdKN0VtVHlwSGtQY1kxNlNxT2JXbVwvM3Q4SlZndTBlVDBDZDA3amNBWHBmajJZU0VTQStielQyd00wXC9uUWtzaUh4aFwvamdKSzFHSzBKc1dBdVU2WVVjazRXZnkxdHpTTmFsSjc4TjZQZERjWVIrajUifQ%3D%3D

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Fox contributor says dirty cop-Mueller memo shows

he has nothing on Trump: ‘It’s a very, very weak case’

by conservativeinstitute.org  

{conservativeinstitute.org} ~ While many on the left have maintained that President Donald Trump will soon face charges related to his campaign team’s alleged collusion with Russia... which dirty cop-Robert Mueller and his team have been investigating for over a year, conservative pundits have argued that the president has nothing to worry about — and according to one Fox News contributor, recently released reports from the special counsel only support Trump’s innocence. Alan Dershowitz, a lawyer and political analyst, says that dirty cop-Mueller’s Friday sentencing memo on former Trump attorney Michael Cohen doesn’t reveal anything new, meaning that “dirty cop-Mueller has come up with far less than he hoped for.” Speaking on Fox & Friends on Saturday, Dershowitz explained that “the Cohen memo doesn’t reveal anything new about hush money payments to women who allegedly had sexual encounters with Trump,” according to Fox. Cohen first pleaded guilty in August to a number of charges included bank fraud, tax evasion, and campaign finance violations in relation to payments he made ahead of the 2016 election to women who alleged they had sexual affairs with then-candidate Donald Trump. He then “pleaded guilty to an additional charge of lying to Congress” in November about the “timing and extent of talks about a project to build a Trump Tower in Moscow,” according to Vox, a charge he is set to be sentenced for on Wednesday...

https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/conservative-news/mueller-trump-weak-case.htm

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Who Are The Most Powerful People In America?

by Philip Hamburger

{prageru.com} ~ The genius of America is its representative form of government, designed to maximize liberty by holding elected officials accountable... But increasingly, Americans are governed by people who are unelected, unaccountable, and very powerful. Columbia Law Professor Philip Hamburger unmasks who really rules our lives.  https://www.prageru.com/videos/who-are-most-powerful-people-america

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwmUH5AGydQ

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Big Personnel Changes Afoot in the White House

by Nate Jackson:  Any administration faces turnover, especially after elections. President Donald Trump’s White House is no different in that regard. There were three notable changes in recent days: William Barr for attorney general, John Kelly’s pending departure as chief of staff, and Heather Nauert as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

             Though all the media attention is focused on John Kelly, Barr is arguably the most consequential. Barr was the attorney general for the late George H.W. Bush, and he will bring much-needed stability to a position most recently held by Jeff Sessions.
               The elephant in the room is dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Barr and dirty cop-Mueller go way back, as  dirty cop-Mueller served as chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division during Barr’s first tenure as AG. Given Sessions’s recusal from all things Russia, Barr’s active participation — and dirty cop-Mueller once again reporting to him — will be consequential. Barr has questioned dirty cop-Mueller’s loading his team with Democrat donors. He defended Trump for firing dirty cop-Mueller’s pal scumbag-James Comey and former Acting AG Sally Yates, and he noted that scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s shady dealings regarding Uranium One could merit further investigation. All that already makes him a target for Democrat opposition. Yet Barr’s experience and history make him well-suited to restore order at the Justice Department.
               Did we mention he plays the bagpipes? Speaking of restoring order, former Marine Gen. John Kelly did yeoman’s work on that front as Trump’s chief of staff. Finding a suitable and capable replacement isn’t going to be easy.
               Kelly helped maintain better order and discipline in the White House, plugging the frequent leaks that plagued his predecessor and solidly managing processes, meetings, and information. And while no one can completely stem Trump’s worst self-defeating impulses, Kelly made significant headway. That said, he lacked the political instincts Trump wanted in advance of 2020. Still, Mark Alexander says, “Trump best not  berate Gen. Kelly’s honorable service to our nation and his administration with a petulant social media post like his  disgraceful remark last Friday about former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.”
               There is a quote attributed to the late President Ronald Reagan: “Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem.” Indeed, Gen. Kelly doesn’t have that problem. After enlisting during Vietnam, serving the nation as a Marine for more than 40 years, losing a son who gave his life as a Marine in Afghanistan in 2011, and then serving the president for the last two years, the nation owes Kelly an enormous debt of gratitude.
               Finally, Heather Nauert will soon take over for Nikki Haley as UN ambassador, itself a thankless job that involves regularly rebuking tinpot dictators and globalist “allies” at the United Nations while often standing alone for Liberty. Haley was a stalwart defender of American interests and she will be missed. Nauert, a former Fox News journalist, has worked at the State Department for the last two years and reportedly has a strong relationship with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Given that she’s an otherwise largely unknown quantity, we hope at least that unified front will be helpful in extending Haley’s record.  ~The Patriot Post  

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