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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
by Tom McLaughlin
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Top Headlines
As Trump endeavors to stop flow of jobs overseas, liar-nObama proposes deal to make fighter jets in India. (The Washington Post)
liar-nObama administrators at Pentagon bury study exposing $125 billion in bureaucratic waste. (Fox News)
liar-nObama wishes America a Happy Holidays with $44 billion in midnight regulations. (Washington Free Beacon)
UN "Human Rights" Council commemorates murderous dictator Fidel Castro. (CNS News)
Joe loose lips-Biden jokes about a 2020 presidential run. He must be kicking himself for not running this year. (The Wall Street Journal)
Al Gore just had "an extremely interesting conversation" with Trump on climate change — whatever that means. (The Washington Post)
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory concedes election, though the state legislature remains strongly conservative. (Fox News)
Fake news on "settled" science: A widely reported study on the longevity of homosexuals was faked. (National Review)
The murder trial against North Charleston police officer Michael Slager ends in a mistrial. But the case isn't over. (ABC News)
Policy: Five things Ben Carson can do right away to improve public housing and reduce government dependency. (City Journal)
Policy: Fracking-contaminated groundwater: The myth that failed. (Real Clear Energy) ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/digests/46294
https://patriotpost.us/digests/46294
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Thomas Sowell: "Something as personal as what doctor we want to go to has been taken out of our hands by liar-nObamaCare. What job offer, at what pay rate, someone wants to accept has been taken out of their hands by minimum wage laws. Sick people who are dying are prevented from trying a medication that has not yet completed all the long years of tests required by federal regulations — even if the medication has been used for years in other countries without ill effects. One by one, innumerable decisions have been taken out of the hands of those directly affected. This is not just something that has happened. It is a central part of the agenda of the political left, even though they describe what they are doing in terms of the bad things they claim to be preventing and the good things they claim to be creating. ... In short, the left has been gambling with other people's livelihoods — and the left pays no price when that gamble fails." ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/digests/46294
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Thomas Sowell: "Something as personal as what doctor we want to go to has been taken out of our hands by liar-nObamaCare. What job offer, at what pay rate, someone wants to accept has been taken out of their hands by minimum wage laws. Sick people who are dying are prevented from trying a medication that has not yet completed all the long years of tests required by federal regulations — even if the medication has been used for years in other countries without ill effects. One by one, innumerable decisions have been taken out of the hands of those directly affected. This is not just something that has happened. It is a central part of the agenda of the political left, even though they describe what they are doing in terms of the bad things they claim to be preventing and the good things they claim to be creating. ... In short, the left has been gambling with other people's livelihoods — and the left pays no price when that gamble fails." ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/digests/46294
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BDS activist stopped at Ben-Gurion Airport
by Uzi Baruch
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Dr. Isabel Phiri, Associate General Secretary for the World Council of Churches for Public Witness and Diakonia, serving the poor and oppressed, was blocked on Monday from entering Israel after landing at Ben-Gurion Airport with a tourist visa... The World Council of Churches (WCC) established several highly biased and politicized groups including the Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), which brings activists to Israel to gather images and stories of Israeli Jews oppressing Palestinians. Through various organizations and campaigns, the WCC promotes BDS and demonizes Israel for its “apartheid,” “collective punishment,” “war crimes” against Palestinians, and “illegal occupation of Palestinian lands.” After consultations between the Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, the Immigration Authority, and the Strategic Affairs Ministry, Deri decided to refuse entry to Phiri... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/221311
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The ADL's new bedfellows
by CAROLINE GLICK
by CAROLINE GLICK
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ In an interview this week with the Australian media, Jordan's King Abdullah became the latest Arab leader to express hope that President-elect Donald Trump and his team will lead the world's to date failed fight against jihadist Islam... Like his counterparts in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Abdullah effectively ruled out the possibility that President Barack liar-nObama will take any constructive steps to defeat the forces of global jihad in his last months in power. Speaking of the humanitarian disaster in Aleppo for instance, Abdullah said, "I don't think there's much we can do until the new administration is in place and a strategy is formulated." Egyptian President Abdel Fatah a-Sisi was among the first Arab leaders to welcome Trump's victory. Sisi has been largely shunned by the liar-nObama administration. President Barack liar-nObama supported the Muslim Brotherhood regime that Sisi and the Egyptian military overthrew in 2013... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-adls-new-bedfellows?f=must_reads
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{newsbusters.org} ~ The liberal media was still up in arms Monday night over President-Elect Donald Trump accepting a congratulatory phone call from the president of the island of Taiwan... “Already, Trump has caused quite a stir on the world stage,” whined ABC’s Jon Karl on World News Tonight, “Ruffling China’s feathers by talking to the president Taiwan.” While chastising the president-elect for his phone call and selected defense tweets, they failed to mention the nearly two billion dollars in arms sales to Taiwan under President Barack liar-nObama. The ABC reporter complained that Trump was not seeking advice from the current administration on how to deal with foreign countries. “And Trump has held many other calls with foreign leaders, but none of them with experts who could brief him on sensitive diplomacy,” Karl stated, “The current secretary of state all but begging Trump to hear them out.”... http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2016/12/05/abc-nbc-knock-trump-taiwan-call-ignore-weapon-sales-under?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWTJFM1pERmpOamM0WkRReiIsInQiOiJwMjI3SXdsTFQ2ekg0emo3UE1oNGR2N2VlaGxPRnpMelpUN3B4UFBiU1pZMElhQ0dLZDV0b2xsakV3WDdNNFp5OStTTkgyQ1wvRUZsQytudHpXUU1KaHd0VHNUYzArcVNiNGNVNzNtZkpjZ2c9In0%3D
VIDEO: http://www.mrctv.org/videos/abc-nbc-ignore-billions-dollars-us-weapon-sales-taiwan-under-obama
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Dobbs – Bills To Stop Refugee Programs
Stalled By Ryan, Trump Is Coming
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Rep Brian Babin (R-TX) has two bills that he’s trying to get passed through the House, an effort that has been ongoing for him for about a year and a half. Both deal with the problems of an easily exploited “refugee” program that is designed to fail and putting Americans at great risk... Rep Babin says, “We cannot afford to be so willfully blind and wind up in the same situation that Western Europe is in. One of the bills puts an immediate stop to the refugee program completely until Congress can reclaim the responsibility. The second version stops the program from the radical terrorist hotspots the other pauses refugees from terrorist nations. Babin provides a lot of details but Lou Dobbs one question Rep Babin can’t provide an answer to. He asks, “What I don’t understand and what I’m asking is, why in the world won’t Ryan get behind it?” Rep Babin says he’s been acting as a surrogate speaker for President-elect Trump and once he comes into power, expects this “refugee” issue to have a pile-driver behind it...
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Why Was Al Gore Peddling His Climate
Hoax To Trump And Ivanka?
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ On the surface this is not good news. It is being reported, albeit by MSNBC, but by other MSM outlets as well, that Al Gore, the most dishonest scam artist this side of George Soros and Hussein liar-nObama, spent an hour and a half trying to convince President-elect Trump to buy into his climate hoax... Worse yet, Trump’s daughter Ivanka supposedly has a desire to make imposing this garbage on the people of America and the world “one of her signature issues in the next four years.” The fact that he was making a sales call does not necessarily mean we are standing up to our knees in dark green doo-doo, but that is a long time to spend on something that is so clearly a scam. While there’s no denying Gore was in the building and there were folks tracking how much time he spent upstairs, he may not have been as convincing as he thinks he was in peddling his load of crap. According to the reporter, Gore wants to make the argument that going green is good for business... http://rickwells.us/why-al-gore-peddling-climate-hoax-trump-ivanka/
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Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
by Tom McLaughlin
Pope Francis prays at Bethlehem wall. Message?
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~“Too much history, not enough geography.” That was how a veteran of the 1948 Israeli War for Independence described Israel. His name was Dan and he came to our house for dinner about ten years ago in the company of some old friends from San Francisco. My wife and I later toured Israel in May, 2007 and I can attest to Dan’s summation. It doesn't take long to drive the length and breadth of that tiny nation. There’s a definite lack of geography and every bit of it is contested almost constantly. In Jerusalem, it’s not unusual to see Jewish civilians walking around with automatic rifles slung over their shoulders while pushing a baby carriage. They’re in a constant state of war. Israel is located at what has been a crossroads between empires for millennia — throughout recorded history, actually.
Last month, Italian journalist Giulio Meotti wrote a short piece objecting to how the Vatican advertises tours of “Palestine,” or “The Holy Land,” but not tours of “Israel.” It seems the Vatican has as much trouble saying “Israel” as soon-to-be-former President liar-nObama has saying, “Radical Muslim Terrorism.” Israel is a constant victim of radical Muslim terrorism — hence the profusion of AR-15s I saw there — and I’m thinking my church and my president are both refusing to recognize what is quite obvious to anyone visiting Israel.
“Catholic pilgrims spend virtually all their time visiting holy sites in Palestinian-run territory,” wrote Meotti, “staying in Palestinian Arab hotels and listening to Palestinian Arab tour guides. As a result, these pilgrims return filled with hatred towards Israel.”
Bus advertisement in Rome
That reads true because it’s exactly what our tour was like. We had a Palestinian guide and bus driver who were Christians from Bethlehem. In spite of the harassment Palestinian Christians were receiving from Palestinian Muslims, however, our guides were loyal to the Muslim view of things in that troubled land. For example, three times our bus passed the Battle of Hattin site in northern Israel at which Saladin defeated a Crusader army in 1187. Each time, our guide proudly described how Saladin outsmarted the Christians and slaughtered them. I was dismayed, but none of the other Mainers on our tour were disturbed by it.
Notre Dame Guest House in Jerusalem
Our first hotel was the Vatican-owned Notre Dame Guest House just outside the New Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem. Outside it, I could see bullet holes from battles during 1967’s Six-day War during which Israel took control over Jerusalem for the first time since the Revolt of the Maccabees in 164 BC. The entire hotel staff was Palestinian and I was awakened by a Muslim call to prayer broadcast from a minaret just inside the Old City wall.
Inside the Church of The Nativity in Bethlehem
From there, we traveled to nearby Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity — the oldest church in Christendom. Five years before, it had been seized by about Muslim terrorists who held hostages for 39 days, until an agreement allowed them to leave for Gaza. While we were there, Hamas terrorists in Gaza were fighting other terrorists from the Palestinian Authority — Yasser Arafat’s organization. Bethlehem was peaceful when Jesus Christ was born there during the Roman occupation, but it was relatively brief respite.
Your's Truly outside Seven Arches Hotel
Celebrating in East Jerusalem 9/11/01
I was surprised to learn that populations of both Bethlehem and Nazareth are majority Arab Muslim. When I asked why the Palestinian Christian populations of Nazareth and Bethlehem were leaving after 2000 years, both the bus driver and the guide said it was because they were looking for better jobs in America. I knew different, but neither would acknowledge that much of the migration is because of severe Muslim harassment. I saw posters of Yasser Arafat on buildings and each time we passed through an Israeli checkpoint going into and out of the West Bank they complained. Neither, however, would answer my questions about the war then raging between Hamas and the Palestinian authority even though we had to cancel our trip to Hebron’s tomb of Abraham because of it.
Yasser Arafat poster in Bethlehem
Finally, they said we would go to a dinner in Bethlehem at which the police chief and other municipal officials would be present and I could get answers to my questions. The restaurant was right beside the tall, Israeli-built, black wall. As we got in, however, the music was so loud conversation was impossible. Instead, we had to watch a solo dance performance by a Palestinian using his Yasser Arafat keffiyah as a prop. I could go on, but yeah, Meotti got it about right.
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