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How to Find a Good Leader
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by Peggy Noonan  
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Wednesday Top Headlines
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by Media Editors:  Trump’s “big victory” diminished as Democrats pick up more wins (The Washington Times)
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Judge orders recount in Florida’s Palm Beach County extended to Nov. 20 (The Hill)
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Federal judge delays certification of Georgia election results, citing concerns over provisional ballots (The Washington Post)
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Good news: Only 61% of Democrats think the GOP is racist (The Resurgent)
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Caravan migrants reach Tijuana, begin climbing the border fence (Washington Examiner)
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President Trump announces Brett Kavanaugh’s replacement on the U.S. Court of Appeals (Townhall)
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Appointment of acting attorney general challenged in court (Associated Press)
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Justice Department defends Whitaker appointment (NBC News)
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New dirty cop-Mueller indictments expected soon (Bloomberg)
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“Reinsurance” scumbag/liar-nObamaCare fix wins bipartisan support in Senate (The Washington Times)
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Hate crimes reported to FBI jumped 17% in 2017 (Washington Examiner)
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Women’s March movement under fire again for anti-Semitism (CNS News)
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School punishes male teacher for refusing to watch a naked girl in the boys’ locker room (The Federalist)
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No longer just male or female: DC schools to give families a third option with “non-binary” (The Washington Post)
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The UK and EU have agreed on a Brexit text — now May’s cabinet puts it to the test (Bloomberg)
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Humor: scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton receives large cash advance for “What Happened 2” ahead of 2020 presidential run (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Trump is right: Poor land management is leading to bigger California wildfires (The Daily Signal)
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Policy: The path forward on health reform for conservatives (The Daily Signal)  
 
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dirty cop-Mueller Grand Jury Witness Accuses scumbag/liar-Clinton-Linked Prosecutor Of Conflict Of Interest  
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by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ An attorney who appeared as a witness before the dirty cop-Mueller grand jury is accusing the special counsel’s office of a conflict of interest... because one of the prosecutors involved in the special counsel’s case has worked for scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and the sumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation. The prosecutor, Jeannie Rhee, has questioned witnesses about Roger Stone, the Trump confidant who is one of the targets of the investigation, numerous sources tell The Daily Caller News Foundation. Rhee questioned Tyler Nixon, an attorney for Stone, just before his grand jury appearance on Nov. 2. “Rhee’s involvement was not disclosed to me prior to my testimony, and I find this to be deeply troubling and certainly Ms. Rhee should be recused or removed from the investigation,” Nixon told TheDCNF. Recusals related to special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s probe became an issue after the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general on Nov. 7...
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Mark Levin Has Some Thoughts About 
CNN's Lawsuit Against the White House
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{townhall.com} ~ Constitutional attorney and conservative radio host Mark Levin is weighing in on CNN's lawsuit against the White House... CNN filed the lawsuit today on behalf of correspondent Jim Acosta. His press credentials were pulled last week after he got into a physical altercation with a White House intern over a microphone. "I just read CNN's lawsuit against the administration over Jim Acosta. It's a very weak case, but if they get before an scumbag/liar-nObama or scumbag/liar-Clinton district judge, who knows. CNN hired Ted Olson's firm, and he has signed onto the lawsuit. Olson was hired for a few reasons: 1. As a former Reagan official and lawyer for Bush in Bush-scumbag-Gore, CNN hopes to make the PR case that this a bipartisan matter; 2. CNN hopes to make the PR case that it is upholding the Constitution against a rogue administration; and, 3. CNN has employed a top Supreme Court litigator," Levin posted to his Facebook page Monday. "Nonetheless, it is a ridiculous suit. CNN still has reporters at the White House and in the presidential press conferences; Acosta does not have a constitutional right to be physically present in the press room, anymore than the scores of media outlets that do not; Acosta can watch the press conference from outside the White House grounds as they are televised; the president cannot be compelled by any court to actually call on any particular reporter during a press conference," he continued. "Acosta does not have a constitutional right to disrupt the press conference with his various antics anymore than any other reporter; and, a president is not constitutionally compelled to hold a presidential press conference. The courts should stay out of this on separation of powers grounds, among other things. No one is preventing Acosta from reporting or CNN from broadcasting."...    
Kelly Sees ‘Concerted Effort’ To Oust Him 
As Nielsen Likely Headed For Exit  
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by Saagar Enjeti
{dailycaller.com} ~ Reports of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s impending departure are a concerted effort to oust him... multiple sources close to the chief of staff tell The Daily Caller. These sources tell TheDC the effort is part of a broader conflict over whether President Donald Trump relieves  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen of her job. These sources speculate Nielsen’s departure is highly likely in the coming weeks. Kelly currently “has no plans to leave” and believes there “are a group of people” undertaking a “concerted effort to oust him,” a source close to Kelly told TheDC. The source stressed that Kelly sees his role as keeping the trains running on time throughout the U.S. government and that the White House would descend into chaos without him. Kelly is currently attempting to save Nielsen’s job, a protege he believes is being unfairly targeted by the president. Trump currently plans to ask Nielsen for her resignation as DHS secretary, an official familiar with the president’s thinking told TheDC. A representative for Kelly did not respond to a request for comment and the White House press office also did not respond. Numerous media stories surfaced Tuesday  speculating on Kelly’s possible imminent departure...
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Legislation to “Protect” Mueller Is Unconstitutional
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by Steve Byas
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Appearing on CBS News’ Face the Nation program, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), fresh off a reelection victory over far-left Democrat socialist-Beto O’Rourke... asserted that legislation being proposed to “protect” Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller would be unconstitutional. Senator rino-Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), and Senator Chris Coons (D-Conn.) are sponsoring legislation designed to protect dirty cop-Mueller from restrictions on his seemingly never-ending probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. rino-Flake has publicly sparred with President Donald Trump, causing his approval ratings in Arizona to deteriorate so much that he chose not to run for reelection. rino-Flake was also a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and waffled on the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, before finally supporting him. Cruz and Trump were bitter rivals for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, but their differences appear to have been patched up. Cruz has supported almost all of Trump’s agenda, and the president even headed up a rally in Cruz’s senatorial reelection campaign. Cruz is certainly in Trump’s corner on the long-running dirty cop-Mueller investigation. “We had a bill come through the Judiciary Committee that tried to make it impossible for a special counsel to be removed,” Cruz said. “I believe that legislation was unconstitutional, that it was inconsistent with Article II of the Constitution.”...This show us that representatives need to bush up the constitution.
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Arizona GOP formally requests documents on 
scumbag-George Soros’ involvement in state’s elections
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{patriotnewsalerts.com} ~ The recent domination by Democrats in elections in Arizona has the GOP concerned scumbag-Soros may be doing a bit more than the law allows... As such, attorneys for the GOP have asked for all records pertaining to  scumbag-George Soros and Tom Steyer regarding communications with Recorder Fontes and/or Recorder’s office personnel. These documents are to include emails, memos, voicemail documentation, text messages, and calendar entries.The GOP’s letter requesting the records was sent on Saturday. According to the filing, the party expects this documentation to be turned over immediately, starting on Monday, and then on a rolling basis until all communications are handed over.n If scumbag-Soros and Steyer are found to have acted inappropriately, it could finally spell the end of scumbag-Soros.
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How to Find a Good Leader
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by Peggy Noonan

{peggynoonan.com} ~ We’re going to the polls and looking for leaders. What do we want? What a voter told Bret Baier a week ago, live from the campaign trail: someone she can cheer for. She was such an American, half hopeful, half wistful.

When people have real leaders, there’s a feeling of security: Somebody reliable is in charge. When a majority don’t feel that, there’s a sense of unrest, of jitteriness that filters out and down. America’s never at full peace, it’s not our style, but there’s a greater sense of soundness, and less frantic scrolling down for the latest horror, when you feel there are solid folk in office.

There are suddenly a lot of new books on leadership. I asked Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of the easygoing yet scholarly “Leadership: In Turbulent Times,” why. “Because we feel the absence of leadership now, not only in the president but in the Congress—the inability to get together and get things done.” When you lack something, you try to define exactly what it is so you can find it. We feel “a yearning for togetherness” and wonder which political figures might help set the nation in a common direction.

Ms. Goodwin asks questions in her book—“Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership?”—and suggests answers through profiles of leaders under duress. She focuses on personal qualities. Leaders assume responsibility for pivotal decisions, transcend personal vendettas, try all paths to compromise. She tells me a good leader has “an ambition for self that becomes an ambition for something larger.” Leaders remind us we’re citizens, “part of the American story,” not merely anxious spectators. “In every moment of our turbulent times it wasn’t just the leader who was present, it was the American people.”

In his magisterial new “Presidents of War,” Michael Beschloss notes that since the founding, presidents “have taken the American people into major wars roughly once in a generation.” They have too often “seized for themselves the power to launch large conflicts, almost on their own authority.” The founders would be “astonished and chagrined” that the “life or death of much of the human race has now come to depend on the character of the single person who happens to be the President.”

Mr. Beschloss tells me his thoughts go to the qualities of leadership that Americans should demand when choosing candidates for that office: probity, judgment and “towering empathy” for those Americans who fight and endure our wars. “Lincoln demanded that a new military cemetery be located where he could often see it, so that he would be painfully confronted with the terrible results of the decisions he was making.”

I add these thoughts on political leadership (and “he” includes “she”):

A leader is someone who first of all means it, and you can tell. He sincerely holds the views he espouses: He is serious. Advancing them is his project and purpose.

The ideas he stands for are not merely policy points on an issues matrix. They are held together by a central overarching intention. The new nation called America will survive and thrive while holding to its liberties. The Union must hold. The Cold War will be won, and we will win it. The intention springs from a general but discernible political philosophy.

Politicians who can’t turn the dots into a picture are not artists but failed pointillists. They don’t present a full picture. In the end it’s all just dots. No one ever voted for long for a dot.

Great leaders are capable of arguing for the things they believe in. They can make the case. They can make you think along with them, logically, from point A to point B and beyond. Their words aren’t emotional, as politicians’ tend to be now in an attempt to make a sated audience feel something. And also because they’re confused about what eloquence is; they think it means fancy. When leaders rely on logic and fact, voters do feel something: gratitude at the implied respect, and a feeling of warmth at membership in a community of thought and belief.

Eloquence in political leaders is desirable but not necessary. Too much is made of it even as the real thing disappears. It’s good if you can make the case in a way that is memorable, and that voters can hold in their heads. FDR and Reagan were great and eloquent. But Dwight Eisenhower led American forces through World War II, managed the early days of the Cold War, and built the interstate highway system. Yet listening to him talk was like making your way through children pillow fighting—lots of noise but nothing that made an impression. His actions were eloquent.

Good leaders live in the real world. They don’t insist on grand ideologies they can squish down on your heads. They know the facts and work within them. They respect reality.

A leader is aware he is the object of many eyes. This puts a responsibility on him to act in a certain way—with respect for his own dignity and yours. Even if he’s not in the mood, he must uphold standards of presentation. Children are watching and taking cues. That means the future is watching.

A leader isn’t just trying to survive for himself, to hold on to power. Yet a leader tries always to survive. Good leaders aresurvivors: That’s part of how they show loyalty to what they stand for, by being there to stand for it. How to survive? Shift strategies and tactics but not principles. And admit when you’re wrong, in part because it’s refreshing. Politicians so rarely do it.

A serious leader bothers to have command of the facts. Leadership isn’t all airy impulses, it’s knowing local and national facts because you’ve studied and absorbed them. You did the work.

A good leader knows the difference between stubbornness and perseverance. When you’re afraid to look like you backed down, to yourself or others, it’s stubbornness. When you’re willing to pay a price for where you stand, every day, it’s perseverance.

A shrewd leader knows what time it is. He watches each side and sees what tendency is coming up, and going down. In that movement he spies openings. A politician fully alive to signs and signals would have seen the meaning, in 2010, of the town hall uprising’s major cry: “Keep your government hands off my Medicare!” The media found it hilarious: these stupid Republicans hate scumbag/liar-nObamaCare but love their entitlements. Democrats saw it as hypocrisy, Republican professionals as schizophrenia. Few saw it for what it was: a new Republican populism was rising, one fully aligned to big state entitlements people felt they’d earned.

When you, the voter, aren’t presented with candidates who look like real leaders, what do you do? Pick the closest to the ideal. Fall back on the practical. Make do with what you have, which is what we usually do.

Mr. Beschloss, in an email: “Choose a candidate whose values and heart and life experience you feel comfortable with, so that you can feel confident about the vast majority of political decisions they will make, if elected, that you will never hear about.”
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