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Relax Libs: The Third Reich Isn't Coming (Back)
by Bernard Goldberg
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DOJ Levies Fines for Respecting Rule of Law
While Lois Lerner and her acolytes at the Internal Revenue Service got away with unlawfully blocking the tax-free applications of conservative groups — which the agency is still doing, by the way — liar-nObama's Justice Department is busy punishing those who actually take Rule of Law seriously.
The latest example comes from Colorado, where the Denver Sheriff Department was handed
"a $10,000 fine after it required applications for deputy sheriff jobs to be U.S. citizens when hiring from the beginning of 2015 through March 2016," the Washington Examiner says. To remedy the situation, "The department will ... have to go through old applications to find applicants who were eliminated because of their citizenship status and reconsider them for future jobs" and "will also have to train its human resources staff on the Immigration and Nationality Act's anti-discrimination provisions."
This from the administration that selectively enforces immigration law.
Heritage Foundation fellow Hans von Spakovsky outlines the reasons the statute likely isn't applicable in this case. Also, don't miss the irony here. The IRS, to name just one example, spent years circumventing the law in order to subjugate Tea Party groups. But when it comes to the DOJ, its behavior is hardly different; the agency is selectively enforcing rules based entirely on whether it benefits the Left. Spakovsky writes, "Given the importance of the job done by law enforcement officers throughout all levels of government to protect the public from those who would harm them ... requiring citizenship seems like a basic, commonsense qualification."
"The federal government certainly thinks so," he adds, "because it does not apply this statute to itself. If you want to be a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which often works closely with local law enforcement, including sheriff's departments like Denver's, the FBI website specifically says that you 'must be a United States citizen.' The same is true of the U.S. Secret Service, which routinely discriminates against noncitizens in a manner that no doubt horrifies the DOJ's Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices." You know what else requires U.S. citizenship? You guessed it — the DOJ.
Federal agencies are hardly immune to corruption. They never have been. But when the Justice Department bends the rules — for example, by refusing to prosecute IRS bureaucrats and by enforcing rules from which it exempts itself — the administration can hardly be considered "the most transparent in history." It's a fast track to tyranny. ~The Patriot Post
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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's choice of Tom Price at HHS signals the end for liar-nObamaCare. Price led the GOP's effort for an alternative plan. (Wall Street Journal)
Despite accolades for the Communist Dictator, liar-nObama and loose lips-Biden are skipping Fidel's funeral, but we're sure they'll hold a private mourning ceremony. (Hot Air)
On behalf of liar-Hillary Clinton, Green Party candidate Jill Stein pursued a recount in Pennsylvania in addition to the recount in Wisconsin. PA officials say she missed the deadline there, but we're pretty sure she still lost. (Washington Examiner)
It turns out that more than 800,000 "noncitizens" may have voted in the 2016 election, but Democrats assure us there's no need to be concerned about voter fraud or lack of voter IDs. (Daily Signal)
The U.S. will fall short of ethanol and biofuel targets mandated under the Renewable Fuel Standards boondoggle. (Washington Times)
South Korea's president offers to resign amidst pay-to-play corruption scandal, while liar-Hillary Clinton is contesting her election loss after her own pay-to-play corruption scandal. (Washington Post)
Good news: Faithful thinking is good for your brain. Is the science settled? (CNN)
~The Patriot Post
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Federal Fumbles Report Exposes Wasteful
(Okay Stupid) Federal Programs
by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ On Monday, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK ) released Federal Fumbles a football-themed report detailing and ridiculing stupid and wasteful federal agency spending... ranging from a study of medieval smells to $19.1 billion in improper Medicaid payments. This annual compilation used to be published by Sen. Tom Coburn, but with Coburn’s retirement the responsibility has fallen to Lankford. Lankford’s staff searched inspectors general and Government Accountability Office reports to come up with a total in $247 billion in “waste” from 84 spending and 16 regulations fumbles. Lankford, who serves on the Appropriations and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs panels, added the snarky photos and rhetoric to mocking the outlandish grants and outdated federal practices... http://lidblog.com/federal-fumbles-report-wasteful-spending/
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A Great American Secretary of State
John Bolton
by SECURE FREEDOM MINUTE
by SECURE FREEDOM MINUTE
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Donald Trump has begun fleshing out his Cabinet and has made a series of tough choices that will not only help determine his success, but the future of the country. So far, so good... One candidate for Secretary of State stands out as singularly capable of helping President Trump make America great again: former UN Ambassador John Bolton. He is an experienced and principled public servant and diplomat - a brilliant advocate for freedom, with a proven record of putting America first as it leads the world. John Bolton also knows how to compel the State Department bureaucracy to carry out presidential direction. Absent that, its denizens will sabotage Mr. Trump at every turn...
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The 'Big Lie' Is Back
by FRANK J. GAFFNEY, JR.
by FRANK J. GAFFNEY, JR.
{familysecuritymatters.orgI} ~ In 2011, then-Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton promised the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to use "some old fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming" against those whose exercise of free speech "we abhor."... At the time, she had in mind specifically perpetrators of what the OIC, the Muslim Brotherhood, other Islamic supremacists and their enablers on the Left call "defamation of Islam." But the same playbook - in the tradition of Mrs. liar-Clinton's mentor, Saul Alinsky - is now being followed with a vengeance against what is abhorred by the cabal best described as the Red-Green Axis. Much in evidence among such "old-fashioned techniques" now being employed is what's known as "the Big Lie." It entails the endless repetition of outrageous falsehoods to defame, and ultimately silence, one's political opponents...
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WIKILEAKS IS BACK! And liar-Hillary
Will NOT Like This …
{clashdaily.com} ~ liar-Hillary had a REALLY bleak ‘Black Friday’ when WikiLeaks released these NEW documents. And so did her successor, John hanoi-Kerry... WikiLeaks has obtained leaked documents from the US Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen. These have been released in the ‘Yemen Files’ on the WikiLeaks website. The leaked documents span 2009 to 2015, covering liar-Hillary Clinton’s term as Secretary of State and the first 2 years of John hanoi-Kerry filling the role. Contained in the documents are details that the US government had armed and funded forces in Yemen prior to the Yemeni civil war. Yemen holds a strategic position in the Middle East, of great interest to Saudi Arabia. The Saudis would like to control a port in Yemen to ensure shipment of its oil... http://clashdaily.com/2016/11/wikileaks-back-hillary-will-not-like/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=229418&utm_keyword=major1&utm_content=9835110&utm_source=Email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:9835110&utm_campaign=Jill%20Stein%20Is%20A%20COMPLETE%20Idiot%20%E2%80%93%20SHARE%20If%20You%20Agree
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liar-Clinton Supporters' Threats
to Electors Are Escalating
by Raven Clabough
{thenewamerican.com} ~ The “tolerant” Left continues to flail in the weeks following the presidential election. liar-Clinton supporters have already made headlines over their petulant and in some cases violent reactions to the election results... but after their kicking and screaming has failed to make any change, they’ve resorted to bullying and threats. According to WND.com, disgruntled individuals and groups have reached out to Electoral College voters not only to persuade them to switch their votes to liar-Hillary Clinton, but also to threaten them with violence if they refuse. The Electoral College will convene on December 19 so that the electors can cast their votes for Trump or liar-Clinton, and all electors have pledged to vote for the candidate elected by their state. But liar-Clinton’s supporters are reaching out to the electors in states wherein it is not illegal for electors to change their votes. WND writes, “If liar-Clinton’s supporters can get enough of the 163 electors from states where Trump both won and votes can legally be switched on Dec. 19, liar-Hillary Clinton becomes the next president of the United States.”...Of course that won't happen.
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Relax Libs: The Third Reich Isn't Coming (Back)
by Bernard Goldberg
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Perhaps you've noticed that some of the most illiberal people in America these days ... are liberals.
Liberals are the ones who pride themselves on being open-minded. But who are the ones on college campuses stifling speech they don't like? It's not conservative students. In 1944, college aged men were storming the beach at Normandy. Today, more than a few liberal cupcakes on campus are demanding "safe spaces" and "cry rooms" to protect them from the bogeyman who we just elected president, and more broadly from any scary idea that doesn't conform to their own.
And hasn't it been liberals who say they don't want to be lectured about morality, especially if it's by a bunch of smug conservatives? But it was smug liberals who rudely lectured the vice-president elect from a Broadway stage recently about how he and Donald Trump should behave when they take office.
And it was liberals who warned us that undemocratic right-wingers would never accept the election results if Trump lost. But it's undemocratic left-wingers who took to the streets to protest Trump's election, sometimes violently. And it's desperate liberals who are trying to overturn the election results by demanding useless recounts in several states Trump won. And it's liberals who are playing with fire, trying to convince Electoral College electors to reject Trump even if that’s who voters in their states picked –and vote for liar-Hillary instead; anything, including reported death threats against electors, to deny him the presidency.
Liberals claim to abhor anything even vaguely resembling a violation of human rights. But it's liberals this week - not all, of course, but more than a few prominent ones - who are shedding tears over the death of that great man, Fidel Castro, who like all dictators didn't tolerate freedom of speech or the press, whose autocratic regime wouldn't allow even peaceful protests, who tortured and murdered many of those who wouldn't fall into line. “In many ways, after 1959 [when Castro took power], the oppressed the world over joined Castro’s cause of fighting for freedom and liberation-he changed the world, RIP.” Thank you, Jesse Jackson.
At least that wasn't as bad as the liberal prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, who said he had "deep sorrow" for "the loss of this remarkable leader ...who served his people for almost half a century.”
The real problem with liberal elites is that they don't think America is good enough - for them. I recently spoke to a liberal news reporter who, I got the impression, couldn't so much as conceive of the idea that millions of good, decent people voted for Donald Trump. This journalist wanted to talk about all the bigots Trump had in his corner.
He certainly had some, I acknowledged, but I wanted to know what percentage of Trump's vote did he think came from "deplorables' - was it more or less than liar-Hillary Clinton's 50 percent? He wouldn't commit to a number, but I got the impression it was more - a lot more.
He was also appalled that Trump supporters wanted the president-elect to fulfill his campaign promise to build a wall along the Mexican border. I told him the reason was both simple and benign: They were against illegal immigrants sneaking into this country. He had a different theory: Trump supporters didn't want people here who don't look (white) like them.
It's interesting that liberals are the ones who tell us they care about the little guy. But a lot of little guys in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Michigan chose Donald Trump over liar-Hillary Clinton. Don't those little guys count as far as the sophisticated liberal elite is concerned.
The problem is that too many liberals have forgotten how to be liberal, the essence of which is to keep an open mind, to consider what the other side is saying before you cavalierly label them as bigots.
Instead, they're too busy warning us that the Third Reich is coming.
William F. Buckley got it right most of the time, including the time he said that, "Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."
A little humility wouldn't hurt right about now. I was never a fan of Donald J. Trump or liar-Hillary Clinton, but I'm willing to see what kind of president he will be. Illiberal liberals might want to take a break from their non-stop disgust with the president-elect, with their holier-than-thou umbrage that never seems to end - and instead close their mouths and open their ears, and try to understand why he won, without conveniently blaming it on their horrible racist, sexist, xenophobic fellow Americans.
Liberals are the ones who pride themselves on being open-minded. But who are the ones on college campuses stifling speech they don't like? It's not conservative students. In 1944, college aged men were storming the beach at Normandy. Today, more than a few liberal cupcakes on campus are demanding "safe spaces" and "cry rooms" to protect them from the bogeyman who we just elected president, and more broadly from any scary idea that doesn't conform to their own.
And hasn't it been liberals who say they don't want to be lectured about morality, especially if it's by a bunch of smug conservatives? But it was smug liberals who rudely lectured the vice-president elect from a Broadway stage recently about how he and Donald Trump should behave when they take office.
And it was liberals who warned us that undemocratic right-wingers would never accept the election results if Trump lost. But it's undemocratic left-wingers who took to the streets to protest Trump's election, sometimes violently. And it's desperate liberals who are trying to overturn the election results by demanding useless recounts in several states Trump won. And it's liberals who are playing with fire, trying to convince Electoral College electors to reject Trump even if that’s who voters in their states picked –and vote for liar-Hillary instead; anything, including reported death threats against electors, to deny him the presidency.
Liberals claim to abhor anything even vaguely resembling a violation of human rights. But it's liberals this week - not all, of course, but more than a few prominent ones - who are shedding tears over the death of that great man, Fidel Castro, who like all dictators didn't tolerate freedom of speech or the press, whose autocratic regime wouldn't allow even peaceful protests, who tortured and murdered many of those who wouldn't fall into line. “In many ways, after 1959 [when Castro took power], the oppressed the world over joined Castro’s cause of fighting for freedom and liberation-he changed the world, RIP.” Thank you, Jesse Jackson.
At least that wasn't as bad as the liberal prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, who said he had "deep sorrow" for "the loss of this remarkable leader ...who served his people for almost half a century.”
The real problem with liberal elites is that they don't think America is good enough - for them. I recently spoke to a liberal news reporter who, I got the impression, couldn't so much as conceive of the idea that millions of good, decent people voted for Donald Trump. This journalist wanted to talk about all the bigots Trump had in his corner.
He certainly had some, I acknowledged, but I wanted to know what percentage of Trump's vote did he think came from "deplorables' - was it more or less than liar-Hillary Clinton's 50 percent? He wouldn't commit to a number, but I got the impression it was more - a lot more.
He was also appalled that Trump supporters wanted the president-elect to fulfill his campaign promise to build a wall along the Mexican border. I told him the reason was both simple and benign: They were against illegal immigrants sneaking into this country. He had a different theory: Trump supporters didn't want people here who don't look (white) like them.
It's interesting that liberals are the ones who tell us they care about the little guy. But a lot of little guys in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Michigan chose Donald Trump over liar-Hillary Clinton. Don't those little guys count as far as the sophisticated liberal elite is concerned.
The problem is that too many liberals have forgotten how to be liberal, the essence of which is to keep an open mind, to consider what the other side is saying before you cavalierly label them as bigots.
Instead, they're too busy warning us that the Third Reich is coming.
William F. Buckley got it right most of the time, including the time he said that, "Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."
A little humility wouldn't hurt right about now. I was never a fan of Donald J. Trump or liar-Hillary Clinton, but I'm willing to see what kind of president he will be. Illiberal liberals might want to take a break from their non-stop disgust with the president-elect, with their holier-than-thou umbrage that never seems to end - and instead close their mouths and open their ears, and try to understand why he won, without conveniently blaming it on their horrible racist, sexist, xenophobic fellow Americans.
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