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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
Don't Do It
by Tom McLaughlin
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Top Headlines
Sens. Durbin and Graham propose permanent legal status for liar-nObama's DREAMers. (Roll Call)
ICE spends $100 million ferrying illegal immigrant children around U.S. (The Washington Times)
Republican Kennedy wins Senate runoff in Louisiana, bringing GOP majority to 52. (The Hill)
House Republicans form Second Amendment Caucus. (Washington Free Beacon)
North Carolina Rep. preps concealed carry reciprocity bill. (Washington Free Beacon)
Heroin overdoses killed more people in the U.S. than firearms in 2015. Maybe we should outlaw drugs... (ABC News)
Senate approves spending bill minutes before deadline, averting government shutdown. (The Washington Post)
liar-Hillary Clinton's losing campaign cost a record $1.2B. That wasn't exactly money well spent. (New York Post)
Media spreads fake story that Trump protesters will be barred from public lands at inauguration. (National Review)
U.S. judge rejects Green Party's Pennsylvania recount case. Stein and liar-Clinton still lose. (Associated Press)
All about Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Trump's pick for interior secretary. (The Daily Signal)
The latest fruit of the Iran nuclear deal: Boeing seals deal with Iran for nearly $17B. (The Wall Street Journal)
Policy: The economics of NATO expansion (National Center for Policy Analysis)
Policy: U.S. missile defense must be top priority (Washington Examiner) ~The Patriot Post
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FBI Disagrees With CIA, There’s No Evidence
Russia Tried to Help Trump
by Harry Hibbs
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ The FBI did not corroborate the CIA’s claim that Russia had a hand in the election of President-elect Donald Trump in a meeting with lawmakers last week... The Washington Post published a report this weekend that claims the CIA has found that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency. The WaPo offered no evidence in the article to indict Russia. In October the FBI had a different conclusion. The FBI found that the hacking into Democratic emails was aimed at disrupting the presidential election rather than electing Mr. Trump...
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Napolitano – Russia Story liar-Clinton People
Manipulating To Deny The Vote
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Neil Cavuto notes that one sore loser Congressman in Connecticut, Jim Hines, is encouraging all of the Electoral College electors to block Mr. Trump’s election... He’ll be appearing on his program tomorrow but they address other issues today, including the existence of two law suits by Electoral College Trump electors, one in Colorado and one in Washington State, who are challenging the requirements that they vote in accordance with the will of the people of their state. Cavuto notes that the Democrats behind it all, with John Podesta acting as the pervy face of the campaign in this instance, advocating for a briefing for the electors in which the unfounded propaganda of the supposed Russian hacking can be disseminated among the electors in an attempt to effectively “poison the electorate” at the Electoral College level. How obvious is this? Cavuto notes that there would be no information to indicate if the supposed hacking, which is in all likelihood a leak from within the Democrat Party, had any impact on the outcome. He says, “Clearly the intent is to cast doubt in their minds as they vote... http://rickwells.us/napolitano-russia-story-clinton-people-manipulating-deny-vote/
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Leaks Not A Russian Hack – ID of Leaker Known,
Ex CIA, NSA, Attorney Agree
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and attorney Mike Papantonio joined RT’s Simone Del Rosario to get the truth out to the American people, something they are unable to get from the domestic US mainstream media... That truth is that this whole story about Russian hacks interfering with our election is a complete fabrication, a fraud, propaganda created by the United States government, liar-Hillary Clinton, the Democrats and the establishment globalists. Ms Del Rosario reads the Trump transition statement portraying the accusations as ridiculous and reminding us that those supposedly telling us the Russians are guilty are the same ones who peddled the Saddam Hussein WMD story. Ray McGovern says that Trump has a point, that the CIA are “unreliable people. He says, “The whole notion that the Russians have been hacking is belied by the fact that they could not hack without NSA knowing chapter and verse.”... http://rickwells.us/leaks-not-russian-hack-id-leaker-known-ex-cia-nsa-attorney-agree/
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Ayatollah, on the Day Boeing Signs Deal With
Iran Air: 'Do Not Trust Americans At All'
by PATRICK GOODENOUGH
by PATRICK GOODENOUGH
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ On the day his country's national carrier signed a deal to buy 80 passenger aircraft worth $16.6 billion from U.S. manufacturer Boeing, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged visiting Shi'a clerics from Iraq, "Do not trust Americans at all."... "Not trusting America has been an unwavering recommendation of the Islamic revolution," Khamenei told his visitors from the National Iraqi Alliance. "Whenever we in Islamic Iran heeded this recommendation, we were benefited and every time we neglected it, we found ourselves at loss." "Americans are always opposed to the might of Islamic countries," he said, and Muslims "must never be deceived by their presences and smiles."...Why are we still dealing with Iran.
.Texas Congressman Proposes
“Permanent” Fix for Social Security
by Bob Adelmann
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Congressman Sam Johnson (R-Texas), chairman of the House Ways and Means Social Security subcommittee, presented his plan, the “Social Security Reform Act,” on Thursday... which he called “a plan to permanently save Social Security.” His proposal involves the same solutions often proposed by others trying to keep Social Security from going broke: cutting benefits, raising the retirement age, adding “means” testing, and cutting or eliminating altogether the COLA — Cost of Living Adjustment. According to Michael Linden, an associate director at the liberal Center for American Progress, the cuts to benefits would be severe — between 11 percent and 35 percent — and they would include those already receiving Social Security benefits. Social Security actuaries who analyzed Johnson’s plan, at his request, came up with different numbers: Cuts would range from 17 percent to 43 percent but over a longer time period and with the same conclusion: everyone in Social Security with the exception of the lowest-income participants would take a hit under Johnson’s plan...We won't be in this mess if Al Gore would of kept his fingers out of the SS savings. http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/24815-texas-congressman-proposes-permanent-fix-for-social-security?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines
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Don't Do It
by Tom McLaughlin
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~Never judge a book by its cover, they say, but sometimes I can’t help myself. What’s the first thing you notice about Donald Trump? The hair, right? For a long time, I couldn’t get past it and dismissed him from serious consideration. Who would go out in public with that coiffure, I asked myself. Think of the time it takes every day to make his hair look like that. It was hard to see it as anything but a vanity flag.
When I wrote about this before the election, several enthusiastic Trump supporters emailed me to express dismay. They saw what I saw, but to them his hair indicated he didn’t care what people thought. It was a sign of confidence and they liked that. They believed Donald Trump alone had the gumption to go to Washington, DC and turn things upside down, and that’s exactly what they wanted him to do. I knew I’d vote for him if he won the nomination but I hoped he wouldn’t. Neither did I expect him to win the general election, but he did.
Betsy DeVos
It’s only been a month, but I have to admit I really like what he's doing so far. The people he’s appointing are terrific. As a career teacher with strong opinions about how to improve education, I applaud his appointment of Betsy DeVos. The best way to improve public schools is to break the teachers’ union stranglehold over them. The best way to do that would be fostering voucher programs in our states and local districts — and the best person to do that is Betsy DeVos. She is a longtime champion of vouchers in her home state and supported with her own money. Vouchers would empower real innovation in education by breaking the public school monopoly and allowing private citizens to form their own, decentralized schools. Local control of education will bring real change, unlike that bastion of entrenched special interests and stifling bureaucracy that is Washington, DC.
I might have violated that “never judge” dictum in the case of another New Yorker — the writer, Tom Wolfe — but I never got the chance. If I’d seen Wolfe on the covers of Time and Newsweek dressed like a dandy courtier for Louis XVI, it is likely I would never have picked up Bonfire of the Vanities, the first of his books I read. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I was somewhat shocked afterward when I saw what he looked like. I was also surprised that it was his first novel. He was a successful writer of non-fiction up to that time and the move to novel writing seemed effortless. After Bonfire, I enjoyed A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons, and Back To Blood.
Language is Wolfe’s stock in trade, and he believes it a uniquely human ability that did not evolve from lower animals. Just a few months ago, he published Kingdom of Speech in which he ridicules two sacred cows of the secular left: Darwinism and Chomskyism. He claims Charles Darwin stole ideas from an obscure researcher named Alfred Russell Wallace and published them as his own. He also portrays MIT linguist and leftist demigod Noam Chomsky as vile and vindictive toward anyone who questions him. Anthropologist Daniel Everett’s work on the language of the obscure Piraha tribe of the Amazon is outlined in the bestselling Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes. It casts doubt on Chomsky’s long insistence that humans evolved with a “language organ” in our brains even if neurosurgeons have never found one. The language organ explains “universal grammar” in all language, Chomsky maintains. Piraha language, however, not only lacks “universal grammar,” it lacks tense. There is no future, no past, only eternal present. There are no numbers or colors either.
Piraha and Everett
Wolfe’s Kingdom of Speech enrages the left, but it cannot be attacked as religious hocus-pocus. While Daniel Everett is an evangelical Christian, he doesn’t argue from there. Rather, he bases his case on scientific observation while living with the Piraha for decades. And, Tom Wolfe is an atheist. He endorses Everett’s ideas from a logical standpoint and teases both Chomsky and Darwin for their pomposity. Typical of the left, neither Chomsky nor his defenders have any sense of humor which makes teasing them so much fun for Wolfe.
Wolfe has been cranking out books that are windows on American culture for a long time while Trump is just beginning his career in government. He could still screw up, but he seems to have already taken over the presidency. He’s leading us while liar-nObama is yelling, “Hey! I’m still here! Look at me and my legacy!”
There’s a lesson for me in all this. From now on, I won’t judge people with facial metal, neck tattoos, or purple hair. I’m going to look past those things… I think.
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