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Wasting time at the wake that won't end
by Wesley Pruden
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Top Headlines
House GOP warns agencies against accelerated hiring in anticipation of Trump's freeze. (Government Executive)
Betsy DeVos, Trump's education pick, hints in confirmation hearing at sweeping changes ahead. She won't take a salary for one thing. (Yahoo News)
liar-nObama scores the worst legislative record in history, having signed fewer bills into law than one-term Carter. (The Washington Times)
The seven most under-covered liar-nObama scandals. (NewsBusters)
10 killed, 29 wounded in Chicago MLK Day weekend shootings. (CBS Chicago)
Man who shot and beat an Arizona Trooper is illegal immigrant. (Arizona Central)
liar-nObama commutes sentence for domestic terrorist Oscar López Rivera, who clearly doesn't deserve it. (Time)
liar-nObama orders Secret Service to pay $24 million in decades-old race-bias case brought by black agents. (The Washington Post)
liar-nObama gives global climate fund another $500M. (The Hill)
Hoax ads in two dozen cities offered protesters up to $2,500 to agitate at Trump inaugural. (The Washington Times)
Policy: The Dakota Access Pipeline must be built. (Heartland Institute)
Policy: A helpful starting point for rebuilding the military. (American Action Forum) ~The Patriot Post
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'This was an attack against the State of Israel'
by Yoni Kempinski
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) responded Wednesday morning to the deadly terror attack in Umm Al-Hiran which left police officer Erez Levy dead and a second officer wounded... “What happened in Hiran was a terror attack against the State of Israel,” said Ariel. “We won’t be deterred from enforcing law and order in the Bedouin sector, along with working to advance legal housing solutions.” Ariel has been charged by the government with finding a solution to the problem of rampant illegal construction in the Bedouin sector and the existence of dozens of unauthorized settlements...
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Tucker Carlson Gets
Hoaxer To Admit Ad Offering
‘$2,500/Month To Protest Trump’ Was Fraud
by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ For the crazy liberal still upset that liar-Hillary lost the election it seemed like a great way to make some extra money... Demand Protest an organization that billed itself as “the largest private grassroots support organization in the United States, was hiring people to protest the soon-to be President Trump. On his Tuesday night show, Tucker Carlson got the head-hoaxer operating under the alias Dom Twolipso to admit the ad as well as the job offer was a fraud. Hey also admitted that Peyton Manning was a big fan or was it Chelsea Manning? The at the bottom of the post ran in the New York Backpage, it also ran in Nineteen other major market editions as well. Additionally the story of the ad was covered on TV Networks and The Washington Times... http://lidblog.com/tucker-carlson-figures-fraud/
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Restoring Justice
by Robert Knight
{theacru.org} ~ Eric Holder and Loretta E. Lynch have been perhaps the most flagrant partisans ever to hold the office of attorney general... Year after year, they rubber stamped whatever the liar-nObama administration wanted to do, legally or otherwise. So it was an eye-roller when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat, announced Thursday why he was going to vote against fellow Sen. Jeff Sessions’ nomination for U.S. attorney general: “I am not confident in Sen. Sessions’ ability to be a defender of the rights of all Americans, or to serve as an independent check on the incoming administration,” Mr. Schumer said. The attorney general, who heads the Justice Department, takes an oath to enforce federal laws and uphold the Constitution. We’re at the tail end of an administration in which the highest legal office in the land was weaponized along racial lines and openly attacked laws that the progressive left disliked, such as the federal Defense of Marriage Act and state voter ID statutes...
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O’Keefe Nails Soros BLM
Type Anarchists Plotting Terrorism...
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ James O’Keefe of Project Veritas released another video that goes into greater detail regarding the types of actions the anarchists behind DisruptJ20 are planning to use to disrupt Friday’s presidential inauguration... Blockades have long been known to be a major component of their plan and some details of those plans are discussed, including their intent to block every major ingress point into the city of Washington, DC. One speaker holding orientation, Mike Isaacson, recommends throat punching people, saying it’s “probably a good thing.” They also revealed plans to use chains to disable the Washington Metro rail line. The plotting is recorded and those involved identified with an accompanying narrative that “disabling trains constitutes an act of terrorism under 18 USC 1992, with potential penalties of up to twenty years in prison and the death penalty if someone is subsequently killed as a result... http://rickwells.us/okeefe-nails-soros-blm-type-anarchists-plotting-terrorism-inauguration/
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Audit: Federal Government Remains
on Unsustainable Fiscal Path
by Ali Meyer
{freebeacon.com} ~ The federal government remains on an unsustainable fiscal path, with its net operating cost more than doubling over the past fiscal year, according to an audit from the Government Accountability Office... The government collected $3.3 trillion in taxes and other revenues in fiscal 2016, an increase of $11.3 billion from the previous year. The government’s gross costs totaled $4.5 trillion. The government’s net operating cost, the difference between the costs it incurs and the revenue it takes in, rose dramatically to $1 trillion in fiscal 2016. This figure increasing by $533.2 billion in one year, more than double the previous fiscal year...Then why is liar-nObama is giving it away to UN and Iran?
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Wasting time at the wake that won't end
by Wesley Pruden
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Democrats who confuse hating Donald Trump with Mom and apple pie as the all-American recipe to win elections are blowing their chances, such as they are, for the 2018 midterm elections. If you're a Democrat it's never too soon to fret and stew about the prospects.
But Democrats are having so much fun despising the Donald they're forgetting duty to party and responsibility to exploit opportunity. The party on the outs nearly always picks up a few seats in the mid-terms. But sore losers forget the ancient bipartisan admonition that "now is the time for every man to come to the aid of the party." And that includes the women.
Even if the diehard losers can get their act together soon, the job of making a dent in the Donald's Republican prospects will be daunting. Thirty-three seats in the Senate will be up for election in 2018, and 25 of those are now held by Democrats. Additionally, two independents who caucus and usually vote with Democratic senators will be completing their six-year terms.
Republicans, who had to defend a host of incumbents last year, survived with a slightly reduced majority intact, and will have to defend only eight seats two years hence. Other seats may become open, due to appointment to higher office particularly among Republicans, resignations or deaths. It just doesn't look like 2018 will be a year for Democrats to write books about. The arithmetic just isn't there. The chances of taking over the Senate are roughly nil, zero and none. The party is likely to win a few Republican seats in the House, but not nearly enough to flip control.
The action will be in the Senate. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, the campaign chairman for the Senate Republicans, is already at work and the Democrats still have no party chairman. The favorite to be the face of the party is Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, a Muslim. Mr. Ellison is no doubt the paragon of virture, tolerance and forbearance that Democrats, pundits and Muslim enthusiasts say he is, but any marketing man in America will tell you that Islam is not a hot brand in America just now, and isn't likely to be one soon. Worse, Mr. Ellison is a onetime protags of Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, the particularly harsh strain of the Mohammedan faith who won't win any popularity contests, either.
But it's the continuing inability of the Democrats to get beyond the first stage of grief and mourning that threatens to push the party to the edge, where it would fall into a very deep ditch. The party's in the position of the widow who can't stop crying, even though her man was a scoundrel, knave and wastrel, and was not very nice besides.
The gathering thousands are arriving hourly in the nation's capital to celebrate - and to repudiate - Donald Trump, some with high hopes eager to raise a toast to the nation and the new president with champagne, others with low hopes for a disaster eager to raise a toast with wormwood, bile and gall. The cops, reinforced by the National Guard, are prepared for jerks to do their worst.
One blogger describes the demonstrations and the threat of boycotts, counter-demonstrations and rotten eggs as "a big circus organized by entitled smug celebrities who think they're in charge of the culture." The Democratic women, with a few men riding shotgun so to speak, marching on the day after the Donald is sworn in, will put finis at last on the liar-nObama years. Their goals are not quite clear, but they say they won't rest until women have something called "parity and equity at all levels of leadership in society." That sounds fine and good, like something written for a feminist website, but nobody knows quite what it means. Sisterhood may be more fun than powerful.
The sorehead losers who tried everything they could think of to upset the upset - attempting to subvert the Electoral College and then trying to prevent Congress from affirming the vote of the Electoral College - organized a claque around Rep. John Lewis to declare the Donald the illegitimate president. When that didn't impress anyone, the Democrats went to work to organize a "boycott" of the Inaugural, something like standing in the street to protest not being invited to a neighbor's dinner party. Some of the LGBQTs are even doing that, too, with a dance and kiss-in at Mike Pence's home in suburban Maryland.
This is energy that could be spent to do something positive for the party, which will need all the energy it can muster to get through the next four years. America needs two parties to make the system work - but it doesn't need this one.
But Democrats are having so much fun despising the Donald they're forgetting duty to party and responsibility to exploit opportunity. The party on the outs nearly always picks up a few seats in the mid-terms. But sore losers forget the ancient bipartisan admonition that "now is the time for every man to come to the aid of the party." And that includes the women.
Even if the diehard losers can get their act together soon, the job of making a dent in the Donald's Republican prospects will be daunting. Thirty-three seats in the Senate will be up for election in 2018, and 25 of those are now held by Democrats. Additionally, two independents who caucus and usually vote with Democratic senators will be completing their six-year terms.
Republicans, who had to defend a host of incumbents last year, survived with a slightly reduced majority intact, and will have to defend only eight seats two years hence. Other seats may become open, due to appointment to higher office particularly among Republicans, resignations or deaths. It just doesn't look like 2018 will be a year for Democrats to write books about. The arithmetic just isn't there. The chances of taking over the Senate are roughly nil, zero and none. The party is likely to win a few Republican seats in the House, but not nearly enough to flip control.
The action will be in the Senate. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, the campaign chairman for the Senate Republicans, is already at work and the Democrats still have no party chairman. The favorite to be the face of the party is Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, a Muslim. Mr. Ellison is no doubt the paragon of virture, tolerance and forbearance that Democrats, pundits and Muslim enthusiasts say he is, but any marketing man in America will tell you that Islam is not a hot brand in America just now, and isn't likely to be one soon. Worse, Mr. Ellison is a onetime protags of Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, the particularly harsh strain of the Mohammedan faith who won't win any popularity contests, either.
But it's the continuing inability of the Democrats to get beyond the first stage of grief and mourning that threatens to push the party to the edge, where it would fall into a very deep ditch. The party's in the position of the widow who can't stop crying, even though her man was a scoundrel, knave and wastrel, and was not very nice besides.
The gathering thousands are arriving hourly in the nation's capital to celebrate - and to repudiate - Donald Trump, some with high hopes eager to raise a toast to the nation and the new president with champagne, others with low hopes for a disaster eager to raise a toast with wormwood, bile and gall. The cops, reinforced by the National Guard, are prepared for jerks to do their worst.
One blogger describes the demonstrations and the threat of boycotts, counter-demonstrations and rotten eggs as "a big circus organized by entitled smug celebrities who think they're in charge of the culture." The Democratic women, with a few men riding shotgun so to speak, marching on the day after the Donald is sworn in, will put finis at last on the liar-nObama years. Their goals are not quite clear, but they say they won't rest until women have something called "parity and equity at all levels of leadership in society." That sounds fine and good, like something written for a feminist website, but nobody knows quite what it means. Sisterhood may be more fun than powerful.
The sorehead losers who tried everything they could think of to upset the upset - attempting to subvert the Electoral College and then trying to prevent Congress from affirming the vote of the Electoral College - organized a claque around Rep. John Lewis to declare the Donald the illegitimate president. When that didn't impress anyone, the Democrats went to work to organize a "boycott" of the Inaugural, something like standing in the street to protest not being invited to a neighbor's dinner party. Some of the LGBQTs are even doing that, too, with a dance and kiss-in at Mike Pence's home in suburban Maryland.
This is energy that could be spent to do something positive for the party, which will need all the energy it can muster to get through the next four years. America needs two parties to make the system work - but it doesn't need this one.
