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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
Not Kissing Any Rings
by Erick Erickson
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Top Headlines
Trump Effect: GM plans $1 billion U.S. investment. (Bloomberg)
Trump Effect: Walmart touts plan to create 10,000 U.S. jobs. (The Wall Street Journal)
Martin Luther King III and Trump have "very constructive" meeting. (The Hill)
Alveda King, MLK's niece: "I voted for Mr. Trump." (The Washington Times)
Why liar-nObamaCare's "20 million" number is fake. (The Daily Signal)
Trump's offers Russia end to sanctions for nuclear arms cut. (Reuters)
Criminal illegal immigrants sent home after capture at southwest border. (Washington Free Beacon)
Wife of Pulse nightclub jihadi Omar Mateen arrested in San Francisco. (ABC News)
Monica Crowley bows out of Trump post after plagiarism affirmed. (Washington Examiner)
Last man to walk on the moon Eugene Cernan, dies at 82. (Space.com)
Policy: Let's end criminalization without representation. (National Review)
Policy: $20 Billion in farm subsidies doesn't reach the poor, leaves them hungry. (Inside Sources) ~The Patriot Post
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Bridgitte Gabriel explains the Hundred Year Plan
Muslims Have to Overthrow America
by William Smith
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ When people take up for the sufferings of those that have little voice, we applaud at Democratbusters... And that’s what we have in Brigitte Gabriel, woman born in the Middle East that has first hand experience of the ills of Islam, and also happens to be a Christian. She talks about how regular Muslims (not just extremists or Islamist jihadis) aim to overthrow every country in the western hemisphere. They plan to do this in several ways.
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Trump Already Leading
Nukes With Russia To One China Policy
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts on “what strong leadership looks and sounds like and what it can all accomplish. President-elect Trump doesn’t take the oath of office until Friday but he’s already outmaneuvering Republican and Democrat leadership in both the House and the Senate... Trump telling the Washington Post he’s wrapping up an liar-nObamacare replacement plan that will include ‘insurance for everybody.'” Dobbs notes, “Senator Rand Paul, Congressman Tom Price with their versions of what the President-elect is calling for. Trump also saying he will target the pharmaceutical industry over drug prices in which drug companies will be competing, if he has his way, for government bids for their drugs. It won’t be simple and it is the right thing to do for healthcare and pharmaceutical consumers no matter how difficult it turns out to be.” “All of this,” says Dobbs, “as he demands Congressional leaders move at his quicker natural pace, not their traditionally glacial pace, to repeal and replace liar-nObamacare and to do everything else on his agenda. “But Congress is not the only ones being out-maneuvered and being led now by Donald Trump. The President-elect laying out a specific deal with Russia, indicating he could lift sanctions if Putin agrees and signs on to a nuclear arms reduction agreement.”... http://rickwells.us/dobbs-trump-already-leading-nukes-russia-one-china-policy/
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Thousands of Criminal Illegal Immigrants Sent
Home After Apprehension at Southwest Border
by Morgan Chalfant
{freebeacon.com} ~ Nearly 4,000 illegal immigrants apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol at the southwest border over a three-year period were allowed to return to their home countries despite having past criminal convictions and connections to criminal networks... The statistic is included in a new government audit exposing shortcomings in the way Border Patrol agents deal with illegal immigrants caught trying to cross the border into the United States. Border Patrol agents use the Consequence Delivery System, or CDS, to classify apprehended aliens using seven criminal and noncriminal categories. They then decide which of eight consequences the apprehended aliens should receive, based on how effective the consequences are in preventing the individuals from trying again to illegally enter the United States. The CDS system plays a major role in the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to combat transnational criminal organizations and drug smuggling across the U.S. border... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/thousands-criminal-illegal-immigrants-sent-home/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=dfb9c792d5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-dfb9c792d5-45611665
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House Passes Bill to Set
Up Defunding Planned Parenthood,
Not One Single Democrat Votes for It
by Steven Ertelt
{lifenews.com} ~ On Friday afternoon, the House of Representatives approved a Senate-passed budget resolution that is the first step in defunding the Planned Parenthood abortion business... This repeal resolution is the first step in the process to re-direct Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding to legitimate health care entities and repeal liar-nObamacare using the budget reconciliation procedure. President-Elect Donald Trump has promised to sign the bill into law. Not surprisingly, the bill was approved on a party-line vote with almost every Republican supporting the measure and not one single Democrat approving of the resolution that would allow repealing liar-nObamacare and defunding Planned Parenthood. Republicans voted 227-9 for the bill while Democrats voted 189-0 against it... http://www.lifenews.com/2017/01/13/house-passes-bill-to-set-up-defunding-planned-parenthood-not-one-single-democrat-votes-for-it/
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Fourteen People Busted
For $16 Million WELFARE Fraud:
Are They Used To Support Terrorists?
by William Smith
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Over a dozen retail store operators in and around Baltimore have been busted in a huge welfare and wire fraud scheme – over $16 million dollars scraped out of the welfare state’s taxpayer’s pockets... It was an elaborate “food stamp trafficking” operation and probably involved a lot of white, Christian, white collar, conservative, fat cats.. Or not.. Because while the mainstream media will not tell you WHO is involved, here’s just a few – actually most – of their identities. But I ask you – The indictments allege that the defendants illegally exchanged EBT benefits for cash, instead. To avoid detection, they debited the funds from the card in multiple transactions over a period of hours or days, or called a different store where the transaction was processed manually, the Department of Justice says... http://gopthedailydose.com/2017/01/17/fourteen-people-busted-16-million-welfare-fraud-used-support-terrorists/
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Not Kissing Any Rings
by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ I think the right thing to do moving into the era of the Trump Administration is to call it as I see it — to praise him when I think it is warranted and to criticize when I think it is warranted. I refuse to be on either the Always Trump or Never Trump team post election. Getting the election wrong required admitting I got things wrong and now requires giving Trump the benefit of the doubt, but that is only the benefit of, not serving the role of yes man as some have chosen.
While I don’t regret my choices, I have to admit it hurt professionally and has brought The Resurgent to the brink of going out of business. Any sponsors who did not bolt last year were, at best, forced to scale back. Many of them came under withering attacks and calls for boycott, as did my radio advertisers. It was more effective than I would like to admit, though we kept the lights on thanks to the generosity of others. That may be coming to an end now.
Someone needs to plant their flag for defending conservatism, even against the GOP, whether it be Trump’s GOP or someone else’s. That’s what I intend to do — to call it as I see it. But that only gets me so far without the help of others here and, frankly, our bank account is crossing into critical territory.
Before I started The Resurgent, I asked for help and readers generously gave us over $65,000.00. But this past year, between all the health and personal stuff going on and the professional toll of the campaign, I did not want to push the issue as much as I should have. By the time I got around to really asking, it was just after Thanksgiving. The result is that readers only contributed $19,000.00.
With our advertising revenue, that helped us get through the year, but we ate into our reserves.
The reality is that if we cannot boost ad revenue and, hopefully, count on you guys, we will have to wind things down. I know this will generate laughter from both the alt-right and the left. A conservative site shuttered because of a refusal to kiss a ring does such things.
But I am not kissing any rings and I’ll be damned if I put up any semi-pornographic ads and auto-play video boxes. That is just not going to happen even if I have to close up shop. I would gladly cover all the costs of this site out of my own pocket, but there’s a little thing called medical bills I have to cover right now. Life threw a few curve balls in the last year. I would like to think we can scrape by and perhaps we will have to give it a try. But for now, I figure there is no harm in asking readers for help.
If you want to support honest conservative writing and reporting at a website dedicated to principled conservatism and our Judeo-Christian culture, well, we’d appreciate it. Our only loyalties are to cause and conviction, not candidate.
While I don’t regret my choices, I have to admit it hurt professionally and has brought The Resurgent to the brink of going out of business. Any sponsors who did not bolt last year were, at best, forced to scale back. Many of them came under withering attacks and calls for boycott, as did my radio advertisers. It was more effective than I would like to admit, though we kept the lights on thanks to the generosity of others. That may be coming to an end now.
Someone needs to plant their flag for defending conservatism, even against the GOP, whether it be Trump’s GOP or someone else’s. That’s what I intend to do — to call it as I see it. But that only gets me so far without the help of others here and, frankly, our bank account is crossing into critical territory.
Before I started The Resurgent, I asked for help and readers generously gave us over $65,000.00. But this past year, between all the health and personal stuff going on and the professional toll of the campaign, I did not want to push the issue as much as I should have. By the time I got around to really asking, it was just after Thanksgiving. The result is that readers only contributed $19,000.00.
With our advertising revenue, that helped us get through the year, but we ate into our reserves.
The reality is that if we cannot boost ad revenue and, hopefully, count on you guys, we will have to wind things down. I know this will generate laughter from both the alt-right and the left. A conservative site shuttered because of a refusal to kiss a ring does such things.
But I am not kissing any rings and I’ll be damned if I put up any semi-pornographic ads and auto-play video boxes. That is just not going to happen even if I have to close up shop. I would gladly cover all the costs of this site out of my own pocket, but there’s a little thing called medical bills I have to cover right now. Life threw a few curve balls in the last year. I would like to think we can scrape by and perhaps we will have to give it a try. But for now, I figure there is no harm in asking readers for help.
If you want to support honest conservative writing and reporting at a website dedicated to principled conservatism and our Judeo-Christian culture, well, we’d appreciate it. Our only loyalties are to cause and conviction, not candidate.
