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November 2016

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 14, 2016 42 Comments
I just blogged that Donald Trump picked Myron Ebell, Director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute and a noted climate change skeptic, to head his transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency. The current head of that agency is feeling the chill wind of change, and is heating up the implementation of environmental regulations ahead of Trump's inauguration.
"As I've mentioned to you before, we're running — not walking — through the finish line of President Obama's presidency," EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said in a staff memo obtained by the Washington Examiner after Trump was declared the winner of Tuesday's election.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on November 14, 2016 7 Comments
Since the presidential election last week, there's scarcely a corner of the internet free of nasty contentiousness. Thankfully, not everyone has lost their sense of humor. A handful of memes imagining President Obama and VP Biden's White House departure are easily my most favorite things on the internet right now. Especially since they play on Uncle Joe as well...Uncle Joe. Most of the memes show Biden suggesting ways to prank the incoming presidential crew, but all of them are lol-worthy. Enjoy:

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 13, 2016 24 Comments
The push back against the progressive left's agenda that culminated in the election of President-elect Trump had been gaining steam for a while now and not just on this side of the Atlantic. Faced with poor economic growth, an influx of refugees, a sense of losing their national identity, and a variety of country-specific reasons, the entire Western world seems on the verge of the same sort of election-revolution we just witnessed in America. Heralded as the "the liberal West's last defender," Angela Merkel has been under intense pressure based on her open door policy to refugees, and she now finds herself feeling the growing dissatisfaction of the German people even more powerfully than before Trump's victory.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 13, 2016 35 Comments
Gibson's Bakery in Oberlin, Ohio, has been in business since 1885. It sells a variety of baked goods along with wine and other foods. On November 9, 2016, Gibson's employees noticed what they thought was a person shoplifting two bottles of wine hidden in his jacket. That alleged shoplifter was a black Oberlin College student. When they attempted to stop and photograph him, they were attacked by several other people accompanying the student. The police were called. The Oberlin town police department has posted the Incident Report online, reflecting the arrest of the alleged shoplifter and two others involved in the scuffle. Here is the first paragraph of the police report:

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on November 13, 2016 10 Comments
Love it or hate it, Facebook is an inescapable part of modern social engagement. As the public grapples for any variable that would explain the Trump presidency, Facebook is the recipient of at least some of the blame, justly or not. The complaints are rather silly -- users are blaming the social media platform for content others post, in particular, fake news stories. Of all the factors that determined last week's electoral outcomes, I doubt fake news stories even moved the needle, alas...

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 13, 2016 43 Comments
According to reports, President-elect Donald Trump is naming Reince Priebus his Chief of Staff. Fox News 6 reports:
Donald Trump is expected to name Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus his new chief of staff, placing the longtime GOP operative in one of the most powerful positions in the White House, according to two sources familiar with the decision. The announcement could come as soon as Sunday, one source said. Priebus should be a reassuring presence to establishment Republicans still uncertain about what a Trump White House will look like. The pick signals that Trump may look to build bridges in Washington and keep continuity with longtime Republican agendas, as opposed to make waves from the beginning.

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 13, 2016 26 Comments
No, they're not sex traitors. Yet, I cannot get over why people are so shocked that Hillary couldn't bring in the female votes. Like, holy cow, you mean that the sex of a candidate is NOT the most important factor?! Yup:
What mattered most to voters, exit surveys indicated, was the economy, and, to borrow Trump’s words, "draining the swamp" in Washington. Four in 10 voters attested that they were in search of change, and three in five said the country was seriously on the wrong track. About the same proportion of people felt the economy wasn’t working for them, and two-thirds indicated that their financial situation was either the same or worse than it was when President Obama started his second term four years go.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 13, 2016 28 Comments
President-Elect Donald Trump is probably experiencing the shortest honeymoon in American political history. He is the target of massive protests and the focus of riotous mobs, before he even takes the oath of office let alone signs his first law or executive order. Furthermore, he is taking no time off when it comes to preparing his team to undo the Obama Administration's economy-crushing policies. Case-in-point: Trump is looking for ways to extract the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement.
A source on Trump’s transition team told Reuters that the team was looking for ways to bypass the procedure to leave the Paris accord, which was agreed upon last December. Trump has previously stated his disbelief in global warming. Other global governments, including China, have expressed their reaffirming support for the deal. "It was reckless for the Paris agreement to enter into force before the election,” the source told Reuters on Tuesday.

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 13, 2016 8 Comments
A Taliban suicide bomber managed to find his way into a U.S. military base in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he detonated a bomb and killed four Americans. The blast left 16 wounded:
The suicide bomber at Bagram Air Field had been dressed as a day laborer and detonated the explosives in the vicinity of a dining facility around 5:30 a.m., according to a foreign security source. The sprawling base, which contains tens of thousands of contractors, is often targeted by Taliban rockets and attacks on patrols near the base, but suicide bombers hadn’t previously succeeded in breaching the outer layers of security.
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