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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 10, 2016 9 Comments
My take on Maureen Dowd:
When MoDo is good, she’s really good.  When she’s bad, she’s really bad.
Not sure what to make of this column, Election Therapy From My Basket of Deplorables. It's not therapy delivered by MoDo, but rather, by her brother Kevin, who is one of MoDo's deplorables. But MoDo gave Kevin a big platform in which to taunt and troll people like MoDo. Here's an excerpt:

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Posted by Mike LaChance on December 10, 2016 2 Comments
I'm a big fan of Special Report with Bret Baier on FOX News. Baier is one of the best straight news guys on the network, if not on all of television and he's very good at keeping himself out of the story. This week Baier was on Late Night with Seth Meyers and it was fascinating to see him on the other side of an interview. He spent most of the time talking about news coverage of the election and Trump, naturally. Mediaite covered the segment:
Fox’s Bret Baier Tells Seth Meyers It’s a ‘Challenge’ When Trump Takes the Media ‘On a Ride’ Baier did a pretty good Trump impersonation when describing the times the then-candidate would confront him about the content of his show.

Posted by Mark Finkelstein on December 10, 2016 24 Comments
Guess the Chris Hayes contingent missed the memo from President Obama about giving Trump a chance . . . The topic on Hayes' MSNBC show last night was Trump's thank-you tour of states that had supported him. Hayes kicked things off by making a thinly-veiled Hitler allusion, saying the Trump rallies feel "not that far from rallies for the 'leader,' which don't have a great history in politics across the world." Slate columnist Michelle Goldberg was not so coy, coming right out and claiming that Trump is "going to turn our country into a racist police state." Not to be outdone, Fordham professor Christina Greer said that the Trump rallies "have a feeling of a Klan rally, they have a feel of a white-supremacist rally."

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2016 13 Comments
Keith Ellison's past decade-long support for Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, his suggestion of dual loyalty from American Jews when speaking at a fundraiser for Muslim leaders, and his cozy relationship with some of the worst pro-BDS, anti-Israel groups, has disrupted what seemed like a clear trajectory to Chair of the Democratic Party. The Nation of Islam is calling BS on Ellison's claim he wasn't a big supporter of Farrakhan. The Chicago Tribune reports:
But Ellison's status as the front-runner last week came under threat after CNN revived articles Ellison wrote in praise of Farrakhan while Ellison was a grad student — 20 years ago — and found footage of him appearing to criticize Israel. That prompted Hillary Clinton's biggest donor, Haim Saban, to on Friday call Ellison an "anti-Semite."

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2016 13 Comments
Is it finally "over over" in Jill Stein's impossible dream to recount votes in Michigan? Here's hoping so. After the Michigan mid-level appellate court ruled against her, and a federal judge dissolved an injunction that had kept the recount alive, Stein's only hope was that the state Supreme Court would rule in her favor. But first, the state Supreme Court had to agree to hear the case. And it just declined to do so. The Detroit News reports:

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on December 09, 2016 9 Comments
Friday afternoon, former New York City Mayor and Trump supporter, Rudy Giuliana announced he no longer wished to be considered for Secretary of State. "This is not about me; it is about what is best for the country and the new administration. Before I joined the campaign I was very involved and fulfilled by my work with my law firm and consulting firm, and I will continue that work with even more enthusiasm. From the vantage point of the private sector, I look forward to helping the President-elect in any way he deems necessary and appropriate," Giuliana said in a statement. Giuliana will remain Vice-Chairman of Trump's transition team.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on December 09, 2016 14 Comments
Failed Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein's recount scampaign isn't going quite as planned. The recount never made it off the ground in Pennsylvania and both federal and state courts agreed there was no need for a recount in Michigan as Stein did not qualify as an "aggrieved candidate". It's day nine of the state-wide presidential ballot recount in Wisconsin and a federal judge refused to halt the recount, which is mostly complete, saying the recount results won't affect the outcome.

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 09, 2016 7 Comments
EU counter-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove will tell the EU interior ministers on Friday that experts have found 1,750 ISIS jihadists have come back to Europe to perform terrorist attacks:
Up to 35 percent have returned - some with 'specific missions' - and 50 percent remain in the battle theatre, which amounted to between 2,000 and 2,500 Europeans.

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 09, 2016 24 Comments
The United States Naval Academy at Annapolis will offer a voluntary training session on transgenderism for midshipmen who wish to become more sensitive to the topic. This should come as no surprise after the Obama administration has spent eight years letting our military infrastructure crumble as they used our armed forces as a laboratory for experiments in social policy. The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Naval Academy Hosting ‘Transgender 101’ Training for Midshipmen The U.S. Naval Academy is bringing in Google employees to provide voluntary “Transgender 101” training to midshipmen this week as part of an ongoing “safe space” training series.

Posted by Mark Finkelstein on December 09, 2016 23 Comments
And people fret about Trump trying to control the press? Now we learn about the kind of paranoid control freaks running the Clinton campaign. Mika Brzezinski made a stunning revelation on today's Morning Joe. Mika, a loyal Democrat, said that after she warned that the Clinton campaign was perhaps being arrogant in assuming that the race was over, "I'll just say it: NBC got a call from the campaign. Like I had done something that was journalistically inappropriate or something, and needed to be pulled off the air."

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 09, 2016 5 Comments
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) that protects FBI whistleblowers. Chaffetz said:
"While a great many changes remain to be made in how DOJ and the FBI respond to whistleblowers, this commonsense clarification is not minor. If implemented, it would have far-reaching implications in protecting whistleblowers at the FBI, just as Congress intended in 1978 in the first whistleblower protection law.”
Case after case has shown the FBI did not not protect its whistleblowers as well as other departments. Whistleblowers often faced retaliation and threatening emails. A few even lost their jobs all because they wanted to expose wrong doings in their divisions.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on December 09, 2016 26 Comments
After an event on Capitol Hill Thursday night, Hillary was greeted by a group of young supporters who sobbed profusely when meeting the failed presidential candidate.

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 08, 2016 18 Comments
Television host Mike Rowe spoke with Tucker Carlson about the value of college, hard work, and alternate paths to a four year degree last night. Their conversation began with the social justice warrior from Hampshire College who recently appeared on the show but quickly moved on to other topics. One of the most fascinating aspects of their discussion was when Rowe brought up the massive amount of student debt in America today and pointed out how that affects all of us, not just students. From the FOX News Insider:
Old Glory was taken down from a flagpole and burned around Veterans' Day and Daniel Vogel defended the flag's removal to protest discriminatory behavior in America and to show his support for perceptively underprivileged workers.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 08, 2016 11 Comments
As the rock generation of the 60s and 70s ages, we're seeing increasing number of deaths at relatively "young" ages based on current average life expectencies. We can't write about them all, but this one is special, at least to me. Greg Lake died yesterday. BBC reports:

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 08, 2016 14 Comments
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, as his Secretary of Labor. His company owns Carl's Jr. and Hardee's. Puzder has long criticized the Affordable Care Act and workplace regulations, which he claims "have stifled growth in the restaurant industry." He also pushed back against raising the minimum wage past $9 an hour.
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