John Bolton Goes For Obama's Jugular, Reveals The REAL Reason Barack Allowed Anti-Israel Vote:
"When Barack Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations abstained from a vote condemning Israel at the global body, it was the final perfidy of a president who has alienated and bullied the Jewish state for the entirety of his presidency.
According to John Bolton — former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush and under consideration for a position in the Trump administration — President Obama’s intentions were even more devious than just knifing Israel in the back."
Important stuff you won't get from the liberal media! We do the surfing so you can be informed AND have a life!
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Worth your time-----Thomas Sowell in Pictures
Thomas Sowell in Pictures | Power Line:
"As Scott notes below, the indispensable Thomas Sowell is ending his column.
One of the things that will be missed is the aphoristic quality of his writing that has spawned a cottage industry of Sowell memes.
I’ve included a few now and then in the Saturday Week in Pictures gallery, but I think he deserves a grand send off from our format.
(And here’s to hoping the mischievous folks at Despair.com offer these as wall posters for economics departments in universities everywhere.)"
Read more from our American genius!
"As Scott notes below, the indispensable Thomas Sowell is ending his column.
One of the things that will be missed is the aphoristic quality of his writing that has spawned a cottage industry of Sowell memes.
I’ve included a few now and then in the Saturday Week in Pictures gallery, but I think he deserves a grand send off from our format.
(And here’s to hoping the mischievous folks at Despair.com offer these as wall posters for economics departments in universities everywhere.)"
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California Now Mandating EVs from Volkswagen
California Now Mandating EVs from Volkswagen:
"...And California, which has set its own EV (electric vehicle) mandate requiring electric vehicles, has taken what might be seen as a disproportionately strong role in determining how Volkswagen makes amends—to the point where Sacramento is dictating the
automaker's product lineup.
The federal Secondary Consent Decree released this week for those vehicles included a separate document for California.
...They go well beyond stating to whom Volkswagen should pay fines or how the state should spend its $800 million share of the $2 billion VW is mandated to spend for infrastructure updates.
It could be the first time ever in which an automaker is required by regulators to build a particular product—a product that might not even have been in the pipeline—as punishment for wrongdoing.
..."The manufacturers will provide at least three new models of electric vehicles for sale in California—including at least one SUV model—before 2019," the California Air Resources Board (CARB) said in a statement accompanying the document's release.
"The companies must add a second electric SUV model by 2020 and keep these electric models on the market through at least 2025."
...The California-specific requirements also compel Volkswagen to complete two Green City initiatives.
These can include the establishment of car-sharing services, zero-emission transit applications, or zero-emission freight transport projects, and they have to be implemented in cities with a population of 500,000 or more "that predominantly consist of disadvantaged communities" as identified by a mapping tool.
The settlement for California also requires Volkswagen to make a payment of $25 million by July 1, 2017, in support of vehicle replacement programs and specifically Plus-Up, a program that helps people in low-income communities in the San Joaquin Valley and South Coast regions get an electric vehicle at reduced cost.
Their trade-in clunker is crushed onsite..."
"...And California, which has set its own EV (electric vehicle) mandate requiring electric vehicles, has taken what might be seen as a disproportionately strong role in determining how Volkswagen makes amends—to the point where Sacramento is dictating the
automaker's product lineup.
The federal Secondary Consent Decree released this week for those vehicles included a separate document for California.
...They go well beyond stating to whom Volkswagen should pay fines or how the state should spend its $800 million share of the $2 billion VW is mandated to spend for infrastructure updates.
It could be the first time ever in which an automaker is required by regulators to build a particular product—a product that might not even have been in the pipeline—as punishment for wrongdoing.
..."The manufacturers will provide at least three new models of electric vehicles for sale in California—including at least one SUV model—before 2019," the California Air Resources Board (CARB) said in a statement accompanying the document's release.
"The companies must add a second electric SUV model by 2020 and keep these electric models on the market through at least 2025."
...The California-specific requirements also compel Volkswagen to complete two Green City initiatives.
These can include the establishment of car-sharing services, zero-emission transit applications, or zero-emission freight transport projects, and they have to be implemented in cities with a population of 500,000 or more "that predominantly consist of disadvantaged communities" as identified by a mapping tool.
The settlement for California also requires Volkswagen to make a payment of $25 million by July 1, 2017, in support of vehicle replacement programs and specifically Plus-Up, a program that helps people in low-income communities in the San Joaquin Valley and South Coast regions get an electric vehicle at reduced cost.
Their trade-in clunker is crushed onsite..."
Judicial Watch Wins Appeal: Court Rules State Department Can Be Required To Ask Attorney General to Recover Clinton Emails - Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch Wins Appeal: Court Rules State Department Can Be Required To Ask Attorney General to Recover Clinton Emails - Judicial Watch:
"Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding today’s ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in a case that would require Secretary of State John Kerry to seek the help of the attorney general in recovering additional Hillary Clinton emails:
The courts seem to be fed up with the Obama administration’s refusal to enforce the rule of law on the Clinton emails. Today’s appeals court ruling rejects the Obama State Department’s excuses justifying its failure to ask the attorney general, as the law requires, to pursue the recovery of the Clinton emails."
"Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding today’s ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in a case that would require Secretary of State John Kerry to seek the help of the attorney general in recovering additional Hillary Clinton emails:
The courts seem to be fed up with the Obama administration’s refusal to enforce the rule of law on the Clinton emails. Today’s appeals court ruling rejects the Obama State Department’s excuses justifying its failure to ask the attorney general, as the law requires, to pursue the recovery of the Clinton emails."
TRENDING: Universities work to purge male students of their ‘toxic’ masculinity
TRENDING: Universities work to purge male students of their ‘toxic’ masculinity - The College Fix
VIDEO: Undoing a legacy of ‘harm, oppression and dominance’
VIDEO: Undoing a legacy of ‘harm, oppression and dominance’
Universities across the nation are taking steps to actively purge male students of what’s been labeled “toxic masculinity.”
Examples abound of campuses hosting training sessions, group meetings, lectures and other programs to effectively cleanse what many campus leaders and left-leaning scholars contend is an unhealthy masculinity in young men today.
On campus, toxic masculinity is often blamed for sexual violence, body shaming, a “hyper-masculinized sporting culture,” acts of domestic terrorism and much more.
For example, a class at Dartmouth College this semester, “The Orlando Syllabus,” identifies so-called toxic masculinity as playing a role in the mass murder spree at a Florida club during the summer.
This despite the fact that the gunman, Omar Mateen, told police on the phone as he committed the massacre he did it on behalf of ISIS..."
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Consumer confidence surging
Consumer confidence surging:
"The effects of a profound change in national direction are already being felt in the American economy:
"The effects of a profound change in national direction are already being felt in the American economy:
Consumer confidence climbed in December to the highest level since August 2001 as Americans were more upbeat about the outlook than at any time in the last 13 years, according to a report Tuesday from the New York-based Conference Board.
- Confidence index increased to 113.7 (forecast was 109) from a revised 109.4 in November
- Measure of consumer expectations for the next six months rose to 105.5, the highest since December 2003, from 94.4
American households are expecting a Donald Trump administration to deliver. They are more upbeat about the prospects for the economy, labor market and their incomes, according to the Conference Board’s report.
The results corroborate surveys by the University of Michigan and the National Federation of Independent Business, which showed jumps in household and business sentiment on Trump’s pledges to boost jobs, cut taxes and ease regulations..."
EmDrive: Beating NASA, China claims to have carried out successful test of 'impossible technology'
EmDrive: Beating NASA, China claims to have carried out successful test of 'impossible technology'
NASA has been trying to make the hypothetical technology, but China claims that it has successfully carried out a test.
China has also surprised everyone by revealing that more tests are being conducted on EmDrive. The tests are being conducted aboard its Tiangong-2 space station.
It makes the engine move forward and enact like a propulsion system.
NASA has been trying to make the hypothetical technology, but China claims that it has successfully carried out a test.
China has also surprised everyone by revealing that more tests are being conducted on EmDrive. The tests are being conducted aboard its Tiangong-2 space station.
..."China claims that it has been conducting researches on EmDrive for the past five years, but no proof or paperwork is there to aid their claim of carrying out a successful mission using the technology, Science Alert reported.
The hypothetical EmDrive technology operates by emitting microwaves in a cone-shaped engine. It makes the engine move forward and enact like a propulsion system.
What makes EmDrive more outstanding is its rare propulsion which terminates any rocket fuel requirement..."
NYT: 'Fake News' Backfires as Breitbart, Conservatives 'Appropriated the Term' - Breitbart
NYT: 'Fake News' Backfires as Breitbart, Conservatives 'Appropriated the Term' - Breitbart:
"From the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — The C.I.A., the F.B.I. and the White House may all agree that Russia was behind the hacking that interfered with the election. But that was of no import to the website Breitbart News, which dismissed reports on the intelligence assessment as “left-wing fake news.”"
"From the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — The C.I.A., the F.B.I. and the White House may all agree that Russia was behind the hacking that interfered with the election. But that was of no import to the website Breitbart News, which dismissed reports on the intelligence assessment as “left-wing fake news.”"
How the FAA’s War on Drones Is Killing a Popular Pastime
How the FAA’s War on Drones Is Killing a Popular Pastime
"One year ago, officials at the Federal Aviation Administration rang in the holidays as only bureaucrats can: writing new regulations forcing drone owners to register themselves with the federal government before their first flight.
"One year ago, officials at the Federal Aviation Administration rang in the holidays as only bureaucrats can: writing new regulations forcing drone owners to register themselves with the federal government before their first flight.
And because nothing says “Christmas” quite like criminal fines and jail time, the agency promised $277,500 in civil and criminal penalties and three years’ imprisonment to any overeager youngster who rushed out to play without first thinking about the wishes of a distant bureaucracy.
The FAA’s recreational registry was, and remains, one of the most egregious acts of regulatory overcriminalization in recent memory.
Even the agency’s own registration task force reported that the criminal penalties drone owners would face were disproportionate in the hobby drone context.
Nevertheless, the FAA charged ahead, releasing its interim final rule to the public just three weeks after the task force report, and a scant seven days before going into effect.
...There were some flaws to this line of reasoning.
First, the FAA could not, and still cannot, point to a single collision between a drone and a civilian airliner..."History for December 28
History for December 28 - On-This-Day.com
Woodrow Wilson 1856 - 28th U.S. President, John Molson 1763 - Beer brewer, founder of Molson Beer, Clifford Charles "Cliff" Arquette 1905 - Actor (The RCA Victor Show, Hollywood Squares), played character "Charlie Weaver," grandfather of actress Roseanna Arquette
Sam Levinson 1911 - Humorist, Maggie Smith 1934 - Actress (Lettice & Lovage), Denzel Washington 1954 - Actor (Glory, Malcolm X, The Hurricane)
1732 - "The Pennsylvania Gazette," owned by Benjamin Franklin, ran an ad for the first issue of "Poor Richard’s Almanack."
1832 - John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down over differences with President Jackson.
1836 - Mexico's independence was recognized by Spain.
1877 - John Stevens applied for a patent for his flour-rolling mill, which boosted production by 70%.
1937 - The Irish Free State became the Republic of Ireland when a new constitution established the country as a sovereign state under the name of Eire.
1945 - The U.S. Congress officially recognized the "Pledge of Allegiance."
1973 - The Chamber of Commerce of Akron, OH, terminated its association with the All-American Soap Box Derby. It was stated that the race had become "a victim of cheating and fraud."
1973 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn published "Gulag Archipelago," an expose of the Soviet prison system.
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
After weekend bloodbath, Chicago police chief makes surprising admission about city’s tough gun laws – TheBlaze
After weekend bloodbath, Chicago police chief makes surprising admission about city’s tough gun laws – TheBlaze:
"The head of the Chicago Police Department is now admitting that more gun laws don’t necessarily result in less gun violence because criminals don’t “play by society’s rules.”
Chicago, a city run by Mayor Rahm Emanual, former White House chief of staff to President Barack Obama, reported double the number of killings throughout Christmas weekend this year than last year. At least 27 people were shot, 12 of them fatally, "
"The head of the Chicago Police Department is now admitting that more gun laws don’t necessarily result in less gun violence because criminals don’t “play by society’s rules.”
Chicago, a city run by Mayor Rahm Emanual, former White House chief of staff to President Barack Obama, reported double the number of killings throughout Christmas weekend this year than last year. At least 27 people were shot, 12 of them fatally, "
My farewell column
My farewell column:
"Even the best things come to an end. After enjoying a quarter of a century of writing this column for Creators Syndicate, I have decided to stop. Age 86 is well past the usual retirement age, so the question is not why I am quitting, but why I kept at it so long.
"Even the best things come to an end. After enjoying a quarter of a century of writing this column for Creators Syndicate, I have decided to stop. Age 86 is well past the usual retirement age, so the question is not why I am quitting, but why I kept at it so long.
It was very fulfilling to be able to share my thoughts on the events unfolding around us, and to receive feedback from readers across the country – even if it was impossible to answer them all.
Being old-fashioned, I liked to know what the facts were before writing. That required not only a lot of research, it also required keeping up with what was being said in the media.
During a stay in Yosemite National Park last May, taking photos with a couple of my buddies, there were four consecutive days without seeing a newspaper or a television news program – and it felt wonderful. With the political news being so awful this year, it felt especially wonderful.
This made me decide to spend less time following politics and more time on my photography, adding more pictures to my website (www.tsowell.com).
Looking back over the years, as old-timers are apt to do, I see huge changes, both for the better and for the worse.
In material things, there has been almost unbelievable progress. Most Americans did not have refrigerators back in 1930, when I was born. Television was little more than an experiment, and such things as air-conditioning or air travel were only for the very rich.
My own family did not have electricity or hot running water in my early childhood, which was not unusual for blacks in the South in those days.
It is hard to convey to today’s generation the fear that the paralyzing disease of polio inspired, until vaccines put an abrupt end to its long reign of terror in the 1950s.
Most people living in officially defined poverty in the 21st century have things like cable television, microwave ovens and air-conditioning. Most Americans did not have such things, as late as the 1980s. People whom the intelligentsia continue to call the “have-nots” today have things that the “haves” did not have, just a generation ago.
In some other ways, however, there have been some serious retrogressions over the years. Politics, and especially citizens’ trust in their government, has gone way downhill.
Back in 1962, President John F. Kennedy, a man narrowly elected just two years earlier, came on television to tell the nation that he was taking us to the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, because the Soviets had secretly built bases for nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from America.
Most of us did not question what he did. He was president of the United States, and he knew things the rest of us couldn’t know – and that was good enough for us. Fortunately, the Soviets backed down. But could any president today do anything like that and have the American people behind him?
Years of lying presidents – Democrat Lyndon Johnson and Republican Richard Nixon, especially – destroyed not only their own credibility, but the credibility which the office itself once conferred. The loss of that credibility was a loss to the country, not just to the people holding that office in later years.
With all the advances of blacks over the years, nothing so brought home to me the social degeneration in black ghettos like a visit to a Harlem high school some years ago.
When I looked out the window at the park across the street, I mentioned that, as a child, I used to walk my dog in that park. Looks of horror came over the students’ faces, at the thought of a kid going into the hell hole that park had become in their time.
When I have mentioned sleeping out on a fire escape in Harlem during hot summer nights, before most people could afford air-conditioning, young people have looked at me like I was a man from Mars. But blacks and whites alike had been sleeping out on fire escapes in New York since the 19th century. They did not have to contend with gunshots flying around during the night.
We cannot return to the past, even if we wanted to, but let us hope that we can learn something from the past to make for a better present and future.
Goodbye and good luck to all."
It's Official: Clinton's Popular Vote Win Came Entirely From California
It's Official: Clinton's Popular Vote Win Came Entirely From California | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"Democrats who are having trouble getting out of the first stage of grief — denial — aren't being helped by the fact that, now that all the votes are counted, Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote has topped 2.8 million, giving her a 48% share of the vote compared with Trumps 46%.
...But look more closely at the numbers and you see that Clinton's advantage all but disappears.
...California is the only state, in fact, where Clinton's margin of victory was bigger than President Obama's in 2012 — 61.5% vs. Obama's 60%.
But California is the exception that proves the true genius of the Electoral College — which was designed to prevent regional candidates from dominating national elections.
In recent years, California has been turning into what amounts to a one-party state.
Between 2008 and 2016, the number of Californian's who registered as Democrats climbed by 1.1 million, while the number of registered Republicans dropped by almost 400,000.
What's more, many Republicans in the state had nobody to vote for in November.
There were two Democrats — and zero Republicans — running to replace Sen. Barbara Boxer. There were no Republicans on the ballot for House seats in nine of California's congressional districts.
At the state level, six districts had no Republicans running for the state senate, and 16 districts had no Republicans running for state assembly seats.
...If you take California out of the popular vote equation, then Trump wins the rest of the country by 1.4 million votes.
And if California voted like every other Democratic state — where Clinton averaged 53.5% wins — Clinton and Trump end up in a virtual popular vote tie. (This was not the case in 2012. Obama beat Romney by 2 million votes that year, not counting California.)
Meanwhile, if you look at every other measure, Trump was the clear and decisive winner in this election."
"Democrats who are having trouble getting out of the first stage of grief — denial — aren't being helped by the fact that, now that all the votes are counted, Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote has topped 2.8 million, giving her a 48% share of the vote compared with Trumps 46%.
...But look more closely at the numbers and you see that Clinton's advantage all but disappears.
...California is the only state, in fact, where Clinton's margin of victory was bigger than President Obama's in 2012 — 61.5% vs. Obama's 60%.
But California is the exception that proves the true genius of the Electoral College — which was designed to prevent regional candidates from dominating national elections.
In recent years, California has been turning into what amounts to a one-party state.
Between 2008 and 2016, the number of Californian's who registered as Democrats climbed by 1.1 million, while the number of registered Republicans dropped by almost 400,000.
What's more, many Republicans in the state had nobody to vote for in November.
There were two Democrats — and zero Republicans — running to replace Sen. Barbara Boxer. There were no Republicans on the ballot for House seats in nine of California's congressional districts.
At the state level, six districts had no Republicans running for the state senate, and 16 districts had no Republicans running for state assembly seats.
...If you take California out of the popular vote equation, then Trump wins the rest of the country by 1.4 million votes.
And if California voted like every other Democratic state — where Clinton averaged 53.5% wins — Clinton and Trump end up in a virtual popular vote tie. (This was not the case in 2012. Obama beat Romney by 2 million votes that year, not counting California.)
Meanwhile, if you look at every other measure, Trump was the clear and decisive winner in this election."
Number of states won:
Trump: 30
Clinton: 20
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Trump: +10
Trump: 30
Clinton: 20
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Trump: +10
Number of electoral votes won:
Trump: 306
Clinton: 232
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Trump: + 68
Trump: 306
Clinton: 232
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Trump: + 68
Ave. margin of victory in winning states:
Trump: 56%
Clinton: 53.5%
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Trump: + 2.5 points
Trump: 56%
Clinton: 53.5%
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Trump: + 2.5 points
Popular vote total:
Trump: 62,958,211
Clinton: 65,818,318
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Clinton: + 2.8 million
Trump: 62,958,211
Clinton: 65,818,318
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Clinton: + 2.8 million
Popular vote total outside California:
Trump: 58,474,401
Clinton: 57,064,530
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Trump: + 1.4 million
Trump: 58,474,401
Clinton: 57,064,530
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Trump: + 1.4 million
Israel begins punishing countries who supported U.N. resolution – TheBlaze
Israel begins punishing countries who supported U.N. resolution – TheBlaze:
"Israel is suspending diplomatic ties with nations that supported the controversial United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, condemning Israeli settlements on land claimed by Palestine.
Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, defended the response with Jake Tapper on CNN:"
"Israel is suspending diplomatic ties with nations that supported the controversial United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, condemning Israeli settlements on land claimed by Palestine.
Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, defended the response with Jake Tapper on CNN:"
Reports of mall disturbances light up social media
Reports of mall disturbances light up social media
"A flurry of reports of mall melees and disturbances rippled across social media Monday on a day Americans swarmed shopping hubs for post-holiday bargains.
Disturbances that led to some malls being evacuated included reports from Elizabeth, N.J.; Fayetteville, N.C.; East Garden City, N.Y.; Aurora, Colo.; Tempe, Ariz.; Beachwood Place, a suburb of Cleveland; and Memphis.
About 10 people were injured during a melee at the Jersey Gardens mall in Elizabeth on Sunday evening, Mayor Chris Bollwage said in a tweet.
The injuries were non-life-threatening, Bollwage said.
A fight in the food court led to false reports of a shooting after a chair was thrown and hit the ground loudly, officials said..."
"A flurry of reports of mall melees and disturbances rippled across social media Monday on a day Americans swarmed shopping hubs for post-holiday bargains.
Disturbances that led to some malls being evacuated included reports from Elizabeth, N.J.; Fayetteville, N.C.; East Garden City, N.Y.; Aurora, Colo.; Tempe, Ariz.; Beachwood Place, a suburb of Cleveland; and Memphis.
About 10 people were injured during a melee at the Jersey Gardens mall in Elizabeth on Sunday evening, Mayor Chris Bollwage said in a tweet.
The injuries were non-life-threatening, Bollwage said.
A fight in the food court led to false reports of a shooting after a chair was thrown and hit the ground loudly, officials said..."
How Trump Can Gain 100% Control at His Press Conference from Day One
How Trump Can Gain 100% Control at His Press Conference from Day One:
"The Washington press corps has long since lost any trace of adult behavior.
"The Washington press corps has long since lost any trace of adult behavior.
Once a President stands in front of them and asks for questions, the press corps turns into a shouting pack of petulant teenagers. They shout out their questions in a cacophony of chaos.
Here is how Trump can take control.
First, as each reporter enters the room, he/she is handed a 3x5 card and an instruction sheet.
The instruction sheet says this.
The instruction sheet says this.
You have been given a 3x5 card. This card is for one question. Make it a good one. Make it precise. Please print clearly. President Trump will answer it unless it is a national security issue of the highest importance, which is unlikely. So, you really will get an answer. Ask exactly the question you want answered.
Pass your card to the person collecting the cards.The cards will be set on the table at the table at the front of the room. One of you will be selected by the person collecting the cards to shuffle them. Then another one of you will be selected to shuffle them a second time.The shuffled pack of cards will be handed to the President. He will answer them in order. If it takes five hours, he will answer all of them.He cannot do this if there is constant shouting after each answer. That is why he has set up this arrangement. Here are the ground rules.1. Anyone who shouts out a question will be removed from the room. (This will take extra time.)
2. The person escorted out will be banned from any future press conference in President Trump's term of office. There will be no appeals. Your employer will have to send another representative.3. We will take a video of each ejection. This will be made available to every news outlet. They will also be posted on the White House site.President Trump has said this: "I am not bluffing. Do not call my bluff. I am determined to keep these Q&A sessions quiet, efficient, and civil. You will get what you want: answers. I will get what I want: press conferences that are are not chaotic."
He would then come in. He would be handed the stack of cards. He would start answering.
Some loudmouth reporter will eventually yell out a question. Trump will have that person removed.
He would then say: "One more time: I am not bluffing. That person will not be allowed back to one of my press conference under any circumstances. If you want to stay on the White House beat, please do not imitate [him/her]." He would then answer another question.
He would stick to his guns, no matter what. If he has to clear the room, one by one, he would stick to his guns.
He would not have to do this more than four times in the first meeting. They will have gotten the memo. They will believe it.
This is a legitimate quid pro quo. He will not dodge questions. In turn, they will sit there, well behaved, as adults should.
They will all lust after a follow-up question for clarification. They won't get it.
He would establish the tone for his Presidency: the media are guests of the President. They must behave accordingly.
Every President should adopt something like thus. Trump can be the first."
Obama suggests the media should have helped Democrats win elections – TheBlaze
Obama suggests the media should have helped Democrats win elections – TheBlaze:
"During President Barack Obama’s “exit interview” podcast with his former advisor David Axelrod, Obama mentioned that he felt the Democrats lost the election in part because the media just wasn’t effectively communicating all the ways rural America has prospered under Obama’s presidency."
"During President Barack Obama’s “exit interview” podcast with his former advisor David Axelrod, Obama mentioned that he felt the Democrats lost the election in part because the media just wasn’t effectively communicating all the ways rural America has prospered under Obama’s presidency."
Donald Trump, Gunga Din and the return of Manliness as a virtue
Donald Trump, Gunga Din and the return of Manliness as a virtue – Da Tech Guy Blog:
"A few weeks ago we reprinted the first of what will be three pieces on movies and the culture wars on the picture Gunga Din.
When getting permission to reprint these pieces I stated that with the election of Trump the cultural significance of these pieces and these movies had increased.
Why?
Consider this passage from my Gunga Din piece:
Through the entire picture manly virtue is celebrated: It’s celebrated when the survivors of the first battle, after an arduous trek bearing their wounded, form to march into the camp parade in good order. It’s celebrated as Din, with Cutter’s support, dreams of being a soldier instead of a water bearer. It’s celebrated when Cutter allows himself to be taken so Din can give warning. Ballantine refuses to leave his friend in the lurch even for the woman he loves. Cutter and MacChesney endure torture, Din gives his life to warn the regiment, and even the villain of the piece sacrifices himself in the hope of victory for his cause.
These manly values are not only conservative values, but are instinctive human values that since 9/11 the left has been unable to suppress.
The idea of work is a manly virtue, a virtue of labor, sometimes hard and oftimes monotonous but allowing you to support yourself and your family.
And while such labor can seem oppressive, particularly to one who has never done it, it confers dignity and independence.
It says that come hell or high water my wife and my children will be fed and sheltered and it will be done by my own hand.
But it’s even more than that, it’s also conveys an optimism that given time and effort one’s hard work will be rewarded, either by one’s own success or the success that the work allows one’s family to achieve.
This is the rust belt virtue that the industries so despised by the left has rejected.
And that brings us to Donald Trump.
Trump is a person embraces the manly art of doing, not just as a person who works hard, in the value of labor, but the OPTIMISM of doing the idea that working hard brings rewards!
And part of that hard work is to stand up for yourself, and when Trump bluntly defends American labor, American products, American jobs, even when these things carry a risk, he is illustrating the manly virtue of courage, the willingness to accept risk to achieve a right end.
...Those bullies of the left can’t intimidate the rust belt worker who has the courage to defy convention and to say to those who would shun him over said virtue and support for Trump. “Who cares?”
He’s not afraid of the bullies of the left, and that’s why the bullies of the left hate them and Trump so..."
"A few weeks ago we reprinted the first of what will be three pieces on movies and the culture wars on the picture Gunga Din.
When getting permission to reprint these pieces I stated that with the election of Trump the cultural significance of these pieces and these movies had increased.
Why?
Consider this passage from my Gunga Din piece:
Through the entire picture manly virtue is celebrated: It’s celebrated when the survivors of the first battle, after an arduous trek bearing their wounded, form to march into the camp parade in good order. It’s celebrated as Din, with Cutter’s support, dreams of being a soldier instead of a water bearer. It’s celebrated when Cutter allows himself to be taken so Din can give warning. Ballantine refuses to leave his friend in the lurch even for the woman he loves. Cutter and MacChesney endure torture, Din gives his life to warn the regiment, and even the villain of the piece sacrifices himself in the hope of victory for his cause.
These manly values are not only conservative values, but are instinctive human values that since 9/11 the left has been unable to suppress.
The idea of work is a manly virtue, a virtue of labor, sometimes hard and oftimes monotonous but allowing you to support yourself and your family.
And while such labor can seem oppressive, particularly to one who has never done it, it confers dignity and independence.
It says that come hell or high water my wife and my children will be fed and sheltered and it will be done by my own hand.
But it’s even more than that, it’s also conveys an optimism that given time and effort one’s hard work will be rewarded, either by one’s own success or the success that the work allows one’s family to achieve.
This is the rust belt virtue that the industries so despised by the left has rejected.
And that brings us to Donald Trump.
Trump is a person embraces the manly art of doing, not just as a person who works hard, in the value of labor, but the OPTIMISM of doing the idea that working hard brings rewards!
And part of that hard work is to stand up for yourself, and when Trump bluntly defends American labor, American products, American jobs, even when these things carry a risk, he is illustrating the manly virtue of courage, the willingness to accept risk to achieve a right end.
...Those bullies of the left can’t intimidate the rust belt worker who has the courage to defy convention and to say to those who would shun him over said virtue and support for Trump. “Who cares?”
He’s not afraid of the bullies of the left, and that’s why the bullies of the left hate them and Trump so..."
College Fix's top 10 most read articles of 2016: The war on masculinity, whiteness, free speech
College Fix's top 10 most read articles of 2016: The war on masculinity, whiteness, free speech - The College Fix:
"Here are the top 10 most-read articles published this year by The College Fix.
1. TRENDING: Universities work to purge male students of their ‘toxic’ masculinity
Universities across the nation this year took steps to actively purge male students of what’s been labeled “toxic masculinity.”
Examples abounded of campuses hosting training sessions, group meetings, lectures and other programs to effectively cleanse what many campus leaders and left-leaning scholars contend is an unhealthy masculinity in young men today.
2. Cal State LA offers segregated housing for black students..."
Sadly, lots more here. Read on!
"Here are the top 10 most-read articles published this year by The College Fix.
1. TRENDING: Universities work to purge male students of their ‘toxic’ masculinity
Universities across the nation this year took steps to actively purge male students of what’s been labeled “toxic masculinity.”
Examples abounded of campuses hosting training sessions, group meetings, lectures and other programs to effectively cleanse what many campus leaders and left-leaning scholars contend is an unhealthy masculinity in young men today.
2. Cal State LA offers segregated housing for black students..."
Sadly, lots more here. Read on!
Rush on the ‘dirty little secret’ everybody in Dem Party knows, but would never say it while Obama is still in | BizPac Review
Rush on the ‘dirty little secret’ everybody in Dem Party knows, but would never say it while Obama is still in | BizPac Review:
"Rush Limbaugh believes the Democratic Party has “bitten the dust” and the credit can go to President Obama.
The conservative radio icon berated Democrats Friday on “The Rush Limbaugh Show” for continuing to focus on President-elect Donald Trump instead of looking at their own party moving forward. He also suggested that Obama has “destroyed” his own party.
"Rush Limbaugh believes the Democratic Party has “bitten the dust” and the credit can go to President Obama.
The conservative radio icon berated Democrats Friday on “The Rush Limbaugh Show” for continuing to focus on President-elect Donald Trump instead of looking at their own party moving forward. He also suggested that Obama has “destroyed” his own party.
Hillary Fan Puts Up New Sign, TRUMP SUPPORTER CHANGES MEANING AGAIN!
LOL: Hillary Fan Puts Up New Sign, TRUMP SUPPORTER CHANGES MEANING AGAIN! (PICS) – American Lookout:
"We reported earlier on a man in Cincinnati who changed the meaning of the “Hillary” sign next door.
He made it this:"
After this went viral, we got an email from the Trump fan in the blue house. He said that he likes his neighbor.
It’s Hillary he doesn’t like.
Now, the Hillary fan next door has changed their sign to this:
If you’re a self-respecting Trump supporter, you can’t let this go.
You can’t just let that sign sit there.
You can’t let people be misled.
You can’t let people be misinformed.
You have to tell people the truth!
That’s what the Trump supporter in Cincinnati did.
He decided to change his neighbor’s message again.
Here’s what he did:
"We reported earlier on a man in Cincinnati who changed the meaning of the “Hillary” sign next door.
He made it this:"
After this went viral, we got an email from the Trump fan in the blue house. He said that he likes his neighbor.
It’s Hillary he doesn’t like.
Now, the Hillary fan next door has changed their sign to this:
If you’re a self-respecting Trump supporter, you can’t let this go.
You can’t just let that sign sit there.
You can’t let people be misled.
You can’t let people be misinformed.
You have to tell people the truth!
That’s what the Trump supporter in Cincinnati did.
He decided to change his neighbor’s message again.
Here’s what he did:
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