op ed review 12/17
Economy is now forecast to grow 4%
The Trump administration will reverse course from previous
Obama administration policy, eliminating climate change from a list of national
security threats.
The Federal Communications Commission has jettisoned the
heavy-handed regulatory burden placed on a free and open Internet during the
Obama administration. The FCC voted 3-2 on December 14th, along party lines, to
repeal the so-called “net neutrality” rules adopted by the regulatory agency in
2015.
The Left goes nuts over deregulation: “Bomb threat
temporarily disrupts FCC vote to kill net neutrality rules.”
The administration’s decision to reverse President Obama’s
expansion of the H-1B program has been met with criticism by advocates for
cheap foreign white-collar labor, but the decision will open up roughly 80,000 jobs to Americans
graduates over the next two years.
Melania Trump's approval rating climbs 17 points: now the
majority of Americans like her.
Roy Moore loses Jeff Sessions’ senate seat in Alabama. Who’s to blame? McConnell? Bannon? Weak
campaigning? 11th hour Washington Post hit piece?
Democrats smell blood?
Not so fast…..
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454663/doug-jones-alabama-senate-victory-is-not-easy-replicate
Just before last year’s election, a “prominent woman’s
rights lawyer”, offered a reward of $750,000 to a woman if she would publicly
accuse Donald Trump of sexual misconduct.
The woman declined.
A senior Justice Department official demoted last week for
concealing his meetings with the men behind the anti-Trump “dossier” had even
closer ties to Fusion GPS: The
official’s wife worked there during the 2016 election.
Now a Democrat woman is accused of sexual harassment.
Illegal border crossings are back to Obama levels. Tell Congress we need a wall.
Santa and Christmas trees 'not appropriate' for holidays,
students are told at the University of Minnesota.
Princeton University has become the latest Ivy League
institution to host a club for students who seek to explore sexual desires that
delve into bondage, domination, sadism and masochism, underscoring a larger
trend found at many top-tier universities.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Roger Simon: The
FBI's Ship of Fools
Of
the many astonishing revelations now emerging from the Russia investigation,
not enough has been made of the fact that Peter Strzok -- that Zelig of the FBI who mysteriously appeared
at every controversial moment -- was second in command for counterintelligence.
That's right, counterintelligence -- that activity "designed to prevent or thwart spying,
intelligence gathering, and sabotage by an enemy or other foreign entity."
And
yet that same Mr. Strzok was conducting a clandestine extra-marital affair with
an FBI colleague over thousands of text messages that could be and likely
were (more of that in a moment) intercepted by those same foreign intelligence
agencies -- or were, at the very least, recklessly exposed to them.
Now
you don't have to be James Jesus Angleton or even have read a novel by John le Carré to know one of
the most important vulnerabilities in the intel world is just such dangerous
liaisons, frequently used for blackmail of all sorts. Yet, our second in
command in counterintelligence conducted his in full digital view of anyone
and did so replete with idiotically extreme comments about the president of the
United States that would make our Peter a prime candidate for blackmail.
How
exactly do you spell D-O-O-F-U-S?
Or,
come to think of it, didn't someone else do something just that dumb? Oh,
yes, the very Mrs. Clinton who moved the entire email correspondence of the
secretary of State onto a homebrew server stashed in a bathroom. No wonder
Strzok went easy on her and on her buddies Cheryl and Huma. It wasn't just
the extreme bias they all shared, it was the extreme cyber-stupidity they also
shared. How could he call them "grossly negligent" when he was
so "grossly negligent" himself? (He was also "grossly
negligent" with his wife, but that's another matter. Someone should
get a good interview with her. She might have an interesting story to
tell at this point.)
Which
leads me back to the seemingly banal adverb likely or, more precisely,
"reasonably likely." Newly released documents obtained by Fox News reveal
that then-FBI Director James Comey’s draft statement on the Hillary Clinton
email probe was edited numerous times before his public announcement, in ways
that seemed to water down the bureau’s findings considerably.
Sen.
Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, sent a
letter to the FBI on Thursday that shows the multiple edits to Comey’s highly
scrutinized statement. In an early draft, Comey said it was “reasonably likely”
that “hostile actors” gained access to then-Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton’s private email account. That was changed later to say the
scenario was merely “possible.”
Do
we detect the hand of Zelig-like Strzok here? I would say it's "reasonably
likely." But if I were, like Michael Ledeen, to channel the
great Angleton,
I would say it's "extremely likely" to "almost certain."
What
are witnessing as these embarrassing documents, emails and texts continue to be
extracted from a reluctant -- and therefore self-incriminating -- Justice
Department is the emergence of a veritable FBI Ship of Fools with Captain Mueller at the helm, a
man we repeatedly have to be told is above reproach, a Raleigh for our times,
but is seeming more of a cross between Ahab and Queeg.
Well,
that's perhaps too harsh. But the
investigation has already crashed against rocky shoals and is about to sink. I should be
joyfully clapping my hands with schadenfreude but I am decidedly not.
If
it is true -- as seems increasingly likely (maybe even reasonably likely) --
that a cabal inside the Justice Department conspired to prevent Donald Trump
from being president and then, once he became president, did their best to make
sure he did not succeed in office, then we are all in a horrifying pass until
we sort this out.
Another good read on the subject: “All of Hillary’s men…..The only picture of
collusion emerging from the Russian probes is one that implicates Hillary.
Across the U.S. government, political appointees and deep state hacks were
helping Hillary and gunning for Trump. One of her partisans over at the FBI,
Peter Strzok, performed a virtual hat trick of political espionage: he went
from inoculating Hillary against criminal prosecution (by convincing Comey to
soften his description of her mishandling of classified information) to joining
the quest to nail Trump, all while writing to his mistress, also at the FBI,
that they had a mutual duty to prevent Trump from winning the White House.
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OTHER COLUMNS
“If we are to accept the special pleadings of journalists,
we have to believe these were all honest mistakes. They may be. But a person
might then ask: Why is it that every one of the dozens of honest mistakes is
prejudiced in the very same way? Why hasn’t there been a single major honest
mistake that diminishes the Trump-Russia collusion story? Why is there never an
honest mistake that indicts Democrats? Maybe the problem is that too many
people are working backward from a preconception.”
-David Harsany
“The Pentagon is about to deploy 23,000 troops — but not for
the mission you’d expect. According to the Defense Department, that’s how many
service members it’ll have to train to deal with the first wave of transgender
recruits. Although the Trump administration is actively fighting the court’s
order, military officials are bracing themselves for the monumental distraction
set in motion by Barack Obama. … If liberals were as focused on the world’s
threats as they are on LGBT activism, America would be the safest, most
powerful country in the world. Instead, they’re desperately trying to preserve
Obama’s radical legacy and jeopardizing the whole of national security in the
process. And for what? So that a group of people with legitimate health
concerns can self-actualize? The military’s purpose is to fight and win wars.
Does the integration of men and women confused about their gender make us
better prepared to defend our nation? If the answer is no (and research
suggests it is), why are we even considering it?”
-Tony Perkins
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ARTICLES
Toxic Hatred of Trump a Sign of Non Compos Mentis
The Case of the Missing Catastrophe
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HUMOR
“Karl Marx to Resign, Ditch Legacy Due to Sexual Misconduct”
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PHOTOS, VIDEO
Pushy children's hilarious letters to Santa are enough to
get them put straight on the naughty list.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5185963/Hilarious-letters-pushy-kids-writing-Santa.html#ixzz51RnTFlrj
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WISE
WORDS
“Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail
what you resolve.”
-Benjamin
Franklin
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