op ed review 12/22
THIS WEEKS NEWS
MAGA Revolt against Speaker Johnson Slashes Original 1,547 Page Spending Bill to 118
"A statement from President Donald J. Trump and Vice President-Elect JD Vance: The most foolish and inept thing ever done by Congressional Republicans was allowing our country to hit the debt ceiling in 2025. It was a mistake and is now something that must be addressed."
https://x.com/JDVance/status/1869495076604227726
Elon Musk Activates X Against Bloated Spending Bill
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/18/musk-mobilizes-the-masses/
Tucker Carlson on Speaker Mike Johnson's Betrayal: 'There Is Something Profoundly Wrong Here'
Johnson's Latest Spending Scheme Proves He's Dems' Useful Idiot
Need a New House Speaker, Please!
https://www.newsmax.com/murdock/omnibus-schumer-stefanik/2024/12/20/id/1192441/
Rand Paul suggests Elon Musk as House Speaker
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5048431-rand-paul-elon-musk-speaker/
Tom Homan’s Plan to Destroy the Cartel Empire, End Child Trafficking, and Secure the Border for Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDTEh4apCbw
Financial Times Person of the Year: Donald Trump
https://archive.is/2024.12.19-051332/https://www.ft.com/content/553a1655-36c5-48ad-9d1e-fffd28bd1756
Canada pledges beefed-up border, immigration restrictions to “appease” Trump.
J6 Bombshell: Trump Didn't Just Offer Military to Protect Capitol, He Ordered It but Was Disobeyed
Trump to Fire Pentagon’s DEI Staffers on Day One.
Trump Will End Climate-Crazed Left Energy Policies
https://www.newsmax.com/larrybell/economy-trump-energy-policy/2024/12/16/id/1191822/
CNN Exit Poll US Military Veterans 2024: Trump 65% (+31) Harris 34%
https://x.com/OpenSourceZone/status/1868439995834618309
120+ Retired Generals, Admirals Sign Letter Supporting Pete Hegseth
Politico Terrified Hegseth Will Make Military Schools 'Patriotic'
Pete Hegseth a Home Run for SecDef
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/pete_hegseth_a_home_run_for_secdef.html
Report: 43 Million U.S.-Born Citizens Out of the Labor Force, as Immigrants Account for All Net Jobs Gains
Biden Admin Bankrolled Program That Pays Kids To Skip Class Without Parents’ Knowledge For Lessons On LGBTQ Activism
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/21/biden-admin-bankrolled-kids-lgbtq-activism/
Ohio School District To Pay $450K To Teacher Fired For Not Using Trans Students’ Pronouns
UK now has 85 Sharia courts imposing Sharia law.
This in addition to the Christmas market carnage in Magdeburg, Germany: In another city, 10,000 Muslims march through city Christmas market shouting “Allah Akbar”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14214497/German-Christmas-market-Syrian-refugees.html
Pro-Life Leader Targeted by Biden's DOJ Delivers Shocking Testimony Before Congress
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2024/12/20/face-act-house-hearing-n2649238
Republicans Target Law DOJ Used To Imprison Pro-Lifers
‘Black Widow,’ Who Murdered 3 Ex-Lovers, Freed in Biden’s Historic Clemency Spree
Biden grants clemency to former doctor called ‘the biggest pill-pusher in North Alabama’
Biden Nationalizes Another 50,000+ Student Loans as He Heads for the Exit
White House Biden health cover-up blown wide open in bombshell report: Joe was senile from day one of presidency. So who was really running things??
Iran-Affiliated Venezuelan Gangs Invited Into the United States
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21226/venezuelan-gangs-invited-into-us
Oregon Elections Director Resigns After Noncitizens Found On Voter Rolls
Biden Admin Sent $300M to Reuters to 'Look Into' Musk and His Companies?
Biden Orders Scientific Agency To Expand Use of 'Indigenous Knowledge' over science in Final Days
Vatican 'on the brink of Bankruptcy' due to dramatic decline in global donations under Pope Francis' Leadership
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/vatican-bankruptcy-pope-policies-donations-34332242
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OPINION COLUMNS THIS WEEK
Michael Barone: Trump's Success: Who'd Have Thunk It?
https://www.creators.com/read/michael-barone/12/24/trumps-success-whod-have-thunk-it
VDH: What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election?
Ivy League Faculties Fail The 'Sodom And Gomorrah' Test: “Elite universities have been so thoroughly captured by the left that they are no longer capable of reforming themselves to offer an ideologically balanced and intellectually diverse education. Declaring that institutions are beyond repair should not be done lightly. The Bible offers an instructive lesson on this. Before judging the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham bargains with God so that the cities would be spared if even 10 righteous people could be found there…….To search for these 10 conservative scholars who might redeem the Ivy League, I looked at campaign contributions from people who described themselves as professors at these eight universities in support of Donald Trump There were only two professors, both at Cornell University, from the entire Ivy League who contributed to Trump’s campaign.”
Are leftists mentally ill?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/are_leftists_mentally_ill.html
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FILM
'Yellowstone' Actor Neal McDonough says Hollywood Looking to Make More and More Faith Films
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
College student allegedly plotted 'mass casualty attack' targeting Jews
https://abcnews.go.com/US/george-mason-student-alleged-mass-casualty-attack/story?id=116990777
'They want to groom your children': University of Minnesota fronted cash to get 5-year-olds to play with sex-change dolls
Woke Medical Association Scrubs DEI Info From Website After Brutal Report
The Loser of the Year: The Southern Poverty Law Center
https://spectator.org/the-loser-of-the-year-southern-poverty-law-center/
HBO Max Dumps the Muppets: Woke ‘Sesame Street’ is Now Homeless
Things Are Going From Bad To Worse For The World’s Most Powerful Liberal Elites
https://dailycaller.com/2024/12/18/worlds-most-powerful-liberal-elites-losing-elections/
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END OF DEI?
Nissan becomes latest car company to walk back 'woke' DEI practices, following Toyota and Ford
Idaho Board of Education bans DEI offices and initiatives in all public universities
On the other hand, “Feds Look To Hire Up To 1,200 New DEI Bureaucrats Before Trump Takes Office”
Poll: Americans Unhappy With ‘Woke’ DEI World In Business, Academia And Military
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ARTICLES
Biden Seals His Legacy As Worst President In History
https://issuesinsights.com/2024/12/18/biden-seals-his-legacy-as-worst-president-in-history/
Loooong but informative article: Understanding the political realignments of the last 20 years. “Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment”
https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/rapid-onset-political-enlightenment
More on this: “Trump and Musk Demolish the Obama Hallucinatory Permission Structure”
Mediaite's Most Influential in News Media 2024 – #21, The new Drudge: Kane and his Citizen’s Free Press. ‘Kane revealed Steve Bannon and other stars of Trumpworld helped grow CFP from a page read by a few thousand people to a behemoth being eyed by venture capitalists looking for the next fledgling media giant” Musk is #1 in this ranking.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/mediaites-most-influential-in-news-media-2024/6/
Tulsi Gabbard’s Iconoclasm Is Exactly Why We Need Her
Mitch McConnell Is The Personification Of America In Decline
https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/17/mitch-mcconnell-is-the-personification-of-america-in-decline/
Want to Know Whether Your Neighbor Is an 'R' or a 'D'? There's an App for That
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BABYLON BEE
ABC To Put Running Ticker On All News Shows Saying 'FOR LEGAL PURPOSES DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING WE SAY'
People controlling Biden complain that “Elon is controlling Trump”
https://babylonbee.com/news/elon-is-controlling-trump-complain-people-controlling-biden