News of the Week for February 5^th, 2017

• Gun Rights
• Hide the Decline
• Obamacare
• War & Terror
• National News
• Economy & Taxes
• International News
• Opinion

 

Gun Rights

 

Fatal Firearms Accident Rate Reaches Record Low
The rate of fatal firearm accidents is at an all time low.

 

Hide the Decline

Environment &
“Green Energy”

 

California climate bill would add “social costs” to public works bids
If a new California climate bill passes, contractors vying for state-funded infrastructure bids will have something besides dollars and cents to add to their bottom line: the “social cost” of greenhouse gas emissions created by their projects.

Environmentalists Want Your Baby Dead
In an appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight, the executive director of the Sierra Club, Michael Brune, advocated abortion to reduce human population, saying that abortion “helps to address the number of the people that we have on this planet. We feel that one of the ways in which we can get to a sustainable population is to empower women to make choices about their own families.” Ironically, Brune was being interviewed because of his support for an open-borders immigration policy.

How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data
America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration broke its own rules

Obamacare Has Mold
Replace. Repair. These are the words I hear when watching my favorite home remodeling shows. Suspect wiring, bad plumbing, shoddy roofing. These are some items that a home remodeler like Mike Holmes sees in his everyday work. But what happens when a contractor builds a house with a porous foundation and it infests with mold? What if that mold has been growing for seven years and moisture has taken over the entire home? In almost all cases the best alternative is to simply level it and start the building process over.

 

Obamacare

Government in Healthcare

 

BMA warns against using “expectant mothers” for pregnant women as it “may offend intersex men”
Pregnant women should not be called “expectant mothers” over fears it could upset transgender people, it was claimed.

New Planned Parenthood undercover videos: Ultrasounds only for abortions
Priorities, priorities at Planned Parenthood: women’s care, or core business? The nation’s largest abortion chain has demanded that Republicans in Congress stop attacking “women’s health care” with their proposals to bar federal funds from flowing into their coffers.

Nebraska Woman Loses Health Insurance for Fourth Time Under Obamacare
Pamela Weldin’s experiences with Obamacare can be boiled down to just a few numbers.

Katie Couric Explains to Ellen How Female Fetuses Can “Feel” That They Are Male
Will Planned Parenthood make Katie Couric appear in a hostage video after this?

 

War & Terror

 

What’s the real deal on this “Muslim ban”?
What does this executive order do?

6 dead in shooting at Quebec City mosque, 2 men arrested
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard call shooting an act of terrorism

DHS Secretary John Kelly Left Out Of Decision Making Process Regarding Travel Ban, Staffing
The chaotic scene being played out at airports across the nation this past weekend wasn’t just reserved for protesters, detained immigrants, and the customs officials trying to resolve the nightmare.

China “steps up preparedness for possible military conflict with US”
Donald Trump’s election as US president has increased the risk of hostilities breaking out, according to Chinese state media and analysts

Dubai Security Chief Backs Trump Immigration Order
A prominent figure in the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) security apparatus is endorsing President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning citizens of seven predominately Muslim countries from entering the U.S., the Jordanian news service Al Bawaba reports.

Protester Calls on Crowd to “Start Killing” People–Wait till You Find Out What She Does for a Living
A Seattle “preschool teacher” might have some explaining to do to the parents of her young students after a fiery and f-bomb-ridden diatribe calling for protesters to start “killing people.”

Violent protests force cancellation of Milo Yiannopoulos appearance at Berkeley
A planned appearance Wednesday by controversial internet figure Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor for the conservative website Breitbart was canceled after protests turned violent on the U.C. Berkeley campus.

Trump Threatens No Federal Funds for Berkeley
Early this morning on Twitter, President Trump questioned University of California Berkeley’s federal funding.

Rampaging, Masked Protesters Destroying Berkeley Campus, Setting Fires, over Milo Speech
“No borders, no nations, fuck deportations!”

“Humanitarian Disaster”: Thousands of Civilians Caught in the Crossfire as the War in Ukraine Escalates
Artillery and rockets have been raining down on the front-line town of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine since Sunday, leaving 16,000 civilians, including 2,000 children, without heat, electricity, or clean water as temperatures dipped to 20 degrees below zero Celsius, or about minus 4 Fahrenheit.

French soldier opens fire after alleged machete attack at Louvre, Paris. Attacker shouted “Allah Akhbar!”
According to the French Interior Ministry, the suspect is alive and is receiving medical treatment. It also announced a second suspect was detained and is now being questioned.

US May Have Let “Dozens” of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees
Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The alt-left’s cyber jihad against Trump and his supporters
On Wednesday night, an Afghan-American software engineer and self-described “global geek girl” videotaped her friend Kiara Robles as a local TV reporter interviewed Robles about the raucous protests at University of California Berkeley that canceled a speech by controversial Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. Robles wore the trademark red hat of the Trump presidential campaign, only with the message, :Make BitCoin Great Again,: her straight, long blond hair sweeping out from under the cap. Suddenly, a masked attacker in a leather jacket lunged at Robles and doused her face in stinging pepper spray.

ISIS amputate the hands of two boys aged ten and 12 who refused to execute two civilians in front of their families in Mosul
ISIS fanatics trained up a group of children from its stronghold in western Mosul

Open Source Intelligence OSINT and the Dark Web
The dark web, the part of the deep web which is comprised of a number of darknets (e.g. Tor, Freenet, I2P…etc), provides individuals with an anonymous way to connect to the internet and publish information.

Man tosses explosive device into crowded Southern California restaurant
Panic erupted at a Southern California Cheesecake Factory on Thursday night after a man tossed in improvised explosive device, police said.

US sanctions Iran for ballistic missile launch
The U.S. slapped new sanctions on Iran on Friday after the Trump administration signaled it wanted to punish Tehran for its latest ballistic missile test.

Elliott Abrams To Be Deputy Secretary Of State As Heads Explode Across the Left And Alt-Right
Wow. Talk about a blast from the past.

How Mattis’ Plan For Fixing The U.S. Military Would Transform The Army
Secretary of Defense James Mattis has issued his initial campaign plan for rebuilding America’s military, pursuant to a presidential directive signed January 27. If Congress provides necessary funding, the Mattis plan would reverse a steady erosion of the joint force’s warfighting edge that resulted from caps on military spending during the Obama years. In fact, the plan may usher in a surge of spending on new military technology unlike anything seen since the Reagan years.

SECDEF Mattis an Instant Hit in Japan, South Korea
In his debut abroad as the first retired general to lead the Pentagon in more than half a century, Jim Mattis found that in Japan and South Korea his experience in uniform is seen as an asset.

 

National

 

FLASHBACK: Democrats Tried To Block Thousands Of Vietnam War Refugees, Including Orphans
Despite today’s outrage over President Donald Trump’s refugee executive order, many liberals in 1975 were part of a chorus of big name Democrats who refused to accept any Vietnamese refugees when millions were trying to escape South Vietnam as it fell to the communists.

Scarborough: Stephen Miller “a very young person on power trip in White House”
Senior foreign policy officials: “chain is tightening quickly” on White House staffers who acted without consulting them

California to give lawyers to illegal immigrant students to stop deportations
The University of California will provide lawyers to any of its illegal immigrant students who get detained by agents, system President Janet Napolitano said Friday.

Police Say “Furry” Freaks Raped Boy
They were called “furry parties,” according to police, gatherings where adult men would dress up as animals and occasionally fulfill sexual fantasies.

California Weighs Withholding Monetary Transfers to Federal Government
“It seems the California State government is bracing for an all out war with the Trump administration.”

Casino Mogul Steve Wynn to Be RNC Finance Chair
Trump to tap former Vegas rival turned trusted ally to lead GOP money effort into 2018

BLM Anti-Trump Protest In Seattle: “We Need To Start Killing People”
During an anti-Trump protest in Seattle this weekend, an activist associated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement took to the megaphone to voice her support for, among other things, “killing people,” and “killing the White House.”

Trump fires acting attorney general after she defies him on immigration ban
President Donald Trump fired acting US Attorney General Sally Yates after she defied him on his controversial executive order on immigrants and refugees, according to a statement White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer issued Monday night.

Hill staffers secretly worked on Trump’s immigration order
Several House Judiciary Committee aides helped craft the controversial directive without telling Republican leaders.

Student employee threatens to shred College Republican file
A student employee at Mount Holyoke College threatened to shred the College Republicans’ records.

Women’s studies professors divided over whether women’s studies is too vagina-centric
Women’s studies professors are now divided over whether women’s studies is too vagina-centric.

Transgender bathroom mandate ignores science and harms children, legal groups tell Supreme Court
“Pseudo-science built upon child sexual abuse”

DHS Secretary John Kelly Clarifies Status Of Green Card Holders
Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly has issued an order clarifying the status of green card holders under President Trump’s executive order

Scarborough: on Immigration Order, Trump Admin “Betrayed” Mattis, Kelly, Tillerson
Trump admin “playing with fire” by working with senior congressional aides without informing their bosses

Scientists Create A New Kind Of Matter: Time Crystals
The crystals’ patterns repeat not in space, but in time.

Gov. Abbott Bans Sanctuary Cities in Texas
“Texas can’t change federal immigration laws. What Texas can do is to enforce existing law.”

CA student denied bathroom break, forced to pee in bucket wins $1.25 million verdict
A San Diego student who was forced to urinate in a bucket at school won $1.25 million in damages when a jury decided in her favor Wednesday.

Vegas schools grapple with 70 student languages, declare “safe space” for illegals
In the Clark County School District – where 322,000 students reportedly speak 70 different languages and half claim to be Hispanic – trustees vowed not to cooperate with immigration officials.

History teacher forced to retire over displaying Confederate flag during Civil War lesson
A middle school history teacher is retiring following a district investigation for hanging a Confederate flag with a Union flag in his classroom during a discussion on the Civil War.

PETA’s Latest Attack on Wearing Fur is Unbelievably Dumb
Whenever I start thinking this cartoon we’re living in can’t get any more ridiculous I can always count on the lunatics at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to prove to me that it can.

Look what this CEO did after calling for Trump’s assassination
After calling for Trump’s assassination, Magnatone’s CEO apologizes for his “insensitive” statement.

Epic SJW rant: “We need to start killing people”
Not every speaker at ever event is representative of the entire group. That said, I think this speaker at a Seattle anti-Trump rally over the weekend really is representative of a certain fringe on the left. Certainly the crowd of several dozen people listening to this rant seems pretty enthusiastic about much of it.

7 Things You Need To Know About The March For Science
Following the Women’s March will be a so-called March for Science, where people will be marching in Washington, D.C. at some point in the future to stick up for science. Is this really a March for Science, or is it just leftism hiding behind the brand of science?

Student expelled for sexual misconduct sues school but can’t ask accuser to testify as it might traumatize her
Reason’s Robby Soave has an update on the case of a student who was expelled from Amherst College for an alleged sexual assault on his girlfriend’s roommate. Despite evidence that the male student (known only as John Doe) was at least arguably the victim of the sexual misconduct in this case, he was expelled.

Anti-Trump “Resistance” Protests Led by Convicted Sex Offender Micah Rhodes
One of the leaders of disorderly anti-Trump protests in Portland, Oregon is facing sexual abuse charges after a police investigation into his relationship with a teenage boy, local news outlets are reporting.

Trump Files With FEC For 2020 Election Bid, Outmaneuvers Nonprofit Organizations
A document from the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) indicates that Donald Trump took steps last week to outmaneuver nonprofit organizations, leaving them unable to officially campaign against him over the next few years of his Presidency.

Trump reportedly blasted Australia PM over refugees in phone call
Australia’s prime minister said his country’s relationship with the United States remained “very strong” and refused to comment on a newspaper report on Thursday that an angry President Donald Trump cut short their first telephone call as national leaders.

Hispanic Ethno-Nationalists Try to Cover Their Tracks
Exposing La Raza’s racial agenda is having an effect.

UNF Sex Week promotes polyamory as “alternative to cheating”
The University of North Florida’s annual “Sex Week” will feature an event on “polyamory” for those students searching for “ethical non-monogamy as an alternative to cheating.”

UC student body prez arrested while protesting DeVos
Five University of Chicago students, including the student body president, were arrested Tuesday while protesting the confirmation of Secretary of Education nominee Betsy Devos.

Conservatives help AU keep “implicit bias” course unbiased
American University recently rolled out two separate courses on “critical race theory and implicit bias,” one of which it is seeking to make mandatory for all first-year students.

Ceding to demands, Pepperdine will remove Christopher Columbus statue
Pepperdine University will remove a statue of Christopher Columbus from its main campus after students at the Southern California Christian school made multiple demands to take it down.

Neil Gorsuch Could Rule on These 3 Big Cases If He Joins Supreme Court Soon
President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court could have a say in rulings on religious freedom, transgender bathrooms in schools, and private property rights, if he is confirmed before April 16.

Gay Marriage Is Fueling Research On Lab-Grown GMO Babies
The debate is already leagues beyond whether gays should adopt babies who are already born and need homes. Now we are grappling with buying and selling constructed babies.

Grabbed: Mexican Pimp Extradited to Face U.S. Sex-Trafficking Charges
Foreign criminals forcing women into sexual slavery.

Violent riots at UC Berkeley shut down Milo Yiannopoulos event
Frenzy on the left growing.

Oregon Governor Kate Brown Forms Trump Resistance Team
Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D-Portlandia) rallied her supporters this week to join her newly formed Trump Resistance Team. #TeamKate, as she wants her new group to be known, turned its sights on President Trump. In an email to supporters, she called for folks to join her Social Action Team to resist Trump in order to unify the state and the nation against the forces of division.

Calif. state Senate Pres. de León’s Bill to “Freeze Out ICE” Passes Committee
Opportunistic California Democrats are presenting bills to refute the recent immigration executive orders of President Donald J. Trump, to protect Americans.

California high court gives insurance commissioner vast new powers
President Donald Trump’s spate of executive orders has jump-started a national debate about the wisdom of executive edicts, especially those that stray into the area of lawmaking. While presidential orders grab the spotlight, the issues of administrative overreach and how to properly limit the power exerted by government officials are frequent subjects of court scrutiny at every level of our political system.

Reuters Instructs Reporters To Cover Trump Like An Authoritarian Regime
Reuters Editor-in-Chief Steve Adler used examples of Reuter’s reporting in authoritarian regimes, to issue new guidance on the way his news organization would cover the Trump administration.

Experts: California voter registration system “highly susceptible” to fraud
California’s voter registration system is “highly susceptible to being compromised,” because of immigration policies protecting the Golden State’s 2.4 million illegal immigrants, authorities have told Fox News.

FCC Chairman has Plan to Open, Increase Transparency the Commission
Real transparency.

DNC boots candidate from chairmanship race for criticizing Ellison’s Islamic faith
The Democratic National Committee is kicking a candidate out of the chairmanship race after he told The Hill that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) should not be the party’s next leader because he is a Muslim.

Kelly Ayotte returns to Washington
Former Senator Kelly Ayotte will lead the White House team trying to shepherd Judge Neil Gorsuch through the Senate. This means introducing him to her former colleagues and singing his praises to them.

Only one arrest, at most, made at Berkeley protest
A protest against Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley turned violent Wednesday night, with protesters even throwing explosives at police officers, but, incredibly, only one arrest has been reported.

Senate gets up awfully early on DeVos, but …
Hurry up and wait? Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called the upper chamber into session at 6:30 am today in order to expedite the confirmation vote of Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary. And of course, when it comes to expediting, there’s no place like the US Senate, right? Right? Er …

Congress Repeals Two Obama Regulations
Yesterday afternoon I posted on the House voting to repeal two Obama regulations using the Congressional Review Act. Last night the Senate acted and those bills are now awaiting President Trump’s signature.

Big Media Falsely Reports Gorsuch Founded a “Fascism Forever” Club in High School
Alana Goodman at the Daily Mail had a Big Scoop today: Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee founded a club in high school called “Fascism Forever!”

CA politicians respond to Berkeley riots by attacking President Trump
Unexpectedly.

Bush-appointed judge halts Trump travel ban nationwide
A federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary nationwide restraining order Friday stopping President Trump’s executive order banning citizens of seven countries from entering the United States.

The Deep State Now Using Encrypted Messaging Apps to Coordinate #TheResistance Inside The Government
Democracy is too precious a thing to be left to the demos or their elected representatives.

Trump working from “alternative Constitution,” celebs say on Funny or Die
Hollywood stars – including Susan Sarandon, Dulé Hill and Constance Wu – are mocking President Trump in a new video, saying the commander in chief is using an “alternative Constitution” to develop executive orders.

“Can she eat more kale?” Hordes of liberals want reassurance RBG’s health is good
On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch for deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s long-empty seat. On Wednesday morning, liberals woke up, did the math and realized it was time to be concerned about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s fiber intake. Also bone density. Also exposure to airborne viruses (Madame Justice, what is your flu shot status?), and salmonella, and slippery ice, and also: Has anyone heard how scientists are coming along with a Zika vaccine?

Operation HYPO After Action Report: Infiltrating Violent Protest Organizations
Working during the day, I would travel by night to meetings and protests in various cities. Most weekends were consumed with assimilating reports from other operatives, grooming equipment and planning our activities. Our entire team had immense support from Oath Keepers senior leadership.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner worked to sink LGBT order
Members of the religious right with ties to the Trump administration say they have been led to believe that some changes will still be coming.

Zombie: Violent Berkeley Riot Causes Cancellation of Milo Yiannopolous Speech
A long-anticipated speech by Breitbart.com editor Milo Yiannopolous was abruptly canceled Wednesday evening after protests outside the U.C. Berkeley event quickly escalated into a violent riot.

Democrat Congresswoman Calls the Berkeley Riot “A Beautiful Sight”
Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) called last night’s scene at Cal Berkeley “a beautiful sight.” It was not a beautiful sight, but rather a riot in which got people hurt and pepper sprayed. She didn’t even understand that the rioters were protesting a Milo Yiannopoulos speech, and described them as “young people at Berkeley protesting against this unconstitutional order.” This is one new congressperson we could do without!

Tunnels of Oppression expose “privileged” students to “dehumanization”
Several schools are hosting “Tunnels of Oppression,” where students experience simulated acts of racism, misogyny, and more so that they can “recognize their own privilege.”

College pledges to hire professors based on skin color, mandates social-justice workshops
And a chief diversity officer to oversee it all

Families Sue NYC For Reporting Them To Child Services When They Homeschool
A nonprofit legal organization has filed a civil rights suit against New York City Public schools for “systematic mistreatment of homeschooling families.”

Protesters Force GOP Rep Out Of Town Hall With Police Escort
It’s getting scary out there, folks. Hundreds of anti-Trump protesters flooded the streets outside of Tower Theater, in Roseville, California.

The Confederate Battle Flag is back… sort of
In 2015, after a prolonged battle in the courts and the national media, the Confederate Battle Flag was lowered for the last time at a monument on state property in Columbia, South Carolina. At the time it was hailed as a glorious victory for the SJW and a very sad day for many southerners. Now, less than two years later a different version of the flag is back up again, but at a different location.

10 Sweetest Pictures Of Pluto From NASA’s Latest Release
This is historic, and a good reminder that the space program is far from over, and new and exciting developments are happening all the time.

College socialists: We need more violence against Trump and his supporters to be effective
Aim your fireworks at campus buildings

Berkeley student assaulted for MAGA hat one day after riots
A student sporting a Make America Great Again hat was abruptly assaulted at the University of California, Berkeley Thursday, not even a day after the violent riots that put campus on lockdown.

“Trigglyprof” loses her mind at NYU College Republican event
A self-proclaimed professor at New York University burst into hysterics outside a Gavin McInnes event hosted by the College Republicans, shrieking that conservatives are “Nazis” and closing with “Fuck you, NYPD.”

Anonymous group plans to dox Berkeley CRs, threaten careers
A group of anonymous bloggers known as “OLAASM” plans to publish the names and emails of Berkeley students who intended to join the College Republicans after Wednesday night’s riots.

Screaming NYU Protester Woman Identified as Anti-Trump Porn “Artist”
The highlight of Thursday’s protest against Gavin McInnes’s appearance at New York University was a woman who screeched at the police.

Stray black hole found hiding in the Milky Way
It is difficult to find black holes, because they are completely black. In some cases black holes cause effects which can be seen. For example if a black hole has a companion star, gas streaming into the black hole piles up around it and forms a disk. The disk heats up due to the enormous gravitational pull by the black hole and emits intense radiation. But if a black hole is floating alone in space, no emissions would be observable coming from it.

 

Economy & Taxes

 

North Dakota wants hired pipeline protesters to pay state income taxes
After spending more than $22 million on the Dakota Access pipeline protest, North Dakota wants to make sure any paid activists remember to submit their state income taxes.

Gov. Walker: White House interested in Wisconsin union law
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday that he spoke with Vice President Mike Pence about how the White House can implement on a federal level parts of the Republican governor’s contentious policy that all-but eliminated collective bargaining for public sector unions in the state.

 

International

 

EU Foreign Minister issues prison threat to President Trump
We Europeans “celebrate when walls are brought down and bridges are built,” EU Foreign Minister Mogherini tells President Trump

The British Army Can’t Find Enough Soldiers
Who will fight the United Kingdom’s wars?

19-year-old girl left her aborted fetus in fridge at restaurant
Suspect had an abortion at a hospital, was given her aborted fetus

The Muslim refugees converting to Christianity “to find safety”
Ibrahim Ali remembers his first church service well. The smell of the candles, the cheap plywood pews, and the hymn singing that sounded so foreign to him at the time.

Swedish Police Chief says women should change their behaviour to avoid getting raped
Recently a clip of Swedish chief of police in Östersund, Stephen Jerand, warning women to adjust their behaviour to protect against a spate of violent attacks, has resurfaced on Facebook and Twitter, now circulating on YouTube with English translation and commentary. The video is real and dates to March 7th 2016, when the Östersund police thought it appropriate, after at least six reports of violence against women in the area since 20 February.

EU court might make changes to any Brexit deal, chief justice says
Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union seems likely to end up under review by the EU’s top court, which might insist on changes to any Brexit treaty, its chief justice told Reuters in an interview.

Brexit: MPs overwhelmingly back Article 50 bill
MPs have voted by a majority of 384 to allow Prime Minister Theresa May to get Brexit negotiations under way.

Trudeau orders reporters to delete news – and Media Party applauds
And when did the prime minister’s office get into the business of telling reporters to delete stories? Could you even imagine if Stephen Harper had demanded that a reporter somewhere delete information?

The Trumpocalypse Goes Global
It isn’t just in the halls of Washington where Trump has everyone in an uproar. In the House of Commons over in Britain, the Corbynite Labour Party had a conniption fit, culminating in this nice exchange between Corbyn and Prime Minister Theresa May, who I must say is reminding me more and more of Margaret Thatcher all the time

Canadian politicians argue over the use of the word “fart” in Parliament
During an impassioned speech about her home province of Alberta, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel compared the Liberal government’s treatment of Alberta to “a fart in the room that nobody wants to talk about or acknowledge.”

Syrian Refugee School Sex Assault
A fourteen-year-old Canadian girl has been sexually assaulted by a Syrian migrant.

Allahu Akbar!
You are probably familiar with the Rotherham scandal. Rotherham is a city in England where over a period of years, more than 1,400 girls, many of them pre-teens, were raped and trafficked by a loose consortium of men.

Now Kuwait bans visas for five Muslim-majority countries
Following Trump, Kuwait has suspended the issuance of visas for nationals of Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran.

“How is it playing out in Australia?”
For Malcolm apparently to have tried to push Trump, by telling him that as a fellow businessman that a deal is a deal, must rank as politically incompetent as anything I have ever seen. That Trump now thinks of Malcolm as a flea-weight no-account fool only means he has the same assessment of the PM as the rest of us.

Jordanian Prince On Syrian Refugees: “We Can’t Vet These People”
Prince Faisal bin Hussein told GOP North Carolina Congressman Mark Walker the Jordanian government could not vet Syrian refugees, The Washington Examiner reports.

New twists in the French presidential election
When I last wrote about France’s upcoming election, it looked like the Socialist party would nominate hard-leftist Benoit Hamon and that he would lose out in the first round of the general election to Francois Fillon of France’s conservative party, considered something of a Thatcherite, and Marine Le Pen of the National Front. It seemed to me that Fillon would have a decided edge in a two-way race against Le Pen, but a Len Pen victory could not be ruled out.

Fury as trainee priests refer to Jesus as “Josie” in gay slang service
TRAINEE priests from a leading British theological college have sparked outrage by hurling gay slang into their service.

 

Opinion

 

The Left Goes All In On Open Borders
“No borders. No nations. Fuck deportations!”

Turning it up to 11
Paul notes the Washington Post’s solicitation of readers for what he calls “immigration sob stories.” If you can explain how Donald Trump ruined your life and can tie it to the “extreme vetting” executive order, the Post wants to hear from you.

Turning it up to 11
Paul notes the Washington Post’s solicitation of readers for what he calls “immigration sob stories.” If you can explain how Donald Trump ruined your life and can tie it to the “extreme vetting” executive order, the Post wants to hear from you.

Here Are 9 Of The Most Unhinged Reactions To Trump’s Executive Order On Immigration
After President Trump signed an executive order on Friday temporarily halting immigration from seven Middle Eastern countries, people lost their minds. Here are some of the most insane reactions thus far.

Why aren’t you talking about joining Mexico, you racists?
Should California, Oregon and Washington join Canada? #Calexit talk envelops West Coast.

How Hillary May Give President Trump a Second Term
The Clintons aren’t done damaging the Democrats.

All Hysteria, All the Time
In a way, the Left’s ability to go bonkers in lockstep is impressive. You have to give them credit for message discipline, if nothing else. The idea that a 90-day stay on travel from Yemen, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia and Libya is of any particular significance–let alone the crisis of the age!–is crazy. But on the Left these days, craziness isn’t just permitted, it is required.

Democrats Face a Political Math Problem and Also, “Phallic Imperialism”
What is “phallic imperialism,” how does the protester propose to “crush” it, and what would a post-phallic world look like? We have to ask questions like that – what do these words mean in the minds of those who use them?? -?if we are to develop any treatment for the madness that has seized these kooks.

GOP must appeal to millennials, urban voters
In order to survive future election cycles, Republicans must appeal to millennial and urban voters, including the college protesters they often denigrate, says Evan Siegfried, author of GOP GPS.

Meet Crispus Attucks, The Black Patriot Who Opposed The Boston Massacre
While many overlook Crispus Attucks’ contribution to American history, he still provides a powerful example of moral courage we should follow.

“Religious Overtones”
Apparently, there aren’t many Christians on Reddit, and I have noticed that Men’s Rights activists (MRAs) tend toward secularism, if not indeed toward Dawkins-style “New Atheism.”

How to Defeat Weaponized Empathy
I’ve spoken at great length on the matter of Weaponized Empathy. It is the primary weapon of the modern Left. Indeed, it so completely dominates their tactical thinking that everything else in their arsenal pales in comparison. Defeating this weapon ought to be the foremost on the mind of any opponent of the Progressive Left.

Don’t Be Too Distracted To Miss That Trump Kept Obama’s LGBT Privileges
Social conservatives need to be aware that the administration may use chaos to distract attention from substantive changes that threaten constituencies that voted for President Trump.

Making California American Again
Californians targeting Sacramento for swamp-draining.

Weaponized Empathy, the Favorite Tool of the Left
Declination has an excellent piece about how the Progressive Left manipulates people into supporting their policies by preying upon their empathy and kindness.

Why Can’t the Left Accept a Defeat?
Because Their “Politics” are a Messianic Cult, and Every Religious Zealot Knows You Cannot Repeal the Kingdom of Heaven Come to Earth

Liberals Embrace Violence
Many have long suspected that if you scratch an American liberal, you will find a budding fascist. I mean that in the literal sense, not as a general epithet. More and more, liberals are openly embracing violence as a path to power. Not just the nuts, either: their recently-defeated vice-presidential nominee, Tim Kaine, has called on his fellow liberals to become street fighting men.

#GamerGate – the canary in the coal mine
Looking back, it’s hard to overstate the cultural significance of GamerGate: it marked when the Left suddenly and unexpectedly lost control of social media, right at the point where the influence of social media actually started to matter.

Hatch joins the Party of Trump
Orrin Hatch may be a 82 and in the Senate way too long, but he has learned a new trick: Forget ’em.

Americans Should Not Have to Subsidize Campus Lawlessness
In 1964, students at the University of California, Berkeley joined together to fight for their right to free speech.

Democrats Look To GOP Districts Where Hillary Clinton Won Or Did Well To Take Back The House In 2018. It’s a Potentially Flawed Strategy.
After two longtime Republican congressional districts in Texas trended blue in 2016, Democrats are planning to target them in hopes of unseating the incumbents in the 2018 midterm elections.

PETA’s Warhammer ban reveals the hypocrisy of its fake fur policy
There are lots of problems with Warhammer fans. Bad haircuts, terrible dress sense, to name just two. These aren’t even stereotypes; as a little girl I went to the Games Workshop multiple times with my brothers, so have first-hand experience.

How Feminism Caused the #Berkeley Riot: Understanding Leftist Psychology
This morning I had planned to follow-up on Wednesday’s riot in Berkeley, but today Grandpa McCain was babysitting both his grandsons, which made blogging impossible.

Leftie Media Beclowned Themselves Over Gorsuch High School Yearbook Entry
When confirmation bias outweighs the desire for accuracy

The Real Message Behind Audi’s Super Bowl Ad Isn’t Exactly An Uplifting One
The Internet is in the proverbial tizzy about Audi’s “feminist” Super Bowl advertisement, in which the automaker comes out in favor of equal pay for women.

Resistance Is Facile
The so-called resistance to President Trump and its promoters in the media are doing a disservice to the democratic values they claim to be upholding.

MSM Loses Their Minds Over Kellyanne Conway “Bowling Green Massacre” Slip-Up
Speaking with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Friday morning, Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway explained the terror threat of immigrants from Iraq. She attacked the media for not covering the “Bowling Green Massacre.” Conway later clarified that she was referring to two Iraqi refugees living in Bowling Green, Kentucky, who were convicted of terrorist activity.

When Sending People to Jail, Criminal Intent Matters
Can a person go to jail for a crime that he had no intent to commit, and that the government admits he did not know would occur?

How To Tell The Difference Between Populism And Fascism
Trump isn’t Hitler. Obama (probably) isn’t Chamberlain. But Piers Brendon’s book, “The Dark Valley,” has valuable lessons about the rise of fascism in the 1930s that are useful today.

To fight income inequality, Make the Bubonic Plague Great Again
What with all the other protests going on these days it’s easy to forget that liberals are still out there marching and protesting against income inequality.

How Fascists Take Power
Last night, there were violent protests at Berkeley University against guest speaker Milo Yiannopoulos of Breitbart News. Occupy Oakland tweeted “We won this night. We will control the streets. We will liberate the land. We will fight fascists. We will dismantle the state. This is war.” What was so interesting was the “we will fight fascists.” Occupy Oakland, and many left wing groups, appear willing to have a revolution to halt a supposedly imminent fascist takeover of the country.

The Campus Special Snowflake™ Blizzard
We must protect their sensitive feelings