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Sunday, November 20, 2016
Did Academia Help Elect Donald Trump?
Many undergraduates, their fawn-like eyes wide with astonishment, are wondering: Why didn’t the dean of students prevent the election from disrupting the serenity to which my school has taught me that I am entitled? Campuses create “safe spaces” where students can shelter from discombobulating thoughts and receive spiritual balm for the trauma of microaggressions. Yet the presidential election came without trigger warnings?
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Cabinet Making With Donald
The election of Donald Trump was never about one man. It was about the thousands of agency jobs at every level of government that would either be filled by men and women of principle — or the second coming of Eric Holders, Loretta Lynchs, and Lois Lerners. With Trump’s victory, Americans didn’t just win back the White House — they won back Washington and its hundreds of levers of power, from civil rights commissions to the IRS’s office of tax exemption. And in the hotbed of U.S. rules and regulation creation, that may be the most important win of all last Tuesday.
Trump’s First Picks
The Trump Transition team announced its first cabinet picks [Friday] morning.
Reconciliation
The parades of protesters weeping, vandalizing businesses, carrying the Mexican and Palestinian flags, shouting “Not my president!” and otherwise giving peaceful protest a bad name have been justly rebuked as hysterical. In the week since his election, the president-elect has behaved in a restrained and sober fashion, has observed the rituals of power transition without incident, and has made two hires: one reassuring and the other somewhat troubling.
What to Tell Your Children About Trump
We are the world’s oldest democracy, we are good people, and we’ve been through shocks before.
Obama’s Post-Presidency Agenda Revealed: Attack State Redistricting in the Name of ‘Fairness’
Eric Holder will chair a new 527 political action committee, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC). With that announcement, Holder revealed the deep partisanship that he tried to obscure while serving as attorney general. Yet, that partisanship drove him throughout his tenure as the nation’s top law enforcement officer.
Army says Band Can’t Perform in Religious Christmas Show
At first, the Army was really excited about the opportunity, but it was also noncommittal. I just assumed it was was checking the calendar, but it turns out it was investigating my Christmas show.
Grandchildren of the Sixties
College students in the streets protesting a Trump presidency are not so very different from the demonstrators who took over Columbia University in April 1968. Nevertheless, what took place in less than three weeks back then did a lot to mold the present.
Liberalism: Just Another Name for Fascism
Emotions like euphoria and jubilation are alien to me, but that is how I’ve felt since the wee hours of November 9th. Talk about Hope and Change! Whereas I usually get a nose bleed long before I get anywhere near cloud nine, I’ve been floating on cloud eighteen for days now. To sum up, I can only say that Thanksgiving came a little early this year.
Friday, November 18, 2016
Oh the Irony of It All!
It’s up to the reader to be challenged and try to find the truth. Here is something that can’t be denied: the colder world in 1976, when blocking developed over the pole because it was warmer over the poles similar to what we see now.
Obama’s Disconnects and Delusions
President Obama, in Greece, said world leaders should learn from the U.S. presidential election and pay attention to the public’s fears and frustration about the economy. Why? He never has.
Clarence Thomas: A Great Justice for the Constitution
Why do media polemicists such as Jeffrey Toobin continue their uninformed, unfair, and vitriolic attacks on Justice Clarence Thomas as he celebrates his 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court?
School Feared American Flag Might Cause Post-Election Backlash
There’s trouble brewing in Lincoln, Nebraska, where students at a public school were told they could not fly the American flag because it might spark some sort of post-election backlash.
History Strikes Back
President Barack Obama won’t explicitly say that Donald Trump is on the wrong side of history, but surely he believes it.
The Trump Transition Tizzy
The liberal media has been in a frenzy all week. It thinks Donald Trump and his transition team are taking too long to announce his cabinet picks and other appointees.
The Cracked Crystal Ball of Liberal Celebrities
Before the shock of President Donald Trump wears off, let’s remember to tip our hats to Tinseltown. What would we do without it? The self-absorbed Beautiful People of the town called on America to become as enlightened as they by supporting Hillary Clinton. They proudly donned their “I’m With Her” buttons.
Draining the Swamp
The Trump-Pence team made a major announcement [Wednesday]. After it was discovered that lobbyists had been brought into the transition team, Vice President-elect Mike Pence moved quickly to remove them.
Complaints About the ‘Normalization’ of Trump Are Hypocritical
The war on normalization has begun. “The media is starting to normalize Donald Trump, and it should make you very scared,” proclaims a headline at Salon. HBO’s haughty in-house mocker, John Oliver, says, “Optimism is nice if you can swing it, but you’ve got to be careful, because it can feed into the normalization of Donald Trump — and he’s not normal.”
The Worst Excesses of the Left
In the past week, as conservative opponents of Donald Trump have come to terms with his victory, nothing has done more to help them give Trump the benefit of the doubt than the complete meltdown by the American left. Having written just last week that those of us who got the election wrong exercise some humility and consider we might have gotten Trump wrong too, leftwing activists have flooded my inbox with hate mail for selling out to fascism.
Mason Jars Students With Intolerance
When George Mason University President Angel Cabrera said, “You belong at Mason,” he must not have meant conservatives. After the election, GMU tried to reassure people that the university was a place where everyone was welcome.