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Twitter mob backs death threats as rape survivor hides with her children.
#12702
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Retirement Just Got Very Real — And People are Noticing Her Blatant Hypocrisy
"Actions speak louder than words. Always."
#12703
China’s first space station will meet a fiery end next year when the 8.5-tonne module comes crashing down to Earth, amid concerns authorities have lost control of the craft. The Tiangong-1 space station was launched in September 2011 and currently orbits Earth at an altitude of 230 miles (370km).
#12704
In a classic example of “Never Say Die,” more than two weeks after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was declared the winner in this year's race to occupy the White House, a group of computer scientists and election lawyers are urging Democrat Hillary Clinton to demand a manual recount of ballots, saying they noticed some “statistical irregularities” in key swing states. Computer scientist J. Alex Halderman has asserted that voting machines across the nation “have serious cybersecurity problems” that open them up to hacking. He also emphasized that there’s currently no evidence that machines in key swing states that went to Trump were hacked, but it’s necessary to examine physical evidence to make sure they were not.
#12705
McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook knows the business of food is changing.
So the fast food giant is rolling out self-order kiosks, mobile pay options, an updated interior design, even table service.
The changes are already starting to show up at locations in Florida, New York and Southern California, where 500 restaurants have been updated. Restaurants in San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, D.C. and Seattle will get upgrades in early 2017.
#12706
61 votes and 26 comments so far on Reddit
#12707
A senior representative of the Muslim Council of Britain has said that white British people have a responsibility to integrate more.
#12708
The Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion Wednesday supporting President Trump’s appointment of Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general, despite criticisms from Democrats who have questioned his qualifications to oversee the Russia investigation.
#12709
Angry liberal women organized a national protest today to walk off their jobs and refuse to shop because of Trump. ...
#12710
This is hands down the most cringe worthy regressive leftist feminist ideological bull crap I've had the displeasure of watching. Not funny, not factual and ...
#12711
In the runup to Thanksgiving, Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour tried to fend off the growing criticism of her embrace of Louis Farrakhan — without actually calling out his endless hate speech. Sh…
#12712
Barack Obama proves that Democrats aren’t concerned about norms or “democracy,” they’re concerned about furthering liberal agenda items.
#12713
(Washington DC) – 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...
#12714
Hillary Clinton lost because she took her eyes off the Rust Belt and foolishly tried to “expand the map” into Arizona and Georgia. Clinton lost because she was unlikable and dishonest. Clinton lost because she ran against Donald Trump rather than for something. Clinton lost because 2016 was a “change” election, and she was the candidate of the status quo.
Trump won because he saw an opening in the Midwest that no one else saw. Trump won because his relentless messaging (“Crooked Hillary” and “Make America Great Again”) reaffirmed Clinton’s weaknesses and emphasized his own strengths. Trump won because he was an enormous celebrity who commanded unprecedented media attention. Trump won because his opponents were divided and weak.
All of those arguments (and others) have been marshalled to explain the greatest political upset in modern times, and I fear that they all miss the ideological forest for the trees of political tactics and political process: The fundamental question isn’t why Donald Trump won a close election but rather why he was even in a position to win in the first place.
After all, he was the most intensely disliked candidate in the history of favorability polling, running against the tide of seemingly invincible demographic shifts. The Democrats had the opponent they wanted, the candidate they wanted, and the coalition they’d labored generations to build. There was just one problem — their ideas were failing, sometimes in dramatic, bloody fashion. The examples were legion:
Democrats advocated increased Muslim immigration just as Muslim immigrants and refugees were killing innocent men, women, and children at home and abroad. In fact, leftists didn’t merely “advocate” admitting more refugees, they positively scorned counterarguments as bigoted and Islamophobic — even as the evidence suggesting otherwise mounted. America ended 2015 with a holiday-party massacre in San Bernardino. Germany started the New Year with mass sexual assaults in Cologne and Hamburg and ended it with a truck attack in Berlin. In between, there was carnage in Nice, Brussels, and Orlando. There were attacks in St. Cloud, Columbus, and Manhattan. Those who believed that more Muslim immigration from jihadist conflict zones meant more terror attacks were right. Liberal scorn was wrong.
Democrats fell in lockstep behind Black Lives Matter even as the “Ferguson Effect” spiked crime in America’s largest cities and cops were gunned down in the streets. In Democrat World, it was out of bounds to say “all lives matter.” In the real world, violent protests, increased street crime, and horrific ambush killings of cops taught Americans that radical ideas can have radical consequences.
The Obama Doctrine failed, and the administration redeployed combat troops to Iraq. A presidency that began with a Nobel Peace Prize ends with American troops in ground combat in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, and with American pilots launching air attacks in Southwest Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. In between, the president’s weakness gave jihadists exactly the breathing room they needed, al-Qaeda in Iraq resurrected itself as ISIS, and terrorist armies became stronger than at any other time in modern history. The only thing that helped stop the bleeding was a significant Obama administration reversal. The president who left Iraq came back, and the war grinds on.
The fundamental question isn’t why Donald Trump won a close election but rather why he was even in a position to win in the first place.
A president who promised hope and change left most Americans behind. As Obama leaves office, rich Americans are doing just fine. The rest of the country is stagnant. Indeed, the white-working-class death rate is actually rising in the richest nation in the history of the world. Despair is so palpable that people are increasingly taking their own lives through suicide, alcohol, and drugs. A flood of public assistance couldn’t soothe private pain, and increased immigration was the worst medicine for economically struggling communities.
As jihad spread, crime increased, and families stagnated, the Democrats waged culture war. The Obama administration tried to force nuns to facilitate access to abortifacients. It tried to inject the federal government even into the pastor-hiring process. It lawlessly imposed federal transgender mandates on public schools, and it manufactured a fake rape crisis on campus. All of these things pleased its radical academic base. None of these things helped the communities that were hurting the most.
Why did Democrats stay home? Why did Trump win a greater share of black and Latino votes than Mitt Romney? Demography isn’t necessarily destiny, and a party can demoralize even its most loyal supporters.
#related#None of this means that Republicans are set up for success. Each of the challenges outlined above — from jihad to racial justice to crime to economic mobility — defies easy answers. Indeed, America’s working-class families often suffer from wounds that public policy simply can’t heal. Republican policies have certainly come to grief before, and they may come to grief again.
It’s likely true, if sad, that most Americans don’t care about policy. But most Americans do care about outcomes, and ideas have consequences. For Democrats, those consequences include losing control of every branch of government and the vast majority of the states. This year was the year of their failure. Will they change any of their ideas?
— David French is a staff writer for National Review, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, and an attorney.
#12715
Watching Betsy DeVos answer an array of frivolous questions from Democrats was another reminder that politics is often tragedy.
#12716
A play scheduled to open Saturday night in Chicago targets Barron Trump, the ten-year-old son of newly sworn in President ...
#12717
The acting Attorney General Sally Yates has told Justice Department lawyers not to make legal arguments defending President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration and refugees, according to sources familiar with the order.
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by Joe Audritt (@JoeAudritt) Milo Yiannopoulos, a self-proclaimed ‘Internet Super-Villain’ has once again caused a stir on the internet ? having been profiled in OUT Magazine. Objection to hi…
#12719
Walensky acknowledged "limitations" of available studies but told a congressional subcommittee "our guidance currently is that masking should happen in all schools."
#12720
Rob Schneider continued his making fun of Democrats by slamming crooked Hillary in a tweet he sent out... The Daily Caller reported: Actor Rob Schneider continues to hammer Hillary Clinton, this time tweeting that she needs to be served a restraining order. “At this point, I believe a judge...
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Over the long term, the politicization of everything is a greater threat to American national life than any single politician — including Donald Trump or any candidate the Democrats nominate to challenge him in 2020. If there is no place for common engagement or common enjoyment, then we face more polarization. And make no mistake, polarization can’t continue to worsen indefinitely without placing dangerous strains on the union itself.
And that brings me, of course, to Jimmy Fallon. Yes, this guy:
Fallon, you see, is under fire for not using his late-night show as an arm of the #Resistance ...
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Tuesday, Twitter reminded NFL player-turned-actor Terry Crews that Jack Dorsey’s social media app taxes its popular users for expressing Christian values. Crews, a co-star on the NBC sitcom “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” tweeted polite concern regarding the direction and messaging of the Black Lives Matter Movement. He wrapped his concern in his Christian beliefs, tweeting: “If you […] More
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The program affects approximately 700,000 illegal aliens brought to the United States as children.
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Syndicated Analytics' latest report titled" Sodium Dichromate Manufacturing Plant Project Report 2024: Industry… by jamiecooke
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“If you complain, what are you? Oh, one of the establishment elite? No, I’m a bloke that’s worked hard for his money and I expect to be able to use my own front door.”