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Legislators who say they are weary of a year of protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline have proposed a slew of bills aimed at demonstrators.

Proving they still know how to engineer polling results, ABC/Washington Post and CNN are out with a pair of polls this morning, on Trump's favorability, that sport some of the most egregious "oversamples" we've seen.

She needs to consider herself bulldozed.

As Rich notes below, the Congressional Budget Office just released a report estimating that if Republicans pass a carbon copy of their January 2016 bill to partially repeal Obamacare, 18 million fewer people would have health insurance in 2018, and 32 million fewer in 2026. Premiums would go up by 20-25 percent in 2018, and double by 2026. Today at our Forbes blog, I have a post up detailing the problems with the CBO’s estimates. I’ll summarize them here. 1. The CBO’s estimates assume no Obamacare replacement. Obviously, if you only repeal, without a replace, fewer people will have health insurance than they do under current law. Republicans have promised to repeal and replace the law, but the CBO could only score the repeal because the replacement has not yet been put into legislative language. Donald Trump promised over the weekend that his replacement would offer “insurance for everybody,” though his press secretary sought to dial back that promise. 2. The CBO massively overestimates the impact of Obamacare’s individual mandate. CBO believes that 18 million fewer people will have coverage in 2018 due to the fact that the partial repeal bill, H.R. 3762, immediately repeals the individual mandate. The CBO has long held a view of the mandate’s power that far exceeds reality. For example, CBO believes that 5 million fewer people will be enrolled in Medicaid as a result of repealing the mandate. But enrollees in Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion are exempt from the individual mandate, due to their low incomes. 3. The GOP repeal bill is likely to treat Medicaid differently than H.R. 3762 does. In H.R. 3762, last year’s partial repeal bill, Republicans repealed the entirety of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion. This time around, they may do something different, such as allowing states to continue their Medicaid expansions but with only 60 percent of the costs covered by the feds, like the old Medicaid program, instead of 90 percent as under the Obamacare expansion. Hence, the impact on coverage under Medicaid will be lower than in H.R. 3762. 4. The CBO has a poor track record of predicting Obamacare’s coverage numbers. In 2010, the CBO predicted that 21 million people would be enrolled in Obamacare’s exchanges. The actual number was 12 million. CBO does not appear to have significantly adjusted its thinking in light of these issues. The full article is here. For thoughts on how to cover the uninsured in a market-based way, read “Understanding FREOPP’s Obamacare Replacement in 10 Minutes or Less” at the website of our new think tank, the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.

    The bias of the mainstream media has been evident for years. The bias has turned to open hostility with the rise of President-elect Donald Trump. The simple liberal slant has turned into a crusade among political commentators and anchors determined to shut down the conservative right. CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill appeared on CNN Tonight as part of a panel discussion hosted by Don Lemon. Hill described Trump diversity team member Bruce LeVell as being apart of a group of “mediocre Negroes.” The remark was made as part of a rant that described members of the Trump diversity team as not being qualified enough to represent Black interests. What does CNN believe qualifies as a Black worthy of representing the race’s interests? What makes one greater than just a “mediocre Negro”? This has become the norm at CNN, to engage in bully tactics and name-calling as part of an agenda hostile to the right. Not only has the network taken to favoring one side over the other,?

On Monday while President Obama was taking part in a global nuclear security summit in South Korea, he was caught on tape asking for Russian President Dmitry...

Last week, Democrats launched a full-scale media press for an investigation into potential Trump Secretary of Health and Human Services Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) for corruption. Why? Because according to Public Citizen, Price traded some $300,000 in health care stocks while presiding over regulation of the health care industry as chair of the House Budget Committee. Senator Patty Murray announced on Thursday, “I urge Republicans to work with us to make sure we have all the facts in front of us and they are fully reviewed before Congressman Price advances.”

The Left’s anti-Trump hysteria just took a potentially deadly turn. An undercover investigation by Project Veritas has exposed the D.C. Anti-Fascist Coalition’s plans to attack the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Rather than allow Trump-Pence supporters and others to celebrate the peaceful transition of power between the 44th and 45th presidents of the United States, leaders of the DCA-FC are conspiring to sabotage the pro-Trump DeploraBall, scheduled for Thursday, January 19, at the National Press Club. “It would be really something if we could stop them from having the DeploraBall at all,” said one radical in video footage captured by an investigator for the conservative watchdog group who infiltrated this far-left hate organization. Project Veritas’s journalist attended a December 16 planning meeting at the Love + Solidarity Collective in Washington, D.C. The DCA-FC plans to assault the sold-out inauguration-eve soiré​e, for which I registered on December 29 and that I’m excited to attend. Their weapon of choice? Butyric acid bombs. “If you had . . . a pint of butyric acid, I don’t care how big the building is, it’s closing,” DCA-FC conspirator Luke Kuhn said at another planning session at Comet Ping Pong, a D.C. pizzeria. “All you got to do is pull the pin, press the plunger, and the whole can discharges.” Leftists might try to claim that butyric acid bombs are nothing more than “stink bombs” — but butyric acid is hardly Earth-friendly. It is a frightful, dangerous chemical. “Inhalation causes irritation of mucous membrane and respiratory tract; may cause nausea and vomiting,” according to the National Institute of Health. “Ingestion causes irritation of mouth and stomach. Contact with eyes may cause serious injury. Contact with skin may cause burns; chemical is readily absorbed through the skin and may cause damage by this route.” Other effects include “cough, shortness of breath, labored breathing . . . abdominal pain; shock or collapse.” NIH also advises: “Contact with metals may evolve flammable hydrogen gas. Containers may explode when heated.” “That stuff is nasty enough that it will seep,” DCA-FC fanatic Scott Green boasted. “It will spread.” DCA-FC also hopes to trigger the fire alarms at the DeploraBall. “I’m trying to think through how to get all the sprinklers to go off at once,” said DCA-FC saboteur Colin Dunn. “There’s usually a piece of, like, fusible metal or a piece of glass with liquid in it that will blow.” The idea is to send pro-Trump revelers scrambling from the National Press Club. “Everybody is going to walk outside in the freezing cold,” Dunn said, most likely into throngs of enraged protesters. Naturally, engaged sprinklers would bring firefighters racing to this major office building, divert precious government resources, and create follow-on, possibly lethal hazards, including collisions between speeding fire trucks and pedestrians or other vehicles. Firefighters also could find themselves deployed at this scene of politically motivated pandemonium, rather than at blazes that roar elsewhere. Activating sprinklers also would cause water damage to the building and its tenants, causing further unnecessary havoc and destruction. This was not just idle chatter by these so-called anti-fascists. In the video, Dunn and Green make plans to visit the National Press Club building and survey its premises. “It may work better with two people,” Dunn explained. “That way, it’s not one person’s memory saying, ‘Here’s where everything is.’” Green then distributed an e-mail on December 21, confirming that this surveillance had occurred. “The reconnaissance went pretty well,” he wrote, “and we left with the confidence that we can accomplish our objectives with no negative consequences for our side, nor any collateral damage.” There is nothing cute or funny about any of this. These violent extremists refuse to accept Donald J. Trump as president and will not give the incoming chief executive even 24 hours to see if he indeed lives down to their dark fantasies about his agenda. Instead, these agitators plot mayhem and destruction and break the law. There is nothing cute or funny about any of this. These violent extremists refuse to accept Donald J. Trump as president. At a minimum, if executed, DCA-FC’s conspiracy looks like a clear violation of Washington, D.C. Code § 22-1319 (c)(1): It shall be unlawful for anyone to willfully or knowingly, with the intent of intimidating or frightening people, causing panic or civil unrest . . . make, or cause to be made, a false or fictitious report to any individual, which initiates a response by District of Columbia emergency personnel or officials. Since these wicked people hope to rock the federal city, they already may have breached numerous statutes in the U.S. Code and certainly will, if they actually unleash their evil. Appropriately enough, Project Veritas has briefed the FBI, Secret Service, and the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department about DCA-FC’s savage ambitions. In addition to unveiling this group’s anti-American behavior, Project Veritas’s advance word to law enforcement could spare scores of innocent U.S. citizens from potentially injurious chemical attack. Now that law enforcement is aware of their plans, will these self-styled “anti-fascist” warriors retreat? Thursday night will tell. Whether or not they abandon their subversion, these bitter clingers will not vanish any time soon. “The next four years, we are going to fight Trump and everything he stands for with no quarter asked, no quarter given,” warned a member of the leftist umbrella group DISRUPTJ20. “No mercy of any kind.” “If you try to close us down, we will look for your house,” Luke Kuhn of DCA-FC threatens. “We will burn it. We will physically fight the police if they try to steal one of our places. We will go to war, and you will lose.” Even if they stand down, the D.C. Anti-Fascist Coalition already has unmasked the utter vacuity of the Left’s slogan: “Love trumps hate.” — Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a contributing editor with National Review Online.

Top political appointees at intelligence agencies are engaged in a dangerous and discrediting full-scale war against Donald Trump.

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It looks like the Clintons are running for cover. After Donald J. Trump devastated the once formidable Clinton political machine in November – the Clinton Global Initiative, the centerpiece initiative of the Clinton Foundation, the former first couple?s political and financial power structure – is being shut down. According to a notice filed with the New York [?]

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It may have been the Chicago Cubs’ day at the White House, but that didn’t stop President Obama from repeatedly talking about himself while honoring them. In what he called his final ceremony at the White House, Obama delivered roughly 22 minutes of remarks about the Cubs’ World Series win, and in the process, managed …

Kass: Who shaped Chicago Police Department culture in DOJ report? They weren't saints.

CNN analyst Marc Lamont Hill attacked a fellow panelist Monday for his work on Donald Trump's National Diversity Coalition, calling him a "mediocre Negro" being

In a speech that one-upped even some of the president-elect’s colorful Twitter commentary, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday called Donald Trump’s political enemies “worse than prostitutes” for disseminating a dubiously-sourced dossier last week alleging a relationship between Trump and the Kremlin.

Political strategist Jehmu Greene says suspicion of Russian hacking in the election was an attack on US democracy, agrees with Rep. John Lewis that Trump's presidency is illegitimate and sounds

Mason Weaver, an author and former member of the Black Panther movement, said Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) presided over the "destruction of black America" in the years following his march with other Civil Rights leaders across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965.

The conclusions of the Justice Department’s damning report on the Chicago Police Department were probably foreordained.

Republicans made a promise they can’t keep. Obamacare supporters have chances to use that against them.