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Before the actual election, Newsweek printed and delivered 125,000 copies of the special commemorative edition in anticipation of a Hillary Clinton victory. ...

It’s time for Iowa Governor Terry Branstad to move on. Branstad is America’s longest serving governor. He served from 1983 to 1999. He then came back for a second term in 2011. Bloomberg News is reporting, however, that his next position may be a bit further east. Like, China. Sources say the 70-year old governor, who has a long-term friendship with China’s President Xi Jinping, | Read More

Goodbye Obama! Songwriter Dana Kamide produced this music and video and performs vocals on this wonderful, hilarious Christmas song parody which says it all!...

I pledge to stand side-by-side with the Trump administration to throw out Obama’s reckless immigration policies and start enforcing our nation’s laws.

Donald Trump Carrier Plant FULL Speech 12/1/16. Donald J. Trump had been vowing for months on the campaign trail to call the head of Carrier from the Oval Of...

‘If you go any further, then the frontiers will be opened,’ Turkish president said after Parliament voted to freeze accession talks.

Information found on a smartphone belonging to the men led to information.

Surprise? Opposition to Electoral College Softens The last time the Electoral College split with voters it took a beating in public opinion. When George W. Bush captured the presidency from Al Gore...

President Barack Obama met privately at the White House Wednesday with the Dalai Lama, a session that predictably sparked anger among Chinese officials who accuse the Tibetan spiritual leader of sponsoring a separatist movement.

New book by Naomi Klein reveals that Virgin founder gave less than a tenth of cash promised to develop low carbon fuel

Megyn Kelly wants more money, and just a few months ago, likely thought a bidding war would ensue between networks should they decide to be graced by her presence. That hasn?t happened, and now Kelly must face the reality she is not nearly so valuable, desired, and perhaps respected, as she thought. Via the L.A. Times: ?

It’s now official: leftists are the actual book-burners. In Field of Dreams, Ray and Annie Kinsella face down supposed right-wing fascist censors who want to ban books by black author Terrence Mann. This prompts 1960s uber-leftist Annie to call her opponent a “Nazi cow” and then exclaims, “Who’s for Eva Braun here? Who wants to burn books? Who wants to piss on the Constitution of the United States? Anybody? All right. Now, who’s for the Bill of Rights? Come on…who thinks freedom’s a pretty good thing?”

Butthurt social justice warrior and professional victim Tess Rafferty loves to compete in the special snowflake oppression Olympics. Just like every other SJ...

Many of Donald Trump’s conservative supporters are praising his Carrier Corporation intervention -- even though the deal ignores free-market principles.

The Left is not going to learn any lessons from 2016, apparently. Democrats in the House just crushed an upstart challenge to Nancy Pelosi’s decade-long leadership, rejecting Tim Ryan, a 43-year-old congressman who represents a swath of post-industrial Ohio from Youngstown to Akron and co-chairs the Congressional Manufacturing Caucus, for the 76-year-old San Francisco congresswoman who has presided over the largest House losses in modern memory, and who famously said that the House had to pass the Affordable Care Act “so you can find out what is in it.” As for leadership outside the halls of Congress, the favorite to head the Democratic National Committee has been Keith Ellison, a Muslim congressman from Minnesota who has extensive ties to the Nation of Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood, and who has compared the September 11 attacks to the burning of the Reichstag. Much left-wing punditry is similarly oblivious. Writing at Slate shortly after the election, Jamelle Bouie declared that “there is no such thing as a good Trump voter,” dismissing the notion that a “good person” could have cast a vote for Donald Trump. In the New York Times, Columbia humanities professor Mark Lilla wrote a searching piece, “The End of Identity Liberalism,” suggesting that “American liberalism has slipped into a kind of moral panic about racial, gender and sexual identity that has distorted liberalism’s message and prevented it from becoming a unifying force capable of governing.” His Columbia colleague, Katherine Franke, writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books, declared Lilla a fellow traveler of David Duke, and that his essay aimed to “make white supremacy respectable.” And, of course, the “leaders of tomorrow” populating the nation’s dormitories have been engaged in a public display of mass neurosis. Students at St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y., claimed that a “Trump/Pence” flag in a campus window constituted “harassment,” while several student groups at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., declared that employing police on campus was an “act of violence” because the Fraternal Order of Police had endorsed Donald Trump. RELATED: Dems Have a Pelosi Problem Take all of that (and more) together and there is the distinct sense that the Left’s response to this election is going to be one not of introspection but of finger-pointing. The culprit for its shellacking at every level was not decades of labeling cultural conservatives “racists” and immigration restrictionists “xenophobes” and abortion opponents “misogynists”; it wasn’t the foolish decision to dismiss the white working class not as simply unwinnable but as not worth winning — moral reprobates with backward views; it wasn’t the choice to clear the way for a presidential candidate with longstanding issues of corruption and untrustworthiness; it was “white supremacy” and “sexism” and “fake news.” On Thursday, in a forum at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook blamed his candidate’s loss on FBI director James Comey. Obviously, the Left’s diagnoses of the ascendancy of Donald Trump are not wholly wrong. Among a small fringe, Trump’s was an explicitly racialist appeal. Likewise, “fake news” was a real problem, from “rigged election” conspiracy theories on Infowars to the Drudge Report’s multiple stories about Bill Clinton’s “son,” Danny Williams, a story that Drudge itself debunked years ago. The Left has been relentless in giving to every partisan dispute the moral urgency of warfare. But 60 million people are not “white nationalists,” or dupes, or whatever else. They are, on the whole, well-intentioned Americans whose priorities simply differ from those of Slate writers. The Left has failed to understand the extent to which its intolerant, often coercive, approach to issues that permit good-willed disagreement has turned off voters who might otherwise be sympathetic to their general program — and radicalized further those who aren’t. The Democratic-party chairman of Mahoning County, Ohio, recently told the Washington Post, “People in the heartland thought the Democratic Party cared more about where someone else went to the restroom than whether they had a good-paying job” — and that’s because it did. The Left has been relentless in giving to every partisan dispute the moral urgency of warfare. It’s the Left that turned Supreme Court nominations into nasty affairs. It’s the Left that co-opted America’s health-care industry on a party-line vote. It’s the Left that scrapped the filibuster. It’s the Left that forced nuns to purchase contraception. If the Right was willing to countenance a great deal of heterodoxy in 2016, it’s in part because they perceive a Left that has become unconscionably radical. That is not to say the Right does not have serious problems of its own creation. Trump’s success would not have been possible without a real, and alarming, moral and intellectual vacuity. Opportunism in right-wing media trades on the emotivism of talk-radio listeners eager to have their worst fears about the country confirmed, and ideological zealotry has made the necessary task of compromise more difficult. RELATED: Learning from Nancy Pelosi But radicalism breeds radicalism, and the Left, in the aftermath of a massive defeat, should recognize that. A Left that ensconces itself in a sanctimonious refusal to consider the world from the perspectives of its detractors is a Left destined to become more politically impotent and nastier. That may work to Republicans’ short-term gain. But a nastier Left means a nastier Right. America needs a sane Left. At its best, the Left balances right-wing excesses. Where the Right elevates the individual, the Left attends to the good of collectives. Where the Right values social solidarity, the Left values difference. The Right emphasizes the best parts of our common traditions; the Left is sensitive to how those traditions have left certain people vulnerable, marginalized, or disenfranchised. #related#This is worthy work. But it can’t be imposed, and shouldn’t be. A Left that can temper its sense of apocalypse by recognizing the legitimate moral prerogatives of its political opponents would aim to persuade rather than coerce — but, for that reason, would be able to expand its coalition and be better able to find common ground with the Right. A sense of common cause would be vastly preferable to our current moment of extreme polarization and defensiveness. But it requires a bit of humility. The Left, not its myriad scapegoats, is most responsible for its failures this year. A Left that can acknowledge that, and respond accordingly, will lead to a less radical Right, and a healthier politics overall. — Ian Tuttle is the Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at the National Review Institute.

Tucker Carlson spoke with the public editor of the New York Times on Friday night. They kept the conversation civil ...

To the editor: So now we have two election losers, Jill Stein of the Green Party and Democrat Hillary Clinton , resorting to a recount in Wisconsin. This will not change the outcome of the election. (“ There are plenty of things to object to about the election. It being ‘rigged’ isn’t one of them ,” editorial, Nov. 29)

Let me get this straight – a restaurant with no bosses, no tipping, and everyone gets paid exactly the same ?

(CNSNews.com) – Conservative attorney Cleta Mitchell said on Friday that Barack Obama has acted more like a dictator than a president, and that President-elect Donald Trump should make it a priority to “restore the rule of law.”

Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and President Obama are taking one more stab at retaining control of the Internet before they leave Washington.

Some U.S. lawmakers who served in the military prior to joining Congress welcome Trump’s appointment of retired Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis.

Before Thursday's vote authorizing new sanctions against Iran, one of the most impassioned speeches on the chamber’s floor against the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal came from a member of President Obama’s own party.

Iran's foreign minister is condemning the U.S. Senate's extension of a piece of anti-Iran legislation.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has provided at least $930,000 in support of the controversial work of the Black Lives Matter organization.

Yesterday, we told you about CNN getting caught joking about Donald Trump’s plane crashing when they thought no one was ...