[Wash Examiner] On Christmas Day, 18-month-old Ava Floyd ingested "a large quantity" of fentanyl while her parents were producing and packing the potent drug for sale at their home in Clinton Township, Mich. That afternoon, Ava died at a local hospital. An autopsy found that her tiny body contained "15 times as much fentanyl as officials have seen in recent overdose deaths."
I read the heartbreaking story of Ava’s death just before I entered my daughter’s room to turn her ambient sound machine from lullabies to white noise. From the side of her crib, I looked down at my daughter’s sprawled-out sleeping form, all 23 pounds of her brimming with limitless potential. I reached my hand down to touch her chest, to feel it rise and fall, thinking of the thousands of hours I have devoted to keeping her safe and happy.
As I often do, I worried about her future.
Before I read about Ava, I mostly worried about what might happen when my daughter began to attend the local high school, just over an hour west of Clinton Twp., which has earned its nickname, "Heroin High," from the drug problems that plague our town. At the playgroup where I bring my daughter twice a week, mothers who graduated from the high school sometimes share stories about how heroin sales take place at the school, despite the constant surveillance of security guards. When they sense my abject horror, they say things like, "It’s not a big deal, you just learn to stay away from it," as though heroin is a series of unmarked physical pits in the hallways that an unwary student might accidentally fall inside.
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Ending the lives Planned Parenthood doesn't get a shot at ending. The dems really have no problem with this and neither do alleged "conservatives" like Kevin Williamson at Notional Review. Expecting a solution from those quarters is futile...
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Dick Chaney introduced me to that most useful word Dither. So appropriate when applied especially to Democrats.
[American Thinker] Do Democrats have a #MeToo problem? Or more to the point, a pervert problem?
Yet another prominent Democratic Party donor got arrested for sex with a 16-year-old. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports:
A prominent Democratic Party donor and gay rights activist has been charged with sex crimes involving a child younger than 16.
Real estate developer Terry Bean pleaded not guilty to two counts of sodomy and one count of sexual abuse Thursday in Lane County court. Prosecutors say the charges stem from an incident in September 2013. A grand jury voted to indict Bean earlier this month, but the indictment was secret until his arraignment.
His arrest follows the news from Los Angeles about the mysterious, sexually linked death of a second black man at the home of another bigfoot Democratic Party donor, Ed Buck, who's been called a "serial predator" by investigative reporter Jasmyne Cannick, who's been on his case for years. Democrats have maintained silence about this one, refusing even to say whether they'll return the political donations they took from Buck to their benefit. (Exception: Rep. Karen Bass, who returned her donation from him several years ago, after the first body turned up.) Still no word from Adam Schiff...
Over in Arizona this year, there was also the case of Democrat donor Sal James Rivera, who was busted for assaulting a woman in a car after asking her to take him home, claiming he was too drunk to drive. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Rep. David Garcia both took cash from this one.
[Hot Air] President Trump left the White House on Saturday morning to travel to Dover Air Force Base to pay tribute to four fallen American heroes, the victims of a suicide bomb attack in Syria. He will be meeting with their families. As is his habit now, he stopped to answer questions from the press before boarding Marine One. He was asked about the Buzzfeed story and thanked Mueller’s Office of Special Counsel (OSC) for issuing a statement strongly pushing back on the credibility of the story.
’It hurts me to say it but mainstream media has really hurt its credibility", Trump said. He called the story ‐ one that claimed President Trump instructed his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a prospective business deal in Moscow a "total phony story" and a "disgrace to the country, to journalism. Media coverage was disgraceful." Apparently, disgraceful is the word of the day. He’s not wrong.
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...Given the number of "THIS-time-we've-got-him!" stories that have blown up in the Media's face, I'm starting to see this as a Road Runner cartoon...and DJT is the Road Runner.
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[NYPOST] I’m outraged. You’re outraged. They’re all outraged. We’re all outraged!!! Except, what if we’re not?
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported that Gillette’s new toxic-masculinity ad caused an "online uproar." "Gillette Ad With a #MeToo Edge Attracts Support and Outrage," claimed The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... . "Gillette faces backlash and boycott over ’#MeToo advert," ran a typical headline in the BBC this week.
Outrage? Uproar? Backlash? I’d say it’s more like a hacklash. It’s journalists dealing out pretend outrage.
Lazy media news hounds who are too lazy to even actually speak to people anymore are instead constructing Potemkin Villages of fake hate, fake disgust and fake outrage. They’re Contemptkin Villages. No one really lives there. The laziest hacks can build them using tweets, even tweets from anonymous Twitter accounts. Somehow these hacks are employed at places like the BBC and the Times.
The instantly infamous Gillette ad calling out "toxic masculinity" that painted males as bullies and sexual harassers certainly spurred a lot of conversation. But were dudes outraged or did they just think the ad was misguided and wrong? Men aren’t going James-McAvoy-in-"Glass" Beastmode on Gillette. They’re just saying, "I’d rather not be lectured about what a bully and a creep I am, especially by my toiletries." The New York Times quoted an obscure Irish deejay calling the ad "condescending" on Twitter as an example of "outrage," alongside the British chat-show host Piers Morgan saying the ad was "pathetic." "You’re pathetic" is an expression of outrage?
The BBC claimed breathlessly, "There have been calls for Gillette to post an apology video." There have? Click through on the source for this tidbit, and it turns out to be a Twitter user with 18 followers who also demanded that everyone at Gillette be forced to read a men’s-rights book. Sure. Later in the piece the BBC cites another supposedly angry party to the controversy. That turned out to be an anonymous Twitter user with six followers.
(Most observers readily grasped that Gillette is desperately using cynical marketing ploys to make us remember they exist. "Gillette, Bleeding Market Share, Cuts Price of Razors" ran a Wall Street Journal headline in 2017.)
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Fake Media. And the newest generation of corporate execs who advertise on Fake Media are low IQ losers.
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True. A grand disappointment. I remember saying to an elderly chap it couldn't get worse and his immediate reply was "you wanna bet". I have avoided the mainstream media for years now. Vietnam was my tipping point. I am thankful for alternative sights like Rantburg.I might get chewed out now and then but no harm done. Another old gentleman said to me one day "if you want to be happy in this world don't read the newspaper or watch TV". That was long before Internet, cell phones and so on. OH happy days. I must say myself that congress is as corrupt as it always has been. Then the media more so.
[Jpost] Current events in Britannia’s Parliament are making politics in both Israel and America look positively sane and tranquil by comparison.
Around the world, jaws are dropping at the UK’s convulsions over leaving the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . This resembles not so much a divorce as an amputation without anesthetic using blunt knives and a broken saw, with the surgeons throwing punches across the operating table.
This week, the deal struck between Prime Minister Theresa May and the EU over the Brexit terms was thrown out by an enormous majority in the House of Commons.
Although this was the largest prime ministerial defeat in British history, Mrs. May survived a motion of no-confidence the following evening.
This was largely because of two factors: the infighting among Tories about who should replace her, and the fear of precipitating a general election which might bring the far-left Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to power.
At the core of May’s spectacularly inept EU negotiating strategy lay a fundamental conceptual error. Britannia is bitterly split down the middle between Brexiteers and Remainers, who want to stay in the EU. May wanted to deliver a Brexit deal which would bring both sides together by giving each a little of what it wanted.
But on the issue of sovereign British independence, there can be no compromise. The UK is either out of the EU or it is in. May’s deal would have left the UK under the thumb of the EU over which, as a non-EU member, it would no longer have any influence at all. It was Brexit in name only ‐ or Remain by stealth.
The lesson here for the wider world is that negotiating with the non-negotiable always leads to surrender. Under pressure from the West, Israel has tried to bridge an unbridgeable gulf with rejectionist Arabs. As a result, it has been unable to extricate itself from a perpetual state of war and terrorist attack.
May has survived; but Brexit itself now faces its moment of greatest peril. For a majority of MPs are Remainers, and many if not most are determined to stop Brexit in its tracks.
WESTMINSTER IS currently heaving with plots aimed at reversing the 2016 referendum result ‐ while purporting to honor it.
So MPs are coming up with demands to delay the legal date for the UK’s departure, demands for a second referendum, demands for "compromise" departure terms that are, in effect, forms of Remain.
This is all to break what is widely reported as the parliamentary "deadlock" over the issue. But there’s no deadlock. The legally binding default position is that if no deal with the EU is struck, Britannia will leave on March 29 without a deal.
This is enshrined in an act of parliament passed last year. So the way forward is in fact very clear. The problem is that MPs who passed this act of parliament now want to dump it. They claim that leaving with no deal is out of the question because it would plunge Britannia into chaos and ruin.
Yet instead of helping bring that about, Remainer MPs are spitting in the eye of democracy by seeking to reverse the referendum result, thus setting parliament against the people. Why?
At the core of much Remain thinking lies a profound indifference toward or even contempt for the very idea of a sovereign nation. For people who take pride in their cosmopolitanism and who regard national ties as a form of bigoted atavism, democracy can be endlessly reinvented in their own image.
Such Remainers thus grossly underrated the depth of feeling behind the vote for Brexit because they grossly underrate Britannia itself.
[TheHill] Russia has failed to develop into a nation state with a strong ethnic or civic identity. It remains an imperial construct due to its Tsarist and Soviet heritage.
The unwieldy Russian Federation consists of 85 "federal subjects," of which 22 are republics representing non-Russian ethnicities, including the North Caucasus and Middle Volga, and numerous regions with distinct identities that feel increasingly estranged from Moscow.
Instead of pursuing decentralization to accommodate regional aspirations, the Kremlin is downgrading their autonomy. This is evident in the new language law designed to promote "Russification" and plans to merge and eliminate several regions.
Pressure is mounting across the country, with growing anger at local governors appointed by the Kremlin and resentment that Moscow appropriates their resources. Indeed, regions such as Sakha and Magadan in the far east, with their substantial mineral wealth, could be successful states without Moscow’s exploitation.
Given Russia’s ailments, an assertive Western approach would be more effective than reactive defense. Washington needs to return to core principles that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union by supporting democratization, pluralism, minority rights, genuine federalism, decentralization and regional self-determination among Russia’s disparate regions and ethnic groups. Isn't that what they accuse Russia of doing to us?
The rationale for dissolution should be logically framed: In order to survive, Russia needs a federal democracy and a robust economy; with no democratization on the horizon and economic conditions deteriorating, the federal structure will become increasingly ungovernable.
To manage the process of dissolution and lessen the likelihood of conflict that spills over state borders, the West needs to establish links with Russia’s diverse regions and promote their peaceful transition toward statehood.
NATO should prepare contingencies for both the dangers and the opportunities that Russia’s fragmentation will present. In particular, Moscow’s European neighbors must be provided with sufficient security to shield themselves from the most destabilizing scenarios while preparations are made for engaging with emerging post-Russia entities.
Some regions could join countries such as Finland, Ukraine, China and Japan, from whom Moscow has forcefully appropriated territories in the past. Other republics in the North Caucasus, Middle Volga, Siberia and the far east could become fully independent states and forge relations with China, Japan, the U.S. and Europe.
Neglecting Russia’s dissolution may prove more damaging to Western interests than making preparations to manage its international repercussions. To avoid sudden geopolitical jolts and possible military confrontations, Washington needs to monitor and encourage a peaceful rupture and establish links with emerging entities.
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[USA Today] Welcome to the last in my series of columns on the year ahead. In my four earlier ones, I covered why December was lousy and why stocks are on the right side of a swift V-shaped recovery. U.S. stocks have climbed more than 10 percent since the market close on Christmas Eve. Accompanied by wild wiggles, the rest of 2019 should be similarly happy.
On December 17, I explained how stocks’ have averaged 34 percent before dividends in the 12 months after all of history’s correction bottoms (meaning a drop of 10 to 19.99 percent in the Standard & Poor's 500 index).
Assuming December 24 remains the bottom, this correction ended later in a calendar year than any correction or bear market ever. An average aftermath now would make 2019 simply stellar, and surprise almost everyone. That’s bullish.
Maybe December 24 wasn’t the bottom. We can’t know for sure. But there were abundant bottomish signals. Mutual fund outflows reached levels only associated with major market bottoms. December outflows matched March, 2009, when the last bear market ended. U.S. stock market liquidity sank like a brick, also echoing prior lows.
Price-to-earnings ratios contracted last year ‐ earnings soared while stocks fell. A simple secret: Basically every year valuations shrink, the next year they expand. So unless earnings fall, stocks rise. Analysts expect 6.9 percent earnings growth in 2019. Earnings almost always exceed analysts’ estimates. Expanding valuations on top of earnings growth would cause big positive stock returns
Good years follow bad years unless you have global recession or world war. We’ve never had two straight negative stock market years ‐ except with the Great Depression, the two World Wars, the early 1970s debacle and the tech bubble. Otherwise, stocks were spring-loaded the next year.
And recession is unlikely. I showed you exactly why last week via the Leading Economic Index series ‐ a great predictor for this.
Many misguided people still think the interest rate "yield curve" inverted, signaling that a downturn lurks. I explained on July 22nd why that is wrong and how to view it correctly to see reality.
[CNN] Washington (CNN)A day after President Donald Trump offered his plan to end the shutdown and fund a border wall in exchange for temporary protections for groups of immigrants, Democrats stood by their demand to reopen the government before negotiating about the border.
"Let's not hold the American people, especially the federal workers, hostage to these negotiations," South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, a member of Democratic leadership, told Fox News. "And hopefully we will open with what he has put on the table, and let's go back and forth on this and see where we can find common ground."
The Democratic rejection came as Vice President Mike Pence made clear the GOP intended to go forward with the plan the President outlined, positions that combined to show little tangible progress toward ending the longest government shutdown on record.
Trump took to Twitter on Sunday morning to taunt House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and knock her for rejecting the deal.
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Just remember 'No new taxes'. Bush compromised. The Donks got the taxes, but reneged on cutting the budget. Bush would go on and lose to Clinton. See - I'll hold the football, Charlie Brown
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OK then. Keep it shutdown until 2020. See what happens.
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#6. Yep. Massive fraud.
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Yep, P2k, that why I didn't vote for HWBush for his 2nd term. The choices seemed to be Lips Bush, Slick Willie and the Texas Troll....so I voted for the Libertarian.
[The Hill] Former President Jimmy Carter urged Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) to run for president in an Instagram Live video on Sunday.
Booker, who is known for his social media savvy, took to the platform to film a road trip through Georgia with civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) ahead of MLK Day.
After the two lawmakers attended a church service led by Carter in his hometown of Plains, Booker featured the former president in a video.
"I’m very glad to have you here this morning, and I hope you come back," Carter said. "And I hope you run for president."
Booker thanked Carter, telling him: "You encouraging me means more to me than you can imagine."
Booker is one of a slew of potential Democratic candidates generating buzz ahead of the 2020 election, though he has not yet announced his candidacy.
The New Jersey Democrat also spotted "Booker 2020" buttons for sale at a store.
"I’m right next to Oprah 2020," Booker commented in the video.
[National Review] BuzzFeed published an explosive allegation that the president of the United States ordered his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to congressional committees investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Specifically, in a news story sourced to two anonymous law-enforcement officials said to be "involved in an investigation of the matter," the site reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had learned, though multiple witnesses and documents, of President Trump’s alleged instruction to Cohen; subsequently, upon being confronted by prosecutors, Cohen had supposedly admitted that Trump gave the order.
As a rule, Mueller does not comment on press reports about his probe. Yet, in a highly unusual move Friday night, the prosecutor refuted the story by reporters Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier. Through a spokesman, Mueller asserted:
BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the special counsel’s office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony are not accurate.
Clearly, Mueller did the right thing. The reporting had triggered a frenzy of commentary by Trump critics that impeachment was imminent, and even many chagrined Trump supporters conceded that, if the report was true, the presidency was in grave peril. Had Mueller stood idly by, the administration, and thus the governance of the nation, would have been engulfed in a ruinous storm of suspicion. It is not the special counsel’s job to correct bad reporting, but it would have been irresponsible to stay mum in these circumstances if the story was false.
Nevertheless, this incident highlights how investigative secrecy has wrongly been given pride of place. In the Mueller probe, the desire of prosecutors to go about their business in stealth ‐ to attempt to build a case on undisclosed crimes based on unknown evidence; to prevent witnesses from gaming their testimony and evidence from being tampered with ‐ has been prioritized over the president’s ability to govern the country.
Even in the rare situation when they are actually necessary, special-prosecutor investigations against a president are bad for the country. When the president is the subject of a criminal investigation, when the specter of impeachment hovers, it wounds the executive branch. The political bleeding makes it difficult for the president to deal with Congress, foreign governments, and myriad challenges of governance. The administration finds it ever harder to recruit talented people for jobs in which we desperately need talented people ‐ no worthy person wants to leave safe, professionally rewarding, and financially lucrative opportunities in the private sector to come serve the country if it may mean having to hire lawyers and go through the anxiety of investigations.
The president is not above the law. Consequently, we must tolerate these challenges when there is evidence of a president’s involvement in a serious crime. But that’s why we should be told exactly what the serious crime is and what evidence allegedly implicates the president.
[Right Scoop] Trump has announced his amnesty deal and as expected, Ann Coulter is not happy: That’s mean! But on the other end of the spectrum, Laura Ingraham sounds OK with the deal: She . . .
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You know its really not a deal if you already understand your opponent is not going to take it.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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The only "deal" the dems will do is a Romney-McCain-Kasich-Bush style bipartisan total capitulation to the demmunist position. Anything else is "rabid partisanship."
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P2K - you took the words right out of my mouth.
[IsraelTimes] Buzzfeed article’s premise that voters are disillusioned due to PM’s closeness to Trump and headway made by BDS movement is based on interviewees’ wishful thinking and not reality.
"Israel Will Be The Great Foreign Policy Debate Of The Democratic Primary" is a BuzzFeed article making the rounds.
The broad premise is one with which readers are familiar: Democrats are becoming more disenchanted with Israel for myriad reasons, including a lack of progress and new ideas on the Paleostinian issue, the parlous relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama
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wait until near the Dem Presidential Convention
the delegates will be activists and include a lot of anti Israel members (also a lot of anti Americans, anti police, gun control extremists, etc.) how well these types can be controlled is the question
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lack of progress and new ideas on the Paleostinian issue
[Rudaw] In his latest phone call with Ottoman Turkish president Erdogan, US president Trump apparently proposed a 20 mile (32 kilometers) deep Ottoman Turkish-controlled "safe zone" in northern Syria. This zone would presumably go 400 kilometers along the Ottoman Turkish-Syrian border from the Euphrates river to the Iraqi border. Mr. Erdogan reportedly agreed to the idea immediately.
Erdogan’s assent to Mr. Trump’s idea should come as no surprise. The proposal would essentially give The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... the green light and even US assistance to invade more of northern Syria and crush Syrian Kurdish groups there, without obligating them to go beyond Kurdish-held areas to fight the Islamic State
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Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. -- Tacitus
[AlAhram] Israel is striking deeper into Syria after the announcement of the withdrawal of US forces from the country, with the apparent aim of targeting Iran.
For the third time since the US announced the withdrawal of its troops from Syria, Israel has bombed a military location belonging to the Syrian regime and Iran, destroying a cargo plane transporting weapons from Iran and Iranian warehouses in southern Damascus and Syrian military bases.
Among the targets, according to the Israeli media, was a senior delegation of officials from the Lebanese Hizbullah
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A man spraying his back yard with insecticide is not an "attack".
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Jawad Zarif said last month that "when did we ever say we wanted to annihilate Israel?"
"The head of the Iranian army on Saturday said Iranian forces were working to "annihilate" Israel and predicted they would achieve success within 25 years.
The threats from the Commander of Iran's Army Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi come amid almost daily warnings of conflict from Tehran and Jerusalem, heightened by an alleged Israeli strike on an Iranian base in Syria earlier in the month."
The first rule of journalism is, as in screenwriting, "show, don't tell." It's no wonder early Hollywood was populated with ex-newspapermen, who took their fastest-typewriters-in-the-West from New York and Chicago to the actual West and hired themselves out as scenarists and, when the talkies came, screenwriters. As Herman Mankiewicz wrote to Ben Hecht: "millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots." Less appealingly, Jack Warner referred to his hired scribes as "schmucks with Underwoods."
Today's journalists are no different in their passion for narrative-spinning. Most of them have forsaken whatever dreams they once had about selling that big spec script for zillions -- and in any case there's almost no market for original specs in Hollywood these days -- but they've found that they can still make stuff up and get paid for it. Of course, they're still schmucks.
Case in point is Friday's one-day wonder, the BuzzFeed "scoop" that Trump told his shyster lawyer, Michael Cohen (a schmuck is there ever was one), to lie to Congress about his alleged dealings on a Trump Tower project in Moscow that never happened.
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American's have been blessed with a decentralized media through most of their history and a culture that strongly embraces the idea of a truly free press. When competition occurs, truth floats to the top, more often than not.
But the press has been centralized under a few corporations. I ask myself, what would Teddy do?
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1 - the press in 'free press' is about the technology for the free flow of information. The cultural institution now known as the 'press' did not exist back then. The media is just as active suppressing, corrupting, or manufacturing what they claim is 'news' thus conspiring to destroy the free flow of information.
2 - the 'press' that hammers manufacturers and service providers for inferior or fraudulent products or deliveries should be held to the same standards for their product and punished accordingly. Libel laws need to conform to the equal standing clause of the 14th Amendment. There should be no public or private separation definition.
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Imo, had they been using Underwoods, Remingtons or even IBM Selectric's, the story may have never been written.
"Journalists" used to have to think about what they were writing, the copy then had to be set up, then printed, then delivered to the reader on murdered trees - each step allowed for cooler heads to prevail.
Today, however, the release is instantaneous - reptilian brain to reader in the key of now. From people who, at one time, relied upon graffiti readers for real-time validation.
[HotAir] From the Democrats’ perspective, President Donald J. Trump is a disrupter of what had been a smooth transition to the bright socialist future. In a concerted effort to denigrate the President and paralyze executive authority, they are branding him a racist and blatantly subvert every program on his agenda. To render him ineffective, they actively support a collective mania for ever more sweeping investigations of dubious claims, rumors, unsubstantiated allegations and innuendos that has descended over the President, his family, his associates, and nominees. People who cannot even spell "impeachment" demand one without any substantiation. They act as if their fiat is turning the country into chaos, or as Lenin called it, "revolutionary environment."
Unfortunately, the contemporary political thinking of the American people is more backward than that of the Russians or Chinese, and too many of them are living in a flat-earth, know-nothing, Jesse Watters’ world. Neither education, nor upbringing, nor life experience prepares Americans for grasping the veracity of the socialist assault on the American way of life.
Thanks to the fatuity of the American public, there has not been any effective comprehension of the totality of the assault nor its enervating effect upon national vigilance.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Before I read about Ava, I mostly worried about what might happen when my daughter began to attend the local high school, just over an hour west of Clinton Twp., which has earned its nickname, "Heroin High," from the drug problems that plague our town. At the playgroup where I bring my daughter twice a week, mothers who graduated from the high school sometimes share stories about how heroin sales take place at the school, despite the constant surveillance of security guards. When they sense my abject horror, they say things like, "It’s not a big deal, you just learn to stay away from it," as though heroin is a series of unmarked physical pits in the hallways that an unwary student might accidentally fall inside.
[Hot Air] President Trump left the White House on Saturday morning to travel to Dover Air Force Base to pay tribute to four fallen American heroes, the victims of a suicide bomb attack in Syria. He will be meeting with their families. As is his habit now, he stopped to answer questions from the press before boarding Marine One. He was asked about the Buzzfeed story and thanked Mueller’s Office of Special Counsel (OSC) for issuing a statement strongly pushing back on the credibility of the story.
[USA Today] Welcome to the last in my series of columns on the year ahead. In my four earlier ones, I covered why December was lousy and why stocks are on the right side of a swift V-shaped recovery. U.S. stocks have climbed more than 10 percent since the market close on Christmas Eve. Accompanied by wild wiggles, the rest of 2019 should be similarly happy. 
