Threats fly as teen Trump supporters confronted over MAGA caps in airport: 'Take off your racist hats!' - The American MirrorThe American Mirror

Threats fly as teen Trump supporters confronted over MAGA caps in airport: 'Take off your racist hats!' - The American MirrorThe American Mirror
"Teens were leaving the Turning Point USA conference in South Florida when they were heckled in the airport by a man triggered after seeing their red Donald Trump MAGA hats.
Group founder Charlie Kirk tweeted shaky video of the incident.

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“You’re wearing a racist hat!” a man announced to fellow fliers, apparently trying to get others to gang up on them.

“Take off the racist hats!” he demanded, as one of the students replied, “Merry Christmas, sir.”

“Take off your racist hats!” he ordered again.

“Love the hats,” a passerby remarked.

“I’m not going to take it off,” a student replied as the video ends.

Kirk only identified them as “high school leaders.” 

He didn’t ID the airport where the incident took place.

Earlier this year, two teens were sitting in a San Antonio Whataburger when a man walked up, ripped the hat off his head and threw a drink in his face.

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How they "think"-----NYT’s Editorial Board Claims That ‘Trump Imperils The Planet’ |

NYT’s Editorial Board Claims That ‘Trump Imperils The Planet’ |
"The New York Times editorial board says that President Donald Trump is literally endangering the entire planet with his rolling back of the Obama administration’s climate agenda.
The Times’ editorial, titled “Trump Imperils the Planet,” comes as the print edition published a 12-page special section on the “far-reaching and potentially devastating” consequences of Trump’s environmental policies..."

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A SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT

Instapundit  Blog Archive  A SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT: UPDATE: From the comments: “Hayek’s ‘The Fatal Conceit,’ as narrate…
A SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT:

UPDATE: From the comments: “Hayek’s ‘The Fatal Conceit,’ as narrated by Tommy Chong, man.”

Posted by Glenn Reynolds

Good question!

LIMBAUGH: How Compassionate Is The Democrats' Open-Borders Policy? | Daily Wire

LIMBAUGH: How Compassionate Is The Democrats' Open-Borders Policy? | Daily Wire:

The question we ought to insist on discussing is whether Democrats even believe in the concept of nation-states anymore — and specifically American sovereignty — as opposed to deferring to some enlightened global entity. Do they even remotely embrace the American idea anymore? Socialism and top-down authoritarianism were hardly contemplated by the Framers. I might tell Ocasio-Cortez that the Apostle Paul said, "From one man (God) made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands."

This is only ONE DEPARTEMENT!-----The Diversity Staff at the University of Michigan Is Nearly 100 People | Intellectual Takeout

The Diversity Staff at the University of Michigan Is Nearly 100 People | Intellectual Takeout
"Year after year, media note and sometimes bemoan the ballooning cost of higher education.

There is no doubt that the human costs of this rise are severe: 
Some 44 million Americans currently carry nearly $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, and the delinquency rate is 11 percent.   
There are various reasons for surging costs, but the primary one is the remarkable expansion of university administration in recent decades. 
As Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado, wrote in the New York Times a few years ago:

“According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions...

1. The University of Michigan currently employs a diversity staff of nearly 100 (93) full-time diversity administrators...

2. More than one-quarter (26) of these “diversicrats” earn annual salaries of more than $100,000, and the total...employee compensation for this group tops $11 million per year. And of course that doesn’t count the cost of office space, telephones, computers and printers, printing, postage, programs, training, or travel expenses.

If you fell out of your chair upon realizing that the University of Michigan has a full-time diversity staff of nearly one hundred employees, one of whom earns more than the president of the United States, you can be forgiven. I nearly did too..."
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History for December 31

History for December 31 - On-This-Day.com
Henri Matisse 1869, George Marshall 1880, Simon Wiesenthal 1908


John Denver 1943, Ben Kingsley 1943, Donna Summer 1948


1695 - The window tax was imposed in Britain, which resulted in many windows being bricked up.


1929 - Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played "Auld Lang Syne" as a New Year's Eve song for the first time.

Trump personally intervened to pay Coast Guard in shutdown

Trump personally intervened to pay Coast Guard in shutdown:

At his urging, the Office of Management and Budget, DHS and the Coast Guard determined that the rules governing pay to Coast Guard forces requires it be made through the end of the year. To make it, the lawyers said that unused funding could be tapped for pay. The service had a bit more than the needed $75 million left over from its past continuing resolution appropriation, enough to make this month’s last payroll check.

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Thanks, Schumer! Get ready for a newer and bigger Central American migrant caravan

Thanks, Schumer! Get ready for a newer and bigger Central American migrant caravan
"...Here's the news:

Another migrant caravan – with estimates of as many as 15,000 participants – is preparing to leave Honduras on January 15, according to migrant rights advocates and Spanish-language media.

"They say they are even bigger and stronger than the last caravan," said Irma Garrido, a member of the migrant advocacy group Reactiva Tijuana Foundation.

There's also this:

Using social media sites such as WhatsApp and Facebook, people are spreading the word about another, bigger caravan planning to leave Honduras on Jan. 15, larger than the October caravan that stalled out in Tijuana in the hopes of reaching the U.S...

Word is getting out that all you have to do is come here, and either await your zero-cost asylum application as the Mexicans house, feed, and medically treat you or else cross over illegally, sometimes with the aid of a Democratic congressperson, for instant customer service, turning yourself in to the Border Patrol, and then soon become free to walk around the country..."
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Solutions?… | The Last Refuge

Solutions?… | The Last Refuge
"...The institutions of the DOJ and FBI are corrupted; not just a few people within it, but rather the entire apparatus has been weaponized, over time, by participating political members who have politicized every function within the institution.
Every level of the Department of Justice (Main Justice); every national administrative office inside the FBI; and every state office of the U.S. Attorney and field office of the FBI; is being run through the prism of politics.  
...When an institution is failing top-to-bottom successful change is only viable when it is forced from a position external to the current corrupt enterprise.  
...In essence, the corrupt system has to be overwhelmed; shocked into a reset status.
The behavior of former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe are symptomatic examples within the FBI.   
They didn’t gain their political skills to weaponize the agency overnight.  
Those skills were taught to them as they advanced within the system.  
The weaponization process was pre-existing.
...until we see widespread acceptance of the politicization of the institutions, it’s unlikely we will see a discussion happen that might eventually find the solution.
Right now, the vast majority are still in denial…"

Nancy Pelosi Is Spending Shutdown at Hawaii Resort

Nancy Pelosi Is Spending Shutdown at Hawaii Resort:

Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi is spending the government shutdown at a luxury resort in Hawaii, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

Trump Digs Up Old Obama Quote To Mercilessly Troll Democrats

Trump Digs Up Old Obama Quote To Mercilessly Troll Democrats
"...Well, this tweet from former President Obama on the occasion of his 2011 State of the Union address.
...Obama said during the speech.

“And I am prepared to work with Republicans and Democrats to protect our borders, enforce our laws and address the millions of undocumented workers who are now living in the shadows.
“I know that debate will be difficult,” he said. 
“I know it will take time. 
But tonight, let’s agree to make that effort. 
And let’s stop expelling talented, responsible young people who could be staffing our research labs or starting a new business, who could be further enriching this nation.”
...Well, Trump had three words for that on Thursday:

Unfortunately, they were indeed just words on the part of Obama.
He didn’t want to protect our borders and enforce our laws..."

This explains much!-----Progressives have always been collectivists (i.e. socialists, Marxists and communists).

Progressives have always been collectivists (i.e. socialists, Marxists and communists).

"Progressives have always been collectivists (i.e. socialists, Marxists and communists).
Until the fall of the USSR, collectivists generally followed the Stalinist/Orwellian model , the central premise of which is that the government is God, whatever it says goes without question and you will be forced to act as if it is true - even if it isn't - because to do what the government needs to do, 5 must be the answer.
2+2=5 because we say it is, comrade.
But inherent in Stalinist/Orwellian collectivism is the epidemic of cognitive dissonance it creates. Cognitive dissonance is a serious, debilitating mental illness in which mental discomfort (psychological stress) is experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values.
In short, no matter how many times a government tells you that the answer is 5, you can hold up your fingers and prove that is false.
Then came the Frankfurt School, postmodernism and the invention of cultural Marxism - and out of that was born postmodernist progressivism..."
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Noon-toon-----A.F. Branco Cartoon - Jet Setters - Comically Incorrect

A.F. Branco Cartoon - Jet Setters - Comically Incorrect

Five Dumb Arguments Against ‘the Wall’The American Spectator

Five Dumb Arguments Against ‘the Wall’The American Spectator:

So, Trump’s proposed border wall isn’t remotely analogous to anything done by the Nazis. And only someone illiterate concerning history would compare it to the Berlin Wall or Hadrian’s Wall. Likewise, it is impossible to make a legitimate environmental case against it, and anyone familiar with arithmetic can see that the cost of the wall will be dwarfed by the amount it will save the taxpayers. Nonetheless, these are just a few of the many absurd arguments made by the Democrats and the media against the wall. The true reason for their opposition is obvious, however. They need fraudulent votes from illegals to save their party.

Pure, sick politics!-----Don Surber: Trump vindicated, media is silent

Don Surber: Trump vindicated, media is silent
Two months ago, Jamal Khashoggi was the thing. 
He died in Saudi Arabia's embassy in Istanbul apparently painfully and slowly. 
The Washington Establishment went whacko and demanded President Trump break relations with Saudi Arabia for the death of Khashoggi, whom the elitists described as a journalist for the Washington Post. 
He wrote 20 columns for the paper.
The media portrayed him as a journalist and portrayed Our President as a murderer of journalists by proxy.
Now we know the rest of the story. 
Khashoggi was a propagandist for Qatar, the one gulf state that sides with Syria and Iran.
...This admission vindicated President Trump's reluctance to break relations with an 80-year ally.
The Post should never have run the columns.
...Khashoggi's death has been illuminating. 
The press blindly took up his cause, elevating him to the status of Time Magazine Thing Of The Year.
David Reaboi, a security expert, wrote five days ago, "Once President Trump released a robust statement supporting the US-Saudi alliance, intense political pressure was felt from anti-Trump forces in the American media, which pushed Democrats toward Qatar and Iran, and away from Saudi Arabia. 
Suddenly, the alliance had become a partisan issue; prominent Democrats in Congress began calling for a reevaluation of American policy toward the country..."

Important read!-----The Elephant at the Southern Border

The Elephant at the Southern Border
"Why do the public discussions of immigration overwhelmingly focus on our Southern border while the influx of almost equal numbers of Asians, Europeans, and Indians goes unnoticed? 
Why fixate on Hispanics?
...The elephant in the room is the low I.Q. of these would-be future Americans. 
Specifically, the average I.Q. in central American countries – Honduras 81, El Salvador 81, Guatemala 79, for example – would assign these migrants and their offspring to the "educable" or mildly retarded category in schools, unable to master all but the basics 
(Mexico might be a small exception with an average I.Q. of 88).
...Put into context, the average I.Q. of black Americans is 85, so these Central Americans would be at the very bottom of America's educational achievement hierarchy.
...The influx of millions of low-I.Q. people will likely transform America (politics included) and conceivably even edge us closer to nations like Brazil and even Venezuela.  
...First, this will be a population plagued by innumeracy in a society requiring at least some ability to comprehend numbers. 
How many low-I.Q. people understand what a million or billion is, let alone trillions, all commonplace terms in deliberations over the national debt and trade deficits? 
Keep in mind that many of those with low I.Q.s love the lottery, where one-in-a million odds seem "reasonable." 
These are also people who as jurors can award damages in the hundreds of millions thanks to junk science. 
Imagine a judicial system where a handful of juries regularly dictates hundred-million-dollar judgments that bankrupt corporations while creating extensive unemployment and destroying pensions..."
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California faces a pension showdown

California faces a pension showdown
"Governor Jerry Brown as he leaves office is warning that California and its public agencies are on the road to "fiscal oblivion" if pension benefits can't be adjusted down.
...California drastically increased public employee pension benefits in the fall of 2003, when the state allowed employees to purchase "airtime."  
Prior to the pension spike, a 50-year-old fireman making $89,000 a year could retire at age 50 after 30 years of service and collect an $80,100-a-year pension with life expectancy of 76.3 years.
But under "airtime," the fireman could purchase extra years of seniority at a cost per of $0.18022 per year for every $1 of salary. 
For $80,197.90, the fireman could increase his pension by $13,350 to $93,450.  
Such an investment in "airtime" would return a spectacular income stream of $351,105 over the next 26.3 years of life expectancy.
...With an estimated unfunded pension liability of $464.4 billion in 2015, Stanford researchers estimated that the average unfunded liability per California household jumped from $9,127 in 2008; jumped to $21,491 in 2015; and would be over $40,000 in 2030..."
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Censorship rules Facebook uses are revealed - WND

Censorship rules Facebook uses are revealed - WND:

It reported the “closely held rules are extensive, and they make the company a far more powerful arbiter of global speech than has been publicly recognized or acknowledged by the company itself, The New York Times has found.”
It said the Times got the copies from a worker who “said he feared that the company was exercising too much power, with too little oversight – and making too many mistakes.”
MSN found “an examination of the files revealed numerous gaps, biases and outright errors. As Facebook employees grope for the right answers, they have allowed extremist language to flourish in some countries while censoring mainstream speech in others.”

Trudeau’s carbon tax on gas won’t motivate Canadians to switch to fuel-efficient transportation: Ipsos poll | Watts Up With That?

Trudeau’s carbon tax on gas won’t motivate Canadians to switch to fuel-efficient transportation: Ipsos poll | Watts Up With That?
"Most Canadians agree that more needs to be done to fight climate change, but it’s going to take a whole lot more than the federal government’s carbon tax to get them to ditch gas-guzzling vehicles.

That’s one of the key findings of an Ipsos poll of 2,001 Canadians, conducted between Dec. 7 and Dec. 12, that suggested a disconnect between Canadians’ acceptance of climate change as a problem and their willingness to potentially incur financial loss to help the government tackle it..."

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History for December 30

History for December 30 - On-This-Day.com
Rudyard Kipling 1865 - Short-story writer, Jack Lord (John Joseph Patrick Ryan) 1920 - Actor ("Hawaii Five-O"), Del Shannon 1939


Michael Nesmith 1942 - Singer, musician (The Monkees), Davy Jones 1945 - Singer, musician (The Monkees), Sean Hannity 1961 - TV host, radio show host, Tiger Woods 1975 - Golfer
 

1853 - The United States bought about 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase.


1978 - Ohio State University fired Woody Hayes as its football coach, one day after Hayes punched Clemson University player Charlie Bauman during the Gator Bowl. Bauman had intercepted an Ohio pass.