Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 - Novelist, short story writer, journalist
1620 - The Mayflower Compact was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower when they landed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod. The compact called for "just and equal laws."
1918 - World War I came to an end when the Allies and Germany signed an armistice. This day became recognized as Veteran's Day in the United States.
1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns was dedicated at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia by U.S. President Harding.
1938 - Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio.
1940 - The Jeep made its debut.
1993 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Women's Memorial was dedicated to honor the more than 11,000 women who had served in the Vietnam War.
1997 - The Eastman Kodak Company announced that they were laying off 10,000 employees.
The FOX hit comedy Family Guy imagined President Donald Trump, his wife Melania, and Vice President Mike Pence hanging themselves in prison in an episode that aired just after Tuesday’s presidential election.
The November 8th episode of Family Guy, titled “La Famiglia Guy,” began with Peter and Lois Griffin reading newspapers announcing Trump’s suicide.
“God, can you believe Trump hung himself in prison?” Peter asks, before the words “We wrote this in February 2019. Were we right?” flash at the bottom of screen.
“I know! And that Chris Christie lost all that weight,” adds Lois. “He still looks terrible, though.”...
Family Guy is not the only FOX comedy to depict president Trump’s allies hanging themselves. In an April 2017 episode, then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer was seen hanging in the briefing room...Read all.
"Pollsters were widely wrong in 2016, yet learned nothing about their flawed methodologies.
So how do they remain credible after 2020?
A republic is not just a nation of laws.
It also relies on its good-faith watchdogs, such as honest pollsters, the media, and bipartisan institutions.
...But there are lots of reasons to worry that something in America has gone terribly wrong.
Many of the mainstream pre-election polls predicted that Donald Trump would lose in a landslide.
He did not — to the shock of a host of propagandists.
...What do all these power players — big polling, big money, big tech, and big media — have in common other than their partisanship and their powerful reach?
One, they stereotypically represent a virtue-signaling coastal elite that feels its own moral superiority allows it to destroy its own professional standards.
Two, they worry little about popular pushback because they assume that their money, loaded surveys, and Internet and media cartels create, rather than reflect, public opinion.
Three, while these elite cadres have enormous resources, they still are relatively unpopular.
Despite being outspent 2 to 1, pronounced doomed by pollsters, often censored on social media, and demonized in print and on television, Trump was neck and neck with Biden — a fact that a few days ago was deemed impossible...Read all.
Former Hope College president Gordon Van Wylen dies after contracting coronavirus - mlive.com
"GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A former Hope College president who helped transform the school in the 1970s and 1980s -- and who also was a World War II Navy veteran -- has died at age 100.
Gordon Van Wylen died Thursday, Nov. 5 after battling coronavirus, according to Hope College officials.
Van Wylen is recognized not only for his efforts to improve and grow Hope College, but also his attention to the revitalization of downtown Holland...Read all.
Target 8: Fatal ODs doubled in parts of W. MI at COVID-19’s spring peak GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Death records obtained by Target 8 show a significant spike in fatal overdoses in West Michigan, particularly in April, May and June. Those three months corresponded roughly with the state’s stay-at-home order, which began March 23 and ended June 1...Read all.
"The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change (UKHACC) urges the UK government to impose a climate tax on food producers by 2025 - unless private industry takes voluntary measures to limit their carbon emissions.
"In particular, red meat consumption will need to be cut by half if the food system is to stay within sustainable environmental limits," UKHACC wrote in the report.
Adding that, "changing our diets in this way will not only help to mitigate climate change but will also improve our health: there is also clear evidence that is replacing animal protein with plant-based protein results in lower rates of stroke, heart disease, diabetes, and overall death rates."
UKHACC represents doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals from ten Royal Colleges of medicine and nursing, the British Medical Association, and The Lancet...Read all.
Asylum Seekers Massed on US-Mexico Border Celebrate Reports of Joe Biden Victory - Big League Politics
Biden has pledged to open the borders to asylum seekers.
"Buzzfeed has reported that asylum seekers camped out on the US-Mexico border are celebrating reports of Joe Biden’s supposed victory, even though he’s yet to be certified as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
The Trump administration has introduced a game-changing ‘Stay in Mexico’ rule which requires asylum seekers from third-party countries who travel to the southern border-usually Central American nations such as Honduras and El Salvador- to await the adjudication of their cases in Mexico.
These migrants refuse to accept offers of legal residence from Mexico, insisting on entering the United States...Read all.
Oliver Goldsmith 1728 - Novelist, playwright, poet
1775 - The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress...This day is observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps.
1871 - Henry M. Stanley, journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone. Livingstone was a missing Scottish missionary in central Africa. Stanley delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1954 - The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, VA.
1975 - The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution that equated Zionism with racism. The resolution was repealed in December of 1991.
1975 - The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior.
1980 - CBS News anchor Dan Rather claimed he had been kidnapped in a cab. It turned out that Rather had refused to pay the cab fare.
1982 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to visitors.
"New York City Democratic Congress member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this weekend asked on Twitter if anyone is keeping a record of “Trump sycophants” who she accuses of being “complicit” in the current Trump Administration.
...In response, former Obama Administration official Michael Simon mentioned the “Trump Accountability Project” and reassured AOC, as she is known, “Every Administration staffer, campaign staffer, bundler, lawyer who represented them — everyone.”
So for readers who are not yet aware this is happening, here’s a brief update on the Trump Accountability Project, which was launched at the start of this month to ensure “those who took a paycheck from the Trump Administration should not profit from their efforts to tear our democracy apart,”according to a statement on the new website.
“The world should never forget those who, when faced with a decision, chose to put their money, their time, and their reputations behind separating children from their families, encouraging racism and anti-Semitism, and negligently causing the unnecessary loss of life and economic devastation from our country’s failed response to the COVID-19 pandemic,” the statement continues, with the following categories:
“We should not allow the following groups of people to profit from their experience:
Those who elected him.
Individuals who worked for the Trump for President campaign, Republican National Committee and affiliated PACs in 2016 or 2020.
Those who staffed his government.
Individuals who worked in any role as a political appointee in the Trump Administration.
Those who funded him.
Individuals who used their massive personal wealth and influence to bundle money for Trump.
Visitors to the website are encouraged to “sign up for updates.”...Read all.
"...And speaking of the rule of law, is there much of it left in America anymore?
Antifa and BLM rioted for months with impunity.
Public figures (including the woman who may soon be President of the United States) raised money to bail criminals out of jail,
law enforcement was told to stand down,
the media lied, and the madness just kept rolling.
Now, here we are a few days after the election, and the public shrugs (at best) at the idea of election fraud. At locations where votes were, and are, being counted, and in defiance of the law, corrupt Democrats have refused Republicans access...Where were the federal Marshalls and where was AG Barr?
...Meanwhile, the streets are filled with people celebrating a Biden victory with some saying the jubilation is more than when Osama bin Laden was killed...The celebrations also include a lot of hate toward Trump and those who support him.
All of this suddenly-covid-is-gone-and-we-can-pour-into-the-streets-screaming-and-singing-and-sharing-glasses-of-champagne-because-as-leftists-we-are-not-super-spreaders joy is for the shell of a corrupt demented man who they claim beat a President who
ushered in four years of peace (don’t they like peace?),
brought our troops home (don’t they like the end of endless wars?),
created an environment for the economy to grow to record levels (don’t they like a booming economy and low unemployment?),
championed the black community (don’t they like a thriving black community?),
negotiated brilliant deals that finally put America first (don’t they want our country to be strong?),
made us energy independent (don’t like energy independence?),
listened to and cared about the forgotten men and women of America the left claims they care about (don’t they want the middle class to thrive?), and
put God and country first.
I could go on.
But the main points about the paragraph above are that far too many Americans are uninformed, brainwashed, and/or want to transform our exceptional country into something else.
Something bleak.
Something tyrannical.
Which brings me to the second question I posed at the outset: Have we passed the tipping point where there are not enough informed patriots (and that includes elected officials) to salvage what’s left of the country?
What is unfolding before our eyes is terrifying beyond words...Read all.
"...We remained calm but curious when Michigan joined other battleground states in halting their counts early Wednesday morning.
We became concerned when we noticed hours later that, while Michigan’s Trump vote stayed exactly the same at 2,202,902, the Biden vote had somehow increased by 138,339.
And, even though that result was statistically impossible, we didn’t really shift into full-blown-pissed-off until we saw a video of what appeared to be illegal ballots being wheeled into a Detroit Vote Count Center in the dead of night that very same morning...Read all.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 - Novelist, short story writer, journalist
"THAT’S FAIR, BECAUSE THE OPED WAS STUPID: 
