This from Dave Barry’s Year in Review:  Meanwhile, newly released State Department emails cause some people to suggest that the reason a variety of dodgy foreign businesspeople and nations gave millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state was that they expected — get a load of THIS wacky […]

Moscow’s Donal Wilkinson writes the following in a letter to the editor of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News:  Donald Trump got elected on a platform of denying refugees access to our country. This fear-based stereotype has no basis in reality. In the past 15 years, 50 people have been killed by Muslims in this country. In the

Via the AP:  On Tuesday at noon, with plenty of pomp and pageantry, members of the 115th Congress will be sworn in, with an emboldened GOP intent on unraveling eight years of President Barack Obama’s Democratic agenda and targeting massive legacy programs from Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson such as Social Security and

This article looks into the evidence in the DHS/FBI Russian hacking report. The writer finds the evidence is lacking in proving Russia was behind the attacks. https://turningpointnews.org/exposing-political-corruption/dhs-fbi-claim-of-russian-hacking-is-fake-news 

The Washington Post wrote a fake story about Russia having hacked the American power grid. The Post changed it story several times, but the article still included incorrect information and a misleading headline. Via Forbes:  On Friday the Washington Post sparked a wave of fear when it ran the breathless headline “Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid

The Obama administration is busy pushing out last-minute regulations, including releasing $7.4 billion worth of new rules in just one night. Sam Batkins, director of regulatory policy at the right-leaning American Action Forum (AAF), compiled a list of regulations published Wednesday night in the Federal Register. The Obama administration is making sure its last months

Via CNN:  ISIS has claimed responsibility for the deadly New Year’s attack at an upscale Istanbul nightclub that left 39 people dead. The terror group offered no further clues about the identity of the attacker, and authorities in Turkey continue their search for the suspect. ISIS’ claim — made in a statement posted to Twitter

Looks like the LGBT+ activists have never read Genesis 9. As Ken Ham notes: Jews and Christians had a claim on rainbows long before the LGBT+ crowd appropriated it.  Ham responded to the ridiculous attack on Facebook: Well, I do agree that some people are trying to “poison the original intent of the rainbow” —

Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) was stunningly direct in a recent interview on MSNBC. Franks appeared on the network to discuss the ongoing “Russia hacking” story that seems to be getting a lot of coverage in the mainstream media, even though the evidence is flimsy while the partisanship seems heavy. The show’s host tried to direct Franks

Nowhere in the article do they mention the chemical differences between men and women. What kinds of statements about men and women constitute sexism? Is it sexist to say, for example, that on average, men are taller than women or that women live longer than men? Most people already accept the obvious truth that men

Progressives are coming unglued. I wonder if they would be yelling censorship if these were anti-Trump slogans. A convenience store in Mayhill, New Mexico has sparked outrage online for displaying racist, xenophobic and anti-Muslim signs in its store front window while also generating huge debate about the limits of the first amendment right to free

Hardly a week went by in the presidential election year without a protest in the US expressing discontent with candidates, frustration over low-paying jobs or outrage over police brutality. Here are the top ones:  Protests against police brutality From Flint to Standing Rock: Rallying for the environment Election 2016 Labor woes: From Fight for $15

I’m crossposting this entire article. Robby Soave nails it.  A recent New York Times story that slams the free market approach to education policy is rife with inaccuracies. Amazingly, the author of the piece misrepresents the very data she is using to build her erroneous case against school choice. “Free Market for Education? Economists Generally Don’t Buy

There was no retribution against the Chinese because that didn’t cause the Dems to lose the election.  The incoming White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, said it makes him wonder if President Obama’s anti-Russian measures were “political retribution,” given that a massive hack of federal data in 2015 linked to China saw “not one thing

The New York Times has taken the unusual step of publishing something factual about the relative risks of cold and hot weather. Beware: Winter Is Coming By JANE E. BRODY DEC. 19, 2016 Most of the Northern Hemisphere is now in the throes of the deadliest time of the year. Cold kills, and I don’t mean just

Less than half confident that Trump can handle several duties Solid majorities were confident in Obama, Bush and Clinton Greatest confidence in Trump’s ability to handle economy, work with Congress PRINCETON, N.J. — As Donald Trump prepares to take the presidential oath on Jan. 20, less than half of Americans are confident in his ability

The French cannot have it both ways. They want to stop having kids and yet support their Welfare State. The only way to do that is by importing foreign labor.  Robert Menard, mayor of Bexiers, France, has been charged with incitement to hatred or discrimination after noting in a TV interview that 91 percent of the students

Provisions probably won’t take effect for up to four years The stakes confronting Republicans determined to dismantle President Barack Obama’s health care law were evident in one recent encounter between an Ohio congressman and a constituent. “He said, ‘Now you guys own it. Now fix it. It’s on your watch now,’ ” recalled GOP Rep.