Exclusive: Tennessee Counties May Rebuke More Refugee Resettlement

Exclusive: Tennessee Counties May Rebuke More Refugee Resettlement:

About a third of Tennessee’s 95 counties, thus far, are considering rebuking Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s approval for the State Department to resettle more refugees in the state next year, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.

The way we were-----1950s Drive in Diner, Hamburgers, Americana, Rare Color Home Movie Footage

Boob-tube-----1958 DeSoto Introduced by Groucho Marx

Worst-predictors-EVER!-----News - Climate Prediction Swings and Misses: A Decade of Alarmist Strike Outs, 2010-2019 | Heartland Institute

News - Climate Prediction Swings and Misses: A Decade of Alarmist Strike Outs, 2010-2019 | Heartland Institute:
"What follows are climate predictions forecast to come true during the 2010s - one for each year.
A few timely missed predictions for 2020 are also added as a bonus feature.
WATCH THE VIDEO VERSION AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST.

2013

Navy researcher says Arctic to be ice-free by 2013.  
Source: December 12, 2007
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The Genealogy of Free Stuff: The Trump Card | Power Line

The Genealogy of Free Stuff: The Trump Card | Power Line
"On Friday the Wall Street Journal ran an extra-long and remarkable editorial about the agenda of Elizabeth Warren (“Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan, Oh My“), which is so far beyond extravagant that “socialism” seems an inadequate adjective. 
She makes Bernie Sanders look cautious by comparison. 
As the Journal put it in the lede:

“[A]s we discovered after a tour of her 60-some policy papers, Ms. Warren is proposing a transformation of American government, business and life that exceeds what the socialist dreamers of a century ago imagined.”

...I’ve previously offered my theory that Democrats have decided they should make an open lurch to the left because the supposed weakness of Trump presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to enact the sweeping socialist agenda that has long been their private dream...

An acquaintance with significant experience at the highest ranks of corporate America sent me a note with an additional explanation worth taking up:

Your discussion of the Democrats moving left makes sense. I think there is another factor.  Trump refused to take the traditional Republican (Ryan) route of reforming entitlements.  Democrats had feasted on this position for decades conjuring all kinds of horrors if reforms were enacted.  Trump took this potent issue away from them.  What to do?  Expand the current entitlements!  Once started, a bidding war developed and we have the Democratic candidate consensus on an impossible agenda.  Also, the press had difficulty aggressively criticizing Trump’s position because they had endorsed Democratic criticisms of reform. So Trump is in an enviable position of criticizing unrealistic/irresponsible proposals instead of defending reductions.

There is a lot to this explanation..."
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Mark Levin's speedy solution to the Pelosi impeachment problem - Washington Times

Mark Levin's speedy solution to the Pelosi impeachment problem - Washington Times:

Talk radio great and Fox News host Mark Levin, on his Facebook page, called for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to “put an end” to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s politically motivated hold-up of the impeachment articles, by declaring the whole matter “null and void.”
That’s one way of making clear the stuff and nonsense of the Democratic Party has come to an end.
Levin wrote: “Nancy Pelosi was apparently advised by leftwing Harvard law professor Lawrence Tribe to delay sending the impeachment to the Senate. So she’s unilaterally sitting on the impeachment. This is another brazen unconstitutional act.”

The Top Ten Evilest People of All-Time | The American Spectator

The Top Ten Evilest People of All-Time | The American Spectator
2. Margaret Sanger

The founder of Planned Parenthood, an organization as evil as the Einsatzgruppen, Sanger championed abortion and eugenics. More than 61 million children have been aborted in the United States alone since Roe v. Wade in 1973. Of these, Planned Parenthood is responsible for no less than 8 million abortion deaths. Statistically, Sanger has earned her spot on this list. These days abortionists don’t just kill children, they celebrate it as a moral good. That this is heinous should (but doesn’t) go without saying. And this brings me to a question: with assaults on statues being in fashion, how has Sanger’s statue in the Smithsonian survived?

1. Karl Marx...

This completes my list. 
Who would make yours? 
You can send me your suggestions."
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Don’t Mess With Texas | Power Line

Don’t Mess With Texas | Power Line
"This short video is suddenly everywhere. 
It comes from a livestream of the service at the church near Fort Worth where someone opened fire on parishioners with what looks like a shotgun. 
He was immediately shot by two legally armed persons, one of whom reportedly was a security guard. It appears that altogether, there were six people who immediately pulled guns in response to the shooter..."

Lunch video-----The Politics of Hollywood with Andrew Breitbart

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NY Jailbreak: Illegal Freed After Allegedly Killing Woman on Christmas Eve

NY Jailbreak: Illegal Freed After Allegedly Killing Woman on Christmas Eve:

The illegal alien’s immediate release is now required by law in New York after state Democrats, against the wishes of law enforcement and even the most liberal district attorneys, rammed through a series of bail reform measures and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed the legislation into law.

Private homeownership interferes with fight against climate change, professor argues | The College Fix

Private homeownership interferes with fight against climate change, professor argues | The College Fix

• ‘Expansionist, individualist, and exclusionary patterns of housing’

"If you’ve heard that Green New Deal supporters want to increase government control over all facets of life more than they want to protect the environment, well, here’s more evidence of that.
An assistant professor of urban planning at UCLA argues in the far-left magazine The Nation that California is doomed as long as people keep owning homes.
“If we want to keep cities safe in the face of climate change, we need to seriously question the ideal of private homeownership,” says Kian 
...To prevent catastrophe, Americans must reconsider their ideas about “success, comfort, home, and family,” particularly the single-family homes...
These policies benefited white middle-class families and “became synonymous with freedom and self-sufficiency” even though they represented “[e]xpansionist, individualist, and exclusionary patterns of housing.”...
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Worthy read-----No, the Senate is not a jury, and other misconceptions about impeachment

No, the Senate is not a jury, and other misconceptions about impeachment
"Timothy Snyder is a historian at Yale University. 
...Lately, he has taken to warning Americans of what he sees as the danger the United States will fall into totalitarianism under President Trump. 
In the past few days, Snyder has turned his attention , not in a scholarly work but in a series of tweets, to a Trump impeachment trial in the Senate. 
His tweets were notable mostly because Snyder managed to pack a large number of misconceptions about impeachment into a very small space.

The tweets, ten in all, were directed toward Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell...

• Why does Senator McConnell talk about how he will run the impeachment trial, and why do we listen? He has zero constitutional authority to decide its shape.

What does that mean? Does Snyder mean that McConnell as a person — Mitch from Kentucky — has no constitutional authority to decide how the trial will be run? Perhaps, but the fact is, McConnell is the Senate majority leader, and the majority, not any individual senator himself or herself, but the majority, has substantial authority to shape the trial. That's how the Senate runs. We listen to McConnell because what he says matters. 

Here are the next two tweets:

• John Roberts is in charge of the impeachment trial. The Constitution clearly states that if the president is impeached, the chief justice presides. 
• Constitution: "The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside."

It seems hard to write a clearer sentence than, "The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments." 

And yet there still seems to be some confusion on that score. 

If the Senate has the "sole power" to try the impeachment of Trump, how could Chief Justice John Roberts be "in charge" of the trial? 

It seems obvious, especially to anyone who watched the President Bill Clinton impeachment trial in 1999, that the chief justice's role in the trial will actually be quite limited. 

Does anyone believe that on any matter of great import, on which a majority of the Senate disagrees with Roberts, that the majority will defer to the chief justice? 

That the majority will meekly do what the chief justice says because he is "in charge" of the trial? That is not going to happen. 

After the Clinton trial, Chief Justice William Rehnquist described his role this way: "I did nothing in particular, and I did it very well." 

Next from Snyder:.."

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They are serious about this!-----“Abolish the police” Idea Is Inspiring Some Criminal-Justice Activists

“Abolish the police” Idea Is Inspiring Some Criminal-Justice Activists
"The latest call to action from some criminal-justice activists: “Abolish the police.”
From the streets of Chicago to the city council of Seattle, and in the pages of academic journals ranging from the Cardozo Law Review to the Harvard Law Review and of mainstream publications from the Boston Review to Rolling Stone, advocates and activists are building a case not just to reform policing—viewed as an oppressive, violent, and racist institution—but to do away with it altogether. 
When I first heard this slogan, I assumed that it was a figure of speech, used to legitimize more expansive criminal-justice reform.
But after reading the academic and activist literature, I realized that “abolish the police” is a concrete policy goal. 
The abolitionists want to dismantle municipal police departments and see “police officers disappearing from the streets.”...
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Mark Steyn Ridicules Ocasio-Cortez For Saying ‘It Is Fascism, What We Have’ In America | The Daily Caller

Mark Steyn Ridicules Ocasio-Cortez For Saying ‘It Is Fascism, What We Have’ In America | The Daily Caller:

“Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to have absolute control over the U.S. economy, health care sector, and a lot more. So far, it hasn’t happened, and according to AOC recently, that failure means that America must be a backward fascist country,” Steyn began by way of introduction.
“It is fascism, what we have. What we are evolving into, as well,” Ocasio-Cortez said in the clip.
Steyn then turned to his guest, asking, “John, do you think AOC actually knows what fascism is?”

Making Journalism Great Again - American Thinker

Making Journalism Great Again - American Thinker
"A new year is upon us, and I am keenly aware of the Fourth Estate’s four New Year’s Resolutions for 2020: (1) get Trump; (2) get Trump’s friends and family; (3) ridicule anyone who has voted or would consider voting for Trump; and (4) protect the Democratic Party from scandal. 
...Chris Wallace has gone so far as to claim that there has never been a more dangerous time for the First Amendment than when the President of the United States exercises his free speech. 
...If the ones with journalism degrees did some investigative reporting, they’d discover that we backcountry folk simply find their prose unconvincing.  
...Is there a certain percentage of inaccuracy that we could all agree is impermissible? 
Would coastal newspapers still feel haughty if they had to print disclaimers below the fold stating that forty percent or more of what you are about to read might later be proven to be false? 
Is it possible to peddle so much false information but still take umbrage at being called “fake”?
I suggest four different resolutions for the press this year: 

• (1) Headlines should accurately encapsulate facts that form the crux of any given story.  It does me no good if your headline is describing the third sentence of paragraph six or scraps the newsy part for a misleading editorial in headline form.  Headlines matter...
• (2) Anonymous sources are bunk....

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