Headlines

Bernie crashes the gates, Buttigieg cuts the line

Trump’s India trip could help seal administration’s next trade deal

Blankfen rips Bernie, Wii ruin economy, doesn’t care about military ...

Trump: Up to the military to decide to discipline Vindman

Deval Patrick ends long shot presidential bid

Coronavirus update: CDC prepares for outbreak in US, Boeing sees hit to airlines

1 in 3 American workers run out of money before payday ...

Trump smashes incumbent president primary record in New Hampshire

Cuomo to offer Trump compromise on expedited border crossings

Oil jumps more than 3% at high as Street eyes deeper production cuts, new coronavirus cases slow

Big Tech gets bigger: Trump heaps praise on trillion dollar club ...

Chinese cities seize personal property to control spread of coronavirus

Headlines

Trump allies received hundreds of thousand dollars under federal health contract

Disney+ suffers technical errors on launch day

Condoleezza Rice: The call is murky, it is really murky ...

Hillary Clinton: I’m facing ‘enormous pressure’ to enter 2020 race

Schiff warns GOP that outing Trump whistleblower could violate federal ethics rules

Trump says China cheated America on trade, but blames US leaders for letting it happen

150 rockets fired at Israel after IDF assassinates Gaza  terror leader ...

Nikki Haley defends Trump, calling him ‘truthful’

Supreme Court will allow Sandy Hook families’ lawsuit against Remington to move ahead

Update: Google secretly gathers personal health data on millions ...

Recession fears evaporate: small business optimism rises in October

Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick mulling White House run

Headlines

Boston Herald [newspaper] sold for $4,5 million ...

[Corey] Booker, [Deval] Patrick rally black Alabamians for Jones

Paper: Amazon drivers forced to deliver 200 parcels a day -- with no toilet breaks!

US forces could potentially lose an armed conflict with Russia or China, a think-tank report warns

Tom Cotton backs up Roy Moore: 'We shouldn't have trial by newspaper'

Boycotted by black leaders, Trump speaks at civil rights museum opening

[Gov. Jerry] Brown: Get used to burning!

Trump demands, gets apology from Washington Post reporter

Handwriting expert touted by Washington Post turns on Gloria Allred ... release yearbook

Kirsten Gillibrand's moment has arrived

Bureaucrats leaving State Department ...

The FBI's credibility is taking another blow, as the probe of Bernie Sander's wife continues

Jerry Sandusky's son sentenced to prison on sex abuse charges

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which ones from Politico.

Democrats snub new party message

Australian scientist caught red-handed manipulating climate data

Sheriff Joe found guilty of criminal contempt ...

Los Angeles gets big bucks to host 2028 Olympics

Obama's inner circle urging Deval Patrick to run

Too many white men at Dunkirk

Palin lawyers blocked from grilling [NYT] reporters in defamation suit

Judicial Watch files three suits seeking communications of acting FBI Director McCabe

Watchdog wants investigation into Wasserman Schultz IT staffer

Republicans see easier road to tax reform than Obamacare repeal

Venezuela arrests two top opposition leaders ...

Accuse MS-13 murderer enter U.S. under Obama's catch-and-release

Junketeer-in-Chief

$$ Last Year in China $$

Why do I have to go to a British newspaper to discover the details of Michelle Obama's second junket this Spring (the first being a skiing trip to Aspen) ... this time to Cambodia and Japan ... with her daughters and assumed entourage ... see: UK Daily Mail Story. Has the Obama administration stopped being transparent? Try it yourself with a Google search and see if you can discover such info in the U.S. media. (This article estimates that such Obama vacations have cost U.S. taxpayers over $40 million during their term in the White House.) The cover story for this taxpayer-funded all-expense-paid luxurious Asian vacation is to promote female education in these countries ... who can quibble with that? However, I strongly suspect that Japanese girls get a far better education  than do their counterparts in the United States.

Perhaps the First Lady can next travel to Trenton, New Jersey to promote female education there? (And stay in a Motel 6?)

I really am sick of politicians of both parties taking vacations on the the taxpayers' dime and calling them trade-missions or fact-finding trips. Deval Patrick, former governor of Massachusetts, particularly during his last years here, took many such sojourns costing millions ... see: WCVB Story. May I suggest that, at the end of such junkets, these political leeches produce a public trip report of the facts that they uncovered or the specific trade that they accomplished. Of course then they will all hide behind the term "good will" mission ... and who can argue with that?

Me, that's who. How about you?

Predictions

Every year a group of our friends get together to celebrate New Year's Eve. One tradition is for us to make predictions for the ensuing year and then, come the next New Year's Eve, prizes are given for the most prescience. Here are a few of this year’s more interesting predictions:

                                                                                                                    

• New vaccine to slow the onset of Alzheimer’s disease

• Prince and Elton John appear together on tour      

• Amazon takes over US Postal Service

• Drop in oil price puts kibosh on XL Pipeline

• President Obama’s approval rating reaches 58% 

• Republicans will lose two more House members due to misbehavior

• Superbowl will be lowest scoring game in history

• Google will buy Netflix      

• Greece will be asked to leave the European Union

• Joe Biden is not VP at the end of 2015

• Cosmic pulse disrupts communications for days

• Deval Patrick appointed judge of a high court or ambassador

• Hillary urged to drop out in favor of Elizabeth Warren

• Lost Malaysian jet debris discovered in unexpected location

• Joyce Carol Oates will win Noble Prize in literature

• Putin removed from office as Russian economy tanks

 • RIP – George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter

• George Clooney and wife separate

• Miley Cyrus marries Patrick Schwarzenegger

• Patriots win Super Bowl

• Iran acquires atomic weaponry

• Stock Market will correct by at least 10%

• Eddie Redmayne wins Best Actor for “Theory of Everything”

• “Selma” wins Best Picture

• Major LA earthquake … extensive damage
• Latin America pushes Middle East off of 24/7 news casting    

• Brazil will launch a satellite

• Sony Pictures will sell off its library of movies
• Apple stock soars 50%

• Keith Richards dies

• Aaron Hernandez found not guilty

• Marathon bomber – guilty but no death penalty

• “Boyhood” wins Best Picture

• Russia will default on its debts … again

Tune in this time next year for the results …

Our Next Attorney General

Since Eric Holder has announced his departure from this post, there has been great speculation as to whom President Obama might name to replace him. Such names as Deval Patrick, current Governor of Massachusetts, have popped up … even though he strenuously denies that he is in the running. That being the case, I would like to offer my suggestions as to who it might be. How about?

      -        Lani Guinier – lawyer, rejected nominee to the Supreme Court

-        Bill Ayers – former Barack Obama neighbor, often needing a lawyer

-        George Clooney – played a lawyer in “Intolerable Cruelty”

-        Bill Clinton – disbarred lawyer for lying under oath

-        Lynne Stewart – The Blind Sheikh’s lawyer, convicted of abetting terrorism

-        Michelle Obama – former lawyer and famed nutritionist

-        Eliot Spitzer – roue, lawyer and former governor of New York

-        Anthony Weiner – out-of-work protégée of the lawyer, Charles Schumer

Breaking News

Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor, Tim "Crash" Murray, is to resign his post today (see: NECN Story).  It is not known who will replace him, but this move is clearly meant to pave the way for Mass. Governor, Deval Patrick, also to leave his post for bigger and better things in Washington, DC ... perhaps as Attorney General or head of Homeland Security.  This presages the resignation of Obama's current crippled AJ, Eric Holder, who will be replaced by Deval Patrick or the current head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano.

It should be interesting to see who's the next Democrat hack that Deval Patrick anoints to replace him as this will be our new Governor for the next millennium.

Big Bang Theories

The heinous and gruesome Patriot's Day bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon are still being sorted out.  The best reporting that I can find to date is here:  NY Times Article.  But there are a number of comments and theories that are reflecting on what clearly appears to be a terrorist(s) act:

- President Barack Obama, who has not yet indicated that this was an act of terror, said, that “any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice.” … virtually the same pledge he gave shortly after the Benghazi terrorist attacks in which four Americans were killed … over six empty months ago.  Please reference: ABC News Story.

- Attorney General Eric Holder may think that these attacks were an act of “sports-related violence” just as he is thought to have caused the labeling of the Fort Hood shootings (in which 13 Americans were slaughtered and 30 injured by a Muslim shouting “Allahu Akbar”) “an act of workplace violence”  Please reference: Main Justice Story.

- Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, I think, might have called these deadly explosions another “failure of human understanding” like he did the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11.  Please reference: Boston Globe Story.

- Obama's "neighbor," Bill Ayers  has been reliably reported to be in the Chicago area still, and, although he enjoys a good bombing now and then, could not be connected to this incident. Please reference: NY Times Story.

Afterward:  To see some pictures of possible bombers see: Infowars Link

Eating Their Young

Earlier this year, in order to distract the American public from President Obama's dismal job performance, the Democrat attack machine castigated Romney over his leadership at Bain Capital,  But when Cory Booker, Democrat Mayor of Newark, NJ, defended Romney's performance at Bain Capital, he was forced by the Democrat consiglieries to walk back these comments within twenty-four hours.  Ditto for the Democrat governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick ... and even ... gasp ... Bill Clinton ... all with similar u-turns.

But, when Mitt Romney, criticized the State Department's previous day's embarrassing apology in dealing with the mob attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, he has once again came under the rabid harassment of the left-wing media.  And when he suffered a brief spat of stuttering when responding to the coordinated media strikes by reporters in his later-in-the-day press conference, his trashing was intensified.  (Of course, Obama has never has never had a spat of stuttering.)  Even more disturbing, instead of rallying around their candidate, a number of Republicans found it convenient to ding Romney ... in particular John Sununu (see: American Thinker Comments).  Ditto Republicans, Peter King and Peggy Noonan.

As opposed to supporting their party and their candidate, erudite Republicans (such as George Will) often try to earn their stripes and the favor of the Washington elite by eating their young.  I suppose that they often do this because, unlike the Democrat party, Republicans slake no vengeance on those who fall out of line.  Perhaps they should learn to do so?

Bittersweet

Bitter
Massachussets -- Barney Frank, Suzanne Bump, John Tierney, Deval Patrick, Jim McGovern, Bill Keating, Martha/Marsha Coakley
California -- ("Call me Senator") Boxer, Governor Moonbeam
Connecticut -- Michael Blumenthal
Nevada -- Harry Reid (polling, -4 percentage points; election, +5 percentage points ???)

Sweet
Pretty much the rest of the Nation