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De Blasio delays in-person schooling a second time

Trump expected to rule on TIKTOK deal in 24-36 hours, Oracle to take 20% stake

Lindsey Graham says Mueller won’t agree to testify

FoxNews cuts off Newt Gingrich after he points out Soros role in electing prosecutors

Barr calls coronavirus lockdowns the ‘greatest intrusion into civil liberties’ since slavery

Jobless claims were lower than expected but employment growth is still sluggish

CNN sued for defamation over impeachment coverage

Twitter suspends Kanye West

Internal memo reassured Trudeau that virus’s economic hit would be ‘manageable’

Coronavirus live updates: BlackRock may never be 100% back in office, airline CEOs seek more federal aid

Minneapolis City Council that defunded police shocked by crime surge

Tory MP refuses to take ‘Unconscious Bias Training’

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

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Inside the EPA: 'It's just a slow-motion train wreck'

DOJ will allow House, Senate Intel committees access to Carter Page FISA court applications

Texas, Arizona announce troop deployments [at Mexico border] ...

Several killed as vehicle 'delibertly' hits pedestrians in Germany ...

Trump sanctions Putin's inner circle

Newt Gingrich shocker ... California could become a Red State

China warns "arrogant"America [over trade war] ...

Soros organizations seeking to "break Hungary" ahead of Sunday elections

Space war is coming -- and the U.S. is not ready

America's voracious appetite for SUVs and trucks is making passanger cars disappear

Secret direct talks underway between USA, NKorea ...

BET founder says Trump economy great for black American jobs

Swamp Creatures

Senator Al Franken has just joined the host of current and previous  pervs in Congress ... Ted Kennedy, Bob Menendez, Lyndon Johnson, Anthony Weiner, JFK, Wilbur Mills, Newt Gingrich, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Bob Packwood, Joe Biden, Gerry Studds,  260 anonymous Congresspersons who had previously cost the U.S. taxpayers $15 million in sexual abuse settlements, and 50 current Congresspersons who are on a known "Creep List" ... see: Conservative Review Article.

For lots more perv names, see: Supreme Find Law.

And these are just the ones who have been exposed. How many more have existed is obviously a lot larger. And we wonder why so little gets done in the swamp ... they all seem preoccupied with groping others and exposing themselves.

Afterward: Should I add Barack Obama to the above perv list? See: DC Clothesline.

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Newt Gingrich goes to spouse school

Chief Obamacare architect sacked after fraudulent billing investigation

Jefferson Memorial to get slavery update ...

Petition to replace Confederate monument with statue of rapper

U.S. Embassy in Russia suspends issuing immigration visas

The eclipse is racist because it fails to affect enough black people, The Atlantic suggests

NYC cops rally in favor of Colin Kaepernick ...

Report: Ivanka takes credit for Bannon White House departure

Schiff: Jury's out on Trump's mental stability

US destroyer sustains damage in collusion with massive oil tanker

Pope: Rights of migrants trump national security concerns ...

Turkey, Iran boost military ties

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How McCain tanked Obamacare repeal

After vulgar rant, Trump's new comms guy vows never to trust another reporter

Border wall prototype delayed until Winter ...

GDP rises at 2.6% annual pace

Gowdy: More coverage of Bieber tour than Lynch scandal

House Dems call for Kushner to be immediately dismissed

Obama aides unmasked hundreds during election without justification

Gingrich on NPR: Mueller has hired antiTrump killers

After health care failure,Trump tweets 'let Obamacare implode'

Macron aims to clear migrants from the streets of France

Stock market +19% since election ...

Gingrich on Scaramucci: Full of himself, 'talking more than he is thinking'

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Senate GOP seethes at Trump impulsiveness

Sarah Palin suing New York Times for defamation

Opioids could kill 650,000 in USA over next decade ...

Mark Zuckerberg compares Facebook to going to church

Gingrich: Congress should call upon Obama to testify

Ransomware virus hits computer servers across globe ...

Rand Paul says he believes Senate can pass Obamacare repeal bill before August recess

Rep. [Chris] Collins loses $17 million in biotech stock

Chinese foreign minister: Refugees should return to their homelands

Cable news wars: Hannity dominate[s] ...

Bernie Sanders says FBI investigation of his wife is politically motivated

Supreme Court takes case on what qualifies as obstruction

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Sources: Senate GOP prepares for Obamacare repeal vote next week

Sanders: My Republican colleagues are 'cowardly'

Judge narrows injunction on Trump travel ban

Leon Panetta: 'We have a dysfunctional presidency' at this moment in time

Gingrich on Russian investigation: 'The fix is in'

Christain school told they can't teach 'offensive' scripture

Mag: Time to break up Amazon?

Limbaugh: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi wrote 'script' for Scalise shooting

Otto Warmbler dies days after being released by North Korea

Exclusive: McCain Institute is funded by George Soros

Update: Yellowstone supervolcano hit by 400 quakes in week

Fleeing burglar fires back into home, kills accomplice running behind him

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79 now believed to have died in London high-rise fire

Ossoff, Handel battle for Georgia special election win

Update: Illinois finances in 'massive crisis mode' ...

Macron seizes smaller legislative majority than expected

Obama-era FCC caught red-handed giving preferential treatment to liberal groups

Cosby knew he would get a hung jury all along ...

Two dead after suspected jihadists attack Mali tourist resort

Gingrich: Trump's combative style isn't always the best

Adam Schiff admits the is no proof of Trump-Russia collusion

Dens fume over 'secret' Republican healthcare bull

Angus King suggests Russia probe just 20 percent done

Colorado considers a ban on preteens owning cellphones

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Populists suffer setbacks in Italy's local elections

12 injured as Molotov cocktail explodes in Paris restaurant

Trump accuses 'cowardly' Comey of more leaks

Puerto Rico votes in favor of statehood ...

Rubio defends his questioning of Comey

Bill O'Reilly: I may be back on television soon

Gingrich says Mueller isn't neutral, calls on Congress to abolish Special Counsel

Israel court: journalists to pay Netanyaho damages for libel ...

Republicans refuse to back Trump's attack on Comey

Trump shows up uninvited to random couple's wedding

Delta, Bank of America dump NY.c public theater over play depicting Trump assassination

Michael Jordan sneakers fetch a record $190,000

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WASH POST SHOCK POLL: Trump still beating Clinton, 43% - 40%

Death toll jumps to 20 in Venezuela protests ...

Trump's fake war on the fake news

Gingrich: Trump most divisive president since Lincoln

Trump team asked Carter Page to 'cease' calling himself a campaign advisor

Former NYPD Commissioner: Feds should lock up officials like De Blasio who violate immigration law

French election: Macron and Le Pen projected to advance to runoff

Priebus: Trump doesn't support Le Pen in French election

DNC Chair demands abortion rights litmus test for Democrats

3rd American detained in NKorea ...

Sessions: Erroneous tax credits to 'mostly Mexicans' could pay for wall

'Homeland Security' not targeting Dreamers ...

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Man dresses as ISIS fighter and walks straight across German border control ...

Iranian dissidents seek meeting with Trump ...

Kissinger sidles up to Trump

Politico Scoop: Donald Trump might be 6'2", not 6'3"

Gingrich mocks Russia over Israel vote

Town residents place dozens of cribs at site of removed nativity scene

Prince Charles pleads: 'Think of Mohammed this Chrismas'

Trump versus the Green Blob: Biggesr science scam in history

European lefties plan march on ISIS while waving white flags

Russian military plane with 91 aboard missing over Black Sea

Italy knew Berlin attacker was a terrorist, released him anyway ...

Trump pulling the plug on his foundation

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Three Pakistani men apprehended at Arizona border ...

Gingrich will not be in the Cabinet ...

'Hamilton' [cast and audience] disses Pence ... Bitter on B'way

Obama agrees to halt amnesty lawsuit until Trump DOJ in place

Fight for $15? McDonald's to place automated ordering stations at all US locations

Challenging times: Univision to fire up to 250

ISIS has 60-80 operatives in Europe ...

Missing: Thousands of Secret Service badges, guns, phones

Claims of votes by the dead, felons cloud NC governor's race ...

Lobbyists leave Trump's transition team after new ethics rules

AMAZON to sell cars ...

Bernie: If Trump has 'guts' to stand up to corporate America 'he will have an ally in me'

What if ...

the Donald Trump/Mike Pence ticket wins in November? This upset victory might result in a number of interesting and maybe attractive developments:

- Hellary will divorce Bill and marry Huma

- Bill will devote his life to investigating female sex slave trafficking

- Barbara Streisand might move to Australia as promised

- Obummer will start his Family Foundation with the eventual intention of buying Kenya

- Newt Gingrich will be named Chief of Staff

- Mark Cuban will have lost a close friend

- Mar-a-Largo might become the summer White House

- Construction will start on the Keystone Excel pipeline

- Justice Ginsburg will not resign from the SCOTUS even when on a respirator

- Mexico will refuse to pay for the Wall

- Chris Christie will be named Attorney General

- The Clinton Foundation will have lost its major funding sources and may fold

- Rosie O'Donnell and Lena Dunham will move to Canada

- Melania Trump will attempt to buy back all her nudie photos

- Coal and other energy companies' stock prices will soar

- Paul Ryan and/or Jeb Bush might slit their wrists

- Bernie Sanders will retire to his new beach-front home

Mr. Cool

The then Senator Obama once told Harry Reid that his "gift" was being able to read from a teleprompter so easily.  That certainly is true, but he has a much larger asset ... and that is his "coolness".  Marshall McLuhan once prophetically observed that television is a cool medium.  And President Obama fits this medium like a chamois glove.  He even strides "cool."  I seldom can watch him perform on television without singing to myself that old 1959 Coasters' song Charlie Brown:

Who walks in the classroom, cool and slow
Who calls the English teacher, Daddy-O      (see: All Lyrics)

So, in the upcoming Presidential election, Obama (I like to call him The Barry to reprise that other cool media character, The Donald), has the natural advantage in the upcoming debates.  Neither Rick Santorum nor Mitt Romney nor Newt Gingrich are particularly cool personalities ... Romney is cooler than the other two, but still boiling hot compared to The Barry.  What does this suggest?  To me, it implies that, if the election is determined on emotion (as it was in 2008), Obama will win in a walk.  However, if the U.S. electorate chooses to view things this fall with a preponderance of logic, then Obama will loose in a landslide.  It should turn out to be a classic battle between the head and the heart.

And what will determine the mood of electorate then?  My guess would be the degree of angst (created by the world situation) that is roiling the voters ... the hotter things are, the less well "coolness" will play.

Burning Up Ants

For me, the analogy that best fits the Republican presidential-primary race is one of a small child burning up ants on the sidewalk with a magnifying glass.  The child is the national media who seem to be taking a sadistic puerile pleasure in incinerating the candidates one by one with opposition research, innuendo, gotcha debate questions, and sneering asides.  And it has worked beautifully.  Tim Pawlenty, pffft!  Michelle Bachmann, pffft!  Herman Cain, pffft!  Rick Perry, pffft!  Jon Huntsman, pffft!

Who's next? 

Mitt Romney barely escaped the searing magnifying-glass flash when George Stephanopoulos, as a debate moderator, asked him in early January if a state could ban contraception (see: Contraception Question).  This out-of-left-field question was so bizarre that Romney deftly batted it away.  But it clearly presaged the current White House tactic to eliminate a GOP candidate or two by swinging the focus away from the economy and onto social issues.  Does Stephanopoulos's then-silly question seem staged to you now?

Unfortunately, poor Rick Santorum has taken this media bait on the White House's "social issue strategy" and is slowly frying under the ensuing media magnification.  And the Democratic machine is now taking the unusual tactic of spending part of its huge war chest to run opposition ads against Romney in the Michigan primary ... since the convenient media narrative is that he must win there to have a chance at the nomination.  And I think the Democrat strategy with Newt Gingrich seems to be that his ego is so big that he will seek out the seering sunlight focused beam all by himself ... thinking it is the spotlight.

And, looking back on things, I can see that the decisions that were made by Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels, and Sarah Palin to stay out of this nomination melee were quite perceptive.  I think that they must have seen that big magnifying glass in the sky ...

Merry-go-round



First Bachmann, then Santorum, then Romney, then Gingrich, then Romney, then Romney again, then Santorum, then Santorum again, then Santorum once again, and now Romney again ... I am getting a bit of vertigo from this rapid changing of front-runners in the the Republican Presidential nomination race.  Still the handicapper "pundits" think that Romney will be in front when all the ballyhoo is over in Tampa in August.  As a regular reader of this blog might know, I want Romney to win this carousel derby.  However, the whirligigging of this race has been a little unnerving, but I can find some solace in that I haven't seen a dark horse rider reaching for the brass ring ... yet.