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Judge’s faith becomes early flashpoint in Supreme Court fight

Weekly jobless claims rise unexpectedly, total 870,000

Rioters set fire to police HQ in St. Louis

Twitter: ‘Louisville will burn’ doesn’t violate our rules ... Masters of the Universe bow to the mob

2 retired 4-star officers who served under Trump endorse Biden

Protests erupt around the nation after Breonna Taylor grand jury decision

Kevin McCarthy threatens motion to remove Pelosi as speaker if she pushes for impeachment again

Leftists boo Trump paying respects to RBG

Battleground polls show Trump up in Texas, Biden ahead in Iowa

Retailers have started paying rent again but are still fighting with their landlords

Florida AG refers Bloomberg to FBI for criminal investigation

Khan’s London: 11 police injured in acid attacks

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

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STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

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North Korea says it has no plans for talks with U.S.

Loans in coronavirus bailouts see largest weekly decline yet — but there are still red flags

Michael Cohen spotted dining at NYC restaurant — may land him back in prison

Khan’s London: Police retreat as rioters throw bricks and bottles

Trudeau: Canada to restrict sensitive exports, suspend extraditions to Hong Kong

Trump signs extension of PPP small business coronavirus relief fund

New guidance in California bans singing in church

Duckworth to block promotion of 1.1k military officers for Vindman’s promotion

Washington Redskins to review team’s name

Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, test positive for coronavirus

Biden campaign won’t release his cognitive test results

Swalwell: Trump ‘makes us look like geniuses every day for impeaching him’

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Police shoot man in suspected ‘terrorist-related’ incident in London

‘I will pay more’: Bloomberg unveils $5 trillion tax plan targeting the wealthy and corporations

Super Bowl of insults ... He’s short, He’s fat ... Has Trump met his match?

Shock: CNN, Des Moines Register bury Iowa poll

Schiff: Senators who fail to convict Trump will not be ‘off the hook’

US split on Trump’s removal from office, while top Dems’ lead in 2020 race: NBC/WSJ poll

The NFL ass-time show ...

Molten: Impeachment proves Nancy Pelosi is an idiot

Ernst: Trump learned his lesson on foreign interference

Voters largely favor capitalism over socialism amid Sanders’ rise in 2020 primary

Beyonce, Jay-Z DO NOT stand for [Super Bowl] half-time show ...

Trump: Bloomberg wants box to stand in for debate ...

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North Korea conducts another test at long-range rocket site

‘Historic’ phase one with China will be very good for global growth, Mnuchin says

Is trap being set for president in Senate trial?

Chaos erupts in London as Socialists clash with police after election

Booker scales back campaign in New Hampshire

Wall Street predicts a high single-digit gain next year, but history shows that is likely wrong

How US-China trade deal achieved a little but left out a lot ...

Notte — Greta Thunberg: We will ‘put world leaders against the wall’

Europe threatens U.S. with carbon tariffs to combat climate change

Path is clear for a year-end rally with key hurdles like the trade war removed

Doubts surface on $50 billion of [China] farm buys ...

UK election: Every candidate backed by Hugh Grant loses seat

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John Kerry: We are way behind on climate change

5G broadband is an existential threat to cable companies, but execs and investors aren’t worried

Chinese tech groups writing UN facial recognition standards ...

Trump still has not released aid to Lebanon

U.N. Chief warns of ‘point of no return’ on climate change

Winter storm snarls post-Thanksgiving air travel

Focus on early release of convict in London stabbings ...

Islamist militants hack to death 12-year-old Christian boy in Cameroon

Doug Collins wants Adam Schiff to testify in front of House Judiciary Committee

China wants rollback of tariffs in phase one trade deal with US, Chinese state media says

Unusual tornadoes confirmed in Arizona ...

NBC’s Todd accuses GOP Senator of pushing Putin talking points

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Rick Perry dances toward the exits

Black Friday shoppers spend $7.4 billion in second largest online sales day ever

Ginsburg health scare raises prospect of election-year Supreme Court battle ...

Burisma director admits Hunter Biden secured post because of Joe

Leaked papers hint at post-Brexit trade priorities for U.K., U.S

Tesla, GE and Uber make list of most divisive stocks on Wall Street

Poll: Majority of Republicans say Trump better president than Lincoln

Report: London attacker was convicted terrorist, recently released

Super PAC backing Booker will shut down

Brazil’s president accuses DiCaprio of financing Amazon fires, offers no evidence

Biden to blitz Iowa back roads by bus in 800-mile hunt for support ...

Dems doubt Biden’s S.C. lead will hold after early state losses

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Iraq’s prime minister says he’ll resign amid worsening crisis

UK police shoots suspect dead after terrorist attack at London Bridge

Black Friday flat? Crowds thin out

Afghan President: Defeating Baghdadi more significant that Bin-Laden

Sondland not resigning over sexual misconduct allegations

Warren Buffet is sitting on $128 billion, raising questions about whether the market is overvalued

Sales move online ... Third of [online] reviews fake?

Iran arrests eight as it blames CIA conspiracy for recent riots

Trump pushes new Taliban negotiations during surprise Afghanistan trip

Stocks fall to end November, but post the largest monthly gain since June

FBI issues warning about smart TVs ...

BET founder: No Democrat candidate can beat Trump

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Bumbling Congress gives Trump the budget freeze he wanted

Bitcoin sinks to lowest level since May, falling $3,000 in month as China accelerates crackdown

Supreme Court lets lawsuit by climate scientist continue against conservative outlets ...

DOD Chief fires Navy Secretary for ‘lack of candor’ on Gallagher case

‘The ultimate fighter’: Trump shows off Conan, the military dog from the Baghdadi raid

Ex-Trump aide who went to jail in Mueller probe is running for House seat vacated by Katie Hill

Biden’s senior Latina advisor quits in frustration ...

Schiff: Overwhelming evidence Trump sacrificed national security for personal gain

Democrats on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Elon Musk says Tesla has received 200,000 preorders for its Cybertruck after botched debut

Uber loses license to operate in London ...

Polls show 34 percent of black likely voters approve of Trump

Civilization

“There is such a thing as too much civilization.” — Anon.

Do you get the sense that the patina of the world’s civilization is wearing thin? Watching cable TV would certainly lead one to conclude that it is ... given the barrage of insults that one hears there.  Of course the obvious culprit is President Trump who is not shy about expressing his thoughts, however hostile. This encourages his haters to wade even deeper into the wallow ... and so the back and forth.

A validation of this swing toward vulgarity is that Trump’s VP, Mike Pence, possibly one of the most honorable politicians around, hasn’t a snowflake’s chance in South Chicago of taking over from his boss in the 2024 election.

But is Trump’s behavior  a cause or a symptom? I suggest the latter. Civility is disappearing all around the world ... Hong Kong, Paris, Ecuador, Iran, Chile, London, Iraq, Venezuela, the House Intelligence Committee, etc. And Trump is but a bystander to these events.

Perhaps it is because civility must run in cycles? As civilization’s veneer is built up layer after layer with fairy-tale memes, it finally becomes too ridiculous for commoners to tolerate ... and the people revolt ... and this precious pretentiousness is scuttled.

To me, kind reader, it seems that we have hit this silliness ceiling ... which has spawned a huge partisan food-fight ... at the obvious cost of our country’s comity. Things won’t return to sereneness until all the fops are guillotined.

Strife

There seems an epidemic of unrest around the world. The globe is aflame with strife against tyrannical regimes. Demonstrations and riots of all types are breaking out all over. To sample these venues, click on the hyperlinks below:

Hong Kong— Fox News Story

Venezuela — CNN Story

London — The Irish Times Story

Barcelona — US News Story

Ecuador — KIVITV Story

Lebanon — AlArabiya Story

Chile — The Guardian Story

The reason for all these altercations? Perhaps plastic straws or climate change?

Headlines

Andrew Yang stands by comedian after SNL firing for racist jokes

Iran’s warning to Saudi Arabia about all-out war is ‘ridiculous,’ Saudi’s Al-Jubeir says

Trump pressed Ukraine to investigate Biden’s son ... Campaign rocked

Nolte: Climate ‘experts’ are 0-41 with their Doomsday predictions

Facebook announces tens of thousands of app suspensions

Pentagon will deploy US forces to Middle East after Saudi Arabia oil facilities attack

Social Security drawn outside USA jumps 40% ...

Kahn’s London: Virtue-signaling ‘car-free day’ to disrupt city

Advocacy group slams Ben Carson over reported slur of trans people

Zukerberg’s visit to DC tells lawmakers Facebook is finally taking then seriously

Judge: President must tape  testimony for trial over 2015 protest at Trump Tower ...

Tear gas, mass arrests as cops crack down on anti-Macron protests

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Iran admits its rocket blew up

Hurricane Dorian ‘nearly stationary’ as it pounds northern Bahamas

DeSantis: [Dorian] ‘perilously close’ to FL ...

Exclusive — Devin Nunes: ‘Evidence is there’ for U.S. Attorney to file criminal conspiracy charges against James Comey

Boris Johnson says he won’t ask for a Brexit extension

China lodges a tariff case against the US at the WTO

Texas killer called police before mass shooting began ... Was fired from job ...

Devin Nunes warns Americans against ‘tech oligarhs’ censorship

London mayor mocks Trump for dealing with the hurricane ‘out on the golf course’

Britain prepares for showdown as opposition lawmakers try to stop no-deal Brexit

Trump Labor Day Rasmussen [poll]: 45% ...

Comey: Trump too narcissistic to focus on mass shootings, hurricanes

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Trump ‘deadly serious’ about Mexico tariffs, Mulvaney says

China vows to defend ‘islands and rocks’ in the South China Sea

Wire: Big tech should be afraid. Very afraid ...

Veterans skip meeting with AOC after she bashes Trump’s foreign policy

Trump tempers optimism on Middle East peace plan

Goldman Sachs is predicting an escalation of the global trade wars

Trump hits back at London mayor on arrival in UK ...

Poll: Majority of Americans oppose Donald impeachment

Trump backs no-deal Brexit

5 injured in Venice as cruise ship slams into tourist boat

Palestinians say U.S. ‘deal of the century’ will finish off their state ...

Virginia Beach police chief: No gun law would have prevented attack

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Labor anger over Green New Deal greets 2020 contenders in California

China releases critical document that blames America for the trade war

Amazon primed for antitrust

James Comey accuses AG Barr of ‘echoing conspiracy theories’

Trump’s tariff war leaves allies fretting about the economy

Mexican President hints at migration concessions to avoid Trump tariffs

India heatwave temperatures pass 123 degrees!

Warren: ‘America that elected’ Trump has ‘serious peoblems’

Trump backs Johnson, takes pop at Macron ahead of European trip

Beijing targets Fedex for ‘damaging rights of Chinese clients amid Huawei dispute

Mayor of Londonstan calls Trump ‘fascist’ ...

Bernie: Slash military spending and move ‘toward global community’

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McConnell to Trump: Healthcare’s all yours

Mnuchin says US-China trade talks were ‘constructive’

USA projected to add 1.5 million illegal aliens this year ...

Exclusive — Devin Nunez sending criminal referral to DOJ over Spygate

Trump tests post-Mueller vengeance campaign

Huawei: US has a ‘loser’s attitude’ and is trying to smear the company because it can’t compete

GDP revised down to 2.2% in fourth quarter ...

Comey: ‘Good’ that evidence doesn’t establish Americans conspiring

Watchdog report critiques DEA report Barr approved 27 years ago

London house prices see their biggest drop in 10 years as Brexit fears bite

Smollett nominated for NCAA Image lAwaed ...

S. Korean leader to meet with Trump in US on nuclear diplomacy

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Supreme Court to take on partisan gerrymandering this year

Moscow says FBI detained a Russian the day after it arrested ex-US Marine

Flu widespread in 24 states; Pediatric deaths rise ...

Arrest made after man stabbed to death on London train

House Dems eye $12B in aid for states hit by natural disasters

Government shutdown means tax refund delays and no IRS customer service

Airports see rise in security screeners calling off work ...

Women's March cancellations grow; California group cites gender issues

Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to pay for Green New Deal

Tuna sells for record $3 million at Tokyo's new fish marker

Democrats look to kill Electoral College ... Make D.C. 51st state ...

Judge sets date for Rachael Dolezal welfare fraud case

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Pelosi challenges McConnell with shutdown plan

Why China's market lost nearly a quarter of its value in 2018

Viewers slam NBC for 'train-wreck' New Year's Eve coverage ...

John Kelly: Catch-and-release laws encourage migration crisis

U.S. military apologizes for New Year's Eve bomb tweet

US stocks suffer worst year in a decade as S&P 500 falls mote than 6% in 2018

3 stabbed at UK railway station; 'Allihu Akbar!' ...

Thousands march in Hong Kong against Chinese political oppression

Putin to Trump: Moscow ready for 'most extensive' talks

Vehicle plows into New Year's crowd in Tokyo, injures 8 people

[Mayor] Khan slammed for turning London show into EU tribute ...

2018: The year China's Communists turned on Xi Junping

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Newest security worry: Trump without Mattis

Uber claims only a handful of women drivers in Saudi Arabia, whole it's local rival Careem claims 2,000

Mexico slows caravan? Thousands stranded

Dodgers beat Brewers in game 7, face Red Sox in World Series

Sanders admits his age is an issue in 2020

Elon Musk's extreme micromanagement has wasted time and money at Tesla, insiders say

Mass rally in London for new Brexit vote ...

EPA reverses Obama era last minute uranium mining regulations

Trump: U.S. to withdraw from arms treaty with Russia

Trump, European leaders call Saudi account of Khashoggi death incomplete

Germany urges global tax for digital giants ...

... French flee to Hungary to escape mass migration

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Anita Hill: Kavanaugh accuser deserves 'fair and neutral' process

The bond market is beginning to believe the Fed is serious about two more rate hikes this year

Obama repeatedly stutters, talks about self 79 times during short speech ...

[Al] Gore calls storms biblical events

Governor Moonbeam: California to launch 'its own damn satellite' (from Politico)

London mayor [Kahn] calls for second referendum on Brexit

Looters capitalize on [Florence] chaos

Claim: Former Obama officials advising Europe to evade Iran sanctions

Trump could impose tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods next week

Storm Florence weakens but epic rains still expected on US east coast

Paul McCartney slams Trump in new song ...  'Mad captain is sailing this boat' ...

CNN ratings down 41 percent from last year