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Trump offers Mexico help waging war on drug cartels after murder of U.S. citizens

House Dems asks Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to testify in impeachment inquiry

Scientists call for population control

Trump slams Gavin Newsom for [California] fires, poor forest management

Sanders outpaces other 2020 Dems in Latino fundraising support

Job openings hit lowest level in 18 months but are still well ahead of total vacancies

Leaked recording from ABCNews reveals network killed story implicating Epstein ...

Julian Castro laying off staff in New Hampshire, South Carolina

How Kamala Harris went from ‘female Obama’ to fifth place

Snowden ‘did more damage to the private sector’ than government, says departed intelligent lead

WASH POST: [Trump] Pure, brazen contempt of Congress on full display ...

NARCOTERROR: [Mexican] Cartel gunmen murder 9 U.S. women and children

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White House intervenes in General Motors strike

Pelosi tells Cramer: Dems are hopeful they’re on ‘path to yes’ on Trump’s North American trade deal

New York Fed steps into market to move interest rates ...

Week two: More empty NFL seats

Cokie Roberts, longtime political journalist, dies at 75

Oil drops 5% on report Saudi oil output to return to normal faster than initially anticipated

USA sues Snowden over new memoir ...

Week two: More empty NFL seats

Pentagon puts breaks on 3 border barrier projects because of cost

Blackstone’s Schwarzman: China’s economic ‘miracle’ came at the expense of US and the West

NYC says 1 million kids can skip school for climate strike!

... U.S. carbon emissions at lowest level since 1992

Assange

Julian Assange was ejected from the Ecuadoran embassy in London yesterday ... and will likely soon be extradited to the United States. A heated debate is now taking place whether Assange is a good actor for what was revealed about Hillary Clinton and the DNC in Wikileaks posts ... or a bad actor for colluding with Chelsea Manning for dumping nation security secrets at this same website.

Simple solution: Have President Trump give Assange the Medal of Freedom ... right before he  places him in front of a firing squad. (Same for Edward Snowden ... except no medal.)

A Taste of Reality

The first Deep State leaker has been arrested. Her name ironically is Reality Leigh Winner and she is now a loser for her snowflake gesture of leaking a top-secret NSA document regarding Russian attempted hacking into our voter systems right before last year's election, the details of which are quite fascinating ... see: NY Post Story.

Whether these details were real or were moonbat bait (as Rush Limbaugh suspects) is irrelevant for Ms Winner did feel it her patriotic duty to pass this top-secret marked document on to the  "Intercept", a left wing Internet site. Already she is being portrayed as a Edward Snowden-like hero ... see: NY Times Story

Who is Reality Winner? First read a somewhat sympathetic CV in The Guardian. Then note that this woman has stated that "being white is racist" which does suggest that she has consumed a whole washtub full of liberal Kool Aid. For a somewhat less sympathetic view, read: Talking Points Memo.  (Interestingly, yesterday I read an even more negative story on Ms. Winner. Today, searching with Google, I could not relocate it. I wonder why?)

Anyhow, how this woman ever passed her background check with the NSA is dumbfounding? The fact that her parents gave her this hippy-dippy name, I think, is revealing. As is often said, "squirrels make squirrels" ...

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These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites.

Maher: Trump is mentally ill

Eliott Abrams dropped from list of Deputy SecState candidates

CIA freezes out top Flynn aide

Hungarian Prime Minister warns of 'trans-border empire of George Soros'

ICE rounds up 44 criminal aliens in Texas capital

U.S. Border Security nabs refugees trying to sneak into Canada

ICE arrests 160 in sweeping California enforcement, possibly more across 6 other states

Michelle, Barack Obama gear up for speaking, book deals

Zucked: Facebook closes hundreds of Oculus VR demo stations

Protesters block DeVos from entering D.C. middle school

Europe moves to eliminate paper money ...

Russia considers sending Snowden back to U.S. as 'gift' to Trump

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These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites.

US refiners export record amounts of gasoline, diesel

Nearing exit, Obama seeks to tie Trump's hands ...

Unleashes 3.853 regs, 18 for every law, record 97,110 pages of red tape

Trump to have 7 fewer inaugural balls than Obama, shorter parade ...

Liberals accuse Trump of treason ...

Snowden and Manning ask Obama for clemency

Mormon Tabernacle Choir singer quites over inauguration ...

Paul Ryan welcomes 'overdue' Russian sanctions ...

Report: Islamic State general escapes to Europe with 400 soldiers disguised as refugees

Bolton: Russian sanctions insufficient; U.S. must 'make the Russians feel pain'

Berlin terrorists claimed welfare under several identities while planning attack

Report: Self-driving cars can be hacked with just $43 and a laser pointer

Asian taxi driver kept 15-year-old sex slave, sold her 4 children

The Ship of State

Old Ironsides

The United States must really have some special resilience going for it to have survived the last five years ... maybe even longer ... of domestic and international screw-ups.  Whether this mismanagement is purposeful or as a result of incompetence is almost beside the point.  Our country has been buffeted by a series of fiscal, operational, and diplomatic tidal waves that would have sunk even the sturdiest of ships … yet we sail on … a little slower and shakier than would be nice … but we are thankfully still afloat.

I hope I need not detail these tsunamis … which should be quite obvious to those seamen even traveling in steerage.  Can I just tweak a few reminders …  the IRS, huge deficit spending, Benghazi, Iran, NSA, Obamacare, the Muslim Brotherhood, Fast and Furious, North Korea, the stimulus, amnesty, Solendra, illegal immigrants, Assad, the fiscal cliff, EBT cards, unemployment, Afghanistan, global warming, Edward Snowden, SDI, increased tax rates, the debt ceiling, Excel pipeline, etc.?  We have placed a tyro at the helm of our ship of state who appears somehow oblivious to these buffetings … just as long as he can play some golf, have his White House soirees, and pick his March Madness brackets.

Our man-o-war surely must be rock-ribbed.