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This Past Week
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Conservative Treehouse
by Sundance
Democrat Andrew Gillum conceded defeat to Republican Ron DeSantis in the Florida Governors race on election night; then the national democrats got hold of him, and Gillum withdrew his concession. Today, following a recount, he re-conceded the race. TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – Democrat Andrew Gillum … conceded on Saturday, after a recount showed he had no way of catching his Republican rival Ron DeSantis, an ally of President Donald Trump. Gillum, the 39-year-old liberal mayor of Tallahassee, had initially conceded the race on the night of the Nov. 6 election to DeSantis, a conservative former congressman.
Daily Mail (UK) & Associated Press,
by Emily Goodin & Staff
Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson conceded his contest to Republican rival Rick Scott on Sunday after a recount in the state showed him trailing by more than 10,000 votes. ´I just spoke with Senator Bill Nelson, who graciously conceded, and I thanked him for his years of public service. This victory would not be possible without the hard work of so many people,´ Scott said in a statement. The concession wraps up one of the most expensive Senate races of the year and ensures President Donald Trump will have a strong GOP majority in the upper chamber. …
South Florida Sun Sentinel
by Anthony Man
Just hours after finishing a tumultuous election recount on Sunday, Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes submitted her resignation. “It is true. She did send it,” said Burnadette Norris-Weeks, an attorney who works as counsel to the Supervisor of Elections Office. Evelyn Perez-Verdia, a former office spokeswoman who left several years ago, said Sunday evening she was told by people in the office that the letter was sent “to Tallahassee” earlier in the day. Norris-Weeks said she saw an early draft of the letter. In the version she saw, she said Snipes, 75, expressed a desire to spend more time with her family.
Daily Wire
by Frank Camp
On Sunday, Congressman-elect Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) appeared on CNN’s "State of the Union." During the segment, Crenshaw and two other newly-elected representatives were asked about civility by host Jake Tapper. "A lot of people [are] talking about civility," Tapper said. "But things here in Washington and the nation really seem nastier than ever, and I´m wondering if you think your class will try to usher in an era of cooperation, bipartisanship, and civility? Congresswoman-elect Deb Haaland (D-NM) was the first to answer, and she said: Well, first of all, I feel like some people´s definition of "attacked" is different than …
The Atlantic
by Adam Harris
On Friday, the Education Department released its heavily anticipated proposal that would revamp the way colleges deal with accusations of sexual misconduct on campus. Many of the details in the proposed regulation did not come as a surprise. Still, one feature of the rules in particular stood out: Colleges will be required to allow students accused of sexual assault to cross-examine their accuser at a live hearing. “We can, and must, condemn sexual violence and punish those who perpetrate it, while ensuring a fair grievance process,” Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said in a press release
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FOR the BEAUTY of the EARTH
ReplyDelete1. For the beauty of the earth,
for the glory of the skies,
for the land which from our birth
over and around us lies.
Lord of All to thee we raise
this, our hymn of grateful praise.
2 .For the wonder of each hour
of the day and of the night,
hill and vale and tree and flower,
sun and moon and stars of light,
Lord of All to thee we raise
this, our hymn of grateful praise.
3. For the joy of human love,
brother, sister, parent, child,
friends on earth, and friends above,
for all gentle thoughts and mild,
Lord of All to thee we raise
this, our hymn of grateful praise.
4. For thyself, best gift divine,
to the world so freely given,
agent of God's grand design:
peace on earth and joy in heaven.
Lord of All to thee we raise
this, our hymn of grateful praise.
~ Folliot S. Pierpoint
ReplyDeleteK-12: Six Steps to Reform Education Right Now
American Thinker,
by Bruce Deitrick Price
Whenever people gather to discuss problems in education, we hear the same list of issues and solutions. We hear about poverty and the need for bigger budgets at all levels, more self-esteem, professional teacher corps, charter schools, vouchers, tutoring and remediation, new literacies, better assessment, year-round schools, pre-K, schools that are more permissive or more strict, the effects of drugs, the impact of violent sports, and the perpetual need for more and more money. Any talk show or other group will invariably touch on the exact same items. The participants will seem pleased that they are having an in-depth discussion ...
Excellent suggestions, all. It´s what most home schoolers do, and most home schooled children are well educated. But the problem is that so many people benefit from the education system as it is, almost all of them on the left
DeleteHis suggestions take me back to when I was growing up in the early 50s. We had no frivolous courses except so-called “electives.“ But even those electives taught us something besides identity politics and hatred of other people .
DeleteEducation has been horrible since the 60s. Imagine what education would be like if resentment of other people, whether for color, sex, wealth, was to disappear.
Ever since the US government got involved in education the learning has suffered. Progressive reforms have only confused the student and teacher alike. Back to the basics and we can be successful again!
DeleteWhatever deficiencies home schooled kids have are dwarfed by the deficiencies in most public school educated kids.
DeleteThe home schooled kids I have known are quite well educated. Hillsdale College, which has high standards for admissions and for passing their courses, has a higher percentage of home schooled students than almost any other college, and their graduates are overwhelmingly successful in life.
MORE ENCOURAGNG NEWS:
ReplyDeleteTrump warns he´ll turn off the cameras facing reporters as part of his ´new rules´
for the media in wake of Jim Acosta regaining his press pass
Daily Mail (UK),
by Emily Goodin
President Donald Trump is threatening to turn off the cameras that face reporters as part of his new rules and regulations for the conduct of the media in the wake of CNN reporter Jim Acosta losing and then regaining his White House hard pass. ´We´ll do is maybe turn the camera off that faces them because then they don´t have any air time, although I´ll probably be sued for that and maybe, you know, win or lose it, who knows. I mean, with with this stuff you never know what´s going to happen,´ Trump said on ´Fox News Sunday.´ ...
Don´t threaten, just do it. Don´t televise them.
DeleteTurn off the mic too.
DeleteAcosta will be lost without the camera. The WH Correspondence Association is garbage. They support this rude man no matter what he does or says
DeleteNews about Newsies gives me the snoozies.
DeleteThe news believes the First Amendment extends their right to give out false information. It now includes bringing basic decorum down to a lower level in line with the denigration of our President.
DeleteSubmit written questions without lengthy preambles and soliloquies?
DeleteThis is much along the lines of what I hoped he would do. If he is not allowed to differentiate between reporters based on how they behave, they must all pay a price for the poor conduct of one.
DeleteI was hoping he´s shut down the entire poop show; after all Obama didn´t hold a press conference for an eternity.
Mark Levin read from the court regulations showing how hard it was to get a transcript of what happened in the court and complaining he can´t report on what happened when this decision was made. The transcript goes up on the web site after a long delay but until then you can buy a copy $1.50 a page double spaced with lots of stipulations about delays and forms etc. The court is a branch of govt hiding its workings from the public and making extra cash in this way. Why not put the same rules in the White house and have some court rule against it ( and themselves ). No cameras or mic´s just a stenographer writing everything down, making transcripts and selling them page by page after about a week. Don´t post them on the internet until they are old news. Shine a light on the courts which rewrite the constitution on a whim the most powerful branch of government.
Deletehttps://www.conservativereview.com/news/can-we-all-have-press-passes-into-the-real-seat-of-power-the-courts/
ReplyDeleteTrump gives Whitaker free rein over Mueller probe: ´It´s going to be up to him´
Washington Times,
by S.A. Miller
President Trump on Sunday said he is giving acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker free rein over special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, including limiting or shutting down the investigation. “It’s going to be up to him,” Mr. Trump said in an interview aired on Fox News Sunday.” “I wouldn’t get involved....
Why not give Whitaker free rein, Mueller has had free rein for over a year and has come up with nothing, while spending millions to find nothing but a rational of falsely stated accusations from a blatant lie in the form of an already discredited dossier with Democrat fingerprints all over it.
DeleteOnce again the Democrats, Progressives, Liberals tried to steal but failed to win any of the remaining 3 important elections 12 days later. They lost the Gubernatorial races in Georgia and Florida as well as a Senate seat in Florida.
ReplyDeleteIt's about time that these people go to jail instead of allowing them to retire!
ReplyDeleteExclusive – Sec. Ryan Zinke Backs Trump: Years of Mismanagement Led to California Fires
Breitbart Politics,
by Michelle Coons
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke backed President Donald Trump on the years of forest mismanagement that led to the California fires as Zinke joined Breitbart News Sunday radio with host Amanda House. He suggested that even photos of the devastation don’t do justice to what it was like to see it in person. Pointing to years of neglect and dead and dying timber, he observed, “It was like a flamethrower of embers shooting through the forests.” Zinke said many people were unprepared for the fire. He described situations where firefighters were fighting back fire encroaching on commercial buildings with people still inside of ...
ReplyDeleteIn Tijuana, a city of migrants turns on Central American caravan that´s reached the border
Los Angeles Times,
by Patrick J. McDonnell
This city of migrants has turned on the caravan of thousands of Central American migrants that has roiled the border town. “This is an invasion!” shouted Luis Alexis Mendoza, 30, a bespectacled carpenter who was among scores of protesting Tijuana residents staging an anti-caravan demonstration Sunday that culminated in a standoff with riot police on the street where more than 2,000 Central Americans were being housed in a sports facility. “We demand respect! We demand that our laws be followed.” He and others denounced caravan members — mostly Honduran nationals — as “criminals,” “bums,” and ...
FTA: "The danger meant that most migrants could not leave the facility to seek food to supplement the meager meals provided at the facility. In the late afternoon, many lined up at the gates seeking to leave the complex in search of food."
DeleteSo there are stocks of free, un-owned food hidden around Tijuana and the mob just has to go out and find them?
Are they foraging in the local uncultivated (arid) area for food?
Are they harvesting from cultivated land?
Are they looking for the local grocery stores and restaurants to buy food? Or just take?
And when the commercial establishments stop access, where will the mob look next?
Sounds like the problem is that the Mexican military is not feeding their mercenaries well enough, or more likely they view this break in the action as leave and want to go into town and find women and drink.
DeleteAs they were regularly paid along the way, they have money for bars and prostitutes, maybe they will even take in a Donkey show.
This is the kind of thing TJ normally welcomes except that the mercenaries antics might get the border closed here.
Trump Mocks Rep. Adam Schiff as ‘Little Adam Schitt’
ReplyDeleteby Amy Russo
President Donald Trump‘s latest Twitter attack? Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). Or, as the commander in chief calls him, “little Adam Schitt.”
Trump mocked the congressman with the name in a Sunday tweet, writing it was “so funny” that Schiff was “talking about the fact that Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker was not approved by the Senate, but not mentioning the fact that Bob Mueller (who is highly conflicted) was not approved by the Senate!” ..
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"Oh, Lord, I LOVE it! " said he dissolving into gales of uncontrollable laughter. WE LOVE TRUMP, BECAUSE HE COMES RIGHT OUT AND SAYS WHAt WE THINK
SOME GOOD NEWS:
ReplyDelete´Bus driver from heaven´ rescued children from California wildfire
CNN,
by Paul Vercammen*
Paradise, California- Kevin McKay drove the school bus along gridlocked, dark roads as pockets of fire burned all around. Nearly two dozen elementary school children were on board with him. Smoke began to fill the bus, so McKay took off a shirt. He and two teachers on the bus tore it into pieces and doused them with water. The children held the damp pieces of cloth to their mouths and breathed through them. He had been on the job, driving the bus for Ponderosa Elementary School in the northern California city of Paradise, only for a few months. ...
Lots of good stuff going on. 3 day week followed by 4 day weekend. Lindsey Graham might just start getting serious investigations and actions going against the criminals we all know about when he sits down as judiciary Committee chairman.
ReplyDeleteI had kind of given up on Lindsey as "lost," to the RINO's, but he sure redeemed himself with that stellar performance at the Kavanaugh Travesty.
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ReplyDeleteHere’s the Full Letter the White House Sent CNN Activist Jim AcostaBanning Him Again
Gateway Pundit,
by Cassandra Fairbanks
The White House sent a letter to CNN’s loud mouth activist Jim Acosta outlining the reasons why he is being permanently banned. (Photo) The full letter reads as follows: “We are writing to give you formal written notice that we have made a preliminary decision to suspend your hard pass due to your conduct at the President’s November 7, 2018 press conference. The president is aware of this preliminary decision and concurs. The factual basis for this preliminary decision to suspend your pass is as follows: As you know, President Trump has provided and extraordinary amount of ...
Rules apply now to all journalists covering the White House. And the WHCA will no longer be the decision-maker. The White House rules. As it should.
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ReplyDeleteWhite House Notifies CNN Journalist Jim Acosta of Rules to Permanently Revoke “Hard Pass”…
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Conservative Treehouse,
by Sundance
The White House sent a letter to CNN narrative engineer Jim Acosta notifying him his pass granting him temporary access to the White House grounds could be suspended after a temporary restraining order runs its course:(letter in pdf)As noted the letter outlines the White House is establishing formal rules for conduct as an outcome of CNN filing a lawsuit to support the behavior of the “journalist”. Following the process for appeal, and denial therein, the White House intends permanent revocation. Thus the baseline for unacceptable conduct, and the decision for press-pass revocation, will now apply toward all ...
ReplyDeleteU.S. Military Hardens Border Security –Mexico Begins Recognizing Consequences…
Conservative Treehouse,
by Sundance
History is full of examples of what happens when illegal migration patterns are halted. We only need to look toward Tunisia, Libya and Morocco for recent examples. As the Central American migration horde begins to bottleneck within northern Mexico, it is likely President-elect Lopez-Obrador is beginning to evaluate those prior consequences. President Trump took pro-active steps to harden the U.S. border through the deployment of U.S. military, and specifically through Corps of Engineers working in concert with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol to make illegal entry into the U.S. far more difficult. ...