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Editor's Note: I've attempted to organize these articles topically, and some will be listed more than once as a result. Please enjoy:

My Commentary Pick

Everything Bad, It Seems, Is My Fault

By Taylor Lewis

I’ve been feeling down lately. You see, I’m a white heterosexual American Christian. That means I’m the worst thing to ever draw breath on the planet. By virtue of existing, my kind if responsible for all theinjustice in the world. Wars splintering apart Mesopotamia? Famine raging in Africa? Poverty in Latin America?

All my fault. White colonialism has ransacked the entire globe, leaving it razed and destitute. All the world’s problems, from hunger to strife to impoverishment, fall squarely on the back of the white man. And those are just the issues that affect people beyond America’s borders.

On the homefront, white heteronormative Christ-believers are, again, being blamed for all of society’s ills. The bourgeoisie lifestyle once seen as high achievement is now regarded as backwards and idiotic. Human dignity has been redefined by will-to-power gnostics. Liberal elites now tell us it’s brave to ravage and deform your body. They demand that we all endorse same sex marriage. And they regard all rational limits to behavior, no matter how debased, as bigoted.

If that weren’t bad enough, the simple things we take for granted have become verboten.......

AGW

• The Economist's Hot Air on Climate Change -Norman Rogers
• The Link Between Global Warming and Terrorists -Daren Jonescu

Conservative Values

Conservatives: Beware the Seductive Deceptions of the Dark Side

Lloyd Marcus

Placing themselves on a seat of moral superiority, Leftists look down their noses at the rest of us. More

Education

Only You Can Prevent Bad Public SchoolsBruce Deitrick PricePlease don't expect the American Education Establishment to fix things. It's up to you. More

Chicago teachers vote to authorize strike - They've borrowed from Peter to pay Paul for so long that Peter has given up in disgust.More

University of Iowa president the latest target of PC warriors - Academia has entered a Red Guard phase of extreme political correctness More

• Intellectual Foreclosure on American Campuses - Bonnie K. Snyder
• Academia on San Bernardino Attack: No Jihad Here - Cinnamon Stillwell

Election 2016

GOP December 2016 Debate: Another View - The debate was much stronger for everyone -- except perhaps for Trump. More

Here's the Rundown on Last Night's Republican Debate, C. Edmund Wright

The "foreign policy" debate, especially in light of Paris and San Bernardino. Not bad for Donald Trump. More

• GOP Contenders Using Leftist Rhetoric: Buyers Beware- Lloyd Marcus
• I Want a President Who Understands the Value of the American Nation - Christopher Chantrill

Government Corruption

Auditor: EPA broke the law in social media campaign to push water rule - For the fourth time this year, the Environmental Protection Agency has been accused of breaking laws governing its operations. More

• Bailouts for Private Pension Funds - Jon N. Hall

Gun Control

• Post-San Bernardino, Democrat Gun-Control Dishonesty Reads Loud and Clear - William A. Levinson
• Time for Californians to Get Their Gun Rights Back- Jay Clarke
• Still in Denial: Three Years After Sandy Hook - Kimberly Bloom Jackson
• Bitter Jihadists Cling to Guns and Religion - Daniel John Sobieski
• Why We Love Our Guns - Jeremy Egerer

Hillary

• Benghazi Email Implicates Hillary - Daniel John Sobieski

Immigration and the consequences

A pause in Muslim immigration is not about religious freedom and the First Amendment, but instead about opening our doors to people who are hostile to our American culture. More

• If You Find Yourself in an Immigration Hole, Stop Digging, Brian Joondeph
• Who Wants to Die for an Abstraction? - J. Robert Smith
• Where Trump is Wrong on Muslim Immigration - Selwyn Duke
• Dhimmitude and Trump - Sha'i ben-Tekoa
• Why Are We Taking in Refugees? - Catherine Sellers
• Welcoming the Stranger - Judith Bron
• Terrorism and the Multiculturalism Experiment - Malcolm Unwell

Islam

Is This the First Step toward Islamic Reform? - James Arlandson (Editor's Note: I'm all for Islamic reform. If there's reform - Islam ceases to exist.)

• 'Muslim Grievance' Myth Returns After SB Massacre- Raymond Ibrahim
• Radical Terrorism is not a Fairy Tale - Noel S. Williams
• Dhimmitude and Trump - Sha'i ben-Tekoa
• The Study Quran Raises Questions - James Arlandson
• Sleeping Through the Shiite Wakeup Call - Sarah N. Stern
• Islam: Not Just a Religion - Tom Trinko
• Condemning the Islamist Attack on Democratic Values- Michael Curtis

Israel

• BDS lies when it calls brave IDF soldiers 'war criminals'- Barry Sha
• Sweden, Israel, and the Law - Jack Golbert

Leftist Insanity

• American Jews Betrayed by Their Leaders. Again - Carol Greenwald
• Muslims! Don't Become the Little Darlings of the Liberals!- Christopher Chantrill
• Obama's Theology of Original Sin, Fundamental Transformation and Utopia - Fay Voshell
• Stop Gun Violence? Stop Liberalism First - Jeffrey T. Brown
• Academia on San Bernardino Attack: No Jihad Here- Cinnamon Stillwell
• Never Take a Christian Leftist to the Zoo - Jeremy Egerer
• Illiberal Reformers: The Racist, Sexist, and Elitist Roots of Progressivism - Lee Cary
• Why Liberals Condemn Prayer - Tom Trinko
• Time Magazine Declares: America No Longer a Republic- Tom Trinko
• Political Correctness More Deadly than ISIS - Brian Joondeph
• Terrorism and the Multiculturalism Experiment - Malcolm Unwell

Muslim Occupied Europe

Scandinavia gets a clue about Muslim migrants -Can someone – anyone! – please tell me when the West became this shockingly stupid and suicidal. More

• Sweden Must Get on the Right Track - Michael Curtis
• Sweden, Israel, and the Law - Jack Golbert

Obama, his delusions and his boys!

Can President Obama let go of his GITMO fantasies?- Time to let this dumb talking point die. More

President Obama's Merry Visit to Oz (AKA the Pentagon)- Obama vogues the Pentagon. More

Fire Jeh Johnson! - He should either resign in disgrace or be fired. Of course, that will never happen, for Johnson is black and comes from the American black aristocracy. More

• Barack Obama and the End of Western Civilization- Steve McCann
• ISIS and Obama - G. Murphy Donovan
• Obama Is Not Who We Are - Clarice Feldman
• The Obama Revolution Enters its Radical Phase - Jonathan Keiler
• Why Does Obama Call ISIS 'ISIL'? - Amil Imani
• Obama's Syria Suckers - Mayors Offer Themselves as Dupes to Obama - Paul Kengor
• And No Birds in the Obama Administration Sing the Right Song- Michael Curtis
• Obama Versus the Separation of Powers - J.R. Dunn
• Rebuking Obama's Folly - Clarice Feldman

Race in America

Biggest Liar of 2015: The Washington Post and Its Pinocchios

Colin Flaherty

The Washington Post wants to pretend that it had nothing to do with the thousands of stories it has run that featured or depended on the "Hands Up Don't Shoot" fraud. More

How a Race-Neutral Admissions Policy Will Promote Minorities' Success

Jeffrey Folks

Personal experience in academia shows that affirmative action helps no one involved – not even those it most purports to help. More

Federal prison for 'ringmaster' in giant Chicago fraud case involving politically connected black figures in Obama's circle - No particular reason why the national media should be interested, I guess. More

• Federal Judge Who Outlawed Racial Profiling is Victim of Black Mob Violence - Colin Flaherty
• 'Racial' and 'Religious' Profiling Now - or Death Later- Selwyn Duke
• Mizzou Crew: The Liars Who Hate the Lie of Academic Freedom- Selwyn Duke

Trump Chronicles

Why Trump Might Win - Bruce Walker

Trump in a general election battle with Hillary would have several potentially devastating advantages. More

• Is Trump a Democrat? - Ed Lasky
• Where Trump is Wrong on Muslim Immigration - Selwyn Duke
• Edmund Burke Meets Donald Trump - James Lewis
• Donald Trump: Right as Usual - Steven Simpson

War With Terror

• Counter-Terrorism Advice from Someone Who Knows What He's Talking About - Jamie
• Fighting the War on Terror - Elise Cooper
• Experts Weigh In on How You Can Combat Terrorism, Political Correctness - Elise Cooper
• Millennials Waking Up to the Threat of Terrorism?- Eileen F. Toplansky
• Terrorism and the Multiculturalism Experiment - Malcolm Unwell

We Have Completely Lost Our Minds Category

When a 52-year-old man decides he is a 6-year-old girl- The denial of reality has become a civil right, at least in the eyes of the left. But at least we get to watch thought-provoking and highly entertaining videos like this one. More

Front Page

Suppress Shooters’ Islamist Ties, Obama Ordered

How the Radical-in-Chief ordered federal officials to mislead the public about the Jihadist massacre in San Bernardino

Matthew Vadum

On the day of the deadly San Bernardino, Calif. massacre, President Obama ignored FBI-procured evidence that the attack was an Islamic terrorist operation and ordered federal officials to mislead the public about the true nature of the assault.

Although the FBI knew immediately on Dec. 2 that the mass-casualty event was a Muslim terrorist attack, Obama and FBI Director James Comey reportedly clashed over why Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, opened fire around 11 a.m. local time on Farook’s municipal government workmates, leaving 14 dead and 21 wounded.

The news comes as investigator Phil Haney, who helped to create the Department of Homeland Security, revealed on Fox News that the government shut down a database he created that might have helped to prevent the attack. Haney says he looked into groups that had ties to Farook and Malik as far back as 2012. But civil rights officials accused him of unfairly profiling Muslims, removed his security clearance, and destroyed the data he collected.

Meanwhile in the Oval Office, the official head-scratching over the events in San Bernardino continued. “(I]mmense political pressure was brought down on investigators to avoid using the term ‘terrorism,’ with Obama stating, ‘It is possible that this is terrorist related, but we don’t know ... It is also possible that this was workplace related.’”......

The San Bernardino Terrorists Weren’t Radicals -- They Were Mainstream

A huge tiny minority of extremists.

Daniel Greenfield

After Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook killed 14 Americans in their corner of the Jihad over in San Bernardino, the media began its long laborious search for their moment of “radicalization”.The assumption that the intersection of terrorism and Islam can only be an aberration lead to the conviction that there was some moment in time at which Malik and Farook became “radical extremists”. Initial reports pegged that moment of “radicalization” as having happened at some point during the twenty minutes after Farook left the party. When the amount of firepower and preparation made the idea of a twenty minute radicalization massacre seem silly, the media tried to stretch it back for weeks.  Now they’ve had to give in and pull back that dreadful moment of radicalization for years.

But what if Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were never “radicalized”? What if neither of them “influenced” the other? What if both were exactly what they appear to be, devout Muslims who hated America and believed that it was their religious duty to kill Americans? What if this attitude did not show up last week or last year? What if it was the way that their culture and religion taught them to live? There are some easy ways to test that theory......

 Welcome to Hamas West, aka Connecticut College - Phyllis Chesler

When twisted Islamist ideas and lethal Jew-Hatred are protected in the name of diversity.

More Christians Die, More Western Leaders Lie - Raymond Ibrahim

To live in the world of Islam for a single month.

The Islamic State and Turkey's Betrayal - Joseph Puder

Why Erdogan is the problem.

Boston University’s Irene Gendzier on Oil, Israel, and ‘Palestine’ - Mara Schiffren

Is the U.S.-Israel alliance really all about oil?

Attacking the Truth - Thomas Sowell

Why affirmative action mismatchs students and hurts everyone.

Vetting Obama's Witless Vetters at DHS - Michelle Malkin

How corrupt hiring practices at the Department of Homeland Security are putting American lives at risk.

Why Don't Republicans Identify What They Are Fighting? - Dennis Prager

Time to name the enemy.

Progressive “Thought-Blockers”: Diversity - Bruce Thornton

The grim antithesis to liberal education.

The Wolf Pack Profile- Dawn Perlmutter

The disturbing pattern of terrorism in America becoming a family affair.

From Black September to Bloody December- Lloyd Billingsley

Islamic terrorist savagery, then and now.

Academia Abandons Paris Yet Again- Cinnamon Stillwell

Why radical professors think the "chickens have come home to roost" for the West.

Broward Mayor, Vice Mayor Make Videos Praising Radical Muslim Group - Joe Kaufman
Marty Kiar and Barbara Sharief embrace groups linked to terror and bigotry.

Trump’s Muslim Ban and Constitutional Legality - Ari Lieberman

There is no ambiguity in the law and it leaves no room for doubt.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch's Muslim Terrorist Connections

By Tim Brown

Attorney General Loretta Lynch recently said that the Department of (IN)Justice would stand with Muslims in the wake of the San Bernardino jihad attacks and stated unequivocally, "When we talk about the First Amendment we [must] make it clear that actions predicated on violent talk are not American. They are not who we are, they are not what we do, and they will be prosecuted." But beyond the fact that she has engaged in unconstitutional criminal activity, Lynch was also a part of a Jew-hating, Pro- Muslim Terrorist Harvard Group.

Discover the Networks informs us that Loretta Lynch was born in Greensboro, North Carolina (So Lynch is not African-American, she's American, at least by birth. Having dark skin does not make you African. My friend Andre De Villiers, who makes custom knives, is from Africa and is as white as can be!), Lynch "earned an A.B. from Harvard College, where she was an original member of Delta Sigma Theta, a newly formed African-American sorority chapter; another noteworthy original member was Sharon Malone, who subsequently went on to marry Eric Holder."

However, Discover the Networks goes on to report, "After completing her undergraduate studies, Lynch in 1984 earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the Black Law Student Association."   Well now, just what is the Black Law Student Association? Charles Johnson reports on the group during the years between 1981-1984 when Lynch was a member.....To Read More...

 

 

Pamela Geller's Atlas Shrugs

Muslim Terror Plot Uncovered Overseas Names Chicago as Target

All across Europe and now America, terror attacks are being thwarted daily. And world leaders are convening to circle jerk around the weather. You just can’t make this stuff up. “Residents should always remain vigilant, and if‘you see something, say something.'” Unless, of course, it turns out to be nothing. Then you’re a racist-islamophobic-anti-Muslim-bigot.

Donald Trump: More British Muslims join ISIS than the UK Army, Petition to Ban Trump Soars

Look at the Daily Mail headline: “Now Donald Trump claims ……” Donald is right.I wrote about it here and here. It’s not a Muslim Labour MP who said it, there have been numerous reports. The NY Times did a piece on it. They want to ban Donald Trump from the UK for the same reason they banned me — for telling the truth.

 

Residents Complain ‘Call to Prayer’ is Too Loud in 1st American City with Muslim Majority City Council

You may recall that Hamtramck was in the news recently because it elected the first Muslim-majority city council. Now this. Blaring the Muslim call to prayer at an ungodly hour. Imagine waking up to nails on a chalk-board at 6 am every morning. And it’s not just one mosque—Islamic supremacism in action.

Geneva remains on high alert after police arrest two Syrian terror suspects

Here are two excellent reasons to stop these refugees from coming into this country. Relentless, unending Islamic terrorism. These two Syrians were found “with traces of explosives found in car.” Yesterday, the US embassy in Switzerland warned Americans of a terror threat.

Islamic State Tweets New Map of 5 Year Plan for World Conquest

If Hillary takes the White House, the odds are in their favor.

ISIS Doubles Recruitment of Foreign Fighters

These are Muslims who actually get up, travel to the Middle East and go to fight for the Islamic State. How many sympathizers are there in the ummah?

San Bernardino Jihadis’ Accomplice Spoke of ‘Sleeper Cells’ Before Rampage

Like President Obama and the media and academic elites, among the regulars at the bar where jihad accomplice Enrique Marquez worked, “no one would take him seriously” when Marquez spoke about terrorism, sleeper cells, and “when it happens, it’s going to be big. Watch…”

Texas imam forced to resign over support of Trump’s Muslim immigration plan

This is not surprising. Zuhdi Jasser was thrown out of his mosque, too.“Local Imam says he was forced to resign because he agrees with Trump

Third man in the Garland jihad attack could go free

“The defense is trying to get the evidence against the Phoenix man thrown out. Defense Attorney Daniel Maynard argued Kareem was under distress from his diabetes when he gave two voluntary interviews to FBI agents.” So apparently Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem admitted his role in this jihad mass murder plot, but now he wants to get his statements thrown out on a technicality.

Muslims Ratchet Up the Incitement and Hate Rhetoric Post-San Bernardino Jihad

By Pamela Geller

In the wake of San Bernardino and all jihad attacks, Muslims take to the airwaves and social media to do one of the following things:

1) proselytize at press conferences, mosque pressers, TV appearances
2) whine about a “fear of reprisals,” backlash and islamofauxbia
3) blame America
4) gloat
5) recruit

But Attorney General Loretta Lynch is going to prosecute us for criticizing jihad and Islam.

Editor's note:  Here is a tweet by the people Lynch thinks need protection. 
 
” That awkward moment you’re a kaffir  and you’re celebrating a shirk holiday/drinking/singing and you’re dead” ....To Read More Tweets .....

 So now will Loretta Lynch find this offensive and illegally promoting violence or will she declare this as free speech?   We now have absolute and incontrovertible evidence of speech promoting violence against the American public. Where's all the evidence of violent backlash that justifies comments?More importantly - where is the outrage from the media? Where are the media screams for her resignation? This Justice Department is a nest of vipers and everyone should hope the new administration cleans it out, giving them the opportunity to find jobs to which their talents are better qualified - like sweeping the floors in insane asylums.

Muslims Ratchet Up the Incitement and Hate Rhetoric Post-San Bernardino Jihad - The devout Muslims who slaughtered and wounded 35 Americans in the homeland had been plotting this jihad for some time.  A friend (“brother in Christ”) of one of the victims of the San Bernardino Islamic slaughter posted this to his Facebook page:

The islamic terrorist who took the Life of my friend & bro in Christ, Nicholas Thalasinos, on yesterday in San Bernadino, CA, had been threatening him, telling him that islam will rule the world, Christians and Jews deserve to die; and that he (Nicholas) was going to die.
But, they aren’t reporting that in the “news” …
I wonder why …

Because the media is aligned with the jihad force.  Here are some photos from the jihad home. Islam and prayer...

‘MACHETE-WIELDING’ Muslim slashes man’s throat at a station in London as he shouted “this is for Syria” -   Hellzapoppin — media and islamic supremacist countdown to “fear of reprisals,” backlashophobia, and islamofauxbia fictions. 3…2…1......And the Muslims just keep on killing in the cause of Allah.  The big difference in the latest Islamic attacks is that within hours the government acknowledged it was a “terrorist” attack, not hybrid workplace violence or some other cover for jihad......

*WARNING” New ISIS VIDEO: Muslim Children Execute Captives, “Obama, we will behead you, as we will do to all the Jews.” -  In a new video released by ISIS, child warriors are shown executing prisoners as part of their training. “We will cut off the heads of Obama and all Jews,” they say.  ISIS terrorists posted yesterday (Thursday) a new video showing child warriors. In the video, they play a horrifying hide-and-seek game in which they find and execute a prisoner hiding in an ancient castel.  The video, circulated in East Syria, is dedicated to “the sons of the Jews”, and shows children no older than eight years old being...

Loretta Lynch to Muslim Group: DOJ to Investigate Arrest of ‘Clock Boy’ Ahmed - In the wake of the San Bernardino jihad slaughter, Attorney General Loretta Lynch has sprung into action — implementing sharia. Yesterday she vowed to prosecute “islamophobic” speech, and now she is going to investigate the detention of Clockmed. Does Lynch mean to bolster Ahmed’s 15-million-dollar lawsuit against the city and the school? “If you see something, say something” will get you sued and investigated by the DoJ. The school and law enforcement’s crime was trying to protect schoolchildren.

Why isn’t she investigating the failure of DOJ, FBI, CIA, ATF in the California massacre?