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Preferences Subscribe Support Us Mid-Day Snapshot Feb. 1, 2017 Trump Delivers on Supreme Court Nomination Neil Gorsuch is an outstanding pick. Going Nuclear Not the Only Option The GOP's options on Trump's SCOTUS nominee are not as limited as many suggest. Which Is the Party of Obstructionists? Price and Mnuchin hit a Democrat roadblock. Where's the Outcry Against Obama's Deportation Order? The Left has a serious problem with selective outcry. Wednesday Top Headlines More analysis at The Patriot Post Iran's Saber-Rattling Top Opinion Star Parker: Mercy for the 'Dreamers' Michelle Malkin: Not All Refugees Are Welcome Ben Shapiro: The Left Won't Stop Threatening Violence Against Trump Hans von Spakovsky: Acting AG's Defiance of Trump Shows Politicized Nature of DOJ More Opinion → Top Quotes Quote of the Day "[A]ny such official who feels he can't in good faith implement the likely new policies of the new administration shouldn't stay on. It's wrong for such a person to deliberately put himself in a position where he either has to implement a policy to which he conscientiously objects, or resign and embarrass the new president. The obvious way to avoid that is simply to decline to stay on in the first place." —Jim Talent The Foundation "It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just estimate of their real tendency to advance or obstruct the public good; and that this spirit is more apt to be diminished than prompted, by those occasions which require an unusual exercise of it." —James Madison (1788)

UN Violates 1922 Agreement Removing Amona Residents From Jewish Homeland.

Published on Feb 1, 2017

Amona the latest disputed territory that is inside what the world calls the West Bank, an area of land annexed by the Jordanians and settled by Illegal immigrants from Jordan and Egypt during the second World War. Today those residents forced to leave, babies taken from mothers and women wounded in the fight to stay in their homes of 20 years.

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Washington Post Claimed that Trump doesn’t have a Mandate due to Losing Popular Vote

Washington Post Claimed that Trump doesn’t have a Mandate due to Losing Popular Vote

by Spencer Irvine on February 1, 2017

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The liberal media’s ‘Trump doesn’t have a mandate from Americans because he didn’t win the popular vote yet he won the Electoral College’ narrative continues two weeks after Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities and over two months since Election Day. This time, the Washington Post’s The Fix claimed Trump does not have a mandate, even after Trump won the White House. But, their blog post’s main topic was to point out the Republicans’ dominance in the state legislatures and governorships.

The blog post also said that Republican dominance on the state and national levels could be short-lived, without citing specific historical data of parties in power and how their midterm elections go, and warned Republicans:

“At the moment, it’s Republicans who have every right to brag about their dominant status as a national party. But always remember that pride comes before the fall.”

Does this sound like an impartial opinion to you?

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New York Times Ran ‘President Bannon’ Op-Ed, but Didn’t Do That with Obama’s Advisor Valerie Jarrett

New York Times Ran ‘President Bannon’ Op-Ed, but Didn’t Do That with Obama’s Advisor Valerie Jarrett

by Spencer Irvine on February 1, 2017

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Sounds hypocritical and one-sided, doesn’t it? The New York Times, not a neutral source of news or opinion, ran an editorial board op-ed that criticized Trump adviser Steve Bannon with the title, “President Bannon?” The first paragraph sets the tone of the op-ed:

Plenty of presidents have had prominent political advisers, and some of those advisers have been suspected of quietly setting policy behind the scenes (recall Karl Rove or, if your memory stretches back far enough, Dick Morris). But we’ve never witnessed a political aide move as brazenly to consolidate power as Stephen Bannon — nor have we seen one do quite so much damage so quickly to his putative boss’s popular standing or pretenses of competence.

But, in searching their own archives and database of op-eds and articles, the Times did not run a similar headline nor a similarly critical piece of Barack Obama’s close adviser Valerie Jarrett. The closest criticism of Jarrett came in a 2012 piece on how Jarrett pushed for churches to be forced to adhere to Obamacare:

From the first, her official job has been somewhat vague. But nearly four years on, with Mr. Obama poised to accept his party’s renomination this week, her standing is clear, to her many admirers and detractors alike. “She is the single most influential person in the Obama White House,” said one former senior White House official, who like many would speak candidly only on condition of anonymity.

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Update: President Trump Picks Judge Neil Gorsuch For Supreme Court"

Published on Feb 1, 2017

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Megyn Who? Tucker Carlson Slaughters the Competition in Primetime Debut

Megyn Who? Tucker Carlson Slaughters the Competition in Primetime Debut

by Don Irvine on January 11, 2017

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Fox News’ Tucker Carlson got off to a roaring start in his primetime debut Monday night by easily outdistancing both MSNBC and CNN, proving at least for now that the decision to slide him into Megyn Kelly’s old timeslot was an excellent one.

Carlson averaged 493,000 viewers in the key 25-54 demo, beating out CNN’s town hall special with Bernie Sanders (414,000) and The Rachel Maddow Show (324,000).

Overall, Tucker Carlson Tonight averaged 2.699 million total viewers, nearly beating the combined total of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show (1.369 million) and CNN’s town hall special (1.357 million).

Compared to Kelly’s numbers on the same day last year, Carlson was up 27 percent in total viewers and a whopping 45 percent in the key 25-54 demographic, showing that Fox News may not wind up missing Kelly as much as everyone thought.

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Reeling left takes heart in anti-Trump protests

BY NIALL STANAGE AND MIKE LILLIS - 02/01/17 06:00 AM EST 353

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Democrats and progressives shell-shocked by President Trump’s election are taking heart from the surge in popular opposition to him.

Rep. Sandy Levin, an 85-year-old Michigan Democrat, said he hasn’t seen a protest movement so animated in decades.

“It’s spontaneous, it’s unorganized, and the challenge is going to be to organize it,” he said.

“I’ve been around for a long time,” he added. “I haven’t seen anything like this since the Vietnam War.”

Trump’s deeply controversial executive order that halted travel from seven Muslim-majority countries and all refugee resettlement sparked protests at major airports and the White House over the weekend. 

The previous Saturday, the day after Trump’s inauguration, around 3 million people took to the streets nationwide for the Women’s March on Washington and its sister marches.

Meanwhile, organizations that are opposed to Trump’s agenda are reporting a massive spike in interest. 

Karine Jean-Pierre, a senior adviser and national spokeswoman at MoveOn.org, cited a recent conference call for activists that she said had 60,000 participants. Jean-Pierre recalled that a similar call during the presidency of George W. Bush would likely have attracted “a few thousand” activists.

The American Civil Liberties Union said it raised more than $24 million in online donations from more than 350,000 people this weekend alone. The organization’s entire online haul for 2015 was roughly $3.5 million, a spokesman told The New York Times.

The overall picture means that activists like Jean-Pierre are excited by the reaction to Trump’s early days in power, even as they are horrified by the actions he has taken.

“We think it is a phenomenon,” she said. “It is very heartening to see, especially this weekend, where people were very galvanized, on their own. They went to airports, lifted up their voices and were heard.”

Still, the challenges faced by the self-described “resistance” to Trump are considerable.

For a start, it is not certain that even the most contentious of his actions are broadly unpopular, even as they spark fury on the left. For example, a Reuters/IPSOS poll released on Tuesday afternoon found a plurality of the public, 49 percent, favoring Trump’s executive order on refugees and immigration, while 41 percent disagreed with it.

In terms of the political landscape, the GOP controls both houses of Congress. It will be an extremely steep climb to change that in the 2018 midterm elections. Republicans have a 47-seat advantage in the House, and the Senate includes several vulnerable Democrats who will be seeking reelection in states Trump won.

Trump was scheduled to announce a Supreme Court nominee Tuesday evening. If confirmed, his pick would give the high court a slight conservative lean, with Justice Anthony Kennedy often acting as a swing voter among the nine justices.

Then there is the larger question for the left: Can the current popularity and intensity of anti-Trump activism be maintained over time? 

Street protests are a powerful demonstration of dissent, but they do not appear to stand much chance of forcing concrete changes to Trump’s agenda. Those battles may become longer and more prosaic as they are fought out with legal filings and in courtrooms. 

At the grassroots level, progressives are seeking to keep the momentum going through regular organizing, in part through social media. Some of those efforts are coalescing around the Twitter hashtag #ResistTrumpTuesdays.

When it comes to more conventional politics, Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said Trump’s tumultuous start — and the uncomfortable spot he has put GOP leaders in — lends Democrats a real opportunity. 

“The president has, quite frankly, become the Republicans’ biggest challenge,” Grijalva said. “The operation in the White House appears unhinged; the president appears unhinged.”

Grijalva said the challenge confronting the opposition Democrats is “not only to complement, but to fortify” the protesters’ message by coalescing behind it.

“Unity is the key. In order to have our voice heard we have to be unified, and that hasn’t always been the case,” Grijalva said. “This is an important test of discipline.”

Rep. Joseph Crowley (N.Y.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, delivered a similar message, characterizing the refugee ban as “illegal,” “immoral” and a potentially enormous pitfall for GOP leaders on Capitol Hill — one he predicts will erode their political capital and make it tougher to pass their legislative priorities.

“Congressional Republicans now own the consequences of President Trump’s executive orders,” Crowley said in an email. “We’ve already seen their entire agenda overshadowed and moved rightward to focus instead on banning Muslims, shutting the door to refugees, and denying that the Holocaust chiefly targeted Jews.”

A number of other Democrats said they’re similarly encouraged by the public outcry. 

“It’s certainly unifying for Democrats — energizing people,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.). “I’ve rarely seen [an issue] where so many people are so angry, which says something nice about the American people.”

Meanwhile, activists contend that popular opposition to Trump is more likely to ramp up than taper off as his tenure in the White House continues. But their prediction is based in large part on the idea that a president they detest will indeed get to enact his agenda.

“Much of what has been done up to now has been words — hurtful words — and what is coming is direct pain in people’s lives,” said George Goehl, the co-director of People’s Action, a progressive group. “The broad cross-section of people who are going to feel that pain is huge.”

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