Reading list: some quick hits on the news

Attkisson sues DoJ for hacking her computers  "Did the Obama administration put a journalist under surveillance for reporting critically on its activities? Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson says yes — and she wants $35 million in damages from the Department of Justice for it. Attkisson filed a series of legal motions today that claim the DoJ hacked into her computer and attacked her professionally:" ...

Bill Clinton identified in lawsuit against his former friend and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein who had 'regular' orgies at his Caribbean compound that the former president visited multiple times
Right: "Latest ladies: Clinton was pictured posing for a photo with Barbie Girl (left) and Ava Adora (right), two known prostitutes who work at the Bunny Brothel in Nevada." Cafepress has it nailed pretty well below:

 

Emanuel's push for Obama library — Hearings next week, South Shore park dropped as contender   "I’ve learned that President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle – who make the final decision- are looking for a campus-like setting for their legacy institution."

'Show a little respect': Hundred-year-old Navy veteran wins a legion of fans after he takes on anti-cop protesters at town medal ceremony

... "Campus public safety officers attempted to keep some of the protesters outside the building at Portland Community College, drawing threats from one of them.

" 'I'll bust your jaw, old man!' he shouted in an exchange caught on video. "

Climate of Hate: #BlackLivesMatter Devolves Into Ugly, Hysterical, Anti-White Freak-Show
..."In a purely unbelievable display of bigotry and anti-white zealotry, black protesters stormed multiple restaurants and cafes on Sunday and targeted white people for hatred and harassment, screaming at them and accusing them of being complicit in the “genocide” of black Americans." ...

Can it be that MSNBC is afraid to get rid of Al Sharpton?

I mean, isn't this man an embarrassment to any news network that has a sense of honor and pride?

How Sharpton gets paid to not cry ‘racism’ at corporations

... "And Sharpton, who now boasts a close relationship with Obama and Mayor Bill de Blasio, is in a stronger negotiating position than ever.

“Once Sharpton’s on board, he plays the race card all the way through,” said a source who has worked with the Harlem preacher. “He just keeps asking for more and more money.”

Legal Insurrection

 

"When he’s not fighting with the teleprompter or holding rallies that summon Black Jesus, Al Sharpton stays pretty busy.

"But how does he make the big bucks?

 

 http://comicallyincorrect.com/

"Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein of the New York Post have the skinny:

Want to influence a casino bid? Polish your corporate image? Not be labeled a racist?
Then you need to pay Al Sharpton.
For more than a decade, corporations have shelled out thousands of dollars in donations and consulting fees to Sharpton’s National Action Network. What they get in return is the reverend’s supposed sway in the black community or, more often, his silence.

 "Even corporate behemoths like Sony Pictures aren’t immune to the Sharpton shakedown:
Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal met with the activist preacher after leaked e-mails showed her making racially charged comments about President Obama. Pascal was under siege after a suspected North Korean cyber attack pressured the studio to cancel its release of “The Interview,” which depicts the assassination of dictator Kim Jong-un.

"Pascal and her team were said to be “shaking in their boots” and “afraid of the Rev,” The Post reported.

"No payments to NAN have been announced, but Sharpton and Pascal agreed to form a “working group” to focus on racial bias in Hollywood." ...  Full article...

 

Republicans, be bold, stay focused, and remain courageous

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Deroy Murdock:  Republicans should repeal and replace Obamacare, and gain Democratic support en route. ..."Republicans should use their hard-won mandate to obliterate Obama’s medical Godzilla. A record 58 percent of registered voters want to junk Obamacare, according to a December 10 Fox News survey. As well they should. Among other recently revealed shortcomings — according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Employer Health Benefits, 2014 Annual Survey (“Employee Cost Sharing” chapter) — the average deductible for individual plans has climbed from $826 in 2009 to $1,217 in 2014. This is an average annual increase of approximately 8.1 percent on Obama’s watch. Also, a Commonwealth Fund survey discovered that 40 percent of working-age adults have skipped medical treatments because they cost too much.

Legislate and let Obama Veto  ... "As in 1995, the GOP will have to work with a Democrat president. Unlike President Clinton, who had the good political sense to realize that success required a right turn, I don't President Obama will do the same.
"My recommendation to the GOP Congress is to read Sunday's Dallas Mornings News editorial:"

Rep. Cole: Challenges To Boehner’s Speakership ‘Unprofessional,’ ‘Disappointing’

New Poll Shows Tepid GOP Support for Boehner in Role of Speaker  ... "When asked whether they agree with the statement, “Speaker Boehner has been ineffective in opposing President Obama’s agenda”, 64 percent agreed, 24 percent disagreed. An entire 29 percent strongly agreed, only 9 percent strongly disagreed." ...

 Louie Gohmert to challenge John Boehner for Speaker

Army disciplines chaplain for mentioning God "..I am not making this up"

 

Red State  ... "I served quite a while in the Army as an infantry officer. Generally I look back on my career with deep feelings of affection for the institution that rescued me from life chopping tobacco or working in a furniture mill, but I will concede that the Army is prone to institutional stupidity. When I commanded a rifle company the Army was all hot on its urinalysis program to catch drug users. The net effect was that it encouraged the use of cocaine (only in the urine for a couple of days) and LSD (not detectable in the urine) instead of marijuana usage (detectable for as much as a month).
"Now my Army has outdone itself.
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"What makes this incident particularly egregious is that it seems that Colonel Fivecoat’s objection to religious invocations is both selective and newfound. This image from his service in Afghanistan seems to indicate that he didn’t object to the Koran being used in an official event… though telling Muslims to not do something associated with their religion tends to put them off their feed and God knows what happens then:

  

Religious freedom groups back Capt. Joseph Lawhorn; atheist group commends Col. David Fivecoat 

Apparently all this was a reaction to an article in Military Atheists.org

Why Republicans Are Ready for Hillary

 

 Her mistakes have GOP candidates lining up. But beware the pundits' confidence.

Politico  ... "Conservatives do have one thing to be thankful for: The fact is that Hillary Clinton learned so many lessons from her surprising 2008 defeat that she’s repeating each of them all over again. Once more she is running as the overconfident, inevitable nominee with safe speeches filled with mush and a bloated campaign staff that already is leaking against each other in the press." ...
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"With the GOP field taking shape rather nicely, and so little to make fun of, we are left to train our guffaws on those always vulnerable for good-natured mockery: the D.C. pundit class and their confident delusions and myths about the Republican race. "

Some of the myths discussed in more detail here are:
Myth #1: Mitt Romney will run...
Myth # 2: This race has a frontrunner...
Myth #3: It is the time of the moderates (or the Tea Party is dead)...
Myth #4: Chris Christie was permanently damaged by Bridgegate...
Myth #5: This race will go all the way to the convention...

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Matt Latimer was a former speechwriter to President George W. Bush.  He is currently a co-partner in Javelin, a literary agency and communications firm based in Alexandria, Va.