Trump argument bolstered: Clinton could have received 800,000 votes from noncitizens, study finds

The UK Daily Mail reports here.  . . . "If 6.4 percent of the estimated 20.3 million non-citizens voted and 81.8 percent chose Clinton as their candidate, that would mean 835,000 of her votes could be from non-citizens, Richman claimed. 

"Meaning, she still would have won the popular vote by more than 2 million."

Washington Times  "Hillary Clinton garnered more than 800,000 votes from noncitizens on Nov. 8, an approximation far short of President Trump’s estimate of up to 5 million illegal voters but supportive of his charges of fraud.

"Political scientist Jesse Richman of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, has worked with colleagues to produce groundbreaking research on noncitizen voting, and this week he posted a blog in response to Mr. Trump’s assertion.

"Based on national polling by a consortium of universities, a report by Mr. Richman said 6.4 percent of the estimated 20 million adult noncitizens in the U.S. voted in November. He extrapolated that that percentage would have added 834,381 net votes for Mrs. Clinton, who received about 2.8 million more votes than Mr. Trump.

"Mr. Richman calculated that Mrs. Clinton would have collected 81 percent of noncitizen votes.

“ 'Is it plausible that non-citizen votes added to Clinton’s margin? Yes,” Mr. Richman wrote. “Is it plausible that non-citizen votes account for the entire nation-wide popular vote margin held by Clinton? Not at all.”

Mainstream Media Loves "Nasty"Girls, But Not Unborn Girls

Todd Starnes

"Today hundreds of thousands of pro-life Americans are expected to rally in Washington, D.C. for the annual March for Life.

"And if previous years are any indication -- the Mainstream Media will turn a blind eye.

"Networks like CNN and MSNBC are more than happy to provide wall-to-wall coverage and above-the-fold headlines for so-called “nasty’ women. But they have no interest in giving equal access to hundreds of thousands of pro-life women – the defenders of the unborn.

"The three broadcast networks covered the women’s march 129 times more than they did the 2016 March For Life, Newsbusters reports. Shameful.  

"The Mainstream Media would have you believe that pro-lifers are religious fanatics - fringe lunatics. But in fact - most of those marching in the streets today are young millennials - college educated. 

"They wear skinny jeans and knit caps and drink chai tea. They are computer engineers and attorneys -- young men and women who have seen firsthand the scourge of the abortionists. 

"They have seen the cruel atrocities committed by Planned Parenthood – funded by our tax dollars. Blood money.

"They went to the polls on Election Day to cast their vote for a man who promised to defend the unborn. " . . .

Smug libs getting plumb 'Tuckered'

Russ Vaughn  . . . "One of the most frequent criticisms conservatives voice regarding liberals is the dripping condescension with which they deign to engage their opponents in political discourse.  It's like a directional speech defect – liberals don't talk to, but rather talk down when speaking to conservatives, and if you possibly miss the scornful contempt in their word and tone, it's usually accompanied by a visible backup cue, a knowing little smile of superiority that's there to make it perfectly clear, bubba, that you are one dumb, misinformed, knuckle-dragging primitive.  That derisive smile is always there when they are listening, usually moving from side-to-side as the head is being shaken slightly to convey the sneering certainty that you're just simply never going to get this, bumpkin.  It's beyond your flag-worshiping, gun-loving, Bible-thumping flyover yokel comprehension.

"...until they get Tuckered, in the new meaning of that word.  Armed with the knowledge of what his liberal guests have publicly pronounced most recently, as well as in their pasts, Tucker Carlson proceeds to hold them to task for their words, hitting them with cogent questions, demanding, repeatedly if necessary, that they answer the questions he asks, not the ones they want to answer with their smug liberal talking points." . . .

Donald Trump’s foreign policy revolution

Charles Krauthammer

Etiquette specifies the first words of a column be the excerpt used to introduce it. I felt this portion was the prime message in this article so have used it instead. TD

. . .  "No more, declared Trump: “From this day forward, it’s going to be only America First.”

"Imagine how this resonates abroad. “America First” was the name of the organization led by Charles Lindbergh that bitterly fought FDR before U.S. entry into World War II — right through the Battle of Britain — to keep America neutral between Churchill’s Britain and Hitler’s Reich.

"Not that Trump was consciously imitating Lindbergh. I doubt he was even aware of the reference. He just liked the phrase. But I can assure you that in London and in every world capital they are aware of the antecedent and the intimations of a new American isolationism. Trump gave them good reason to think so, going on to note “the right of all nations to put their own interests first.” America included.

"Some claim that putting America first is a reassertion of American exceptionalism. On the contrary, it is the antithesis. It makes America no different from all the other countries that define themselves by a particularist blood-and-soil nationalism. What made America exceptional, unique in the world, was defining its own national interest beyond its narrow economic and security needs to encompass the safety and prosperity of a vast array of allies. " . . .

Obama deserted our allies and I felt he was just as much a problem for them as Mr. Trump is regarded to be here. TD

You can't say "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" presented a new kind of woman without dealing with the earlier show, "That Girl"

Ann Althouse  . . . "That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It starred Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring (but only sporadically employed) actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York, to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine...

"That Girl was one of the first sitcoms to focus on a single woman who was not a domestic or living with her parents. Some consider this show the forerunner of the highly successful The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and an early indication of the changing roles of American women in feminist-era America..."

Beware of what the left has planned for this nation

Things will not be pretty the next few years, but not because of President Trump; beware of those who call themselves "Democrats". TD

Lloyd Marcus:They're Back-k-k! Leftist Crazies   . . . "One protest sign read, “Black Trans Queer Lives Matter.” I thought, how many of them are there in the world? Ten?

"Call me crazy, but what are these women so upset about?" . . .

In These Times

"To Defeat Trump, We Must Make Ourselves Ungovernable"

“ 'We cannot and should not legitimize the transfer of authority to a right-wing populist who has neo-fascist orientations,” Kali Akuno told AlterNet over the phone. “We shouldn’t legitimize that rule in any form or fashion. We need to build a program of being ungovernable.”

"As the co-director of the Mississippi-based group Cooperation Jackson and an organizer with the nationwide Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Akuno is one of countless people across the country working diligently to build a platform sturdy enough to confront Trump’s America.

"Movimiento Cosecha, led by undocumented people and immigrants, is planning to go on the offensive to organize a migrant boycott and general strike demanding “permanent protection, dignity, and respect of immigrants.” Groups including Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) are already striking preemptive blows against a potential Muslim registry under Trump by successfully demanding that the Obama administration eliminate the regulatory framework for a Bush-era registry. The New Sanctuary Movement, meanwhile, is getting ready to mobilize large numbers of people to intervene against a potential escalation of raids targeting immigrants." . . .
This was first published on January 9, 2017. Obama did as they wished:    Obama Moves to Eliminate Bush-era Tracking Program.

Hat tip to Bob Bennett in The Trump Movement

How HB2 Can Help Flush Out Bad Recruits

. . . "If you are an “educator” who actually made the life altering decision of avoiding a job and an entire state based upon HB2, you probably possess most if not all of these ten characteristics: " . . . Listed in this article.

Mike Adams

"In a recent Associated Press article, UNC President Margaret Spellings was quoted as saying that North Carolina’s controversial HB2 “bathroom bill” is causing academics to avoid taking jobs in the UNC system. She went on to conclude that this was hurting our efforts to recruit competent faculty. President Spellings is probably correct in her premise that HB2 is causing some academics to avoid teaching in the UNC system. But she’s wrong to conclude that this is hurting our efforts to recruit competent faculty. In fact, it might be helping us by weeding out emotionally unfit applicants. 

"As a preliminary matter, let’s all agree that most who would claim that they would never take a teaching job in North Carolina due to HB2 are simply lying. In my twenty­plus years of serving on faculty hiring committees (all prior to the bathroom bill controversy) the subject never came up. No male job applicant ever asked whether he could use the little girls room while on campus. Nor did any female job applicant ever ask whether she could use the little boys room while on campus. It was and should have remained a non­issue. Lawless city council members in Charlotte never should have made bathroom access for the deeply confused a political issue in need of a response by the already busy state legislature. 

"But alas it has happened. Now . . ."