Obamas buy Martha’s Vineyard estate from Celtics owner for $11.75M

Now you are on Elizabeth Warren's most hated list and she's coming after you.

MSN

"The Obamas are said to have purchased a Martha’s Vineyard estate from Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck for a cool $11.75 million, saving multiples of million from what the estate was originally listed for.

“ 'The 29-acre Edgartown property on Turkeyland Cove Road was purchased by Turkeyland Cove Nominee Trust for $11.75 million, according to Dukes County Registry of Deeds records,” the MV Times noted. “The property had been on the market for $14.8 million, and was assessed at $15.1 million.”

"The sprawling 7,000 square-foot house includes seven bedrooms and eight full bathrooms with multiple separate wings for guests the former first couple will welcome.

"Without much net worth to speak of when he entered office in January of 2009, Obama is said to be worth a cool $70 million.

"As for Grousbeck, this sale is just a drop in the bucket. He is said to be worth over $400 million."

The UK Daily Mail calls the house a Pad fit for a president!

Good for anyone who comes by a fortune honestly (assuming that was the case) and good for those they employ. He should, however tell his political kin to stop hating on the rich; My last job in construction before entering the aerospace industry was working on a mansion in Santa Ynez, CA. for a man who had his own airstrip and racehorses. The house had sixteen fireplaces and kept me employed for months, feeding my family well. I'm fortunate to have had the job before the Warrens and the Sanders of this world got control of this nation. The Tunnel Dweller.

Jonathan Bartlett, NY Times

Dem star witness' obsession with impeachment exposed

"If the House proceeds solely on the Ukrainian allegations, this impeachment would stand out among modern impeachments as the shortest proceeding, with the thinnest evidentiary record, and the narrowest grounds ever used to impeach a president," Turley said.

WND

Falsely claimed being 'skeptic' toward charging Trump before Ukraine allegations

"In his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman declared under oath that he was an "impeachment skeptic" until the July 25 call between President Trump and the Ukraine president at the center of the Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
'However, in a Vice magazine article in May 2017, noted Charlie Kirk in a tweet, Feldman said that Trump had committed impeachable acts.
"And the professor wrote a piece for Bloomberg in March 2017 in which he claimed Trump risked impeachment over tweets he posted accusing President Obama of tapping his phones.
"On Wednesday, Feldman confirmed to the Democrats' counsel, Norm Eisen, that he had been "somewhat of an impeachment skeptic" at the time of the release of the special counsel report by Robert Mueller in April.
""What's changed for you, sir?" the attorney asked.
"Feldman replied that it was the July 25 phone call in which Trump asked Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to "look into" possible corruption in Hunter Biden's receipt of more than $3 million from a Ukrainian gas firm while his father spearheaded Ukraine policy.
"In a Q&A in the 2017 Vice article, Feldman was asked if the president committed a crime in his White House conversation with then-FBI Director Jim Comey.
" 'What the president did is an outrage. It's impeachable, and obstruction of justice in the sense of being a 'high crime and misdemeanor,'" he said.
"During the hearing Wednesday, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., challenged Feldman's description of himself as an "impeachment skeptic" prior to the Ukraine phone call." . . .

Let that sink in: [Pamela] Karlan's hatred for the president is so deep-seated that she refused to even walk by a hotel that shares his name.  . . . "Don't be fooled like many Democrats were; this "expert witness," along with the three others who joined her Wednesday in front of the House Judiciary Committee, didn't have a single firsthand fact about the investigation." . . .

Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us

Amazon  A sample of Donald Trump, Jr's text here.

"This is the book that the leftist elites don't want you to read -- Donald Trump, Jr., exposes all the tricks that the left uses to smear conservatives and push them out of the public square, from online "shadow banning" to rampant "political correctness."
"In Triggered, Donald Trump, Jr. will expose all the tricks that the left uses to smear conservatives and push them out of the public square, from online "shadow banning" to fake accusations of "hate speech." No topic is spared from political correctness. This is the book that the leftist elites don't want you to read!
"Trump, Jr. will write about the importance of fighting back and standing up for what you believe in. From his childhood summers in Communist Czechoslovakia that began his political thought process, to working on construction sites with his father, to the major achievements of President Trump's administration, Donald Trump, Jr. spares no details and delivers a book that focuses on success and perseverance, and proves offense is the best defense.

Male Transjacking Will Ultimately End Women’s Sports

The Federalist

Transgender males are increasingly entering and dominating women's sports at all levels, taking away opportunities that women have fought years to win.

"This Friday, the top four NCAA Division III women’s soccer teams face off in the national semifinals. One of the final four teams’ goalkeepers, Isa Berardo, is a male transgender playing as a female for Pomona-Pitzer Colleges.
"Not surprisingly, the male goalie has dominated the field against opposing female players, giving his own a chance to win the national championship thanks to his physical advantages in a key position. This is increasingly happening throughout women’s sports, at all levels from elementary school through professional competitions. It’s creating not equality, but inequality.  
"In 2016, Therese Johaug, a Norwegian three-time Olympic cross-country skiing champion, received an 18-month suspension from the sport she loved after it was discovered that the team-approved lip balm she was using to treat her badly sunburned lips contained a performance-enhancing steroid.
"A devastated Johaug lamented, “I feel I did everything right. I went to an expert who gave me the ointment, and I asked him if the cream was on a doping list. The answer I got was ‘no.’”
"But the powers that be were undeterred from their well-established hard line of fairness, and Johaug was forced to watch the 2018 winter Olympics from the sidelines.
"It’s an unfortunate set of circumstances that raises the question: If chemicals from a necessary, medicated lip balm can be construed as such an unjust physical advantage, how on Earth can athletic authorities continue to turn a blind eye to the litany of physical advantages the transgender men increasingly competing in women’s sports so obviously possess in their male bodies?
"The ‘Standards’ for Trans Athletes Are Ludicrous" . . .

After the Obama disappointment, black voters want more than empty symbolism

The Guardian

Obama made me feel hopeful … until he didn’t. That’s why when Kamala Harris announced her race, I had to look carefully at what she represented

. . . "At a campus watch party – among the generation that would later be identified as hapless, capitalism-killing millennials – we felt unadulterated joy. Media outlets circled around what they considered the epicenter of black life on 125th Street in Harlem, capturing the thousands of people who descended on to the streets to dance. We blocked traffic and exchanged high-fives with strangers, ignoring the mist that was industry operatives. We saw a bailout for banks and big business that dwarfed the stimulus of American households. Despite middle-class trappings, economic insecurity hit me and much of our generation hard. Back home, my mother and I struggled to pay for a home that mortgage lenders targeted with a subprime mortgage. We saw Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown and Rekia Boyd shot and killed. We saw the beer summit and respectability politics. Despite doing many things “right”, it wasn’t enough. Homes in our mostly black neighborhood outside of Atlanta still have not recovered. Justice for most of the families of police and vigilante violence has still been unserved. Banks are still being bailed out.swelling our straightened hair. The hope Obama promised was omnipresent and lasted for days. Then 2009 happened.

"We graduated into the worst job market in a generation, threatening our ability to pay back our college and post-graduate debts. Obama filled his cabinet with financial industry operatives." . . .

"So when the California senator Kamala Harris announced her bid for the presidency, women at the intersections of a marginalized race and class had to consider what this meant for us." . . . 

Trump’s Commonsensical Food-Stamp Rule

National Review

"Our food-stamp program has some bizarre loopholes in it, and the Trump administration is trying to close them. A new rule finalized today attacks one in particular.

"In theory, the program has a strict time limit for “ABAWDs,” or able-bodied adults without dependents: If they don’t meet their work requirement or receive a case-by-case exemption from their state, they may receive food stamps for at most three months in any 36-month period. But in practice, the executive branch has broad discretion to waive the limit for large geographic areas with weak labor markets — and previous administrations used that discretion promiscuously. As of 2017, about a third of the U.S. population lived in waived areas.

"Under the old rule, any place with an unemployment rate one-fifth above the national average was eligible for a waiver. (Places could — and still can — also establish eligibility by having an absolute rate over 10 percent.) This meant that when unemployment was low throughout the country, areas with good labor markets could still receive waivers, simply because unemployment wasn’t quite as low there as it was elsewhere.

"The old rule also allowed states to effectively gerrymander their waiver requests, combining high- and low-unemployment counties to maximize the number of people exempted. All told, states such as Illinois and California were able to obtain waivers for all but a few of their counties.

"In short, the system was unfair and arbitrary, imposing time limits on some recipients but not others based on where they happened to live, failing to target the waivers toward truly needy areas, and allowing states to abuse the rules to draw in more federally funded benefits." . . .

Pelosi-Schiff-Nadler hearings are a classroom on the quality of law schools.

 People like this are not educating kids, they are numbing their brains with destructive Marxist nonsense.  Nadler did us all a favor, actually: He exposed for all to see just how far gone the American left is.  Not one of those three extreme partisans has any knowledge of the actual Constitution nor do they have any respect for it. Patricia McCarthy

 William Buckley: “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.”

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Pamela Karlan lays an egg  "The impeachment hearings are on, with a spotlight on the three anti-Trump law professors who ranted before Rep. Jerry Nadler's House Judiciary committee on Wednesday.  

"Their testimonies were a disaster for the Democrats.  They proved they were anything but constitutionalists. It took the fourth "witness," the eloquent Jonathan Turley, to drive that home.  These other three were quite the opposite, fans of abrogating most of our founding document.  

"What will be remembered forever is the condescending arrogance of the professors -- Pamela Karlan, Noah Feldman and Michael Gerhardt.  If there were ever an expose of the kind of people who inhabit the ivory towers of academia, this was it.  These three law professors were a flashing neon warning:  Do not send your kids to prestigious law schools.  People like this are not educating kids, they are numbing their brains with destructive Marxist nonsense.  Nadler did us all a favor, actually: He exposed for all to see just how far gone the American left is.  Not one of those three extreme partisans has any knowledge of the actual Constitution nor do they have any respect for it. " . . .

[Karlan] was on a short list of Hillary's picks for SCOTUS so it is a safe bet that she is angry that HRC lost. 

Nadler blew his big chance in the Judiciary Committee yesterday
. . . "Nadler’s first mistake was to start with law professors lecturing us on their hatred and contempt for Donald Trump." . . .

From Breitbart: "Gaetz also got Feldman to admit that he once wrote an article entitled, “It’s Hard to Take Impeachment Seriously Now' ”

Rep. Gaetz Leaves Dem Witnesses SPEECHLESS at Impeachment Hearing

Kellyanne Conway slams Pamela Karlan: 'Who the hell are you lady'

Gregg Jarrett: Impeachment-obsessed Democrats ignore logic and law as 4 professors testify at hearing

. . . "With Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. at the helm of the Judiciary Committee, there was no real chance that President Trump would be treated equitably. After all, Nadler’s confederate and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., had already obliterated any semblance of due process in impeachment hearings before his committee." . . .

FYI From Hillary: I Am Not A Lesbian

Hot Air

"A little something to cleanse the palate. She said this in an interview today with Howard Stern, which makes it slightly less weird since chatter about lesbians is like 40 percent of the content on that show. Or at least it was when I was a regular listener a million years ago. (In fairness to Stern, she’s the one who brings it up.)
"He went easy on her by not asking the obvious follow-up: What were you doing at Epstein’s ranch, then?
. . . 
"All she needs to do is flip a few hundred thousand votes in the right states. If the economy tanks or Trump behaves even Trumpier than usual, he might hand those votes to her without her needing to lift a finger to earn them.
"Good lord, what if she does jump in? What is she even doing showing up on the Howard Stern show anyway? Is Hillary 3.0 happening?
"Exit question: She could win a national election with the entirety of progressive America staying home next November to protest her nomination, right?"

The Wages of Trump Fixation

The strange case of a reborn Max Boot and the folly of impeachment.

Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson  "Max Boot recently wrote that my arguments against the impeachment inquiry are prima facie proof of why the Democrats should, in fact, impeach Trump: “If even the great historian Victor Davis Hanson can’t make a single convincing argument against impeachment, I am forced to conclude that no such argument exists.”
"In fact, I made 10 such arguments, all of which Boot attempted, but has failed, to refute. In this context, Boot’s intellectual erosion as a historian and analyst is a valuable warning of stage-four Trump Derangement Syndrome. I offer that diagnosis with regret given I once knew and liked Boot. But his commentary over the last three years has become sadly unhinged.
"Most recently Boot declared—and then quickly retracted it only in embarrassment after popular outrage—that chief ISIS mass-murdering psychopathic Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did not kill himself in cowardly fashion as Trump had described: “The assertion that Baghdadi died as a coward was, in any case, contradicted by the fact that rather than be captured, he blew himself up.”
"When Baghdadi was cornered by American forces, he chose to murder three innocent children rather than surrender—consistent with his entire venomous career of ordering the beheading, burning, and mutilating of innocent captives from a safe distance. The murder of defenseless children is cowardly.
"No one should know better the horrific crimes of a mass-murdering Josef Stalin than the Russian-born Boot. Stalin’s purges, orchestrated famines, gulags, show trials, liquidation of the officer class, and atrocities during World War II perhaps accounted for over 20 million Russian deaths. So how could Boot write, “I would sooner vote for Josef Stalin than I would vote for Donald Trump”? Twenty million dead souls don’t quite match Boot’s hatred of Trump.
"After the former Republican Boot saw Trump elected, by defeating his own particular favored Republican primary candidate, and Hillary Clinton, he seemed a bit embittered: “For the health of our republic, I think we need to destroy the Republican Party. ' ” . . .

This is pretty much all Pelosi and the Democrats are accomplishing this term

Nancy Pelosi just announced that impeachment proceedings will go forward.

Jerrold Nadler has been given marching orders, not so much by Adam Schiff or Nancy Pelosi as by the 11-syllabled Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. If you impeach Trump, then we do not run a primary challenger to replace your Judiciary butt. But if Trump escapes impeachment because your committee fails to nail down Schiff’s dirty work, then we primary you and run you out of town. Quid. Quo. In 11 syllables.

Post-Thanksgiving reflections

'Snarky' Stanford Impeachment Witness Apologizes After Outrage Over Barron Trump Comment.

Zero Hedge  Update: Stanford University Professor Pamela Karlan apologized on Wednesday after receiving sharp rebuke for mentioning President Trump's 13-year-old son, Barron Trump.

No apology from an angry partisan would be complete, however, without a new attack in the same breath...

"I want to apologize for what I said earlier about the president's son. It was wrong of me to do that. I wish the president would apologize, obviously, for the things that he's done that's wrong, but I do regret having said that," she said.

"In response to Karlan's comments, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-CA) slammed Karlan, first asking her about contributions to Hillary Clinton - before calling her out for obvious contempt towards conservatives - including Barron Trump. Gaetz suggested she may not recognize how insulting she's being "from the ivory towers of your law school," adding "when you invoke the president's son's name here. When you try to make a little joke out of referencing Barron Trump, that does not lend credibility to your argument. It makes you look mean. It makes you look like you're attacking someone's family ... the minor child of the President of the United States." . . .

First:  Melania’s Christmas Decorations and Outfit Once Again Trashed  

"The liberal tradition for the last three years has been to criticize pretty much everything First Lady Melania Trump does or says. And the Christmas season is no different.

"Like every first lady before her and many throughout the US, Melania puts a lot of effort into how her home is decorated for the holiday. And every year, she gives a video tour of her staff’s hard work, which, nearly as soon as it is released, is pounced on by the heartless liberal left and every detail, including Melania’s outfit, is labeled as somehow less than acceptable" . . .

The anti-Trump Washington Post sniffed,  Melania Trump’s Christmas decorations are lovely, but that coat looks ridiculous

Racist Liberals Furious Over ‘Hidden Message’ Melania Snuck Into WH Christmas Decor  . . . "As it turns out, the left is downright furious over the “hidden message” that Melania snuck into her Christmas décor. In fact, it wasn’t long before enraged liberals were coming out of the woodwork to complain that the decorations seen were, frankly, “too white.”

On Monday, First Lady Melania Trump unveiled the White House’s Christmas theme — “Time-Honored Traditions.” And, judging by the looks of the White House’s decorations, those “traditions” are white. Very, very white. [Source: Splinter]

Then the Media Attacks Melania’s Christmas Decorations, But Praised Michelle Obama. . .

Remember the Obama's Chairman Mao Christmas tree decoration?

And the Obama drag queen ornament featuring "Hedda Lettuce". So in tune with the Christmas season.