The herald angels aren't singing Christmas carols in Bethlehem this year

 Ethel C. Fenig- American Thinker

"Christians who follow the Gregorian calendar are celebrating Christmas today.  But not so much in Moslem-dominated Bethlehem.  Yes, Bethlehem, which Christians consider the birthplace of Jesus, located in Judea, Israel, just west of the Jordan River, is now over 80% Muslim. 

Despite the significance of Bethlehem to Christians and its high religious tourism from the faithful during the Advent season, the city is majority Muslim.

The Christian population of Bethlehem has been in steady decline since the mid-20th century.

In 1950, Christians made up over 80% of the local population but now hover around 10% in a Muslim-dominated region.

Many Christians have chosen to flee the area due to persecution and religious harassment.

"Oh.

"(Incidentally, all of Israel, all of Egypt, and all of Gaza are on the so called "West Bank" of the Jordan River in the same way that state of New Jersey is on the "West Bank" of the Hudson River while Manhattan and Brooklyn are on its "East Bank.") 

 Bethlehem is canceling Christmas:

The reason is the general situation in Palestine; people are not really into any celebration, they are sad, angry and upset; our people in Gaza are being massacred and killed in cold blood.

Therefore, it is not appropriate at all to have such festivities while there is a massacre happening in Gaza and attacks in the West Bank.

"Yeah, that will happen when "our people" slaughter over 1400 people at a music festival and adjacent villages in neighboring Israel and then Jewish and even Bedouin and Muslim Israelis, who were the innocent initial victims, fight back." . . .

The Brian Stelter Memorial Award for Worst Quote of the Year

 The Brian Stelter Memorial Award for Worst Quote of the Year (newsbusters.org)   

"It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L. Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker, boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2023 and declared a winner.

"This year the winner is Joe Scarborough! 

"The MSNBC host won for his absurd and dire prediction that if Donald Trump wins re-election he will “imprison” and “execute” his political opponents. The former Republican Congressman, on the November 21 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe also claimed that the federal judiciary was the “only thing that stood between” Trump and “the destruction of American democracy” when he was in office. 

"MRC President L.Brent Bozell announced: “Joe Scarborough spews out this kind of insanity every morning. But this particular attack on President Trump and his supporters was so absurd it managed to stand out from the everyday nonsense you typically hear from Joe, Mika and the rest of his crazy leftist cronies on that tire fire of a show.” 

"Scarborough was full of crazy rants in the AM this year. He also claimed Trump would wipe out the “free press.”  He dismissed President Joe Biden’s many senior moments as he bragged that “behind closed doors” Biden is “sharp” and “on top of everything” and has made “Europe safe for democracy.” Scarborough also shamed GOP House members as a bunch of “weirdos, insurrectionists and freaks” for trying to impeach the President over “Biden crime family nonsense.”

"Without further ado, here is the winner (followed by the top runners-up): 

“ 'The only thing that stood between him [Donald Trump] and the destruction of American democracy was the federal judiciary. He will do, he will get away with, he will imprison, he will execute whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country.”
— Co-host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, November 21"

UPDATE: Democrat Senate Staffer Who Had Graphic Sex in Capitol Office Building Identified - Was Featured in Biden Campaign Commercial and Yelled "Free Palestine!" At Jewish Rep. Max Miller |

  The Gateway Pundit | by Cullen Linebarger

Moreover, it is pretty ironic that Maese-Czeropski supports Hamas because they would have him killed for being gay. This is no different than a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.

"As the Gateway Pundit previously reported, a young male staffer for Maryland Democrat Senator Ben Cardin engaged in multiple graphic sex acts with an older male partner in the Hart Senate Office Building. This has created a massive firestorm online, though the corporate media has not covered the story.

"Now, the identity of this staffer has been officially revealed, and his background will raise some eyebrows.

"Henry Rodgers, the Daily Caller journalist who first broke the story, confirmed the staffer in question is Aidan Maese-Czeropski. He graduated from college just over three years ago.

"According to his LinkedIn profile, Maese-Czeropski works as a legislative aide for Cardin, handling foreign policy, tax, and trade issues. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a B.S. in Society and Environment in 2020.

"Maese-Czeropski has also worked for the Virginia Democratic Party as a field organizer and for the liberal environmental group Friends of the Earth.

"The story gets even more interesting, though. Maese-Czeropski is the same individual who shouted the anti-Semitic slogan “Free Palestine!” at Jewish Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) on Wednesday."  . . .

How Dems Like Newsom Got Away With Destroying A Great State

 The Federalist

Gavin Newsom wasn’t the first leftist to destroy California, but he has undoubtedly been the most successful.

"California Gov. Gavin Newsome is straight out of central casting for a perfect liberal: JFK looks but without JFK’s pesky conservative beliefs.

"All perfect leftists have an accidental view of history, and Newsom has a Ph.D. in accidents. To be a perfect leftist you have to subscribe to the theory that things just… happen. The basic philosophy and matching campaign rhetoric is: All the bad things you see — from homelessness and crime to inflation and war — are accidental. They could have happened to anybody regardless of policies, so give Democrats more of your money, and don’t ask about outcomes.

"To satisfy the more critically thinking liberal voter, they pivot to: If there are reasons why bad things happen, it’s the fault of fill-in-the-blank conservative, and now we have to fix it with left-wing policies (read: spending money). The intent of a policy matters more than its outcome.

"I was raised in Southern California, spent over half my life there, and let me tell you, in the ’70s and ’80s, it was the best place on the planet to live. California was magical. Growing up there was amazing, and most adults who lived there in that era concur, regardless of political affiliation. It’s almost impossible to convince a SoCal kid who experienced everything that great state had to offer that there was a better place to be raised in America

"Out-of-state cousins wanted to come visit every holiday, and their parents loaded up cars and vacationed where we spent our lives daily. We rode our bikes well after dark without a care in the world, walked in Hollywood without fear, strolled the beaches in the wee hours of the morning, regularly rode up to bowling alleys, stores, and restaurants — and then just left our bikes without locking them up. Kids of the ’70s and ’80s were (little “g”) gods, and California was our kingdom.

"There was one exception to our Golden State utopia, and it came in the summer of 1984 when the Night Stalker paralyzed SoCal residents. It lasted a little more than a year, and when he was caught, we celebrated, not just because the killing spree was over but because we all could resume our lives without fear. The Night Stalker was named that because he struck only at night — but now, in broad daylight, California residents know they can be a victim at any time and in any neighborhood. 

"People outside California look at it now and wonder: How did it all go so wrong? How could the greatest place on the planet turn into the steaming pile of dung it is today? The “what” isn’t complicated. The state went from red to blue in the early ’90s. And while there is debate as to the reasons it flipped, when it did, the state declined rapidly with no end in sight." . . .

NEWS Question: Who wears a MAGA hat to commit a hate crime? Answer: The Feds…

  Revolver News  "There’s a doozy of a clip circulating online showing a guy in a MAGA hat supposedly committing a “hate crime” against the transgender movement. While the validity of this clip is unclear, given past events involving federal authorities, like the January 6 “fedsurrection” and the Whitmer kidnapping sham, it raises suspicions about it potentially being a government-staged hoax. At the very least, it could be a Jussie Smollett-style stunt. After all, the idea of someone seriously wearing a MAGA hat to commit a “hate crime” seems so outlandishly absurd that it almost begs the question of whether it’s a hoax.

"Take a look and decide for yourself:" . . .

Molotov cocktail thrown into Tulsa donut shop that hosted a Drag Queen art show pic.twitter.com/alwwsCgOvb

— Crime Net (@TRIGGERHAPPYV1) December 20, 2023

Douglas Murray Lays Waste to Cenk Uygur |

  Religio-Political Talk (RPT) (religiopoliticaltalk.com)   Cenk Uygur — besides wanting beastiality — is atrocious on most things. Douglas Murray points out one aspect of this “atrociousness.” TWITCHY notes this murder on live TV.

"Piers Morgan Uncensored is joined by host of the Young Turks and pro-Palestinian supporter Cenk Uygur as well as columnist and pro-Israeli supporter Douglas Murray for a fiery head-to-head debate on the Israel and Palestine war unfolding in Gaza and who is to blame for the rising civilian casualties. The pair also get into a heated discussion over whether either of the two show remorse for civilian casualties on the opposite side and what the path to a peaceful resolution looks like."

More on this here. Religio-Political Talk (RPT) (religiopoliticaltalk.com)

Ten Degenerate Democrat Scandals: Remember the Media Said the Democrats Were ‘The Adults’?

 The Lid (lidblog.com)  "As each month passes, there seems to be yet another Democrat arrested for some sexual crime, fired for some scandal, or mired in some sort of degeneracy. But remember in 2019 when the media told us that the Democrats were a more serious party and if they took power, “the adults would be in charge”?

Well, the debauchery of these “adults” grows by the day.

In no particular order…

1). Senate Staffer Sex Video in Hearing Room

This week, Americans were assaulted by yet another degenerate, immoral, and corrupted Democrat when a Democrat Senate staffer for Maryland Democrat Sen. Ben Cardin was outed for filming himself having sickening gay sex in a Senate hearing room.

The cretin’s name is Aidan Maese-Czeropski, and Sen. Cardin fired him after the story broke. It remains to be seen, but this sicko could face criminal charges.

2). Cross-Dressing Biden Energy Official Caught Stealing People’s Luggage

You may also recall the buffoonish Sam Brinton, the transgender/cross-dressing/leather play wackjob who Biden installed as a member of his Department of Energy and who was caught stealing people’s luggage at airports. He was eventually forced to resign from Biden’s regime.

. . . "Oh… then there are Democrat moneymen Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein… well, we can go on forever, really."
And let's not forget Ted Kennedy, the hero of Chappaquiddick.

ABC News hits Mike Johnson for attending 'controversial' purity ball with daughter eight years ago

 MSM   "ABC News shared a video of House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., with his daughter at a Christian "purity ball," calling it a "controversial formal dance event." 

" 'This looks like a wedding," a German news reporter said in a 2015 n-tv news segment that ABC News uncovered. "But they are not bride and groom -- but rather father and ... daughter," the reporter said of Johnson and his then teenage daughter. 

"ABC portrayed the event as "controversial" in an article from Wednesday.

"The German news segment documented Johnson and his family preparing for and then attending a purity ball, a controversial formal dance event, popular among some conservative Christians, that gained notoriety in the early 2000s," the outlet wrote. 

"A purity ball, which usually features a father and daughter dance and encourages sexual abstinence before marriage, is a family-centered event. 

"ABC also described purity balls as a subject of intense debate within Christian circles. "Since growing in popularity in the 1990s and early 2000s," the outlet wrote, "purity balls and purity pledges have faced increased scrutiny from both inside and outside the Christian community, ranging from criticism that the practice places too much of a burden on young women to accusations that the balls themselves objectify young girls."

"ABC continued: "At a typical event, fathers and their teenage daughters dress in formal ball attire for a night that involves dinner and dancing and culminates with the daughter signing a pledge to her father to abstain from dating and to remain sexually abstinent until marriage," ABC wrote." . . . 

SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON RESPONDS TO LIBERAL MEDIA ATTACKS ON HIS CHRISTIAN FAITH: 'DISGUSTING'

Native American Nation Refuses to Allow National Guard Along Southern Border Amid Migrant Crisis

 Native American Nation Refuses to Allow National Guard Along Southern Border Amid Migrant Crisis (ijr.com)    "A Native American nation has refused to allow National Guard troops to access its southern border as the immigration crisis continues.

"In a statement on Monday, Verlon Jose, chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, commented on Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) signing an executive order sending the National Guard to its southern border, while adding the nation and Hobbs’ office had agreed no troops would be sent to the nation.

“ 'We are in close communication with Governor Hobbs on this issue,” Jose said. “We made clear that no National Guard would be deployed to the Nation and her office has agreed. Today’s action by the Governor is a necessary step in addressing the current crisis at the border.”

"The Native American nation reportedly does not have a wall and as a result sees more than 1,000 migrants a day crossing the border, according to Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin.

“Ultimately, comprehensive border solutions are a federal issue,” Jose added. “Congress needs to act to pass sensible immigration legislation. Congress also needs to appropriate the necessary resources for CBP to address the temporary migrant surge. Until they take these common-sense steps, our communities will continue to be impacted by border problems.”

"In early November, the Tohono O’odham Nation requested additional help from U.S. Customs and Border Protection as the nation experienced a surge in migrants crossing the border.

"The nation requested to have more federal resources to help identify and process the migrants, many of whom are seeking asylum.

"Jose has previously blasted the U.S. government for “failed federal immigration policies” and for building “wasteful and ineffective walls.' ” . . .

AZ: The Tohono Oʼodham Nation will not accept National Guard along their Southern Border.

"We are in close communication with Governor Hobbs on this issue. We made clear that no National Guard would be deployed to the Nation and her office has agreed. Today's action by the… pic.twitter.com/cgcW5rzip3

— Sean Campbell (@scampbellfilms) December 18, 2023

Israeli Hostages Endured Violent Sexual Assault in Gaza, Doctors Confirm

  National Review

"Doctors responsible for treating the released Israeli hostages have confirmed that female hostages suffered violent sexual assaults at the hands of Hamas captors.

"The doctors confirmed to USA Today that Hamas sexually assaulted “many” of the released female hostages aged 12-48, adding that the hostages “came to us as patients with the trauma of those who witnessed very severe sexual assaults.” Upon their release, the hostages received pregnancy tests and were tested for sexually transmitted diseases.

“We know that female hostages were raped during their captivity under control of Hamas,” one Israeli military official said.

"Hamas still holds 19 women and two children captive. Although terrorists claim that the remaining women are female soldiers, U.S. officials have said that Hamas’s refusal to release its remaining female captives is likely because the terror group doesn’t want women to reveal the horrors of what happened to them in captivity.

" 'It seems that one of the reasons they don’t want to turn women over that they’ve been holding hostage — and the reason this pause fell apart — is that they don’t want these women to be able to talk about what happened to them during their time in custody,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said earlier this month.

One of the women still held hostage is Naama Levy, an Israeli woman whose abduction quickly became a viral, harrowing image at the forefront of the Israel-Hamas war. A video emerged on October 7 of Hamas terrorists dragging the 19-year-old Levy by her hair into a Jeep. Her hands were bound, and pants bloodied.

“There’s a reason why women and children were prioritized first for release: younger women are at greater risk for further trauma,” Levy’s mother, Levy Shachar wrote in a recent op-ed. “Just as women and girls are more vulnerable to more forms of violence, they are also more vulnerable to suffering from infections and pregnancy from sexual violence. The longer Naama is held in captivity, the more violence she is subjected to, the more likely she will suffer the consequences of lifelong post-traumatic stress.” . . .

Trump asking allies about possibility of Nikki Haley for vice president

  CBS News  "Former President Donald Trump has been asking allies and advisers for their thoughts about Nikki Haley as a potential vice presidential candidate, two sources familiar with the conversations tell CBS News. 

"The feedback from the MAGA crowd regarding putting Haley on the ticket if Trump wins the GOP nomination has been overwhelmingly negative, according to these GOP sources. Politico first reported that Trump allies are working to quash the possibility of a Trump-Haley ticket. 

"The former South Carolina governor has been gaining ground in recent polls, and a top Trump adviser tells CBS News one internal prediction is Haley might be a close third in Iowa to DeSantis, or that she could even come in second. 

"But Trump, in an interview Friday with conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt, blasted polls showing Haley performing well as "fake." He also insisted he's not worried about Haley as a challenger. 

"Haley has been touting her rise in the polls, telling voters in New Hampshire that she's "surging" against Trump. The latest CBS News poll shows Haley is gaining on Trump in New Hampshire, but the former president still has a big lead in Iowa. In New Hampshire, the poll shows Trump leading with 44% to Haley's 29%. ' . . .

Victor Davis Hanson on Colorado Supreme Court Trump Ballot Ruling: 'Does the Left See Where it is Taking the Country?'

 The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance   Conservative scholar and historian Victor Davis Hanson has weighed in on the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot in a new column that poses some very important questions.

"Hanson reminds readers that Kamala Harris supported the riots of 2020 and that Chuck Schumer threatened two justices on the U.S. Supreme Court and asks if those acts qualify as forms of insurrection.

"He also wonders if the left realizes where all of this is taking the country.

"Hanson writes at American Greatness:

"Conservative scholar and historian Victor Davis Hanson has weighed in on the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot in a new column that poses some very important questions.

"Hanson reminds readers that Kamala Harris supported the riots of 2020 and that Chuck Schumer threatened two justices on the U.S. Supreme Court and asks if those acts qualify as forms of insurrection.

"He also wonders if the left realizes where all of this is taking the country.

"Hanson writes at American Greatness:

"Trump Derangement Syndrome became Orwellian with the recent ruling of the Colorado Supreme Court.

"It approved the erasure of Trump from the Republican primary ballot in Colorado, by invoking Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

"That ossified clause was intended to bar any ante-bellum federal officials who joined the Confederacy from again holding federal offices after 1865.

"In no way is Trump’s conduct on January 6 comparable to calling for secession, much less prompting a Civil War that cost the country 700,000 lives.

"An “insurrectionist” president does not address unarmed protestors with qualifiers like, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

"How also can one be guilty of insurrection without ever being indicted for such a supposed crime, much less convicted of it? 

"And the more we learn about January 6, all the more it appears to have been a spontaneous riot, more buffoonish in nature than conspiratorial.

"No one has explained the mysterious, politicized January 6 refusal of the Speaker of the House to order a reinforcement of the Capitol police." . . . Hanson then points to this moment from  two years ago: 

Schumer is inciting violence towards Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch & Kavanaugh. 👇🏻
“You will pay the price! You won’t know what hit you!” “This was an insurrection.”
It’s a felony to threaten justice’s.(sp)
Be nice if someone would arrest Chuck.pic.twitter.com/UWGTXwoybT

— GT SD Jack’s 🐰🐰 (@realredsd) December 22, 2023

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