Mahmoud Abbas Cheers Biden’s Election

The consequences for Israel — and for the Palestinians themselves.

For Mahmoud Abbas, the apparent election of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States is sheer relief. As a result of his disagreement with President Donald Trump’s “Peace of the Century,” he severed his ties with the Trump administration, and in May, he suspended the security coordination with Israel. Abbas also, among other things, refused to accept tax money Israel collected from Palestinians working in Israel that is transferred to the Palestinian Authority (PA). This has just about emptied the PA’s coffers, and brought about the near collapse of the Palestinian economy.

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The radical Left is now extinct

The radical Left is now extinct

Following Joe Biden’s victory, the fate of today’s millennial revolutionaries is all but sealed

Emperor penguins, the largest and most well-known penguin species, have peculiar chick-rearing habits. When a baby penguin hatches, one parent must guard their offspring while the other journeys down to sea to feed and catch food. If the hunter is delayed for any reason, the stay-at-home parent is left with a painful choice: stay with your chicks and starve or abandon them in search of food.

Orphaned chicks never survive. They go from one penguin to the next, begging for food and shelter, but are cast away. Eventually, they weaken and die from starvation or exposure to the harsh cold.

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WashPost: The Horror of Teaching Redneck Children About the Election

WashPost: The Horror of Teaching Redneck Children About the Election

It’s always fun when the brave journalists of the Washington Post put on their pith helmets and venture forth to do some anthropological reporting from the hinterlands. You never know what kind of hair-raising stories they’ll file about sky god-worshippers in podunk hamlets over an hour’s drive from decent artisanal cheese.

For example, education reporter Hannah Natanson Nov. 29 article describes the horrors of teaching about the presidential election in “West Virginia’s deep-red McDowell County, where some 80 percent of the votes went to Trump in the November election.” They’re also, she is careful to point out, 90 percent white.

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How the explosion in critical race theory is poisoning America

How likely are we to heal our country’s wounds if we divide our fellow citizens into “white people” who are stained, and “people of color” who are innocent and pure? This ghastly enterprise is being undertaken by the left in America today.

White employees go to work and are compelled to sit through Diversity, Equity and Inclusion humiliation sessions, which inform them that they are frauds whose success has been purchased by the suffering of non-whites. White government employees, thinking that their task is to work for the good of the entire body politic, are forced to attend Critical Race Theory workshops where they learn there is no body politic at all, only impure white people who collectively conspire to violate innocent people of color everywhere, using the power of the state to do so…

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Terence Corcoran: Canada’s cost of pandemonics tops $1.5 trillion

Terence Corcoran: Canada’s cost of pandemonics tops $1.5 trillion

The Trudeau Liberals’ fall economic statement stumbles through 200-plus pages of verbal political unreadable claptrap about building back better COVID-19 resilient green gender prudent fiscal stimulus affordable jumpstarted racial equality childcare climate solutions and employee stock option decisive dynamic Indigenous inclusive net-zero cross-border digital tax cut increases. At the end of this onslaught, which is all too typical of annual federal budgetary documents, Canadians are left with two big numbers.

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Michigan Poll Workers Testify On Election Violations, Calling Detroit Ballot Counting A ‘Madhouse’

Michigan’s Senate Oversight Committee heard testimonies on Tuesday from witnesses concerned that there were counting irregularities and potential election violations in Detroit.

While Michigan already certified its election results showing Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden as the winner of the state, voting irregularities in absentee ballot counting at the TCF Center in Detroit were a cause for concern for many.

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LILLEY: Trudeau tries to spin his government’s lack of detail on vaccines

LILLEY: Trudeau tries to spin his government’s lack of detail on vaccines

After a week of being battered over the issue of Canadians getting COVID-19 vaccines later than other countries, the Trudeau Liberals attempted some defence on the issue. I’m not sure it worked.

The problem began last Tuesday when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that COVID vaccines are being produced in other countries and that Canadians would not get the first doses because, “Canada no longer has any domestic production capacity for vaccines.” That claim about Canadian vaccine production is false but let’s set that aside for now.

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Barr breaks with Trump on claims of fraud

Barr breaks with Trump on claims of fraud

Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday said there has been no evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, undercutting President Trump’s repeated baseless claims to the contrary.

“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” Barr told The Associated Press in an interview.

Team Trump responds – What investigation?

Trump Campaign Hits Attorney General Over Claim on Election Fraud

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Rex Murphy: Adamson Barbecue and the epidemic of snobbery

Everyone faces the health risks of this moment, but not everyone risks losing their business

People have picked up on some of the outside or secondary dimensions of the BBQ standoff.

The tight COVID regime has much to do with it, certainly. But leaking through the high thoughts about public health and personal responsibility are strands of comment and observation far distant from either.

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In Defense of Community Defense Groups

La Mesa California BLM Antifa riot aftermath

In one California county, residents turn to privately organized community groups for defense and support.

The riots of this past year are unprecedented in scope and duration, and they occurred with the support of many elected officials and with funding from big corporations. This is shocking since these violent actions are based on a fabricated narrative that all cops are racist and America itself is “systemically racist.” The two main groups responsible for this violence, Black Lives Matter and Antifa, are not motivated only by police shootings but by an attempt to transform America into an authoritarian socialist nation. Racial unrest is their vehicle. Their actions have led to thousands of businesses destroyed — many of them minority-owned — at least 30 people killed, and over 700 police officers injured. Given this level of violence and destruction, it is not surprising to see the rise of community defense groups.

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Beat Cops Cut Crime: A new study explores how police presence maintains public order.

Beat Cops Cut Crime: A new study explores how police presence maintains public order.

More cops mean less crime. This is one of the most robust findings of empirical criminology, supported by study after study since at least the late 1990s. But researchers still debate how, exactly, this effect comes about. Does increasing the number of officers reduce offenses by increasing the number of crimes solved, or by deterring offenders from committing crimes in the first place?

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