Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Larwyn's Linx: The Electoral College Stopped California From Picking Our Next President. That's A Good Thing.

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Nation

The Electoral College Stopped California From Picking Our Next President: Andrew Clark
Electors Get Police Protection from Crazed Leftists: Daniel Greenfield
It’s Official: Hillary Ran Most Incompetent Campaign In Modern History: Sean Davis

The Deranged Left: SDA
Sore Loser Symphony: It’s Time To Abolish The Electoral College: RWN
Where’s Outrage About Democrats ‘Undermining Electoral Process’?: Josh Feldman

Breaking: Electoral College Chooses Donald Trump as President: Ricochet
Electoral College votes to make Donald Trump president: Gabby Morrongiello
2 'faithless electors' try to vote for Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton: Exam

Man Who Loves Executive Orders Warns Successor About Using Same: RWN
Chicago's Gangland Counterinsurgency: War is Boring
Full List: Names of offenders granted commutation Monday by Obama: Breaking911

Economy

“Car Recession” Bites GM: Inventory Glut, Layoffs, Plant Shutdowns: Wolf Richter
Cuomo booked 200 hotel rooms for Clinton inauguration: Richard Johnson

Scandal Central

Understanding what's happening in North Africa in the context of The Clinton Foundation: Herschel Smith
FBI Ordered to Unseal Warrant Used to Get Clinton Emails During Weiner Probe: Chris White

Climate, Energy & Regulations

NYT: Global Warming Is Turning Polar Bears Into ‘Climate Refugees’: RWN

Media

The Fake News: The Z Man
Why won't mainstream media mention all the death and economic threats aimed at Trump Electors?: John R. Lott
Photo of Journalists Hanging With ‘Relaxed and Chatty’ Trump Earns Rebuke: J.D. Durkin

Who is Eric Garland?: Stuart Schneiderman
Charles Krauthammer: The Trump Cabinet: Bonfire of the agencies: TulsaWorld
Audit of Everytown’s Claimed 200+ School Shootings Since Sandy Hook: Bob Owens

World

Iran: Defense Budget Increase Equals US ‘Ransom’ Payment: Meira Svirsky
Aleppo’s fall is Obama’s failure: Leon Wieseltier, Washington Post
New York Times in Full-Fledged Frothing Freakout Frenzy Over Friedman Pick: Ira Stoll

Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead: BattleSwarm
Turkey, Russia: Ambassador's Murder Will Bend Relationship, Not Break It: Stratfor
Obama Heads to Golf Course After Hearing of Berlin Attack and Assassination of Russian Ambassador: Mediaite

Market Forces: Mark Steyn
Merkel Government Still in Denial: Vijeta Uniyal
Anti-Islam, Anti-Migration Wilders Widens Lead in Dutch Polls: ZH

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Deep blacks, bright future—where OLED screens go from here: Ars Technica
Virtual reality could be Nintendo Switch’s secret weapon: Wareable
Unravelling the Mystery of The Marcahuasi Ruins and Their Connection with Egypt: Ancient Origins

Cornucopia

A Republic, If You Can Keep It.: MOTUS
Naked PETA Protests: EBL (NSFW)
My favorite watches of 2016: Patrick Kansa

Image: Russian Ambassador Killed In Ankara, Turkey with English Subtitles
Sponsored by: Senate Conservatives Fund

QOTD: "[Scott] Pruitt’s is the most important nomination because it is a direct attack on the insidious growth of the administrative state. We have reached the point where EPA bureaucrats interpret the Waters of the United States rule — meant to protect American waterways — to mean that when a hard rain leaves behind a pond on your property, the feds may take over and tell you what you can and cannot do with it. (The final rule excluded puddles — magnanimity from the Leviathan.)

On a larger scale, Obama’s Clean Power Plan essentially federalizes power generation and regulation, not coincidentally killing coal along the way. This is the administration’s end run around Congress’ rejection of Obama’s proposed 2009-2010 cap-and-trade legislation. And that was a Democratic Congress, mind you.

Pruitt’s nomination is a dramatic test of the proposition that agencies administer the law, they don’t create it. That the legislative power resides exclusively with Congress and not with a metastasizing administrative bureaucracy... For some, this reassertion of basic constitutionalism seems extreme. If so, the Obama administration has only itself to blame. Such are the wages of eight years of liberal overreach." --Charles Krauthammer

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