Highlights of the News

Donald John Trump is still our president. 

ITEM 1: The Daily News reported, "Smokey Robinson wishes fan ‘Happy Cha-nooka’ in Cameo video."

Someone pointed out his error. He said, "Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human. You've made mistakes too-oo-oo. I'm crying."

Jeff Jacobson had him make a video, explaining in a tweet, "My mom grew up on the same street as Smokey Robinson in Detroit. So for Chanukah, I wanted to reunite them via @Cameo. But the video takes a strange twist."

He included the video in the tweet, which showed Smokey's mispronunciation.

Jacobson then spoke for America, tweeting "By the way, Smokey Robinson can pronounce it any way he damn well pleases. He is a true legend whose music has been with me since birth. His kindness and generosity of spirit have already made this most-unusual 2020 Chanukah one of my family’s most memorable. Also, my mom says hi."

When Smokey Sings. Bob Dylan called him America’s greatest living poet.

Maybe they should change the pronunciation to Cha-nooka.

ITEM 2: CBS News reported, "The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a Colorado church challenging the state's capacity restrictions on houses of worship during the coronavirus pandemic, the latest order from the high court, now with a 6-3 conservative majority, in favor of churches and synagogues seeking to hold worship services during the ongoing crisis.

"In an order with three dissents, the high court tossed out an August decision from the federal district court in Colorado that kept the attendance limits in place and sent the dispute back to the lower courts for further consideration in light of its November order barring New York from enforcing capacity restrictions at houses of worship."

Colorado's Democrat governor got covid despite all his superstition-based rules.

Throwing virgins in a volcano makes more sense than setting a curfew to stop a virus.

The story did not quote the decision itself, but did quote a dissent thus readers have no clue as to why the justices acted as they did. The court speaks through its decisions. The press silences the court.

ITEM 3: The Daily Caller News Foundation reported, "Ian Smith, co-owner of Atilis Gym, has incurred roughly 60 citations and is charged nearly $15,500 per day that he remains open in defiance of Democrat New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s COVID-19 closures, he told Fox News. Smith alongside Frank Trumbetti, another owner of the fitness facility, were arrested in late July after the pair refused to close their business following a weeks-long fight with state, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported."

Smith said in an email to Murphy, "We aren’t going to be paying them. Leave us alone. We have proved you wrong. Our business has been running for 7 months with better safety protocol than the entities you are responsible for running.

"Long term care facilities have the highest death rate and it’s still rampaging through the facilities even though they have been locked down. Our protocol has kept people safe, yours hasn’t."

That is a great argument.

We likely will see if a judge agrees.

ITEM 4: WPIX reported, "New artist for 'Mark Trail' wants to bring decades old comic strip into the 21st century."

The story said, "Those cutting-edge updates for the 21st century include topics such as environmental racism and climate change."

Environmental racism?

Black Bears Matter.

Back when I read newspapers, I skipped Mark Trail.

ITEM 5: The Daily Mail reported, "A San Francisco district is planning to rename a school named after Abraham Lincoln because the former president did not demonstrate that 'black lives mattered to him.'

"The president, who is often held up as an American hero for abolishing slavery, is just one of 44 historical figures soon to have their names scratched off schools within the San Francisco Unified School District.

"Other names include George Washington, Herbert Hoover and Senator Dianne Feinstein, whose name will be stripped from the Dianne Feinstein Elementary School for allowing the Confederate flag to fly outside City Hall back in 1984 when she was mayor.  

"The renaming of the schools comes as part of a nationwide reckoning around racial justice that has seen Confederate flags banned, military bases renamed and statues toppled of racist and Confederate figures across America in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd."

The police did not kill George Floyd, who died of a drug overdose while in police custody.

This is insanity.

We are going full blown communist and destroying our past.

Lincoln freed the slaves.

As for Hoover he was the first and only president to have a non-white vice president, Charles Curtis, the first and only Indian to serve as vice president.

ITEM 6: Just the News reported, "The Pentagon on Tuesday ordered the emergency shutdown of a classified internal communications network, three Defense Department sources confirmed.

The unprecedented daytime shutdown comes amid recent revelations that other federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, were breached by hackers.

The Defense Department alerted employees that the SIPRNET system was being shut down in the late morning for emergency software updates, the sources told Just the News.

The Pentagon did not immediately return a request for comment, including one on whether the shutdown was related the hacking reported Sunday, allegedly by Russian agents.

The system, known as the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, handles classified information, up to the secret level, and was shuttered for several hours."

Hmm.

Our enemies cannot just bide their time until a Democrat administration just hands over state secrets as the Obama administration did.

ITEM 7: United Press International reported, "The COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by U.S. biotech firm Moderna is safe and effective enough for emergency use in the United States, scientists at the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.

"The researchers issued their opinion in a 54-page report ahead of Thursday's meeting of the agency's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, a group of outside medical experts who will advise FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn on whether to approve emergency use authorization for the vaccine.

"The committee and the FDA took the same steps to approve the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech last Friday and the first vaccinations were given to health workers on Monday."

Operation Warp Speed.

Once again, Donald Trump completes a project on time and under budget.

The media said a vaccine by year's end could not be done. The Donald did it twice.

ITEM 8: Breitbart reported, "After Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.) blasted Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for more anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric and urged colleagues to join him in calling for her immediate removal from all congressional committees, Representative-Elect Burgess Owens put out a statement in support of the move.

"In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News on Monday, Owens expressed support for last week’s call to action from Rep. Reschenthaler."

Owens was in the backfield in the Browns-Raiders playoff game in 1981. He knows Tlaib is the Red Right 88 of Congress.

ITEM 9: Zero Hedge reported, "Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been arrested in Winnipeg under the extradition act after federal prosecutors in New York slapped the 79-year-old with a nine-count indictment in the Southern District of New York. He has been accused of sex-trafficking, racketeering, and sexually assaulting dozens of teenage girls and women."

Can we all agree that the time to have sex with a teenage girl ends when you turn 20?

ITEM 10: CBS reported, "A police body camera video reveals what an innocent woman said happened to her nearly two years ago: police officers wrongly entered her home with guns drawn and handcuffed her naked as she watched in horror.

"Last year, Anjanette Young filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the video to show the public what happened to her that day. CBS 2 also filed a request for the video. But the Chicago Police Department denied the requests.

"Young recently obtained the footage after a court forced CPD to turn it over as part of her lawsuit against police."

Oops, my bad, is not a good enough excuse.

Settle out of court.

ITEM 11: The Telegraph reported, Red "China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities to pick cotton by hand in the western region of Xinjiang, a key source of the world’s cotton, according to a report by a Washington-based think tank. 

"Rights activists have estimated that Chinese authorities have detained more than one million Uighurs and other, mostly Muslim, minorities in detention camps in Xinjiang since 2017. Beijing denies that Uighurs’ rights are abused and says re-education centers provide vocational training to help people gain employment, and are necessary to curb extremism. 

"Now, information from Chinese government documents and state media reports provides evidence that at least half a million people have been forced to pick cotton through a coercive state-mandated labor transfer and poverty alleviation scheme, the Center for Global Policy says. 

"In 2018, three majority-Uighur areas within Xinjiang alone mobilized at least 570,000 people to pick cotton through the scheme, according to the think tank report published Monday."

There's your free trade, Jonah Goldberg.

We must ban all trade with Red China because it is a slave nation.

I realize that slavery brings back fond memories for Democrats, but it is still wrong.

The predominately black NBA and NFL should be the first to cancel all shoe and other apparel contracts with companies that manufacture in Red China.

ITEM 12: The Daily Caller reported, "The International Criminal Court announced Monday it will not investigate China’s reported detention of Uighur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in a setback for human rights activists pushing for prosecution."

Of course not. International criminal courts are for little countries.

ITEM 13: The New York Post reported, "The mass exodus from New York City amid the COVID-19 crisis has cost $34 billion in lost income, according to a new study released Tuesday.

"About 3.57 million people fled New York City between Jan. 1 and Dec. 7 this year — and they were replaced by some 3.5 million people earning lower average incomes, the findings from Unacast said.

"That means the Big Apple lost a net 70,000 people during the pandemic."

New York's Democrat mayor and governor screwed up.

But don't worry. Democrats in Washington will bail them out with other people's money.

ITEM 14: Reuters reported, "Venezuela wields a powerful 'hate' law to silence Maduro’s remaining foes."

Just as Democrats in America do.

ITEM 15: The Federalist reported, "The Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C. is investigating a Black Lives Matter sign burning that occurred at pro-Trump and Stop the Steal protests on Saturday as a potential hate crime.

"'The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating this offense as potentially being motivated in whole or in part by hate or bias. The designation can be changed at any point as an investigation proceeds and more information is gathered,' a press release from the department read."

You can burn an American flag without penalty, but not a BLM sign.

We don't live in a country. We live in a gang war.

ITEM 16: Newsweek reported, "A U.S. Navy ship operating in the Eastern Pacific Ocean intercepted a massive haul of suspected cocaine, worth an estimated $106 million, earlier this month.

"The USS Gabrielle Giffords, carrying a U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement detachment, intercepted the low-profile vessel, also known as a narco submarine, after being diverted during a routine patrol on December 5. Approximately 134 bales of cocaine weighing an estimated 2,810 kilograms were found on board the vessel and three crew members were detained on suspicion of drug trafficking."

Well, there goes Hunter Biden's Inauguration Day party plans.

ITEM 17: The New York Post reported, "Census estimates 336 million people living in U.S."

Some of them may be actual citizens.

ITEM 18: The Blaze reported, "Grammy award-winning singer Lizzo is being criticized for betraying the body positivity movement by trying to lose weight, and some are accusing her of 'succumbing to fatphobia.'

"Lizzo, whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, sparked the outrage among some of her fans when she posted on Instagram about a 10-day smoothie cleanse program she tried."

My body, my choice is dead.

ITEM 19: A reader wrote, "I've been reading you for a year or two, mostly agreeing but thinking maybe you're a smidge paleo where I'm a smudge neo.  Well, I just sent Commentary Magazine an email cancelling a subscription that I've maintained for 25 years.  I extended my apologies to Norman Podhoretz, who never done me no wrong, but I told John Podhoretz to f*** off.

"You run a family-friendly blog, so I don't expect to get quoted.  But I've just gotten a smadge more paleo than I thought I would be."

Family friendly, but sometimes the family is the Munsters.

ITEM 20: United Press International reported, "California prison officials said a death row inmate was found dead in his cell early Monday.

Problem solved.

He and another man kidnapped, tortured and murdered a college student 25 years ago.