Martin Meredith, Diamonds, Gold, and War

I'm on a sort of Africa jag right now. It's been off and on, but since teaching South Africa in my comparative politics class this fall, I'm getting excited about further reading.

At Amazon, Martin Meredith, Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa.

Mika Brzezinski Apologizes

She slammed Mark Halperin's accusers. I for one can't stand Mika. And one of Halperin's accusers, Emily Miller, is one of my biggest heroes.

Here's the whole sequence, via Twitter:

Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski on Friday chastised the women who accused journalist Mark Halperin of sexual misconduct for not wanting to meet face-to-face with her now-disgraced friend to hear him apologize https://t.co/uSNQsMft3W

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 22, 2017

Given how many media friends he has, and how ingrained he was into so many parts of media culture, Mark Halperin is a good bet for "First Disgraced Predator to be Restored to his Prior Stature" https://t.co/ncbmG6mAyj

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 23, 2017

"I can't retraumatize myself to be in the same room with him to please Mika Brzezinski and her rich and famous friends," Miller told @CNN - More on @MSNBC Mika public apology to Mark Halperin victims when we fought back. Story by @oliverdarcy https://t.co/VtevoCY9Co

— Emily Miller (@EmilyMiller) December 23, 2017

When i was the first person to go public about these accusations, Mika called me and said Halperin denied it. She said she will "moderate" ON AIR between me and Haperin who sexually assaulted me. I have many people who will vouch for me. https://t.co/ha1UjOEQzA

— Emily Miller (@EmilyMiller) December 23, 2017

"It is disgusting and unethical of Mika to use the power of her show to shame me, a sexual assault victim, into meeting with the man who did that to me." More on my first on the record interview on Mark Halperin here: #MeToo https://t.co/OI3ovOWl0l

— Emily Miller (@EmilyMiller) December 23, 2017

Mika thought she could run over all of the victims-- the "nobodies" in her mind -- to rehabilitate the sexual assault predator Mark Halperin and get him back on TV. We stand united. #MeToo -> #PressForward https://t.co/kg65DY2RM2

— Emily Miller (@EmilyMiller) December 23, 2017

Mika Brzezinski apologizes for her comments on Mark Halperin victims https://t.co/EUC2z0OPji

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 22, 2017

'Hostiles'

I took my young son to see this movie yesterday in L.A.

I love Westerns, and this one did not disappoint. Indeed, I have a newfound appreciation for Christian Bale. He deserves some nominations for his performance, as does Rosamond Pike for hers (the woman can put on the most intense emotional expression ever; she's unreal).

At the New York Times, "Review: ‘Hostiles’ Grapples With the Contradictions of the Western."

"Hostiles" reckons with the legacy of plunder and racism that flickers behind the legends in westerns https://t.co/RWCJToAmdh

— New York Times Arts (@nytimesarts) December 22, 2017

And see Kenneth Turan's review, at the Los Angeles Times, "The western springs back to life with 'Hostiles,' a brutal tale of moral survival."

The official trailer is here.

President Trump Has Better Poll Numbers Than Meryl Streep

Lolz.

At Breitbart:

OOF. https://t.co/GHThYjtjIR

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) December 22, 2017

Fighting for Elephants, in One of Africa's Most Dangerous Corners

From today's front-page, at the Los Angeles Times, "'Am I going to get out of here alive?' In one of Africa's most dangerous corners, a fight to the death for the elephants":

The elephant was trumpeting in terror, and bleeding. Kambale Mate wanted desperately to save it from the poachers. But would he make it out alive himself? Part 1 of our look at an alarming spike in killings of environmental activists around the world. https://t.co/BTU4knhSwq pic.twitter.com/KqePLvISpF

— L.A. Times World (@latimesworld) December 22, 2017

Kambale Mate huddled beneath a tangle of grass, looking up at bright stars in a moonless sky, a tumble of chaotic events cascading through his mind.

Where were the other wildlife rangers, Jean de Dieu Matongo and Joel Meriko Ari? Were they alive?

He had been a ranger for only five months at Garamba National Park, the last remaining preserve for disappearing populations of elephants and giraffes in this part of Africa. Yet here he was with two comrades, hiding like small, petrified mammals in the grass. If any of them moved, a large band of poachers nearby could find and kill them.

A hassock of grass cradled his back as he looked up. He couldn’t remember quite how he had escaped the shrieking storm of bullets. What he remembered was the crunch of the crisp, dry leaves as boot steps crept through the dusk.

The world is experiencing an epidemic of environmental killings. Last year 200 environmental defenders — citizens protesting mining, agribusiness, oil and gas development and logging, as well as land rights activists and wildlife rangers — were killed, according to the London-based nonprofit Global Witness. In the first 11 months of this year, the number was 170.

The reasons are many: corruption; rising global demand for natural resources; companies’ growing willingness to exploit new areas; and a dearth of accountability, as governments and corporations increasingly work together on resource development agendas.

“We’ve seen impunity breeding more violence,” said Billy Kyte, a Global Witness official. “Those carrying out those attacks know they can get away with it. We’re seeing more brazen attacks than before.”

Total attacks have doubled from what they were five years ago, and they have been spreading. In 2015, Global Witness recorded killings in 16 countries. Last year, it was 24.

Latin America, in the midst of a boom in resource extraction as billions of dollars in new investments stream in from China and elsewhere, was the deadliest region — 110 were killed through the end of November, with the heaviest toll, 44 dead, in Brazil.

But few places in the world are as consistently dangerous for environmental defenders as Africa’s wildlife preserves. In Garamba National Park, a sprawling UNESCO World Heritage site in a remote corner of northeastern Congo, some of the planet’s last, struggling populations of elephants, white rhinoceroses and giraffes are under assault by poachers seeking to cash in on the millions of dollars the animals can bring in illegal international markets.

Of the 105 park rangers around the world killed over the 12 months that ended in July, most of them were in Africa, according to the nonprofit International Ranger Federation. Garamba saw 21 attacks within a year, leading to five deaths.

The 1,900-square-mile Garamba park lies at the crossroads of international chaos. Raiders from Sudan and Chad sweep south along a route used centuries ago to traffic slaves and ivory. Soldiers, deserters and armed rebels spill into the park from South Sudan on the other side of the border. An estimated 150 fighters with the Lord’s Resistance Army, which has left a trail of death, mutilation, child sex slavery and kidnapping across a broad swath of central Africa, are believed to roam the hunting preserves bordering the park.

“It’s the Wild West here,” said Naftali Honig, the park’s anti-poaching information coordinator. “They’re coming in from multiple countries and armed groups. We have a porous border and corrupt officials who are in the ivory chain. We also have collapsed states.”

Garamba National Park is jointly managed by the Congolese government and African Parks, a nongovernmental organization based in South Africa that teams up with governments to manage 12 of the continent’s most vulnerable national parks, covering more than 7 million acres.

Days before the April 11 attack that forced Kambale Mate to hide overnight in the grass, African Parks pilot Frank Molteno had spotted five dead elephants from the air, including two youngsters. When Honig investigated the site he was sickened to find the tiny tusks of the young elephants taken.

“The adults had their faces hacked off. There’s almost no ivory in the juveniles. They would have just killed them for nothing,” said Honig.

There were multiple gunmen, from the evidence, and they were not finished. Searching from the air days later, Molteno spotted a fire site. Mate, 24, went out as part of a team of six patrollers, accompanied by four Congolese soldiers...

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Fabulous Britney Spears!

I've been neglecting my hotsy-totsy Ms. Britney, who's looking better than ever.

On Twitter. (Hat Tip: Hollywood Tuna, "Britney Spears’ Hard Work Is Paying Off.")

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— Britney Spears (@britneyspears) December 21, 2017

Alexis Okeowo, A Moonless, Starless Sky

I'd like to read this.

At Amazon, Alexis Okeowo, A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa.

Slavery and the Legacy of White Supremacy

This is interesting and worth pondering, no matter your ideological inclinations.

From Annette Gordon-Reed‏, at Foreign Affairs, "America’s Original Sin":

America’s Original Sin | Foreign Affairs https://t.co/8wySaAdlnI

— Annette Gordon-Reed (@agordonreed) December 12, 2017

... The most significant fact about American slavery, one it did not share with other prominent ancient slave systems, was its basis in race. Slavery in the United States created a defined, recognizable group of people and placed them outside society. And unlike the indentured servitude of European immigrants to North America, slavery was an inherited condition.

As a result, American slavery was tied inexorably to white dominance. Even people of African descent who were freed for one reason or another suffered under the weight of the white supremacy that racially based slavery entrenched in American society. In the few places where free blacks had some form of state citizenship, their rights were circumscribed in ways that emphasized their inferior status—to them and to all observers. State laws in both the so-called Free States and the slave states served as blueprints for a system of white supremacy. Just as blackness was associated with inferiority and a lack of freedom—in some jurisdictions, black skin created the legal presumption of an enslaved status—whiteness was associated with superiority and freedom.

The historian Edmund Morgan explained what this meant for the development of American attitudes about slavery, freedom, and race—indeed, for American culture overall. Morgan argued that racially based slavery, rather than being a contradiction in a country that prided itself on freedom, made the freedom of white people possible. The system that put black people at the bottom of the social heap tamped down class divisions among whites. Without a large group of people who would always rank below the level of even the poorest, most disaffected white person, white unity could not have persisted. Grappling with the legacy of slavery, therefore, requires grappling with the white supremacy that preceded the founding of the United States and persisted after the end of legalized slavery.

Consider, by contrast, what might have happened had there been Irish chattel slavery in North America. The Irish suffered pervasive discrimination and were subjected to crude and cruel stereotypes about their alleged inferiority, but they were never kept as slaves. Had they been enslaved and then freed, there is every reason to believe that they would have had an easier time assimilating into American culture than have African Americans. Their enslavement would be a major historical fact, but it would likely not have created a legacy so firmly tying the past to the present as did African chattel slavery. Indeed, the descendants of white indentured servants blended into society and today suffer no stigma because of their ancestors’ social condition.

That is because the ability to append enslaved status to a set of generally identifiable physical characteristics—skin color, hair, facial features—made it easy to tell who was eligible for slavery and to maintain a system of social control over the enslaved. It also made it easy to continue organized oppression after the 13th Amendment ended legal slavery in 1865. There was no incentive for whites to change their attitudes about race even when slavery no longer existed. Whiteness still amounted to a value, unmoored from economic or social status. Blackness still had to be devalued to ensure white superiority. This calculus operated in Northern states as well as Southern ones.

CONFEDERATE IDEOLOGY

The framers of the Confederate States of America understood this well. Race played a specific and pivotal role in their conception of the society they wished to create. If members of the revolutionary generation presented themselves as opponents of a doomed system and, in Jefferson’s case, cast baleful views of race as mere “suspicions,” their Confederate grandchildren voiced their full-throated support for slavery as a perpetual institution, based on their openly expressed belief in black inferiority. The founding documents of the Confederacy, under which the purported citizens of that entity lived, just as Americans live under the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, announced that African slavery would form the “cornerstone” of the country they would create after winning the Civil War. In 1861, a few weeks before the war began, Alexander Stephens, the vice president of the Confederacy, put things plainly:

The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution—African slavery as it exists amongst us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast had anticipated this as the “rock upon which the old Union would split.” He was right. . . . The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. . . . Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error.

Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition.

Despite the clarity of Stephens’ words, millions of Americans today are unaware of—or perhaps unwilling to learn about—the aims of those who rallied to the Confederate cause. That ignorance has led many to fall prey to the romantic notion of “the rebels,” ignoring that these rebels had a cause. Modern Americans may fret about the hypocrisy and weakness of the founding generation, but there was no such hesitancy among the leading Confederates on matters of slavery and race. That they were not successful on the battlefield does not mean that their philosophy should be ignored in favor of abstract notions of “duty,” “honor,” and “nobility”; Americans should not engage in the debate that the former Confederates chose after the war ended and slavery, finally, acquired a bad name.

It has taken until well into the twenty-first century for many Americans to begin to reject the idea of erecting statues of men who fought to construct an explicitly white supremacist society. For too long, the United States has postponed a reckoning with the corrosive ideas about race that have destroyed the lives and wasted the talents of millions of people who could have contributed to their country. To confront the legacy of slavery without openly challenging the racial attitudes that created and shaped the institution is to leave the most important variable out of the equation. And yet discussions of race, particularly of one’s own racial attitudes, are among the hardest conversations Americans are called on to have...

RTWT.

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Alexis Ren in Christmas Bikini

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Danielle Gersh's Windy Weather Forecast

It was cold and windy as I dropped off my kid for school this morning.

And I've got head back out to buy a few Christmas presents. Now it's getting to be like winter weather around here. Sheesh.

Here's the lovely Ms. Danielle, for CBS News 2 Los Angeles:

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Wildfires Aren't the Only Threat to the So-Called 'California Dream'

It's too expensive to live here.

This is a great piece, at NYT, "Quakes and Fires? It’s the Cost of Living That Californians Can’t Stomach":

https://t.co/8wqjvMvLoC

— Conor Dougherty (@ConorDougherty) December 13, 2017

OAKLAND, Calif. — Russel Lee and his wife spent the past few years going online to do the depressing math of how much less housing costs pretty much everywhere that isn’t California. They looked at Idaho, Arizona, North Carolina and Kentucky, but Mr. Lee, who was born in San Francisco and has lived in the Bay Area his entire life, could never quite make the move. Then the fires came.

In October, as the most destructive wildfire in state history swept through Northern California, Mr. Lee’s three-bedroom home in Santa Rosa was consumed by the flames. He lost everything: his tools, his guns, his childhood report cards. Forced to confront the decision of whether to stay and rebuild or pick up and go somewhere else, Mr. Lee finally decided it was time to go. He used the insurance payment to buy a $150,000 home outside Knoxville, Tenn., and will soon leave California for good.

“It was like ‘Welp, it’s time,’” Mr. Lee said. “It’s kind of like ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ in reverse.”

For the half-century after World War II, California represented the epitome of middle-class America on the move. As people poured into the state in search of good weather and the lure of single-family homes with backyard orange trees, the state embarked on a vast natural engineering project that redirected northern water southward, creating the modern Southern California and making the state the most populous in the nation.

Those days are long gone. For more than three decades, California has seen a net outflow of residents to other states, as less expensive southern cities like Phoenix, Houston and Raleigh supplant those of the Golden State as beacons of opportunity. California still has a hold on the national imagination: It has lots of jobs and great weather, along with the glamour of Hollywood and the inventiveness of Silicon Valley.

Still, for many Californians, the question is always sitting there: Is this worth it? Natural disasters are a moment to take stock and rethink the dream. But in the end, the calculation almost always comes down to cost.

Last Friday was Saul Weinstein’s last day at work, and the start of his last weekend as a Californian. Mr. Weinstein, a 67-year-old commercial banker, retired and moved to Nevada. He has lived through several fires, and the 1994 earthquake that killed 57 people and shook him and millions of other Southern Californians out of bed at 4:30 in the morning.

But what finally sent him packing was money. Mr. Weinstein is selling his 2,000-square-foot house in Baldwin Park, east of Los Angeles, for $570,000. He paid less than half that for a similarly sized place in Pahrump, Nev., about an hour’s drive west of Las Vegas. He moved on Monday.

“When you retire you have to watch your money,” Mr. Weinstein said. “The San Andreas Fault is what they politely call ‘overdue,’ and I will be much more comfortable when I’m away from that. But if it wasn’t for the cost of living I probably would have stuck around and taken my chances.”

California was once a migration magnet, but since 2010 the state has lost more than two million residents 25 and older, including 220,000 who moved to Texas, according to census data. Arizona and Nevada have each welcomed about 180,000 California expatriates since the start of the decade. Next week, as people start decamping for the holidays, airports throughout the South and Southwest will fill up with people who are from California and are now traveling West to see the family they left behind...

In the end, it won't be the astronomical cost of living that drives me out of state. It'll be the soul-crushing radical left-wing politics. It's already intolerable. I'm just not ready for retirement yet.

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Christmas Shopping

Natasha Oakley and Devin Brugman:

We did the browsing for you! Shop for each person on your list using our Gift Guide here: https://t.co/87J0ht3t5Y pic.twitter.com/ulYvCP2lom

— A Bikini A Day (@ABikiniADay) December 19, 2017

Kendall Jenner in See-Through Black Turtleneck

At Taxi Driver, "Kendall Jenner Nipples in See-Through Black Turtleneck."

Stella Maxwell for LOVE Magazine (VIDEO)

You gotta love these LOVE videos, heh.

Corey R. Lewandowski and David N. Bossie, Let Trump Be Trump

*Bumped.*

This book's flying off the shelves, or off the delivery lines.

At Amazon, Corey R. Lewandowski and David N. Bossie, Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency.

The Left’s Power Play with Sexual Politics

At American Greatness, "Raping the Voters: The Left’s Power Play with Sexual Politics."

"This is not just about the way the 2016 election turned out, more broadly, it is even including the disregard the ruling class has for the constraints placed on them in the U.S. Constitution."
Raping the Voters: The Left’s Power Play with Sexual Politics https://t.co/lu1AE9Qsm0

— Julie Bee (@Julesagain) December 21, 2017

Dore Gold, Tower of Babble

At Amazon, Dore Gold, Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos.

President Trump Warns the United Nations: 'Let them vote against us. We don't care...' (VIDEO)

Following-up, "Nikki Haley Confronts the U.N.'s 'Jackals'."

Pres. Trump says he likes the message Nikki Haley sent at the UN that the "US will be taking names" of countries against Jerusalem embassy move. "Let them vote against us. We'll save a lot. We don't care." https://t.co/cFinWveOTw pic.twitter.com/sEm7X1AIGF

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) December 21, 2017

Nikki Haley Confronts the U.N.'s 'Jackals'

This piece is getting all kinds of action on Twitter, plus it's linked at Memeorandum.

From Eli Lake, at Bloomberg:

Nikki Haley confronts the U.N.'s "jackals" https://t.co/XfdqJjfiiY via @BV pic.twitter.com/JVdOIaFaSJ

— Bloomberg (@business) December 21, 2017

Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

I'm collecting the "Rama" trilogy.

At Amazon, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama.

Janet Fitch, The Revolution of Marina M.

*BUMPED.*

At Amazon, Janet Fitch, The Revolution of Marina M. (A Novel).

Battle for Conservatism

This is good, from Jacob Heilbrunn, at the New York Review, "Donald Trump’s Brains":

A battle for the future of conservatism is being fought. Jacob Heilbrunn pays a visit to the pro-Trump camp associated with the Claremont Institute. https://t.co/qC0iw8aEoi

— The New York Review of Books (@nybooks) December 13, 2017

The Political Theory of the American Founding: Natural Rights, Public Policy, and the Moral Conditions of Freedom
by Thomas G. West
Cambridge University Press, 420 pp., $99.99

American Greatness: How Conservatism Inc. Missed the 2016 Election and What the D.C. Establishment Needs to Learn
by Chris Buskirk and Seth Leibsohn
WND Books, 272 pp., $25.95

Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump
by Laura Ingraham
All Points, 307 pp., $27.99

How the Right Lost Its Mind
by Charles J. Sykes
St. Martin’s, 267 pp., $27.99

The Spirit of Liberty: At Home, In the World
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Among the many anomalies of Donald Trump’s presidency has been the near invisibility of institutions that for many years served as a bulwark of Republican policymaking. Though many on the right like to quote Ronald Reagan’s assertion from 1981 that “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,” his administration in fact began its bold work with a comprehensive playbook—the twenty-volume Mandate for Leadership, published by The Heritage Foundation. It contained a variety of proposals for slashing federal income taxes, boosting defense spending, and rolling back business regulations. It was widely seen as a blueprint for the administration, and Reagan gave a copy to each member of his cabinet. A redacted paperback version even became a best seller. “Of a sudden,” Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan declared, “the GOP has become a party of ideas.”

In subsequent years, Heritage and other conservative think tanks continued to formulate sweeping proposals. It is well known that the Affordable Care Act, so reviled by Trump and other Republicans, emerged from a market-based model that was developed by Stuart Butler, the director of Heritage’s Center for Policy Innovation, and adopted in 2006 by Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts. During the George W. Bush presidency, foreign policy experts at the American Enterprise Institute, such as Richard Perle, a Defense Department official in the Reagan administration, helped shape Bush’s response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, including, most notoriously, the war in Iraq.

Under Trump, however, these institutions are struggling to adjust. Though Heritage has played an important part in recommending nominations to the judiciary, including Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, its actual influence on policy seems negligible, and its members have conflicting views of Trump’s nationalist agenda. Something similar can be said about a number of other conservative think tanks in Washington, including the American Enterprise Institute, which has a number of fellows such as Jonah Goldberg who are highly critical of Trump.

The result is that many neoconservatives and establishment conservatives—ranging from Eliot A. Cohen, a former adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, to David Frum, author of the new book Trumpocracy, to Stuart Stevens, the campaign strategist for Mitt Romney in 2012—have vociferously united in their loathing for Trump. They see him as a sinister mountebank who is destroying true conservative principles from within the GOP and who, incidentally, threatens to exile them to the political wilderness.

A battle for the future of conservatism is in effect being fought between these anti-Trump conservatives and pro-Trump conservatives associated with the Claremont Institute, a right-wing think tank based in California, which for years has been discussing the Federalist Papers, the dangers of progressivism, and, above all, the wisdom of the German exile and political philosopher Leo Strauss, who taught for several decades at the University of Chicago. For some both in and out of government, the Trump presidency is a deliverance—or at least offers tantalizing promises of an audacious new conservative era in domestic and foreign policy...

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Trump's Tax-Cut Triumph

The House has to vote again on the bill, but it looks like just a formality. This is a huge victory for the White House.

At Axios, "Trump triumphant: a consequential, lasting end to 2017" (via Memeorandum):

Trump triumphant: a consequential, lasting end to 2017 https://t.co/EmNlLJRN2M pic.twitter.com/o5ZV3BSTt1

— Axios (@axios) December 20, 2017

President Trump takes a beating in the media, but he's ending 2017 on the high note of his presidency.

The big picture: You might not like his words or actions. But measured in terms of what Republican voters want and expected, he's winning on important fronts:

* The tax bill passed with almost unanimous Republican support, before the end of the year, and in keeping with mostly mainstream conservative orthodoxy. Trump won a bigger corporate tax break than either Bush ever got, and will sign the most consequential new tax law in 30 years. And he followed through on cutting taxes for most small businesses and most Americans. He did this without losing a single GOP senator — even his harshest critics.

* He failed to repeal all of Obama's health-care law. But Trump axed the individual mandate with the tax bill, and has chipped away at other parts of the law's foundation. Again, you might hate the outcome. But it's a significant step to blowing up a program most Republicans demanded be destroyed.

* Axios health-care editor Sam Baker emails: "The smaller administrative steps Trump has taken — an executive order, cuts to enrollment outreach, ending a critical stream of funding for insurers — [are cumulatively] weakening the ACA's insurance exchanges and prompting some insurers to question whether those markets are worth the trouble."

* Trump has tilted the court rightward in lasting ways. Justice Neil Gorsuch was a substantial, conservative addition to the Supreme Court. And it wasn't a one-off: The dozen new U.S. Circuit Court judges he has named is the most during a president's first year in office in more than a century.

* Trump has followed through on eviscerating regulations, many of them imposed by Obama. He has revoked 67, and delayed or derailed more than 1,500 others.

* No matter that much of it is not of his doing, the economy has grown consistently under his watch.

* ISIS is in retreat. The N.Y. Times' Ross Douthat calls it "A War Trump Won."

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'Nikki Haley is on track to be our Margaret Thatcher...' (VIDEO)

It's Ralph Peters, on Fox:

Lt. Col. Ralph Peters (Ret.): "@nikkihaley is on track to be our Margaret Thatcher. She's really strong... She's sticking up for truth, justice, and the American way." pic.twitter.com/J2ADep1koT

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 20, 2017

United Nations​ Ambassador @nikkihaley issued this warning to countries planning to vote against @POTUS's Jerusalem decision. https://t.co/XA7HenCPN5 pic.twitter.com/hNM9tcLLqW

— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 20, 2017

Melissa del Bosque, Bloodlines

This looks great!

At Amazon, Melissa del Bosque, Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty.

Erin Heatherton Wears Nothing (VIDEO)

She's so dreamy.

Kate Upton for LOVE Magazine (VIDEO)

Well, no doubt the moment we've all been waiting for.

And did you know, Kate Upton's now a married woman. Yep, that lucking dog Justin Verlander nailed her down after the World Series.

At LOVE:

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Lisa Bloom Sought Cash Payment for Trump Accusers (VIDEO)

She's such scum.

From Mark Tapscott, at Instapundit, "JOHN SOLOMON SLICED AND DICED LISA BLOOM MONDAY NIGHT: 'Facts Refute Lisa Bloom’s Denials on Paying Trump Accusers, Reporter Says'."

3 Killed as Amtrak Train Derails Over I-5 in Washington State (VIDEO)

At the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "NTSB: Train was traveling twice the speed limit before derailment: 3 confirmed dead after incident near DuPont; National Transportation Safety Board investigating":

DUPONT, Wash. -- An Amtrak passenger train that derailed with deadly results Monday morning was traveling at more than twice the speed limit of the track, the National Transportation Safety Board reported later that night.

Bella Dinh-Zarr, a National Transportation Safety Board member speaking to reporters before midnight Monday night upon her arrival at the Sea-Tac International Airport, reported that data from the train's rear engine marked the train's speed at 80 mph. Sound Transit confirmed to SeattlePI that the Interstate 5 overpass south of Tacoma where the crash occurred carries a 30 mph speed limit.

Amtrak president Richard Anderson told reporters that positive train control — the technology that can slow or stop a speeding train — wasn't in use on the stretch of track in Washington state where the deadly derailment occurred.

Anderson spoke on a conference call with reporters and said he was "deeply saddened by all that has happened today."

NTSB crew members arrived in Seattle shortly before midnight and said their first full day of investigation would begin Tuesday.

They had yet to interview any of the train's personnel. Investigators planned to collect on-scene information preserved by local authorities for the next seven to 10 days and issue a report with their findings, possibly up to a year or more from now...

Keep reading.

Alexis Ren by LOVE Magazine (VIDEO)

She's pretty amazing.

Feminism, 'Heterophobia', and #MeToo

This is really good, from Daphne Patai, at Minding the Campus, "'We Made This (Harassment) Law Up From the Beginning and Now We've Won."

RELATED: At the Other McCain, "The Sexual Harassment Apocalypse."

How 'White Nationalism' Picked Up Steam

Take this piece with a grain of salt. I mean, c'mon, they're relying on the Southern Poverty Law Center, for crissakes.

At USA Today, "How white nationalists tapped into decades of pent-up racism to spark a movement":

The "alt-right" movement didn't happen overnight https://t.co/0ZDeiwQWVU

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) December 17, 2017

This summer's seemingly overnight arrival of the self-described "alt-right" and white nationalist groups — marked most prominently by a deadly car attack at the August "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va. — drew worldwide headlines, but the movement simmered for decades before it burst into public view.

Underlying that shift from society's fringes to center stage is a new strategy that taps into the frustrations of white people angry at a society they say has marginalized them and a new political landscape that appears to give voice to their cause.

President Trump’s election last year became a major rallying point for white nationalists, who watched as the Republican repeatedly amplified some of their views in campaign rallies and tweets.

“It just absolutely electrified this community,” Keegan Hankes, an analyst for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hates groups, including the KKK. “They really felt like they had someone to rally behind.”

The Charlottesville attack that heads to a grand jury Monday has done little to dim the movement. In recent months, white nationalists have orchestrated numerous controversial public appearances, fought and won high-profile legal battles with universities and dominated the airwaves.

Building on this newfound interest, white nationalists deployed tactics borrowed from the generations-old KKK and today’s far-left groups and adapted media techniques often used against them.

Kyle Bristow, a self-described "alt-right" activist and attorney for high-profile white nationalist Richard Spencer, said large corporations, the government and academia that “relentlessly” attack the nation's traditional values have only prompted the movement's growth.

“Middle America is rallying to the flag of the alt-right,” he said. “Older generations recognize that America is no longer the place that it once was or could be, and people of this generation tend to be more conservative in trying to reclaim the America that was lost."

'Proud to be white'

The movement's most prominent figure, Spencer, executive director of the white nationalist National Policy Institute, has helped the so-called alt-right dominate cable television coverage and Internet discussions for months, prompted a national debate about whether it’s wrong to be “proud to be white” and provoked liberal activists and university officials alike to anger with his speaking appearances in New York, Florida and California.

The term "alt-right" covers a loosely defined group whose far-right ideology includes racism, populism and white nationalism. It is embraced by white supremacists, who believe white people should dominate all other races, and white nationalists, who say whites are a distinct nation that needs special political and legal protections. Critics accuse white nationalists of being white supremacists in disguise and say the term "alt-right" is a euphemism to hide racist goals.

Regardless of what name they choose, exact estimates on how many people associate with the movement are difficult to ascertain. Many followers say they're reluctant to be publicly identified because they fear losing their jobs or being attacked for their beliefs.

But the Southern Poverty Law Center says the murkiness serves a purpose — it allows white nationalists to conceal whether their movement is truly a groundswell or just a highly effective but tiny group of people.

Online followings provide a glimpse of white nationalists' reach. The law center says more than 300,000 people are registered as users on the oldest white nationalist site, Stormfront, which bills itself as "the voice of the new, embattled white minority." Spencer's Twitter account has more than 80,000 followers, not all of whom necessarily connect with the movement.

White nationalists argue in online postings that the inclusiveness and diversity espoused by the country’s public school teachers, mainstream media and liberal arts universities wrongly silences their voices. They repeatedly post comments on social media that they want to say “I’m proud to be white” without reprimand and don't understand why it’s OK for someone to declare “Black Lives Matter” but not “European settlers made America great.”

Experts say the movement emphasizes free speech, while downplaying its end game: A United States run by and for white people, with minorities either marginalized or removed.

Adam Leggat, a security consultant who monitors protesters worldwide for the Densus Group, said the words are starting to translate into action. "From an outsider’s perspective what has been happening at the protest events is an extension of the polarization in U.S. politics that has been occurring over the last 10 years or so. It has been stoked by a great deal of scaremongering in some sections of the media and particularly on social media."

Online communities have played a major role in the development of modern-day white nationalist movements, and the benignly named The Foundation for the Marketplace of Ideas plays a key role in sharing those voices. The foundation lists freedom of speech, religion and equality before the law among its tenets, but adds: "We are engaged in a total war in a fight for the existence of our people, and scorched earth tactics is morally proper in this existential struggle. Arguably, it is immoral to not do everything and anything to further the interests of our people.”

Critics say that hateful agenda poses a major danger to the American values of individual freedom, equality and tolerance.

“White nationalism is inherently an ideology of violence," Hankes said. "There’s no peaceful path to that.”

Redirection, victim-blaming and other tactics

Despite lip-service to scorched-earth tactics, white nationalists today have left behind many of the deeply controversial and condemned symbols of the past in favor of more subtle messages to lure in new members.

They use many of the KKK’s tactics, such as invoking the protection of white culture and values, while studiously avoiding the white hoods, cross-burnings and torches of the past. But they’re also using strategies borrowed from left-wing groups and anarchists, including mass protests and suing anyone who responds to their taunts and insults.

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A.J. Baime, The Accidental President

At Amazon, A.J. Baime, The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World.

Headless Chicken Leftists?

I'd prefer headless leftists, actually, but then I'd be like Robespierre, or something, heh.

Seriously, this is good, at CounterPunch, "The Year of the Headless Liberal Chicken."

Our in-house pundit's round-up of the year in bull goose looneyism ... https://t.co/qqvg61pkif

— Consent Factory (@consent_factory) December 10, 2017

This may be the first and last time I positively refer to something in Counterpunch, but @CJHopkins_Z23 has written a brilliant piece on the dangers of having tried to Hitlerize @realDonaldTrump and its backfiring. https://t.co/aNzESLdKW8

— Richard Klagsbrun (@KlagsbrunTO) December 13, 2017

Native American Activists Score Elaborate Washington Redskins Name Change Hoax

And why not? Everything's fake news nowadays.

Memeorandum picked this up as if it was a real story at the Washington Post, "Native Leaders Celebrate a Victory as Washington Football Changes Mascot to the Redhawks."

Native Leaders Celebrate a Victory as Washington Football Changes Mascot to the Redhawks (Washington Post)https://t.co/BQ0XUDO0e4https://t.co/JzFX0mVdKP

— memeorandum (@memeorandum) December 13, 2017

But see USA Today, "Native advocacy group stages elaborate Washington Redskins name change hoax":

A group of Native advocates called the Rising Hearts Coalition created an elaborate series of fake news articles and websites mirroring major outlets to make it seem like the Washington Redskins announced the organization has changed its controversial name to become the “Washington Redhawks.”

A page designed to look like an exact replica of the Washington Post declared “Native Leaders Celebrate a Victory as Washington Football Changes Mascot to the Redhawks,” but a closer look at the site’s URL reveals that it’s not a genuine article. Similar fabrications representing Sports Illustrated, ESPN and Bleacher Report articles have also been circulating around social media.

The group responsible for the hoax also launched a rebranded team website, WashingtonRedhawks.com.

Redskins owner Daniel Synder has said the team will never change its name, citing the organization’s “great tradition.” The Redskins addressed the hoax Wednesday afternoon.

In a press release, the group responsible announced it will host a press conference in front of RFK Stadium Thursday.

More on Twitter:

Obviously would want to talk to whoever made this if anyone knows https://t.co/dJnRDD1EoM

— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) December 13, 2017

Here's the fake ESPN version https://t.co/C0CEm6czic

— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) December 13, 2017

Here's the fake Bleacher Report version https://t.co/7iyDFKdpBQ

— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) December 13, 2017

Statement from the Washington #Redskins pic.twitter.com/u3DQJFiFXi

— Washington Redskins (@Redskins) December 13, 2017

PRESS RELEASE from Rising Hearts, org behind "Washington Redhawks" online action pic.twitter.com/mLJ40sc08Q

— Bahe (@AsdzaniAmanda) December 13, 2017

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Jews Targeted in Sweden (VIDEO)

Ezra Levant, at the Rebel:

The Plot to Take Down President Trump (VIDEO)

Here's Laura Ingraham, from last night:

GOP Sees Difficulties in Trump Country

Well, I wasn't all invested in this race, but still. Alabama? A Democrat hasn't won there in 25 years?

At LAT, "In stunning 2017 defeats, Republicans see vision of difficulties in 2018":

Tonight's analysis: Democrats have learned to weaponize enthusiasm and cut a path to 2018. For Republicans, the last year has proved a reversal of fortunes: https://t.co/qbC6ulot06

— Cathleen Decker (@cathleendecker) December 13, 2017

Democrats who opened the year clashing among themselves and lamenting President Trump's election have closed 2017 with victories that demonstrated their ability to weaponize party enthusiasm and draw a template for success in a sharply competitive battle for Congress in 2018.

For Republicans, Tuesday night's stunning loss by Roy Moore in Alabama's Senate race — the first GOP loss in a Senate race there in a generation — underscored a bleak passage of time: A year that began in unified control of Washington has ended with the party bitterly split and redefined in the worst of ways, saddled with an unpopular president and a Senate candidate accused of child molestation.

The problems begin with Trump, for whom Moore's defeat represented a third straight repudiation.

The first came in September in Alabama, where Trump ambivalently backed incumbent Sen. Luther Strange, who lost to Moore in the Republican primary. Then Trump endorsed Republican Ed Gillespie in Virginia's gubernatorial race, only to have him lose by nearly double digits last month to Democrat Ralph Northam.

Finally, Trump transferred his Alabama endorsement to Moore and watched him lose in a state that has been ruby red for decades.
Even in Alabama, a state he won by 28 percentage points, Trump was unable to ease his candidate over the finish line. Exit polls Tuesday indicated one reason: Voters even in this heavily Republican state were closely split between approval and disapproval of Trump.

That's an ominous sign for Republicans heading into the midterm election. The key races next year will take place in states that are far less favorable to Trump than Alabama.

Related to Trump's broad unpopularity is the fact that his party is fractured. Those divisions began with the primary battle, which the president's former chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who strongly backed Moore, helped turn into a referendum on the party's Senate leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

The splits only deepened after the Washington Post published accusations that Moore had fondled and kissed girls as young as 14 when he was a local prosecutor in his 30s.

The Republican National Committee and the party's Senate campaign committee pulled its backing from Moore after the Post story. When Trump, urged on by Bannon, decided to endorse Moore, the national committee returned to support him. The Senate committee declined to follow suit.

On election night, Moore's chief strategist, Dean Young, took off not against Jones or even the typical targets, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York, but against McConnell.

"I tell Sen. McConnell this: The people of Alabama are having an election tonight, and he should not overturn the people of Alabama," Young said, anticipating that a victory by Moore might be followed by a Senate Ethics Committee investigation.

On Tuesday night, it was clear that the bitter feelings among Republicans are likely to carry over to 2018 and beyond.

"The polls have been closed for 90 minutes & GOP could actually lose Senate seat. In ALABAMA," Alex Conant, a former spokesman for Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, tweeted Tuesday night. "No matter what happens next, hard to overstate what a huge political disaster this is for Moore-apologists like Trump, let alone Moore-champions like Bannon."

Moreover, in Alabama, and earlier in Virginia, Republicans found that arguments they have counted on to dispatch Democrats — that they are soft on crime, the military, immigration, guns and religion — no longer guarantee success...

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Hailey Baldwin Balancing (VIDEO)

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E.L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel

*BUMPED.*

At Amazon, E.L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel: A Novel.

Peter F. Hamilton, The Reality Dysfunction

*BUMPED.*

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Danielle Gersh's Hot and Dry Forecast

This feels like October weather. I'm not complaining, but still. It's weird.

At CBS News 2 Los Angeles:

Volokh Conspiracy Moves to Reason.com

Well, I hate the paywall at WaPo. And while I'm not a huge fan of Reason, this move gives me ample reason to visit the site.

 See, "Our move to (paywall-free!) Reason from The Washington Post."

Reason welcomes The Volokh Conspiracy! https://t.co/En6HDckU70 pic.twitter.com/8lqsgQuGsx

— reason (@reason) December 13, 2017

Doutzen Kroes Jumping Rope (VIDEO)

For LOVE Advent:

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Keaton Jones Bullying Video

He's an adorable kid and sympathetic, but the celebrity virtue signaling is out of control. At least the boy gets to do fun things. Screw all the celebs trying to score points off him.

The video's at the People piece:

Ricky Martin, Millie Bobby Brown and More Stars Rally Around Bullied Tennessee Student https://t.co/1T9L3CXQsT

— People (@people) December 10, 2017

Not sure which is more pathetic here, the kid or the celebrity tweets. The only way to deal with bullies is to find some courage and punch them in the face, otherwise it will never end. His mother did him no favours posting this. https://t.co/zxFBCxqWk6

— Pat Condell (@patcondell) December 11, 2017

Distracted by Phone, Woman Walks onto Parking Garage Elevator and Gets Run Over by Car (VIDEO)

This is crazy. She's lost in space!

Via the New York Post:

Terror Attack in New York City Near Port Authority Bus Terminal (VIDEO)

At the New York Times, via Memeorandum, "New York Explosion Empties Port Authority; Suspect Is in Custody."

Michelle Malkin tweeted:

Here he is: the Bangladeshi-born Brooklyn botched bus bomber ==> https://t.co/UzZiExgeIe

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) December 11, 2017

A Brooklyn man has been arrested after allegedly detonating a homemade pipe bomb inside the Port Authority https://t.co/JdHgIez0Fe pic.twitter.com/QuNAxQRGv8

— New York Post (@nypost) December 11, 2017

And at CNN:



Expect updates.

President Trump Watches Television: Mainstream (Lamestream) News Reporters Freak Out

What's the big deal? Trump's a former reality star host. He likes the television and entertainment, and he gets his news from the cable channels. But oh! He's an anti-intellectual boob who watches hours and hours of TV! Heaven forfend!

Here:

Trump watches four to eight hours of TV PER DAY on his “Super TiVo” — one of the great details in this well done @maggieNYT @GlennThrush @peterbakernyt story https://t.co/rw2xdMCrGn

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) December 9, 2017

Jennifer Delacruz Dry Windy Fire Warning Forecast

It was 87 degrees yesterday when I was out running errands in the early afternoon.

Oh no! Global warming!

Just kidding. It's dangerous fire weather, though.

Here's the beautiful Ms. Jennifer, for ABC 10 News San Diego:

Why the #MeToo Moment Should Be Ready for a Backlash

Heh. The backlash is coming.

At Politico (via Memeorandum).

Why the #MeToo moment should be ready for a backlash https://t.co/kYblR3sbLT via @POLITICOMag pic.twitter.com/UdHFxKkvM6

— POLITICO (@politico) December 10, 2017

Combined Army-Navy Glee Club Singing National Anthem (VIDEO)

At Red State, "AWESOME: Combined Army-Navy Glee Club Sings National Anthem."

Compare this to the bums sitting through it. https://t.co/b4Id8KmZnj

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 10, 2017

Wow. The combined glee club singing the National Anthem at the Army-Navy Game gave me goosebumps! pic.twitter.com/NMLtt6y8KM

— Derek (@DerekUtleyCEO) December 9, 2017