Police Charge Black Female Student for KKK Threat Made at Arundel High School (VIDEO)

Man, I would not want to live in Baltimore.

And remember, it's all hoaxes all the time on the left. The real political violence we're seeing is black on white, leftists on Trump supporters.

At CBS News 13, "Police Charge Student for Threat Made at Arundel High School."

Added: The threats were made on Twitter; see the screencaps here.

Selena Gomez Goes Nearly Nude on Instagram

Arianny Celeste tweeted the story, but it's also at Huffington Post, "So Now There’s a Picture of Selena Gomez in a Thong on Instagram."

Ah, the celebrity life. Must be rough posting photos of your bare booty to social media, lol.

Obama Has Collapsed the Appeal of the Democrat Party. What Next for the Donkey Dunderheads?

That emerging Democrat majority thesis sure took a whacking in this election, sheesh.

Here's Ronald Brownstein, at the Atlantic, "What Happens to the Democratic Party After Obama?":

What happens to the Democrat Party after #Obama? #Trump #TrumpTrain #DEMS #MAGA https://t.co/hxIrPqowei via @RonBrownstein

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) January 13, 2017

The outgoing president narrowed the party’s appeal in ways that helped the GOP. Democrats may need to widen it again if they hope to recover power.

In his bittersweet farewell address this week, President Obama made a passionate case for both his policy agenda and his civic vision of a nation strengthened by diversity. But his words won’t settle the Democrats’ difficult debate about his political legacy.

Through two terms, Obama deepened the Democrats’ connection with a constellation of growing groups, namely minorities, the millennial generation, and college-educated whites, especially women. That coalition allowed him to join the ranks of Andrew Jackson and Franklin Roosevelt, the only Democrats to win a presidential popular-vote majority at least twice.

But Obama also narrowed the Democrats’ appeal, both demographically and geographically, in ways that helped Republicans seize unified control of the White House and Congress and establish their biggest advantage in state governments since the 1920s.

Both these positive and negative trends for the Democratic Party predate Obama’s first campaign, and the latter trends were accentuated by Hillary Clinton’s unique weaknesses in 2016. But Obama intensified these dynamics with a distinctive strategy that bound Democrats to the political priorities of their heavily urbanized new coalition, especially on cultural issues from gay rights to immigration reform. That came at the price of further alienating the GOP’s competing coalition of older, blue-collar, and religiously devout whites, who live largely outside of urban areas. And it was those voters who mobilized to narrowly elect Trump and preserve Republican control of Congress...

Well, it's going to be interesting to see how long leftists cling to the emerging majority thesis?

All they have to do is keep pushing the date back for majority status, and voila! Their theory is validated. Yet lots of analysts are now saying that the white working class vote is itself an emerging voting bloc, which could be a powerful swing vote in upcoming elections. Is that bloc up for grabs? At this point, most Democrats don't seem to care, despite warnings of dire political consequences to their indifference.

But we'll see. We'll see.

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Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo: Media's 'Garbage' Reporting is 'Harming the Fabric of Our Society' (VIDEO)

Oh boy, this is an excellent segment, from last night:

Trump Didn't Kill Conservatism

A review of Patrick J. Deneen’s Conserving America? Essays on Present Discontents, at the Wall Street Journal.

And shop, Save Up to 20 Percent on Books.

The Deep State Goes to War Against President-Elect Trump, as Dems Cheer (VIDEO)

Honestly, I don't think Glenn Greenwald is a good person --- he helped smuggle Edward Snowden's stolen NSA data into Germany, to Laura Poitras (and that's not mentioning his rabid anti-Israel politics) --- but I swear he's been doing the best writing on the Democrats spy-ops smear-ops to take down the incoming Donald Trump administration.

So, with the usual FWIW warning, at the Intercept, "The Deep State Goes to War With President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer":

The legitimate and effective tactics for opposing Trump are being drowned by irrational, desperate ad hoc crusades. https://t.co/athCFT9IeO

— The Intercept (@theintercept) January 11, 2017

IN JANUARY 1961, Dwight Eisenhower delivered his farewell address after serving two terms as U.S. president; the five-star general chose to warn Americans of this specific threat to democracy: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” That warning was issued prior to the decadelong escalation of the Vietnam War, three more decades of Cold War mania, and the post-9/11 era, all of which radically expanded that unelected faction’s power even further.

This is the faction that is now engaged in open warfare against the duly elected and already widely disliked president-elect, Donald Trump. They are using classic Cold War dirty tactics and the defining ingredients of what has until recently been denounced as “Fake News.”

Their most valuable instrument is the U.S. media, much of which reflexively reveres, serves, believes, and sides with hidden intelligence officials. And Democrats, still reeling from their unexpected and traumatic election loss, as well as a systemic collapse of their party, seemingly divorced further and further from reason with each passing day, are willing — eager — to embrace any claim, cheer any tactic, align with any villain, regardless of how unsupported, tawdry, and damaging those behaviors might be.

The serious dangers posed by a Trump presidency are numerous and manifest. There is a wide array of legitimate and effective tactics for combating those threats: from bipartisan congressional coalitions and constitutional legal challenges to citizen uprisings and sustained and aggressive civil disobedience. All of those strategies have periodically proven themselves effective in times of political crisis or authoritarian overreach.

But cheering for the CIA and its shadowy allies to unilaterally subvert the U.S. election and impose its own policy dictates on the elected president is both warped and self-destructive. Empowering the very entities that have produced the most shameful atrocities and systemic deceit over the last six decades is desperation of the worst kind. Demanding that evidence-free, anonymous assertions be instantly venerated as Truth — despite emanating from the very precincts designed to propagandize and lie — is an assault on journalism, democracy, and basic human rationality. And casually branding domestic adversaries who refuse to go along as traitors and disloyal foreign operatives is morally bankrupt and certain to backfire on those doing it.

Beyond all that, there is no bigger favor that Trump opponents can do for him than attacking him with such lowly, shabby, obvious shams, recruiting large media outlets to lead the way. When it comes time to expose actual Trump corruption and criminality, who is going to believe the people and institutions who have demonstrated they are willing to endorse any assertions no matter how factually baseless, who deploy any journalistic tactic no matter how unreliable and removed from basic means of ensuring accuracy?

Keep reading.

PREVIOUSLY: "Glenn Greenwald: Leftist Media Protect Hillary Clinton (VIDEO)."

Protesters Torch Chargers Memorabilia in San Diego (VIDEO)

Well, luckily only mementos got scorched.

At ABC News 10 San Diego:

Dana Loesch: Sorry, Not Sorry

She's an awesome woman!

Quick note to the haters in my timeline pic.twitter.com/1ZUtoaMqPv

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) January 11, 2017

Rising Waters of the Russian River (VIDEO)

And folks are still debating if the drought's over, pfft.

Here's CBS News San Francisco:

How Will Los Angeles Welcome the Chargers?

Following-up from yesterday, "Bill Plaschke: #Chargers Move to Los Angeles is Bad for Everyone."

Here's Lindsey Thiry with Gary Klein:

Woman of Color Lady Liberty on New U.S. Currency

Doesn't bother me.

That's a nice looking coin!

For the First Time, Lady Liberty Depicted as a Woman of Color on U.S. Currency https://t.co/UffU5lHduw

— EAGLE WINGS (@ConstanceQueen8) January 13, 2017

Los Angeles Foothills Fight Mudslides After the Storm (VIDEO)

It rained today for quite a bit. Not hard downpours, but consistent rain this afternoon.

At CBS News 2 Los Angeles:

'Don't Be Cruel'

Here's Cheap Trick.

I was out Tuesday night, heading over to CVS to pick up my son's prescription, and I hear "Don't Be Cruel." I only vaguely remember that Cheap Trick covered the song, and I told myself to check the playlist at the Sound L.A.

And then yesterday during my afternoon drive time I heard it again. I'm just now getting around to checking the playlist. Here's Tuesday night's:

Lay Down Sally
Eric Clapton
11:28 PM

Sweet Emotion
Aerosmith
10:56 PM

Magic Bus
The Who
10:52 PM

In Your Eyes
Peter Gabriel
10:47 PM

Don't Be Cruel
Cheap Trick
10:38 PM

Run to You
Bryan Adams
10:34 PM

Piece of My Heart
Big Brother & The Holding Company
10:26 PM

New World Man
Rush
10:23 PM

Bennie and the Jets
Elton John
10:17 PM

You Give Love a Bad Name
Bon Jovi
10:14 PM

Do It Again
Steely Dan
10:08 PM

Rock the Casbah
The Clash
10:05 PM

Here Comes the Sun
The Beatles
10:02 PM

Pride (In the Name of Love)
U2
9:58 PM

Go Your Own Way
Fleetwood Mac
9:54 PM

Rock of Ages
Def Leppard
9:50 PM

Jeopardy
Greg Kihn Band
9:40 PM

Doctor My Eyes
Jackson Browne
9:37 PM

Dancing With Myself
Billy Idol
9:33 PM

And here's yesterday's:

Shake It Up
The Cars
4:18 PM

Here Comes My Girl
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
4:14 PM

Limelight
Rush
4:09 PM

Go Your Own Way
Fleetwood Mac
4:06 PM

So Lonely
The Police
4:01 PM

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Crosby, Stills & Nash
3:53 PM

Urgent
Foreigner
3:49 PM

The Valley Road
Bruce Hornsby
3:38 PM

Crazy Train
Ozzy Osbourne
3:33 PM

Don't Be Cruel
Cheap Trick
3:25 PM

Don't You (Forget About Me)
Simple Minds
3:21 PM

T.N.T.
AC/DC
3:17 PM

Dancing With Myself
Billy Idol
3:12 PM

Stuck In the Middle With You
Stealers Wheel
3:09 PM

Lonely Is the Night
Billy Squier
3:04 PM

Eleanor Rigby
The Beatles
3:02 PM

Piers Morgan Slams the Sleazy Hookers of the Left-Wing Press

Oh boy, the hits just keep coming.

I think Ben Smith might need to lay low for a while, man.

At London's Daily Mail, via Steve Green, at Instapundit, "The only hookers in this story are the cheap, lazy journalists who ran with fake Trump sleaze to urinate on his presidency."

.@piersmorgan: Shame on you, @BuzzFeed https://t.co/0UiW4GEy0V pic.twitter.com/LT5Ugureni

— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) January 11, 2017

PREVIOUSLY: "Piers Morgan Blasts Meryl Streep's Anti-Trump Golden Globes Tirade."

Columbia Journalism Review Defends BuzzFeed's Despicable Publication of Russian #FakeNews Hack Job

I think I've snarked before, but everything's fake now.

If the CJR, which is supposed to be an uber-establishment institution beyond repute, is defending this BuzzFeed fake news Russian dossier hack publication, then there is no standard for journalism left. Everything's fair game.

And another thing I've mentioned previously: If there's fascism today, we're seeing it in real time in the left's machinations to overturn the results of the election.

Check this out, "BuzzFeed Was Right to Publish Trump-Russia Files":

BuzzFeed was right to publish Trump-Russia files https://t.co/BiuIOzAyj0 pic.twitter.com/fWi4jGovd3

— CJR (@CJR) January 11, 2017

EARLY TUESDAY EVENING, spurred by a CNN story, BuzzFeed published a 35-page dossier on Donald Trump’s alleged long-term relationship with Russia. The documents contain references to compromising information the Russians purportedly gathered about the president-elect and accusations that Trump’s campaign was in regular contact with Russian officials. Within hours, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, among many others, slammed the digital powerhouse for its decision, while pointing out that they, too, had seen the documents but declined to make them public.

BuzzFeed explained that it was publishing the dossier “so that Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the president-elect that have circulated at the highest levels of the US government.” But the Post’s Erik Wemple countered that “Americans can only ‘make up their own minds’ if they build their own intelligence agencies, with a heavy concentration of operatives in Russia and Eastern Europe.” The Guardian, meanwhile, complained that BuzzFeed’s “decision…forced other media outlets to repeat the allegations or ignore a story that lit up the internet.” That writer was quick to note that his paper, too, “had obtained and reviewed the documents in recent weeks but declined to publish because there was no way to independently verify them.”

The media’s full-throated condemnation of BuzzFeed is both self-righteous and self-serving. BuzzFeed noted up front that the documents contained “explosive—but unverified—information,” and Editor in Chief Ben Smith convincingly defended the decision in a staff memo, arguing that the dossier was being read and talked about “at the highest levels of American government and media. It seems to lie behind a set of vague allegations from the Senate Majority Leader to the director of the FBI and a report that intelligence agencies have delivered to the president and president-elect.”

By publishing the documents when it did, accompanied by strong caveats about their reliability, BuzzFeed put itself at the heart of the story and made some of its most prominent journalists go-to people for any tips the dossier might generate. The most typical kind of investigative reporting entails spending months or even years gathering documents and cultivating sources to build an unshakable edifice. BuzzFeed took a different but still well-established approach: Release what you can when you have it and see what new leads it generates. If this strategy pays off, the outlet that has morphed from a cat-video factory to a font of serious journalism could end up with some terrific scoops. You can almost hear the rest of the media muttering, “Damn, why didn’t we think of that first?”

Still more.

It's a highly coordinated attempt to bring down Donald Trump and scuttle his administration.

See, "Coup d'État! Release of BuzzFeed Russia Hack Is Democrat-Leftist Attempt to Overturn the Election!"

Coup d'État! Release of BuzzFeed Russia Hack Is Democrat-Leftist Attempt to Overturn the Election!

It's Mark Levin.

He's got an angry shtick anyway, but he's really pissed off here.

At Conservative Review, "Levin: BuzzFeed’s Russia Hack Job is the Left ‘Staging a Coup’ Against Trump":

“It is time that we stand our ground in defending Donald Trump’s legitimacy,” said Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin during a fiery segment at the beginning of his radio show Wednesday night. “The praetorian guard media, the Democrat party … Academia and Hollywood are seeking a coup of sorts” against the president-elect.

Levin was referring to a widely-panned “news” story at Buzzfeed that reported salacious, unverified, and disputed accounts of Trump’s dealing with Russia.

“What [the Left] seek to do … is drive issues of controversy,” he concluded. “They’re laying the foundation, not only to discredit Trump, but to impeach him down the road.”

He went on to call all “corners of the conservative movement” to rally around the president-elect “not for every issue, not for every nominee, but for the legitimacy of the election … for our country, for our Constitution.”

“The specific major issue of the legitimacy of this election and our Constitution is under attack,” Levin told his audience. “What you saw yesterday was an absolute attempt to overturn the election!”

BuzzFeed's Enormous Favor to Donald Trump

I just got around reading the BuzzFeed report, which you can access in a Google cache page. (BuzzFeed's notorious for its link-bait publishing model, so you won't give them any hits if you read the cached version.)

And see the commentary at the Blaze:

Commentary: BuzzFeed has done Donald Trump an enormous favor https://t.co/2NbRgodbv5 pic.twitter.com/3Rhli219Mp

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) January 12, 2017

Certainly, the impression that President-elect Donald Trump gives in public is that he is upset with prominent online news site BuzzFeed for publishing an alleged dossier full of salacious details that Russian intelligence was allegedly planning to use to compromise him. Furiously upset, even — going so far as to call them a “failing pile of garbage” in a defiant press conference Wednesday morning. And who knows, Trump’s anger might well be genuine; but he really ought to be thanking BuzzFeed for changing the course of this story in a way that has been very positive for him.

Rewind the clock to Tuesday afternoon and recall what Trump was facing. CNN anchor Jake Tapper, who enjoys one of the broadest bipartisan reputations for honesty of any person in the media, was on television, flanked by reporters Jim Sciutto, Evan Perez and Carl Bernstein. Tapper reported that CNN had developed credible information that U.S. intelligence officials had presented evidence to both Trump and outgoing President Barack Obama that Russian intelligence agents claimed to have compromising information about Trump “of both a personal and financial nature.” Further, the agents claimed that surrogates for the Trump campaign had regularly been in contact with Russian officials throughout 2016, directly contradicting Trump’s fierce denials of any such contact.

Tapper made clear that CNN would not be discussing the contents of the allegations. He stated that they had not been able to independently verify them and thus would not repeat what they were. He stated that no one knew if the claims allegedly made by Russian intelligence were true or not. All they knew was that this dossier was out there, and it had been handed to Trump and to Obama, with the message that the Russians were allegedly trying to use its contents to compromise Trump. Responsible reporting if in fact CNN did its due diligence on the report.

Then came BuzzFeed. They, in fact, had no such qualms about publishing the contents of the dossier itself. They emphasized that the material was both “unverified” and likely “unverifiable,” but laid out the claims in all their glory.

As the dust has settled, a general consensus has developed that CNN’s reporting should be distinguished from BuzzFeed’s and that CNN acted responsibly where BuzzFeed was reckless. It should be noted, BuzzFeed has its notable defenders today, including the Columbia Journalism Review, but most members of the media agree: What BuzzFeed did was worse than what CNN did (if you grant that CNN did anything wrong at all).

However, from Trump’s perspective, BuzzFeed’s reporting did him a huge favor. The reason for that is simple: The contents of the dossier were so obviously suspect that they called the veracity of the entire account into question. What reasonable intelligence official would have taken this transparent pulp to the president of the United States without a shred of verification to back it up? None would have, it was virtually obvious from the document’s face.

Imagine if BuzzFeed’s story had never been printed. CNN’s allegation that Russians had unspecified compromising information of both a “personal” and “financial” nature would have been left hanging in the air. And it would have been believable by a large number of people. Polls have shown that, after a brief post-election honeymoon period, Trump is unpopular again and the American public is increasingly uneasy about his public posture toward Russia — a vulnerability that Senate Democrats have mercilessly exploited during the first few days of confirmation hearings for Trump’s Cabinet appointments...

Last of LOVE Advent — Kate Upton (VIDEO)

They saved the best for last?

Perhaps not, but Ms. Kate sure had a good run, heh.

Bill Plaschke: #Chargers Move to Los Angeles is Bad for Everyone

I posted this great Bill Plaschke commentary last January, "San Diego Chargers Should Stay in San Diego."

Turns out the Chargers didn't get the memo.

I tweeted last night, and Plaschke's latest is below.

San Diego #Chargers set to announce move to Los Angeles: https://t.co/SqsQA04mQG @PatriarchTree @lamblock @LindseyThiry

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) January 12, 2017

Chargers to LA is unwanted and unnecessary https://t.co/QYye8wjcSa

— Bill Plaschke (@BillPlaschke) January 12, 2017

Every relationship is built on honesty, so the San Diego Chargers should hear this as their moving vans are chugging up the 5 Freeway on their noble mission of greed.

We. Don’t. Want. You.

The news broke Wednesday that Chargers owner Dean Spanos has informed NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell he is moving the team to Los Angeles, which is pretty much dreadful news for Los Angeles.

Wow, just what we need, the return of a professional sports team with no buzz, no tradition, few local fans north of south Orange County, limited success, and an owner who just stole them away from a place where they were loved unconditionally for 56 years.

What was the NFL thinking? What are the Chargers thinking? I know what Spanos is thinking, that he is leaving behind those unwashed heathens who didn’t want their tax dollars to pay for a football stadium and sliding into Stan Kroenke’s Inglewood palace to ride piggyback on the Rams.

What a guy. What a joke.

The problem is not that Los Angeles must now be asked to support two NFL teams after 22 years of somehow surviving with none. We knew this would happen. This was the deal when the Rams returned last year. This is what the NFL has always wanted for Inglewood, so there was no avoiding it.

The problem is, the second team should have been the Raiders. The Southland is filled with Raiders fans everywhere. I have still never met a single Chargers fan.

I like the Chargers, and I've rooted for them many times. But I agree with Plaschke: They should've stayed in San Diego.

Nicole Kidman: It's Time to Accept and Support Donald Trump — #MAGA!

Heh.

I can dig it:

Nicole Kidman: It's time to accept and support Trump https://t.co/s9ohYAYbJv pic.twitter.com/TDT5hxvAHi

— The Hill (@thehill) January 12, 2017

ADDED: Here's the video, "Nicole Kidman on Donald Trump."