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With the election over and Republicans occupying all branches of government, as well as controlling most state legislatures, it's easy to forget that just a few short months ago the Republican Party seemed to be collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. The nomination of Trump, whose positions on trade and government benefits seemed to put him at odds with establishment Republicans, signaled a rejection of conservatism and an embrace of white nationalism.
The Left certainly was hammering this point home after President-elect Donald J. Trump's upset win over Hillary Clinton on November 8 and now The New York Times has joined the "let's abolish the Electoral College because our gal lost" bandwagon. Again, the op-ed by the publication's editorial board has no sense of history.
Donald Trump Trump revealed the impotence of celebrities Washington Post to add more than 60 journalists in 2017 GOP rep Duffy considering Senate run in 2018: report MORE 's lack of star power at his inauguration on January 20th, here's a telling story from the campaign to look back on. The date was November 5, just three days before the election.
President-elect Donald Trump waves to members of the media after a meeting with military leaders at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 21. Disdain for Beltway insiders and suspicion that the rich have the system rigged were at the heart of President-elect Donald Trump's campaign. He correctly perceived how badly Hillary Clinton's conflicts, courting of Wall Street and corruption would turn off voters.
As readers know, The Scrapbook is a longtime connoisseur of the Law of Unintended Consequences. And this election year has furnished more than a few examples.
A sharp drop in cable news ratings following a presidential election is as inevitable as snow in Buffalo. Yet in the Age of Trump, so far Fox News Channel is defying that trend.
The New York Times announced today it would vacate 8 floors in its iconic New York City headquarters. Via Zero Hedge According the a just released note from executives Arthur Sulzberger and Mark Thompson, the newspaper will vacate at least eight floors from its iconic building, allowing it to 'generate significant rental income' because it is 'frankly, too expensive to occupy this many floors when we don't truly need them.'
You can view the complete video of the event here . We had a tremendous line up: Congressman Jim Jordan , who is a member of both the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee; Edwin Meese III, former United States Attorney General and Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow Emeritus at The Heritage Foundation; Mark Krikorian, Executive Director for the Center for Immigration Studies; Andrew McCarthy, Senior Fellow for the National Review Institute and former chief assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York; and Ramona Cotca, senior attorney at Judicial Watch.
As we prepare to enter a surreal new era of American politics, Greg Kafoury, one of the nation's most tenacious litigators and a longtime CounterPuncher, has stepped forward with a generous matching grant proposal for the last month of the year. Greg will match ALL donations of $25 and more up to a total of $5000.
As we prepare to enter a surreal new era of American politics, Greg Kafoury, one of the nation's most tenacious litigators and a longtime CounterPuncher, has stepped forward with a generous matching grant proposal for the last month of the year. Greg will match ALL donations of $25 and more up to a total of $5000.
Kellyanne Conway, adviser and former campaign manager for President-elect Trump, accused a Wall Street Journal editor of sexism for a message he posted on Twitter. The editor, Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal, weighed in Monday on former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina meeting earlier in the day with Trump in New York.
When Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for national security adviser, was working at the highest levels of the military and intelligence field, he had a reputation as a brilliant tactician.
CIA briefers told senators in a closed-door briefing it was now "quite clear" that electing Trump was Russia's goal, according to officials. In a secure meeting room under the Capitol last week, lawmakers held in their hands a classified letter written by colleagues in the Senate summing up a secret, new CIA assessment of Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election.
Miles Lord, a onetime federal judge in Minnesota who presided over a number of groundbreaking cases and spoke out against corporate abuses, has died. Lord served as Minnesota's attorney general and U.S. Attorney before being nominated as a federal judge in 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson.
Edgar Maddison Welch, 28 of Salisbury, N.C., surrenders to police Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016, in Washington. Welch, who said he was investigating a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza place, fired an assault rifle inside the restaurant on Sunday injuring no one, police and news reports said.
For something which is being described as common practice, I'm certainly not familiar with it at least to this extent. Many of us had a bit of a chuckle when we learned that Newsweek had shipped out their "Madam President" issue of the magazine a bit prematurely .
Security outside the Gucci store in Trump Tower, on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, Nov. 25, 2016. Limited foot traffic was permitted to stores in the area on Black Friday.
In this Nov. 8, 2016, file photo, Kathy Schmitt, left, folds T-shirts that she designed, declaring "Madam President," for sale at an election night party for Democrats in Seattle. Copies of a one-off edition of Newsweek featuring Hillary Clinton that carried the title "Madam President" that were recalled following Clinton's loss in the Nov. 8, 2016, election are being sold for hundreds of dollars on eBay.
Hundreds of Neil Leifer photographs, including his iconic images of Muhammad Ali, will be auctioned in New York City. Supporters of Hillary Clinton apparently still have a chance to get their hands on a since-recalled commemorative edition of Newsweek that was set to be released if the Democrat won the presidential election.
Hundreds of Neil Leifer photographs, including his iconic images of Muhammad Ali, will be auctioned in New York City. Hundreds of Neil Leifer photographs, including his iconic images of Muhammad Ali, will be auctioned in New York City.