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Chael reflects on ’16: One of my biggest frustrations watching this whole election was the pundits. There’s a guy on Fox named Charles Krauthammer…he’s got a face for radio…and he sucks at his job. He’s a very intelligent guy. But emotions got the best of him. Trump insulted him, and Krauthammer never got over it!

“Even if it takes a change to the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.— Bill Clinton, Nov. 12 So the former president asserts that the current president continues to dishonor his “you like your plan, you can keep your plan” pledge. And calls for the Affordable Care Act to be changed, despite furious White House resistance to the very idea. Coming from the dean of the Democratic Party, this one line marked the breaching of the dam. It legitimized the brewing rebellion of panicked Democrats...

South Park's creators have been accused of stereotyping Germans Germans do have a sense of humour. It needs saying because the country is just about recovering from the broadcast of an episode of the American cartoon series South Park which makes fun of Germans for their alleged absence of any scintilla of a sense of humour. The episode, Funnybot, features a pistol-toting Chancellor Angela Merkel. She, plus the German president and men in Tyrolean hats, invade a school and hold the children hostage at gunpoint. Their righteous anger is because Germans have been called an unfunny people. To put matters...

Charles Krauthammer tears into Obama on his speech today calling it “Abstract, vapid, and self-absorbed” [video at site] Absolutely perfect! Moral relativism at its worst... (Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...

Sgt. Robert Dwyer of the Nahant Police Dept. displays the German Maxim machine gun captured by Sgt. Alvin York in a famous and heroic episode during World War I. NAHANT - The Nahant Public Library wants to sell one of its most valuable possessions: a German machine gun captured by Army Sgt. Alvin C. York during World War I. How did the library trustees become the weapon’s keeper? According to local officials and historic documents, Nahant resident Mayland Lewis was on the battlefield in the Argonne Forest of France on Oct. 8, 1918, when Sgt. York led seven soldiers in...