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In a move that reportedly “shocked” Defense Department officials, Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller ordered Pentagon officials to cancel scheduled meetings with the transition of President-elect Joe Biden. Axios revealed the cancellation of briefings but noted “officials were unsure what prompted Miller’s action” and they could not determine “whether President Trump approved” of the move.

WASHINGTON — Democrats on Friday shot down Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign for a prized seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee — instead appointing fellow New York Rep. Kathleen Rice. The New York congresswomen had been jockeying for the seat and lobbying colleagues behind the scenes, but Rice ultimately won in a vote of 46-13, Politico reported Friday.

The Rose Bowl has been a major topic of discussion this week, with one of the College Football Playoff Semifinals scheduled to be played there. Due to local COVID-19 restrictions, the game would have to be played without any fans in attendance, including the families of the players. If the playoff rankings remained the same, Notre Dame would be one of the teams playing in the Rose Bowl, but maybe not if head coach Brian Kelly has anything to say about it. On Monday, Kelly ranted against the idea that the Irish would play in a semifinal without their loved...

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Much of what passes for anti-racist education is a poisonous exercise in caricature and bigotry, with troubling consequences for prosaic educational activities like teacher training, grading, and research. Take, for instance, the anti-racist materials that schools are using to train K-12 teachers. The materials used by the Denver Public Schools teach educators that “the belief that there is such a thing as being objective,” distinguishing between “good/bad” and “right/wrong,” and valuing an “emphasis on being polite” are all distinctive characteristics of white culture. The same is true of the “individualist” mindset that “if something is going to get done right,...

More people cast ballots on the first day of early voting in Georgia’s Senate runoffs this week than those that did so when early voting opened ahead of the 2020 general election. Roughly 168,000 Georgians went to the polls on Monday, the first day to vote early in-person in the state’s two critical Senate runoff elections, according to numbers provided by the Georgia secretary of state’s office. By comparison, some 128,000 voted on the first day of early voting for the November general election. Another 314,000 people cast absentee ballots on the first day of the early-voting period. The first-day...

Sources within the Chinese government confirmed today that the spy who was assigned to date Rep. Eric Swalwell and get information from him abruptly returned to China and begged to be sent to a labor camp instead. "Please -- don't make me go back!" she begged after returning to China in 2015. "I'll do anything! I'll break rocks! I'll build a railroad! I'll -- I'll even make shoes for Nike! Just don't make me go back and date that man again!"

Former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is attacking conservative and anti-woke celebrities, demanding that social media giants step up censorship because these stars are tweeting “irrational and harmful opinions to millions.” In The Hollywood Reporter, Abdul-Jabbar singled out conservative Hollywood stars Jon Voight and James Woods. He also targeted celebrities who refuse to submit to woke ideology, including Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.. “Social media companies have begun slapping warnings on some messages that are false, incite violence or cause harm to society. But this needs to be done with more consistency and vigilance,” Abdul-Jabbar wrote. “Many Americans imbue stars with...

@ChadPergram 1) Fox is told it’s possible the House will likely try to approve via unanimous consent (meaning no member objects) a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown later tonight. 2) If that’s not possible, the House will likely call a vote on the short-term spending measure. They’ll have to treat it as a “suspension” bill. That means they can get the measure to the floor quickly, but it requires a two-thirds vote to pass. 3) And then things are up to the Senate. That could take a while...if there is no deal to speed things up just...

Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence will receive the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine live.

The Constitution provides for a remedy in case there is any suspicion of fraud in a Presidential election. A single Senator can object to the seating of electors as valid and the election will be thrown to the States. There are signs that Sen Majority Leader McConnell is willing to suppress the votes of Senators against the election. No doubt they are pushing the line that changing the election outcome now would let loose Antifa and BLM, the dogs of war of the Dem. Party and the MSM. Not to worry--they are domiciled in blue states so let them loose...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio apologized for the police response to the protests that took place in the city earlier this year following the death of George Floyd.

The failed state of California is bleeding enough population to lose a House seat and an electoral vote. There are only so many seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and so many electoral votes, and those are earned based on your specific state’s proportion of the population when compared to the rest of the country

The Trump administration has taken steps to roll back some pretty high-profile rules. You might have heard of its moves to eliminate the ban on drilling for oil on public land, or maybe anti-fracking rules, or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy. But here’s another deregulatory effort that has flown more under the radar: the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday proposed scrapping its rules governing the makeup of…frozen cherry pies. Small potatoes? Maybe. But Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA chief, applauded it as a fat slice of liberty for the populace. “The American people are free (to) add...

Insanity Wrap needs to know: How are we ever going to achieve a color-blind society when our nomenklatura insists on seeing everything through the lens of race?Answer: We’re not supposed to achieve it, because then the nomenklatura wouldn’t be able to keep us at one another’s throats for their own benefit.Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap:Here comes Santa Claus, and he wants us locked down... Helen Keller was ‘Just Another Privileged White Person’ because of course she was... Racist nipples... And so much more.Shall we begin?

Fauci hailed the public vaccination of the vice president as an important symbolic message that should give confidence to the rest of the nation that it is safe to get the shot. "The time is now to step to the plate and, when your time comes, to get vaccinated. Because when we’re speaking to you today, I often say it is really bittersweet," Fauci said. "The bitterness is the fact of what the vice president mentioned. We still are in the middle of a very difficult situation with record numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths." "But the sweetness is the...

The audio of Tom Cruise’s profanity-laced tirade about social distancing and COVID-19 on the set of Mission Impossible 7 was dubbed into Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and it’s the laugh you probably need this month. Tom Cruise’s temper tantrum on the movie set of Mission Impossible 7 caused a lot of commotion. He’s an A-List star and he wants everyone to obey. However, he didn’t believe they were practicing appropriate social distancing.

Goodness. In what sounds like a dare, McDonald’s China is offering a Spam burger with crumbled cookies. As pointed out by Daniel Ahmad on Twitter, the burger will go on sale in China starting December 21 and will apparently be limited to 400,000 Spam Oreo sandwiches. Do note that the fine print does mention the Spam trademark and not the Oreo one. Oreos, of course, are widely available in China (and globally there are countless Oreo-type cookies), but according to Ahmad, the text does say Oreo.

A smart friend of mine who is a moderate liberal asked why I was not recognizing Joe Biden’s victory. The friend made the case that Biden had gotten more votes, and historically we recognize the person with the most votes. Normally, we accept the outcome of elections just as we accept the outcomes of sporting events. So, my friend asked why was 2020 different? Having spent more than four years watching the left #Resist President Donald Trump and focus entirely on undoing and undermining the 2016 election, it took me several days to understand the depth of my own feelings....