Mrs. Clinton Decries Fake News, Tears At Eleven

From Hill via Clayton Cramer:

Hilary Clinton on Thursday decried the spread of fake news online, calling it an “epidemic” that Congress should take action against.

“The epidemic of malicious fake news and false propaganda that flooded social media

Billy Beck says today:

“The saddest life is that of an aspirant under democracy.  His failure is ignominious and his success disgraceful.”
(H.L. Mencken)
There was a time in my life when Col. John Glenn was an indisputable hero to

Me, elsewhere…

?As far as I can see the primary issue with the United Nations is that they seem dedicated to the proposition that all cultures are created equal… and that they give that misbegotten and extraordinarily dangerous idea the

Bob Tis, St Augustine Record, has his head stuck up the late Fidel Castro’s ground temperature posterior.

Our Junior Senator loves to hate the Castros. Marco Rubio was born in Miami in 1971 so this hate for the communists

Caption by SDA reader

Hat tip and BSWK, Kate, Small Dead Animals.

First the Big Mac inventor dies at 98.

Now this…

Peng Chang-kuei, the Taiwanese chef who invented General Tso’s chicken, a dish nearly universal in Chinese restaurants in the United States, died on Wednesday in Taipei. He was 98

The inventor of the Big Mac just passed on, at age 98.

Read that again to yourself. Quietly. Let it sink in.

Gee. Who would have expected this, except those who heeded our warnings?

President-elect Donald Trump is apparently losing his luster, according to conservative political commentator Ann Coulter.

Coulter, one of Trump’s biggest supporters, made headlines throughout the campaign season

Billy Beck, elsewhere…

I’m actually going to cite That Woman Whose Dread Name Should Never Be Mentioned In Polite Company:
It was Ayn Rand who gave me my first clue to this. Her concept of “pressure-group warfare” is incisive and

Hmm.

Don’t look now, but maybe a scientific consensus exists concerning global warming after all. Only 36 percent of geoscientists and engineers believe that humans are creating a global warming crisis, according to a survey reported in the peer-reviewed Organization Studies

So ABC News reports that it was a Christmas party what brought on the San Bernardino attack last year.
2 points to notice here. First, it wasn’t Islam, it was Christianity caused the problem. At least so says the news

Will Dim Won, b/k/a Barack Obama  publicly  shame ABC News for her fake news report attempting to blame the San Bernardino Islamic terror attack on Christmas  decoration, ABC News:

Authorities believe the terror attack on Dec. 2, 2015 in

So it would appear.
So, where is all the whining about connections to the evil empire we heard about Ted Cruz’ wife?

Uh huh.

And, yes, I’ll say “I told you so”. 

Funny, I can vaguely recall when Carrier was a New York State company. Ah, those were the days. I digressed. Back, Little Donny delivers on a campaign promise, New York Times and Little Bobby Reich upset, via Red State:

The Snark of the Day, Neo-Neocon:

In what comes as no surprise to any human being on earth (with the possible exceptions of President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, and Obama would be pretending), the attacker has been