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DERANGED PROGRESSIVES
Rep. Gutierrez Says Trump Administration Would Have Killed Baby Jesus 
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2018/12/20/rep-gutierrez-says-trump-administration-would-have-killed-baby-jesus-n2537883?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

#MeToo double standard: Ellison accuser 'bullied' by same liberals celebrating Christine Blasey Ford
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/20/karen-monahan-keith-ellison-accuser-bullied-libera/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=XSJ9pYrj6yHVG%2Fcn1UmgSuJHAVxH%2F9oYstvDlZiQbi%2BicIy9erBk8phoCtScZyE9&bt_ts=1545355167194

BUSINESS
Look Who’s Benefiting Most from the Trump Boom 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/trump-employment-boom-winners-lower-middle-classes/

Trump's Tenacity Bringing Chinese in Line
https://townhall.com/columnists/armstrongwilliams/2018/12/20/trumps-tenacity-bringing-chinese-in-line-n2537798?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/20/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

FINANCIAL
A Deficit-Happy Government May Lead to a Debt-Driven Financial Crisis
https://townhall.com/columnists/veroniquederugy/2018/12/20/a-deficithappy-government-may-lead-to-a-debtdriven-financial-crisis-n2537747?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/20/2018&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

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ENVIRONMENT
Southwest in One of Worst Droughts in 1,000 Years
https://weather.com/science/environment/video/southwest-in-one-of-worst-drought-in-1000-years?pl=pl-the-latest

World's First Ocean Cleanup System Isn't Yet Doing Its Job
https://www.ecowatch.com/the-ocean-cleanup-project-2623869590.html

Feds Begin Selling Wild Horses Captured in California for $1 Each
https://www.ecowatch.com/feds-selling-wild-horses-one-dollar-2623855790.html

CLIMATE CHANGE
Antarctic ice sheet collapse that caused a global flood 125,000 years ago could happen AGAIN if the climate continues to warm
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6515227/Antarctic-ice-sheet-collapse-125-000-years-ago-caused-global-FLOOD.html

SCIENCE
Chinese scientists launch £100m search for the HUMAN SOUL with world's most powerful brain scanner
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6515483/Chinese-researchers-hunting-soul-100-million-MRI-scanner.html

CYBER SECURITY
Amazon sent over 1,000 private Alexa recordings to random person
https://nypost.com/2018/12/20/amazon-sent-over-1000-private-alexa-recordings-to-random-person/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Violating our privacy is in Facebook's DNA 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/20/facebook-violating-privacy-mark-zuckerberg

After uproar, Facebook explains why third-party apps had access to messages 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/after-uproar-facebook-explains-why-third-party-apps-had-access-to-messages-2018-12-19

FOREIGN POLICY
Trump to order withdrawal of 7,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan: Reports
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/20/trump-orders-withdraw-7000-us-troops-afghanistan-r/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=9dReDvtZtrORZlxRXPYxE8pB0qBj9cJRq8qzygSIYNX%2BUyyz0ZMRQC7VK3UnYYii&bt_ts=1545358027521

NATIONAL SECURITY
Someone managed to hack NASA
https://nypost.com/2018/12/19/somebody-managed-to-hack-into-nasa/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Secret Experiment in Alabama Senate Race Imitated Russian Tactics
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jones-russia.html

BIG BROTHER
Google’s Earth: how the tech giant is helping the state spy on us
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/20/googles-earth-how-the-tech-giant-is-helping-the-state-spy-on-us

IMMIGRATION
DHS Secretary: From Now on Illegal Aliens Will Be Deported to Mexico 
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/12/20/dhs-secretary-from-now-on-illegal-aliens-will-be-deported-to-mexico-n2537845?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

TERRORISM
Communist Antifa Leader Unmasked
https://patriotpost.us/articles/60175?mailing_id=3966&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3966&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

So who needs an explosive cargo? 
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2018/12/so-who-needs-explosive-cargo.html

NKOR
North Korea says it won’t denuclearize unless US removes threat
https://nypost.com/2018/12/20/north-korea-says-it-wont-denuclearize-unless-us-removes-threat/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

BREXIT
Parliament Is Sleepwalking toward a No-Deal Brexit
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/parliament-approaching-brexit-no-deal/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-12-20&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

TRUMPGATE
President Trump Has Already Won
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/trump-victory-assured-robert-mueller-investigation/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202018-12-20&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

The Flynn Fiasco
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

Interpreting the Trump Meteor
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

POLITICS
House passes spending bill with $5 billion for Trump's border wall
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/20/politics/government-shutdown-congress-continuing-resolution-spending-bill/index.html

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Lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever
they might be."
           - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-flynn-fiasco-11545182606?emailToken=8d35ad72dbf670b071f26a354fa2ed16288wlabhNg8g98ky7pWDGI6EINrT60lX/quBy0fn1PeHVkBfmOLEYtPA9NRTq0Gn&reflink=article_email_share

The Flynn Fiasco

A sentencing hearing devolves into a spectacle of misinformation.

By

The Editorial Board

Dec. 18, 2018 8:23 p.m. ET

Former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn leaves after the delay in his sentencing hearing at U.S. District Court, Washington, D.C., Dec. 18. Photo: Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Well, that was bizarre. We’re referring to the fiasco Tuesday of what was supposed to be the sentencing of Michael Flynn. The sentencing was postponed until next year, but not before federal Judge Emmet Sullivan damaged his own reputation with an extraordinary public attack on the former national security adviser for a crime he’s not been charged with or admitted to.-=- CONTINUE AT WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/interpreting-the-trump-meteor-11545179562?emailToken=ae1bd576f931e6d09370c17ff5473f66HQn6peit0RR4IWkajQzmL707IvpKmuElI+58yQg6vqEUjQ1doFxSVctf9IS4u6vZebly3vIZSLrXL1MHqy1+/Q%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Interpreting the Trump Meteor

His survival fight may at least buy time for a few important lessons to sink in.

Dec. 18, 2018 7:32 p.m. ET

President Donald Trump speaks in the White House, Dec. 18. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg News

Nobody exaggerated Donald Trump’s Russia ties like Mr. Trump himself when he claimed, early in the 2016 campaign, “I know Putin.” He didn’t know Putin. Mr. Putin never gave him the time of day.
Recall that we started down today’s investigatory whirlpool as a direct result of Hillary Clinton and the Democrats’ seizing on Russia as an excuse for their loss to a president whom many considered a joke. Now poor Adam Schiff, incoming head of the House Intelligence Committee, is trying to catch up with the new Democratic theme: Mr. Trump’s real sin is not Russian collusion after all. It’s his tawdry but well-known business and personal life. continue at wsj