A University Dean Defended Brett Kavanaugh. You Can Guess What Happened Next.

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A university dean who defended Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh from uncorroborated allegations of sexual assault has resigned from his leadership post.

Will Rainford, Catholic University’s dean of social service, had held his position for five years, but was suspended after tweeting logical questions of the women who came forward to accused Kavanaugh just before he was set to be confirmed.

“Swetnick is 55 y/o,” Rainford said on in a since-deleted tweet, according to the Washington Post. “Kavanaugh is 52 y/o. Since when do senior girls hang with freshmen boys? If it happened when Kavanaugh was a senior, Swetnick was an adult drinking with&by her admission, having sex with underage boys. In another universe, he would be victim & she the perp!”

Many people questioned the age difference between Swetnick and Kavanaugh at the time she made her ludicrous accusations, which initially claimed Kavanaugh spiked the punch at parties in order to get women drunk for gang-rapes. She contradicted her salacious claims in an NBC interview in early October, which aired even though the media outlet acknowledged it couldn’t find any evidence to corroborate her claim.

Swetnick and her attorney, Michael Avenatti, have since been referred for criminal investigation for making false statements. Unsurprisingly, the Washington Post failed to mention this in its article about Rainford’s tweets. All it said was that “Kavanaugh denied Swetnick’s allegation.” (Read more from “A University Dean Defended Brett Kavanaugh. You Can Guess What Happened Next.” HERE)

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New Vaccine Could Cut Number of Alzheimer’s Cases in Half

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A new Alzheimer’s vaccine developed by scientists at the University of Texas, Southwestern could conceivably cut the number of dementia cases in half.

Unlike a previous attempt that caused swelling in the brain when DNA was injected into the test mice’s muscles, the new vaccine was administered by injecting it superficially into the skin.

Alzheimer’s, which is expected to strike triple the number of people by 2050, cripples the brain as human beings age, as beta-amyloid proteins in the brain get stuck together and tau proteins start to tangle, both of which inhibit neural connections. The new vaccine, injected into the skin, triggers the skin cells to produce a three-molecule chain of beta-amyloid. The immune system is then catalyzed to produce antibodies to fight beta-amyloid; the antibodies also fight tau proteins.. This means the body anticipates the Alzheimer’s plaques and tangles before happen. . .

Dr. Roger Rosenberg, founding director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at University of Texas Southwestern, said the new vaccine “is the culmination of a decade of research that has repeatedly demonstrated that this vaccine can effectively and safely target in animal models what we think may cause Alzheimer’s disease.” He added, “I believe we’re getting close to testing this therapy in people.”

Study senior author Dr Doris Lambracht-Washington said: “If the onset of the disease could be delayed by even five years, that would be enormous for the patients and their families. The number of dementia cases could drop by half.” (Read more from “New Vaccine Could Cut Number of Alzheimer’s Cases in Half” HERE)

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Feminists Said This Christmas Window Display Is Sexist

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A Christmas display at a Marks & Spencer in Nottingham, Britain has feminists crying sexism for advertising a women’s “must-have fancy little knickers” beside a men’s “must-have outfits to impress.”

According to The Guardian, the original Christmas display featured the model “David Gandy wearing M&S suits with the tagline ‘must-have outfits to impress’ adjacent to red and black lingerie behind the tagline ‘must-have fancy little knickers.'” Take a look:

Feminists did not take kindly to the ad, with many blasting it as “grotesque” and “vomit-inducing.” After it went viral online, protesters defaced the women’s underwear slogan to read “must have full human rights.” . . .

“Ok, M&S Nottingham, have we really not learned anything in the last 35 years? Or am I alone in finding this, their major window display, completely vomit inducing?” said shopper Fran Bailey, who chastised the ad for both “normalization of damaging gender stereotypes through the juxtaposition of images of women apparently obsessed with ‘fancy little knickers’ with images of fully clothed men being ‘dressed to impress’ in suits,” and also the slogan “must-have” when “huge numbers of Britons are struggling with poverty.”

“I think M&S using such a strapline is just really crass when so many are without the necessities of warmth, shelter and food,” she said. “The problem is that we’re so browbeaten by this sort of imagery that we don’t even recognize what it is anymore. It’s pandering to notions of gender that are so outdated that it’s unbelievable that it’s still being spouted out. I’m disgusted because I’d have thought that M&S was a grown-up store that knew better. I know M&S is not the worst offender by any means but this particular juxtaposition is just grotesque.” (Read more from “Feminists Said This Christmas Window Display Is Sexist” HERE)

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Abortion Rates in the U.S. Have Significantly Decreased

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Abortion rates are the lowest they’ve been in a decade, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Abortions that were reported from 2006 to 2015 in participating areas fell 24 percent, from 842,855 to 638,169. . .

Rachel Jones, the principal research scientist for the Guttmacher Institute, told The Washington Post, that she believes the decline can be attributed to more widespread contraceptive use as well as less access to abortion.

“Analyses have suggested that improved contraceptive use played a role in the long-term declines. In some states, decreased access to abortion services contributed, as well,” she commented.

Chuck Donovan, president of the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research arm of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, argued that the decline may be due to an increase in women deciding to carry unintended pregnancies to term as well as more prevalent pro-life views.

“A higher percentage of women today decide to carry an unexpected pregnancy to term,” he said, “teenagers are less sexually active and with fewer partners, pro-life views are more prevalent among the rising generation than they were 40 years ago.” (Read more from “Abortion Rates in the U.S. Have Significantly Decreased” HERE)

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Things I Am Thankful for That Will Annoy Liberals

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. . .I am thankful that Donald Trump is president, most of all because that means Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit is not president. I could stop here and end this column, but my editors insist on a higher word count. . .

I am thankful for a couple of senators who used to drive me up the wall. In the last couple years, Mitch McConnell completed his unlikely transformation from Yerlte the RINO Turtle into the Judicial Avenger who vanquished Merrick Garland and confirmed Kegger Kavanaugh. He’s skillfully tormented the Democrats and is in the midst of packing our court with a bunch of actual judges as opposed to a crowd of pinko robed activists. This is everything we dreamed of for decades and it’s happening. . .

I am thankful the Paul Ryan is gone, having hopped the train to Failuretown, Population: Paul Ryan. Not that we would notice that he vanished. The only time we ever heard from the ex-Speaker was when he was clutching pearls over something Trump said. I wish he was useless, because that would’ve been a huge improvement. The loss of the House was largely his fault. I eagerly await his upcoming book, 50 Shades of Meh. . .

I am thankful that the Democrats have apparently learned nothing from 2006, where they pulled the same scam they pulled this year and elected a bunch of so-called moderates from moderate districts. Sure, they also elected a bunch of goofs who look like the commie weirdos who hung out at the Che Cafe back in the day at UC San Diego, but the ones who took seats from the GOP were all GOP Lite. . .

I am thankful for Donald Trump. Yeah, I know I already said that, but I’m really, really glad he won. Can you imagine the living hell we be enduring if that hideous harpy was president? If she had won, Bill Kristol would be happy and his cabins would all be booked, but I always expected conservatism to do more than just be a get-rich scheme for political parasites. (Read more from “Things I Am Thankful for That Will Annoy Liberals” HERE)

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You Need a ‘Negative IQ’ to Compare Ivanka’s Email to Hillary’s

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On his radio show Tuesday evening, LevinTV host Mark Levin defended Ivanka Trump from the media smears attempting to connect her private email use to Hillary Clinton’s use and illegal scrubbing of an email server on which she discussed classified information.

But first, Levin urged his listeners to be thankful for the blessings that we have in this country

“This is truly such a special country, no thanks to the leftists,” he stated. “And by the way, no thanks to the modern media, either, despite what they may claim.”

Levin continued, discussing the media’s attacks against Ivanka Trump.

“Ivanka Trump is an extraordinary young lady. … She’s an extraordinary businesswoman. She’s an extraordinary daughter. Very loyal to her father. She’s got a lot of poise, and yet they try to destroy her,” Levin commented.

He added: “Now Ivanka Trump apparently used her private email … to do government business. And of course for the Democrats, this is equivalent to Hillary Clinton. But you really do have to have a negative IQ to draw that conclusion, and I’ll explain why.”

Listen:

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Do Not Eat Romaine Lettuce. Here’s What It Could Lead To.

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By CBS News. The FDA is looking at California as a potential source of romaine lettuce tainted with a potentially deadly strain E. coli. Health officials said romaine lettuce should be removed from all supermarket shelves and restaurant menus until they can determine the source of the new outbreak. But, as Anna Werner reports, tracking down the source of the contaminated produce is quite difficult.

The potentially deadly strain of the bacteria has sickened 32 people in 11 states since October. Nearly a third of the cases are in Los Angeles County.

Scott Horsfall, the CEO of the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement, said most of the romaine on the market when the outbreak began was grown in his state.

“Given the harvest cycle at that time, I think there’s a good possibility that it came from California, yes,” Horsfall said.

But he also said finding the exact farm will be difficult because it takes about two to three weeks for investigators to confirm an E.coli outbreak is underway. (Read more from “Do Not Eat Romaine Lettuce. Here’s What It Could Lead To.” HERE)

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Romaine Lettuce: Why It’s Hard to Keep It Safe From E. Coli and Other Bacteria

By USA Today. America tries to eat its vegetables, so the current E. coli outbreak likely linked to romaine lettuce has put everyone from Caesar salad fans to those who barely tolerate a splash of greens in a taco on high alert.

But how did these seemingly innocent little leaves turn deadly? . . .

Thanks to the national wellness trend embraced by healthy Millennials and aging Baby Boomers, the consumption of fresh vegetables, as opposed to frozen or shelf-stable varieties, is on the rise. Adding to that is the growing popularity of salad-centric restaurants, like Tender Greens and Sweetgreen, and the increasing inclusion of salads on the menus of fast-food chains. . .

Fields where produce is grown are subject to the whims of Mother Nature and her animals. Fruits and veggies grow in dirt and can be fertilized with manure. Bugs and birds fly around. Animals may run wild through even fenced fields — or defecate in rivers and lakes used to irrigate nearby farms. Growing out in the open means lots of opportunities for bacteria to enter the picture. (Read more from “Romaine Lettuce: Why It’s Hard to Keep It Safe From E. Coli and Other Bacteria” HERE)

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Trump Reveals the Lethal Authority U.S. Troops Have at Border

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President Donald Trump revealed that U.S. troops are authorized to use lethal force at the southern border if they need to defend themselves, after speaking to service-members deployed around the world Thanksgiving morning.

“If they have to they’re going to use lethal force, I’ve given the order, I hope they don’t have to,” Trump said in response to a question on the matter. “You’re dealing with a minimum of 500 serious criminals, and I’m not going to let them be taken advantage of.”

The president dispatched nearly 6,000 U.S. troops to the border in recent weeks to bolster border enforcement. Trump justified the deployment by pointing at the advancing caravan of thousands of Central American would-be migrants who want to claim asylum. The caravan used violent tactics to break through legal ports of entry in Mexico, prompting alarm amongst U.S. authorities.

The Trump administration recently saw a similar scare of its own after the Department of Homeland Security noted that it had to temporarily close the busiest port of entry between the U.S. and Mexico Tuesday evening in order to reinforce barriers and harden the ports of entry.

DHS Secretary Nielsen noted in an announcement on Twitter at the time that the hardening was in direct response to threats from members of the migrant caravan who reportedly wanted to storm the port of entry en masse in order to overwhelm U.S. authorities and illegally seek refuge. (Read more from “Trump Reveals the Lethal Authority U.S. Troops Have at Border” HERE)

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I Can Tell You Right Now What Will Happen in 2020

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Before looking ahead to 2020, we first need to look back at 2016.

In my 2014 book Rules for Patriots: How Conservatives Can Win Again, which was endorsed by Donald Trump, I laid out a three-pronged path for a Republican to recapture the White House in 2016:

1) Higher turnout of white evangelicals, perhaps the biggest voting bloc within the GOP base, than McCain or Romney could generate.

2) Win middle-class voters, because post-WWII, whoever has won middle-class voters has won the presidency, except for the infamous 2000 Florida recount election. And I pointed out that would require a message of economic populism more than the “reform and growth” talking points favored by GOP consultants.

3) Win Catholic voters, because since Roe v. Wade, no Republican has won the White House without winning the Catholic vote.

This was nothing revolutionary. All I suggested is that Republicans rebuild the coalition that helped them win the White House in four of the six previous presidential elections, before they nominated two milquetoast standard-bearers who eroded it. However, while the suggestion wasn’t radical, it’s controversial to the Republican establishment, which either opposes or isn’t willing to do and say the things required to rebuild and maintain that coalition. Trump was willing, and that’s one of the major reasons he won.

The other major reason Trump won was he got to run against Hillary Clinton, a widely unpopular corruptocrat with the highest negatives of any Democrat presidential nominee since Jimmy Carter. That’s why I decided a year in advance to forgo milking the first-in-the-nation Iowa Caucuses happening in my backyard for exposure and instead leverage every contact in my network to coalesce behind a non-establishment candidate capable of capturing the nomination early on. Because Hillary was such a weak opponent, we had a chance to get a non-swamp creature into the White House.

I was right; I just had the wrong candidate. I preferred Ted Cruz, the trusted conservative. The GOP base preferred Trump. The rest is history. Trump defeated Hillary and is president now.

Along the way, he violated several social norms: tawdry videos advocating vile groping, singling out judges for their ethnicity, mocking disabled reporters, and so on and so forth. The violation of these norms convinced a lot of analysts that Trump had no chance to win on Election Day. And they were wrong, because they assumed that since the frosting on the cake had changed, the cake had changed with it.

But cakes still require all the same ingredients and baking instructions they always have. The fundamentals of cake-making haven’t changed. The flavor of the frosting can alter the taste, but it doesn’t change the essence of the cake itself.

Granted, Trump’s ego and bombastic use of social media are a frosting we’ve never tried before and likely limited the potential voters he could reach. But it was still the same cake. Trump’s winning 2016 coalition was fundamentally pretty much the same as every other successful GOP presidential run the past few decades.

We in the media and analysis business have convinced ourselves that because of his persona, Trump is the outlier — and we’re wrong. Trump won with the same formula that has always worked for the GOP in this era. Any of the other 16 GOP candidates who contested the nomination would have needed the same exact formula to win in November had they won the primary.

It’s actually Obama who was the outlier.

Obama swept the traditional crucial swing states that have decided things for decades – Florida and Ohio. But along the way he became the first Democrat to win North Carolina since Reagan built his coalition and the first Democrat to win Indiana since LBJ’s historic romp in 1964. And Obama turned Virginia, which had gone Republican in every presidential election but one since Eisenhower, into a swing state.

While Trump may have violated norms, Obama changed the Electoral College map. Trump simply reset it, while adding different states – Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin – than anticipated. But it started with reclaiming Florida, Ohio, and North Carolina. Had Trump not won those states that have always vaulted a Republican to the presidency, he wouldn’t have won. He could have swept those Rust Belt states filled with former Obama voters and still lost to Hillary.

Because Obama’s persona and politics are more favored by the media and analysis industry, they don’t see this, preferring to tilt at Trumpian windmills while breathlessly clutching their pearls as they “can’t even” on cable news every night.

But this also explains what happened in the 2018 midterms.

For the first time in two-party history, a political party lost control of one chamber while gaining seats in the other. The Republicans lost more House seats in 2018 than they did in 2006, which was considered a “wave” election. At the same time, the GOP gained two seats in the Senate.

This may seem shocking, but we probably should have predicted this all along. There were too many swing districts and House retirements in places where Hillary won in 2016 and too many Senate races in states Trump won. We basically got the outcome we should always have expected.

It’s just that because Trump’s persona changes the flavor of the frosting, we keep missing that the making of the actual cake hasn’t changed. Trump really hasn’t changed things as much as we’re led to believe. He’s just offending a bunch of people who aren’t used to someone so effortlessly offending them.

This means we already know what will happen in 2020, too. Right now, two years before that election. Forget all the annoying ads and all the controversies, real or pretend, that we’ll suffer through. I can tell you right now what will happen, not because I’m a prophet, but because I’m actually paying attention to the electorate rather than projecting my preferences upon them.

Barring something unforeseen from the Mueller or any future probe, or something none of us wish to happen, like another 9/11, the result is already known. Those are the potential game-changers, not a Trump tweet or CNN’s kvetching over it.

Minus those, the 2020 election comes down to this: If Democrats nominate a likable candidate, they will win, but if they don’t, they won’t.

If the 2020 Democrat nominee is a likable and inspirational figure, like Obama was, Democrats can take advantage of those voters Trump turns off with his ego and persona. But if not, then the Democrat nominee will suffer the same fate under Trump’s master trolling as Hillary did.

A celebrity with high favorables like Michelle Obama, or a progressive businessman who’s also a capitalist with no prior political record for Republicans to attack, would be tough for Trump to beat.

However, should Democrats nominate a known and unlikable leftist like an Elizabeth Warren, a Cory Booker, or a Kamala Harris, they will feel the wrath of Trump successfully exploiting the culture war divisions these unlikable Leftists are known for. This will help him turn out another mass of white evangelicals, hold onto offended Catholics, and retain those middle-class voters who don’t fit in at a Berkeley faculty meeting.

Save this for the next two years and see if I’m right. (For more from the author of “I Can Tell You Right Now What Will Happen in 2020” please click HERE)

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Student Groups Claim Thanksgiving Is ‘Celebration’ of ‘Ongoing Genocide.’ History Says LOL

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The progressive war against American traditions continues on America’s college campuses. The Thanksgiving holiday is under attack for being associated with “genocide.”

The University of Oregon’s Native American Law Students Association and the Native American Student Union are hosting an event titled, “Thanks But No Thanks-giving: Decolonizing an American Holiday,” Kenneth Nelson reports for Campus Reform. The event seeks to teach students how they can be grateful “while raising our critical consciousness and identifying ways to decolonize the holiday.”

From the event description:

Millions of families gather together every year to celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States. Many Americans do not grow up thinking much of the history behind the holiday. The main messages are that of gratitude, food, and family; however, Thanksgiving is, foundationally speaking, a celebration of the ongoing genocide against native peoples and cultures across the globe. In collaboration with the Native American Student Association (NASU), we will focus on ways in which we can continue to show gratitude while raising our critical consciousness and identifying ways to decolonize the holiday.

Thanksgiving,”foundationally speaking,” is not a celebration of genocide. The first Thanksgiving meal was shared between Plymouth, Mass., colonists and Wampanoag Indians, giving thanks for God’s provision and the Indians’ help in teaching the struggling colonists how to survive.

Here’s a short history, courtesy of the History Channel:

In September 1620, a small ship called the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, carrying 102 passengers—an assortment of religious separatists seeking a new home where they could freely practice their faith and other individuals lured by the promise of prosperity and land ownership in the New World. After a treacherous and uncomfortable crossing that lasted 66 days, they dropped anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, far north of their intended destination at the mouth of the Hudson River. One month later, the Mayflower crossed Massachusetts Bay, where the Pilgrims, as they are now commonly known, began the work of establishing a village at Plymouth.

Throughout that first brutal winter, most of the colonists remained on board the ship, where they suffered from exposure, scurvy and outbreaks of contagious disease. Only half of the Mayflower’s original passengers and crew lived to see their first New England spring. In March, the remaining settlers moved ashore, where they received an astonishing visit from an Abenaki Indian who greeted them in English. Several days later, he returned with another Native American, Squanto, a member of the Pawtuxet tribe who had been kidnapped by an English sea captain and sold into slavery before escaping to London and returning to his homeland on an exploratory expedition. Squanto taught the Pilgrims, weakened by malnutrition and illness, how to cultivate corn, extract sap from maple trees, catch fish in the rivers and avoid poisonous plants. He also helped the settlers forge an alliance with the Wampanoag, a local tribe, which would endure for more than 50 years and tragically remains one of the sole examples of harmony between European colonists and Native Americans.

In November 1621, after the Pilgrims’ first corn harvest proved successful, Governor William Bradford organized a celebratory feast and invited a group of the fledgling colony’s Native American allies, including the Wampanoag chief Massasoit. Now remembered as American’s “first Thanksgiving”—although the Pilgrims themselves may not have used the term at the time—the festival lasted for three days. While no record exists of the historic banquet’s exact menu, the Pilgrim chronicler Edward Winslow wrote in his journal that Governor Bradford sent four men on a “fowling” mission in preparation for the event, and that the Wampanoag guests arrived bearing five deer. Historians have suggested that many of the dishes were likely prepared using traditional Native American spices and cooking methods. Because the Pilgrims had no oven and the Mayflower’s sugar supply had dwindled by the fall of 1621, the meal did not feature pies, cakes or other desserts, which have become a hallmark of contemporary celebrations.

The Thanksgiving holiday is literally a celebration of “one of the sole examples of harmony between European colonists and Native Americans.” But progressive iconoclasts need to rewrite the history of great American traditions to advance an ideology of oppression that demands government action to address perceived inequalities. So Thanksgiving must be rewritten to be a problematic celebration of “genocide” that Americans should feel bad about.

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