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Where do the NGO’s go? To the SHC’s — as [allegedly] designated by our current president (SHC stands for S***-H***-Country). But is America in danger of sliding down into that very same status?

Click on over to Townhall. Then come back here.

• Washington Post: Video shows Baltimore hospital patient discharged in just a gown during frigid night
• Washington Post: Social Media Fury Follows Video of Dazed Woman Put Out in Cold by Baltimore Hospital
• Washington Post: Hospital Probing Discharge of Patient in Hospital Gown
• Washington Post: Trump, condemned for ‘shithole’ countries remark, denies comment but acknowledges ‘tough’ language
• CNN: 2 Republican senators in Trump meeting say they don’t recall ‘shithole’ comment
• Reason: Indian Americans: America’s Shithole Success Story
• YouTube: Man ‘Drives’ from Cuba to Miami
• FloatingCubans.com
• NBC News: Truck-sailing Cubans finally reach U.S.

Oh, the Nanny State sure changes some folks’ beliefs . . . about what they themselves are capable of doing.

What no one is capable of doing is altering the very nature of reality. So, for at most the slightest alteration of your grasp on reality, click on over to Townhall. Then come back here for the full context.

• Legislative Summary of Oregon’s New Law
• Facebook post by KTVL CBS News 10 & comments
• KGW NBC (Portland, OR): Internet mocks Oregon over new self-service gas law
• Q13Fox (Seattle-Tacoma, WA): Some Oregonians may have to pump their own gas and people are losing their minds
• Detroit News: Oregonians freaking out over law that requires some of them to pump their own gas
• Statesmen Journal: Oregon gas laws: Much ado about pumping
• Oregon Live: All the rude things people have said about Oregon since the new gas law went into effect
• Forbes: Oregon’s Freak-Out Over Pumping Your Own Gas Shows Why Many Dumb Regulations Still Exist
• Washington Post: ‘I don’t even know HOW’: Some Oregonians panic about new self-service gas law
• New York Times: New Jersey Is Last State to Insist at Gas Stations: Don’t Touch That Pump

Resign already? We wish Al Franken a firm adios — click on over to Townhall, then come back here.

• Urban Dictionary: Pervnado
• The Huntingtons (music video): How Can I Miss You If You Won’t Go Away?
• Relevant part of Simon & Garfunkel (music video): Mrs. Robinson
  “Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?”
• ABC News: Sen. Franken’s Resignation Address
• CNN: Al Franken’s totally unapologetic resignation
• ABC News: Sen. Al Franken’s accusers and their allegations against him
• TIME: All the Women Who Have Accused Al Franken of Sexual Misconduct
• Acculturated: Why is No One Talking About the Fact that Al Franken is Married?
• Politico: Schumer and majority of Democratic senators call for Franken to resign (full list)
• Vox: Al Franken will resign January 2 — but some Democrats don’t want him to go
• Washington Examiner: Forgiving Al Franken: Feminists tighten their grip on the hot stove
• Common Sense: Yesterday’s NOW
• Politico: Franken urged to reverse his resignation
• Vox: Al Franken resigned amid sexual misconduct allegations, but Democrats aren’t making him leave in disgrace
• Washington Post: I’m a feminist. I study rape culture. And I don’t want Al Franken to resign.

We have the names of the bureaucrats responsible. But the scandal? Don’t call it that! (Says the insider press.) Click over to Townhall for the precise words to describe this sad recent history.

If you return here you can read more on the subject:

• Washington Post: Fallout from allegations of tea party targeting hamper IRS oversight of nonprofits
• NYT: Justice Department Settles With Tea Party Groups After I.R.S. Scrutiny
• Cincinnati.com: New details emerge in tea party suit against IRS
• DOJ Office of Legislative Affairs Letter
• Politico: Audit indicates liberal nonprofits also got extra IRS scrutiny
• NPR: As IRS Targeted Tea Party Groups, It Went After Progressives Too
• WTOP: Tea party groups’ suit against IRS moves forward

It’s been quite the furor — over the FCC’s removal of the Net Neutrality regime that the Obama Administration FCC had placed upon the Internet. Is it really an expression of legitimate outrage over a grave policy . . . mis-step? Injustice? Faux pas?

Could it be the end of the Internet?!?!?!?

Maybe it is something else.

Click on over to Townhall for a conjecture. Then come back here for more . . . than . . . conjecture.

• The Daily Caller (December 14, 2017): Triggered CNN Calls Net Neutrality Repeal ‘End Of The Internet’ — Internet Punches Back
• LJR (December 14, 2017): CNN Goes Full Meltdown After Net Neutrality Vote: ‘It’s the End of the Internet As We Know It’
• Gateway Pundit (December 14, 2017): Leftists Hurl Death Threats at FCC Chairman Ajit Pai After Net Neutrality Repealed
• Being Libertarian (July 14, 2017): Net Neutrality is Anything But ‘Neutral’
• Tech Crunch (July 14, 2014): Google, Other Leading Internet Companies Support Net Neutrality, Call For Extension To Mobile Providers
• PC Magazine (May 21, 2014): The Net Neutrality Hysteria, by John C. Dvorak
• FEE (February 16, 2016): Net Neutrality Kills Free Internet, by Gary McGath
• FEE (May 12, 2017): Net Neutrality Is about Government Control of the Internet, by Drew Armstrong
• Cato at Liberty (July 25, 2012): Net Neutrality Violates the First and Fifth Amendments, by Ilya Shapiro and Matt Gilliam
• Cato at Liberty (September 2, 2014): Net Neutrality — or Destroying Internet Innovation and Investment? by David Boaz
• Cato at Liberty (April 27, 2017): Why ‘Net Neutrality’ Is a Problem, by Peter Van Doren and Thomas A Fiery
• Mises Wire (July 17, 2017): Net Neutrality Strengthens Monopolies, Invites Corruption, by Ryan McMaken
• Mises Daily (February 26, 2015): The Net Neutrality Scam, by Ryan McMaken

To find out what Washington incumbents really want — and what really bugs them — click on over to Townhall. Then click back here. For the background.

• Fox: Conyers announces retirement, endorses son to succeed him
• CBS News: Rep. John Conyers announces retirement, endorses son to run for seat
• Politico: Conyers’ wife pleads guilty
• The Hill: Wife of Rep. Conyers sentenced to 37 months in prison
• MLive: Rep. John Conyers’ son says ‘dad is a player’
• NBC News: John Conyers III arrested but not prosecuted in domestic abuse case
• The Daily Wire: Conyers’ Son & Endorsed Successor Brags About Selling Drugs, Says ‘Dad Is A F***ing Player’
• MLive: Missing son of Congressman John Conyers found safe in Houston
• ABC News (video): Franken’s Resignation Speech
• CNN: Al Franken’s totally unapologetic resignation
• New York Times: House Republican Trent Franks Resigns Amid Harassment Investigation
• USA Today: A list of Members of Congress facing sexual misconduct allegations

How not to get better results in school. Get “schooled” at Townhall — and come back here for more.

• NPR: What Really Happened At The School Where Every Graduate Got Into College
• Washington Post: D.C. plans probe of Ballou High School following report questioning standards
• Washington Post: There’s something familiar about the Ballou allegations
• Common Sense: Only Make Believe
• Common Sense: Ugly Scrutiny
• Common Sense: Cheaters Never Prosper
• WAMU (NPR): Weekly Politics Wrap: Ballou Graduation Rates and Virginia Recounts
• Washington Post: This high school graduation won widespread praise. Was it a fraud?
• Washington Post: A struggling D.C. high school notches a landmark achievement
• Washington Post: One D.C. school lost more than a quarter of its teaching staff this year.

The sex abuse hush money/slush fund story just gets bigger and bigger. And so does our responsibility. Click on over to Townhall. Then come back here for . . . more abuse?

• Politico: Congress’ sexual harassment system, decoded
• CNN: Lawmakers . . . don’t know how widespread sexual harassment is on the Hill
• Washington Post: What’s the point of sexual harassment training? Often, to protect employers.
• Atlantic: Is the dam of sexual harassment allegations breaking?
• Detroit Free Press: Conyers’ Accusers — He showed up to a meeting in his underwear
• Washington Post: When it comes to sexual harassment, why aren’t members of Congress naming names?
• NPR: Rep Joe Barton Apologizes After Lewd Photos Become Public

One needn’t rake the muck to access it, these days. The further we go in, the deeper it gets. It just sort of pours forth from the nation’s capital, as from Hollywood. Our “cup” seepeth over.

Click on over to Townhall for an analysis of the muck’s consistency. Then click back here.

• Washington Post: How Congress plays by different rules on sexual harassment and misconduct
• The Hill: Congress owes taxpayers answers about its harassment ‘shush’ fund
• Politico: Capitol Hill consumed by sexual harassment issue
• NBC: Congresswomen say sexual harassers are still in Congress
• Washington Post: I’m a feminist. I study rape culture. And I don’t want Al Franken to resign.
• PBS: All the assault allegations against Donald Trump, recapped
• Vanity Fair: Clinton and Women – Lowering the Bar
• The Atlantic: Bill Clinton: A Reckoning
• Washington Post: Abuse allegations have revived scrutiny of Bill Clinton — and divided Democrats
• New York Daily News: President and pariah
• Washington Post: NOW Won’t Back Jones

What should Congress do? Legislate anew every tragedy, atrocity? Or maybe . . . something else?

Click on over to Townhall to obtain the full context. Come back here for more:

• Common Sense: “A Hero, In His own Words,” interview with Stephen Willeford by Steven Crowder
• Reason: “Gun Control Failures Allowed a Criminal to Carry Out the Texas Church Shooting,” by Christian Britschgi
• Associated Press: “Pentagon has known of crime reporting lapses for 20 years,” by Robert Burns
• National Review: “Government Action Is Not the Answer to Mass Shootings,” by Ben Shapiro
• NBC News: “Texas Church Shooting: Democrats Demand Gun Control,” by Aden Edelman
• The Guardian: Trump says tougher gun laws would have made Texas church shooting worse”
• Dallas Morning News: “Dear Sutherland Springs, you deserve an apology from the news media,” by Lauren McGaughty