2020 ISN’T ALL BAD NEWS: Thomas More Society Founder Thomas Brejcha tells HillFaith 31 of the 50 state capitols will have Nativity Scene displays this Christmas season and he is optimistic that all 50 states will have them in the near future.

Considering the flood of anti-faith harassment spawned by the Covid Pandemic in places like California and New York, the long-running success of the Thomas More Society’s defense of the First Amendment’s protection of religious expression in the public square is a good news story that deserves recognition.

BRUCE BOWER ON 1964: A Distant Mirror of Today’s Situation.

It was hard to watch Reagan’s speech, and contemplate the 1964 election, without being reminded of what we’ve all been through in the last four years, and especially during and after the recent election campaign. Like LBJ, Biden is a sordid, self-dealing scapegrace who has little respect for the average citizen and a love of power for its own sake, but who has been relentlessly portrayed by the media as a hero of the downtrodden. Like Goldwater, Trump is a lover of freedom and of the ordinary American who has been smeared as an ugly racist and dangerous extremist.

Fifty-six years ago, the electorate bought the Democratic spin only to experience buyer’s remorse within a year or two. The final results of the 2020 election are not yet entirely clear, but one thing is certain: as in 1964, the Republican candidate is right about virtually everything on which he and his opponent differ, while the Democrat, if put in the Oval Office, will surely lose his luster before very long—provided, indeed, he doesn’t expire or get put out to pasture before wearing out his welcome.

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JOEL KOTKIN: The “Environment” End Game is a Massive Corporate Power Play.

In reality, though, few electorates anywhere are ready for extreme policies such as the Green New Deal, which, as its widely acknowledged architect, Saikat Chakrabarti, has acknowledged, is really a redder, more openly anti-capitalist version of the Great Depression-era original.

Yet getting hysterical about the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a waste of emotional energy. The real power of the environmental movement derives from those who occupy “the commanding heights” of our society – at the corporate, media, and academic realms. Though arguably not holding views as economically ludicrous as AOC’s, mainstream corporate greens are far more likely to successfully impose their version of environmental justice on the rest of us.

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IT’S GOOD TO BE IN THE NOMENKLATURA: Entertainment Industry Workers Exempt From California Governor Gavin Newsom’s New Stay-At-Home Order.

THE DEMOCRATS HAVE PRACTICALLY ADMITTED THIS: Ivanka Trump Blasts New York Tax Probes As ‘100% Motivated By Politics’.

TOTAL CONTROL OF ENTERTAINMENT BY THE LEFT HURTS THE NATION. IT HURTS ENTERTAINMENT TOO. JUST NOT FAST ENOUGH:  Liberal Late Night Hosts Hurt the Nation. Here’s How.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: As Colleges Plan To Return To In-Person Teaching In The Spring Semester, Faculty Rebel.

YES, INDEED:  Hands Across The Water: “Free The World”.

I WOULD LIKE TO SAY I CAN’T BELIEVE DISNEY WOULD DO SUCH A THING:  ‘Star Wars’ writer Alan Dean Foster says Disney owes him royalties.

I’d like to say it, but I can’t. And Disney is not what I thought it was when I was little.  I don’t know if my perception was ever true.

BECAUSE RESPIRATORY VIRUSES CAN’T BE STOPPED WITH LOCKDOWNS OF ANY LENGTH. THEY CAN BE STOPPED WITH PROPER QUARANTINE, IF ONE HAS GOOD TESTS. BUT UNIVERSAL LOCKDOWNS ARE NEVER ABOUT QUARANTINE. EVERY SINGLE TIME I’VE EXPERIENCED UNIVERSAL CURFEWS OR RESTRICTIONS OF MOVEMENT THEY’RE ABOUT ONE THING: THE PEOPLE IN POWER FEAR THE POPULACE:  Even a Military-Enforced Quarantine Can’t Stop the Virus, Study Reveals.

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE LEFT IS THAT THEY PROJECT LIKE AN IMAX:  Hope and Fear.

THEY THINK IF THEY CALL THEMSELVES ANTI-FASCIST WE WON’T REALIZE THEY ARE FASCIST:  Doctor Zuckerberg?

IT IS ACTUALLY THE GRAMSCIAN REBOOT OF MARX (TO MAKE IT VIABLE.)  WHEN THE PROLETARIAT FAILED TO RISE, GRAMSCI DECIDED PROLETARIAT ACTUALLY MEANT THIRD WORLD (ROLLS EYES). FROM THERE TO RACE WAS A HOP SKIP AND A JUMP:  Dead White Males.

OBJECTION! THEY ARE NOT, IN ANY SENSE OF THE WORD, AMERICAN:  Our feral American media.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE. WE’RE ALL BECOMING OUTRAGED THEY THINK WE’RE STUPID ENOUGH TO BUY THIS NONSENSE: The Left’s Utter Nonsense.

This is no longer about Trump. This is about us, Americans, and the party who hates us trying to seize power over us.

I’M HEARING THIS FROM EVERYONE IN A NUMBER-RELATED PROFESSION:  Did the Computers Report or Structure Voting Results?

IF THEY PUSH THIS THROUGH, THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER HONEST ELECTION IN THIS COUNTRY (SO PLEASE STOP WITH “BUT 2022!”).  HOW LONG WILL AMERICANS ENDURE THAT? What a computer expert said about voting results in Michigan.

Because I can tell you from here in all-vote-by-fraud-mail Colorado that when they know they can’t be removed, they delight in exerting power by making your life h*ll.

EVERYONE I KNOW WHO DEALS IN NUMBERS SAYS THIS STINKS:  Big Data to the Rescue: The Electoral College Meets Data Pattern Science.

OF COURSE IT’S A COUP. IT’S THEIR WHAT? THIRD? FOURTH ATTEMPT? WHEN ARE PEOPLE GOING TO SEE IT?  It’s a Coup. Just Say It!

NOW OUT: Kurt Schlichter’s latest Kelly Turnbull book, Crisis.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. You’re not my dad, Gov. Cuomo — and please stop pretending.

WATCH THE INSTAWIFE ON JESSE PETERSON’S THE FALLEN STATE. Must-see Internet TV.

OPEN THREAD: It’s your time to shine.

I WAS EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Watch a bright fireball explode over the Tasman Sea (video).

HOW BAD HAVE THINGS GOTTEN IN NEW YORK, THAT CHRIS FREAKING CUOMO IS BASHING THEM? CNN’s Chris Cuomo slams New York City school closures: ‘It’s all fear and not enough fact.’