Somali Refugees Arriving in U.S. at Highest Rate Ever in First Two Months of FY 2017

Somali refugees are arriving in the United States at the highest rate ever in the first two months of Fiscal Year 2017, according to the State Department’s interactive website.

Between October 1, 2016, the beginning of the fiscal year, and December 7, 2016, a total of 2,775 Somali refugees have arrived in the United States.
That rate is more than thirty percent higher than the previous record during the same period of time during any of the fourteen most recent previous fiscal years, beginning in FY 2002. The State Department interactive website does not provide refugee arrival data prior to that time.
In FY 2005, 2,171 Somali refugees arrived in the United States between October 1 and December 7.
The 2,775 Somali refugees who have arrived in the United States between October 1 and December 7 of 2016, the beginning of FY 2017, are almost double the 1,399 Somali refugees who arrived during the same time period in FY 2016, between October 1 and December 7 of 2015.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/07/somali-refugees-arriving-highest-rate-ever-first-two-months-fy-2017/ 

Assessing the Obama Legacy -- Against his own Mileposts

In his 2016 State of the Union address, President Obama summarized his achievements. That same night, the White House issued a press release touting Obama's accomplishments.

Now that he will be leaving, how well did these initiatives listed in the press release actually work out?

"Securing the historic Paris climate agreement."

The accord was never submitted to Congress as a treaty. It will be ignored by President-elect Trump.

"Achieving the Iran nuclear deal."

That "deal" was another effort to circumvent the treaty-ratifying authority of Congress. It has green-lighted Iranian aggression, and it probably ensured nuclear proliferation. Iran's violations will cause the new Trump administration to either scrap the accord or send it to Congress for certain rejection.

"Securing the Trans-Pacific Partnership."

Even Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton came out against this failed initiative. It has little support in Congress or among the public. Opposition to the TTP helped fuel the Trump victory.

"Reopening Cuba."

The recent Miami celebration of the death of Fidel Castro, and Trump's victory in Florida, are testimonies to the one-sided deal's unpopularity. The United States got little in return for the Castro brothers' propaganda coup.

"Destroying ISIL" and "dismantling al Qaeda."

We are at last making some progress against some of these "jayvee" teams, as Obama once described the Islamic State. Neither group has been dismantled or destroyed. Despite the death of Osama bin Laden, the widespread reach of radical Islam into Europe and the United States remains largely unchecked.

http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2016/12/08/assessing-the-obama-legacy--against-his-own-mileposts-n2256453 

Democrats: From Temper Tantrum to Self-Delusion

Hard to believe, but Hillary Clinton's campaign team thinks they lost because Donald Trump ignited America's inner bigot, which caused the KKK and Aryan Brotherhood members and sympathizers to show up in droves and vote Trump.
Following Mitt Romney's 2012 defeat, Democrats and pundits predicted GOP defeats as far as the eye could see, because there aren't enough white voters for Republicans to win. But now the narrative is, "Trump won by appealing to white voters." Could they please pick one and stick to it?
That's the takeaway from the Harvard quadrennial postmortem in which the two campaign camps participated. About Steve Bannon, Trump's campaign CEO, Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri said, "If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician, I am glad to have lost. ... I would rather lose than win the way you guys did."
To this Kellyanne Conway, Trump's campaign manager, angrily responded, "No, you wouldn't. That's very clear ... respectfully. No, you wouldn't. ... Jenn ... do you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform? Are you going to look me in the face and tell me that?"

http://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2016/12/08/democrats-from-temper-tantrum-to-selfdelusion-n2256705 

Wisconsin Recount Results Day 7: Trump Leads After 70% Complete

“So far, not including the City of Milwaukee, Clinton/Kaine have gained 82 more votes than Trump/Pence, but still trail,” the Commission said.
That’s because, although errors have been found throughout the state – everything from voters not using proper pens to jammed ballots – they have resulted in both candidates losing and gaining votes. That’s basically cancelled out any gains for either, putting the election results back almost to where they were before the recount. Here is the raw spreadsheet of totals for December 7, Day 7.
Green Party nominee Jill Stein paid $3.5 million in donated money to force the Wisconsin recount, which Trump has labeled a “scam.” Hillary Clinton’s campaign has said it was participating. Stein is also seeking recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania; both are bogged down in legal battles, although the Michigan recount did start on December 5
Here’s what the Wisconsin Election Commission is reporting on Day 7 of the recount, in its own words:
-“After Tuesday, December 6, approximately 70 percent of the 2.97 million votes cast in the election have been recounted, and all Wisconsin counties remain on track to finish their work by the deadline of 8 p.m. Monday, December 12.”

http://heavy.com/news/2016/12/wisconsin-recount-results-day-7-6-update-progress-status-numbers-totals-st-croix-waukesha-fake-news-fraud-totals-status-new-news-latest-laws-rules-michigan/ 

NSA’s best are ‘leaving in big numbers,’ insiders say

Low morale at the National Security Agency is causing some of the agency’s most talented people to leave in favor of private sector jobs, former NSA Director Keith Alexander told a room full of journalism students, professors and cybersecurity executives Tuesday. The retired general and other insiders say a combination of economic and social factors — including negative press coverage — have played a part.
“I do hear that people are increasingly leaving in large numbers and it is a combination of things that start with [morale] and there’s now much more money on the outside,” Alexander said. “I am honestly surprised that some of these people in cyber companies make up to seven figures. That’s five times what the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff makes. Right? And these are people that are 32 years old.”
“Do the math. [The NSA] has great competition,” he said.
The rate at which these cyber-tacticians are exiting public service has increased over the last several years and has gotten considerably worse over the last 12 months, multiple former NSA officials and D.C. area-based cybersecurity employers have told CyberScoop in recent weeks.

http://fedscoop.com/nsas-best-are-leaving-in-big-numbers-insiders-say 

The National Debt: How America’s Festering Cancer Will Affect You

With the election of Donald Trump, roughly half of Americans are hopeful, while the other half are dejected, if not alarmed and angry.   While that may be a slight overgeneralization, we can probably all agree that the campaign leading up to the Presidential election was one of the nastiest in recent history, characterized by intense personal attacks, with little attention given to the many challenges our nation is facing.  One such challenge is our exploding national debt and its dire implications for you and me.

As someone who has been a fiscal conservative all of my adult life, I was sorely disappointed to see such little attention given to the financial welfare of our nation.  With our nation approaching $20 trillion in current debt, it should come as no surprise to anyone that a financial storm, like none we have seen, is likely in our future.  Yet, neither Trump nor Clinton spoke much of our debt.  When it was mentioned, it was simply noted in passing, with no plan by either candidate to halt, much less reverse, the current course we are on.

While it’s understandable that neither candidate was interested in tackling America’s festering cancer, what is alarming is the fact that many of the organizations who have typically decry our national debit, remained silent during the campaign.  As the founder of the Chattanooga Tea Party, our organization locally, along with the national tea party movement, has consistently focused on fiscal issues over the last seven years.  Likewise, the Republican Party has historically been the party of fiscal responsibility, if not in action, at least in words.   

http://www.awaketofreedom.com/national-debt-how-americas-festering-cancer-will-affect-you/ 

What comes after Obamacare? Time for Republicans to deliver

The Republicans who won the White House and maintained control of Congress have campaigned on a firm — if woefully fuzzy — promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

If that is what they really plan to do, now is the time to start getting as specific, and as realistic, as they can about the details. The physical and financial health of millions of Americans, and the ability of the entire health care system to serve them, hangs in the balance.

President-elect Donald Trump has called the ACA, known to friend and foe alike as Obamacare, a disaster, even as he has promised that, "Nobody's going to be dying on the street if I'm president."

But, no matter who is president, the excruciatingly complex details of a future version of American health care will be worked out in Congress.

By senators and representatives who may soon realize that they don't want to be responsible for millions of Americans who had health coverage under President Obama to lose it under President Trump. By Utahns such as Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, who now lacks the excuse of having a Democrat in the White House to veto whatever ACA alternative he might come up with.

The means to solving this problem are many. The metrics of success are two:

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4663883-155/after-obamacare