Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

While in the Philippines I was forced to watch @CNN, which I have not done in months, and again realized how bad, and FAKE, it is. Loser!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2017

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Democrats are spinning repeal of the individual mandate as "taking health care away from people." How is liberating people from a coercive law taking their health care away? Nobody will be prevented from purchasing health insurance. As usual, Democrats are lying. They lie so often that they no longer even know what a lie is, or why lying is (presumptively) wrong.

Congratulations to Torey Lovullo of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Paul Molitor of the Minnesota Twins: this year's Managers of the Year.

Radiation (2009).

This essay by Roger Kimball is worth a few minutes of your time. I despise the Never Trumpers, such as George Will, William Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, Stephen Hayes, and Max Boot. They are worse than (okay, just as bad as) leftist Anti-Trumpers, for they would have saddled us with President Hillary Clinton. How in the world can a self-described conservative prefer Clinton to Trump? It's mind-boggling. One thing is clear: these Never Trumpers are dead to me, and always will be. I don't read their columns or books; I don't watch them on television; I don't visit their websites.

The University of Texas at Arlington, today. Click to enlarge.

On Veterans Day, President Donald Trump offered some words of comfort to a veteran of the Cold War—a former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin. I wish this was a joke, but Mr. Trump shook Mr. Putin’s hand and essentially absolved him of any involvement in crimes that American intelligence professionals are quite certain he’s guilty of.

In doing so, Mr. Trump disrespected every American patriot who has worked and sacrificed to protect our institutions from enemies abroad. This includes members of the military, career intelligence professionals and the current CIA director (appointed by Mr. Trump), who says unequivocally that Mr. Putin is behind a decades-long effort to undermine American democracy.

Are Trump supporters not troubled by this alarming pattern? Mr. Trump appointed a foreign agent to lead his campaign. (Paul Manafort was secretly working for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.) Then he gave the nation’s highest security clearance to a foreign agent working for Turkey. (National security adviser Mike Flynn failed to report under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, a felony. He resigned in disgrace after it was revealed that he had lied to Vice President Mike Pence about meetings with the Russian ambassador.)

There’s a word for someone who offers aid and comfort to our enemies or puts their own interests above those of the nation, and it isn’t “patriot.” Am I supposed to believe it’s “president”?

CHUCK STARESINIC

Lawrenceville

One of the most accurate polls last time around. But #FakeNews likes to say we’re in the 30’s. They are wrong. Some people think numbers could be in the 50's. Together, WE will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! pic.twitter.com/YhrwkdObhP

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 14, 2017

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