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As I trundled around New York City in the final days before Christmas, there was a chill in the air that was not represented in the weather reports. The Christmas cheer and material excesses that usually abound in the Big Apple had a tinge of an unfamiliar anxiety - especially as one headed towards the normally effervescent Fifth Avenue.But it is also home to Trump Tower, and, as crowds mingled with a mighty security presence, there was talk of the President-elect in his lofty aerie atop of a city that in large part is none too fond of him.These are the times that try men's souls. Thomas Paine wrote that, and it's a reminder that our history has seen other moments of crisis and uncertainty. I am optimistic that we will prevail as a nation, hopefully a much more unified and fairer one. With that thought in mind, and in that spirit: Merry Christmas to all.Dan Rather

The past week's political events that help shape American  politics.

Políticos de la semHiroshimaana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense

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The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recarga

“Lügenpresse” is German for “lying press,” and it’s no mystery why some corners of Trump supporters prefer to use the original German term instead of translating it into English, even if that umlaut is giving them fits.

 

 “One of the great disgraces of the propaganda media we have, all of us on the right should describe it the propaganda media, drop the term ‘news media’ until they earn it, and begin to realize that the propaganda media cannot come to grips with the level of talent that they’re dealing with.All of us on the right should describe it as the propaganda media, drop the term ‘news media’ until they earn it, and begin to realize that the propaganda media cannot come to grips with the level of talent that they’re dealing with.” Newt Gingrich

The Monday Morning Quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and much more WBRN Radio Boston. bostonred.org

El lunes por la mañana El mariscal de campo es una persona que juzga y critica algo después del evento (el Diccionario Oxford).

Echamos un vistazo a los programas dominicales y mucho más. bostonred.org

In Memorial of Jerry Pippin 1939-2015

A candidate needs a majority of electoral votes — 270 — to become president. Trump has 306 electors pledged to him. So 37 would need to defect from him to put him below that majority threshold.VOX

Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption. These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one querter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union? But the convention have guarded against all danger of this sort, with the most provident and judicious attention, The Federalist Papers : No. 68 http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed68.asp

The past week's political events that help shape American  politics.

Políticos de la semHiroshimaana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense

More than 4.8 million people have signed a petition https://www.change.org/p/electoral-college-make-hillary-clinton-president-on-december-19-4a78160a-023c-4ff0-9069-53cee2a095a8 calling on electors to support the winner of the most ballots, Hillary Clinton. This would prevent Donald Trump from taking office as the fifth president who won an Electoral College majority without winning the popular vote.Karl Rove

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recarga

 

Minnesota football players announced Thursday night that they were boycotting all football activities in the wake of the suspensions this week of 10 teammates.ESPN

You cannot be a party which on one hand says we're in favor of working people, we're in favor of the needs of young people but we don't quite have the courage to take on Wall Street and the billionaire class. People do not believe that. You've got to decide which side you're on.

"We must also do everything we can to elect Democrats in Congress in 2018, and to take back the White House in 2020. We need a Democratic National Committee led by a progressive who understands the dire need to listen to working families, not the political establishment or the billionaire class. That is why I support Keith Ellison to be the next Chair of the Democratic National Committee, and why I hope you'll join me in advocating for him to lead the DNC." - Bernie Sanders

PT Barnum was an author, publisher, philanthropist, and a politician like DJ Trump, he said of himself, "I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me",and his personal aim was "to put money in his own coffers".Wikipedia

Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. mocked reports of Russian interference in the presidential election, calling it "the Russian conspiracy," and said the United States intelligence should instead investigate George Soros and liberal threats against conservatives.DJ Trump repeatedly mocked the media, calling reporters "very dishonest people" and saying news organizations were "devastated" when he won on election night.