• Obama will use his executive authority to impose new permanent bans on offshore drilling
• Media’s 10 Most Mortifying Moments Of 2016 – YouTube
• Berlin’s most wanted: Police raid German migrant shelter in hunt for ‘armed and dangerous’ Tunisian asylum seeker, 23, with ‘links to Islamic extremists’ after his wallet is found in lorry at scene of Christmas market massacre
• ‘Refugee’ resettlement accelerates in Obama’s final months
• Illinois loses more residents in 2016 than any other state
• The Gender-Fluid Performer Who Changed the Academy’s Mind
• Christmas cheer missing in crisis-hit Rio
• ‘Santa Claus isn’t coming,’ recession-hit Venezuelans tell kids
• California secession organizers say they’ve opened an embassy — in Moscow
• The U.S. is no stranger to interfering in the elections of other countries
• Gartman: “The Proper Course Of Action, Obviously, Is To Be Long Of Equities But Fearful”
• Al-Nusra Claims Responsibility For Murder Of Russian Ambassador, Warns Of More Attacks
• Merkel Government Still In Denial
• What will US transportation look like three decades from now?
• Wisconsin officials blast ‘Problem of Whiteness’ course
• Muslim YouTube star busted for hoax Islamophobia video in 2014 posts new Islamophobia video; Updated
• New York Times issues embarrassing correction on the Electoral College
• New Suspect In Berlin Terror Attack Manhunt: Search Is On For Tunisian With Islamist Connections
• ‘Next idea?’ After Electoral College fail, anti-Trump forces look for new cause
• Obama bars future oil leases in swaths of Atlantic, Arctic oceans
• Blame the messengers: Dem boss Schumer fires staffers after November rout
• A fitting finale for the House of Clinton
• Jim Webb lampoons Bill Clinton’s ‘landslide’ victory in 1992
• Americans aren’t having kids anymore: 8 states post population loss
• Officials hunt for Tunisian asylum-seeker in Berlin Christmas market rampage
• Shapiro at ‘National Review’: Honest Politicians Finish Last
• Congressional Report: Obama Admin Fired Top Scientist, Obstructed Info to Push Climate Agenda
• Obama Schedule
• Dems New Tactic: The Electoral College is Racist
• Donald Trump Suddenly Like Carlos Slim
• How the Berlin Terror Attack Exposes Angela Merkel’s Weakness
• 3 Ways Politicians Play Politics With Public Employee Pensions
• Labor Secretary’s Bid to Lead Democrats Comes Under Legal Scrutiny
• Clarence Thomas Should Be Included in the African-American History Museum
• Terror Strikes the Streets of Berlin
• Why I Took My Daughter to Lay Wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery
• Presidential Approval Index Tracking Poll
• Most Don’t See Need for More Legal Immigrants Even with Border Control
• America’s Best Days. Happy Days Are Here Again?
• Beltway Confidential
• Liberals, Drugged on Power, Suffer Withdrawal Symptoms
• The latest from Berlin: Last name, photo & more
• About that “typo”
• Media Blackout On Obama’s Last-Minute Civil Rights Appointments
• Bill Clinton: 1994 Loss Was Because Of ‘Angry White Men.’ Sound Familiar?
• Berlin Police Launch Manhunt For Tunisian Refugee Suspect
• O’Reilly: The Left Wants To Take Power From White Voters
• Page Six
• Obama’s ‘safe space’ hypocrisy
• The booming Dow is a sign of how Trump can silence critics
• Navy Restores Rating Titles After Public Backlash
• New York Times Gives Valuable Publicity to White Nationalism
• Obama Uses Executive Power to Ban Offshore Drilling Day After Warning Trump Not to Use Executive Orders
• Congress: Obama Admin Fired Top Scientist to Advance Climate Change Plans
• Peters on Berlin Christmas Market Attack: German Police ‘Really Screwed This One Up’
• Schumer on Trump’s Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Deal: ‘Sounds Good to Me’
• ObamaCare co-op in Maryland stops handling ObamaCare business
• Navy abandons plan to rename jobs with “man” in the title
• Keith Ellison’s tax cheating, scofflaw history comes back to haunt him
• The Note
• Energy Dept. Offers $2B Loan to Carbon-Storage Project
• Trump Meeting Security Adviser After Attacks Abroad
• Rogue Elector Uses Vote to Highlight Dakota Access Pipeline
• Schumer Says Trump’s Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Plan ‘Sounds Good to Me’
“I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.” -Rush Limbaugh
• Germany Hunts Tunisian Tied to Truck Attack That Killed 12
• Rex Tillerson’s Lucrative About-Face on Russia
• Obama Restricts Drilling Off Atlantic and Arctic Seaboards
• Russia, Iran and Turkey Meet on Syria, Excluding U.S.
• Obama uses executive authority to thwart Trump, bans new Atlantic, Arctic drilling
• Donald Trump: I would have done better, ‘if that is possible,’ if election based on popular vote
• German investigators seek Tunisian suspect in Berlin market truck attack
• N.C. ‘bathroom bill’ repeal effort leaves conservatives feeling betrayed
LIVESCIENCE
• Are Wealthy People More Giving?
• Trump starts day with tweets about election he won 6 weeks ago
• Trump doc: ‘If something happens to him, then it happens to him’
• The Briefing Room
• FBI director under pressure to explain Clinton bombshell
• New questions complicate Ellison’s bid for DNC chair
• Trump tweets he could have done better in popular vote
• Trump claims he could have also won the popular vote, if he wanted to
• Trump posse browbeats Hill Republicans
• Researchers race to copy Obamacare data for fear it will vanish
• Clinton allies rip into FBI after search warrant unsealed
• Michelle Obama: ‘We are gonna be there for the next president’
• Schumer fires video unit staff
• Today’s Standard
• The Greatest Hits From Obama’s Post-Election Exit Interviews
• Courts could be a firewall if Trump seeks to expand presidential powers
• Millions more Americans able to afford doctor’s visit under Obamacare, study shows
• Obama will use his executive authority to impose new permanent bans on offshore drilling
• Gingrich says Trump dislcaims ‘drain the swamp’
• Deadly Mexico fireworks blast hit market packed for holidays
• North Carolina lawmakers meeting to consider HB2 repeal
• Tunisian hunted by Germany was seen earlier as terror threat
• How the U.S. bobbled Russia’s disinformation campaign
• German police hunt Tunisian asylum-seeker over Christmas market attack
• Kremlin says almost all communication channels with U.S. are frozen: RIA
• Wall Street little changed; Dow still flirting with 20,000
• Post Politics Blog
• Congratulations, Trump. Welcome to hell.
• Trump voters didn’t take him literally on Obamacare. Oops?
• The Trump administration is on its way to a new ethical low
• Berlin attack typical of ISIS strategy to divide Muslims from others
• GOLDMAN SACHS: The Fed may ruin one of Trump’s biggest plans for the economy
• Economy Top Problem in a Crowded Field
• Can Bad Managers Be Saved?
• How One Huge American Retailer Ignored the Internet and Won
• ‘Anonymous Billionaire’ Ready for Spotlight After 1,000% Rally
• German Officials Tried to Send Berlin Market Killer Back to Tunisia But ‘Couldn’t’
• Look What Liberal Media Says Turkish Assassin Was Screaming Compared to What He Was Actually Screaming
• Ohio GOP Delegate Casts Vote for TRUMP Then Torches All of His DNC Troll Letters in Yard Pit
• Democrat Media Fail: Only 29% of Americans Convinced Russia Was Behind Election-Year DNC Hacks
• Disgusting Trollop Lena Dunham: I Wish I Had an Abortion
• Obama Admin Fired Top Scientist to Advance Global Warming Junk Science Agenda
• Political News & Commentary: Andrew Malcolm
• The Real ‘Fake News’ Comes From The Mainstream Media
• As He Leaves Office, Obama Makes A Last-Ditch Effort To Kill Off Fossil Fuels
• Ted Cruz is Right, Clarence Thomas Should Not Be Snubbed by National Museum of African American History
• Man Behind Viral Delta Video Has History of Faking Anti-Muslim Incidents
• Despite media’s Arctic record heat claims, ‘there is nothing unusual going on in the Arctic’
• Richard Marx Helps Subdue Violent Passenger on Korean Air Flight
• Andrea Bocelli Out of Running for Trump Inauguration After Boycott Threat
• Megyn Kelly Hints at Dissatisfaction with Fox News
• Lena Dunham: I ‘Haven’t Had an Abortion, But I Wish I Had’
• MILO: Here Are My 2017 New Year’s Resolutions for MTV
THE DAILY BEAST
• Bill Clinton Passes the Buck to James Comey
• Here’s Why Democrats Must Not Abandon Identity Politics
• RCP Blog
• Real Clear Markets
• An Emerging New Center – Jon Huntsman & Joe Lieberman
• Bolton: Germans Think They Have Lost Control Of Their Country, Merkel Opened Country To Terrorism
• ‘MTV News’ Deletes YouTube Video Telling “White Guys” What They Could Do Better In 2017 After Backlash
• Obama’s National Security Report Card — Unsatisfactory
• Best of the Web (James Taranto)
• Trump’s Market Mandate – Holman Jenkins
• Coal in Trump’s Stocking
• Blogs: The Corner | Media Blog | Frum’s Diary | Mark Levin | Sixers
• Conservatism in the Era of Trump Tim Alberta
• Will Trump Be the Transformative President Obama Wanted to Be?
• The Tragic Downfall of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• The Jihad Online
• In Defense of Farmers, Hunters, and Meat-Eaters
• Justice Thomas and the National Museum of African American History and Culture
• The Desperate Revisionism of the Left
• The Double Standard on Election Acceptance
• Lena Dunham Apologizes for ‘Distasteful Joke’ with Abortion ‘Donation’
• Shock Story: Telemundo Reports on Lawful Gun Ownership In Mexico
• Hypocrisy: NBC Pounces on Trump Family Pay-to-Play Accusations
• Bored CBS Knocks Trump’s Cabinet Picks for Their Wealth
• Brian Williams Oozes: Michelle Obama Is ‘Hugely Popular’ Whose ‘Future Appears Limitless’
• ‘Elle:’ ‘Exceptional’ Ivanka Trump is Dangerous to Women
• $1,953,210,272: HUD Announces Record in Grants to ‘End Homelessness’; 59% to D.C. and States That Voted for Clinton
• USDA Blog: ‘Minneapolis School Embraces Family-Style Dining’
• Denzel Washington on Media: If You Read The Newspaper, ‘You’re Misinformed’
• The Double Standard on Election Acceptance
• After Violence Abroad, Trump Meeting With Incoming Security Adviser Flynn
• Clinton Wins Popular Vote by 2.8M; Trump Tweets Retorts
• House Committee: Obama Fired Top Scientist Over Climate Change
• Lena Dunham Apologizes for Saying ‘I Wish I Had’ an Abortion
• Obama: ‘Don’t Go Around Just Looking For Insults’
• MTV Video Attacking ‘White Guys’ Removed From YouTube, Facebook
• NYT Thinks Election Rules Should Only Work for Them
• New Report Shows 70% Of Illegal Alien Kids Are Older Teens
• Berlin is on alert for new terror attack as police hunt armed ISIS gunman
• Trump inauguration takes shape
• How many faithless electors voted against Trump and have they influenced past US elections?
• Why is the Dow Jones headed for the 20,000 mark?
• At immigration detention center, every child has same Christmas wish: freedom
• 3,000 people stranded at Aleppo checkpoints in freezing cold