More than 30% of the earth's surface (Pacific Ocean) shows very slight cooling since 1951 on net

March period

June period

September period

December period

And they were sad at that testimony of Comey, and went away grieved

Laugh of the Day: I can no longer tell you the time of day because that would impose on me the "duty to correct"

Ann Coulter, here.

Feminists aren't just emotional, they're so emotional they're redundant

Jessica Valenti for The Grauniad, here:

When so many of us feel powerless, seeing the extraordinary power of one woman felt like a cathartic release. A reminder of what is possible, and of what our daughter – and ourselves – deserve.

So emotional are such feminists that saying "felt like a catharsis" isn't good enough. It has to be "a cathartic release".

And which catharsis isn't a release? And which catharsis isn't felt?

Where is Camille Paglia when we need her? Or is she so old now that she too succumbs to such nostalgia for emotion?

Powerlessness knows no sex. Just ask any old couple married for forty or fifty years. Or a baby, if it could talk.

20 States Hillary lost to John Kerry, but I repeat myself

Arkansas
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
MAINE
MICHIGAN
MINNESOTA
Missouri
North Dakota
OHIO
Oklahoma
PENNSYLVANIA
RHODE ISLAND
South Dakota
Tennessee
VERMONT
West Virginia
WISCONSIN
Wyoming

Liberal legal scholar Jonathan Turley is "deeply troubled" by self-serving careerist James Comey's leak

Here:

The admission of leaking the memos is problematic given the overall controversy involving leakers undermining the Administration. Indeed, it creates a curious scene of a former director leaking material against the President after the President repeatedly asked him to crack down on leakers.

To Democrats the only valid election is the one where the Republican gets next to no votes

2008

2012

2016

Comey joined the resistance: Never had a habit of writing memos before Trump was elected

Which is quite the admission given all the crap Obama & Co. perpetrated over the years, to which he was privy.

Comey is a NeverTrumper and the personification of the deep state.

From the story here:

Mr. Comey said he began taking notes on his meetings with the president because, from his first interaction with him, during the transition period, he thought Mr. Trump might lie about what was said.

He testified that he documented all of his meetings with Mr. Trump because it was so unusual for him to be discussing ongoing investigations, alone, with a sitting president. Mr. Comey had served in senior law enforcement positions under three presidents.

“The combination of factors just wasn’t present with either President Bush or President Obama,” he said.

In addition to being a NeverTrumper, James Comey is basically that rat from grade school everyone hated

Was "Reality Winner" named after a horse?

Muslim clit cutters

But I repeat myself.

Rod Dreher is a boob, calls Homer's Odyssey "a novel"

Here.

Let's hope no one puts him in charge of someone's classical Christian education somewhere.

Detroit Free Press says Michigan is ground zero for the Muslim clit cutters, girls from MN brought in for secret "operation"

Unfortunately, Ronald Reagan's crazy libertarian Judge Bernard Friedman is presiding over the case. You remember Friedman. He was the judge who overturned Michigan's 2004 Marriage Act in 2014.

From the story here:

[T[he [federal] government estimates that as many as 100 girls may have had their genitals cut at the hands of a local doctor and her cohorts.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Woodward disclosed the information while trying to convince a judge to keep a doctor and his wife locked up in the historic case. It involves allegations that two Minnesota girls had their genitals cut at a Livonia clinic in February as part of a religious rite of passage and were told to keep what happened a secret. ...

Against Woodward's wishes, U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman granted bond to two other defendants in the case: Dr. Fakhruddin Attar, 53, of Farmington Hills, who is accused of letting Nagarwala use his clinic to perform genital cutting procedures on minor girls; and his wife, Farida Attar, 50, who is accused of holding the girls' hands during the procedure to keep them from squirming and to calm them. ...

The government believes the three defendants, all members of a local Indian-Muslim sect, subjected numerous girls to genital cutting procedures over a 12-year period. ...  [Dr. Attar allegedly admitted] to authorities that he let Nagarwala use his clinic up to six times a year to treat children for genital rashes. ...

The defense has argued that the Attars did not engage in any criminal  act and that the procedure at issue is a protected religious rite-of-passage that involves no cutting, but rather a scraping of genital membrane.

Trump presidential approval at this point 39%, better than Bill Clinton's at 38%, according to FiveThirtyEight

Reported here:

Different polling outfits put Trump at varying levels of approval, but the RealClearPolitics average had him at 39.8 percent Tuesday, while the weighted average from FiveThirtyEight had him at exactly 39 percent. Not great numbers, but still better than Clinton. On Day 138 of his presidency, just 37.8 percent of Americans approved of the job he was doing, according to FiveThirtyEight.

Real Clear Energy editor is upset about a greater supply and demand for political speech

From the ninny's op-ed here:

Over time, these market forces lengthened the campaign season by almost a year, boosting the need to raise money to pay for media exposure, which in turn created both a greater supply and a greater demand for political speech. This reached its apogee during Trump’s circus-like, taboo-shattering transgressive candidacy, which created a feedback loop that generated billions of dollars in free airtime.

Muslims upset for some reason over Indiana billboard which never mentions Muhammad or Islam

Why Google sucks

Google's search page google.com often highlights an important holiday, birthday, or whatever.

For example, just a few days ago it commemorated the birthdate of the gay "inventor" of the rainbow flag.

Today is the anniversary of the Normandy invasion, when 18-year old American boys died for your stupid libertarian gay "freedoms", many mowed down in their landing boats before they even got to the beaches.

But what does google.com show today?

Bupkis.

Promiscuous homosexuals

But I repeat myself.

"The figures from Public Health England show 5,920 syphilis diagnoses in 2016 - a rise of 12 per cent in one year, and a near doubling from 3,001 cases in 2012.

"PHE said that the cases were mostly associated with transmission in gay, bisexual or other men who have sex with men."

The conclusion of The Intercept's story on the leaked NSA report about election hacking is total crap

From the conclusion here:

The NSA conclusion “demonstrates that countries are looking at specific tactics for election manipulation, and we need to be vigilant in defense,” said [Harvard University's Bruce] Schneier. “Elections do two things: one choose the winner, and two, they convince the loser. To the extent the elections are vulnerable to hacking, we risk the legitimacy of the voting process, even if there is no actual hacking at the time.”

Throughout history, the transfer of power has been the moment of greatest weakness for societies, leading to untold bloodshed. The peaceful transfer of power is one of the greatest innovations of democracy.

“It’s not just that [an election] has to be fair, it has to be demonstrably fair, so that the loser says, ‘Yep, I lost fair and square.’ If you can’t do that, you’re screwed,” said Schneier. “They’ll tear themselves apart if they’re convinced it’s not accurate.”

IN OTHER WORDS, THE TRUMP ELECTION WAS ILLEGITIMATE BECAUSE HILLARY WON'T SAY 'YEP, I LOST FAIR AND SQUARE'.

Nixon never said that about JFK's theft of the election of 1960, because he was a patriot.

Every US state certified its election results in 2016. Every one. Because where there were problems, there were back up systems including paper ballots. Because the system is decentralized, multifarious and controlled by local officials it is robust. All the faults of the current chaos of voting in the United States are its strengths, protecting the integrity of the results.

All of this is admitted in the story, because even its authors know it to be the truth.

Laugh of the Day 2.0: Paul Krugman fan club says "Bon Voyage!"

Breitbart fires Katie McHugh for opining "There would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn’t live there"

Story here.

Colleges celebrate diversity with segregation

Here.

Laugh of the Day: If Trump's a fascist, how come my train is late?

Making Monday Night Football great again: Bocephus to return . . .

Obama and Boehner are gone.

Hank Williams Jr. is BACK!

Story here.

Hey Theresa, forget the internet, you've already allowed 1,700 safe spaces for Muslim extremism in Great Britain

And in the US we've allowed over 3,000.

The terror ideology isn't just online, Theresa

It's in a book.

NOAA's Climate at a Glance tool deliberately leaves out data going back to 1896 to misrepresent the Grand Rapids, MI, temperature trend

You can ask the Climate at a Glance tool for the data going back to 1896, but it won't give it to you:

But the data exists for Grand Rapids at the National Weather Service, from which I made this graph:

Hillary says she was a victim of her big lead

Sure you were, sweetheart.

Quoted here:

"I was the victim of a very broad assumption I was going to win," Clinton said.

Ex-PM Tony Blair's lies blamed for massive flood of Muslims into Britain

The real face of Islam in Britain

Labour's Tony Blair.

Huma's brother's house in Dearborn, MI, raided, boxes carted away

Reported here:

On June 1, 2017 a raid took place on the 7200 Block of Jonathon Street in Dearborn, Michigan which is owned by a “shell company,” turns out it’s actually owned by Huma Abedin’s brother and sister. This shell company is the Journal of Muslim Affairs. ... Convoys of cars descended on the home located at 7246 Jonathon Street, assisted by other law enforcement officers from neighboring locals.

And here:

A neighbor who declined to give her name said she saw law enforcement officers Thursday evening surrounding the house and removing boxes. But she didn't see anyone taken into custody. 

Judicial Watch obtains new Clinton emails involving Huma contradicting Clinton's claim to have turned over everything

From the story here:

Judicial Watch says it obtained the documents after suing the State Department for its failure to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request filed in March 2015. The FOIA request sought “All emails of official State Department business received or sent by former Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin from January 1, 2009 through February 1, 2013 using a non-state.gov email address.”

Judicial Watch notes that the 115 Clinton email exchanges were not among the 55,000 pages of emails that Clinton previously handed over to the State Department, contradicting her claim that she had turned over all of her government emails.

34 lyin' cheatin' Muslim convenience store owners and a guy named "Dale" indicted for conspiracy

From the story here:

A federal grand jury has indicted 35 store owners on federal conspiracy charges for trafficking contraband cigarettes, distributing controlled substances and money laundering . . .:

Mohammed Almuttan, aka Abu Ali, 35, St. Louis, MO

Rami Almuttan, aka Abu Louay, 33, St. Louis, MO

Hisham Mutan, aka Abu Mohamed, 41, St. Louis, MO

Saddam Mutan, aka Abu Ali, 24, St. Louis, MO

Mazin Abdelsalam, aka Abu Mohammad, 38, St. Louis, MO

Najeh Muhana, aka Abu Yazan, 41, Fairview, NJ

Fares Muhana, aka Abu Yamama, 40, Cliffside Park, NJ

Ayoub Qaiymah, aka Abu Faysal, 23, Richmond, VA

Naser Abid, 23, Chicago, IL

Yadgar Barzanji, aka Abu Siver, 47, St. Louis, MO

Wafaa Alwan, 50, St. Louis, MO

Ahmed Abuali, aka Bazilla, 31, North Bergen, NJ

Mohammed Kayed, aka Mohammed Fayez, 21, Clifton, NJ

Momen Abuali, 20, Little Ferry, NJ

Firat Sevindik, 42, Cliffside Park, NJ

Mohammed Mustafa, 30, North Bergen, NJ

Mohammad Karashqah, Abu Yazid, 47, North Bergen, NJ

Fayez Sheikha, 46, Mishawaka, IN

Jihad Shihadeh, Abu Malik, 58, Chicago Ridge, IL

Ismael Abadi, 57, Carol Stream, IL

Abed Hamed, Abed Fawzan, 39, Greenville, NC

Maher Hamed, Abu Alazara, 33, Swansea, IL

Abdel Adi, 25, Oak Lawn, IL

Muhanad Khatib, Abu Alamin, 36, Chicago, IL

Eyad Awad, 38, Chicago, IL

Dale Garbin, 60, Kankakee, IL

Hayder Al Fatli, 40, St. Louis, MO

Kutlay Guvener, 35, Chicago, IL

Saad Al Mallak, 30, Dittmer, MO

Hassan Abdelatif, 29, Collinsville, IL

Mahajir Naz, 32, St. Louis, MO

Talal Abuajaj, 23, St. Louis, MO

Basem Hamdan, aka Abu Ramiz, 57, St. Louis, MO

Zainal Saleh, 29, St. Louis, MO and

Ibrahim Awad, 39, St. Louis, MO

English PM Theresa May repeats the "not-the-face-of-Islam" nonsense

Here:

First, while the recent attacks are not connected by common networks, they are connected in one important sense. They are bound together by the single evil ideology of Islamist extremism that preaches hatred, sows division and promotes sectarianism.

It is an ideology that claims our Western values of freedom, democracy and human rights are incompatible with the religion of Islam. It is an ideology that is a perversion of Islam and a perversion of the truth.

Of course the attacks are connected by common networks. They're called mosques. And the ideology is the ideology of their book.

Why should we expect a liberal ideologue to call out a rival ideology when it would introduce doubt about one's own ideological habit of thinking?

That's the real problem here. Ideology kills, theirs because it teaches killing, ours because it teaches tolerance even of that.

Wow, that didn't take Breitbart very long, now did it?

What's good for the goose is good for the gander, Kathy Griffin edition

Laugh of the Day: $50,000 reward put on Kathy Griffin's head in Nashville, Tennessee

Wake up, America: The religion of pieces committed over 200 attacks in May, nearly 1,500 dead

Ban Islam from America before it is too late.

It's not a religion. It's organized crime.

Track its mayhem here.

America for Americans, Muslims out!

Covfefe tastes great, you should try it!

Not only is Grand Rapids, MI, experiencing lower high temperatures, but also lower lows over the last 121 years

Laugh of the Day 2.0: The real reason blacks demand whites leave Evergreen College campus

Laugh of the Day: Have another cup of covfefe, Gloria Borger, Cheif Political Analyst for CNN

Grand Rapids, Michigan, climate update for May 2017

Mean average temperature was 57.6 degrees F in May 2017 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The mean for May is 57.9.

The lowest minimum temperature was 31. The mean for May is 32.

The highest maximum temperature was 88. The mean for May is 86.

Precipitation was 1.5 inches. The mean for May is 3.44.  Fifteenth driest May on record.

May snowfall was 0.0 inches. The mean for May is 0.2.

Heating degree days came to 247. The mean for May is 252. The total through May from July 2016 comes to 5613 vs. mean to date of 6653. The heating season to date has been about 15.6% warmer than normal.

Trump correctly called the Paris Climate Accord a scheme to redistribute American wealth abroad

Here:

We have among the most abundant energy reserves in the planet, sufficient to lift millions of America's poorest workers out of poverty. Yet under this agreement, we are effectively putting these reserves under lock and key, taking away the great wealth of our nation, great wealth, phenomenal wealth. Not so long ago we had no idea we had such wealth. And leaving millions and millions of families trapped in poverty and joblessness. The agreement is a massive redistribution of United States wealth to other countries. ... 

Beyond the severe energy restrictions inflicted by the Paris accord, it includes yet another scheme to redistribute wealth out of the United States through the so-called "green climate fund" -- nice name -- which calls for developed countries to send $100 billion to developing countries all on top of America's existing and massive foreign aid payments.

Trump dumps Paris Climate Accord, stock market applauds

Jake Novak calls Hillary Clinton's personality "non-viable"

Here:

A winning candidate with a more winning personality wouldn't sit at the Code Conference and come off so obliviously arrogant and utterly without contrition. You can say that's yet another bad decision, but it's primarily a product of Clinton's politically non-viable personality. Her decisions are the fruit of that poison tree. ...

Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election the moment the American people took a good look and listened to her for five minutes or so.

For many of us, that was way back in 1992 when we decided we liked Bill Clinton and appreciated that his wife stood behind him, but we didn't exactly go for her. For others, that moment came in 2008 when she just wasn't as likable as the handsome newcomer Barack Obama. And finally, that moment came for the rest of the critical mass of voters in 2016 when she still wasn't any more likable or believable in her way of speaking and appearance than she was for the previous 24 years.

Donald Trump may not be very persuasive either for millions of Americans, but he's a lot more persuasive than Hillary Clinton. And she was his opponent. That's the breaks.

Denise Spellberg is making much of a young Thomas Jefferson's tolerant views of Islam at the expense of the older's war on it

Here:

As a 22-year-old law student in Williamsburg, Virginia, Jefferson bought a Qur’an – 11 years before drafting the Declaration of Independence. The purchase is symbolic of a longer historical connection between American and Islamic worlds, and a more inclusive view of the nation’s early, robust view of religious pluralism.

An older, wiser Jefferson, along with Madison, realized peace was better than war, but that war was better than paying tribute to Muslim pirates in exchange for it, something America ignobly did for fifteen years between 1785 and 1800.

Christopher Hitchens and David Hunter are better guides, here and here.  

George Sumner Bridges wins prestigious Ann Coulter "Biggest Pussy in the History of the West" Award

Here.

"I’m George Bridges, I use he/him pronouns. I begin our time together today by acknowledging the indigenous people of the Medicine Creek Treaty, whose land was stolen and on which the college stands . . .."

Muslim head-cutter

But I repeat myself.

Damn fool Cato libertarian Nowrasteh: Odds of being a victim of terrorism MUCH GREATER AT 1:3,609,709 than winning Powerball at 1:292,201,338

And that's using his own artificial terminus a quo of 1975. Why not pick 1978, or 1992?!

In America we've gone to enormous expense to protect children in car seats and adults with seat belts and air bags, but the libertarians think that preventing your death at the hands of a Muslim head-cutter is an impediment to economic growth.

Cato's Iranian American Alex Nowrasteh, here:

Foreign-born terrorism on U.S. soil is a low-probability event that imposes high costs on its victims despite relatively small risks and low costs on Americans as a whole. From 1975 through 2015, the average chance of dying in an attack by a foreign-born terrorist on U.S. soil was 1 in 3,609,709 a year. For 30 of those 41 years, no Americans were killed on U.S. soil in terrorist attacks caused by foreigners or immigrants. Foreign-born terrorism is a hazard to American life, liberty, and private property, but it is manageable given the huge economic benefits of immigration and the small costs of terrorism. The United States government should continue to devote resources to screening immigrants and foreigners for terrorism or other threats, but large policy changes like an immigration or tourist moratorium would impose far greater costs than benefits.

Laugh of the Day: The British spell it "couvfefe"

Here.

Vampirism becomes a business, preying on the innocently offered blood donations of young people

This is outrageous and should be outlawed immediately. Healthy people paying $8,000 for young blood.

Sick!

Story here.

Now money-grubbing Hillary blames Democrats' data operation, complains she had to pay

It's all about the money with the Clintons.

Reported here:

"I set up my campaign and we have our own data operation. I get the nomination. So I'm now the nominee of the Democratic Party. I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party," Clinton said. "I mean, it was bankrupt. It was on the verge of insolvency. Its data was mediocre to poor, nonexistent, wrong. I had to inject money into it."

A conservative makes an appearance at The American Conservative

Not in the articles line-up, but in the comments section, here:

"Every able-bodied Christian man should learn to shoot a rifle, because it will come to that if we live uncompromising lives."

Did I mention all these men received more votes for president than Hillary Clinton in 13 states?

Obama

Trump

Bush

Kerry

McCain

Romney

On top of coming in 8th out of 8 since 2004 in 13 states, Hillary came in 7th in nine, 6th in two, and 5th in three, losing them all to Trump

Hillary 7th out of 8 since 2004: Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, and Wisconsin (where Trump barely won coming in sixth in the last four races there).

Hillary 6th out of 8 since 2004:  Utah and Michigan (where Trump barely won coming in fifth in the last four races there).

Hillary 5th out of 8 since 2004:  Georgia, Pennsylvania (Trump third) and Texas.

In other words, half the country found Hillary revolting.

Last but not least, Trump destroyed Hillary in Wyoming 3.1:1 where she came in dead last since 2004

Donald J. Trump 2016:   174,419 votes
Mitt Romney      2012:   170,962
George W. Bush 2004:   167,629
John S. McCain  2008:   164,958
Barack Obama    2008:     82,868
John Kerry          2004:     70,776
Barack Obama    2012:     69,286
Hillary Clinton    2016:     55,973
   

Trump creamed Hillary in West Virginia 2.5:1 where she brought up the rear in popularity since 2004

Donald J. Trump 2016:   489,371 votes
George W. Bush  2004:   423,778
Mitt Romney       2012:   417,655
John McCain       2008:   397,466
John Kerry          2004:   326,541
Barack Obama    2008:   303,857
Barack Obama    2012:   238,269
Hillary Clinton    2016:   188,794

Hillary in Tennessee: The least popular candidate for president from 2004

Donald J. Trump 2016:   1,522,925
John S. McCain  2008:   1,479,178
Mitt Romney      2012:   1,462,330
George W. Bush 2004:   1,383,336
Barack Obama   2008:   1,087,437
John Kerry         2004:   1,035,160
Barack Obama   2012:     960,709
Hillary Clinton   2016:     870,695

Trump beat Hillary 1.7:1.

Yep, you guessed it, Hillary was 8th out of 8 in South Dakota, too

George W. Bush 2004:   232,584 votes
Donald Trump    2016:   227,721
Mitt Romney      2012:   210,610
John McCain      2008:   203,054
Barack Obama   2008:   170,924
John Kerry         2004:   149,244
Barack Obama   2012:   145,039
Hillary Clinton   2016:   117,458

Trump beat Hillary 1.9:1 coming in second.

Laugh of the Day: Chris Plante says SECDEF Ashton Carter, unlike Mattis, never made it to Rolling Thunder because . . .

. . . he was too busy organizing his sock drawer.

In Oklahoma 7 other presidential contenders since 2004 got the OK above Hillary

John McCain  2008:    960,165 votes
George Bush   2004:    959,792
Donald Trump 2016:   949,136
Mitt Romney   2012:   891,325
John Kerry       2004:   503,966
Barack Obama 2008:   502,496
Barack Obama 2012:   443,547
Hillary Clinton 2016:   420,375

Trump crushed Hillary 2.25:1 coming in third.

Hillary didn't just lose Ohio, she placed last there from 2004

Barack Obama 2008:   2,940,044 votes
George Bush    2004:   2,859,768
Donald Trump 2016:   2,841,005
Barack Obama 2012:   2,827,709
John Kerry       2004:   2,741,167
John McCain   2008:   2,677,820
Mitt Romney   2012:   2,661,437
Hillary Clinton 2016:  2,394,164

Hillary bombed in North Dakota, coming in 8th out of 8 from 2004

Donald Trump 2016:   216,794 votes
George Bush   2004:   196,651
Mitt Romney   2012:   188,163
John McCain   2008:   168,887
Barack Obama 2008:   141,403
Barack Obama 2012:   124,827
John Kerry       2004:   111,052
Hillary Clinton 2016:    93,758

Trump crushed Hillary 2.3:1.

In Missouri Hillary was the losingest loser, coming in 8th out of 8 from 2004

Donald Trump  2016:  1,594,511 votes
Mitt Romney    2012:  1,482,440
George Bush    2004:   1,455,713
John McCain   2008:   1,445,814
Barack Obama 2008:   1,441,911
John Kerry       2004:   1,259,171
Barack Obama 2012:   1,223,796
Hillary Clinton 2016:   1,071,068

In Louisiana Hillary was the biggest loser in 12 years

Donald Trump 2016:  1,178,638 votes
Mitt Romney   2012:  1,152,262
John McCain   2008:  1,148,275
George Bush    2004:  1,102,169
John Kerry       2004:     820,299
Barack Obama 2012:     809,141
Barack Obama 2008:     782,989
Hillary Clinton 2016:     780,154

Hillary's performance in Kentucky was the worst in 4 elections

Donald Trump 2016: 1,202,971 votes
Mitt Romney   2012: 1,087,190
George Bush    2004: 1,069,439
John McCain   2008: 1,048,462
Barack Obama 2008:   751,985
John Kerry       2004:   712,733
Barack Obama 2012:   679,370
Hillary Clinton 2016:   628,854

Trump beat Hillary in Kentucky 1.9:1.

I guess we all died a little in that damn war

Here.

Hillary 2016 came in last in Kansas behind John Kerry 2004

George W. Bush 2004: 736,456 votes
John S. McCain  2008: 699,655
Mitt Romney      2012: 689,809
Donald J. Trump 2016: 671,018
Barack Obama    2008: 514,765
Barack Obama    2012: 439,908
John Kerry          2004: 434,993
Hillary Clinton    2016: 427,005

Who knew there were so many Russians working to steal the election from Hillary in Iowa?

Barack Obama 2008: 828,940 votes
Barack Obama 2012: 822,544
Donald Trump 2016: 800,983
George Bush:  2004: 751,957
John Kerry      2004: 741,898
Mitt Romney  2012: 730,617
John McCain  2008: 682,379
H. R.  Clinton 2016: 653,669

When it comes to Hillary Clinton, Arkansas knows best

Donald Trump 2016: 684,872 votes
Mitt Romney 2012:   647,744
John McCain 2008:   638,017
George Bush 2004:    572,898
John Kerry 2004:       469,953
Barack Obama 2008: 422,310
Barack Obama 2012: 394,409
Hillary Clinton 2016: 380,494

Mencken: No decent man would accept a degree he hadn't earned . . . honorary degrees are for riffraff

Mark "open borders" Zuckerberg

John "served in Vietnam" Kerry

Frank Bruni of The New York Times

Fourth Quarter GDP By Presidential Term

Third Quarter GDP By Presidential Term

Second Quarter GDP By Presidential Term

Lock him up: FBI under Comey committed hundreds of 4th Amendment privacy violations

From the story here:

For instance, a ruling declassified this month by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) chronicles nearly 10 pages listing hundreds of violations of the FBI’s privacy-protecting minimization rules that occurred on Comey’s watch.

The behavior the FBI admitted to a FISA judge just last month ranged from illegally sharing raw intelligence with unauthorized third parties to accessing intercepted attorney-client privileged communications without proper oversight the bureau promised was in place years ago.

First Quarter GDP By Presidential Term

The trend for second quarter GDP doesn't look good for Trump