**Written by Doug Powers Wow, that “Hope & Change” experiment was fairly short-lived for the First Lady: Following the election of Donald Trump, Michelle Obama said many Americans now know what it's like not to have hope. “We feel the difference now. See, now, we are feeling what not having hope feels like,” she told Oprah Winfrey in an interview, a clip for which aired on CBS on Friday. “Hope is necessary. It's a necessary concept and Barack didn't just talk about hope because he thought it...

**Written by Doug Powers It hasn't even been two months since Hillary Clinton said this: Fast-forward the tape to last night, when Clinton told her wealthy donors that, yeah, there was a whole lotta rigging going on: Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that the hacking attacks carried out by Russia against her campaign and the Democratic National Committee were intended “to undermine our democracy” and were ordered by Vladimir V. Putin “because he has a personal beef against me.” Speaking to a gr...

**Written by Doug Powers Well, with things still looking grim for Hillary, her liberal supporters in the entertainment industry are left with no choice but to implement the “Hollywood Left nuclear option,” which is to make a group video in which they use all their thespian training to pretend they know what they're talking about. Notice that the strategy has changed from “The Electoral College is antiquated and needs to be scrapped” to “our Founding Fathers built the Electoral College to safegua...

**Written by Doug Powers Dovetailing somewhat with Michelle's column about madness at Oberlin College, we head south from there, to Texas, where campus rose petals are trying to decide what to call late December parties that revolve around certain observances with religious overtones which must not be named. So they've made some helpful suggestions: Texas Woman's University is advising students and faculty not to use the word “holiday” when describing parties in December because it “connotes re...

A new victim in the war on small-biz bakeries by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2016 It is not enough for family-owned pastry shops to bow to the gay marriage mob. Now, they're being targeted by the social justice mafia. At my alma mater, radical Oberlin College in Ohio (which boasts hapless Baltimore mayor and rioters' champion Stephanie Rawlings Blake and bizarro feminist actress and fake rape accuser Lena Dunham as graduates), the operators of a small-business bakery are under si...

Fast forward the tape to **Written by Doug Powers Remember this stuff in October before the election? Fast forward the tape to this week when Obama was on The Daily Show: President Obama suggested in a new interview that voters should have cared more about Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential race. […] The president also said he doesn't think it should have been shocking to voters that the CIA concluded Russia intervened in the U.S. presidential race to help Trump win the Wh...

**Written by Doug Powers Not long ago, Donald Trump's transition team asked the Department of Energy to give them the names of employees who work on Obama's climate change initiatives. The DoE's answer? No. For entrenched DoE bureaucrats, accountability seems to be the change in climate they fear the most: The U.S. Energy Department said on Tuesday it will not comply with a request from President-elect Donald Trump's Energy Department transition team for the names of people who have worked on cl...

**Written by Doug Powers Once again, the old rule that “every snowflake is different” can be tossed out the window on another college campus, because there are several who work at Washington State University who are exactly alike: A group of Washington State University professors have decried “discourses of free speech” in an open letter to the campus community, suggesting such defenses of the First Amendment hurt “marginalized students.” The letter, signed by about two dozen scholars at the s...

**Written by Doug Powers The Green Party and Jill Stein will consider the effort a success because they've greatly padded their email list and scored some extra “green” heading into her 2020 run, but any Clinton supporters who donated in the actual hope of reversing the results are in for a rude awakening (in addition to having marked themselves as ripe for a few dozen email solicitations from Nigerian “princes”): The three-state recount efforts spearheaded by Green Party presidential candidate...

**Written by Doug Powers Actor Jackie Chan is the latest recipient of the Albert Gore Jr. Eco-Hypocrisy Award for the following offset of irony… Chan's been a longtime champion of the environment, as evidenced by this profile from 2005: Jackie Chan may not drive a hybrid (or maybe he does) but he has taken meaningful action on behalf of the environment. […] He has also offered his star power to environmental efforts on the mainland. In 2004 Jackie participated in the effort to build a Green Grea...

**Written by Doug Powers Another Sunday has arrived, meaning it's time for an open thread. Batting leadoff today is a story slightly outside the presidential race and national politics realm, but it's one that is too great of a metaphor to ignore… A vegan restaurant with a “progressive business model” opened in 2011 a few dozen miles drive west on I-96 from where I sit, and it's turned into an interesting statement about socialism. This was the vision: The inspiration for the worker-owned res...

**Written by Doug Powers Is there anything more nauseating that the stench of entitlement that emerges from an entrenched bureaucracy that feels threatened? Donald Trump's transition team wants the Energy Department to provide the names of any employees who have worked on President Barack Obama's climate initiatives — a request that has current and former staffers fearing an oncoming “witch hunt.” The president-elect's team sought the information as part of a 74-point questionnaire that also a...

Then Hillary lost… Obama **Written by Doug Powers It's been a year of interesting and sudden about-faces. Case-in-point… Obama in October when the polls showed Hillary Clinton would probably cruise to an easy election victory: Then Hillary lost… Obama today: By Hillary's pre-election definition, that was a threat to democracy. By Hillary's (and Obama's) post-election definition, it must be done to preserve election integrity. Well, at least they're super transparent. **Written by D...

**Written by Doug Powers On Thursday Hillary Clinton warned against the spread of “fake news,” which is a little like Bill issuing a BOLO for cheating husbands. Bonus points: Hillary said this during a tribute to fellow “fake news” content provider, Harry “Romney didn't pay taxes for ten years” Reid: Hillary Clinton said Thursday on Capitol Hill that the epidemic of “fake news” represents a “danger” that must be “addressed quickly.” “Let me just mention briefly one threat in particular that sho...

**Written by Doug Powers Climate change alarmist lefties were encouraged by this news on Monday: The progressive celebrations in honor of Mother Gaia being taken off life support didn't last long though: It's the end of the world! Literally: The news of the expected nomination drew sharp criticism from green groups and environmental advocates in Congress, including former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who said he would oppose the “sad and dangerous” move. “Mr. Pruitt's record is not...

**Written by Doug Powers The possibility this could happen is why Stein and the Green Party had “no refunds no exchanges” fine print on their recount donation agreement: With the Wisconsin Election Commission working since last Thursday – when Stein paid $3.5 million for the recount after alleging reports of fraud – there has been little change so far to the unofficial results reported on Election Day. Trump won the state by 22,000 votes over Clinton. In a twist, Trump is gaining. By Wednesday ...

**Written by Doug Powers In Tampa yesterday, President Obama pointed out how his administration's strategy of denial, extreme parsing and “shock & awe” levels of motive-dodging have left him with an impeccable domestic counterterrorism legacy: Obama's defense of his record is largely built around the crises he avoided, the large number of troops he brought home from Iraq and Afghanistan, and the terrorist attacks that did not happen on his watch. “No foreign terrorist organization has succes...

**Written by Doug Powers In 2008, Time said they chose Barack Obama as their Person of the Year because he was full up “hope” to bring America together. Eight years later, Time calls the country the “Divided States of America,” but they make it sound like the fault of somebody who hasn't even taken office yet: Coming in second (again) was Hillary “Always a Bridesmaid” Clinton: To ease the pain, Hillary's going to go around the country thanking some of the average people who supported her ha...

The Messy Truth about Race-Baiting Radical Demagogue Van Jones by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2016 They never learn. The grand journalism pooh-bahs at CNN were humiliated this election cycle when WikiLeaks revealed that former CNN contributor and interim DNC chair Donna Brazile had shared a question with the Hillary Clinton campaign in advance of a March Democratic primary town hall debate. According to CNN, “activist anchor” Roland Martin and his production team at CNN's debate ...

**Written by Doug Powers Twas the night before the election, and all through the firm progressives were giddy, especially Liam the intern The pantsuit was hung by the chimney with care in the hope that President Hillary soon would be there… ***** Instead of continuing with a holiday party in the throes of post-election depression, one company will instead remain in their designated safe spaces until further notice: Manhattan fashion p.r. company LaForce — which reps Target, Banana Republic an...