As the carnage increases, we’re still waiting on Democrats and leading progressives to muster the courage to denounce a movement that’s more radical than their party, more violent than their ideology. I expect we’ll be waiting a long time. Black Lives Matter still has its hold on the Left, and I fear that grip won’t loosen until there are more lies told and more bodies in the streets.

President Trump ought to announce that he will not continue Obama’s ban and will entertain bids. If the green crowd challenges any new leases in court, Trump should instruct the Justice Department not to defend the Obama administration’s specious theory that Congress, in a single, fleeting sentence that does not mention permanent withdrawals of land, empowered presidents unilaterally to impose perpetual drilling bans.

“I wanna report that I made a big boo-boo,” Gingrich said in a 47-second video accompanying his tweet. “I talked this morning with President-elect Donald Trump, and he reminded me that he likes draining the swamp. I mischaracterized it the other day. He intends to drain the swamp.”

Lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent will help, not only to keep businesses here, but also bring jobs and innovation back home by reducing wacky incentives for United States companies to migrate offshore in tax-driven "inversion" deals.

The Democrats have become a political party run by and for elites. The cries from liberals to abolish the Electoral College are nothing more than an admission that they want the country to be run by elites in New York and California and screw the rest of the country — the rest of the country being the basket in which all those “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic” deplorables reside.

It looks like there will be very little change in the Electoral College.  While the apportionment shifts are to states controlled by Republican legislatures (for now), it would probably benefit Democrats overall, as it is pretty difficult to eliminate any more Democratic seats in places like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan, while states like Texas and Florida would probably have to draw at least some Democratic-leaning districts.

The European left -- lost for so many years in a blind, virtue-signaling multiculturalism -- now has to come to grips with the fact that maybe all cultures are NOT equal, that some cultures truly are racist, sexist, and homophobic and are governed by a religious ideology that seeks to rule the world with no separation of mosque and state and human rights virtually non-existent, the very things the left claims it abhors. And those same leftists don't know how to handle this contradiction.  So they blame those who do and call them neo-Nazis.