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Immigration hard-liners had been routing for Trump to appoint Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach as head of the Department of Homeland Security.  Kobach was generally viewed as the candidate most likely to draw the hardest line on illegal immigration after helping to draft one of the toughest pieces of immigration law in the country, Arizona's SB 1070, which requires law enforcement officers to demand to see the immigration papers of anyone they suspected of being in the country illegally.

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

If you want to understand today's populism, don't look to the mainstream media's comically buffoonish propaganda blaming the Russians: look at the four issues listed below.

Considering that during the Obama administration, the only job category that has performed remarkably well has been fast food workers, waiters and bartenders, a category which has added 571,000 jobs since 2014 as the US has lost 34,000 manufacturing workers in the same period...

... it is perhaps fitting that the next Labor Secretary will be the CEO of fast food chains.

Trump and Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, walk from Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J.

Two Democratic members of the Electoral College in Colorado have taken legal action to challenge a state law that requires them to elect the winner of the state’s popular vote. The move is part of an effort to use the Electoral College vote to block Donald Trump from winning the presidency. 2 Colorado presidential electors file lawsuit in effort to block Donald Trump – Denver Post https://t.co/jV6ezuPRNl — Breaking Politics (@breakingpol) December 6, 2016   The two presidential electors, Polly Baca and Robert Nemanich filed the federal lawsuit on Tuesday.

Reuters is reporting that new 'fake news' fighting policies are being enacted in the Xinjiang province of China,  in an effort by the Chinese to push back against those who like to post 'harmful' information online, which do not adhere to government rules.

The new rules include, thou shall not post information that might be construed as "harmful to national security", "destructive of religious harmony", that "spreads ethnic hatred and division" or "seeks to overthrow the socialist system."