The Christmas season is a wonderful time of the year. The smell of pine, red bows everywhere, and a bit of shopping can get even the grinchiest person into the season. Christmas music is one of the easiest ways to spread holiday cheer. We all have our favorite songs and artists that just make the season brighter. Country legend Willie Nelson has been entertaining fans for more than 60 years. At age 92, he doesn’t have plans to slow down anytime soon. He recently released a new song that got fans right in the feels. Willie Nelson’s Christmas Love Song is the holiday tune we never knew we needed, but can’t live without. @willienelson This is my Christmas Love Song to you Listen now! ♬ Christmas Love Song – Willie Nelson There Is Something Perfect About Willie Nelson Singing Christmas Music Willie Nelson has several Christmas albums, but it never hurts to hear something new. A Christmas Love Song has beautiful lyrics that fans adore. I want you to know that I don’t take for grantedThis wonderful life that we foundI am so blessed to call you mine that I had toStop and write it all down Those words ring so true for many of us. We don’t let our loved ones know just what they mean to us as often as we should. Willie Nelson has a way of reminding us just how blessed we are every day, not just on Christmas. Willie shared the song on TikTok, and his fans loved it. “Merry Christmas to Willie and his family! Sending Love and Hugs from Florida,” an excited fan shared in the comment section. “Thank you sweet Willie,” another person wrote. This fan agreed, writing, “great memory from, Willie.” In 2023, Willie Nelson told CBS News that writing music isn’t always easy, but the key is to wait. “They get to a point where the well runs dry,” he said of songwriters. But his best advice is to “wait.” This story’s featured image is by F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg via Getty Images. The post Country Icon Releases New Christmas Music At 92 Years Young appeared first on InspireMore.

'Reasonable guy'

The circumstances surrounding his death remain unknown

'You can say yes'

'End the war as quickly as possible'

30 years ago today, leaders from the detritus of the former Yugoslavia gathered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio to end a brutal conflict that pitted new democracies Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia against the Serb-dominated communist regime.  The war killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, caused billions in damage, and added ethnic cleansing, rape camps, and genocide to our contemporary lexicon. But while Croatia and Slovenia eventually joined NATO and the European Union, Bosnia-Herzegovina to this day remains locked in a never-ending nation-building vortex that has sucked its sovereign lifeblood dry, destroyed its economic future, threatened regional security, and deepened inter-ethnic distrust.  The leaders at Dayton envisioned a decentralized state composed of a Serbian Republic and a Muslim-Croat Federation with constitutional guarantees of self-governance and equality for all. But following the peace accord’s signing, foreign diplomats met in Bonn, Germany to neuter these guarantees and assign themselves “final authority” over Bosnia-Herzegovina through an all-powerful “Office of the High Representative.” As the 9/11 terrorist attacks refocused America’s global attentions, Europe was handed the lead to transition the country to normalcy.  These “Bonn Powers” have allowed successive high representatives to remove scores of elected officials (including presidents) and veto hundreds of pieces of legislation passed by elected officials. All this power was exercised in tandem with three foreign judges (German, Swiss and Albanian, respectively), who sit on the country’s Supreme Court to impose a fictional Bosnian civic one-man-one-vote identity.   This governance approach is anathema to both Croat and Serb communities as it would create a centralized Muslim-majority state. Those communities need only look to the Middle East to see the sad fate of Christians living under Muslim rule.  But the arrival of the current high representative, Christian Schmidt, a former German minister of agriculture, pushed the country to the tipping point. Last year, capping a series of interventions, Schmidt dismissed the elected president of the Serbian half of the country for “defying” his orders. It set off theworst political crisis since the war ended.  Meanwhile, pro-West Croats, suffering from three decades of discrimination within a Muslim-dominated federation that has reduced their population by 60%, see little future in a state that systematically denies them constitutional equality unless they obtain a separate confederate entity of their own.  Bosnia-Herzegovina’s dysfunction has given Russia,China, and Iran opportunities to undermine NATO’s vulnerable southern flank. Constant inter-ethnic tensions have radicalized a segment of the Muslim community, resulting in government-sponsored acts of anti-Semitism.  Enter the Trump administration, which urgently and deftly intervened to walk back Schmidt’s overreach. The Serbs retracted their threat to secede, but the fundamental obstacle to the country’s stability remains: hyper-interventionist European diplomats who resist giving up their nation-building powers.  Last May, President Donald Trump made clear his disdain for nation-building as “wrecking far more nations than [it] built.” At a NATO parliamentary event, Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau warned that the United States was “not interested in imposing a vision of society that reflects the preferences of distant bureaucrats.”  The State Department last month reiterated that “the United States is no longer pursuing nation-building or heavy-handed international intervention… Now is the time for local solutions.”   Could Bosnia-Herzegovina finally govern itself after 30 years lost to the hubris of power-hungry European bureaucrats?  Not yet. In an unprecedent rebuke of the United States, Schmidt rushed to Berlin to shield himself against U.S. efforts to defang him. Within days, Germany’s ambassador in Sarajevo, himself a former senior OHR official, defended Schmidt’s role, doubling down on the Bonn powers as “essential for ensuring stability and progress in Bosnia and Herzegovina” despite clear evidence to the contrary. That was followed by a visit from Germany’s Foreign Minister affirming support for Schmidt as “indispensable for peace and stability.”  German muscle flexing against Washington, DC, however, does not change the reality on the ground. The high representative is the immediate source of political instability in the Balkans. Refusal to restore to Bosnia-Herzegovina’s three peoples the sovereign right to govern themselves merely abets radicalism from within and dangerous interference from without.  It is high time this nation-building experiment be put to rest.  The post Ending 30 Years of Failed Nation-Building in the Balkans appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Donald Trump said socialist New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani “actually surprised” him by how much the two agree on. “I feel very confident that he can do very good job,” the president said. “I think he is going to surprise some conservative people.” Trump met with Mamdani in the Oval Office on Friday. Through Trump previously threatened to pull federal funding from New York if Mamdani won, he said “I expect to be helping him not hurting him.” “The better he does, the happier I am,” he said. “I will say there is no difference in party. There’s no difference in anything, and we’re going to be helping him to make everybody’s dream come true of a strong and safe New York.” Mamdani and the president discussed their shared passion for affordability, including lowering prices of groceries, rent, childcare, home ownership, and utilities. “We focused on that same cost-of-living,” Mamdani said, “and that’s where I am really looking forward to delivering for New Yorkers in partnership with the president on the affordability agenda.” The two agreed on the need to lower the cost of housing. “He wants to see housing being built, he wants to see rents coming down, all things that I agree with, and we may disagree how we get there the rent coming down, he said. The two agree that more housing needs to be built for prices to drop, Trump said. Trump admitted Mamdani’s view are “a little out there” but said he expects the mayor to change if his policies don’t succeed. Trump and Mamdani have previously clashed on ICE raids, which Mamdani opposes. But Trump brushed this conflict off, saying “more than anything else, he wants to have a safe New York.” Trump said he and Mamdani discussed crime more than immigration enforcement. “Ultimately, a safe New York is going to be a great New York,” Trump said. “If it’s not safe, no matter how well we do with pricing and with anything else, we can talk about, anything you want, but if you don’t have safe streets, it’s not going to be a success. So we’re going to work together. We’re going to make sure that if there are horrible people that we want to get out, I think he wants to get them out, maybe more than I do. So we’ll work together.” New York, Trump said, is at a “critical point.” “He does need the help of the federal government to really succeed,” Trump said, “and we’re going to be helping him. But he’s different than your average candidate. He came out of nowhere.” The post Trump ‘Very Confident’ Mamdani Can ‘Do a Very Good Job’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

NYT, Politico: Say, Why Is the DNC Taking Out a $15M Loan?

Democrats Aren't Even Trying to Hide That They Are Just Making Up Hoaxes

Following the gangbusters’ September jobs report that vastly eclipsed expectations, CNN hacks are now awkwardly doing the Watusi dance to try and explain around why the Trump economy isn’t the disaster they said it was. The November 20 headline from CNN Business Executive Editor David Goldman, senior economy writer Alicia Wallace, and senior reporter Matt Egan was just chef’s kiss: “Wait, I thought the economy was terrible. What happened?” The authors gruffed over how “Entering this week, the perception of America’s economy was overwhelmingly negative.” But then, CNN’s apparent hopes to bury Trumponomics once and for all backfired. After the economy pumped 119,000 jobs into the market against expectations of a mere 50,000, “and killer earnings from Nvidia and Walmart – all within the span of about 18 hours –” the authors were left questioning, “is it possible the economy is better than anyone thought?”  These three stooges of CNN’s economic coverage, who are all on record spewing out some of the dumbest crapola to smear Trump’s economic agenda this past year, could only bring themselves to eke out a worthless “It’s complicated” as their excuse. Their first objective was to throw a bunch of cold water on the September jobs report: All told, the September job growth is a welcome sign that the labor market wasn’t collapsing heading into the shutdown, but the underlying trends haven’t changed much: It’s still a low-hire, low-fire slog with job growth limited to a handful of industries, leaving few opportunities for those who want jobs. Funnily enough, CNN seems to be taking an outlier interpretation from its fellow liberal colleagues in the media. CNBC senior economics reporter Steve Liesman, who had spent Trump’s first year of his second term lambasting his economic policies, was forced to admit that “[T]his report really bolsters the case of the hawks on the FOMC who have said they do not see serious deterioration in the labor market... A robust report.” ABC News correspondent Alexis Christoforous also noted that “Heading into that historic government shutdown, the job market was healthier than we thought.”  The authors then whipped out another stupid tactic that Goldman employed in a previous propaganda item that NewsBusters ripped apart: the affordability crisis should be blamed on Trump. “President Donald Trump and his administration have been under siege after the government shutdown, benefits cuts and Democratic election sweep earlier this month exposed what many Americans have been experiencing for years: the cost of living is too high, and consumers are increasingly fed up.”  “Under siege?” What the heck does that even mean?  Apparently Goldman hasn’t learned his lesson from the other times NewsBusters called him out for his hypocrisy. He is the same person who ran this insane headline just before the presidential election October 24, 2024 to prop up Biden: “America won the war on inflation. You still think the economy stinks.” So now “affordability” matters to Goldman after he gaslit readers into believing that Americans were just too dumb to realize that Bidenomics conquered the inflation boondoggle just last year? What a joke. So what does this all mean about the current economic outlook? The authors had the answer: “Wall Street basically has no idea.” Wow, such breathtaking news (not)! Reading between the lines shows that CNN really doesn’t have any clue how to explain away why their months of doom-mongering over the Trump economy never panned out. Even Goldman went as far as comparing the stock market under Trump to the “Great Depression” as early as April, just a few months into the president’s second term.  Except the only “Great Depression” is what’s happening now in CNN’s newsrooms full of anti-Trump fanatics despairing that their disaster porn isn’t coming true. Our condolences, guys.