PRESIDENT TRUMP VISITS TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN; ARE HOUSE DEMOCRATS REALLY GETTING COLD FEET ON IMPEACHMENT OR IS IT WISHFUL THINKING; WARREN PEAKED TOO SOON?

TODAY’S TOP TEN

PRESIDENT TRUMP MAKES SURPRISE THANKSGIVING visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan. ZeroHedge.

ARE THE HOUSE DEMOCRATS REALLY GETTING COLD FEET or is that just spin? John Hinderaker.

BLOOMBERG BETS 2020 CAMPAIGN on unprecedented strategy of skipping early states. The Hill.

DID ELIZABETH WARREN PEAK TOO SOON or is she just a bad candidate? Legal Insurrection.

REMEMBERING WHEN THE NEW YORK TIMES had higher standards. Michael Goodwin.

HOW REUTERS GAMED A POLL TO “SHOW” RISING support for Trump impeachment. ZeroHedge.

MIDWEST RUST BELT CITIES ARE FAILING OVERALL, but these 10 are booming. Manhattan Institute.

STRONG MAJORITY NOW FAVORS LIFE IN PRISON instead of death penalty for murderers. Hot Air.

A NEW PROGRESSIVE MEDIA GROUP IS CREATING fake newspapers to undermine President Trump in swing states. TheBlaze.

TIM ALLEN DECRIES “THOUGHT POLICE,” political correctness in comedy. Fox News.

COMMENTARY WORTH READING

Media’s latest anti-Nunes smear is Michael Cohen-in-Prague all over again. Mollie Hemingway.

What George Washington was thankful for. Lathan Watts.

The farce of the anonymous Trump official. Roger Kimball.

VIDEOS WORTH WATCHING 

MSNBC hosts fawn over discredited Fusion GPS founders. Fox News.

Jim Cramer: Media covering for China to hurt Trump. Real Clear Politics.

Leftist students call conservatives racist — can’t give any evidence to back it up. Campus Reform.

OFFBEAT BEAT

Florida man provides nearly 20K Thanksgiving meals to community members. CBS 47 Orlando.

TWEETS OF NOTE

(@ManhattanInst) Not only have local newspapers closed by the hundreds, but surviving news organizations are not trusted much more than their national counterparts and judged to be doing a poor job at a core responsibility: holding local governments accountable. Tweet.

(@yhazony) Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789 is packed with theology—and opens with the assertion that it is the duty of all nations to publicly acknowledge God. Tweet.

MOST CLICKED ITEM YESTERDAY

DAN BONGINO CLAIMS HE’S LAUNCHING ALTERNATIVE aggregation site to Drudge Report. TheBlaze.

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BLACK FRIDAY FLAT? Drudge.