In the spirit of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year, many people gratefully make a list of their blessings — the many things for which they give thanks. But, like Fox News, in the interest of being fair and balanced, you believe it’s altogether fitting to make a list of some of the things that make you sick. And Fox News itself may be a good place to start. Begin with the glut of Fox’s newsy gabfests — where professional gabbers, mostly lawyer chicks with long blond hair and short skirts, rattle off armchair opinions that have zero consequences. Speaking of zero, someone should tell that pipsqueak Geraldo  he doesn’t need an ostentatious mustache to emphasize his perfectly capped, snow white teeth. If the teeth don’t blind you and his opinions don’t bore you, take note of where The Five producers position Kimberly Guilfoyle — out front, naturally — the only person at the table whose crossed legs are visible —  at mid-thigh, naturally — all that’s missing are flashing Neon high heels. You assume that show producers modeled The Five after Friends, the 1990’s sitcom that featured a bevy of young adults sitting on couches reciting glib lines meant to be cool, but certainly not funny. Speaking of which, there’s certainly nothing funny about death. You’re sick of apologists who say you shouldn’t judge Islam simply because some Muslims choose to murder people in the name of Islam. You’re sick of immigrants who refuse to assimilate, learn English, become American and appreciate American values. You’re sick of political special interests and their organizations — all of them. You’re sick of political parties and career politicians who put themselves and personal power ahead of The Constitution and the nation. You’re sick of a sitting POTUS who greedily spends millions of dollars on extravagant vacations while millions of Americans struggle out of work. You’re sick of knowing that a former Secretary of State, a confirmed liar and criminal, will not be indicted and prosecuted for breaking the law. You’re sick of the assault on individual liberty and 1st Amendment rights. To the point of physical nausea, you’re sick of political correctness. You’re sick of people who are dumb enough to buy the doomsday notion of “climate change.” You’re sick of America’s suicidal plunge into socialism. You’re sick of the ignorance epidemic — of sordid culture and vulgar language. You’re sick of Hollywood. You’re sick of a culture that idolizes entertainment celebrities. You’re sick knowing that a nation’s people endowed by their Creator, are abandoning that Creator as irrelevant. You’re sick that America’s finest are sacrificing their bodies and lives under a craven Commander in Chief. You’re sick of mobs who find excuses to loot and burn. And you’re sick of single issue voters who make their sexual orientation or reproductive rights a matter of national interest.

Since there’s no cure for these sicknesses, you nonetheless will greet 2016 with hope and optimism. You must believe that good will defeat evil. You must believe in your fellow man. You must not be afraid to defend your values — whatever the cost. You must have faith. Sounds like a plan.

You couldn’t be happier. No, that’s not strong enough. Jubilant. Yes, that comes closer to your level of euphoria. After all your whining about Republicans, after non-stop criticism of their cowardice, you gasped as leading GOP lawmakers found their courage and stood bravely to denounce The Man — the top guy — the autocrat they say has repeatedly demonstrated he’s unfit for office. Finally, the GOP is ferocious, unyielding and unified. And when they finish hammering Trump, the experience may actually give them the backbone to someday face off with Barak Obama. But don’t hold your breath. Instead, you might want to put aside opinions, theories and prejudices — and acknowledge the obvious. Clearly, every political insider opposes The Donald. Nearly every media pundit opposes The Donald. The Republican leadership, including Ryan, McConnell, the RNC and former GOP kingpins oppose The Donald. The White House called for him to step aside, suggesting that his Muslim talk disqualified him for public office. Other Democrats, including Clinton, gleefully followed suit. GOP presidential rivals converged on him like hyenas feeding on a wildebeest carcass. Trump’s long list of crimes can’t be ignored. He wants to build a wall on the Southern border. He wants to deport illegal aliens. He wants to suspend immigration of Syrian refugees, in particular, and Muslims, in general. He wants to defeat ISIS. he wants to strengthen America’s economic foreign policy. He wants to balance America’s budget. He wants to reduce the size of the Federal bureaucracy. He want to eliminate the national debt. He wants to revitalize the economy and “make America great again.” You may have missed something, but these seem to be his primary themes. Shame on him. Loretta Lynch may put him on her hit list for “hate speech.” Apparently, the entire Washington power structure, supported by Big Media, thinks Trump’s verbal crimes are more unacceptable than Hillary Clinton’s physical crimes. Apparently, it’s not OK for an American citizen to speak his mind, but it’s perfectly OK for the Secretary of State to abandon four Americans to die in Benghazi. Apparently, the Department of Justice, the Media and the Beltway have their eyes on Trump’s “hate speech,” but turn a blind eye to Clinton’s lawbreaking and national security violations. Apparently,  wrong talk disqualifies Trump, but committing a crime and violating her oath of office qualifies Clinton to be Commander In Chief. Apparently, the GOP suddenly has become red blooded in destroying The Donald; but in seven years of the Obama dictatorship, displayed a prodigious yellow streak in dealing with the person intent on destroying America. You must ask why. Trump didn’t take the national debt to 18.5 trillion. He didn’t give us Obamacare. He didn’t create ISIS. He didn’t invent illegal immigration. He didn’t weaken America’s military. He didn’t put 93 million Americans out of work. He didn’t put 50 million people on food stamps. He didn’t populate the Federal administration with an unprecedented number of Muslim bureaucrats. He didn’t expand crony capitalism. Trump did none of it. But Obama did. Clinton did. Representatives did. Senators did. The Supreme Court did. You must find it ironic — the people responsible for America’s decline are throwing the heaviest stones at someone who wasn’t even there. Donald, however, is guilty as charged for one unforgivable sin — throwing political correctness down the toilet and daring to spend his own money to seek public office. He must be loony. The Beltway Club simply won’t allow him anywhere near the WH. The American people be damned.

It was just a matter of time. Women who qualify will fight alongside men in the front lines of combat. Even at 81, Gloria Steinem must be doing back flips to see how famously American women are doing — from enjoying lifelong business careers to running for president and now for having the opportunity to urinate in field latrines alongside their male counterparts. Allegedly, the Marines conducted a study of coed fighting teams to conclude that these teams would be less effective than all male teams, and thus have opposed Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s proclamation. Carter never served a day in the military but he’s a renowned thinker (Yale, Harvard, Oxford)and therefore feels equipped to know what’s best for the people who do. You’re persuaded that, in their opposition, the Marine panel must not have witnessed Demi Moore’s dogged portrayal of G.I. Jane — a performance that proves beyond doubt that women can wear the pants in any man’s combat outfit. You can’t imagine what worries the Marines. If women can satisfactorily pass the physical tests for strength, endurance, combat skill and toughness, they would be no different than the men. They would eat the same food and wear the same uniforms. They would do the same work for the same pay. They would kill the enemy at long distance or in hand-to-hand combat. They would carry the same gear and the same weapons. In a skirmish, if one of their brothers or sisters went down wounded, they single handedly would crawl under fire and use the “fireman’s carry” to bring him or her to safety. And since DADT policy was outlawed, females would not feel compelled to masquerade as males. That’s good news, isn’t it? They can be soldiers — and women — simultaneously. Much like members of the LGBT community who are now  openly soldiers — and homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders — simultaneously. Necessarily, with this new dictate, we must agree to  changes in some well-known terms. As an example, common sense would suggest that Band Of Brothers becomes Band of Brothers and Sisters, or Band of Brothers, Sisters and Others. Carter’s decree must assume that anyone and everyone is eligible for combat. If you happen to be hostile to the idea of women in combat, remember that combat-ready women already occupy important roles in law enforcement. Who can forget when Clarice Starling took down Jame Gumb (alias Buffalo Bill)in Silence of the Lambs? In real life, who doesn’t know that one Loretta Lynch is the top cop on the block? To be sure, Clarice, Loretta and city police officers aren’t confined to common quarters and forced to live together. To some doubters, the “living together” might pose a bit of an issue. Some might say that soldiers are men first. Some might say that men and women have only one thing in common and that one thing has nothing to do with attitudes, activities, feelings, etc. Ashton Carter has chosen to use the military as a social experiment. If lives were not at stake, you might give it a wink, a nod and a smirk. But you can be sure Steinem’s in her glory (no near pun intended). She spent her life furthering the cause of social justice. She has her wish, at least with respect to women, whose places are no longer in the home, but rather on the battlefield beside men. For their part, men have always wanted women beside them. But please. Not wearing  fatigues.