“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.” —Samuel Adams (1781)
IN TODAY’S DIGEST
Nate Jackson
We’ve written more than once about the importance of the Georgia Senate runoffs and the critical need for victories by both Republican senators, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. We’ve also warned about the radical nature of their opponents, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, respectively. There were important developments in the race over the weekend.
We’ll start with the reason for Republican infighting — the 2020 election results and the allegations of voter fraud in the Peach State. Republican Governor Brian Kemp backed a hand recount in the state, which reduced Joe Biden’s lead by only about a thousand votes from the initial count. Kemp backed a second recount, which found the same result. And he rejected President Donald Trump’s call on Saturday for a special legislative session with the hopes of appointing pro-Trump electors to throw the state to the president anyway.
Why? As Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger put it, “We’ve never found systemic fraud. We don’t see anything that would overturn the will of the people here in Georgia.”
To Trump’s credit, he still came to the state Saturday and stumped for Loeffler and Perdue. “The answer is not to stay at home,” Trump declared. “That’s what Nancy Pelosi and [Chuck] Schumer … want you to do.” Indeed, as Mark Alexander warned, Schumer hopes Georgia is his path to tyranny — court packing, Senate packing, ending the legislative filibuster, draconian gun control, etc. “Now we take Georgia,” Schumer said last month, “and then we change the world.”
Instead, Trump said, “If you want to do something to them — I don’t want to use the word ‘revenge,’ but it is a certain revenge — to the Democrats, you show up and vote in record numbers. That’s what you have to do.”
He also reminded people that Georgia’s voter registration deadline is today, December 7.
Meanwhile, Loeffler and Warnock debated Sunday night, covering a number of things from the economy to coronavirus policy to the character of each candidate. Notably, Loeffler challenged Warnock on a couple of key issues — court packing and Marxism — and Warnock evaded on both.
“People [in Georgia] aren’t asking me about the courts and whether we should expand the courts,” said Warnock. “I know that’s an interesting question for people inside the Beltway to discuss. But [voters are] wondering when in the world are they going to get some COVID relief?”
On the Marxism question, Loeffler pointedly asked, “In your writings and your teachings you’ve repeatedly praised Marxism and the redistribution of income,” said Loeffler. “Can you here [and] now for all Georgians renounce socialism and Marxism?”
Warnock responded by noting that his dad was a small business owner and that his church built a community center. But Loeffler’s right about his longtime support for socialism.
For whatever little it’s worth, polls show a tight race. Some polling even has the two Democrats leading the Republican incumbents. Many folks, from Trump’s attorneys to the malcontents at The Lincoln Project to their leftist allies, are urging Georgia Republicans to boycott the election. So, again, we’ll convey to our Georgia readers the critical message of voting on January 5. As President Trump put it, “Friends of mine say we are not going to vote because we are angry about the presidential election. Don’t listen to my friends.” He added that “Georgia Patriots” must “show up and vote for these two incredible people.”
Thomas Gallatin
Did Joe Biden just reveal his and the Democrats’ exit strategy in the event that he is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States? You could argue he did based on comments during an interview in which Biden and Kamala Harris appeared with CNN’s Jake Tapper and Don Lemon.
Introducing a rather strange question, Tapper asked Biden how he would handle significant differences of opinion with Harris on policy issues. The obvious answer should have been that the buck stops with the president (the one elected by the people to lead the nation), not the vice president, but that’s not the answer Biden offered. Instead, Biden answered by presenting a strange coequal-sounding arrangement before rambling, “Like I told Barack [Obama], if I reach something where there’s a fundamental disagreement we have based on a moral principle, I’ll develop some disease and say I have to resign.”
Some have sought to spin Biden’s remark as him merely attempting a joke that fell flat. Yet the context of his response belies such an interpretation. Biden’s comment leaves folks with two possible understandings: Either Biden is suggesting that his arrangement with Obama will carry over in similar fashion to Harris, in that if she finds herself in significant moral disagreement with Biden, the expectation is that she will give some bogus reason outside of a policy dispute and resign, or (the more likely interpretation) is that Biden will be the one faking and resigning.
The blatant dishonesty Biden suggests he would present to the American people as his rationale for potential resignation should be shocking. But given Biden’s problematic record with truthfulness, it’s not. The obvious takeaway from Biden’s statement is that Americans can never really trust him when he declares his rationale for the decisions he makes.
Furthermore, as Fox News’s Lawrence Jones points out, “This is why he doesn’t do interviews — because he is so incoherent. This is why they kept him in the basement for the majority of the campaign.” Biden’s slipping mental acuity is evident. Furthermore, he has essentially let the cat out of the bag on what the arrangement between him and Harris has been the whole time. Should Biden become president, he will enjoy the accolades of becoming president for a short time only to then step aside for Harris to take the lead and move forward with her radical leftist agenda. Conservatives have long suspected this was the arrangement after Biden secured the Democrat nomination, and his bumbling remarks could be seen as having confirmed it.
Douglas Andrews
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a hard worker, and her Republican colleagues are lazy bums. Just ask her.
“The thing that these conservative Senators don’t seem to understand,” she tweeted recently, “is that I’ve actually had a physically difficult working-class job without good healthcare most of my adult life. I bring that work ethic to Congress & to my community. They sit around on leather chairs all day.”
So says the glamour-conscious “working class” girl whose adult life is actually a relatively recent phenomenon.
Marco Rubio, one of those slothful senators she smeared, wasn’t taking it sitting down. “Working together R’s & D’s helped save the jobs of 55 million Americans through PPP [the Paycheck Protection Program],” he fired back. “Work more, tweet less & one day you too can make a difference.” (Rubio clearly has a point about AOC’s love affair with Twitter. She’s been in Congress less than two years, yet she’s already fired off nearly twelve thousand of the substance-free mini-missives.)
“Republicans like to make fun of the fact that I used to be a waitress,” she added, “but we all know if they ever had to do a double they’d be the ones found crying in the walk-in fridge halfway through their first shift bc someone yelled at them for bringing seltzer when they wanted sparkling.”
AOC may have some thin skin about having been a waitress. But lots of folks work hard waiting tables or bartending or laboring in countless other ways, whether they’re young or old. One of our newest members of Congress, 69-year-old former NFLer Burgess Owens, for example, used to clean chimneys. Regardless, any self-styled working girl who’d would walk away from a perfectly good name like Sandy Cortez in favor of a snooty, sesquipedalian mouthful like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deserves whatever ridicule comes her way.
While not a senator, Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw felt compelled to weigh in as well. At a campaign rally this weekend for incumbent Georgia Senator David Perdue, Crenshaw said, “These people are nuts. It’s not just Chuck Schumer; Chuck Schumer is controlled by people like AOC, who believes that the biggest hardship in life was figuring out whether it was still or sparkling, and you don’t know hardship until you’ve cried in the back. … I was like, jeez, I am so glad I did not have to do that in my former career. That was our biggest problem in the mountains of Afghanistan … do we offer them still or sparkling, and what if they don’t like it? Rough out there, man.”
Crenshaw, who lost his right eye in 2012 to an IED in Helmand Province during his third deployment, added to AOC, “Thank you for highlighting how ridiculous you sound. We ‘republican elites’ who fought in the mountains of Afghanistan will just go ahead and check our privilege.”
AOC can’t seem to quit while she’s behind, and she appears intent on becoming her generation’s version of “Scranton Joe” Biden: a show-horse politician who consistently invokes his phony blue-collar roots.
If the results of November’s election are any indication, though, blue-collar folks aren’t buying it. As The New York Times’s Lisa Lerer reports, “Of the 265 counties most dominated by blue-collar workers — areas where at least 40 percent of employed adults have jobs in construction, the service industry or other nonprofessional fields — Mr. Biden won just 15, according to data from researchers at the Economic Innovation Group, a bipartisan policy research group.”
So much for the one-time party of the working class.
Robin Smith
Voting laws, and their timing, make Americans question if their votes in this constitutional Republic have meaning, equal value, and are protected from scandal. In some instances there were warranted changes to the voting laws to accommodate those fearful of COVID-19, but leftists began their efforts to impact the November 2020 election much earlier than this year.
“As Democrats select their 2020 presidential nominee, a constellation of left-leaning groups is looking ahead, laying groundwork for huge voter turnout in November by filing an avalanche of voting-rights lawsuits against state laws they say suppress participation in elections,” said Politico in a February article titled, “Democrats launch massive legal campaign on voting ahead of 2020.” The article adds, “The groups, including state and national party committees as well as outside nonprofits, are spending millions of dollars to fight voter-registration purges, ID requirements and rules regarding signature-matching and ballot order, and they are also hiring voter protection staffers and recruiting and training volunteers in key states. Democratic donors are flooding the wide-reaching legal effort with millions of dollars.”
Without knowing the date, we might think this quote was published just before the presidential election, or at least after March once COVID was known to be a pandemic. In February, however, Politico was describing the legal groundwork underway by the political Left to change voting procedures. But the quote discusses things that came all the way back in January 2019.
House Resolution 1 was introduced that month, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi resumed her party’s majority control over the House with the aim to restructure voting for all Americans regardless of state laws and jurisdictions. The timing was critical to make these changes, not just because of the determination to beat Donald Trump but because of the redistricting done at the state level set to occur in 2021 based on the Census completed every 10 years.
Nobly named, the For the People Act of 2019 eventually passed the Democrat-controlled House with no Republican support in March of last year. This supposedly honorable piece of legislation filled with 622 pages of changes to the voting process wasn’t supported by anyone from the Center-Right for good reason.
First, despite the fact that public schools have terrible proficiency in Civics and U.S. History, HR1 would allow children down to age 16 to vote. The law would have begun automatic voter registration for all who engage with the government for any service, such as welfare and the DMV, which in some states does not require proof of citizenship. It would have allowed same-day registration, preventing accurate verification of identity and residency. Furthermore, the Democrat legislation would have prohibited states from purging voter rolls of inactive voters, dead people, or noncitizens. It would have also given the automatic restoration of voting rights to all felons without consideration of sentencing, crime committed, or time served. Among many other federal controls, HR 1, had it passed the Senate, would have allowed activist or third-party groups to canvass neighborhoods and take possession of absentee ballots not returned via U.S. Postal Service.
If this failed bill and well-used excuse of COVID-19 aren’t enough to make the voting process seem unstable, add to it the “eight-figure investment” to flip state legislative races, the “court challenges on tackling barriers to registration and voting, as well as ballot-order rules, in states with high-profile Senate races, including Arizona, Texas and Georgia,” and the work of a super PAC called Priorities USA, working in Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin to file suits.
The trust in American institutions is already frayed and eroded with the press, education, and even healthcare assigned to partisans. Now, sadly, American Patriots have lost confidence in their votes being dependably counted.
Arnold Ahlert
Perhaps nothing better reveals what the American public is up against in terms of whether or not we remain a constitutional republic than the coordinated effort to blame the devastation arising from the coronavirus pandemic on the Trump administration. In short, the reality that communist China is the source of the scourge — and that its secretive and criminal behavior has exponentially exacerbated it — has been largely obscured. This is no accident. An American electorate focused on the true culprit of this ongoing calamity would present huge problems for our corporate oligarchy, which is so hellbent on maintaining “market share” with communist thugs that the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans is reduced to the cost of doing business.
How contemptible are these oligarchs? Several “American” companies, including Apple, Nike, and Coca-Cola, are lobbying Congress to water down legislation aimed at barring the import of products made with Uyghur forced (read: slave) labor from China’s Xinjiang province.
Despite America being as divided as it has ever been, the level of bipartisan support for this bill is overwhelming. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, introduced by Representative James McGovern (D-MA) in September, sailed through the House in a 406-3 landslide vote.
Its purpose is clear. “Goods manufactured or produced in Xinjiang shall not be entitled to entry into the United States unless Customs and Border Protection (1) determines that the goods were not manufactured by convict labor, forced labor, or indentured labor under penal sanctions; and (2) reports such a determination to Congress and to the public,” it states.
After that it gets exceedingly “interesting,” especially if Joe Biden ultimately gets to the Oval Office. That’s because it also requires the president to periodically report to Congress a list of foreign entities and individuals knowingly facilitating the use of forced labor, and impose property- and visa-blocking sanctions on the listed individuals and entities.
If the New York Post’s exposé of Hunter Biden’s involvement with Chinese companies is even remotely accurate, including the more than $1 billion windfall received by his business venture just days after visiting Beijing with his father, it is conceivable that such a bill, if it is ultimately passed by the Senate, might be further watered down by the “Big Guy” himself.
In the March/April edition of Foreign Affairs, Biden asserts that America needs to “get tough” with China — and then states the way to do so “is to build a united front of U.S. allies and partners to confront China’s abusive behaviors and human rights violations, even as we seek to cooperate with Beijing on issues where our interests converge, such as climate change, nonproliferation, and global health security.”
If that sounds like typical bureaucratic doublespeak that keeps the door wide open for reinstating the America last, globalist oligarch status quo — that’s because it is.
Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, is indicative. Blinken cofounded WestExec Advisors, a company whose website boasts about helping a “leading American pharmaceutical company” and a multibillion-dollar American technology firm expand their Chinese market share. And in 2015, during his tenure as the deputy secretary of state in the Obama-Biden administration, Blinken praised China’s counterterrorism efforts, saying that nation “warily guards against the growing pull of extremist ideology among its youth.”
Now that those efforts include forced sterilizations and abortions, as well as concentration camps and forced labor? Salih Hudayar, prime minister of East Turkistan’s government in-exile, fears these blatant human rights violations will be papered over by a Biden administration and its apologist approach to the communist regime. “We fear that it’s just going to give China the green light to continue its brutal campaign of colonization, genocide, and occupation in East Turkistan,” he warned.
Hudayar also offered his take on the efforts by corporate America to water down the Uyghur Forced Labor Act, saying, “They’re just trying to — thinking from a strictly business perspective — maximize their profits.” He also noted the inherent contradiction of those companies denying they use slave labor, even as they tried to undermine legislation against it. “If they weren’t using forced labor, why are they pushing against this bill?”
According to The New York Times, double talk prevails: “Lobbyists have fought to water down some of [the Act’s] provisions, arguing that while they strongly condemn forced labor and current atrocities in Xinjiang, the act’s ambitious requirements could wreak havoc on supply chains that are deeply embedded in China.”
Those would be the same multinational-supported supply chains that have made America unconscionably vulnerable to the whims of Beijing. It took a pandemic for Americans to learn their nation relies on Chinese supply chains for critical drugs, and that the last American plant producing penicillin was Bristol-Myers Squibb, which closed its factory in East Syracuse, New York, in 2004. China also has a monopoly on rare earths that comprise the components of cars, dishwashers, military equipment, and magnets, as America’s last major producer, Molycorp, went bankrupt in 2015.
What kind of nation allows itself to become dependent on its chief adversary for critical needs? One run by people with unprecedented levels of wealth and wholesale contempt for patriotism, national security, and the nation-state itself — even as they remain wholly insulated from any consequences of their odious machinations. Thus, while Coca-Cola lobbies against the Uyghur Forced Labor Act, it insists it “strictly prohibits any type of forced labor in our supply chain” and employs third-party auditors to enforce the policy. Nike spokesperson Greg Rossiter said the company was not “lobbying against” the bill but was rather in “constructive discussions” with Congress. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce asserts the legislation was well-intentioned but missed the mark. Apple CEO Tim Cook insists his company does not employ forced laborers. “We would not tolerate it in Apple,” he said, adding that Apple would “terminate a supplier relationship if it were found.”
One suspects that Apple, along with other multinationals, isn’t looking too hard. And while Cook insists Apple supports the legislation, two congressional staffers who worked with the company’s lobbyists said they are trying to weaken the bill. Moreover, now that the bill, sponsored in the House by Jim McGovern (D-MA) and in the Senate by Marco Rubio (R-FL), has moved to the upper chamber, those efforts are allegedly intensifying.
Yet there’s a question no one appears to be asking. Why is this legislation geographically limited to the Xinjiang province? What’s to stop China from relocating what amounts to slave labor to any location of its choosing, especially if it enables this contemptible construct to remain intact?
The bet here is that no one in our corporate-controlled media will ask. Thus, Americans will continue to endure corporate virtue signaling about the need to end nonexistent “systemic” racism in America, even as those same corporations abide slave labor in China. And Congress, equally bipartisan when it comes to taking corporate campaign donations, will propose largely toothless legislation to accommodate them.
In short, it’s the perfect storm — of quid pro quo corruption.
Douglas Andrews
Dennis Prager has made many astute observations in his life, but perhaps none of them more perspicacious than this: Leftism destroys everything it touches.
It’s true. You name it, and the Left has likely ruined it. As Prager points out, leftists have destroyed our universities by making them “laughingstocks of intolerance.” They’ve debased the arts by turning them from a pursuit that elevates us to one that seeks simply to shock. As for literature, they’ve canceled Shakespeare in favor of a more “diverse” lineup of authors, poets, and playwrights. Once-funny late-night TV is now unfunny “Left-night TV,” religion has been poisoned by hard-left politics, free speech is now “hate speech,” and on and on.
The Left even wrecks the words we use. Take the word “fact,” for example. According to the ol’ Funk and Wagnalls, it means: Anything that is, is done, or happens; an act; deed; truth; reality.
Fact = reality. Got it? Got it.
But no more. A fact, according to the Left, is now contingent on context. For example, when we point out the fact that a lot of Democrat politicians are preaching one thing while practicing another — telling us to stay home to stop the spread of COVID while they sneak into a tony San Francisco salon, or slink off to some sickeningly snobbish French restaurant in Napa Valley, or jet off to a timeshare in Cabo San Lucas — the Leftmedia can now run a “fact-check” headline telling us that “politicians on both sides of the aisle have flouted COVID-19 guidelines” and that our claim “lacks context.”
Republicans are doing it, too! scream the “fact-checkers” at USA Today.
And indeed they are, from President Donald Trump on down. But there’s one yuuge difference: hypocrisy. The Republicans are on the opposite side of the “lockdown” argument, and they haven’t been shuttering their constituents’ businesses and sanctimoniously telling them to stay home. The Democrats have.
Lots of folks can stomach onerous rules and regulations. Nobody, though, likes a hypocrite. And when it comes to hypocrisy, the list of pro-lockdown Democrats who’ve broken their own COVID-19 guidelines is a long one: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Governor Gavin Newsom, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, and Austin Mayor Steve Adler, to name some of the leading culprits.
In a similar vein last week, USA Today “fact-checked” the claim that Jen Psaki, Joe Biden’s nominee for press secretary, posed for a picture with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Stooge John Kerry while wearing a stylishly pink Cossack hat with the Russian hammer and sickle on it.
Remember: This is the same USA Today that recently “fact-checked” as true the claim that the eagle on an “America First” shirt was actually a Nazi symbol.
This hammer-and-sickle thing would seem to be the easiest of claims to check. Either Psaki was wearing the hat or she wasn’t. And she was, as this photo makes abundantly clear. Or so we think.
See if you can make sense of USA Today’s “fact-check” ruling: “Jen Psaki, recently named White House press secretary for President-elect Joe Biden, is seen in a 2014 photo … wearing a pink hat with a hammer and sickle emblem, which was a gift from the Russians that she returned. At the time, Psaki was spokesperson for the U.S. State Department. The image is real, but claims that the hat was anything more a gift or that Psaki was with Russian officials in any capacity beyond her official role are MISSING CONTEXT.”
Who cares whether it was a gift? And who cares whether she returned it? Did she wear the hat or didn’t she?
Clearly, we’ve entered a strange new world. As the Washington Examiner’s Becket Adams notes, “Fact checks are supposed to review claims for factual accuracy, not downplay them with a ham-fisted attempt at bothsiderism. … This is not fact-checking. This is damage control. This is advocacy.”
Thomas Gallatin
This past summer, the FBI arrested six Chinese researchers for lying on their visa applications and for being suspected of engaging in efforts to steal intellectual property at the direction of the Chinese government. On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced that 1,000 additional Chinese “researchers” had fled the country. Coincidence?
Assistant Attorney General John Demers explained that the arrests “allowed us to message the Chinese government: If you’re going to send individuals here, you’ve got to do so honestly and you can’t hide their affiliation to the Chinese government and the Chinese military.” However, according to another anonymous official, the number of Chinese researchers that left the U.S. surprised the DOJ: “The breadth and depth of the exodus was not expected, but it was appreciated.”
Analyst Gary Bauer, however, argues that the DOJ’s “surprise” regarding the number of Chinese individuals engaged in espionage is confounding. “For the past 30 years, ‘cultural exchange’ programs with China have flourished in the United States, all the while facilitating Beijing’s aggressive espionage efforts,” Bauer writes. Yet, he adds, “Previous administrations of both parties generally ignored it, too afraid of upsetting the status quo.”
The scope of Beijing’s efforts to spy on and steal intellectual property from the U.S. should be an obvious indication of which country stands as the greatest threat to America today. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe certainly agrees with that assessment, as he labeled China the United States’ number one security threat. In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal, Ratcliffe contends that China is gearing up to face off against the U.S. soon. “Beijing is preparing for an open-ended period of confrontation with the U.S.,” he says. “Washington should also be prepared. Leaders must work across partisan divides to understand the threat, speak about it openly, and take action to address it.”
Ratcliffe then asserts, “This generation will be judged by its response to China’s effort to reshape the world in its own image and replace America as the dominant superpower. The intelligence is clear. Our response must be as well.”
In October 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared, “I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.” This was a reiteration of his earlier assertion, “We are keeping out of the wars that are going on in Europe and in Asia. … Our opponents are seeking to frighten the country by telling people that the present administration is deliberately … drifting into war. You know better than that.”
Roosevelt campaigned on neutrality in 1940. Roosevelt assured his constituents, “I give … to the people of this country this most solemn assurance: There is no secret treaty, no secret obligation, no secret commitment, no secret understanding in any shape or form, direct or indirect, with any other government, or any other nation in any part of the world, to involve this nation in any war.”
Unfortunately, Germany’s Führer Adolf Hitler and Japan’s Prime Minister Hideki Tojo didn’t cooperate.
On December 7, 1941, more than 350 Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing 2,390 American servicemen and civilians and wounding 1,282. The attack sank or damaged eight battleships, three cruisers, three destroyers, and one minelayer, and destroyed 188 aircraft. It took four years and the full military-industrial capability of the United States to defeat Japan. That included a young Naval aviator by the name of George Herbert Walker Bush.
There was no more devastating surprise attack on the United States until 9/11.
After the attack, Roosevelt stated: “December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. … Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory. … With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounded determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph — so help us God.”
Historian Victor Davis Hanson writes, “After Pearl Harbor, the United States went into a rearmament frenzy the likes of which had never been seen in history. America produced more airplanes and ships than all World War II powers combined. The U.S. military grew to 12 million soldiers. American military leadership in the Pacific — led by Admirals William Halsey Jr., Chester Nimitz and Raymond Spruance, along with Generals Curtis LeMay and Douglas MacArthur — proved far more skilled than their Japanese counterparts. And the American soldier, sailor, airman and Marine, after a bruising learning experience in early 1942, proved every bit as ferocious as veteran Japanese fighters.”
It is with honor and respect for those who died or suffered terrible injuries that Sunday morning that we should never again fall into the slumber that allowed such a tragedy as Pearl Harbor — or the attack on Sept. 11, 2001.
Jordan Candler
Election Debrief
- Michigan judge allows probe of Dominion voting machines (Fox News)
- Joe Biden picks California AG Xavier Becerra as health secretary (Reuters)
“Your daily reminder that … Xavier Becerra tried to FORCE pro-life crisis pregnancy centers in CA to advertise free abortions.” —Liz Wheeler
- For CDC, Biden picks Rochelle Walensky (Politico)
Government & Politics
- Congress closes in on $908 billion aid bill (Reuters) | Nancy Pelosi will now accept a smaller relief bill “because we have a new president” (Daily Wire)
- Now who’s contesting elections? The Democrat House could overturn results in Iowa and New York (WSJ)
“House Democrats are sweating, having lost at least 10 seats when they were supposed to gain that many. If Ms. Miller-Meeks and Ms. Tenney prevail, the House will likely be split 222-213, leaving the GOP five seats from a majority in 2022 and potentially narrowing Nancy Pelosi’s path to be re-elected as Speaker in January. The Democratic pressure to do everything in their power to prevent these two losses will be immense.”
- DNI John Ratcliffe urges John Durham to release interim report in order to protect investigation (Daily Caller)
- John Brennan lies about the Steele dossier as Chris Wallace nods along (RedState) | Chris Wallace “corrects” Alex Azar secretary for not calling Biden the president-elect (Washington Examiner)
- House passes bill to end federal marijuana prohibition (Yahoo Finance)
- Biden changes his story on Osama bin Laden raid — again (Fox News)
“Despite his initial hesitation, Biden said he ultimately urged Obama in a private Oval Office conversation to give the green light and ‘follow your instincts on this one.’ [Biden’s] account contradicts his original remarks from eight years ago, when he claimed during a retreat in Maryland for congressional Democrats that he encouraged Obama to hold off on the raid.”
Leftmedia
- ABC’s George Stephanopoulos directs viewers to Democrat fundraising page (The Federalist)
The Latest on COVID-19
- CDC director approves coronavirus vaccine plan (Fox News)
- States submit vaccine orders (AP)
- Trump announces lawyer Rudy Giuliani tests positive (Washington Examiner)
- California residents under strict stay-at-home orders through Christmas (NPR)
- Sweden’s infection rate soars above Britain, Germany, and Spain (Daily Mail)
Education
- Columbia failed to disclose $1 million in CCP funding (Free Beacon)
- Education Department confirms it’s still investigating Princeton for systemic racism (College Fix)
- Texas A&M student “required” to meet with “conduct” office after placing Trump signs on “public property” (Campus Reform)
- San Diego teachers forced to attend trainings in which they are called racists (Not the Bee)
- Homeschooling more than doubles during the pandemic (FEE)
National Security
- Judge orders government to fully reinstate DACA program (NY Times)
- Trump orders withdrawal of troops from Somalia (NY Post)
- Congress moves to block troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and Germany (Military.com)
- Diplomats who became ill in Cuba and China may have been targeted with a type of radiation (Daily Wire)
Around the Nation
- At least 5 killed, 34 shot in Chicago during bloody weekend (Fox News)
“On Tuesday, Chicago PD reported 3,790 people were shot through Nov. 30, compared to 2,403 in the same time period last year. Murders increased by more than half, with 716 homicides through the end of November, compared to the 464 murders in 2019.”
- NYC’s shooting surge reaches “levels unseen in years” (Fox News)
“The uptick in shootings across the Big Apple continued through November, with the NYPD reporting a surge of 112.5% for the month compared to the same time last year. The police department documented 115 shootings this November compared to the 51 reported during the 2019 month, officials said. Year to date, the department has seen gun violence skyrocket by 95.8% compared to the first 11 months of 2019 — 1,412 shootings so far in 2020 compared to the 721 by that point last year, police said.”
“Theater of the Absurd” Headline Award
Double Standards
- LA restaurant owner’s outdoor dining area shut down by mayor. Days later, film production company sets up outdoor dining area 15 feet away. (Not the Bee)
Non Compos Mentis
- Ohio allows full-contact wrestling but bans post-match handshakes (Disrn)
On a Lighter Note…
- Thirty of Walter Williams’s best quotes on liberty, rights, property, and coercion (FEE)
- Prisoners raise $30,000 to put student in need through school (InspireMore)
- World War II vet beats COVID-19, celebrates 104th birthday (AP)
- This guy tackled and punched a 350 lb. bear to save his dog (Not the Bee)
- Watch this Chihuahua bite a bear in the butt like a total psycho (Not the Bee)
Closing Arguments
- Policy: Give to charity over political campaigns (National Review)
- Policy: The war on the Electoral College has only just begun (National Review)
- Humor: A touching gesture: Kamala Harris sends Biden 17 get-well-soon puppies (Babylon Bee) | Transition team begins installing Life Alert buttons throughout the White House (Babylon Bee)
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James O’Keefe’s Takeaways From Snatched CNN Meetings — The Project Veritas founder says it’s “unusual for a … media conglomerate CEO to be directing the narrative.”
Dems Ignore Their Own COVID Rules — Meanwhile, they call for more lockdowns.
COVID-19 Bounty — Is the pandemic death count skewed by Medicare reimbursement bonus?
Vaccine Passports Coming? — Wales moves one step closer to making it happen.
Humor: How Democrats Think Election Fraud Ended — Those commies forgot to turn on the alarm clock!
Humor: What It’d Be Like Living With a Fact-Checker — “Listen, I fact-checked it. So what you’re seeing in front of you isn’t there.”
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Upright: “Life has risks, and we need to take precautions, but that’s no excuse to intimidate people and shut down churches. If 150 people can keep packing out planes, elbow to elbow for hours, then there’s no reason we can’t sit in a pew on Sunday morning. Religious liberty is a fundamental freedom. Flying on a plane isn’t.” —Tony Perkins
Observations: “It’s not good to be too cynical, but these days, it’s harder and harder not to be. We now have a country full of cynics. They’ve been trained to be cynical. All the lying and posturing and phony branding and hypocrisy come with a price, and that price is nobody believes anything or anyone anymore.” —Neil Patel
For the record: “There is a lot [of people] on that illiberal left that absolutely condescend, patronize, and are arrogant toward the other 50%. Many people … when Trump was voted in four years ago, they were in denial that it was actually real. Some of them were in absolute denial.” —Matthew McConaughey
Income Redistribution 101: “Even if [Americans] don’t know one of our 43 million friends and neighbors buried under 1.5 trillion dollars in federal student loan debt, they understand the need to boost to our struggling economy. This is Econ 101: the best way to jumpstart our economy is to put more money in working families’ pockets — money they can spend in their communities.” —Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
Blowing a gasket: “I’m done with being polite! I actually would like people in this country to stay alive. Unlike some of your friends and Republicans in the Senate and in the House. And President Trump, whose presidency is killing people.” —MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski
Victimitis: “Those of us in journalism have to come to terms with the fact that free speech, a principle that we hold sacred, is being weaponized against the principles of journalism.” —The New Yorker’s Steve Coll
Non compos mentis: “The push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny.” —Chicago Teachers Union
And last… “Business owners are being arrested in America for just trying to earn a living. In America. Think about that. What a disgrace.” —Lisa Boothe
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