“A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.” —Alexander Hamilton (1788)
IN TODAY’S DIGEST
Douglas Andrews
Now what?
Last week, we had hopes for a Hail Mary from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — a pleading with the U.S. Supreme Court that the fraudulent electoral processes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin “suffered from significant and unconstitutional irregularities” and violated the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, and that the results in those states should therefore be negated.
No dice. “The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution,” said the 51-word order from the Supreme Court. “Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.”
Thus, as predicted by National Review’s Andrew McCarthy and others, the High Court refused to take up the case because each of the 50 states is entitled to make its own electoral laws, not because it deemed that the issues raised in the suit don’t have merit. Issues such as the national ramifications of improper state election corruption and the necessity of equal protection under the laws for all citizens most certainly do have merit. Illegal electoral practices in any state’s national-office elections impact every state and all Americans.
Here, though, even Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, who issued a statement saying they’d have heard the case, said they would “not grant other relief” — which means the nine justices would’ve shot it down (perhaps) unanimously.
Rudy Giuliani says the Trump legal team isn’t finished, but the window of opportunity continues to close. And legal doors keep getting slammed in their faces.
Isn’t there a judge somewhere who smells a rat? Someone who sees what the rest of us see? That Joe Biden couldn’t possibly have gotten all those votes legally, especially in the Democrat-controlled urban centers where voter turnout was at a North Korea-like 90% and Republican vote counters weren’t allowed to observe the vote-counting process?
A post-election Politico poll found that 79% of Trump supporters believe the election was stolen. What’s remarkable, though, is that 21% of Trump supporters apparently think it was on the up-and-up.
All that aside, barring some sort of last-second extraordinary measure — say, a nationwide march on Washington followed by a declaration of martial law and a call for new elections in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — President Donald Trump won’t prevail.
The Electoral College meets today to cast their votes for president and vice president. Nothing leads us to believe that they won’t vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Tick, tock.
As John Hinderaker writes at Power Line, “There is no way that the Trump campaign’s various legal challenges, whether meritorious or not, will be resolved in time to make a difference. Which means that Joe Biden will be inaugurated under a cloud. Close to one-half of Americans will believe, likely correctly in my opinion, that he did not actually win the election. Legal proceedings will continue, but perhaps more important, enterprising authors will write books about the election. Some will argue that the Democrats stole the presidential race, others will try to defend Biden’s ‘win.’ … The debate will go on, with partisans on both sides mostly believing what they want to believe.”
But then what? What actually happens on January 21 and for the rest of 2021 if Biden is inaugurated? What happens for the rest of Biden’s four-year term, whether he actually serves it out or not?
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says, “[President Trump] has a lot of sway over the Republican Party. If he objects to anything Biden [does], it would be hard to get Republicans on board. If he blessed some kind of deal, it would be easier to get something done. In many ways, he’ll be a shadow president.”
A shadow president, eh? Democrats gave Trump no peace whatsoever during his four-year term. Maybe Trump will repay the favor. Perhaps he and his staff will fire off a contrarian tweet and a one-pager whenever Biden announces a new policy or signs an executive order. If ever Biden ventures out of the White House, Trump might just follow him and hold his own impromptu rally and presser. He may start his own TV network so he and his guests could vigorously oppose, berate, and deride our illegitimate president every night during prime time. He could extend his “Trump” and “MAGA” clothing business to include a “They Stole It” line and an “Electoral Reform Now” line. How might the rest of us resist? Do we refuse to pay our taxes on April 15? (Asking for a friend.)
In addition to sharing some thoughts from fellow conservatives, whose analyses vary from restrained bitterness to all-out civil disobedience, Hinderaker pulls no punches: “For the sake of what is left of our country,” he says, “we should #Resist the Biden administration and the Democrats every step of the way for the next four years.”
Even Rush Limbaugh is wondering what’s next. “There cannot be a peaceful coexistence of two completely different theories of life, theories of government, theories of how we manage our affairs,” he says. “We can’t be in this dire a conflict without something giving somewhere along the way.”
Arnold Ahlert
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” —George Orwell, 1984
Last Wednesday, YouTube announced it would begin removing all new video uploads that question the outcome of the 2020 election. “Our policies prohibit misleading viewers about where and how to vote,” YouTube stated in a blog post. “We also disallow content alleging widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of a historical U.S. Presidential election. However in some cases, that has meant allowing controversial views on the outcome or process of counting votes of a current election as election officials have worked to finalize counts.”
The video platform’s rationale? “Yesterday [December 7] was the safe harbor deadline for the U.S. Presidential election and enough states have certified their election results to determine a President-elect,” the blog continued. “Given that, we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today (or anytime after) that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, in line with our approach towards historical U.S. Presidential elections.”
How effective are YouTube’s censorship efforts? In the same blog, the platform boasted that “over 8000 channels and thousands of harmful and misleading elections-related video” have been eliminated since September, and that 77% of them were removed before they had 100 views — even as it characterized itself an “important source of election news.”
A highly selective source is more like it — one where anything inimical to the agenda of our progressive, ruling-class oligarchs will be digitally incinerated.
The hypocrisy is blinding. YouTube has no problem publishing reams of content about the disputes surrounding the 2000 election, the 2016 election, or the avalanche of baseless accusations of Russian collusion. Nor did it enforce the same policy with regard to the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race, and losing Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams’s baseless allegations that voter fraud and suppression tilted the election to GOP Governor Brian Kemp. There are even a number of still-accessible videos alleging the terrorist attacks precipitated on September 11, 2001, were a false-flag operation, with at least one asserting that former Republican VP Dick Cheney was in charge of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans.
What is the ultimate goal of YouTube and other Big Tech corporations? 1984 provides the answer. “Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete. Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound tracks, photographs — all had to be rectified at lightning speed. Although no directive was ever issued, it was known that the chiefs of the Department intended that within one week no reference to the war with Eurasia, or the alliance with Eastasia, should remain in existence anywhere.”
In one sense, Orwell is out of date. Our Big Tech overlords don’t need a week to reconfigure reality, nor do they need human data “processors” like 1984’s Winston Smith working to the point of exhaustion to carry out their authoritarian ambitions. These days it’s all about algorithms created by social justice-imbued, useful-idiot techs who can expunge three-quarters of all unapproved videos before they reach more than 100 views. In short, as far as these totalitarian wannabes are concerned, Orwell’s masterwork isn’t the cautionary tale it was intended to be.
It’s a how-to manual.
Moreover, as far as their supporters in the Democrat Party are concerned, YouTube and the rest of our Big Tech overlords aren’t censorious enough. During a hearing conducted in November by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein wanted to know what Facebook had done to stop “the spread of misinformation” regarding the election results. Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) urged Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to step up his platform’s efforts to fight “misinformation” and clamp down on posts linked to “climate denialism.” Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) also blasted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for allowing conservative news outlets to be part of its group of “third-party fact-checkers.” Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) thanked Facebook for censoring a group called Stop the Steal, which is contesting the election results.
YouTube is owned by Google. As of last August, Google was used for 92% of all Internet search queries in the entire world. Microsoft’s Bing is second with a 2.78% market share, and Yahoo! is third with a 1.6% market share. In the video-sharing world, YouTube’s market share is 73.7%, with second-place Vimeo at 18.6%. As FinancesOnline reveals, Google and YouTube are the one and two most-visited websites, respectively, on the entire planet. And in a chilling boast, it notes that “when you don’t know how to do something you either Google it or find out more about it on YouTube.”
Or, as it is now abundantly clear, you don’t — not when there’s a de facto monopoly to prevent it.
How much power do these tech titans have? In conjunction with a wholly corrupted mainstream media — and quite possibly our equally corrupted Deep State — they have the power to literally decide who runs the nation. The power to completely black out a story about Hunter Biden’s dubious associations with Chinese communists and Joe Biden’s connections to them before the election, and then suddenly put them front and center after the election. Stories that also reveal Biden’s brother, James, also under a criminal investigation. Stories once collectively dismissed as “Russian disinformation” or, as NPR’s Managing Editor for News Terence Samuel put it, “stories that are not really stories” but rather “just pure distractions” that are suddenly credible and damning.
In short, “records of all kinds, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound tracks, photographs” have indeed been “rectified at lightning speed.”
Why the coordinated about-face? With Trump effectively out of the picture, who needs a 78-year-old middle-of-the-road political retread with mentation problems when there’s a radical leftist vice president waiting in the wings? “The combination of this investigation and health considerations will lead to the resignation of Joe Biden from office,” asserts columnist Shipwreckedcrew. “Health reasons will be the public explanation, but there is no way for Joe Biden to escape the web of criminal entanglements that Hunter Biden was involved in with the Chinese and others based on the information that became public prior to the election.”
Is the American electorate prepared for a scenario where neither Biden nor Trump is inaugurated in January? Curious minds want to know. But curiosity per se that doesn’t accrue to ruling class interests is on the verge of being completely eliminated.
“A mighty deed, which could never be mentioned, had been achieved. It was now impossible for any human being to prove by documentary evidence that the war with Eurasia had ever happened.” —George Orwell, 1984
Or that the 2020 election was about anything other than what America’s rapidly emerging Ministry of Truth says it is.
Thomas Gallatin
Joe Biden’s wife Jill holds a doctorate, but is she a “doctor”? The Bidens insist she be addressed that way. But the question ignited quite the social media hubbub over the weekend following a Saturday Wall Street Journal op-ed by Joseph Epstein titled, “Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not if You Need an M.D.” In his cheeky piece, Epstein, a former lecturer at Northwestern University who chafed himself at being referred to as a “doctor,” blasts Mrs. Biden over her insistence on being referred to as “Dr.” Jill Biden. He argues, “In contemporary universities, in the social sciences and humanities, calling oneself Dr. is thought bush league.”
For daring to question this, Northwestern University’s English Department has removed Epstein’s profile from its website. Journal editorial page editor Paul A. Gigot writes that he too has faced calls for cancellation: “This has triggered a flood of media and Twitter criticism, including demands that I retract the piece, apologize personally to Mrs. Biden, ban Mr. Epstein for all time, and resign and think upon my sins.”
Why the hubbub? Mrs. Biden received an Ed.D. from the University of Delaware and is currently an English professor at North Virginia Community College, where, as is often the practice of college students, she is referred to as “Dr. Biden.” And again, she and Joe typically insist that she receive that address. But the White House is not some college campus, nor are American citizens a bunch of students under her tutelage.
Needlessly vain and pretentious is Mrs. Biden’s demand, as well as confusing. An example of this confusion was recently displayed by celebrity-turned-political analyst Whoopi Goldberg, who mistakenly identified Mrs. Biden as a physician, suggesting she should become the next surgeon general because she was such a great doctor.
In fact, back in 2013, the LA Times’s Michael McGough questioned Mrs. Biden’s penchant for the “Dr.” title, as he wrote, “I have lots of friends (and a brother-in-law) with Ph.Ds. None of them expects to be addressed as ‘Dr.’ So what’s up with Jill Biden?” He also noted that Condoleezza Rice, who likewise holds a Ph.D., was simply referred to as “Ms. Rice.” And that’s while she was serving as George W. Bush’s secretary of state, a role with much more responsibility than that of the first lady.
Finally, the most insidious aspect of this ridiculous issue is that the public misunderstanding serves to feed a narrative that Joe’s perspective on and “plan” for tackling COVID is that much more “legitimate” than President Donald Trump’s because he’s married to a doctor. It may be subtle, and a correction is offered in certain instances like the aforementioned Goldberg confusion, but the false narrative is clearly there. By insisting on the title of “Dr.” Mrs. Biden shows her own pretension and, ironically, personal insecurity.
Mark Alexander
Predictably, Time magazine chose the dullard Joe Biden and his pending replacement, Kamala Harris, for its 2020 “Person (sic) of the Year” cover.
Like you, I can think of a phonebook full of more deserving and qualified cover options.
One who comes to mind is President Donald Trump, whose historic efforts toward peace in the Middle East just netted a fourth Islamic nation stepping up to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel. And Saudi Arabia is not far behind.
However, my choice for any person of the year cover would be Chinese Dr. Li Wenliang. The fact that most people do not know that name is very telling. He was the Wuhan doctor who boldly rang the alarm about the yet-to-be-named COVID-19 virus when the ChiComs were still concealing information about the deadly virus.
In our comprehensive COVID pandemic timeline, the most comprehensive timeline on the web, we note that on 1 January, “Wuhan China health officials issued an urgent internal notice about the spread of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and Hubei Province authorities ordered all labs sequencing the virus to destroy their samples and keep that secret. Eight Chinese doctors who saw that notice and bravely posted warnings about the novel coronavirus, were detained by Xi Jinping’s state security forces, and their laboratories were ordered to destroy samples of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.”
On 3 January, Xi Jinping’s government issued a similar national order for the secret destruction of SARS-CoV-2 virus samples.
Wuhan disease specialist Dr. Li Wenliang, among the first to warn about the outbreak, was forced by Red China’s state security forces to sign an official confession admitting he spread “false rumors” about CV19.
A month later, on 7 February, conveniently for Xi’s regime, whistleblower Li died in a Chinese state medical facility, ostensibly of CV19 disease, according to Chinese state media. Li was only 34 and healthy, and it is highly suspect that COVID would be his cause of death as claimed by the ChiComs.
It’s no small irony that on the day of Li’s death, Biden’s COVID pandemic advisor, Lisa Monaco, declared, “The good news thus far is that the coronavirus appears to be less lethal than its viral cousin SARS was in 2002 and far less lethal than Ebola was in 2014.” And Biden remained well behind the COVID reality curve in the months that followed — and will be able to declare the pandemic contained next year in large part due to the Trump administration’s actions, including the rapid development of vaccines.
Li was a hero and paid the ultimate price for his courage. Compared to Time’s choice of Biden and Harris for its cover, well, there is no comparison.
Thomas Gallatin
President Donald Trump has announced the latest Middle East peace deal, this one between Israel and Morocco. “Another HISTORIC breakthrough today!” read Trump’s social media post. “Our two GREAT friends Israel and the Kingdom of Morocco have agreed to full diplomatic relations — a massive breakthrough for peace in the Middle East!” Morocco is now the fourth Arab nation in recent months to end hostilities with Israel and agree to normalize relations with the Jewish state, the others being United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Sudan. Paging Saudi Arabia…
Part of the deal was the U.S. agreeing to officially recognize Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara. As Trump noted, “Morocco recognized the United States in 1777. It is thus fitting we recognize their sovereignty over the Western Sahara.” This will include the U.S. working to increase economic and social development with Morocco.
Trump’s foreign policy legacy is the antithesis of his predecessor’s. Whereas Barack Obama, who blamed the U.S. for much of the world’s problems, essentially initiated an “America last” foreign policy that allowed our enemies to gain both strength and influence, Trump has, with his America First agenda, reestablished the U.S. international position of world leader. In so doing, he has brokered peace agreements in a region of the world that many foreign policy experts have written off as essentially impossible.
However, Joe Biden, should he take office, plans to reverse Trump’s undeniably impressive progress in the Middle East by promising to re-enter the U.S. into the disastrous Iran nuclear deal. Such a decision would throw a lifeline to the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism. The pathetic political justification? The only reason Biden plans to get back into the Iran deal is to shore up the false narrative that Barack Obama’s seminal foreign policy “achievement” was saving the world from a nuclear-armed Iran. If anything, the deal — and Biden’s planned efforts — will only ensure that Iran ends up with nukes.
Robin Smith
As the first shipments of vaccines roll into America’s heartland, the focus has been on process and politics rather than ensuring Americans of the safety and need to choose to take the coronavirus vaccine. Americans are understandably weary of the topic of COVID because if its politicization — mask versus no mask, open school versus no school, outdoor dining versus no dining at all. And now, it’s a matter of who recommends the vaccine — a Trump supporter or a Biden supporter. Perhaps that’s why the modern-day miracle of getting a vaccine to a population in the same year the novel virus locked down the American economy has been met with scorn instead of applause.
At the early stages of the virus, when it wasn’t clear what demographic was most impacted or which treatments worked, Americans were willing to adjust their lives for their safety. During that window of time, the initial actions of Operation Warp Speed began. This emergency response team of experts assembled by the Trump administration planned on having millions of doses of vaccine to the American public by January 2021. (Remember when the Leftmedia “fact-checked” that prediction?) After just nine months, OWS hopes to administer the first immunization by today, December 14.
While Americans in growing number are protesting the closure of their businesses permanently, Bill Gates declared that the America-first approach is “selfish.” Meanwhile, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says the new measure of success will be when up to 80% of Americans are vaccinated, pushing real relief into the late summer or fall of 2021.
The same voices in the media, elected world, and unelected bureaucracy that have been demanding mask mandates, closures, and lockdowns are now among those politicizing the vaccine and sowing doubts of its research and trial processes. This shouldn’t be a surprise in light of then-candidate Kamala Harris’s declaration in the VP debate with Vice President Mike Pence that “if Donald Trump tells us to take it, I’m not taking it,” or New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s criticism that he was “not that confident” and viewed the vaccine during the Trump administration as “bad news.”
On CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar was grilled about the funding and reimbursement for the vaccine instead of being asked intelligent questions about its development and distribution. Azar did manage to communicate that the U.S. will have 900 million doses of vaccine under contract for its citizens, with options to purchase three billion doses more and that excess inventory will be made available to allies of the U.S. The second Pfizer doses will follow along with Moderna’s vaccine, likely to be approved this week, yielding up to 20 million Americans vaccinated by the end of this year.
On Fox News, Chris Wallace challenged Moncef Slaoui, PhD, the chief scientific advisor for OWS who was handpicked by the Trump administration after a distinguished career of three decades leading in vaccine science. Instead of interviewing Slaoui about vaccine administration and effectiveness, there were just more questions about hypotheticals and political arguments. Slaoui expertly navigated his answers to underscore the importance of Americans taking the vaccines to achieve a level of immunity that gets this viral spread under control.
Appropriately, a group of parrots is called a pandemonium. No matter the work, the science, or the data, the pandemonium of media haters parroting the destructive distrust in our country will continue to sow fear in whatever way it can. The goal is to redefine life, gender, and family, accuse neighbors of racism and bigotry, and now to sow fear of taking an innovative vaccine. May we all be aware of the pandemonium prattling on with the seeds of discord that will only further the Left’s agenda of growing government and reducing freedoms for the average American.
Patrick Hampton
Defunding the police is a popular notion espoused by the most radical of left-wing politicians and activists. Prominent voices in the black community support this idea that less policing would result in saved lives by way of reduced police brutality. But what does “defunding the police” really look like for our most desperate communities?
For nearly a decade, Black Lives Matter supporters have used brute force to push their narrative regarding police brutality, leveraging the rarest instances of police stops resulting in the death of a suspect. Starting with the Trayvon Martin case, progressives have villainized law enforcement officers across the nation. In 2020, the George Floyd case quite literally set cities on fire, taking with it members of the police force. Just two months after the incident took place in Minneapolis, “nearly 200” law enforcement officers applied to leave their positions, with similar instances occurring in other riot-ravaged areas. Despite this, the city council recently voted to redirect $8 million from the police budget to “violent prevention,” among other services.
A full-on “defunding” has yet to take place, yet police officers are already leaving in significant numbers. Disrespected and abused, the men and women in blue are being forced out of the most desperate communities to an unknown fate. Video testimonies and personal posts all highlight the painful decision to hang their hats for good.
So what does a world without police look like?
According to the Defund the Police website, the term defunding the police “does not mean the abolishing of community safety.” So what should it mean? The website goes on to explain how there are “alternatives” to law enforcement services that are “more effective.” It also includes decriminalization, disarmament, and demilitarization. Some municipalities even suggest replacing law enforcement with social workers. But this isn’t right. None of these demands is of sound logic.
For one, what person decides who is most effective at the scene of a crime? Law enforcement officers have upheld the tried-and-true tradition of being able to mitigate sensitive and potentially fatal situations unlike any other public safety sector. It’s not simply about protecting the life of the person of interest and the officer but also the lives of those nearby. A social worker isn’t trained to engage with anyone but his or her own client with whom he or she has an existing medical relationship. And in many of these cases, there’s little time for observation and questionnaires — even in cases when mental health is a concern. This only serves to add an additional person in harm’s way — for the inevitable police officer to arrive anyway. Case in point, the swift response of a true first responder will always be essential in the eyes of the people being protected. Defunding this only delays the help when time is of the essence.
Imagine if police officers were disarmed. While studies suggest that few police interactions require deadly force that would require a gun or weapon, people do tend to feel safer when police are around. Part of that has to do with the fact that police officers are armed. A friend or neighbor doesn’t offer the same peace of mind, much less an unarmed police officer — especially in desperate urban areas where homicides are highest. An unarmed officer is another sitting duck, another victim in a potential crossfire. This would call for the dispatch of even more police to rectify an unfortunate situation that could have been prevented with just one armed officer nearby.
Finally, imagine decriminalization, a notion echoed by many on the far Left. To the naive, it sounds like the libertarian thing to do — live and let live. This sounds good until someone runs low on his supply and decides that robbing his neighbor is the best course of action. Remember, drugs impair judgement, and while some argue that drug users aren’t all bad, law enforcement officers know exactly how illicit substances influence fatal interactions with others. Decriminalization only allows for this plague of bad judgment to proliferate, leading to physical abuse of spouses and children, neglect of minors and the elderly, and destruction of property — all mitigated with the presence of law enforcement to discourage its use and sale. This is why defunding police is hardly a remedy.
To those who maintain their argument for divesting funds away from local police forces, I challenge you to do a ride-along in the worst neighborhoods in your area. If the fear you experience doesn’t make your stomach turn upside down, then we can discuss alternative methods to law enforcement. Until then, you need them, possibly more than you could ever know.
Jordan Candler
Top of the Fold
- Today, electors across the country vote for president (NPR)
- “Not over”: President Trump pledges to press forward in election challenge (Daily Wire)
- Hunter failed to disclose $400,000 in Burisma income in 2014 tax return (Disrn)
- Email requested DC office keys for father and Chinese business partner (National Review)
Election Debrief
- Black Lives Matter accuses Biden of ignoring it: “It’s demeaning to our hurt and trauma” (Fox News)
- Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, former VP contender, turns down Team Biden offer (Daily Wire)
Georgia Runoff
- “A scandal to the faith”: Black pastors urge Raphael Warnock to reverse abortion position (Washington Examiner)
“This is an exercise in futility. Any denouncement of abortion by Warnock would be disingenuous at best and deceptive at worst. Of what benefit is getting him to denounce abortion verbally when, in his heart, he still approves of it? Abortion is a ‘justice issue’ to Warnock!” —Darrell B. Harrison
- Ex-NFL coach Tony Dungy skeptical about Warnock’s faith after “pro-choice pastor” tweet (Fox News)
- Warnock, 2017: Senators “gangsters and thugs” who aimed to “kill children” (Free Beacon)
Government & Politics
- Smart strategy: Trump urged to send Paris climate plan to Senate for ratification to block Biden (Washington Times)
- Bipartisan group splitting $908 billion coronavirus proposal into two bills (The Hill)
Leftmedia
- NY Times assistant who edited Senator Tom Cotton’s “Send in the Troops” column resigns (Daily Beast)
- Facebook “fact-checking certifier” is a Hillary Clinton superfan (Post Millennial)
- YouTube shuts down Dilbert creator Scott Adams (The Federalist)
- For the record: Media said a vaccine by end of year was impossible (Daily Wire)
Health
- FDA gives emergency use authorization to Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine (UPI) | Historic campaign to deliver vaccine underway; shipments to arrive in every state today (Washington Times)
- The hidden crisis: Elderly people are dying from isolation (NBC News)
- Self-victimhood (read: “wokeism”) is a personality type, researchers find (Reason)
National Security
- Senate passes defense authorization bill with veto-proof majority (AJC)
- Russian hackers breach U.S. government, targeting agencies, private companies (NBC News)
Business & Economy
- Tech giant Oracle moving from California to business-friendly Texas (Disrn)
Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate
- Seattle City Council considers new “poverty defense” to excuse misdemeanor crimes such as theft and assault if culprit is homeless, addicted to drugs, or has mental health issues (Daily Mail)
- Swing and a miss: Cleveland’s baseball team plans to drop the name Indians after 105 years (Washington Post)
Around the Nation
- Multiple people stabbed, 23 arrested during election protest in Washington, DC (National Review) | Video shows Proud Boys tackling counterprotester wielding a knife amid DC violence (Washington Examiner)
- Despite the Illinois State Police’s best efforts, deep-blue Illinois leads the way in 2020 gun sales (The Truth About Guns)
- California judge blocks Governor Newsom from enforcing lockdown order on Catholic churches (Washington Times)
- Indoor dining shuts down in New York City. Again. (NY Times)
Double Standards
- While New York goes out of business, Cuomo throws himself a birthday party (FrontPage Magazine)
Stranger Than Fiction
- Leftists are now complaining that disposable masks are polluting the oceans (Not the Bee)
Heartwarming
- Couple holds mock wedding so grandma with dementia can watch through nursing home window (InspireMore)
Closing Arguments
- Policy: Think twice before changing the military’s transgender policy (Daily Signal)
- Policy: What you need to know about Chinese spying on U.S. politicians (Daily Signal)
- Satire: Unborn babies disguise selves as death row inmates so leftists will defend their right to live (Babylon Bee)
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Restaurant Rebellion — Doomed small business owners revolt over COVID-19 lockdown hypocrisy.
Five COVID Studies the MSM Won’t Report — Among them: The virus appears non-spreadable beyond Day 9, and antibodies trace back to 2019.
Things the Media Won’t Tell You About Biden’s HHS Pick — The California attorney general supports infanticide and hasn’t one iota of medical experience.
China Is Bankrolling Big Tech ‘Fact-Checkers’ — ByteDance is headquartered in Beijing.
Media Puts Off Hunter Biden Investigation Until Post-Election — And yet the coverage remains insanely prejudiced.
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Insight: “We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.” —Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Good questions: “We’re being told that … Chinese spy [Fang Fang] was compromising Rep. Swalwell for nefarious purposes. At some point the FBI approached the congressman with disturbing information about her true identity. One would expect that the FBI would have arrested and charged Fang relatively quickly. But that’s not what happened. She fled the country. So inquiring minds want to know: Was she tipped off that the FBI was on to her? Was it Rep. Swalwell who tipped her off? Is that why he doesn’t say anything negative about her because he knows what she knows about him? Swalwell would have a really good reason for wanting her out of the country because a trial would expose him as well as her. We need a special prosecutor.” —Gary Bauer
Missing the point: “Is it the worship or the building? … You don’t have to sit in the church pew for God to hear your prayers.” —Virginia Governor Ralph Northam
Alpha jackass: “While others were sleeping, members of the United States Senate declared war, launched a vicious and evil attack on the most vulnerable people in America. Herod is on the loose. Herod is a cynical politician who’s willing to kill children and kill the children’s health program in order to preserve his own wealth and his own power. … The United States Senate decided by a slim majority to pick the pockets of the poor, the sick, the old, and the yet unborn in order to line the pockets of the ultra-rich. Don’t tell me about gangsters and thugs on the streets. There are more gangsters and thugs … in the Capitol.” —”Reverend” Raphael Warnock in 2017 regarding the GOP Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Non compos mentis: “The coronavirus is the third-leading cause of death for black Americans. So the most vulnerable and marginalized communities, because of the comorbidities of structural racism, because of unequal access to healthcare, because of transportation deserts and food apartheid systems, have been the most vulnerable to contracting this virus and have the highest rates of fatality.” —Rep. Ayanna Pressley
And last… “It’s important to understand that the media didn’t make a mistake by failing to cover this [Hunter Biden] story. They intentionally failed to cover this story. They knew that the Hunter Biden drama would affect Joe Biden’s prospects of winning the election and they didn’t want him to lose and so they suppressed this in every way.” —Mollie Hemingway
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