Daily News Roundup

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NOTABLE QUOTES

Adam Mill contributor to American Greatness: In fairness, it’s not just the Democrats attempting to end Republican opposition. Republicans like Representatives Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) have also warned darkly of offending the consensus uniparty. Sometimes it feels like the leadership of the Republican Party yearns for the golden age of permanent irrelevance in federal elections.

Victor Davis Hanson contributor to American Greatness: There is only the left-wing desire through any means necessary to obtain, increase, and use power to alter the Constitution and our long-held traditions and customs of governance, especially when the majority in a constitutional republic opposes such efforts. The lesson then is that all means are justified to obtain morally superior ends—with the caveat that only leftists can be morally superior.

Rick McDowell a writer of political philosophy and contributor to American Thinker: Our reality changes before us as we stop believing in the humanities of our nation: our history, culture, philosophy, society.  These are the beliefs which distinguish America from all other nations, present and past.  Those who believe they are worth preserving cannot remain mute.

Jane Robbins contributor to The Federalist: Trade publication Education Week recently reported that about 500 school districts around the country are rating teacher applicants according to their “cultural competency,” another code for “wokeness.” Many of these districts are contracting with a teacher-hiring company called Nimble, which uses artificial intelligence to examine applications and interview answers to determine which candidates harbor the correct political and cultural attitudes.

Jacob Fraden contributor to American Thinker: Why does the White population, which is still in the majority in the U.S., accept the banishing and belittling obediently and silently?  Why is there no public criticism, much less resistance to the idiocy? Why don’t people don’t tell political correctness to go to hell? After all, the U.S. is not Stalin’s USSR, and anyone who disagrees with the party is not yet sent to a camp or shot. Why is there such stifling conformity among the American people, formerly known for their independence and freedom of speech? The answer is simple and sad: the reason is fear, albeit on a more vegetarian level than it was under the Soviet rule

FAUCI’S VIRUS: IT’S POLITICAL

(Listen to this explosive blockbuster interview) 1/7/22:  The John Solomon Report: Dr. Harvey Risch predicts how Omicron will change the arch of the pandemic
Dr. Harvey Risch, a world-renowned epidemiologist, discusses America’s ‘poor’ actions by the past administrations in their response to dealing with COVID-19, saying that in reality, ‘many of their actions have been counterproductive’. Dr. Risch talks Fauci, statistics, and his prediction of where he sees the pandemic going. A non-political analysis.]
Listen to the 43 minute interview: https://art19.com/shows/john-solomon-reports/episodes/2eeea2d1-05bb-4746-8957-233293c09468
OR  listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-harvey-risch-predicts-how-omicron-will-change-the/id1495251160?i=1000547230097

Bannons War Room: Naomi Wolf: The Hysteria Is Not Genuine, It’s A Strategy
Author Naomi Wolf has been an outspoken critic of vaccine mandates and Covid tyranny from the start. Today, she talks to Steve Bannon about her belief that the left’s “hysteria” about Covid is actually a well-planned campaign to oppress the people.
Watch the 6:44 minute interview: https://warroom.org/2022/01/08/the-hysteria-is-not-genuine-its-a-strategy/

US SUPREME COURT

Cleveland: Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Is Outrageously Unconstitutional. Why Couldn’t Lawyers Make That Argument To The Supreme Court?
All the petitioners needed was for the Supreme Court to enter a stay to prevent the Occupational Safety and Health Administration vaccination rule from taking effect, but, truly, was it too much to ask for a defense of limited government, separation of powers, and federalism? Apparently so, because on Friday, over more than two hours of argument in National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, lawyers pushing the Supreme Court to delay the regulation circled and sidled rather than state clearly that the rule, OSHA, the Biden administration, and the entire federal government represented a mockery of our constitutional order.
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/10/bidens-vaccine-mandate-is-outrageously-unconstitutional-why-couldnt-lawyers-make-that-argument-to-the-supreme-court/

Sundance: Court Hears Oral Arguments on Vaccine Mandate – Leftist Judges Cite Embarrassingly False Data Attempting to Defend Administration
One would think a United States Supreme Court hearing containing emergency oral arguments about a federal mandate that impacts more than 100 million Americans in the workforce would mean the justices would be well prepared and full briefed with the latest information. Alas, in an embarrassing display of judicial outlooks, activism and incompetence, the leftists on the court appeared to just be making stuff up in order to protect the current White House occupant. […]  Justice Bryer cited 750 million Americans infected yesterday as his reference point to justify his support for Joe Biden.  Unfortunately for justice Bryer there are only 350 million Americans alive.  It would be an ordinarily embarrassing mistake if the issues were not so serious. […]  Justice Clarence Thomas opened by asking: “How are we to decide when an emergency temporary standard or emergency temporary standards are necessary?”
Read more: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/01/07/supreme-court-hears-oral-arguments-on-vaccine-mandate-leftist-judges-cite-embarrassingly-false-data-attempting-to-defend-administration/

JANUARY 6

Duffy: Disgraced FBI No. 2 Andrew McCabe Calls For Feds To Treat ‘Mainstream’ Conservatives Like Domestic Terrorists
To Andrew McCabe, January 6 is the key to implementing frighteningly despotic policies that target conservatives. Have you ever wondered what disgraced former deputy FBI directors do after trying to stage a coup and lying under oath? Apparently, they give talks about “protecting democracy” at top-rated institutions of higher learning. Indeed, this last Thursday the University of Chicago invited former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe to join a panel of partisans to discuss the Jan 6 “insurrection.” McCabe was fired as the deputy FBI director for leaking sensitive information about an investigation into the Clinton Foundation and then lying about it under oath. He also took part in spying on the Donald Trump campaign through a secret warrant granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court.
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/10/disgraced-fbi-no-2-andrew-mccabe-calls-for-feds-to-treat-mainstream-conservatives-like-domestic-terrorists/

O’Donnell: America’s Justice System Says Jan. 6 Was Neither A Terrorist Attack Nor An Insurrection
according to prosecutors and courts of law. Of the more than 725 people arrested and charged in connection with the Jan. 6 incident, none have been charged with “rebellion or insurrection” under  18 U.S. Code § 2383. . The law, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison, applies to “whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto.” If, as Biden and Harris (and pretty much every Democrat in America) suggest, the Jan. 6 defendants had stormed the Capitol with the intent of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election, then why have none of them been charged with it? In addition, if, as they have been alleging for a year now, this insurrection was really aimed at toppling the incoming Biden government and reinstating Donald Trump as president, then why have none of the more than 725 defendants been charged with “seditious conspiracy” under 18 US Code § 2384?
Read more: https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/10/americas-justice-system-says-jan-6-was-neither-a-terrorist-attack-nor-an-insurrection/

2020 ELECTION

Solomon & Mittlestadt: As Georgia ballot harvesting probe starts, some election evidence has vanished already
Since 1960, federal civil rights law has required state and local election officials to “retain and preserve” records relating to elections involving federal officeholders for 22 months after ballots are cast. That would seem to be a good thing as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger embarks on an investigation into whether third-party liberal activists in 2020 illegally gathered and delivered absentee ballots for voters — a practice known as harvesting that is outlawed in the Peach State. But some of Georgia’s largest counties tell Just the News that they no longer possess evidence that could be helpful to probing the harvesting allegations: video camera surveillance footage that monitored the drop boxes installed around Georgia to help voters cast ballots during the pandemic. […]  “We took direction from the Secretary of State and State Election Board, assuming they were not implementing a Rule contrary to law,” said the Cobb County elections office, which acknowledged it deleted its video footage from 2020. “Drop boxes were established under an emergency order from the Governor.”
Read more: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/georgia-ballot-harvesting-probe-starts-some-critical-election-evidence

BIDEN’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL VACCINE MANDATE

Kirsch: New big data study of 145 countries show COVID vaccines makes things worse (cases and deaths)
I missed this study. So did the mainstream media for some reason. But this study is yet another independent analysis that is difficult to refute: we have been misled by the CDC, FDA, and NIH. The next time you see you county health officer, President Biden, or Boris Johnson why not ask them if they can find a mistake in this study by Kyle A. Beattie entitled Worldwide Bayesian Causal Impact Analysis of Vaccine Administration on Deaths and Cases Associated with COVID-19: A BigData Analysis of 145 Countries (the PDF version is here). The study found that the COVID vaccines cause more COVID cases per million (+38% in US) and more deaths per million associated with COVID (+31% in US). The abstract says: . . .
Read more: https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/new-big-data-study-of-145-countries

Widburg: Biden’s claim that this is a pandemic of the unvaxxed took a big hit this weekend
Biden’s declining brain has a phrase and he’s sticking to it: COVID, he insists, is “a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” However, the weekend revealed two more high-profile, heavily vaccinated people confessing that they, too, caught COVID: Geraldo Rivera and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez! The schadenfreude is delicious. Saturday brought news that Geraldo Rivera has tested positive for COVID. Catturd tweeted out a reminder about how arrogant and downright nasty Geraldo was as he repeated the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” mantra: . . . […]  Meanwhile, Ocasio-Cortez is out sick, too, putting the lie to the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” narrative. Beginning in December 2020, . . .
Read more at American Thinker.

THE DEMOCRAT LED WAR ON CHILDREN

Nguyen & Jekielek: ‘Think Twice Before You Vaccinate Your Kids,’ Dr. Robert Malone Warns Parents on COVID-19 Shots
Dr. Robert Malone, a virologist and immunologist who has contributed significantly to the technology of mRNA vaccines, issued a strong caution for those who seek to have their children vaccinated against COVID-19. “Think twice before you vaccinate your kids. Because if something bad happens, you can’t go back and say, ‘whoops, I want a do-over,’” Malone told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program in an interview, Part 1 of which premiered on Sunday. He also said, “It is clear that parents should think twice about vaccinating their child,” adding that serious adverse events can occur and can be “so severe that it puts your child in the hospital.” Malone noted that with regard to myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart, “there’s a good chance that if your child takes the vaccine, they won’t be damaged, they won’t show clinical symptoms—[but] they may have subclinical damage.”
Read more: https://patriots.social/2022/01/09/think-twice-before-you-vaccinate-your-kids-dr-robert-malone-warns-parents-on-covid-19-shots/

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA REGIME: TRANSFORMING FOREIGN POLICY

Kaufman: The Wages of Biden Leading from Behind on China
The United States needs reliable, capable allies to thwart the Chinese tyranny’s determination to achieve global hegemony, starting with the Indo-Pacific. The size, speed, and scope of China’s implacable military buildup and Beijing’s mounting belligerence across the board, underscore the urgency of bolstering deterrence in this vital region. The recent intensification of Australian, Japanese, and South Korean rearmament, therefore, comes as welcome news. Defying relentless Chinese pressure to . . . […]  Although encouraging, these preliminary measures will take years to consummate. The short-term trends in the military imbalance with China remain alarming. […]  But faced with a short-term window of opportunity to capitalize on the Biden Administration’s misguided priorities, irresolution, and disarray, this Chinese leadership may throw caution to the wind, confronting Taiwan with a fait accompli sooner rather than later to reverse the long-term structural trends heavily in America’s favor. It will take considerably more than the Biden Administration’s soaring rhetoric to restore the robustness of American military capability and resolve necessary to deter or, if need be, defeat China should deterrence fail.
Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/07/the-wages-of-biden-leading-from-behind-on-china/

BIDEN/HARRIS/OBAMA  REGIME: TRANSFORMING AMERICA

McDowell: Fear is the Mind Killer
Frank Herbert wrote in Dune, “Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death…”  Indeed, fear is the more dangerous virus infecting us.  Witness the fearfulness engulfing Americans: Fear of the virus. Fear of being called a racist. Fear of being cancelled. Fear of the other. Fear of defending beliefs. Fear of our history. Fear of not being woke. Fear even of saying the truth. Fear works.  The face of America has taken on a pallor. Before the specter of 2021 descended, we were proud to identify as “The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.”  Now, after a year of cautious, quiet desperation precipitated by a shower of those fears, we have become “The Silence of the Lambs.”
Read more at American Thinker.

Sundance: December Jobs Report Shows 199,000 Gains, 400,000 Were Expected
The pundits are just not getting it.  It’s the inflation, stupid. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) released the December jobs report today [DATA HERE] showing 199,000 job gains in December, approximately half of what was expected.  Most financial pundits are perplexed as the employment rate drops to 3.9%, because many people have dropped out of the labor force.  The labor participation rate remains unchanged at 61.9%.
Read more: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/01/07/december-jobs-report-shows-199000-gains-400000-were-expected/

THE CORRUPT & DANGEROUS DEMOCRAT PARTY’S MEDIA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Mill: Stop Calling It a ‘Voting Rights’ Bill
Proposed federal legislation doesn’t protect democracy. It protects Democrats. One-party rule and the destruction of an effective opposition might seem like a counterintuitive goal for “democracy journalists” pushing the “voting rights” legislation. But democracy journalists have been refreshingly candid in their goal to destroy competitive opposition in order to “save democracy.” Don’t believe me? Read below how these self-appointed heroes of democracy explain that nullifying their political opponents will preserve democracy from election results that contradict their political views.
Read more: https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/09/stop-calling-it-a-voting-rights-bill/ 

Fraden: Why are Caucasians Vanisihing in TV Commercials?
There’s no escaping commercials, we’ve grown accustomed to them, and they become almost as much a part of our lives as food, toilets, and sleep. In the United States today, the White population (not including Hispanics) is 57.8%. In real life Caucasians are still in the majority, but now on TV and the Internet they are swept under the rug like trash. Blacks compose 14% of the U.S. population but appear in 50% of commercials. White actors now appear for promotion of health insurance, gold, loans and some medicines. Moreover, if a White person appears in a commercial, he/she is usually old, sick, a freak, or at the very least, an appendage to a Black partner. If there’s a doctor on the screen, he’s usually Black, while the patient is usually White. Caucasian young men appear in only 4% of the commercials! If some aliens began to study the population of Planet Earth through our TV commercials they would have a somewhat distorted picture of Americans, to put it mildly. So why do advertisers ignore the long-standing rules of marketing, and to the detriment of their own financial interests, fill the media space with content that displaces and degrades its biggest market segment? The answer is simple.
Read more at American Thinker.

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