The Federalist
Saturday, November 6, 2021
Sen. Hagerty and Rep. Banks / The Hill
Giveaway to Big Tech in Build Back Better
will hurt American workers
Yet, buried in the “Build Back Better” legislation that Sanders has written are several jaw-dropping immigration provisions that would sell out American workers for the benefit of the largest and most influential corporate interests.Entirely separate from providing amnesty to illegal immigrants, this legislation includes several provisions that effectively terminate, for at least 10 years, all numerical limits on the annual allotment of green cards for foreign workers, for which Big Tech has consistently lobbied for years.
At a time when we are actively encouraging students in our home states to work hard, seek STEM skills and aspire to the high-tech jobs of tomorrow, this legislation would create an unending, permanent pipeline of foreign labor for Silicon Valley giants to use in place of aspiring American youth. And American workers currently employed by these companies will be far less likely to see wage gains because they can be replaced at less cost with workers imported from overseas.
Friday, November 5, 2021
New York Post Editorial Board
The real ‘collusion’ was the creation of ‘RussiaGate’ out of absolutely nothing
Kim Strassel / WSJ
Durham and the Clinton Dossier
A new indictment continues the slow unraveling of a 2016 political scandal.
Jonah Goldberg / The G-File
Don’t Insult the Customer
Calling voters ‘racist’ when your party loses is a terrible political strategy.
Matt Taibbi
Rachel Maddow's Shocking New Low
With last night's loony response to the indictment of Igor Danchenko, the MSNBC anchor takes a bold leap off the credibility cliff
Eli Lake / Bloomberg
Was the FBI Manipulated by the Democratic Party?
The latest indictment in the investigation of the bureau’s Russia probe shows why the story is still relevant.
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Summit News
Italian Institute of Health Drastically Reduces Its Official COVID Death Toll Number by Whopping 97%
Changes definition of COVID death from ‘with COVID’ to ‘by COVID’.
Legal Insurrection
‘Whiteness Remains Undefeated’: Liberal Media Doubles Down on Racism Claims After Virginia Upset
Joy Reid: Education “is code for ‘white parents don’t like the idea about teaching about race.'”
Alex Berenson
The hospitals in Australia are being overrun. Not from Covid. And no one can explain why.
So said Mark McGowan, the premier of Western Australia - which has almost 3 million people - in an interview with Sky News Australia on Sun., Oct. 31.
Here’s his exact quotation:
Our hospitals are under enormous pressure. This is the same in [the rest of Australia]. This has been something no one has ever seen before, the growth in demand in our hospitals, why it is is hard, hard to know… There is huge numbers of people coming through the door, so we’re doing everything we can to try to manage it.
To be clear, Covid is not causing the hospital crisis in Western Australia. The state has incredibly strict border restrictions, even by Australian standards, and almost no cases.
But - like the rest of Australia - it has very high vaccination rates.
But - like the rest of Australia - it has very high vaccination rates.
Zero Hedge
Something Really Strange Is Happening At Hospitals All Over America
Emergency rooms are filled to overflowing all over America, and nobody can seem to explain why this is happening.
Charles C. W. Cooke/National Review
This Was a Rout
The spin will now begin in earnest, but the bottom line is this: Last night was a rout for the Democratic Party and its friends. They were swept in Virginia; they suffered a 16-point swing in New Jersey — coming within a few thousands votes of losing a gubernatorial race that nobody (bar our own Dan McLaughlin) was talking about, while taking some notable losses in the assembly; they lost every single judicial race in Pennsylvania — including a seat on the state’s Supreme Court; they did worse than expected on the city council in New York; they even lost a race for city attorney in Seattle. Meanwhile, in Buffalo, N.Y., the socialist was defeated by a write-in candidate, and, in Minneapolis, a ballot measure to abolish the police was roundly rejected. If this sentiment were to hold, next year’s midterms will be utterly catastrophic for the party and its cause.
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Dan Balz/WaPo via Althouse
"How quickly Democrats absorb Tuesday’s results and begin to respond will determine how well they can hold down expected losses in the coming midterms."
".... Democrats would be foolhardy to underestimate what happened Tuesday. To lose a state like Virginia, which has been trending Democratic for a decade, and to struggle so much in New Jersey suggests that, unless things change, only the bluest of states or districts are likely to be safe in 2022.... It wasn’t just Virginia or New Jersey that suggested Democrats will need to regroup. In races across the country, there were signs that voters see the party as having moved too far to the left, even as its progressive wing has been flexing its muscles. In Virginia, the exit polls showed that a majority of voters said the party is too liberal. New Yorkers elected Democrat Eric Adams as their new mayor after a campaign in which he made public safety a prime issue and presented himself as more centrist than liberal. In Minneapolis, voters overwhelmingly defeated a referendum to dismantle the police department a year after the Black Lives Matter movement had elevated the issue of police reform to the front of the progressive agenda. In Buffalo, Mayor Byron Brown, who lost the primary to socialist India Walton, appeared to have been reelected as a write-in candidate...."
Glenn Greenwald
To Protect Fauci, The Washington Post is Preparing a Hit Piece on the Group Denouncing Gruesome Dog Experimentations
For years, the White Coat Waste Project was heralded by The Post as what they are: an activist success story uniting right and left. But now its work imperils a liberal icon.
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Popular Science
The biggest ancient city you’ve probably never heard of is in Illinois
The Cahokia Mounds offer a glimpse of one of the Americas' most powerful societies.
Esquire hits the panic button:
The Supreme Court May Execute Steve Bannon's Plan to Destroy the Administrative State
Reviving the "nondelegation doctrine" would imperil the American government's ability to govern.
MARTIN KULLDORFF AND JAY BHATTACHARYA/NEWSKEEK OPINION
How Fauci Fooled America
When the pandemic hit, America needed someone to turn to for advice. The media and public naturally looked to Dr. Anthony Fauci—the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, an esteemed laboratory immunologist and one of President Donald Trump's chosen COVID advisers. Unfortunately, Dr. Fauci got major epidemiology and public health questions wrong. Reality and scientific studies have now caught up with him.
Monday, November 1, 2021
Roger Kimball/Real Clear Politics
The January 6
Insurrection Hoax
The central fact to appreciate about Donald Trump is that he was elected president without the permission, and over the incredulous objections, of the bipartisan oligarchy that governs us. That was his unforgivable offense. Trump was the greatest threat in history to the credentialed class and the globalist administrative state upon which they feed. Representatives of that oligarchy tried for four years to destroy Trump. Remember that the first mention of impeachment came 19 minutes after his inauguration, an event that was met not only by a widespread Democratic boycott and hysterical claims by Nancy Pelosi and others that the election had been hijacked, but also by riots in Washington, D.C. that saw at least six policemen injured, numerous cars torched, and other property destroyed...It was not so long ago that an American could contemplate totalitarian regimes and say, “Thank God we’ve escaped that.” It’s not at all clear that we can entertain that happy conviction any longer.That’s one melancholy lesson of the January 6 insurrection hoax: that America is fast mutating from a republic, in which individual liberty is paramount, into an oligarchy, in which conformity will be increasingly demanded and enforced.
Another lesson was perfectly expressed by Donald Trump when he reflected on the unremitting tsunami of hostility that he faced as President. “They’re after you,” he more than once told his supporters. “I’m just in the way.”
Bingo.
Matt Taibbi
The "Let's Go, Brandon!" Freakout Goes Next-Level
A Southwest pilot earns ISIS comparisons for joking into a loudspeaker, as pundits continue to mass-forget the previous four years
Sunday, October 31, 2021
Althouse
This sounds like the message he ran on,
but not much like what his Party has been up to lately.
It seems to me that Biden got elected by offering to be not much more than the absence of Trump, but his Party seems to behave as if the people elected Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren (and won both houses of Congress with a comfortable margin).
Althouse rips Rick Steves' pro-tourism pitch
I say: What bullshit! He's got to know it's bullshit. It's not just nothing heroic, it's virtually nothing. He's got a business he wants to keep going, and he doesn't want to be "flight-shamed." Well, too bad. No one wants to give anything up. If you actually believe "Climate change is a serious problem and tourism contributes a lot to it" and you continue to do it and to actively facilitate others doing it, you shouldbe ashamed! The NYT has this huge article about Steves, and the NYT profits from travel industry ads. It's absolutely ludicrous to purport to be taking climate change seriously.
And "travel is a powerful force for peace and stability on this planet" — is he a beauty pageant contestant? He should be shamed not only for his travel but also for his disgustingly lame self-justification. I've seen tourists roaming the globe. They are not stabilizing it. It would be easier to argue that they are destabilizing it. Do you have tourists who come to your town? If so, are they bringing peace and stability? If you like what they are doing, is it for any reason other than that they are dropping money before they get the hell out?
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