Category: Web Briefing

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Axios clues in like this is some great insight.  

From The Washington Enquirer.

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Robinson in The Guardian: Donald Trump is not a competent president but he is a terrifyingly effective one, as the 2020 RNC proved once again. The central lesson of 2016 for Democrats should have...

From The Spectator.

Battle rages on between the National Guard and Black Lives Matter rioters in front of the courthouse in Kenosha. pic.twitter.com/eawsng2irl — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 25, 2020

The high cost of ‘slow-the-spread,’ part infinite, from Zero Hedge: Readers may recall last week we outlined the dam of pent up mortgage delinquencies continued to crack, with the share of delinquent Federal Housing Administration’s loans hitting a record...

From The Hill.

https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1298022930887081984?s=20

From Oregon Live: A march on the Portland police union headquarters drew a rapid police response Monday night after someone set a fire next to the building. Officers arrived at the Portland Police Association...

Michael Goodwin in The New York Post.

From The Hill.

Video from RCP.

From RCP:

The Guardian: Van Morrison has denounced the supposed “pseudoscience” around coronavirus and is attempting to rally musicians in a campaign to restore live music concerts with full capacity audiences. The 74-year-old Northern Irish singer launched...

Marc Thiessen in the Washington Post.

JONATHAN TURLEY in The Hill.

From Vox: …for many progressives, the week was also laced with angst. A number of Republicans received invitations to speak, while progressive star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was only given a minute to speak. A story reported...

From The Washington Enquirer.

From The New York Post.

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Trucks are America’s warehouses.

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Byron York in the Washington Enquirer: The Democratic convention took place on Nights 82, 83, 84, and 85 of rioting in Portland. On Thursday night, as Biden spoke, a crowd returned to the U.S. Immigration...

They know not what they do.

From The Washington Times: Based on government documents, here are six instances of Obama administration spying on the Trump campaign or team, during and after the Nov. 8 election. ⦁ The FBI hired confidential human source Stefan Halper...

AOC Freed to Primary All the Dems She Wants: “No one gets to complain about primary challenges again,” AOC wrote on Twitter after Pelosi (D-Calif.) cut a video ad for Kennedy. Democratic Party bosses in the...

From The Federalist.

From The Washington Examiner.

From the NY Post.

From The Washington Times: At least two caucus meetings at this week’s Democratic National Convention began with recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance that omitted the phrase “under God.” Two videos posted online —...

From FOX NEWS.

From The Hill.

The enablers of rioting, looting and burning.  

Roll Call reports: One Nation, an outside group that boosts GOP candidates, is placing its first advertising buy this cycle in Michigan’s Senate race, which pits incumbent Democrat Gary Peters against Republican challenger John...

See video of the Florida mail-in ballots here.  

Emily Gould in The Atlantic: I can plan ahead and deal with the sucked-dry, brain-dead exhaustion that follows a Zoom-heavy day. My hatred comes, rather, from having coached my 5-year-old son Raffi through virtual...

From NY Daily News: Last week, an article referenced the stakes of this leadership vacuum — namely that New York’s declining tax base, heavily reliant on its wealthiest residents, underwrites infrastructure and social services on...

Matt Taibbi, the best independent journalist on the web.

Milwaukee, Minneapolis, other big cities have seen surges in numbers of murders so far in 2020.

When the video of this attack is available from TravelWire, you know the mainstream media is simply refusing to cover it.

BLM “demonstrators” who are muggers.

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From AP Via the Albuquerque Journal: WILMINGTON, Del. — Democrats formally nominated Joe Biden as their presidential candidate, with party elders, a new generation of politicians and voters in every state joining in an...

From MSN: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday criticized top Democrats for what he categorized as stubborn tactics and refusal to discuss any “reasonable deal.” “The good news is despite Congress not acting, because Pelosi...

From The Hill: Call it Hillary Clinton’s I-told-you-so moment. The 2016 Democratic nominee will have an opportunity to address the nation Wednesday in a primetime speech for the first time since she lost her bid...

AOC gets one minute.

From The Financial Times: The reality is that decoupling has much further to go. It is already spreading beyond technology and into finance. In time, it will affect every large industry, from manufacturing to...

From Axios: Back in 2017, Jeffrey Brown, dean of the business school and the main proponent of the insurance policy, was worried about the potential for “a big flu scare that caused none of the students...

Turns out those Presidential powers do exist.

Cities die when the people in it leave, and families are the canary in the mineshaft, when they begin to leave, many follow. It is not just that families are leaving. Work is leaving....

The wages of Kim Foxx dropping 25,000 felony charges against criminals and the Mayor’s excuses for violent demonstrators. It is clear the Mayor and the Democrats do not have the police’s back. The only...

Violent criminals with explosives are just demonstrators to the smash and burn enablers.

Special Prosecutor Dan Webb reported “substantial abuses of discretion and operational failures” in Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx’s handling of Jussie Smollet’s case. Webb, who was assigned to probe the investigation, released his findings on Smollet’s case...

The Trib’s Editorial can be found here: We don’t know why Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx went to bat for TV actor Jussie Smollett. But now, with Monday’s release of a damning statement from...

Now it’s not about George Floyd, its about capitalism.

George Washington statue is down! Grand Park Downtown LA.#GeorgeWashington#SouthDakota #BlackLiesMatter#Columbia pic.twitter.com/6jyVAbz2p2 — Follow the white cat (@iamthewhitecat) August 14, 2020

Dems won’t acknowledge the chaos they have enabled.

HuffPo reports on a teacher who is resisting school re-opening with a mock obituary.  She has no idea the whirl-wind of parent anger she is focusing on herself.

Blase on the Raison d’etre of Short-Term Health Plans.

As usual, Matt Taibbi, does not disappoint: Imagine a four-day Zoom meeting in which the likes of John Kasich, Michael Bloomberg, and Nancy Pelosi warn you for the fifty through sixty millionth times about...

From Meet the Press, via RCP.    

A fascinating look at the mid-west data, by Trende in RCP:

Their belief in the “systemic racism” of the United States justifies tearing down George Washington’s statute — except it doesn’t, and it’s hardening the resolve of those who are pissed off beyond belief by...

Losing control of a city is an ugly thing to watch. It has nothing to do with Kim Foxx not prosecuting 25,000 felony charges.

And so it continues.

From the Gothamist.

VENREZ — Show Me.

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From The Atlantic.

The prosecutions collaboration with violent demonstrators means no consequences for felonies in Chicago-land, courtesy of Kim Foxx: “Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx fielded tough questions about the mayor’s comments, her response to arrests...

Classic.

From FOX NEWS: The Pentagon has created a task force to investigate UFOs following several unexplained incidents that have been observed by the U.S. military. The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force was launched earlier this month by Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist,...

From Bloomberg: Big companies are going bankrupt at a record pace, but that’s only part of the carnage. By some accounts, small businesses are disappearing by the thousands amid the Covid-19 pandemic, and the drag...

From The Hill: Gosh almighty.” Those words from former Vice President Joe Biden sum up plenty about the announced criminal plea by former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith. Of course, Biden was not referring to...

From The Washington Times.

The latest results of the Democratic Party’s purposeful disregard for enforcing the law against violent demonstrators.

From The National Interest: First, no one believed that Jared Kushner’s innovative peace plans would bear any fruit. Now, Kushner’s peace plan seems to be working. What was once unthinkable is now a reality....

From India Today: The leader of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement on Friday condemned the deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalise ties as a betrayal of Islam and Arabs, saying it...

Friedman: For once, I am going to agree with President Trump in his use of his favorite adjective: “huge.” The agreement brokered by the Trump administration for the United Arab Emirates to establish full...

From NBC News.

From Foreign Policy: To be sure, the UAE gets plenty in return. In striking the bargain, it solidifies both a leadership status in the Arab world and its outsized role in geopolitics. Enhanced and...

From the BBC: Israel and the United Arab Emirates have reached a deal to normalise relations, with Israel agreeing to suspend its controversial plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. In a...

From The New York Post.

From Just the News: “The author of ‘The Art of the Deal’ has made a very artful deal,” David Friedman, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, tells Just The News. “He created sort of the...

From National Review Online.

From RealClearPolitics.  

WaPo reports Dems bitter over Meadows support for executive orders strategy and negotiating tactics: Unlike in previous rounds, when Pelosi held out for a better deal for Democrats and ultimately forced major concessions from...

From the Associated Press: On a private call, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York told senators this week it was Meadows, not the other key White House negotiator, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin,...

Vox on Senator Harris’s long and on-going relationship with tech elites from Silicon Valley: Cooper Teboe, a top Democratic fundraiser in Silicon Valley, said about one-third of major West Coast donors that he’s spoken...

Another example of the failed leadership and failed policy of go ahead, break our windows.

A prominent example of the high cost of the strategy to slow-the-spread of a virus you cannot stop spreading.

From RealClearPolitics.

Good thing that during a pandemic, the White House is working hard to make sure there is health care policy on the pandemic bill. Axios on the health care death spiral for consumers.

Talk of Defunding the Police encourages crime in major U.S. cities, riots and demonstrations and the pandemic are also to blame.

Plain and simple, this is wrong and should not happen, from The LA Times: Reporting from Bristol, Tenn. — Wendy Matney hesitated to tell her family not to call 911. “It seemed almost selfish to say,...

Bloomberg: Almost every antiviral vaccine ever sold works in a similar way: A dead or weakened virus, or a piece of one, is introduced into a healthy person. The weakened virus stimulates the immune...

From Bloomberg: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s insistence that legal liability protections for businesses, schools and colleges be included in any new coronavirus relief bill is approaching a moment of reckoning. Warning that an...

The “optics” of Dems suing the President to stop Unemployment Insurance and a moratorium on evictions convince Dems to find someone else to sue, re: The Hill.