Category: Web Briefing
The GOP will Rue the Day they Threw Rep. Cheney Out of Her Number Three Leadership Post — It Will Be and Is an Event of Great Historic Significance
There are a great many reasons that the GOP will rue the day they threw Rep. Cheney out of her House Leadership post. For most, though, the source of their coming great regret will...
NPR: Why The Pandemic Is 10 Times Worse Than You Think
From NPR: The model’s conclusion: On any given day, the actual number of active cases — people who are newly infected or still infectious — is likely 10 times that day’s official number of...
Biden Team Fears: No COVID Herd Immunity Until Thanksgiving
It’s OK to talk about herd immunity now: Top members of President Joe Biden’s COVID response team are warning internally that the U.S. may not reach herd immunity until Thanksgiving or even the start...
Google Deletes Two Videos of Doctors Testimony before Senate Committee about the Pandemic
Social media censorship just ratcheted up to a new level. Google’s YouTube removed two videos of doctors testifying under oath at my US Senate hearing on early treatment of COVID. Another body blow to...
Insurrection aftermath: Staffers struggle with trauma, guilt and fear
Or, why the 8-foot metal fences topped with razor wire will never come down as long as the Democrats hold Congress.
Nearly Forty Percent of the American Population has been Infected with COVID-19
According to the Associated Press: The country is still missing about eight infections for everyone counted, according to a new government report Wednesday. Many people don’t get tests, especially if they don’t have symptoms....
PA House Republicans File Amicus Brief in Support of Election Lawsuit Filed by State of Texas
From the PA House Majority Leader.
US govt, states sue Facebook for ‘predatory’ conduct
From AP: WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government and 48 states and districts sued Facebook Wednesday, accusing it of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller competitors and seeking remedies that...
Politico: YouTube to remove videos claiming mass fraud changed election results
Via Politico: YouTube said Wednesday it will begin removing any videos that falsely claim widespread voting fraud changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential race now that the deadline for states to resolve disputes...
Trump says campaign ‘will be INTERVENING’ in Texas lawsuit against battleground states Biden won
From The Washington Examiner.
In letter to Trump, House Republicans call for special counsel to investigate election
U.S. House GOP members send President Trump a letter requesting an investigation into the Presidential election. A nearly identical letter, found here, was sent last week.
Forbes: The FBI Is Investigating Voter Data Theft In This Key 2020 Election Battleground
From Forbes: On the morning of November 5, as the 2020 election hung in the balance, Arizona federal agents raided a two-story house in Fountain Hills, Maricopa County, a county that had become a...
Iran: Precision Satellite Controlled Weapon Took Out Our Top Nuke Scientist — Hit by 13 Rounds, Wife Sitting Next to Him Unscathed
From MSN.com: Various accounts of his death have emerged since the incident. While early news reports said he was caught in a gunfight between his bodyguards, others said that he was fired at by...
Almost a Third of Americans have Been Infected with COVID-19
From the Associated Press: “The U.S. has recorded more than 12.7 million coronavirus infections and over 262,000 deaths. The country is still missing about eight infections for every one counted, according to a new...
In rare move, bipartisan panel rejects Pa. House request to audit 2020 election
From the Philly Inquirer.
AFP: $169 bn for 29,000 lives? European Study calculates cost of US shutdowns
Here is another sobering question: what if the vast majority of those 29,000 are genetically wired to die from COVID, meaning medically there are few effective treatments, thus removing almost any raison d’etre for...
RCP Polls Show Ds Ahead by a Large Margin in One GA Senate Race, Ahead by the Margin of Error in the Other
RCP averages for both races are here and here.
PA Governor: New Rules Include Wearing a Mask in Your House
These rules will simply cause more defiance and less compliance.
Trende: Are Republicans Really Favored in Georgia?
Trende in RCP: 1. Biden just barely won the state, and it may not revert to “factory settings.” Any analysis of the Georgia runoffs needs to start with this observation: Joe Biden just won the...
FiveThirtyEight: Republicans Won Almost Every State Where Redistricting Was At Stake
From FiveThirtyEight: down-ballot races were much better for Republicans. In fact, the GOP’s victories in state-level elections could pay dividends long after Biden leaves office, thanks to their influence over next year’s redistricting process....
How “woke” leftism has taken over schools
'After years of resisting it, we're going to leave."@MegynKelly describes why she pulled her kids out of their NYC schools – and she, @GlennLoury and @Coldxman Hughes discuss how "woke" leftism has taken over...
‘Experts’ Like the Cook Political Report Listed 27 House Races As Toss-Ups. Republicans Won All 27
From the Daily Wire: On Monday, Burgess Owens, a former NFL player and vocal critic of Colin Kaepernick, was declared the winner of Utah’s 4th Congressional District. Despite running against an incumbent and trailing...
Are We Seriously Talking About Closing Schools Again?
Carroll in the NYT: Schools are necessary for the economy as well. If they are not open, many parents cannot work, even if they’re doing so from home. Closing schools also exacerbates social and...
Edsall: ‘The Far Left Is the Republicans’ Finest Asset’
From the NYT: Dane Strother, a Democratic consultant whose firm has represented candidates in states from New Hampshire to Montana, was more outspoken in his view: Four years ago, Democrats’ final messaging was “which...
Moore: The return of lockdown lunacy
From The Hill: A recent survey by Gallup finds that less than half of Americans say they are “very likely” to comply with shutdown orders. The country could turn into a police state to enforce the...
Karl Rove to helm massive GOP fundraising drive for Georgia runoffs
Politico: A great joint effort at fundraising for the two Georgia Senate races will be Chaired by Karl Rove.
She was Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for Singing in Public without her Head Covered
Yasaman Aryani condamnée à 16 ans de prison pour refus du voile obligatoire, testée positive au Covid-19 en prison https://t.co/4YGnYkq1MZ @AlinejadMasih pic.twitter.com/dnsFuQyCnr — L'important (@Limportant_fr) November 13, 2020
Bill Maher: The Woke Crowd Needs to Get Over the Purity Idea
“This idea of purity and you’re never compromised, and you’re always politically woke and all that stuff — you should get over that quickly.” – @BarackObama #BlueRipple pic.twitter.com/njTtayegxW — Bill Maher (@billmaher) November 14,...
Trump Lawyer: Biden Transition Team Member Committed Election Fraud
Trump Team looking to overturn state results.
Trump’s Lawyer: CIA Director should be Fired for Ignoring Warnings about Dominion
Trump’s Lawyer says CIA Director should be fired for ignoring warnings about Dominion.
Of Shinny Objects and the Fact that the Electronic Election Voting Tabulation System is not air-gapped
By Roscoe Davis, via The Thread: Okay, I’m back from the outback here in Texas, needed to mentally download, and put some meat in the freezer. Two of the people I invited to the...
U.S. Army CID Seize Servers in Germany used by Dominion in U.S. Presidential Election
Breaking: Congressman Louie Ghomert has stated that The U.S. Army has seized servers for Dominion in Germany. — George Papadopoulos (@GeorgePapa19) November 14, 2020
Pro-Biden Bug Also Suspected in Georgia’s Vote-Counting Software
Another Pro-Biden software “glitch?” From RealClearInvestigations: A poll watcher noticed the suspicious shift in votes while monitoring the interim election results on the Georgia secretary of state website. “I concluded from looking at these results that...
China warns of action after Pompeo says Taiwan not part of China
From Reuters, Chinese saber-rattling over Taiwan, part infinite.
Dem campaign arm made several strategic errors, leaving their majority in doubt in 2022
From Politico: “My opponent only talked about three words: Defund the police,” Webb told a group of House Democrats on a private call this week, according to several sources on the line. But it’s...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Trump campaign wins case on Pa. voter ID deadline
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The Trump campaign on Thursday won a case that attempted to disqualify a small number of mail-in ballots for first-time Pennsylvania voters who were unable to confirm their identification by...
Dem Five Seat House Majority Makes Things Very Tough for Speaker Pelosi
From the WSJ: Heading into the election, Democrats had a majority of 232 to 197, with one Libertarian and five open seats. That balance is now at 218 Democrats to 202 Republicans, with the...
Media’s New Line on the Pandemic, from today’s LA Times: A winter surge in COVID-19 cases seems inevitable. Can we stop it?
Read the new, post-election, media line on COVID: “Saying a surge is inevitable may sound like fatalism,” said William Hanage, an epidemiologist at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “But just because some surge...
Scott Adams: Trump has the Advantage and Why Trump is 50% More Likely to be President
Start watching at minute 9 and thirty seconds.
US Supreme Court Orders PA to Segregate Ballots Received after 11/3
See the U.S. Supreme Court order here.
WaPo: Democrats lose ground with Latino voters in Florida and Texas, underscoring outreach missteps
From The Washington Post: The nuanced and sometimes dissonant political preferences shown by Latino voters in the 2020 presidential election have sparked bewilderment and soul-searching among Democrats as the party lost significant ground with...
Despite ‘racist’ charges, Trump did better with minorities than any GOP candidate in 60 years
From The NY Post: For four years now, Democrats and their media allies have tarred President Trump as a reprehensible white supremacist leading a dying party. The Trumpian, populist GOP, they claimed, was doomed...
If I’m right about the black vote turnout and the hidden white vote giving Trump about +3.5 to 4.5%, then this is in the bag
See election day battleground averages: here, from RealClearPolitics. Here is why I think Trump wins.
Charlotte Observer: “Even a small change in Black voter participation could have a large impact”
From the Charlotte Observer: Nearly 1.5 million North Carolina voters are Black, and they lean largely toward Democrats. On Tuesday, they could determine who wins the White House. Even a small change in Black...
NYT: Black Turnout in Florida is Key for Biden
From the NYT: And no group of voters may be as vital to Mr. Biden’s success as African-Americans in Florida, a complicated political patchwork that is difficult for Democrats to capture under favorable circumstances...
Amish Election Day Parade
The Amish are not playing around today pic.twitter.com/S3vIy3oMYR — Barstool News Network (@BarstoolNewsN) November 3, 2020
The Four Reasons I am Predicting a Trump Win
There are four reasons that I am predicting a Trump win: Low Black Voter Turnout. The gains President Trump has made in the are undeniable, from Ice Cube to Lil Wayne to sentencing reform,...
How the Number 41 Percent in Des Moines Register has Undermined the Dem Narrative
The Iowa Poll in Des Moines Register.