Brit Hume on Omicron variant: Politicians' 'cures' for COVID have been worse than the virus

By Fox News Staff | Fox News

In the wake of the new omicron variant, Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume told "The Brian Kilmeade Show" on Monday that since the inception of the coronavirus pandemic, the cures from politicians have been worse than the virus.

BRIT HUME: It looks to me like we're freaking out again and making the same kinds of mistakes that we made the first and second and third time around.

There are ripple effects of that. And this has been the issue from the very beginning of the pandemic. And that is that in our efforts to stamp it out, to stop it in its tracks, which was probably never going to be possible, we undertook all sorts of efforts without ever seriously considering the side effects of our efforts. You know, Trump may have made a lot of mistakes on this, but he was right when he said, you don't want a situation where the cure is worse than the disease. 

When you think of the school days missed by kids, really how much that contributes to continued inequality and educational outcomes that these poor kids who you know, who many of whose parents don't even have a computer in the house or who are struggling to try to be educated in this setting where, you know, they're really not in school, they're really not getting instruction and so on. It's very serious.

You have health outcomes affected by the fact that people missed appointments for screenings and treatment and so on for cancer and other diseases. The supply chain problems we’re having as a consequence of COVID and the restrictions that were placed on travel and with people out of work and so on. So we're going to be feeling the pain from those for a long time.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/omicron-variant-covid-cures-worse-virus-brit-hume

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BIDEN’S COVID SCORECARD IS WORSE THAN TRUMP’S

By Paul Mirengoff | POWERLINE 

President Biden speaks about the bipartisan infrastructure bill in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Joe Biden has ordered a ban on travel from eight African countries due to the emergence of the latest coronavirus variant. The countries from which Biden is cutting off travel are South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi.

When Donald Trump banned travel from China in the early days of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, Biden called the move xenophobic. I suppose that makes Biden’s travel ban racist by similar reckoning.

Speaking of Trump, Biden, and covid, the Wall Street Journal points out that deaths in the U.S. from that virus since Biden was inaugurated exceed the number of deaths that had occurred when, during a 2020 campaign debate, Biden proclaimed: “Anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as President of the United States of America.” At the time Biden proposed this disqualifier from holding the presidency, the U.S. had recorded 220,000 covid deaths, according to the Journal. Since inauguration day, it has recorded 350,000. And counting.

The comparison isn’t “apples to apples.” When Biden made his statement during the debate, the pandemic had been raging in the U.S. for about six and a half months. It’s been about ten months since the sad day Biden became president.

On the other hand, we had no vaccine during almost the entirety of Trump’s presidency. We’ve had one — developed and distributed during Trump’s presidency — throughout the time Biden has occupied the Oval Office.

Furthermore, as the Journal reminds us, Biden promised to “shut down the virus, not the country,” and he claimed to have a plan to accomplish this. This was BS.

So was his statement that “if [Trump] had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the [220,000] people would still be alive.” Has any presidential candidate ever defamed his opponent so flagrantly on a matter of policy? If so, I don’t recall it.

Here’s another comparison between Trump and Biden on the pandemic — one that’s closer to “apples to apples.” During the debates, Biden slammed Trump’s performance by claiming that Europe had done much better in limiting covid deaths than the U.S. At the time, however, the number of deaths per capita in the U.S. was in line with four major European countries it made sense to compare us with — the UK, Spain, France, and Italy. Like the U.S., these nations had reliable data, large populations, and lots of foreign visitors before travel was restricted.

As Trump’s presidency drew to a close, per capita deaths from the virus in the U.S. were about at about the midpoint of per capita deaths in these countries — nearly identical to the UK, a little lower than Italy and Spain, somewhat higher than France.

What about now? Today, per capita deaths attributed to the virus are higher in the U.S. than in all four of the comparator nations. Currently, the U.S. has recorded 2,393 deaths per capita from the virus. France, Spain, the UK, and Italy come in at 1,814, 1,880, 2,113, and 2,213 respectively.

The U.S., therefore, has lost ground to these four countries in terms of covid deaths under Joe Biden. This, despite the fact that the U.S. (under Trump’s leadership) was considerably faster off the mark than France, Spain, and Italy in getting the vaccine approved and into arms. (The UK, free from EU constraints, was a little faster than the U.S.)

Personally, I don’t think presidents should be judged based, without more, on how many Americans die during a pandemic. But Joe Biden based much of his case for the presidency on precisely this criteria. In both debates with Donald Trump, he led with that case. His pitch was as effective as it was crude.

By Joe Biden’s crude metrics, he has failed abjectly in dealing with the Wuhan coronavirus, both in absolute terms and in comparison to Europe. By his rhetoric, Biden “should not remain as President of the United States of America.”

I’m glad the Wall Street Journal has called Biden out on this. Don’t expect to read about it elsewhere in traditional media.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/bidens-covid-scorecard-is-worse-than-trumps.php 

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Media hit for 'sophomoric and ridiculous' take on Biden's travel ban after calling Trump's restrictions racist

By Cortney O'Brien | Fox News 

The area for TSA screening of travelers at JFK airport's Terminal 1 is relatively empty, Friday, March 13, 2020, in New York (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

President Biden imposed a travel ban on several African countries in the wake of the new strain of the coronavirus, the omicron variant, despite calling his predecessor "racist" and  "xenophobic" for imposing his own travel restrictions - a flashback the media has largely ignored. 

In 2017, then-President Trump imposed travel restrictions on six predominantly Muslim countries over concerns of improper vetting. Liberal media often referred to it as the "Muslim ban." When Covid began spreading throughout the world at the beginning of 2020, Trump would then block travel from China and six other countries, including Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania. Biden, a presidential candidate at the time, suggested Trump's actions were "xenophobic."

"We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus," Biden tweeted the day after Trump imposed travel restrictions from China into the U.S. "We need to lead the way with science - not Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency."

Biden also referred to Trump's temporary ban on African countries as a "disgrace."

But now as president, Biden now appears to be taking a similar course. The first cases of the omicron variant are expected to have originated in southern Africa. Biden announced on Friday that the U.S. would be restricting travel from South Africa, and seven other countries, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi. The ban began on Monday. 

At the time of Trump's travel ban announcement, the media had a meltdown of sorts and suggested it was a racist move. But the tone of this week's headlines suggest they're more understanding of Biden's travel bans.

Juxtaposed CNN pieces on the dueling travel bans showed that the network was much kinder to Biden's more recent restrictions.

The New York Times Opinion page ran a piece titled, "The Racism at the Heart of Trump's ‘Travel Ban'" in February 2020. But this week, the newspaper ran a tamer title, "United States will bar travelers from 8 countries."

Fox News contributor Joe Concha tried to put his finger on why the press is okay with Biden's ban.

"Because Joe Biden’s ban comes from good, decent place in an effort to save lives, while Trump just did it as an excuse to ban people from coming here," Concha told Fox News Digital. "As utterly sophomoric and ridiculous as those arguments are in applying motive, there are actually enough viewers and readers out there willing to believe it."

Biden is "replicating what he himself called racist," "Unfiltered" host Dan Bongino said on Saturday while sounding off on media hypocrisy. Georgia gubernatorial candidate Vernon Jones also wondered where the outraged headlines were.

"The legacy media never disappoint," the Media Research Center's Dan Gainor told Fox News Digital. "They continue to embrace their role as public relations staff for the Biden administration. The omicron variant has been identified in at least a dozen countries so far. Nearly all of those weren't included in Biden's list of nations where he blocked travel. The key reason South Africa was blocked is it actually identified the virus. Yet, the press refused to call out Biden in any similar way to what they did to President Donald Trump."

"Leftist journalists continue to obey my rule of media coverage: Everything left is right and everything right is wrong," he concluded.

At her Monday press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed Biden was critical of Trump’s "xenophobic tweet" and not critical of the travel restrictions themselves. Media observers pushed back on that explanation.

Fox News' Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/media-biden-travel-ban-trump-restrictions-racist

Indoctrination

 By Judd Garrett

I was watching, SpongeBob SquarePants, on Nickelodeon with my 3-year-old son yesterday, and during one of the commercial breaks, they ran a public service announcement featuring an African-America adolescent describing his life living in America. He said:

"As a young child in America, I lost a lot of innocence earlier than I wanted to. I have experienced mostly micro-aggressions in my life. It feels like there’s always different people watching me whether it be police officers, or it feels like regular people looking at me in a different way because of the color of my skin. I can feel they are assuming I’m doing something wrong, or I’m up to no good. I would love to see a country where we have unity, where people can be themselves and embrace who they are, without being put down in society. My vision is fairness. What’s yours?”

This is the racist poison that is being fed to our children in the name of anti-racism. My son simply wanted to watch SpongeBob; he didn’t want to be indoctrinated in far-left racist lies. Everything that the young man in the commercial said which he believes proves that America is racist comes, by his own admission, from his assumptions of other people, based on the way they look, or what job they have. He didn’t give examples of racist acts or words that were targeted at him. He accused people he doesn’t know, who he never spoke to of thought crimes he assumed they committed. He said cops, and “regular people”, which we were to infer are white people, looked at him a certain way, and he then felt they were prejudging him by how he looked.

The racism he is feeling is coming from inside himself, his prejudices and biases towards people who are different from him. He sees a white person or a police officer look at him, and he assumes he knows that they are thinking racist thoughts. This is not an interpretation of his feelings based on his looks, but based on what he said, and admitted to. He sees a white person look at him, and he assumes that person must be racist, and prejudging him. There is no way for him to know what the person was actually thinking, if the person didn’t say or do anything to him other than look at him.

He is doing exactly what he is accusing these people of doing. He is assuming that white people and cops are prejudging him based on how he looks because he is prejudging them based on how they look. If a white woman accused a black man of wanting to rape her because he looked at her, we would rightfully conclude she was racist, prejudging the man by his skin color, but this black person is making accusations about the thoughts of white people and cops based solely because they looked at him. It’s as equally racist. But his racism is being promoted by networks like Nickelodeon to our children.

This young man harbors many internal biases and prejudices towards white people and police officers because our society is inundated by false narratives pushed by the media and the left that black people are targets by whites and cops. NBA superstar, LeBron James once tweeted, “We’re literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes!” News organizations like CNN accuse police officers of unfairly targeting blacks. These types of false accusations are promoted and accepted in our society which poisons the minds of our youth, even though statistically speaking whites and cops are not the predominant threat to black people. A black person is 10.5 times more likely to be killed by another black person, then by a white person. And an unarmed black person is 184 times more likely to be killed by a black person than by a police officer.

At the end of the commercial, the young man claims that he wants to promote unity, but everything he said promotes more division. He makes false accusations against people of different colors, and different professions based on no tangible evidence, based solely on his own internal feelings that he projects on people who look different than he does. The sad and dangerous part in all this is that people like this young man cannot see their own inherent biases while they are calling out the inherent biases of other people who do not look like they do.

If he wants to know why the country is still so divided by race, he should look at himself in the mirror, and address his own prejudices, and his own biases toward other races. Because that is what jumps out from the commercial. I don’t want to be too harsh on this young man, because he is being used as a prop by people on the far left to push their agenda. Most likely he did not write the words he said. He just read words that someone else wrote for him, exploiting his age and race to push their destructive agenda. These types of tactics are dangerous, and driving a wedge through our country, preventing the racial harmony they intended to achieve. We can only live in a post-racial society when we decide to look beyond race, and into the hearts and souls of our fellow human beings which we can never do when we are so laser-focused on race.

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Judd Garrett is a graduate from Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.

https://www.objectivityistheobjective.com/post/indoctrination?utm_campaign=53d361f9-080e-43a1-9f1e-852d9fbd2f85&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=68c89da9-f6dc-4487-b193-99d35d8562c7

UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE WITH WOKEBUSTER GLENN LOURY

By Scott Johnson | Powerline

Glenn Loury is a voice of reason in the madhouse of higher education. He speaks with a powerful voice that is all the more powerful for its modulation. Peter Robinson sat down with him at FOX News in New York City to record an installment of his Uncommon Knowledge series last month, although it was just posted online this week. Here are the show notes:

Professor Glenn Loury is in social sciences and economics at Brown University and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Prior to that, he became a tenured professor of economics at Harvard at the age of 33. How he got from there to here is an inspiring and fascinating story of hard work and accomplishment that is explored in great detail in this interview. Professor Loury also explains the crucial role his parents and his extended family played in his education and his opinions. Now, in his 70’s Loury has become a leading spokesman on the right, often speaking out against woke culture prevalent on many campuses and other institutions. He also explains his radical (for an academic institution, at least) reading list and syllabus for the courses he teaches at Brown and how an undergraduate student/teaching assistant inspired Professor Loury to create a course intended to liberate his students from the “groupthink” that is far too prevalent at most universities.

There is much more that could be said to supplement or qualify or endorse Professor Loury’s views, but I can’t think of a better use of time over the long holiday weekend than taking in this much needed dose of common sense and civilized sensibility (and passing it on). In the course of the conversation Peter quotes from Thomas Sowell’s recent column “High stakes in Virginia.” You may also want to take that in if you haven’t already.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO: Glen Loury’s Journey from Chicago’s Southside To The Ivy League And Beyond.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/uncommon-knowledge-with-wokebuster-glenn-loury.php

'I'm Not Trashing Biden, It's Facts': GOP Rep. Clashes With Committee Chair

In a discussion with SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman in the House Small Business Committee last week, Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) clashed with Committee Chair Nydia Velázquez, after she warned him that he was violating the quorum.

Congressman Donalds exposed how Joe Biden’s policies are destroying small businesses.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO.

The Woke Mob Strikes Again!

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The "woke" news in the below article "Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City Hall after 187 years" is ironic since Jefferson's statue was banished because he owned slaves, while the New York Democrats who demanded the banishment are perfectly happy to remain in the party that fought to preserve slavery.

As Michael Scheuer wrote, the Democratic Party is the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.

For details, see the article "The Party of Civil Rights" by Kevin D. Williamson that was published May 28, 2012 in NR.

U. S. Congressman Vern Buchanan in a letter to his Florida constituents wrote:

“A nearly 200-year-old statue of Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, the third President of the United States and one of America’s Founding Fathers, has been removed from City Hall in New York City.

“The man who infamously wrote “all men are created equal” and the founder of the party that evolved into today’s Democratic Party is now being removed from the public sphere – by Democrats.

“If the “woke mob” can topple Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, who’s next?

“Even in our own back yard, the infamous “Unconditional Surrender” statue in Sarasota nearly fell victim to the radical left’s calls for removal. I advocated to keep the statue right where it is, as it honors the Greatest Generation and the end of World War II. Much like the statue of Jefferson – it should be celebrated, not hidden.”

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Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City Hall after 187 years

By Julia Marsh | The New York Post

The statue of Thomas Jefferson was taken out of City Hall today. – Photo by Gregory P. Mango

Thomas Jefferson is no longer in the room where it happens.

Art handlers packed up an 884-pound statue of Jefferson in a wooden crate Monday after a mayoral commission voted to banish the likeness of the nation’s third president from City Hall, where it’s resided for nearly two centuries — because he owned slaves.

About a dozen workers with Marshall Fine Arts spent several hours carefully removing the painted plaster monument from its pedestal inside the City Council chambers and surrounding it with sections of foam and wooden boards.

They then lowered the massive structure down the stairs leading to the building’s first-floor rotunda with a pulley system and ushered the Founding Father out the back door.

The 1833 statue will be on a long-term loan to the New York Historical Society, which plans to have Jefferson’s model survive in its lobby and reading room.

Keri Butler, executive director of the Public Design Commission that voted to banish the statue, at first tried to block the press from witnessing its removal. Butler relented after members of the mayor’s office and City Council intervened.

The commission also attempted to vote on the statue’s removal without a public hearing on the controversial move until The Post revealed the plan.

“Removing a monument without a public conversation about why it’s happening is useless. New Yorkers all need to talk about who we want to honor and why,” said Erin Thompson, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice who authored the forthcoming book “Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments.”

Thompson said the removal could spark a broader understanding of history. “Moving this statue doesn’t mean New Yorkers will forget who Thomas Jefferson was — but some of them might learn from the controversy that the man who wrote ‘all men are created equal’ owned over 600 of his fellow humans,” Thompson said.

Members of the City Council were split on the statue’s removal from its chambers.

Minority leader Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island) called the move an attempt to “sideline history” while Black, Latino and Asian Caucus co-chair I. Daneek Miller (D-Queens) said he wanted the statue gone because it doesn’t represent contemporary values.

The original bronze statue, by sculptor Pierre-Jean David, is still on display in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC. The plaster replica was gifted to City Hall by naval officer and Jefferson admirer Uriah Phillips Levy in 1834.

 https://nypost.com/2021/11/22/thomas-jefferson-statue-leaves-city-hall-after-187-years/

Ahmaud Arbery’s Father Throws a Wrench into the Race-Hate Industry, Says ‘All Lives Matter’

 BY ROBERT SPENCER | P J MEDIA

(Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

The killers of Ahmaud Arbery have been convicted of murder, demonstrating once again that Leftists’ narrative of “systemic racism” and “white supremacy” is false, hollow and divisive. After the Rittenhouse acquittal, numerous prominent people made paranoid, hysterical claims that white people can commit murder without penalty while black people are brutalized and framed for crimes, ignoring the fact that a black man, Andrew Coffee IV, was acquitted of murder on the same day Rittenhouse was also acquitted, and on the same grounds of self-defense. The conviction of Arbery’s killers was another torpedo in the establishment narrative, and then on Tuesday, Ahmaud Arbery’s father, Marcus Arbery, made matters even worse by taking up what Leftists insist is that notorious slogan of racists everywhere, “All Lives Matter.” Is Marcus Arbery a white supremacist? The mind reels.

Arbery said: “For real, all lives matter. Not just black children, we don’t want to see nobody go through this. I don’t want to see no daddy watch his kid get shot down like that. It’s all our problem. It’s all our problem. So hey, let’s keep fighting. Let’s keep doing it and making this place a better place for all human beings. All human beings. Everybody! Love everybody! All human beings need to be treated equally….Today is a good day.”

The best part of Arbery’s statement, however, wasn’t even so much what Arbery said, as great as it was, but the fact that he said these things while standing in front of the notorious race-hate entrepreneur Al Sharpton. Sharpton’s wordless response to Arbery’s words is fascinating: he first watches Arbery warily, and then begins to nod and mutter “That’s right,” all the while looking slightly pained. At one point, Sharpton begins to look directly at the camera, as if hoping against hope that maybe the moment wasn’t being captured on video. But it was.

Sharpton struck back at those who affirmed that “All Lives Matter” in June 2020 on English broadcaster Piers Morgan’s show. Morgan asked him, “You see people, as they have been doing in America and here, ‘Well, white lives matter, too. All lives matter.’ What is the correct response to that?” It’s noteworthy that Morgan didn’t ask Sharpton for his response to that, but for the “correct” one, taking for granted that Sharpton was an impartial oracle dispensing the correct and acceptable opinions that the masses were allowed to hold. Morgan also gave the question a racist spin by focusing on the phrase “White Lives Matter,” which is actually just as misleading as “Black Lives Matter” in singling out one group at the expense of others.

Not surprisingly, Sharpton focused on the “White Lives Matter” phrase, saying: “The correct response to that is that there has never been any argument that White Lives Matter. There has never been any debate and when a white life was taken, it is mitigated, prosecuted and, if convicted, incarcerated. The problem has been that it has not been equal on the other side. So, there has been no equal need to say ‘white lives matter.’ That has been a given and the system has worked that way. It has not worked that way around white lives. So, we’re not saying ‘Black Lives Matter more’. We are saying Black Lives Matter as much, equally and should be treated the same.”

Sharpton’s claim that “the system” has favored whites over blacks was belied again by the Arbery verdict. Then Arbery’s words delivered an even more crushing rebuke, refuting the Left’s claim that to say “All lives matter” somehow undercuts concerns for the civil rights of blacks.

The career race-baiter has had a tough few months. In September, he visited the border after false reports circulated of Border Patrol officers using whips on migrants. But his race-hate message fell on deaf ears: hecklers shouted Sharpton down, saying: “You’re a racist. Nobody wants you in Texas. Nobody wants you in Texas. Why are you here? Why are you stoking racism where it doesn’t exist? Nobody wants to hear your racist nonsense in Del Rio!”

And now Sharpton has even lost the father of a black man who was murdered by whites. Michael Shellenberger, author of San Fran-sicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, commented: “Marcus Arbery, father of Ahmaud, who was senselessly murdered, had every reason to give an angry & vindictive speech, & he would have been applauded for doing so Instead he affirmed his faith in the Kingian vision of racial equality, and in so doing restores our faith in America.”

That is true. And no one is farther from Martin Luther King’s vision of racial equality and harmony than the veteran divider Sharpton. On Wednesday, Marcus Arbery gave him a well-deserved rebuke, implicit but unmistakable. Marcus Arbery is a man of clarity and vision who deserves to be listened to and heeded far more than Al Sharpton does.

 https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/11/25/ahmaud-arberys-father-throws-a-wrench-into-the-race-hate-industry-says-all-lives-matter-n1536368?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&bcid=97dcba5b3836df02659d13cdaaceb7725e0831d49eea234e5b9b5647e5a46308&recip=28551147

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Related: ‘Get Out of Texas’: Protesters Blast Al Sharpton During Border Visit

America's Everyday Rebellion Gathers Momentum With Each New Outrage From the Left

BY MARK TAPSCOTT | PJ MEDIA  

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

It’s the day before Thanksgiving — that most American of holidays — and among much else, I am deeply thankful for Judge Daniel Green of Cole County in the Show-Me State.

Judge Green struck a blow for liberty and republican government earlier this week when he wrote:

“This case is about whether Missouri’s Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) regulations can abolish representative government in the creation of public health laws, and whether it can authorize closure of a school or assembly based on the unfettered opinion of an unelected official. This court finds it cannot.”

In two wonderfully succinct sentences, Judge Green thus captured the essence of the battle between the aspiring totalitarians on the American Left using COVID and public health to displace government by the consent of the governed and the legions of Americans across the political spectrum who have had their fill of being told to shut up and do what we’re told because we’re all bigots, oppressors, and reactionaries.

Missouri officials occasioned Green’s ruling by imposing unreasonable mask mandates on indoor and outdoor gatherings even as the vaccination rate continued to go up and the state’s per capita death rate due to COVID was 0.006.

Judge Green’s decision is a small but notable development in a gathering rebellion of everyday Americans against government by decree brought to a head by bureaucrats and little dictators in public office hiding behind the protection of public health.

Another blow was struck this past week when Robert Tyler and Advocates for Faith & Freedom filed suit in the Superior Court of California for Orange County seeking to force Gov. Gavin Newsom to comply with state law and withdraw his long-running COVID-based state of emergency.

Plaintiffs in the suit — including the Orange County Board of Education, Children’s Health Defense, and Children’s Health Defense-California Chapter — declare in their opening paragraph:

“This action seeks to restore the checks and balances on which American democracy depends. Governor Gavin Newsom eliminated those checks and balances during the spring of 2020 when he declared a state of emergency related to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.

“That may have been necessary at the time, to respond to a virus that caught government officials off-guard. But a state of emergency cannot last forever, especially when the government has used the emergency to exercise vast powers, including an unprecedented “stay at home” order through which the government told 40 million Californians what they could and could not do for 18 months.”

The suit notes that Newsom conceded in June that citizens of California had “successfully curbed the spread,” an admission which requires that the state of emergency no longer exists and thus must be withdrawn.

At the federal level, so many suits were filed challenging President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates that judicial officials were moved to consolidate 34 of them into one court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Among the 34 is one filed by the attorneys general of a dozen states challenging the Biden decree that healthcare facilities that do not require employees to be vaccinated will lose federal funding.

“The lawsuit argues that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shot mandate on facilities that receive federal funding for treating patients exceeds the agency’s statutory authority and violates the Social Security Act’s prohibition on regulations that control the hiring and firing of health care workers. It also violates multiple federal laws, the Spending Clause, the Anti-Commandeering Doctrine and the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution,” according to Liberty Counsel, the Florida-based public interest law firm that has taken a leading role in bringing suit on behalf of members of the U.S. military, civilian federal employees and thousands of private sector healthcare workers.

“The Vaccine Mandate causes grave danger to vulnerable persons whom Medicare and Medicaid were designed to protect—the poor, sick, and elderly—by forcing the termination of millions of ‘healthcare heroes,’” the lawsuit claims.

The mandate violates the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution by seeking “to commandeer state-employee surveyors to become enforcers of CMS’s unlawful attempt to federalize national vaccine policy and override the States’ police power on matters of health and safety,” the suit continues.

Another case was filed on behalf of 35 Navy SEALS who seek a religious exemption from the vaccine mandate by First Liberty Institute, the Plano, Texas-based public interest law firm that specializes in religious liberty litigation.

“The fact that the government has not granted a single religious exemption from the vaccine mandate shows that the Biden Administration does not care about religious freedom.  Instead, this appears to be an attempted ideological purge.  Forcing a service member to choose between their faith and serving their country is abhorrent to the Constitution and America’s values,” said Mike Berry, First Liberty’s General Counsel.

“After all these elite warriors have done to defend our freedoms, the Navy is now threatening their careers, families, and finances.  It’s appalling and it has to stop before any more harm is done to our national security,” Berry added.

It will take time for the legal system to process this issue, but it is difficult to see how the outcome would continue to give the green light to the mandates. But it’s not just the mandates at work here in prompting the Everyday Rebellion.

Progressive prosecutors who free chronic murderers, rapists, and sexual predators to continue preying on innocent Americans are also fueling the movement. Consider Darrell Brooks, who is charged with multiple murders in the Waukesha, Wisc. Christmas Parade attack.

Brooks has a lengthy criminal record, but a Left-wing prosecutor agreed to a minimal bail a month ago after he allegedly ran over his child’s mother with his Ford Escape, the same vehicle seen mowing down parade participants, including multiple seniors, little children, and spectators.

George Soros and other wealthy Leftist luminaries have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to put dozens of such prosecutors in office around the country. And every time one of them frees another murderer, rapist, or sex offender, more everyday Americans say they’ve had enough. The proliferation of organized mass shoplifting in malls and downtown shopping districts does the same thing.

Then there is the Kyle Rittenhouse prosecution. Rittenhouse was clearly defamed by legions of mainstream media figures, and he is almost certainly headed toward litigation that will hold them accountable, just as Nicholas Sandmann was able to do as a result of his defamation following an incident at the Lincoln Memorial.

When Rittenhouse starts winning multi-million dollar settlements, many more such suits will be filed by others emboldened by his success, and sooner or later, the Left-wing ideologues who have turned the mainstream media into the propaganda arm of the progressives who dominate the Democratic Party will have to start looking for new jobs.

Considering John Malone’s recent revelation that there are no “actual journalists” working at CNN, the ideologues who ruined Ted Turner’s formerly admirable creation may be hitting the pavement sooner than they think.

Yes, it’s the day before Thanksgiving and everyday Americans do indeed have much for which to be thankful.

https://pjmedia.com/culture/marktapscott/2021/11/24/americas-everyday-rebellion-gathers-momentum-with-each-new-outrage-from-the-left-n1536154?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&bcid=97dcba5b3836df02659d13cdaaceb7725e0831d49eea234e5b9b5647e5a46308&recip=28551147

'I Wish I Didn't Have To Give This Talk...': John Kennedy Unleashes On Biden On Senate Floor

 

On the Senate floor, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) slammed President Biden over inflation and the economy. 

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“If the government was in charge of the Sahara desert, there’d be a shortage of sand in 5 years”  - Milton Friedman

Car-Ramming Attack in Waukesha Brought to You by the Democratic Party

BY RICK MORAN | PJ MEDIA

AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps

There has been a very quiet experiment happening in America since 2016. The experiment was launched by billionaire radical George Soros and includes “reforming” the U.S. justice system.

The “reform” is total — a top-to-bottom revolution that represents both the best and the worst of liberal democracy. Arguing that there is inherent injustice and bias against people of some colors in the legal system, Soros poured money into local prosecutors’ races, radicalizing district attorney offices in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and several other cities.

The results were astonishing — and predictable. The radical Soros-backed prosecutors nearly ended the bail system, lightened sentences for every crime, and saw incarceration as something evil, not as something necessary for the safety of society.

Today, U.S. cities are bearing the fruit of those efforts in increasing murder rates and other violent crimes. While proponents of criminal justice reform swear that destroying the bail system doesn’t mean that violent criminals would be free to commit other crimes, the evidence points to exactly the opposite effect. Prosecutors and judges can’t be sure that the criminals they are allowing to walk the streets or show leniency toward won’t continue to hurt people. Nor can they be certain that a criminal given a no-bail release will show up in court to be tried and sent to prison.

Case in point: Darrell Brooks, the man who police say was “fleeing a knife fight” and ended up crashing through barriers and running over 53 people with five of them dying at a parade in Waukesha, Wisc.

This was a crime brought to you by Democrats. These are Democratic Party policies, supported by Wisconsin courts, that allowed Brooks the freedom to kill. Brooks has battery charges and firearms offenses dating back to 1999. And because he claimed he was “indigent,” the judges in two cases — including the attempted murder of his girlfriend — allowed him to walk out of jail after posting $500 bail for one crime and $1,000 for another.

Brooks was also the subject of an active warrant in Nevada after violating Nevada’s sex crimes laws in 2016. Despite being arrested several times in Wisconsin, he was never turned over to Nevada authorities.

Fox News:

“We don’t have ‘held without bail’ in Wisconsin, but we will expect to be asking for high cash bail, significant cash bail so that for all intents and purposes, they don’t have the ability to post it because it’s so much money,” Opper told Fox News Digital on Monday.

The office of her Milwaukee counterpart, District Attorney John Chisholm, said earlier in the day that it opened an investigation into its own bail recommendation in Brooks’ most recent case and that he should not have been allowed to go free on just $1,000 earlier this month. But his office recommended the sum and the court set it as such, records show.

“The state’s bail recommendation in this case was inappropriately low in light of the nature of the recent charges and the pending charges against Mr. Brooks,” Chisholm’s office said in a statement. “The bail recommendation in this case is not consistent with the approach of the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office toward matters involving violent crime.”

The problem, as Democrats see it, is that there are too many black people who can’t make bail and end up going to prison.

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We must balance ensuring that people aren’t needlessly in jail on bails that they can’t pay while ensuring that bail is set high enough to keep potentially dangerous people locked up.

“Cash bail favors the rich, who can pay it and go home, while poorer people are frequently forced to remain in jail while they await trial,” Seema Jayachandran, an economics professor at Northwestern University, argued in The New York Times.

That’s the kind of sophistry that passes for “debate” on the left. We have to make sure that potentially non-violent offenders go free while only those criminals who are a threat are locked up? What kind of a perfect world does that sort of system exist in?

George Soros and his “Open Society” group, which funds these radical DA races, believe in unicorns and fairy godmothers. And now, with their allies in the Democratic Party supplying a patina of rationality to an irrational movement, we’re seeing the results of believing that criminals aren’t really criminals. In the eyes of the left, these criminals are victims of a racist society so that many times their actions may break the law but are justified on that basis.

Until Democrats are forced to pay for their support of this nonsense, it will almost certainly continue.

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Turkey in Chief

Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2021

The Turkey in the White House continues to wreak havoc for Americans with his inflation-causing policies.

https://comicallyincorrect.com/a-f-branco-cartoon-turkey-in-chief/

MAJORITY NON-WHITE CITY SWINGS MORE THAN 40 POINTS IN FAVOR OF GOP

BY PAUL MIRENGOFF | POWERLINE

South Carolina is about as Red as any state in America. However, Columbia — the state’s capital and second largest city — has had a Democratic mayor for the past three decades. In recent years, this probably has much to do with the fact that more than half of Columbia’s population is non-White.

In 2020, Joe Biden carried the city by a margin of nearly 40 points. Thus, the Dems’ stranglehold on Columbia seemed complete.

However, Columbia has just elected a Republican mayor. The Republican, Daniel Rickenmann, defeated Democrat Tameika Isaac Devine in a runoff election last week. The margin was 4 points, 52-48.

Rickenmann, a member of city council, prioritized three issues: public safety, support for small businesses, and repairing infrastructure. Devine focused on “issues of income instability, affordable housing, creating equitable neighborhoods, and embracing the diversity of this city.”

Rickenmann’s platform proved more attractive to voters. Even in Democratic strongholds, voters seem more worried about crime, lack of job opportunities, and deteriorating roads and bridges than about abstractions — especially abstractions like equity and diversity that have come to stand for an erosion of standards and lack of concern for public safety.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/majority-non-white-city-swings-more-than-40-points-in-favor-of-gop.php

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Red Wave Coming: GOP Holds Biggest Lead in 40 Years in 2022 Congressional Election Poll

By Joe Saunders  | The Western Journal

With numbers like these, Democrats are looking at a red wave next year that will leave them as under water as a Joe Biden job approval rating.

Only 10 months into the Biden presidency, the doddering chief executive and the party that supports him have fallen so out of favor with the American public that a generic ballot finds Republicans holding an unprecedented lead over Democrats, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released Sunday.

And that bodes very badly for Democrats, who should already be panicking ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

For Biden himself, the numbers are miserable. A president who came into office promising to unite the country and vanquish all memories of his infinitely superior predecessor now finds himself with only a 41 percent approval rating, according to the poll. Meanwhile, 53 percent disapprove — a mark that’s under water by double digits.

When it comes to the economy alone, Biden’s approval rating is even worse. Fifty-five percent of those polled disapproved, compared to only 39 percent who approved. In September of 2017, then-President Donald Trump had a disapproval rating of 49 percent. That was the highest of the Trump presidency, according to the poll, and it was still 6 points lower than Biden’s is now.

Most Americans remember that Republicans lost control of the House in midterms a year later — a development that made possible the ludicrous impeachment efforts that followed.

The reasons for the current dissatisfaction are obvious to anyone who hasn’t been blinded by the mainstream media’s overwhelming bias.

Inflation is putting a bite on everyday Americans, the poll found, and the coronavirus pandemic Biden vowed to defeat is still a nagging concern.

And while the poll didn’t mention them, the illegal immigration crisis Biden created on the nation’s southern border and his administration’s utterly disastrous handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan have left Americans disgusted with a lawless administration in Washington.

They all add up to a grim picture for the president’s party: “As things stand, if the midterm elections were today, 51 percent of registered voters say they’d support the Republican candidate in their congressional district, 41 percent the Democrat,” ABC reported.

“That’s the biggest lead for Republicans in the 110 ABC/Post polls to ask this question since November 1981. Indeed, it’s only the second time the GOP has held a statistically significant advantage (the other was +7 points in January 2002) and the ninth time it’s held any numerical edge at all.”

For perspective, as National Review’s Jim Geraghty pointed out on Sunday, that lead stands out even against watershed, red-wave years like the midterms of 2010 and 1994.

ABC polls gave the GOP a 4-point advantage in the weeks leading up to the 2010 midterms, when Republicans took the House and held it for the remainder of then-President Barack Obama’s two terms in office, PolitiFact reported in a 2013 fact check.

And in the weeks preceding the 1994 midterms, when Republicans under Newt Gingrich took the House majority for the first time in more than half a century, ABC generic polls actually showed Democrats with a lead of 4 or 5 points, the PolitiFact report noted.

It’s important to point out that those polls were conducted, basically, on the eve of the elections, while the country is still more than a year away from a 2022 reckoning. However, it’s doubtful that any honest person could expect the factors that have been destroying confidence in Biden and the Democratic Congress are going to improve any time soon, because the party isn’t going to change any time soon.

A president who kicked off his administration by deliberately killing a controversial oil pipeline project via executive order — and thousands of jobs with it — isn’t likely to suddenly decide his fellow citizens’ livelihoods are more important than his party’s green agenda.

And Biden administration officials have already made clear that issues like high oil prices and rising food costs are not problems the White House takes seriously, so the damage to the economy is likely to continue

A political establishment already entrenched in a heavy-handed, top-down approach to battling the coronavirus isn’t going to suddenly understand that local and state-level decision-making, which has been very successful in Florida, should replace the politburo power of nationwide measures like unconstitutional vaccine mandates, so don’t expect Americans’ view of Biden’s handling of COIVD-19 to improve.

Meanwhile, the slow-motion disaster on the southern border is almost certain to keep rippling throughout the country, providing periodic moments of outrage every time an illegal alien commits some new criminal outrage or another unsuspecting American community finds itself flooded with more uninvited guests.

Furthermore, a presidency with zero credibility on the international stage after the deadly Afghanistan debacle has invited challenges from United States rivals across the globe, from Xi Jinping’s China to Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the murderous mullahs in Iran.

The Biden administration’s policies are a direct result of the leftist thinking that dominates his Democratic Party. As long as those policies don’t change, the increasingly miserable conditions they’re inflicting on the American public won’t either.

The good news is, the Founders foresaw exactly situations like this when they adopted a Constitution that makes an out-of-touch government accountable to the people it’s supposed to serve.

Democrats learned that lesson in Virginia and elsewhere in the off-year elections earlier this month, which should already have the party in knots over next year. If nothing changes, they’re going to learn it again in November 2022, with a red wave to rival the Republican victories of 1994 and 2010, in size and importance.

Their days are numbered — and that number can’t come up soon enough.

https://www.westernjournal.com/red-wave-coming-gop-holds-biggest-lead-40-years-2022-congressional-election-poll/

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Texas State Rep Deals Blow to Democrats, Switches to GOP: The Values of Those in DC Are Not Our Values

By Cameron Arcand  |The Western Journal 

Texas state Rep. Ryan Guillen is sending shockwaves through Texas politics as he announced his decision to switch from the Democratic Party to the GOP this week.

Guillen’s district, which represents Rio Grande City along the southern border, is being redrawn to be extremely favorable toward Republicans, which likely solidified his move.

“Friends, something is happening in South Texas, and many of us are waking up to the fact that the values of those in Washington, D.C., are not our values, not the values of most Texans,” Guillen said, according to the Texas Tribune.

“The ideology of defunding the police, of destroying the oil and gas industry and the chaos at our border is disastrous for those of us who live here in South Texas.”

Although former President Donald Trump did not win in all of South Texas, the 2020 election did show gains for Republicans in the region, according to NBC News.

In McAllen, Texas, a Republican narrowly won the mayoral race in June, showing a shift across all levels of government.

According to Mark Jones of Rice University, Guillen was considered the least liberal member of his caucus.

While conservative leadership already dominates in Texas, this one lawmaker’s decision is reflective of a nationwide political trend.

A recent poll from ABC News and The Washington Post revealed that registered voters have a preference for Republicans over Democrats by 10 percentage points on a generic ballot.

In South Texas, that mostly comes down to issues including the border crisis and economic woes such as inflation.

The Biden administration has done a poor job at taking initiative on problems that matter to Americans and is instead shifting the blame onto the previous White House or circumstances outside of its control.

Although President Joe Biden has promised to govern moderately, the White House seems to be catering to progressives with its Build Back Better agenda.

Guillen noticed the values in D.C. are political expediency and inaction, so he knew that becoming a Republican for his constituents would be the most effective move.

“Welcome to the party of freedom, opportunity & prosperity @RyanGuillen,” Republican Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted following Guillen’s announcement.

 “As Dems move further left, they’re abandoning the people of South Texas & their values. Rep. Guillen’s decision to switch parties is indicative of a shifting landscape in South Texas.”

If Guillen’s frustration is any indication of the country at large, 2022 will be a disaster for Democrats.

https://www.westernjournal.com/texas-state-rep-deals-blow-democrats-switches-gop-values-dc-not-values/

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