Daily News Roundup
NOTABLE QUOTE
C.S. Lewis prolific writer, lay theologian, and English literature professor: “The safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts”
Ray DiLorenzo contributor to Canada Free Press: The coming year, 2022, will be a pivotal year. What is gathered against us is so monumental, so hideous, so grotesque as to make all other previous forces amassed against Western Civilization throughout history rendered insignificant in comparison. It will be a year of destiny, deciding our fate, the year of the possibility of not going back. Before we anticipate with glee the coming midterm elections, we need to seriously consider whether the Democrats will allow any election that they cannot win. I do not believe there will be a 2022 election. There are plans to make sure it does not happen. The opposition has no plan or intention to give up what they have stolen. They will release new Covid variants, even a new virus, declare another national emergency, lock it down, cancel any balloting. Would they do such a thing? Absolutely! ‘All for the common good.’
Richard Moss, M.D. contributor to American Thinker: The public health and medical establishment and their allies in government and the media have done horrendous harm to the nation with 19 months of “misinformation” and disastrous policies, including the lockdowns, school closures, quarantining, and mask and other mandates, none of which had any effect on the trajectory of the virus. Instead, they have inflicted enormous collateral damage on society far worse than the virus itself. The medical establishment has refused to recommend or offer early treatment and therapeutics, sacrificing tens of thousands of lives that could have been saved. Now, they push a very questionable and experimental “vaccine” upon the nation including children who have little risk from the virus. They have regrettably subsumed themselves to the interests of pharmaceutical companies and others. History will judge this to be medicine’s darkest hour.
Kevin Roberts Heritage Foundations’ new president: “The Heritage Foundation has not historically filed lawsuits. That we are doing so now should make clear to any observer that we view this mandate as deadly serious threat to our individual liberty and the values that make America great. Under my predecessors, The Heritage Foundation has stood rock-solid in defense of liberty, freedom, and opportunity for all, and it will continue to do so under my leadership.”
Citizen Free Press: Florida is continuing to report the lowest rate of daily coronavirus cases per capita in the nation, and the figure dropped even lower over the holiday weekend. According to the New York Times coronavirus tracker, last updated November 29, Florida is reporting just three cases of the virus per 100,000 — the lowest in the nation.
Kenny Xu president of Color Us United: The Salvation Army’s “Let’s Talk About Racism” curriculum endorses books such as Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be An Antiracist and Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility. It calls on “White culture” to quit denying racism and admit its responsibility for racism. It calls upon whites to quit trying to be colorblind on race. It even asks its own members to “repent” for “racism.”
Jeff Crouere contributor to Townhall welcomes, one of our new American citizens, NBA Boston Celtics player Enes Kanter: Starting today, his new official name is Enes Kanter Freedom. In honor of becoming an American citizen today, he added a new last name, Freedom, which has a very American ring to it. Kanter Freedom is the type of American citizen our country desperately needs. He will be called Freedom because he appreciates what all Americans still possess, which is the right to act, speak, write, and think without restraint
Brian C. Joondeph, M.D. contributor to American Thinker: Clearly something is amiss when locations with the highest vaccination rates also have the highest number of new COVID cases and hospitalizations. What’s going on? The vaccines do not appear to be stopping COVID, despite assurances that they would. Dr. Anthony Fauci acknowledged in a recent interview his new view of vaccines providing, “A waning of immunity not only against infection but against hospitalization and to some extent death, which is starting to now involve all age groups.”
Joe Hoft Gateway Pundit publisher: The wonders of modern medicine? It seems like only yesterday we were reporting on the new COVID variant coming out of Africa. But within hours there were already vaccines for the new variant.
Alex Berenson Unreported Truths blogger and former NYT reporter: Just to be clear: devaccination is not a thing. You CANNOT UNDO the changes the vaccine has caused to your immune system. Not with bleach or herbal supplements or Johnny Walker Blue.
Alex Berenson Unreported Truths blogger and former NYT reporter: New York declares a health-care state of emergency over a Covid variant that doesn’t exist in the state
Lungariello & Levine NY Post reporters write that WHO skipped two Greek letters to name the new coronavirus variant Omicron: Internet pundits and politicians speculated that the group skipped Nu to avoid confusion with the word “new” and passed on Xi because of its written similarity to the name of Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Christopher Roach contributor to American Greatness: Although Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted, none of us is safe, so long as “critical race theory” and other Marxist ideas pollute our law schools, our judges’ minds, and our legal system.
Christopher Rufo in a 11/17/21 tweet: A minister and a veteran voiced opposition to the school board. The school district’s police department, in coordination with the sheriff, sent armed agents to arrest them in their homes. Public schools have declared war on American parents.
Jonathan Turley nationally recognized legal scholar: Rittenhouse has every right to attend ASU in person and has every right to expect that he can do so safely. If ASU cannot muster the integrity and courage to reaffirm those rights publicly, it has abandoned a core defining element for higher education. Colleges often sit in cringing silence as individual students are targeted and harassed. Students have every right to protest, but ASU must be clear and public in supporting Rittenhouse’s right to access to an education on its campuses.
THE GREAT GLOBAL RESET
Hayward: World Health Organization Debates Global ‘Pandemic Treaty’
“The ongoing chaos of this pandemic only underlines why the world needs an ironclad global agreement to set the rules of the game for pandemic preparedness and response. The world has treaties to manage other threats. Surely countries can agree on the need for a binding pact on the threat of pandemics,” W.H.O. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said last week.
Read more at Breitbart.
GOP
Solomon: Trump-endorsed challenger seeks to paint Liz Cheney as swamp creature, Wyoming carpetbagger
The Republican challenger hoping to forcibly retire Rep. Liz Cheney from Congress has a pointed message for Wyoming voters: Their current congresswoman is more concerned about Virginia’s military bases than her home state’s energy and natural resources. In an interview with Just the News this month, Hageman relentlessly criticized Cheney for dropping this year from the House Natural Resources Committee, where she had served since 2017, to focus exclusively on her House Armed Services Committee assignment and the Jan. 6 commission investigation. The messaging is unmistakable: Cheney is essentially a Wyoming carpetbagger more aligned with the interests of Virginia, where she lives in the Washington suburbs when Congress is in session.
Read more/Listen to the 58 minute interview at Just the News.
First Coast News: Florida governor says lockdowns are not an option as concerns are raised over Omicron variant
Watch the 8:58 press conference.
Olson: Pro-Herschel Walker PAC to attack Warnock, give GOP candidate ‘air support’ as he runs sunny campaign
“I think you’re going to see a significant investment into our organization because we’ve got the team in place in the organization in place to… define Raphael Warnock as a rubber stamp for Joe Biden’s disastrous policy decisions,” 34N22 PAC spokesman Steven Lawson told Fox News. Warnock, D-Ga., won a special election runoff in January and is up for reelection to a full term in 2022. […] “Herschel Walker is running as a uniter, not just for the Republican Party, but for the entire state,” Lawson said. “He’s running on issues that every Georgian cares about, whether it’s, you know, better jobs, better schools, and keeping our communities safe.” […] There are other candidates in the Republican primary, but Walker, endorsed by both former President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., appears to be emerging as the consensus candidate in the GOP.
Read more at Fox News.
Bois: Republican Senate Candidate J.D. Vance: ‘Shut Down the Government Until Vaccine Mandate Ends’
Speaking at an Ohio GOP Senate Forum, Vance said Republicans should avoid giving Democrats a “bipartisan flag to wave around” as they did with the infrastructure bill, setting his sights on the upcoming debt limit. “We gave the Democrats a bipartisan flag to wave around Washington DC that they are going to use to spend more money,” asserted Vance. “Now, what should we be doing? Right now, we have the Biden administration enorcing a vaccine mandate down people’s throats,” he continued. “At the same time, we have a debt limit coming up. Instead of giving them a bipartisan flag to wave, we should shut down the government until the vaccine mandate ends.”
Read more at Breitbart.
JANUARY 6
Smythe: Steve Bannon Wants All Documents Related to His Contempt Charges Made Public, Which Biden’s DOJ is Desperately Resisting.
Former advisor to President Trump, Stephen K. Bannon, has filed a motion to the U.S. district court in order for documents related to his contempt of Congress case to be released publicly. The motion was filed in opposition to the court’s protective order for discovery, which currently prevents both the defense and prosecution from releasing evidence or documents to the public. In a statement provided on behalf of Bannon to the Washington Post, he said, “In the opposition filed today, Mr. Bannon asked the judge to follow the normal process and allow unfettered access to and use of t he documents. Members of the public should make their own independent judgement as to whether the U.S. Department of Justice is committed to a just result based upon all the facts.” […] Prior to entering his plea of not guilty, Bannon stated that his case would be fought publicly on behalf of every American who “likes freedom of speech and liberty,
Read more at The National Pulse.
McCarthy: Capitol Punishment – The film every American must see
The inimitable actor Nick Searcy was present in DC on January 6. He has just released a film about what he saw that day, Capitol Punishment. For all Americans who find it hard to believe that our FBI and DOJ are now very dangerous enemies of the people, this film will be a shock. Those two law enforcement institutions are most assuredly now enemies of all law-abiding citizens. The phenomenon of January 6th was no insurrection; it was a carefully calculated set-up. The powers that be, some cabal of Trump haters within our government, successfully manipulated those present to escalate the situation with the help of an unknown number of FBI operatives and some Antifa and BLM activists. The so-called members of alleged militia groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were very likely FBI operatives as well. How can that be? […] . . . go to capitolpunishmentthefilm.com, pay the ten bucks and watch the whole film. It’s a wake-up call for those who have yet to realize just how precariously the freedoms we have long taken for granted are hanging by a thread. The FBI and DOJ are a danger to us all for they do not have our safety, security or best interests at heart. They are Biden’s gestapo (Roger Stone), in service of a very undemocratic radicalized administration.
Read more at American Thinker.
ELECTIONS
Valentine: Meet the Technology That’s Uncovering 2020’s Voter Fraud
Don’t get me wrong — there are thousands of phantom voters living in churches, R.V. parks, cemeteries, homeless shelters, hotels, and virtual mailboxes. It’s just that there are as many, perhaps more, who live active, healthy, honest lives on voter rolls. They just don’t know they voted.
You’ve heard the stories, denied by the mainstream press and almost every secretary of state: there is no significant voter fraud. Why not say that? There is no way you can check. Now there is. […] Leftists are different from you and me. Unlike us, they care that every vote is cast, and if you do not cast your vote, they will do it for you. And they did. At scale. In one midwestern state, voter rolls costing tens of thousands of dollars were bought by a billionaire leftist every month for over a year. Why would someone buy a list that doesn’t change much? Voter lists show people who move. They show people who never or seldom vote. The white hat canvassing team built a query for one state: “voters who voted in 2020 who never voted before.” Guess what! 265,000. In the same state, thousands of people came forward with stories that when they showed up to vote, they were told someone had voted for them. Get the picture? […] FOIA requests are mining gold.
Read more at American Thinker.
Thayer: Zuckerberg’s Election Meddling Could Be Emulated by Foreign Interests
The idea that Zuckerberg impacted elections in partisan ways through Facebook is almost universally accepted, but strangely the idea he did the same through the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) is somehow too farfetched. The reality is that CTCL impacted the 2020 election in ways Facebook never could, and legislators should be just as anxious to address “zuckbucks” as they are Facebook. For proof, look no further than Wisconsin, where, in true Facebook fashion, one of CTCL’s “grant advisers” leveraged the terms and conditions of Zuckerberg’s funding to access information they had no right to see. Reports show that Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein, CTCL’s Wisconsin “grant adviser” who once worked as a Democratic consultant in New York, became “de facto elections chief” for Wisconsin’s five largest cities despite holding no office. Spitzer-Rubenstein re-wrote the rules for ballot curing in Milwaukee, . . .[…] The details of how CTCL funds were used in Wisconsin are disturbing, but more disturbing is the fact that it was all legal. Most disturbing is that anybody else is now free to do the same. Anybody.
Read more at The Prickly Pear.
FAUCI
Lara Logan Swings the Atomic Sledgehammer into the Omicron Motives
In this segment, Ms. Logan is subtle as a brick through a window as she compares Dr. Fauci and his beagle killing narcissism to the ideological efforts of Dr. Josef Mengele. She’s not the first person to make that comparison.
Read more/Watch the 3:02 minute video at The Conservative Treehouse.
Florida has the lowest Covid rate in USA… And it just dropped 53 percent more…
Overall, the Sunshine State is reporting a daily average of 681 cases, representing a 53 percent drop over the past two weeks. Notably, hospitalizations in the state have also dropped by 11 percent in the same time frame. This is significant, as Florida came under constant scrutiny from the establishment media and left-wing politicians over the course of the pandemic, namely for refusing to embrace extended lockdowns or even a mask mandate. Notably, Florida never once had a statewide mask mandate in place. Illinois for comparison, is currently under another statewide mask mandate, yet it is reporting a daily average of 4,661 cases, or 37 per 100,000, representing an increase of 45 percent in the last two weeks. 8,457 cases, or 85 per 100,000. That represents a 59 percent increase over the last two weeks alone. Similarly, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) New York and Gov. Tom Wolf’s (D) Pennsylvania are also reporting some of the highest daily case rates in the nation, . .
Read more at Breitbart.
Kelly: The Madness of Anthony Fauci
It’s nearly impossible to select the most maniacal comment made by Dr. Anthony Fauci in his nearly 70-minute interview with “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan that aired over the weekend. Joe Biden’s chief coronavirus advisor and miniature global menace spent more than an hour denying responsibility for his documented mistakes, bragging about his self-appointed role as the world’s doctor, hogging credit for the vaccines, and attacking anyone who has challenged his unrivaled ego and track record of failure. Portraying himself as a victim rather than the cruel, megalomaniacal tyrant he is, Fauci took aim at Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Congressional co-sponsors of the “Fire Fauci Act,” which would zero-out the salary of the federal government’s highest-paid bureaucrat and audit Fauci’s correspondence and financial transactions during the pandemic. While declaring, “I represent science,” Fauci humbly graded the scientific approach to the pandemic an “A+” while incongruently warning about a “fifth wave” of the virus and explaining away one scientific stumble after another, from useless temperature checks to the need for bi-annual booster shots and randomly claiming the virus spread is “40 to 50 to 60 percent . . . asymptomatic.” Science! […] Rather than own up to his disastrous policy and medical advice, Fauci instead is accelerating his messianic impulses. He’s unsure, Fauci told George Stephanopoulos on Sunday morning, whether new lockdowns are needed to prevent the spread of the omicron mutation. “Prepare for the worst,” Fauci warned. Music, undoubtedly, to the ears of Xi Jinping.
Read more at American Greatness.
Billingsley: White Coat Sadist at Work
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci since 1984, conducts “excruciating experiments” on rhesus monkeys at NIH labs in Bethesda, Maryland. “In many of these experiments, Fauci and staff intentionally withhold pain relief, even though these are some of the most excruciating experiments in the federal government,” John Goodman of the White Coat Waste Project (WCWP) told the Epoch Times. […] A NIAID mouthpiece told the Times the monkeys are used “for research that helps develop life-saving preventions and treatments for diseases affecting public health.” No actual life-saving preventions and treatments from the excruciating research were mentioned. […] In early 2017, Fauci proclaimed there was “no doubt” that president Donald Trump would be confronted with a surprise infectious disease outbreak. In early 2020, Fauci praised China’s handling of the pandemic and in the early going opposed President Trump’s ban on travel from China. Fauci contended that the COVID virus developed naturally in the wild, a view not derived from a replicated scientific study. When CDC director Robert Redfield found evidence the virus was engineered and leaked from a lab, he got death threats. Anthony Fauci earned a medical degree in 1966 but his bio shows no advanced degrees in molecular biology or biochemistry. According to Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, inventor of the polymerase chain reaction, Fauci “doesn’t understand electronic microscopy and he doesn’t understand medicine. He should not be in a position like he’s in.” But he is.
Read more at FrontPage Mag.
In brushback to Biden, federal judge blocks vaccine mandate in Medicare, Medicaid facilities
U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Monday ordered a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccination mandates for health care workers in facilities in 10 states that accept Medicare and Medicaid funding. The court concluded that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) did not properly consider the impact on health care the mandates would impose on the facilities. “Because it is evident CMS significantly understates the burden that its mandate would impose on the ability of healthcare facilities to provide proper care, and thus, save lives, the public has an interest in maintaining the ‘status quo’ while the merits of the case are determined,” Schelp wrote in a 32-page memorandum and order in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Missouri. Missouri Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt led a 10-state coalition filing the lawsuit on Nov. 5 to stop the CMS vaccine mandate.
Read more at Just the News.
GOVERNMENT HAS SEIZED CONTROL OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
Redshaw: Exclusive: Forced to Get Vaccine to Remain on Lung Transplant List, 49-Year-Old Who Survived COVID Dies After Second Moderna Shot
In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Amy Bolin said in order to be approved for a double-lung transplant, her husband had to be fully vaccinated for COVID even though he’d had the virus and recovered. After his second Moderna shot, he developed a pulmonary embolism and heart condition and died before he could get new lungs. […] “In the medical field, your goal is supposed to be to improve and save people’s lives, and instead you’re giving them one option — you either do this or you can’t get a life-saving transplant,” Amy said. Amy said her husband had no choice. “He knew that without lungs he was not going to live because his lungs were failing him. But look at what happened by making that choice.” […] “People have the right to take the shot if that is what they think is best for them,” Amy said. “I never felt like this was best for him … ever ever ever. And to be told again that you can either do this or not be eligible for transplant left him in a space of complete desperation — and he did it out of complete desperation.”
Read more at Children’s Health Defense.
Moss, M.D.: Resisting COVID Tyranny
The following statement was sent to me and other members of the medical staff at a local hospital in October 2021 by its Executive Committee after approval at a Medical Staff meeting: . . . […] It is no small thing to imperil a physician’s livelihood, practice, medical license, and family over differences of opinion regarding optimal treatment for a particular condition. That, however, is precisely what this particular hospital has done. Specifically, they threatened physicians with “disciplinary action including suspension or revocation of their medical license” for the crime of “[distributing]… Covid-19 vaccine misinformation.” […] This “statement” threatens and intimidates those who may disagree with the received wisdom from the public health and medical establishment. It silences free and open debate regarding best practices for COVID, including the use of the vaccine, even when there is legitimate disagreement. It chills honest discussion and sincere, worthwhile professional exchange and differences of opinion. This “statement” suppresses healthy skepticism, discourages counterargument, and quashes dissent, critical in a free society and for the scientific enterprise. It leads to outright censorship and intimidation of authentic interlocutors who differ in their medical opinions. It represents, therefore, an attack on free speech and our First Amendment. It is an assault, as well, on reasonable scientific inquiry and examination. It is, in a word, tyranny.
Read more at American Thinker.
AN AMERICA IN DECLINE
VDH: A Tale of Two Cities: Kenosha vs. Waukesha
The media’s blatant lies amount to racial arson. Both Wisconsin towns, Kenosha, and Waukesha, about 50 miles apart by car, were the recent sites of multiple deaths. The violence in both made national news. Yet in contradictory ways both reflected the common themes of America’s current legal, media, and societal corruption. The relevant public prosecutors in both were in the news for alleged ideological bias. Specifically, they habitually calibrated the charging, indicting, and trying (or not) of defendants through ideological lenses and community pressure rather than on the basis of the facts and the law.
Read more at American Greatness.
AMERICA: THE ROADMAP BACK
Federer’s American Minute: C.S. Lewis “The safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts”His death went unnoticed, as he died the same day John F. Kennedy was shot. His books are some of the most widely read in English literature, with over 200 million sold worldwide. Nearly 50 years after his death, his books continue to sell a million copies a year. His name was Clive Staples Lewis, born NOVEMBER 29, 1898. At age 19, he fought in the trenches in World War I. After the War, C.S. Lewis taught at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1925-54; and was professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, 1954- 1963. Originally an agnostic, C.S. Lewis credited his Catholic colleague at Oxford, J.R.R. Tolkien, whom he met in 1926, as being instrumental in his coming to faith in Jesus Christ. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, 1937, and Lord of the Rings, 1937- 1949, which is one of the best-selling novels ever written- -with over 150 million copies sold.
Read more at American Minute.
DiLorenzo: An Appeal to Heaven
Proclaim An Appeal to Heaven, fly the flag to give us strength for the days ahead, for God’s guidance to correct a nation that has lost its way. As a spiritual person, I admit I pray before I write, seeking guidance in a disoriented world. I frequently stare at a blank screen, being at a loss of where to start. In a time where The Twilight Zone has become reality, prayer is no longer elective, it has once again become what it should always have been… essential. With so much spiritual counterfeit around us, I will say clearly that my God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of the Bible, the God of our founders, the God that revealed His love for us in the person of Jesus Christ, our Savior. It would be false to say to anyone that my words are the words of God, but to believe I am inspired by Him would not be false. And because we were founded as a Christian nation, with love for God and country, everyone is welcome at the table, unless your mission in life is to destroy what God and man has created. […] Through the years, Thomas Jefferson’s infamous separation of church and state statement has been perverted, exaggerated and repeatedly used by the Left to drive men and women of faith out of public service. And now, here we are, in a country corrupted by atheistic, anti-God influences, murderers, liars, and thieves that have decayed our society to the point of collapse. And yet, we need to humble ourselves, proclaim An Appeal to Heaven, fly the flag to give us strength for the days ahead, for God’s guidance to correct a nation that has lost its way, to bring forward strong patriot leaders that will steer us back to the city on a hill, forever blessed of God. Amen.
Read more at Canada Free Press.
CHINA: AMERICA’S MORTAL ENEMY
Keene: High-profile Americans among China’s network of international apologists
Many of the world’s most high-profile cultural, political and business powerhouses are willing to downplay or outright ignore China’s human abuses, which both the Trump and Biden administrations have said includes committing genocide against the Uyghur population. Even amid calls for the U.S. and other countries to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, China can still depend on friendly treatment from around the globe, including from high-profile Americans. LeBron James Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James, who hasn’t hesitated to take shots at Republican legislators and even Kyle Rittenhouse, has faced criticism for his posture toward the Chinese Communist Party. […] James isn’t the only player in the NBA kowtowing to the CCP, either — Brooklyn Nets star James Harden, while playing for the Rockets at the time, apologized to China for Morey’s comment. John Kerry . . .
Read more at Fox News.
Hayward: XI WHO MUST BE OBEYED?
I hadn’t been following the succession of COVID variations, which the World Health Organization (WHO?) has been labeling in the sequential order of the Greek alphabet. So the last iteration before yesterday’s news was the “Nu” variant. So next in line should be the “Xi” variant. But no!—We have skipped over the Xi variant for some reason right to the Marvel Superhero “Omicron” variant.
Read more at PowerLine Blog.