9/23/21
Today’s Top Choices:
The eviction moratorium proposed by progressive lawmakers would leave landlords with little ability to remove dangerous tenants
.@swinshi: "We are barreling away from a safety net policy that has succeeded by combining generosity with expectations of personal responsibility."
Not all of Trump legal adviser John Eastman’s arguments challenging the election results are unserious, but all of them are wrong, several in multiple ways | Opinion by @baseballcrank
"Everything else in the universe is either a particle or field. Dark energy behaves as neither, and it may be a property inherent to space itself.” via @bigthink realclearscience.com/2021/09/23/dar…
When the government indulges and subsidizes counterproductive behavior, we tend to get more of it, writes @jasonrileywsj
Coronavirus:
Vaccinating against COVID-19 does not increase the risk of miscarriage or birth defects, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
#JustTheNews
Rules? Just for the little people. I wonder how many days it will be until news surfaces of another politician violating the very rules they've imposed on the lowly rubes they supervise...
Has the COVID-19 pandemic finally peaked in the U.S.? Recent modeling scenarios cautiously suggest that it has.
General News:
Despite early suggestions that food hardship had spiked in the months after the pandemic began, new survey data confirm that those studies overstated the level of food hardship in 2020 among US households. buff.ly/2ZkNEuF
Democrat, Republicans Accuse Rashida Tlaib Of Anti-Semitism As Iron Dome Debate Devolves Into Shouting Match
Hunter Biden Wanted $2 Million To Help Libya Unfreeze Its Assets While Joe Biden Was VP: Report dlvr.it/S88S87
America learned the hard way in 2020. As Joe Biden's presidency implodes, polling shows former President Donald Trump would trounce Biden in a 2024 rematch.
Economics:
THE BIDEN ECONOMY: New claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, the second consecutive week of climbing claims.
Healthcare:
Government agencies "have not effectively managed fragmentation of diet-related efforts or the potential for overlap and duplication," leading to your taxpayer dollars going to waste
Immigration:
Foreign Policy:
Around the world and across recent history, single-party regimes have been both better governed and less likely to stir up international trouble than military regimes or personalist regimes.
In the country’s first post-Merkel election, Germany’s Free Democratic Party could once again be a "kingmaker."
The president of the American University of Afghanistan declares, ‘most movement out of Afghanistan is paused right now.’ | Opinion by @jimgeraghty
Education:
Ironically, it will be the states that, on paper, have direct control over their own health and safety regulations that will be subject to the forthcoming federal vaccine mandate. @natmalkus @thehill bit.ly/3tWLDjH
Defense:
Despite opposition from progressive lawmakers, the Democratic-led House passed $1 billion of funding for Israel's Iron Dome on Thursday with the help of Republican votes.
#JustTheNews
Biden ends every speech with "may God protect our troops" and yet wants to dishonorably discharge ones who refuse the COVID vaccine.
The fact that these people called us fascists for the past 4 years is mind-boggling.
Stripping funding for Iron Dome only makes sense if the goal is to help Hamas become more efficient at killing Israeli civilians | Opinion by @philipaklein
Former military intelligence analyst: Biden admin buying Chinese drones 'poses national security threat'
Big Tech:
Crime and Policing:
He Faked Emails To Claim Hollywood Executives Sexually Assaulted Him. Now He’s Charged With Perjury. dlvr.it/S88CW4
Climate Change:
‘It’s Not Just Republicans’: Jimmy Kimmel Complains About ‘Jackholes’ Who Deny Climate Change, Takes Shot At Joe Biden
Cancel Culture:
Tucker Carlson Slams His Publisher Simon & Schuster For Censorship That ‘Mirrors The Decline Of America’
SJW News:
The ACLU’s RBG Tweet Shows Once Again That It Has Abandoned Free Speech. | Opinion by @charlescwcooke
College Campus Absurdity:
In the 2020 election cycle, 97.58% of University of Chicago employee donations went to Democratic candidates in federal elections, while 2.42% of donations went to Republican candidates in federal elections, according to data from OpenSecrets.
Study: Connection between students' 'self-reported cognitive distortions and their endorsement of trigger warnings'