APRIL 2021 News Stream
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4/30/21 "The Texas-based Valero Energy Corporation was recently ranked the fifth-worst emitter of greenhouse gasses despite having just 14 facilities"
Real Clear Politics 4/30/21

4/30/21 "Pence said his work with Trump was "four years of results, and four years of promises made and promises kept.""

4/30/21 "Biden became the first Democrat to carry the state’s electoral votes since 1996, capturing Arizona over President Donald Trump by less than 10,000 votes."

4/30/21 "The admin is looking for any reason to explain the crisis they created. We briefed the transition team numerous, numerous times."

J. Edgar Hoover

4/29/21 "Biden's claim that the Capitol Riot was the "worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War" is ahistorical garbage."
Editor's Note: Many thanks to Glenn Greenwald for sending us this excellent article. If you read nothing else, read the last paragraph.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman

4/29/21 "Biden has proposed $6 trillion in new spending since taking office ... minutes after Biden wrapped up his remarks, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D–N.Y.) said that's not nearly enough."

4/29/21 "Serious question: What does it tell you that these morons willingly cut oxygen flow to their own brains — yet don’t sound any dumber than when they did back when they still breathed freely?"

4/29/21 "left-leaning news stations and outlets that streamed the speech, like USAToday, NBC News, CBS News, CNBC News, and CNN all had “thumbs down” reactions outnumbering “thumbs up” reaction"

4/29/21 "mask ran counter to Biden’s rhetoric during the speech. ... All the investments in the America Jobs Plan will be guided by one principle: 'Buy American, buy American,' Biden said."

4/29/21 "'I thought signature verification was vote suppression?' the senator tweeted. 'That’s what Dems told us…'"

4/29/21 "America’s hurtling toward a showdown between citizens who understand the concept of God-given individual rights and Democrats who want socialism to replace capitalism."
NOTABLE QUOTE Joe Biden, April 28, 2021

4/28/21 "It’s just a TV show, right? Well, not quite, because “Tucker Carlson Tonight” is almost certainly the most influential public thinker and media figure on the right."

4/28/21 "Biden is here to bring us MAPA: ‘Make America Poor Again’"

4/28/21 "Now we know what a smattering of applause sounds like." ... "The only suspense was over whether Biden could get himself to pronounce 'escalation.'"

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4/28/21 "High-tax, heavy-regulation states lost population to states with leaner government footprint, apportionment data shows."

4/28/21 "USA Today ...  allowed Stacey Abrams to substantially alter an op-ed criticizing Georgia’s new voting law, which was published prior to MLB’s decision to move the All-Star Game"

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4/28/21 "warrant sought communications between Giuliani and other people including political columnist John Solomon ..." Lawyer for Giuliani called raids “legal thuggery"

4/27/21 "Barely anyone in political media even bothered covering the story. As of this writing, ABC, CBS, and NBC have not mentioned it. The Times buried a single line ..."

4/27/21 "Mohammad Javad Zarif and Kerry have a 'close relationship' ... the relationship continued when Kerry left office—a move Keane said was 'completely irresponsible and downright reckless'"

4/27/21 "What Rene Girard's mimetic theory can teach us about politics and how we arrived at our moment."

4/27/21 "His administration is twisting history and federal law to claim the government must encourage collective bargaining."

4/27/21 "retail was dying; now it’s all but dead. Office real estate was under threat; now it’s increasingly worthless. ... the growing irrelevance of Luvvie Lalaland, the Oscars and self-important celebrity actors"

4/27/21 "lawsuit follows the Justice Department announcing earlier in the month that it will not pursue criminal charges against the unnamed officer who shot Babbitt"

4/27/21 "Liz Cheney is polling sooo low in Wyoming, and has sooo little support, even from the Wyoming Republican Party, that she is looking for a way out of her Congressional race"

James Carville

4/27/21 "Democrats have been pushing the idea that they’re a nation united behind a progressive ideology. But of late, some rabble-rousers on the left have raised the warning that the party is out of touch ..."

4/26/21 "... BLM is a third rail in left-liberal political circles, which is where the ACLU now resides almost entirely, and thus it again cowers in silence ..."

Javad Zarif

4/26/21 "Kerry shocked Zarif by revealing that Israel had attacked Iranian targets in Syria more than 200 times, according to leaked audio obtained by The New York Times"

4/26/21 "America’s most populous state will hold just the second gubernatorial recall election in its history — a once-inconceivable outcome for deep-blue California’s Democratic governor."

4/26/21 "The consequences of all these efforts to re-engineer the U.S. justice system at the local level are as one would expect. ... 2020 was a record year for violent crime."

4/26/21 "Sunday's 93rd annual Academy Awards, held at Los Angeles' Union Station, plunged to 9.9 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen estimates."

Jose Francisco Morales

4/25/21 "the league is now distributing surveys to fans, and one of the questions asks them to identify their political affiliation, National Review reported"

Cowboy State Daily

4/25/21 "Thomas told FOX Business on Sunday that, since the promotion, Wiggins Construction has received over 120 bids from customers across the state interested in a roof installation"

4/25/21 "I don’t believe this country is systemically racist. What I believe is that this country has always tried from the very beginning to become a more perfect union."

4/25/21 "Schumer’s proposal is dangerous. Belonging to an ideological group — far left or far right — isn’t a crime in the U.S. ... The FBI’s job is to investigate violent crimes, not ideology."

4/25/21 "pathologist who served for years as Maryland’s chief medical examiner — is now being subjected to harassment and defamation for having had the temerity to testify in the ex-officer’s defense case."

4/24/21 "reports state clearly that heat waves in the US are now no more common than they were in 1900, and that the warmest temperatures in the US have not risen in the past fifty years."

4/24/21 "Less than three months after Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón was sworn in, victims advocates and members of law enforcement agencies gathered outside his office to demand his removal."

4/24/21 "Just when you think the Biden administration’s immigration policies and agenda can’t get worse … it does.”"

4/24/21 "Biden’s nominee for a top Small Business Administration job sits on the board of a group that lobbies in favor of the anti-Israel boycott movement and describes Israel as an "apartheid" state."

4/23/21 "weekend pause in the Arizona Senate’s election audit that a judge ordered on Friday won’t happen because the Arizona Democratic Party declined to put up a $1 million bond"

4/23/21 "Price, who could not name a single example, faced the question as the Biden administration tries to negotiate with Iran to bring Iran back the the 2015 nuclear deal"

4/23/21 "... Peoples Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party are the most sophisticated perpetrators, but other foreign actors are also engaged in efforts to subvert our biomedical research."
The Federalist 4/23/21

4/22/21 "... ballots are protected by bonded and certified 24-hour security forces, kept in locked cages and a public live stream is on 24 hours a day."

4/22/21 "After CBS News was caught editing the bodycam footage of the police shooting of Adam Toledo in Chicago, ... NBC News decides to edit the 911 call concerning the officer-involved shooting in Ohio"

4/22/21 "... the policies in question can more accurately be described as fascist in nature; large centralized governments working in tandem with large corporations to control economic and political policies."

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4/22/21 "The proposal would hike the capital gains rate to 39.6% for those earning $1 million or more"

4/21/21 "The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts..."

4/21/21 "... this week it's been members turning on a 44 year member, Philip Berk, who had sent a very problematic email"

4/21/21 "37% of Americans planned to either “wait and see” about the vaccine, would only get it if required or do not plan to get vaccinated at all. "

4/21/21 "Bans on dangling objects are just one example of the myriad petty rules that give police the power to stop nearly any driver at will."

4/21/21 "Activist Cornel West said that Biden was one of the core architects of mass incarceration and that, 'I think Biden is going to have to take responsibility and acknowledge the contribution he made to mass incarceration."
Daily Wire 4/21/21

4/20/21 "Communist China can repurpose its anti-American propaganda budget for other pursuits with a presidential administration like this running its top competitor."

4/20/21 "AOC spent $9,000 over the past three months on security from a single company. On Jan. 25, she spent another $24,279.13"

4/20/21 "Recent attacks suggest that Israel has a clandestine network inside Iran and that Iranian security services have been powerless to break it."

4/20/21 "Jurors deliberated for more than 10 hours over two days before reaching a verdict in the closely watched case stemming from Floyd’s May 25, 2020, death"

4/20/21 "The latest crop of New York Times interns provides a window into the dynamics at work. Of the Times's 33 interns, one appears to be a white male. Five are men and 27 are women."

4/20/21 "They (Ku Klux Klan) would stand outside of courtrooms and they would threaten violence if any jury would ever acquit a black person or convict a white person,"

4/20/21 "Is our system only just if a jury returns a verdict the President thinks is the ‘right’ one?"

4/19/21 "... revealed in a podcast he was considering a run for Texas governor... Although there has been speculation in the media that Matthew is Republican, he has never openly spoken about his political affiliations."

4/19/21 "It was crucial for liberal sectors of the media to invent and disseminate a harrowing lie about how Officer Brian Sicknick died. ... he is the only one they could claim was killed by pro-Trump protesters"

4/19/21 "Two men are accused of assaulting Sicknick by spraying a powerful chemical irritant at him during the siege, but prosecutors have not tied that exposure to Sicknick’s death."

4/19/21 "Far-left extremist Vicky Osterweil took to Twitter on Sunday to spread violent messaging against law enforcement breaking platform policy"

4/19/21 "Mondale, a liberal icon who lost the most lopsided presidential election after bluntly telling voters to expect a tax increase if he won, died Monday, April 19, 2021."

4/19/21 "... half of people currently working remotely say if their current company doesn’t continue to offer remote-work options long-term, they’ll look for a job at a company that does."

4/19/21 "Hawaii, an American state, had to decide if they accepted American me, much as a foreign country controls its borders and decides which outsiders may enter."

4/18/21 Waters: "We’re looking for a guilty verdict. ... If nothing does not happen [sic], then we know, that we’ve got to not only stay in the street ... we’ve got to fight ... get more confrontational"

The Dalton School, NYC

4/18/21 "if the head of Dalton can get fired for this insanity, so can you. Stop the hateful division.”"

4/15/21 "Hunter Biden’s new memoir sold less than 11,000 copies in its first week despite heavy promotion from CNN, CBS News and ABC’s 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'"

4/18/21 "...progressives are playing politics with border states. ... They appear to care less about Texas, Arizona, California and New Mexico and more about their own images."

4/18/21 "... percentage of Americans who say they are members of a house of worship has been steadily declining, to an all-time low 47 percent in 2020"

4/17/21 "Despite advance warnings, Portland Police Bureau officers were powerless to stop another night of rioting, arson, and gunfire carried out by Antifa. Rioters"

4/16/21 "Her speech at the National Action Summit was an insult to America."

4/16/21 "A Christian college is taking the Biden administration to court over a directive mandating the college to end its single-sex dorms and bathrooms."

4/16/21 "As the story of Russian bounties on U.S. troops gained traction in the press, Liz Cheney seized the opportunity to undermine her own party."

4/16/21 "Documentary short 'Do Not Split' draws the ire of Beijing. ... Oscars won't be broadcast live in Hong Kong for the first time in more than half a century."

Xavier Becerra

4/16/21 "Top White House officials have grown increasingly frustrated with Health Secretary Xavier Becerra over his department’s sluggish effort to house thousands of unaccompanied minors"

4/16/21 "After Republicans increased their share of the Hispanic vote in 2020, Congressional Democrats are clamoring to use the force of government to prevent Latinos from hearing conservative ideas."

4/15/21 "A new Democrat administration and two recent mass shootings mean it’s time for another episode of the gun-control melodrama that’s been running for decades."

4/15/21 "Joe Biden's United Nations ambassador says 'white supremacy' is intrinsic to 'our founding documents and principles,' and that the entire country is at fault when any individual in it does anything racist."

4/14/21 "Tax hikes and growing debt guarantee shared pain in a hobbled economy.'"
Project Veritas 4/14/21

CIA Director William Burns

4/14/21 "The specter of a major political donor — now convicted of a federal felony — secretly working for the CIA seems ripped from a Hollywood script."

4/14/21 "Why politicians, pundits and ‘experts’ don’t want COVID to end"

4/14/21 "After weeks of signs of improvement, Biden was confronted with vaccine problems and rising cases in places like Michigan."

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4/14/21 "The fact that late-night comedy hosts are making fun of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for halting the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine over rare cases of blood clots feels like a turning point"

4/14/21 "White liberals are increasingly more left-wing than black and Hispanic constituencies. The ‘defund the police’ antics accelerated the diaspora."

4/14/21 "During confirmation hearing, Republicans pushed Kristen Clarke on her history of opposing civil rights cases against black defendants"

4/13/21 "even though you've been vaccinated you still need to stay in Joe Biden's basement. You can't go to a restaurant, you can't go out. That's kind of ridiculous."

4/13/21 "Paul Pelosi bought 10,000 Roblox (ticker: RBLX) shares on March 10, the first day the videogame provider’s stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. He paid $500,000 to $1 million in total."

4/13/21 "He’s a problem for the Democratic Party because he’s so conservative and he can cause a lot of hiccups in passing of laws ... So, it would be great for the Democratic Party to get him out."

4/12/21 "The president is not doing cable news interviews. Tweets from his account are limited and, when they come, unimaginably conventional. The public comments are largely scripted."
Project Veritas 4/12/21

4/12/21 "... Black ministers and pastors, announced Monday it published a full-page ad in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to address the “lies” being told by President Joe Biden and Stacey Abrams"

4/12/21 "... we worked hard with the Mexican government, ... Guatemala and El Salvador and Honduras. We had real relationships ... We negotiated. ... made life better for their people and secured our southern border."

4/12/21 "The self-described Marxist is now facing criticism for the extravagant purchase, including from Jason Whitlock, an African-American sports journalist. "

4/12/21 "The president is picking fights with much of the population and further dividing the country."

4/11/21 "BEIJING has created a new system for citizens to immediately inform the government of anyone who "denies the excellence of the Chinese advanced socialist culture"."

4/11/21 "Fauci on Sunday advised people who have been vaccinated for COVID-19 to hold off on congregating indoors to eat or drink."

4/11/21 "Biden is racing at blinding speed to destroy every vestige of our representative republic."

4/10/21 "The self-described Marxist last month purchased a $1.4 million home on a secluded road a short drive from Malibu in Los Angeles"

4/10/21 "Musicians had to bring their A game in the 1960s as they were competing for radio time with everyone in every genre. The rock stations were OK with playing songs outside that lane."

4/10/21 "... will permit farmers and ranchers in the state to sell cuts of meat directly to consumers in the state "without licensure, regulation, or inspection by a public health agency"

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4/10/21 "Trump plans to affirm his commitment to the Republican Party — and raise the possibility that someone else will be the GOP's next presidential nominee — in a closed-door speech to donors Saturday night."

4/9/21 "White House says new body will study reforms including the possibility of increasing the size of the court"

4/9/21 "Blinken made good on his promise at his January Senate confirmation hearing that “the Biden-Harris administration would repudiate” the report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights."

4/9/21 "'At present, no clear causal relationship has been established between these rare events and the Janssen Covid-19 vaccine,' the company said ..."

4/9/21 "Joe Biden's 51-year-old son said the probe into data on the laptop was "absolutely a red herring" and sought to discredit the investigation by tying it to Rudy Giuliani"

4/8/21

4/8/21 "There is no circumstance in which I will vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster," wrote the West Virginia Democratic senator"

4/8/21 "The Department of Commerce will use the full extent of its authorities to prevent China from leveraging U.S. technologies to support these destabilizing military modernization ..."

4/8/21 "The Border Patrol encountered 18,663 unaccompanied children in March, well above previous highs of 11,475 in May 2019 and 10,620 in June 2014."

4/8/21 "... in the 1960s civil rights era. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used the boycott quite famously and to great effect."

4/7/21 "The way people look is totally irrelevant. How they perform is all you should care about. Once you forget that, airplanes tend to crash ..."

4/7/21 "... complaints about sexual assault were reported early Wednesday to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services as well as the Texas Health and Human Services Commission."

4/7/21 "The New York Times reported Wednesday that Gaetz privately asked the White House for “blanket pre-emptive pardons” for himself and some of his congressional allies"

4/7/21 "The fourth COVID wave is canceled now. Dr. Anthony Fauci, Biden’s COVID czar, said so. In doing so, he delivered a nuclear strike against the narrative that the CDC has been trying to conjure for days."

4/7/21 "... they’ll be playing the game in a park named after ... the man who co-founded an organization that’s been a staunch supporter of the Georgia bill"

4/7/21 "Tiger Woods was going as fast as 87 mph in the California crash that nearly killed him — and smashed into a tree that sent him airborne at 75 mph ..."

4/7/21 "Raffensperger, who is not a party to the suit, filed an amicus brief in an attempt to block the effort to unseal and examine the ballots"

4/6/21 "Trump is actually richer than he was a year ago, when we knocked valuations down at the start of the pandemic ..."

Iran Claims Victory Over United States as New Nuke Talks Begin
4/6/21 "Rabiei said the negotiations, which will occur in Vienna, represent a victory over the United States and the former Trump administration's "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran ..."

4/6/21 "This makes MLB more woke for shifting the lucrative event from a majority-black city to one that’s less than 10 percent black?"

File Photo by Gage Skidmore*

4/6/21 "... a political hit job ... an aspersion, a slander, a smear ... calculated and premeditated ... To hint darkly at scandal where none exists, and, thereby, to damage DeSantis in 2022 ..."

White House Archive

4/6/21 "... new completed section of border wall is more than just a wall as it includes technology that allows authorities to detect incursions and features “high-speed roads” that allows for rapid response."

4/6/21 "Everyone knows why Democrats don’t want voters to show ID. It has nothing to do with racism, and everyone knows it. So why are we playing this stupid game?"

4/6/21 "Gov. Gavin Newsom signed S.B. 132 into law in January, a bill that requires California house a prisoner in a “correctional facility designated for men or women based on the individual’s preference.”"

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4/5/21 "Washington scandal cycles are predictable, and sex is especially potent in politics. Let me first remind everyone that I am a representative in Congress, not a monk, and certainly not a criminal."

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4/5/21 "Will Major League Baseball now end its engagement with nations that do not hold elections at all like China and Cuba?"

4/5/21 "It is shameful that America’s pastime is not only being influenced by partisan political politics but also perpetuating false political narratives."

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4/5/21 "... broadside from the Senate minority leader, who has aligned himself with the business community for decades, is just the latest sign of a fraying alliance between big companies and the Republican Party."

4/5/21 "As with the pushing of anti-Bush forgeries, CBS News continues to push partisan propaganda at the expense of the truth."

4/4/21 "Overwhelmingly, the apologies themselves are steeped in mostly identical language and syntax. The public penitents often abjectly confess to having "failed" in some way"

4/4/21 "Yeah, I spent more time on my hands and knees picking through rugs smoking anything that even closely — even remotely resembled crack cocaine"

4/4/21 "The Texas Rangers are scheduled to make a bold move for their home opener Monday that has some medical experts and President Joe Biden concerned."

4/5/21 "Not only was restoring Obama’s Iran nuclear sellout one of the biggest foreign policy pledges of his campaign, but the Democrat pol has been funded by the Iran lobby ..."

4/4/21 "... letter takes additional shots at the company, accusing it of deciding to “perpetuate a national dialogue” they said “seeks to intentionally mislead the citizens of Georgia and deepen a divide in our great state"

4/4/21 "The National Institutes of Health has 'systematically thwarted' government oversight of dangerous pathogen research ..."

4/4/21 "You don't have to show proof of anything and they will allow you into the country. That's the Biden policy,"

4/3/21 "A person’s identity is defined by the group they belong to. There are no individual rights. There are only group rights. ... it rejects the idea that people have a right to pursue their own happiness."

4/2/21 "This data-driven authoritarianism, if it comes to pass, will wash away what remains of the rule of law and the Constitution, and annihilate the American way of life."

4/2/21 "What a humiliating spectacle for the league and the country."

Georgia Governor Kemp

4/2/21 "It’s time for the federal government to stop granting special privileges to specific, favored corporations—especially those that punish their political opponents."

4/1/21 "What is astonishing is that the media itself has fueled this false narrative and it is being used as a key claim in boycotting the state."

4/1/21 "Apple, Delta Airlines and Coca-Cola have been silent on human rights violations against Uyghurs in China"

4/1/21 "ID requirements are no more racist at the ballot box than they are on a Delta flight."

4/2/21 "Labor groups, echoed by Republicans in Congress, are cautioning that Biden's plan to hitch the jobs recovery to massive green energy investment could backfire ..."

4/2/21 "MLB Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. announced earlier in the day that the league was moving both All-Star Game and MLB Draft to a new host city following a misleading pressure campaign from leftists about the state’s new laws."

4/2/21 "Three major discoveries during the last century contradict the forecasts of scientific atheists, pointing instead in a distinctly theistic direction."

4/1/21 "Because you have access to more information, a range of opinions, or have read different takes than Holt and his colleagues will provide, you have lost your critical thinking skills."

4/1/21 "The question in this case is not whether the governor acted wisely; it is whether he acted lawfully. We conclude he did not"

4/1/21 "His delusions of grandeur deepen. ... power has revealed that he is just one more reckless and ruthless partisan for bigger and bigger government."
   
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