OCT 2021 News Stream
AMERICA TODAY
America Today
America Today

10/31/21 "American Airlines canceled nearly 850 domestic and international flights on Sunday, citing staffing shortages and unfavorable weather, pushing total cancellations to 1,739 and counting since Friday."

10/31/21 "Biden administration is weighing whether to provide border crossers – who were subjected to the Zero Tolerance policy – with $450,000 each as part of a payout in lawsuits filed."

10/31/21 "The Associated Press reported the incident in a story about the growing use of the phrase “Let’s go, Brandon,” an aphorism in conservative circles for a vulgarity targeting Biden."

10/29/21 Board abruptly recessed meeting after a parent presented members with graphic illustrations of sex from a book on its resources list and asked board members if images were pornographic.

10/29/21 "...she didn't recognize her own son. She hadn't voted since 2012 – yet MyVote Wisconsin revealed she voted twice in 2020."

10/29/21 "Pelosi's husband, Paul, came under scrutiny earlier this year when he purchased as much as $1 million of Tesla call options, one of the largest transactions of Tesla shares disclosed by a member of Congress."

10/28/21 "Joe Biden wants to talk about one person these days, and that person isn’t Joe Biden. Then again, what does he possibly have to brag about?"

CBS News

10/28/21 "incident allegedly took place on the afternoon of Dec. 7 on the 2nd floor of the Executive Mansion ... complaint charges Cuomo with forcible touching, which carries a maximum sentence of one year in jail."
10/28/21 A decade in the making, "the colossal monument to the friendship between the United States and France was dedicated by Pres. Grover Cleveland on October 28, 1886."

Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg

10/28/21 Reports: "Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan have been sued by two former household workers who allege sexual harassment and racial discrimination" ... "tech CEO is already under scrutiny for Facebook's business practices"

10/27/21 "An In-N-Out restaurant in Contra Costa County in California was forced to close because business owners refused to play the government’s game and force customers to show zee vaccine papahs as conditions of entry."

Jim Banks (R-IN) & Jim Jordon (R-OH)

10/27/21 "FBI told Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks it would not provide Republicans the same information provided to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked committee consisting only of Democrat-appointed members."
10/27/21 "While the comedian may be too popular to shut down, the rest of the culture is receiving the message loud and clear."

10/27/21 "Trump’s newly formed company, Trump Media & Technology Group, announced Truth Social last week, saying it’s set to launch in beta for “invited guests” next month and will come online nationwide in the first 3 months of 2022"

10/27/21 "Several groups urging the Supreme Court to overturn New York’s virtual ban on bearing arms emphasize the policy’s racist roots and racially disproportionate impact."

10/27/21 "what’s interesting in this race is that McAuliffe, and the Democrat Party for which he’s more or less a generic representative, is more out of touch with the public on public education than ever before in memory."

10/27/21 In early October, award-winning journalist Sophia Nelson was welcomed to Christopher Newport University as scholar in-residence. After she tweeted opposition to a bisexual Superman, students and faculty want her fired.

10/26/21 "Fauci’s absolutist answer on gain-of-function research from May has proven to be false ... These are the games a bureaucrat plays when they are attempting to cover their own ass, their career and their life’s work."

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

10/26/21 "This scheme may satisfy Democrats, desperate to reduce the price tag of their $2 trillion spending bill, but it is among the most wrongheaded, poorly designed tax proposals in recent memory."

10/26/21 "Crowds of students gathered outside several Loudoun public schools. On Monday, a Virginia court found there were 'facts sufficient' to believe a teen boy sexually assaulted a girl in the girls’ bathroom at Stone Bridge High"

10/26/21 "The run-down dwelling has a broken door and is opposite from where the landlady resides. It features a scruffy-looking hammock that has been fitted at the rear of Reed’s home, next to a broken-down barbecue"

10/26/21 "The ban on efforts to fight rat infestations in city parks was championed by The Black Institute, founded by former ACORN boss Bertha Lewis, claiming that rat poison was racist. Now people are dying."

10/25/21 "While maneuvering his Third Army to relieve Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, Gen. George Patton would have been outranked by ‘first transgender admiral’ Rachel Levine."

10/25/21 "The data comes from the Dallas Fed’s monthly survey of Texas manufacturers. Comments from manufacturers pinned the blame for higher prices on the Biden administration’s fiscal policy."

10/25/21 Business groups are "worried" Biden’s "vaccine mandate for private companies could cause a mass exodus of employees" and "exacerbate supply chain problems" ... "groups are pleading" with administration for delay until 2022.

Photo Illustration by Adam Winger

10/25/21 "TV stations refused to air an ad that exposes pornographic books in public school libraries, even though the books may still be checked out by schoolchildren."

whistleblower Frances Haugen

10/25/21 "'My view is that what we are seeing is a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company,' Zuckerberg said in a Monday call with investors."

10/23/21 "upwards of 400 Americans have sought US help leaving the country in the nearly two months since the military withdrawal ... the administration’s public estimates were roughly one quarter of the actual number"

AT Content

10/22/21 "Biden spending over $2B to halt border wall construction amid migrant crisis ... headline from the Cape Gazette [Deleware newspaper]: $455,000 fence being installed at Biden’s beach house"

10/22/21 "The collusion between Biden’s White House, woke school boards, and the DOJ serves one purpose: to intimidate parents into silence."

10/22/21 "move that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle called anti-competitive, Google has announced it will remove its YouTube apps from TV streaming app Roku if Roku does not provide Google with special privileges"

Baldwin

10/22/21 "bullet Alec Baldwin fired from a prop gun first struck director of photography Halyna Hutchins – then exited her body and hit film director Joel Souza’s ... Hutchins and Souza were rushed to a hospital ... Hutchins died while being transported."

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken

10/21/21 "China launches a hypersonic missile but Antony Blinken is very worried about gender pronouns ... The State Department’s blog brags that 'the White House also debuted a website contact form with gender-neutral pronouns and the non-binary prefix Mx.'"

10/21/21 "The country's largest school board association collaborated with the Biden White House before sending a controversial letter calling on the FBI to investigate parents as potential domestic terrorists, according to previously unreported emails."

10/21/21 "If we can't agree that young girls being raped at school is an outrage, what can we agree on? ... Where is the Outrage?"

10/21/21 "The National Institutes of Health has stunningly admitted to funding gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at China’s Wuhan lab – despite Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly insisting to Congress that no such thing happened."

10/21/21 "Asked by Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) whether any of the individuals arrested in connection with the events of January 6th were charged with 'insurrection,' Garland answered 'I don't believe so.'"

10/20/21 "When asked if he supported such [vacciner] mandates in the commonwealth, Mr. McAuliffe replied, '...Schools, nurses, doctors – I want every employer to mandate that their employees be required to be vaccinated.'"

10/20/21 "Thousands of protesters marched in New York City ...to voice their opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates. ...latest in a series of such rallies that have been taking place regularly in NYC ...largely ignored by the corporate press."

10/19/21 Parents were "stunned" and "disappointed" when student cheerleaders held a huge banner that read "Sniff Sniff, You smell that? $PRIVILEGE$" apparently refering to the socio economic caste of the opposing team.

10/20/21 "Former proponents of an emerging Democratic majority now have doubts ... Two of the leading voices ringing alarm bells from within the commentariat are Ruy Teixeira and David Shor. They are not longtime contrarians; quite the opposite."

10/20/21 "Manchin (D-WV) has allegedly told associates in recent days that he’s devised a detailed exit strategy for his departure, Mother Jones reported Wednesday, citing people who overheard the Senator discussing the matter."

Jonathan Turley

10/20/21 "author of the Russian collusion dossier, gave an extraordinary interview to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos this week where he stood by claims long debunked by past investigations."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.)

10/19/21 "Proposed IRS surveillance now limited to non-wage net annual transactions of $10,000 and above. Which is still ridiculously low and intrusive."

10/19/21 "calls came in a nine-minute window well after officials first learned of the rape, it seems likely that the impetus for all three was the 'upset parent.'"

10/19/21 Coalition of parents from Saline, Mich. and Loudoun County, Va. claim Garland's "recent memo directing the FBI to investigate and potentially prosecute 'threats' leveled by parents against school board members is intended to chill speech."

White House defends Joe Biden maskless ‘moment’ at D.C. restaurant
10/19/21 WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki sloughed off incident as "moments when we all don’t put masks back on as quickly as we should." The President and First Lady are shown surrounded by mask-wearing staff and security.

10/18/21 "The disclosure comes on the heels of last week’s news that the latest comic book Superman, Jon Kent, son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, will 'come out' as bisexual when he is shown locking lips with budding reporter Jay Nakamura."

Brian Stelter, Bari Weiss

10/18/21 Stelter: "who are the people stopping the conversation?" Weiss: "People who work at networks, frankly, like the one I’m speaking on right now, who try and claim that it was racist to investigate the lab leak theory,”

Smollett

10/18/21 "Smollett’s attorney argued that forcing the 39-year-old former “Empire” actor into court would be a violation of his rights, as he has already completed community service and given up a $10,000 bond"

AT Content

10/18/21 "original draft of the agency's sex education standards included plans to teach elementary school students about gender identity and transgender hormone therapy ... NDE added a Planned Parenthood ally to the 28-member advisory team"

LCPS board mwmber Brenda Sheridan

10/18/21 "woke school board covers up a sexual assault to stay in power. ...smug administrators at its helm have been insulated from accountability by the same bureaucratic system that enables them to wield power."

The Lion and the Bard: How Churchill used Shakespeare to change the world

10/17/21 "Naturally, I am biased in favor of boys learning English. I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat. But the only thing I would whip them for is not knowing English. I would whip them hard for that."

10/17/21 "Hunter’s newfound cash cow has furthered concerns of potential for Biden family corruption, as the problem of money laundering in the art world remains a large problem."

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

10/17/21 "According to the [New York] Times, 'The workers, at the Fulton County Board of Elections, were dismissed on Friday after other employees saw them destroying registration forms awaiting processing before local elections in November.'"

10/16/21 "Citing 'unusual voting activity,' the film reference site says it's applying 'alternate weighting calculation' to friendly portrait of polarizing COVID czar ... at Rotten Tomatoes audiences gave it just a 2% – or 'rotten' – rating."

Photo by Eiliv-Sonas Aceron

10/16/21 "Crews will start work this fall building the Sustainable Beef plant on nearly 400 acres near North Platte, Nebraska, and other groups are making similar surprising moves in Iowa, Idaho and Wisconsin."

10/15/21 "Kerry and his wife disclosed a stake worth at least $1 million in a Chinese investment group that is a top shareholder of a Chinese tech company blacklisted by the United States for human rights violations."

10/15/21 "[Resignee] Barts was at the center of the recall effort to remove six school board members, who were accused of being part of an anti-racist Facebook group that allegedly created lists of parents who opposed CRT"

10/15/21 "Texas House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday mandating that transgender athletes participate in school sports teams corresponding to the biological sex listed on their birth certificate."

10/15/21 "Why forfeit a sovereign right to cut corporate taxes when and to whatever level we wish? Why deny ourselves a competitive advantage that can be gained by unilaterally cutting corporate tax rates?"

10/15/21 "At its very core, what the Biden administration fails to understand is there is a harsh reality out there, that there is evil and there is good"

10/15/21 "Gallup Poll and Katie Couric provide new evidence why media is utterly distrusted and disliked. While many on the left are still using the mantra 'follow the science,' it appears to be a mantra that has no meaning."

10/14/21 "Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, and co. insist that the IRS needs to know about $600 bank accounts. ...'This is about making sure the top 1 percent can't evade $160 billion per year in taxes'"

10/14/21 "The numbers make it clear that the underlying driver of deficits is abnormally high spending rather than abnormally low levels of taxation."

10/14/21 "According to results from October 56 percent of all likely voters believe that 'it is likely that cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election,' including 41 percent who say it's 'very likely.'"

Clinton & Klaus Schwab, by Robert Scoble

10/14/21 "Obviously it’s almost always about money and power ... By imposing controls, they can impose and control the flow of capital into places they see fit, not where we, as taxpayers or citizens, feel is appropriate."

10/14/21 "Walmart Inc. has launched a critical race theory training program that denounces the U.S. as a 'white supremacy system' and teaches white, hourly wage employees that they are guilty of 'white supremacy thinking' and 'internalized racial superiority.'"

10/13/21 "Chappelle's new special, "The Closer," has been accused of containing transphobic and homophobic content."

10/13/21 "The 'math equity toolkit' explains that getting the right answer, teacher 'control over the classroom,' and students being required to 'show their work' are all evidence of how math classrooms maintain 'white supremacy.'"

10/13/21 "Social Security recipients in 2022 are in line to receive the big[est] payment increase in nearly four decades, reflecting a pandemic-drive[n] inflation surge ... boost could ultimately deplete the fund a year earlier than expected."

Carlson says Biden is publicly lying about FOX News vaccine mandate
10/12/21 Caught on tape, before a group of Illinois construction workers, President Joe Biden whispered mockingly that he "always gets a kick out of" relating FOX News has an employee vaccine mandate. One is lead to wonder just how many kicks he's gotten thus far.

10/13/21 "justice accused those who kneel during the national anthem of showing 'contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life.'"

Frmr NY Gov. Cuomo & NYC Mayor de Blasio

10/13/21 "Is the FBI simply a corrupted tool in the hands of the political and media elites? FBI on Tues. raided the home of Sergeants Benevolent Assn. Pres. Ed Mullins, a Trump supporter and outspoken critic of NY Mayor Bill de Blasio."

10/13/21 "China’s trade surplus with the U.S. rose to a monthly record of $42 billion – exports surged by about 30% from a year ago, while imports climbed by just under 17%"

10/12/21 "If you’re looking for a laugh amidst all the bad news, there’s the remarkable phenomenon of Joe Biden fans stumbling around in shock that things are going so poorly."

10/12/21 "The true story of how Mark Zuckerberg privatized the government's voter registration and vote counting for Democrats in 2020."

AT Content, Photo by Bernard Spragg

10/12/21 Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR): "Buttigieg was completely unqualified to serve as Secretary of Transportation." CNSNews: "Buttigieg's most recent comments on the shipping logjam and shortage of goods came in an Oct. 7 interview"
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

10/12/21 "Many ethics experts expressed sharp disapproval of the arrangement, including a former head of the Office of Government Ethics, Walter Shaub, who described the sums of money involved as 'absolutely appalling.'"

10/12/21 NY Post's Steven Nelson, broached the topic of "a team of lawyers" involved in screening prospective buyers and if that was ouside the bounds of a purchaser anonymity agreement to shield Biden from undue influence.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

10/12/21 "Leon County violated Florida law, infringed on current and former employees' medical privacy, and fired loyal public servants because of their personal health decisions"

Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri

10/11/21 "There’s just no hiding the fact that the Democrats loathe America. They proved it Monday."

10/12/21 NY Mayor claimed Tues. "he needed taxpayers to foot the bill for the NYPD to accompany 'high-profile' figures such as himself on the 2019 presidential primary trail – despite his non-entity status in the race."

10/11/21 "blamed misallocation of military resources, overregulation, and the failure of U.S. tech companies to aid the federal government in tech research for the United States’ poor position on tech and cyber."

10/11/21 "the most important predictor of remote schooling was a school district’s historical propensity to prioritize the interests of its teachers over the competing interests of its students."

10/10/21 Referring to the Biden administration's proposed financial aid to the Taliban, Trump said, "We want our hostages back, and then we want our equipment back, and then we can start talking about that."
Editor's Note: Article includes video of Trump's full speech

10/11/21 "The 45th president returned to Iowa this weekend, leaving more questions asked than answered about a repeat bid. ... So, what would Trump not being the next Republican nominee even look like?"

AT content

10/11/21 "We're old enough to remember the government's actions that led us straight to this cataclysmic economic failure. It has nothing to do with who does and does not have the jab – and Biden's talking points aren't fooling anybody."

10/10/21 "In recent decades, Christopher Columbus has been demonized out of ignorance, hatred, and spite. The 'crimes'... attribute to him is a total fabrication. Not true. Not true at all. They are fictional."

10/11/21 Christmas? Too soon to tell if gathering with loved ones is possible. Halloween? No prob. Go door-to-door and 'terrorize' the neighbors with Fauci's blessing
Editor's Note: Looking forward to a Sunday without comment from Fauci
LIKE THE ENERGIZER BUNNY

10/11/21 "Biden is Brandon, but he’s not the only Brandon. If we had a dollar for every Brandon, we wouldn’t need to raise the debt limit."

Dan Crenshaw, Photo by Gage Skidmore*

10/10/21 "The U.S. Rep. and former Navy Seal (R-TX): "are you really willing to allow a huge exodus of experienced service members ... Americans deserve to know how you plan on dealing with this blow to force readiness"

10/10/21 "One feature of all these police-state excursions into unbridled power never changes – vagueness. It is so much easier to move the goal posts when there are no lines drawn on the field."
Editor's Note: Great dental work!

AT Illustration,Photo by awmleer

10/9/21 "The breach could give China access to "hugely valuable" information about the network itself and high-value individuals who use it,"

10/8/21 "In multiple interviews, Former President Donald Trump unloads on the rigged 2020 election, Republicans who screwed him, and why he regrets elevating Anthony Fauci during the pandemic."

10/8/21 "It appears to have struck Justice Kavanaugh as strange that President Biden is claiming that the war is over while doing things that are legal only if the war is still going on."

10/8/21 "Only 194,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in September, making the smallest gain in available work since December 2020 ... That number is down from the 366,000 jobs reportedly added to the economy in August"

10/7/21 "Americans who agreed wholeheartedly with the sentiment behind “F*ck Joe Biden!” are still uncomfortable with the loud dropping of F-bombs, “Let’s Go, Brandon!” is the Delta Variant of derisive civil disobedience. Now the whole family can chime in."
Editor's Note: Scott McKay is an AT favorite. The video of "Let's go Brandon" is available at date 10/4/21 of this news stream

10/7/21 "Federal immigration agencies are preparing contingency plans for a chaotic fall and winter that include looking to states thousands of miles away for assistance. According to a memo obtained by the Free Beacon"

10/7/21 "Tlaib’s confession came during a joint event with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge in Detroit. 'I’m just wearing it because I’ve got a Republican tracker here'"

10/7/21 "scheme was orchestrated by ex-New Jersey Net shooting guard Terrence Williams, who allegedly recruited other retired athletes and supplied them with the fake invoices and letters for reimbursement"
THE TERRORIST NEXT DOOR

10/7/21 "Fines for failure to comply with the law fall not on the unvaccinated people attempting to get into restaurants and movie theaters, but on the businesses that fail to catch them ... can reach as high as $5,000 per citation."

10/6/21 "Americans now 'view GOP as better than the Dems at protecting the nation from international threats (54% to 39%, respectively) and at ensuring the nation remains prosperous (50% to 41%).'"

10/5/21 The 11-page mailer which looks like a newspaper named The American Independent features stories disparaging of the Republican Glenn Youngkin and glowing of Democrat Terry McAuliffe.

James Comey

10/4/21 "If as is likely the DNC’s server wasn’t hacked by the Russians, who was behind the inside job and why?"

10/5/21 "It’s about reorganizing society around an ideology centered on sweeping identity claims that have no basis whatsoever in reality. ... transforming millennia of human practice to accommodate a bizarre, irrational craze"

Bennie Thompson

10/4/21 "50 years ago as a MS alderman, Bennie Thompson defended the Republic of New Africa and participated in a news conference blaming cops for the group's violence even as FBI saw group as waging 'guerrilla warfare.'"

Bronx cheer for Biden, not Brandon
10/4/21 Brandon Brown was the clear winner of the NASCAR race. And for whom the crowd was yelling was just as clear ...to everyone except the NBC interviewer.

10/4/21 "leftist protesters used aggressive tactics to confront moderate Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV)." Manchin was confronted at his houseboat, Sinema was harrassed in a public bathroom where she sought safety in a stall.
THE DEBT CEILING

Kennedy calls Yellen and Democrats out on raising U.S. debt ceiling
10/4/21 Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) to Yellen, "You folks want to have Republican fingerprints" on the Democrat spending spree so you can call it "bipartisan."

10/4/21 "Bipartisanship is not a light switch the Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer may flip on to borrow money and flip off to spend it. ... your party wishes to govern alone, it must handle the debt limit alone as well" - Mitch McConnell
Editor's Note: Mitch McConnell's letter to Biden on Twitter effectively articulates the debt ceiling issue. Access via this article.

10/4/21 "the big tech company labeled the tweet as 'misleading' and prohibited other users from interacting, liking, or sharing the post. The label led to a page that explained 'why health officials consider COVID-19 vaccines safe for most people.'"

AT Content

10/4/21 "Under U.S. law, illegal immigrants are barred from enjoying the benefits of federal entitlements. Democrats are trying to advance an amnesty provision into the budget reconciliation bill, a process reserved for budgetary matters."

10/4/21 "Reports on DownDetector.com showed the outages appear to be widespread, but it’s unclear if it impacts all users or just some locations. It’s not currently known what’s causing the outage."

10/4/21 "Polls released last week by U of VA showed that 'roughly 4 in 10 (41%) of Biden and half (52%) of Trump voters at least somewhat agree that it’s time to split the country, favoring blue/red states seceding from the union.'"

10/3/21 "Overcautious health officials are living on another planet ... Many modelers now believe that we have surpassed the peak of the delta variant's wave"

Barrasso

10/3/21 "people across the country are feeling less safe with Joe Biden as president. ... less safe because of the inflation ...hundreds of thousands of people illegally coming"

10/1/21 "Why do those who insist that we “trust the science” have no regard for the science of natural immunity? Something seems off."

Screenshot KGB-TV Portland

Portland Arts & Culture Council opts to keep riot-toppled statues but out of sight for foreseeable future
10/1/21 KGW TV reports statues including those of Presidents Washington, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt will remain in the city's public art collection. If public reappearance occurs it would be in a different location.

9/30/21 "Among Americans who aren't liberal pundits, the debt and deficit rank as major concerns. It's about time Congress noticed."

10/1/21 "Joe Manchin proposed a deal to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer this summer to limit the total cost of Democrats’ sweeping spending bill to $1.5 trillion"

10/1/21 "Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and White House liaisons Susan Rice and Brian Deese tried until late Thursday night to reach a deal"

Photo illustration by Brian Wangenheim

More women are buying guns
10/1/21 "According to 2021 National Firearms Survey, obtained by The Wall Street Journal, of first-time gun puchasers between Jan. 2019 & Apr. 2021 some 3.5 million were women and 4 million were men."
   
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