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January 12, 2022
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Leftists seek to bar Trump, GOP lawmakers from running for office over Capitol riot . . . A growing movement on the left seeks to bar former President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers accused of ties to last year’s Capitol riot from running for future office. Advocates cite a Civil War-era constitutional amendment to try to brand them as traitors. The liberal groups Free Speech for People and Our Revolution have sent letters urging
election officials in all 50 states to disqualify Mr. Trump and his allies from qualifying for the ballot. “On many levels, our democracy is under threat, and grassroots activists are ready to stand up to defend it,” said Paco Fabian, Our Revolution’s campaigns director. “We need to demand that our election officers follow the rule of law and ensure that current and former elected officials who participated in the January 6th insurrection are barred from appearing on any future
ballot.”
The letters, addressed to the heads of state election boards, ask them to exclude Mr. Trump from ballots amid speculation that he may run for president again in 2024. Washington Times
Soviet Playbook.
If this were taking place in Russia or China, the State Department would be screaming about voter rights' violations.
'I Can't Answer That': Asst. FBI Director Refuses To Answer Ted Cruz Questions About FBI informants' potential role in inciting violence during January 6 riots . . .
If there's only one piece of news you can read or listen to today, please listen to Ted Cruz's questioning of Assistant FBI Director and her answers in the video below. Sickening.
Biden Endorses Filibuster Rule Changes if Necessary to Pass Voting Legislation . . . President Biden put his weight behind congressional Democrats’ push to pass long-stalled elections bills, even if it requires changing Senate rules, in a speech Tuesday designed to build support for the imperiled legislation with votes just days away. While House and Senate Democrats support the proposals, the bills need 60 votes to advance in the 50-50
Senate. Both are expected to fall well short of that mark due to opposition from GOP lawmakers, prompting a parallel effort by Democrats to change the filibuster procedure to ease their passage. But two Democratic senators, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, have resisted such an approach, leaving any progress uncertain. Wall Street Journal
Democratic operatives say Hillary Clinton is 'best option' for party to win 2024 election . . . Two Democratic operatives see an opening for Hillary Clinton to run again for president in 2024.
A commentary article published in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday makes the case that a "perfect storm" is brewing in the Democratic Party, including low approval numbers for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as questions about whether Biden, now 79, will be viable to run for a second term. All this creates a "leadership vacuum," according to Douglas Schoen, founder and partner of Schoen Cooperman Research, a polling and consulting firm whose past clients
include Bill Clinton and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Andrew Stein, a former New York City Council president, Manhattan borough president, and state assemblyman.
Clinton "is already in an advantageous position to become the 2024 Democratic nominee. She is an experienced national figure who is younger than Mr. Biden and can offer a different approach from the disorganized and unpopular one the party is currently taking," they wrote. Washington Examiner
Education secretary requested school board letter resulting in FBI involvement . . . It increasingly looks like the school board association letter that resulted in FBI probes of the confrontations between parents and school boards – and its chilling effect on free speech – was arranged not by the school boards but by the administration. According to Fox News: Education Secretary Miguel Cardona solicited the much-criticized letter
from the National School Boards Association that compared protesting parents to domestic terrorists, according to an email exchange reviewed by Fox News. The email exchange indicates Cardona was more involved with the letter’s creation than previously known. President Biden’s Department of Justice relied on the NSBA letter, which suggested using the PATRIOT Act against parents, in creating its own memo directing the FBI to mobilize in support of local education officials. White House Dossier
DOJ evades questions on Capitol riot informants as Ray Epps denies working with FBI . . . The House committee investigating the Capitol riot said Ray Epps, who some Republicans suggest may have been an FBI informant, denies ever working with the bureau, even as the Justice Department evades questions about any informants or agents present in the crowd on Jan. 6, 2021. Epps, on video in the hours leading up to the riot encouraging the
crowd to enter the Capitol, had been on the FBI's Capitol Violence most wanted list before he was removed without explanation after nearly six months. With speculation swirling, Republicans have been clamoring for more clarity on Epps, but Justice Department and FBI officials have repeatedly declined to provide answers about the provocateur as well as any FBI informants or agents who may have been embedded within the pro-Trump crowd as people stormed the Capitol and disrupted the
certification of now-President Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 election. The Jan. 6 committee made the first move Tuesday, saying House investigators interviewed Epps, but did not offer any insight into whether he was under oath when he denied being an FBI informant. Washington Examiner
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Undersea Cable Connecting Norway With Arctic Satellite Station Has Been Mysteriously Severed . . . The cables run through a highly strategic stretch of water near where the Barents and Norwegian Sea meet. An undersea fiberoptic cable located between mainland Norway and the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean has been put out of action in a still-mysterious incident. The outage on the subsea communications cable —
the furthest north of its kind anywhere in the world — follows an incident last year in which different cables linking an undersea surveillance network off the Norwegian coast were severed, a story that we covered in detail at the time.
The latest disruption involves one of two fiberoptic cables that enable communications between the Norwegian mainland and Norwegian-administered Svalbard that lies between the mainland and the North Pole. The outage occurred on the morning of January 7, but was first widely reported yesterday. The extent of the damage is not clear from the official press release from Space Norway, the country's space agency, which maintains the cables primarily in support of the Svalbard Satellite Station
(SvalSat), but it is significant enough that it is expected to require the services of an ocean-going cable-laying vessel. The War Zone
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Roughly 18,000 Afghan refugees remain on US bases months after withdrawal . . .Five U.S. military bases are housing the roughly 18,000 Afghan refugees that have yet to be resettled within the United States, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told the Washington Examiner Tuesday. The refugees who are still on bases are being housed at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, Fort McCoy, Fort Pickett, Camp Atterbury, and
Holloman Air Force Base. While there are approximately 18,000 refugees still on bases, roughly 57,000 have already resettled into various communities across the country. Washington Examiner
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Fauci Was Warned About Possible Gain-Of-Function Creation Of COVID-19 In January 2020 . . . National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease head Dr. Anthony Fauci and several other top scientists were warned that COVID-19 could have been created by gain-of-function research in early 2020, according to email transcriptions released Tuesday by Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee. Two scientists, Michael Farzan of the Scripps Research Institute and Robert Garry of Tulane University, noted properties of the virus that they believed pointed to enhanced transmissibility stemming from gain-of-function research. The opinions of both men were provided to Fauci, then-National Institutes of Health head Francis Collins, and then-NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak in an email from researcher Jeremy Farrar sent on Jan. 31, 2020. The emails were
released with significant redactions. Due to classification rules, the emails could only be viewed by the Republican committee members and staff, who could then take notes and transcriptions in a classified setting. Daily Caller
Ted Budd demands Biden explain how many convicted felons got $1,400 virus stimulus checks . . . Rep. Ted Budd is demanding the White House explain how many convicted felons, including the terrorist responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing, received coronavirus stimulus checks from the Biden administration. Mr. Budd, a North Carolina Republican, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday urging the administration to
make the information public “Hardworking taxpayers have the right to expect that their dollars are spent wisely and carefully,” said Mr. Budd, who is running for the U.S. Senate this year. “That’s why it is unconscionable that terrorists and murderers received taxpayer-funded checks from President Biden’s American Rescue Plan.” Washington Times
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US inflation expected to reach its fastest pace in almost 40 years . . . US consumer price growth is expected to have risen at the fastest pace in almost four decades in December, as the Federal Reserve worries about the threat of elevated inflation and its consequences for the economic recovery. The consumer price index (CPI) is estimated to have increased at a 7 per cent annual clip last month, a step up from the 6.8
per cent rate registered in November. However, month-over-month price gains are expected to have moderated to 0.4 per cent between November and December, down from 0.8 per cent in the previous period. “Core” inflation, which strips out volatile items such as food and energy, is expected to have accelerated by an even larger magnitude compared with the last reading. Economists forecast core CPI will have jumped to 5.4 per cent, well above the earlier 4.9 per cent annual pace. That
translates to another monthly increase of 0.5 per cent. Financial Times
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Is Joe Rogan a Man of the People? . . . The bar chart showing the relative audiences of primetime cable news networks and hosts such as Rachel Maddow, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, and — leading the pack — Tucker Carlson, with more than three million viewers a night. But none of those personalities could touch the popularity of the name at the top of the list: podcaster Joe Rogan. It was claimed that Rogan has an audience of 11 million per
episode of his “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. While the podcasts don’t come out daily, averaging about three to four episodes per week, that’s the sort of audience that could be favorably compared to that of radio great Rush Limbaugh in his prime. But as Canadian author and upcoming Rogan guest Jordan Peterson put it, Rogan’s doing so well “because he doesn’t lie, or talk down to his audience, or manipulate for his own narrow advantage.” Patriot Post
High School Lesson Plans Tell California Students They’re Inherently Privileged If Male, Cisgender, White, Christian . . . A school district in La Quinta, California, said it is taking “corrective” action over ideological lecture materials that tell high school students they are inherently privileged if they are Christian, straight, or male. Following requests for comment from The Daily Signal, Desert Sands Unified School District public
information officer Mary Perry said “the lesson was not in alignment with the district-adopted curriculum” and “actions are being taken to rectify the situation.”“The teacher was operating outside the scope of [the] adopted curriculum and had potentially presented a biased position,” Perry said. “Corrective action is underway.” Daily
Signal
Conservatives push for boycott of GOP club over DC vaccine mandate . . . Conservative House lawmakers are urging their colleagues to boycott a storied, private Republican club near the Capitol to protest an indoor vaccine mandate imposed by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), which is set to take effect this week.
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), a member of the far-right Freedom Caucus, stood up in a closed-door GOP Conference meeting Tuesday and told colleagues they should refuse to patronize the 70-year-old Capitol Hill Club, eliciting support from some conservatives in the room, sources in the meeting told The Hill.
The club stated on its website that starting Saturday it will begin requiring that members and guests show their COVID-19 vaccination cards before they can enter the facilities. The Hill
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Anyone-can-vote madness hits NYC, serving up yet another far-left victory . . . Routine definitions of the word “citizen” include such phrases as a “person who legally belongs to a country and has the rights and protection of that country” and a person “who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it.” The common point is the transaction — a citizen gives something and gets something, as does the
government. One of those rights that has universally distinguished citizens from non-citizens is the right to vote. Unfortunately, we can now add that distinction to history’s trash heap thanks to the far left’s war on the nation’s culture and legal systems.
The decision by New York’s City Council to allow more than 800,000 noncitizen immigrants to vote in municipal elections is a watershed moment for the left’s goal of erasing standards and merit in American life. In this case, the compact between rights and responsibilities is severed, with only the rights remaining to the immigrants who are relieved of any responsibilities to the city and the other 8 million inhabitants. New York Post
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