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February 23, 2021
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House Democrats Pressure TV Broadcasters To Deplatform Conservative Networks . . . Two House Democrats sent letters Monday to a dozen television broadcasters suggesting that they stop airing Fox News, Newsmax, and One America News Network, a move which a Republican commissioner on the FCC called a “chilling transgression” aimed at deplatforming the conservative networks. “Are you planning to continue carrying Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax
on your platform both now and beyond the renewal date?” California Reps. Anna G. Eshoo and Jerry McNerney wrote in a letter to the companies. “If so, why?” they asked. The letters were sent to AT&T, Verizon, Roku, Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Charter, Dish, Cox, Altice, Alphabet, and Hulu. Daily Caller
Growing up in the socialist totalitarian USSR, we had one single TV channel to watch - Channel 1, owned and operated by the Soviet government.
Amazon Stops Selling Book Critical of Transgender Movement with no explanation . . . Amazon has removed from its cybershelves a book with “thoughtful answers to questions” about transgenderism—without informing the author and without explanation. “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment” by Ryan T. Anderson, a former senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation and now president of the Ethics and Public
Policy Center, contends that ideology is more of a factor than biology in American society’s acceptance of transgenderism. In his book, published in 2018, Anderson discusses gender dysphoria, the feeling that one’s gender identity is different from one’s biological sex. “We need to respect the dignity of people who identify as transgender, but without encouraging children to undergo experimental transition treatments,” Anderson wrote. Daily Signal
In the USSR, it was dangerous for us to read books that the Soviet government deemed 'subversive.' You could go to prison for reading Pasternak's 'Doctor Zhivago,' Orwell's 'Animal Farm, Solzhenitsyn's 'The Gulag Archipelago' and many others. And of course, the Bible.
Murdoch son funds Dem-allied fake news, slams conservative media 'disinformation' . . . James Murdoch and his wife, Kathryn, split from the family’s Fox News empire and condemned conservative-leaning media for “spreading disinformation,” but at the same time they gave a half-million dollars to a political action committee linked to a Democratic-allied fake news operation.
The couple blamed the owners of news outlets with “propagating lies” that they said contributed to a multitude of catastrophes, including the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. While championing journalistic integrity, however, Mrs. Murdoch gave a total of $500,000 to Pacronym, a super PAC affiliated with the liberal activist group Acronym and its pseudo-news outlets called Courier Newsroom, according to Federal Election Commission records. Washington Times
US passes 500,000 Covid-19 deaths milestone . . . The US death toll from coronavirus has surpassed 500,000, underscoring the pandemic’s devastation as officials raced to roll out vaccinations as quickly as possible to prevent another surge. The solemn milestone came nearly a year after the first fatality from the virus was recorded in the country. The US death toll of 500,201 is by far the highest in the world in absolute terms
and more than double the 247,143 deaths in Brazil, the country with the second-highest number of fatalities, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Financial Times
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Trump Working to ‘Get the Best Team in the Field’ for 2022: Graham . . . After meeting with former President Donald Trump this weekend, Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters the president is focused on the 2022 election and working to get “the best team in the field.” “He’s very focused, working the phones, talking to folks, . . . he’s very involved in helping the team win,” Graham said. President Trump will deliver his first public
speech since leaving the White House at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 28. Trump’s speech will chart the course for the Republican party and cover issues such as standing up to China, dismantling the big tech monopoly, and defending free speech, according to former senior White House advisor Stephen Miller. Epoch Times
Blue collar workers aligning with the GOP: Poll . . . The populism and anti-globalism of Donald Trump is attracting swarms of blue collar workers into the GOP, with 57% now saying they support the Republican Party. Blue collar workers and the middle class harbor the values that have always served to “make America great.” No wonder they are leaving the Democratic Party, as it caters instead to the elites, the identity politics crowd, and
those with grievances against America. “The percentage of blue-collar voters who associate themselves with the Republican Party has grown 12 points over the last decade, an NBC News poll found. During that same time frame, the number of blue-collar voters calling themselves Democrats declined by 8 points. White House
Dossier
Trump's Stronger Supporter DeSantis crushes Rubio, Scott in Florida GOP poll . . . In Florida’s shadow Republican primary for president, Gov. Ron DeSantis is starting to dominate his once-better-known home state colleagues, Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott. DeSantis’s popularity among Republicans has been steadily rising in the state and nationwide amid his handling of Covid, and now a new survey from top GOP pollster Tony Fabrizio gives a
clearer picture of just how much the Florida GOP likes what he’s doing. In a hypothetical three-way primary for president, DeSantis gets 64 percent support compared to 12 percent for Rubio and 10 percent for Scott, according to Fabrizio’s survey, which was conducted last week for a private client and shared with POLITICO. Politico
Biden's unity effort falters . . . This month’s impeachment trial in which seven Republicans joined 50 Democrats in voting to convict former President Trump of inciting an insurrection may be the high-water mark of bipartisanship under President Biden, according to grumbling GOP senators. Republicans acknowledge that Biden has improved the tone of civility in Washington, but they complain that he and his party haven’t made much of an
effort to work with them.
Democrats don’t appear interested in having a real bipartisan negotiation on a COVID-19 relief bill or an upcoming infrastructure and jobs package, the senators complain. The Hill
Biden Administration Cancels Trump-Era Version of Citizenship Test . . . The Biden administration is canceling the use of a version of the U.S. citizenship test introduced by the Trump administration. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is dropping the 2020 version of the test, which critics claimed was too hard, and will revert to the version developed in 2008. The action, officials said, is consistent with
Biden’s Feb. 2 executive order mandating officials to review regulations and policies and see if any were inconsistent with welcoming and embracing migrants. Epoch Times
The problem of immigration in America will never be solved, just like the Dem-fed narrative of racism plaguing America will never go away. If the immigration and racism issues were ever resolved, this would be the end of the Democratic Party.
Merrick Garland's Response on Whether Biological Males Should Compete In Women’s Sports . . . President Joe Biden’s nominee for attorney general Merrick Garland avoided directly addressing whether biological males should compete in women’s sports during the first day of his confirmation hearing. “I’m going to ask you if you agree with this statement,” Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy told the attorney general nominee
during the hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday “Allowing…biological males to compete in an all-female sport deprives women of the opportunity to participate fully and fairly in sports and is fundamentally unfair to female athletes.” “This is a very difficult societal question,” Garland told Kennedy, to which the senator responded, “I know, but you’re going to be attorney general.” Daily Caller
Republicans highlight liberal wish list in Covid aid bill . . . The Republican Study Committee authored a three-page memo to conservatives to outline “all the left-wing items Democrats are hoping the public won’t find about.” Among the provisions raising eyebrows among the conservatives are $1,400 stimulus checks going to mixed-status families with undocumented immigrants; allowing Planned Parenthood to receive Paycheck Protection Program
(PPP) funds designed to keep small businesses afloat; and nearly $600 million for additional emergency paid family leave for federal employees and U.S. Postal Service workers, according to the RSC memo. White House Dossier
Every time there’s a big pot of money moving on Capitol Hill, everyone wants to use it to spend some of your money on their "priorities."
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US B-1 bombers arrive in Norway in historic first . . . US Air Force B-1B Lancers from Dyess Air Force Base in Texas arrived in Norway on Monday as part of a training mission in Europe, marking the first time U.S. bombers have operated out of the Scandinavian country. The U.S. Air Force said in a statement that since 2018, strategic bomber missions have involved "U.S. integration with NATO allies and regional partners."Gen. Jeff
Harrigian, the U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa commander said training with Norwegians "enables us to hone our deterrence and defense capabilities while also enhancing regional stability." The Hill
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Biden's Iran outreach backfires . . . The Biden administration came under pressure from all sides Monday in its push to restart nuclear talks with Iran, as leaders in Tehran threatened to dramatically ramp up uranium enrichment programs while officials in China and Israel laid out their own wildly different blueprints for how Washington should handle the tense diplomatic standoff. The White House extended the first olive branch last week
by offering to join multilateral talks with Tehran, but Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei responded Monday with a fiery declaration that his nation may rapidly expand its nuclear program at a moment’s notice with little regard for American demands. His aggressive stance suggests that the Iranian regime — facing its own backlash from hardliners in parliament who are wary of any engagement with the U.S. — will not offer President Biden an easy diplomatic victory. Washington Times
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Consumer Demand Snaps Back. Factories Can’t Keep Up . . . Without restaurants to visit and trips to take, Americans bought out stocks of cars, appliances, furniture and power tools. Manufacturers have been trying to catch up ever since. Nearly a year since initial coronavirus lockdowns in the U.S., barbells, kitchen mixers, mattresses and webcams are still hard to find. A global shortage of semiconductors has forced many car
makers to cut production in recent weeks. Snarled supply chains, labor shortage thwart full reopening. “Everyone was caught flat-footed,” said Jack Springer, chief executive officer of Malibu Boats Inc. Wall Street Journal
Jeff Bezos reportedly linked to Washington Football Team as new majority owner . . . If the Washington Football Team becomes available, you can count on Jeff Bezos to be one of the suitors to take over as majority owner of the team, according to court documents obtained by Front Office Sports. Bezos’ attorney had a discussion with Baltimore-based sports investment banking firm Moag & Co. Current Washington Football Team owner Dan
Snyder said that real estate executive Dwight Schar -- one of the three minority shareholders of the Washington Football Team -- reportedly led an “extortion campaign” to force Snyder to sell his stake of the team. Fox Business
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Voting machine company sues My Pillow guy . . . Dominion Voting Systems Inc on Monday filed a defamation lawsuit against businessman Mike Lindell, chief executive of My Pillow Inc, for 'spreading false conspiracy theories' that Dominion’s machines rigged November’s presidential election. The Denver-based company filed the case in federal court in Washington, seeking $1.3 billion in damages. Chaska,
Minnesota-based My Pillow is named as a co-defendant in the lawsuit. Dominion previously filed similar lawsuits against Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, two lawyers that promoted former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of widespread election fraud. Reuters
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Austrian cat completes 26 tricks in one minute for Guinness record . . . An Austrian teenager and her pet cat are Guinness World Record holders after the feline successfully performed 26 tricks in one minute. Guinness shared video of Anika Moritz, from Niederoesterreich, giving verbal and gesture instructions to her cat, Alexis, to get the feline to complete 26 tricks in one minute. The tricks included Alexis weaving between Moritz's
legs, giving a high five, ringing a bell with her paw, touching objects with her nose and opening a box with her mouth. UPI
The video is fun to watch.
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