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More Polls, More Bad News for Biden and the Democrats

Friday, 22 October 2021 13:20
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, October 22, 2021:  

When pollsters describe Joe Biden’s approval ratings as “sinking like a ship” (Haisten Willis at Yahoo), “underwater” (Paul Steinhauser at Fox), and in a “death spiral” (Bob Unruh at WND), Democrats have reason to be concerned about the upcoming midterm elections.

When one of the Democrat Party’s own pollsters — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s Senate Majority PAC — agrees, the Democrats are in serious trouble.

A new Quinnipiac University poll showed Biden’s disapproval rating increasing by another percentage point over the one the group just conducted two weeks earlier: 52-37. That’s 52 percent disapproving of the job Biden is doing compared to just 37 percent who think he’s doing just swell.

The real damage is reflected among independents, with just 28 percent thinking Biden is doing great compared to 56 percent who do not.

When it comes to the country in general, the numbers from Quinnipiac offer no comfort to Democrats: by a 52- to 41-percent margin, Americans say that the country is worse off now than it was a year ago.

A poll done by Grinnell College reports the same percent of unhappy respondents: Biden’s approval rating is a scant 37 percent compared to 50 percent who disapprove of his job performance. Grinnell went on to report that while 54 percent of independents reportedly voted for Biden last November, today that support has cratered, to just 28-percent approval.

A poll conducted by McLaughlin and Associates of 1,000 likely voters in the upcoming midterm elections confirmed the bad news for Biden and friends:

Nearly six in 10 voters, 59%, now say America is on the wrong track.

 

That pessimism includes 66% of independents, 56% of Hispanics, 61% of women … and even 31% of 2020 Biden voters….

 

Moreover, almost one in five 2020 Biden voters, 18%, now disapprove of the job he’s doing as president.

Swing voters — those without significant party loyalty — hold the key to next November. Among them, independents score Biden at -59 percent, suburban voters at -57 percent, Hispanics at -48 percent, and blacks at -18 percent.

Things are so bad, according to McLaughlin, that “55% [of those polled] say that they are worried about the future of America with Joe Biden as president. That figure includes … 54% among independents, 26% among African Americans, and 22% among 2020 Biden voters. Talk about buyer’s remorse!”

In a private meeting held for Democrats in Washington earlier this week, the results of Schumer’s PAC were revealed. The poll focused on Senate battleground states — Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Georgia, and Nevada — and, wrote Politico, “the survey paints a bleak picture for Democrats.” Biden’s approval rating across those states is a dismal 41 percent, with 52 percent disapproving.

The poll focused on “persuadable” voters, those who are on the fence but could be convinced to vote Democrat, and it wasn’t pretty: Just 18 percent of them say that the economy is getting better.

Once again, in the words of James Carville, Bill Clinton’s political advisor in his run against President George H. W. Bush in 1992, “It’s the economy, stupid.” And with signs increasing that the economy, under heavy attack by the Biden administration, is reaching a tipping point into recession in time for the November midterms, McLaughlin concluded:

The coming primaries and midterms are likely to be a political massacre for the Biden Democrats.

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Tennessee Health Worker Announces Resignation With Fiery Letter to Boss

Thursday, 21 October 2021 20:43
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, October 21, 2o21:  

Micki Jeans is a CT technologist and works for Ballad Health of Tennessee. Up until October 31, that is, when she will resign. She gave two weeks’ notice directly to Alan Levine, executive chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Ballad Health.

In her nine-page letter of resignation, Jeans gave her reasons: Levine sold out, and in good conscience and as a Christian, she can’t work for him anymore:

You are the sole reason that I am resigning from your company, Ballad Health….

 

You have infringed upon my personal rights and freedoms and the freedom of your employees.

She started from the beginning. For 30 years, she labored faithfully for Mountain States Health Alliance, which became Ballad. And she believed Levine had her best interests at heart. She also believed him when he declared himself to be saved by the blood of Jesus Christ:

When you became CEO, I appreciated your spiritual words of encouragement. I was your advocate. When others came against you, I defended you for no other reason than your consistent religious encouragement.

 

I thought you to be a Godly man. I considered you not only a hospital leader worthy of respect but a friend and a fellow brother in Christ.

In July 2021, however, “all that changed. I watched as you adhered to the unconstitutional words of the unelected CDC, FDA, WHO, and OSHA … and even the current, yet corrupt, Biden Administration.… I watched you speak on CNN … urging Americans to take the experimental injections.”

She learned the reason why: He was protecting his company from federal sanctions if he didn’t sell out and go along:

I have recently learned … that if you did not adhere to the guidance of these … organizations, you would no longer receive Medicare/Medicaid funding.

 

You had a decision to make.

 

You could have, and should have, found a way to fight for Medicare/Medicaid funding while going against the unconstitutional mandates….

 

You did not choose wisely.

Instead, Levine chose to segregate his employees by badges they were required to wear, for those vaccinated, and those unvaccinated. He forced them to share their private health information.

In so doing, she wrote, he walked away from his Christian faith:

I was shocked that you would go along this path of division because you have claimed Christianity. God calls us to bring unity and peace, not division. You had the incredible opportunity to use your platform to stand up for what is right.

 

Could you imagine the mountains you could have moved?

 

Unfortunately, you did not use your platform to stand up for freedom.

There was a moment in time when she saw clearly who Levine really was:

The moment you told every single one of your employees via email that we would face disciplinary action up to termination if we did not comply with your badge buddy system, I saw you in a completely different light.

 

When you began to encourage the Covid-19 injections, I felt that you absolutely did not care about the freedom of anybody.

 

As a veteran of the United States Air Force, I value every God-given freedom that I have. In my life, I endured 7 months of captivity and I learned to value and to always fight for the human rights and freedom of every human being.

Jeans had done her homework, even if Levine hadn’t:

I am surprised that you, an educated and Christian man, cannot see right through what Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, and the billionaire global elites on this earth are trying to do. I do hope at this point that you will consider opening your eyes to the evil and corrupt global agenda, of which you are unfortunately a part.

The pandemic is not a healthcare crisis, she wrote, but “a global bioweapon against humanity.” And Levine doubled down by accusing “those who speak the truth of spreading disinformation and misinformation.”

She closed her letter of resignation:

I never would have imagined that I would be fighting government mandates and requirements by [Ballad Health] to receive a non-FDA approved experimental treatment for a disease with a 99.5% survival rate….

 

Medical decisions should be the sole responsibility of the individual.… These rights are God-given, inalienable, and constitutionally secured! Medical tyranny has no place in America or in Tennessee.

Her letter sounded like an application for membership in The John Birch Society:

I will join every group, every person, every doctor and healthcare worker to stand against what you are doing. I will work to unify the people of this community, not divide them. I will work to support your employees, my peers, who have gotten these injections under duress and coercion. I will work to give Ballad Health employees a voice.

 

I will work to educate people about our Constitution and make them aware of the freedoms that God gave them. I will travel, speak, write letters, emails and I will do everything in my power to expose the corruption of our world, our beautiful country, our state, and your company.

 

I will join forces with the Patriots of this great nation to do everything that I can to … combat what you and others are allowing to happen to our nation….

 

I will give my breath and my very life for the freedom of the citizens of this great nation and for our future generations. I will not stand idly by as communism, socialism, and global elites try to take us out. I was a soldier when our military was honorable and defended our freedoms and I am a soldier for Christ. I will fight. I. WILL. FIGHT.

She signed her letter: “Unvaccinated, unmasked, unashamed, and unafraid.”

Levine’s company’s website declares that, when they were considering what to name the new conglomeration of healthcare companies, “People told us they want to receive care from someone who really listens to them. When our health care is at stake, we need to be able to trust our caregiver.… We’re listening.”

Is Levine listening? Will he respond by doing the right thing? Or will Jeans’ letter of resignation be tossed into the round file so he can continue supporting the pandemic canard against his people?

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Massive Spending Bills Stalled by Just Two Democrats

Thursday, 21 October 2021 14:16
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, October 21, 2021:  

Two Democrat senators are standing in the way of passing Biden’s “legacy”: a vast “infrastructure” bill that has little to do with repairing the nation’s physical infrastructure; and another even larger “social infrastructure” bill that in essence is socialist Senator Bernie Sanders’ fondest dream.

The two senators — Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona — have taken different stands in opposition.

Manchin thinks the $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better” bill is too costly, and wants to cut it by more than half, to just $1.5 trillion. He also wants to keep the Hyde Amendment in place — the law Congress passed that prevents U.S. taxpayers from funding abortions. He claims that passage in its present form would turn the United States into an “entitlement mentality” culture increasingly dependent upon the government for everything.

Manchin has threatened to leave the Democrat Party if he doesn’t get his way. His staff leaked his plans to the far-left Mother Jones on Wednesday, which Manchin conveniently denied on Thursday. Mother Jones stands by the story: Manchin has given the Democrat leadership a week to agree to his demands or he’ll become an “American Independent.”

When Senator Bernie Sanders criticized Manchin in an op-ed, Machin created headlines by touting his “small government” position: “Congress should proceed with caution on any additional spending, and I will not vote for a reckless expansion of government programs. No op-ed from a self-declared Independent socialist is going to change that.”

For the record, according to the Freedom Index published by The New American, which rates politicians based on their adherence to the Constitution, Sanders sports a lifetime voting record of 28 out of 100, while Manchin’s lifetime rating is identical: 28 out of 100.

Sinema, whose lifetime Freedom Index rating is even worse — 17 out of 100 — on the other hand has no problem with spending huge amounts of money the government doesn’t have. Her problem is she doesn’t want to raise taxes to pay for it.

The proposed tax increases would include raising the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent, and the top individual income tax rate from 37 percent to nearly 40 percent. It would up the top capital-gains tax rate as well, and impose a “mark to market” strategy under which owners of unrealized wealth would be forced to liquidate part of that wealth to pay the taxes.

The bills encompass most of the Green New Deal — massive incentives to reward energy projects designed to fulfill the Democrats’ objective of making the U.S. economy dependent on wind, sun, and water no later than 2030. There would also be massive penalties for present energy generators — power plants and the like — who don’t kowtow to the new green agenda.

They include massive expansions of the present Medicaid and Medicare welfare programs, an increase in the child tax credit to low-income families, increases in paid leave, and free tuition to community colleges.

At present, Sinema (who isn’t up for reelection until 2024) is the primary roadblock. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer needs every Democrat senator to vote for these bills — a single defection would doom them. And he’s getting plenty of heat for not being able to force either Sinema or Manchin to recant, and to go along. Following a meeting with Schumer on Wednesday, New Jersey Democrat Representative Bill Pascell expressed his anger, not at Sinema or Manchin, but at Schumer: “He’s the leader over there. Pelosi has carried the total burden and the other guy [Schumer] has picked up the pieces. That’s it.”

The clock is working against the Democrats. If the negotiations, which are ongoing, fail to uncork the two-headed bottleneck by the middle of November, for all intents and purposes Biden and the Democrats will have lost. There will be no “legacy” spending bill on which to hang their political futures’ hats in the upcoming midterms.

Biden’s cratering in the polls isn’t helping, either. And if the economy reels under the attacks from the White House, it could seal the doom for the Democrats in November of 2022, as most voters are “pocketbook” voters who care little about the Democrat agenda.

Without this legacy to tout, as Ezra Klein noted in The New York Times, the “Democrats are sleepwalking into catastrophe.” This was reiterated by Ian Ward, writing in Politico: “the party’s platform [is] leading Democrats down a path toward political obscurity.”

All thanks to the political maneuvering of two liberal Democrats who refuse to go along to get along.

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Abbott Violates Constitution in Pushback Against Biden’s Unconstitutional Vaccine Mandates

Wednesday, 20 October 2021 09:55
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, October 20, 2021:

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart on Tuesday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he wanted to “set the counterbalance” against the Biden administration’s executive order demanding that employers with more than 100 employees be vaccinated.

He told Breitbart:

I had to stand up and protect those freedoms of people not wanting their bodies basically invaded by a vaccine that they do not want….

 

I talked to too many Texans around the entire state, who were literally crying because they faced either losing their job or compromising their own values and safety by getting the vaccine.

 

One of the catalysts behind my action was to ensure that people would not be losing their jobs.

Abbott’s “action” first revealed itself in June when he signed into law a bill that said that “a business in this state may not require a customer to provide any documentation certifying the customer’s COVID-19 vaccination … to gain access to, or to receive service from, that business.” At that time, Abbott declared that “Texas is open 100 percent, and we want to make sure that you have the freedom to go where you want without limits.”

That, of course, violates the right of a business owner to determine, on his own, whether such “documentation” would be required of his customers.

Abbott compounded his error on October 11 by issuing an executive order declaring that “no entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccination by any individual, including an employee or a consumer, who objects to such vaccination [demands].” The June law still allowed businesses to require that their employees be vaccinated, but his October ruling violated that right as well.

When Amanda House, Breitbart’s host of the interview, asked Abbott about his legal strategy in “counterbalancing” Biden’s executive order, he said:

Neither the President of the United States, nor the federal government, have any legal authority — any constitutional authority — to issue their vaccine mandate.

 

Throughout the history of the United States of America, it has been governors in states that have been in charge of [the] health and safety of the people who are residents of those states, not the federal government….

 

[It] is part of the governor’s job … to ensure that the freedoms that are guaranteed by the Constitution … are going to be protected.

Abbott, who obtained his Juris Doctorate from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1984, apparently didn’t learn, or perhaps forgot, that by taking his oath of office as governor he committed to upholding the Constitution of the United States as well as the Constitution of the state of Texas. The federal Constitution specifically grants lawmaking power in Article 1 to Congress alone, and not to the executive branch. The Constitution of Texas grants lawmaking power in Article 3 to the state legislature, and not to the governor. And if there is any conflict between state and federal law, the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution sorts it out:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof … shall be the supreme Law of the Land.

So, Abbott violated his oath of office by issuing an edict that only the state legislature can make. And then he violated private property rights and freedom of association rights of business owners in his executive order.

As Jacob Sullum wrote in Reason: “Abbott’s order is just as objectionable as the pending federal rule demanding that private companies with 100 or more employees require them to choose between vaccination and weekly coronavirus testing.… Abbott’s order … is no less outrageous than … Joe Biden’s plan to dictate employers’ vaccine policies.”

A vastly better and more effective — and Constitutional — way Abbott could have protected his citizens from an overweening federal government would have been for him simply to declare Biden’s forthcoming executive order as “null and void” in the state of Texas, noting that it was not “made in pursuance” of the U.S. Constitution.

 

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Wyoming to Hold Special Session to Push Back Against Vaccine Mandates

Tuesday, 19 October 2021 14:02
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, October 19, 2021: 

The Wyoming state legislature has voted to hold a special session next week to consider two bills pushing back against Biden’s vaccine mandates. Republican Governor Mark Gordon has repeatedly said he would fight against the mandates, even threatening to sue the Biden administration if necessary.

The special session would consider two bills being drafted: 1) a bill sponsored by Representative Chuck Gray of Casper that would ban vaccine “passports” and impose a heavy fine on any company using an employee’s vaccination status to hire, fire, promote, or demote him or her; and 2) a bill sponsored by Representative Tom James of Rock Springs that would impose fines and possible imprisonment for any state employee who attempted to enforce Biden’s mandates.

Wyoming is far from alone. At least 19 governors have issued public statements opposing the administration’s declarations, and several have vowed to fight them.

Southwest Airlines is still recovering from pilots’ pushback that virtually shut down the airline last weekend. Amtrak had to cancel trains because of a similar “staffing issue.” Workers for the shipbuilding company Huntington Ingalls are protesting demands from the company’s president that they get vaccinated or else they will lose their jobs.

The union representing pilots for American Airlines has warned the company it will face similar disruptions in service as Southwest if it doesn’t soften its vaccination demands.

Parents in Nevada, New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, New York, and South Carolina are protesting school boards’ demands that students, even in grade school, wear masks or face disciplinary action.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is facing rebellion from the police union’s members who are refusing to go along with her vaccine demands. Members of police departments in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Denver are also protesting the demands.

So, Wyoming is not alone.

However, in covering the issue in Wyoming, both the Casper Star Tribune and The Epoch Times got it wrong. Wrote Victoria Eavis for the Star Tribune: “State statutes can’t supersede federal law, according to the U.S. Constitution.” And Isabel van Brugen, writing for The Epoch Times, also got it wrong: “The U.S. Constitution prohibits state statutes from superseding federal law.”

First, the mandates declared by Biden were not law, but executive orders. Under the Constitution (See Article I, Section 1) only Congress can make laws. Second, any law that violates the U.S. Constitution automatically is null and void.

The Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Clause 2) makes that clear:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.

Any law that violates the Constitution, in other words, is null and void. That would allow Wyoming to declare Biden’s executive order as null and void and unenforceable in the state. As President George Washington noted in his farewell address in 1796: “Let there be no change [in the Constitution] by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument for good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”

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Biden Continues to Drop in Polls, Further Threatening Democrats’ Tenuous Hold on Congress

Tuesday, 19 October 2021 10:56
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Tuesday, October 19, 2021: 

The latest Zogby poll confirms Biden’s continuing slide in his job approval among likely U.S. voters: More than 61 percent of those polled rate it “fair” or “poor,” while just 36 percent rate it “good” or “excellent.”

Zogby was brutal in its assessment:

President Biden’s skid continues, and he has fallen down a job performance well.

 

There are crises spinning out of control every day. As the U.S. economy teeters on recession, and the Wall St. bubble continues to inflate, voters are being hit harder than heavyweights Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury with higher gas and food prices simultaneously.

 

Don’t forget about the US/Mexico border crisis, potential U.S. debt default and a once in a generation pandemic!

The only support Biden is getting comes from his “most ardent supporters,” including Democrats, Liberals, urban voters, and African Americans. “He is getting hammered by all age groups,” wrote Zogby, “including younger voters, women, suburban voters, Hispanics … and Independents.”

Zogby isn’t ready to throw in the towel:

It’s not all over for President Biden, but something must give soon. He needs to get his agenda going, get the debt ceiling raised, and get Covid under control.

 

Each one of these is nearly impossible by itself. Biden ran on the idea he could fix things and heal the country.

 

With each precious day slipping by it seems unlikely he will get his agenda passed or heal the country.

On every front, Biden is failing: the economy (consumer confidence is down and Wall Street is getting tired), inflation (it’s not “transitory”, sorry), the border crisis (border agents are now “processing” illegals rather than prosecuting them), Afghanistan (Congress is considering creating a commission to investigate the disaster!), the potential threat of a default on the nation’s towering debt (debates over raising the debt “ceiling” are just for show), and the pandemic (mask mandates are being resisted by more and more of the citizenry).

Zogby summed up Biden’s failures:

Everybody is feeling the pinch at the pump and grocery store. Gas and food prices are skyrocketing, and inflation could help deliver the House back to Republicans!

 

Women voters are abandoning ship. Biden needs to improve his polling numbers with women or Democratic leaders risk losing the 2022 midterm election.

 

Can Biden be the deal maker he was in the Senate? It’s quite amazing he cannot even get his own party on the same page. Usually, presidents are struggling to pass their agenda with a little bi-partisan support. The Democratic party is more divided than the Republicans now!

Democrats up for reelection next November are leaving the sinking Biden ship: 13 Democrat members of the House have already announced they will be retiring or not running for reelection. Expect that number to grow as Biden’s ship sinks ever lower.

Democrat Party political consultants are in a funk: “To be blunt, I’m not feeling good about where we are,” says one. “We’re asking people to vote for us,” says another, “but the average voter — all he sees is gridlock … that’s not really a great case for us.”

Biden’s legacy — the ginormous $3.5 trillion spending bill — is being stalled in the Senate by two Democrats! Neither Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema nor West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin are going along with Biden. When Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders took Manchin to task in an recent op-ed, Manchin fired back: “I will not vote for a reckless expansion of government programs. No op-ed from a self-declared Independent socialist is going to change that.”

And any attempt to insert a repeal of the Hyde Amendment (prohibiting federal funding of abortions) has forced Manchin to declare the bill “dead on arrival.”

The funk extends to David Shor, the Democrat genius pollster who called Obama’s election within one percentage point. His current model shows Democrats not only losing the House, but the Senate as well. In the next term, he is predicting the Republicans will control it, 57-43.

Even if any of Biden’s “legacy” is passed, it will be too late. Most elections are “pocketbook” elections. And with the economy faltering, thanks to Biden’s illegal executive orders shutting down oil pipelines and ordering mask mandates, inflation at the grocery stores continuing its relentless upward climb, and gas prices putting a crimp in every driver’s pocketbook, by next November a full-blown recession could successfully obliterate any chance that the Democrat Party will retain its present marginal advantage in Washington.

History could record that Biden will be a one-term president, with that one term effectively lasting less than two years.

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McLaughlin Poll Shows Swing Voters Put off by Democrat Policies

Monday, 18 October 2021 15:31
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, October 18, 2021:  

According to extensive polling by McLaughlin & Associates, Joe Biden and his far-left political agenda have alienated swing voters at precisely the time they are needed to keep the Democrats from being demolished in 2022.

Said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who commissioned the study:

With Biden’s election, the left went crazy. They totally misunderstood what had happened [in 2020], and they decided this was their moment to go out and be who they really are, which for most Americans is pretty frightening.

 

And the result is [that Biden and the Democrats] took a series of steps that I think are unsustainable.

The poll’s results, which run 70 pages, showed that swing voters — those without a predictable loyalty to either party — consider America the greatest country in the world and that free-market capitalism is greatly to be preferred over big government socialism. When Democrats undertook efforts to denigrate or disparage the country and its economic system, swing voters took umbrage.

For instance, by an 84-percent to 16-percent margin, they believe that “the United States is the greatest country on earth.” And, by an 82-percent to 18-percent margin, they think the free-market capitalist system is vastly superior to socialism.

When it comes to defunding local police, less than a third of swing voters agree, with more than two-thirds of them supporting more funding instead.

And they put the blame on the recent spike in violent crime where it belongs: Seven out of 10 swing voters said it was caused by the “undermining of law and order and disrespect of our police officers [by Biden and the Democrats].”

They also opposed the Democrats’ pushing Critical Race Theory. Eighty percent of them said they wanted public schools to “teach young people to treat people the same no matter their skin color.”

When it comes to healthcare, three-quarters of swing voters think that doctors and their patients should be “in charge, instead of insurance companies and big government.”

Gingrich is using the poll’s results to improve Republicans’ messaging to those voters in the runup to the midterm elections. Rather than using the word “capitalism,” he recommends that they use the phrase “free-market capitalism.” And when describing Democrats’ policies, they should emphasize the phrase “big government socialism” in place of “socialism.”

The McLaughlin poll mirrors the concerns of Democrat pollster David Shor. Shor’s current political model shows Democrats losing the House next November, and seven seats in the Senate. As Shor noted, the Democrats’ challenge in 2022 can only be met with a change — a substantial change — in their present messaging. Unless that changes, they are, in the words of Ian Ward in Politico, “heading down a path toward political obscurity.”

A majority of the swing voters in 2020 went for Trump. With swing voters making up a third of the electorate, Democrats are faced with an insurmountable task: turning them back to the Democrat Party by November 2022. Instead, their policies and pronouncements are turning more and more of them toward the Republican Party.

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Parent Pushback on Children’s Mask Mandates Goes Viral

Monday, 18 October 2021 10:59
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, October 18, 2021:  

Perhaps the most viewed video of outraged parents protesting school-board mask mandates for their kids came from Clark County School District in Nevada. In September, not only did a group of parents file a $200 million lawsuit against the school board, a copy of it was hand-delivered to each board member during a meeting.

The complaint stated that the board and the school superintendent “blatantly and maliciously” violated the Constitution by imposing the mask mandate on school children. It complained that any benefits masking might provide are greatly exceeded by the damage done to the educational process. “The ability to pursue an education without being subject to health risks … are not offset by any scientifically provable benefits,” said the complaint.

Said the parents, in announcing the lawsuit as copies of it were being handed out to each board member:

You have been officially served a $200 million lawsuit with six complaints and violations under multiple amendments. Your job is not to be concerned with children’s health. You are not nurses. You’re not doctors.

 

Your only focus is on our children’s education. If the education system here is 50th in the state and you make almost more money than anybody else, it is very clear that you have failed in doing that job.

Accordingly, the parents are not only seeking a repeal of the mask mandate on their children, but $200 million in damages. In addition, the complaint demands that “each defendant be held responsible for breaching the public’s trust to the maximum extent of the law … a category C felony.”

In Tom’s River, New Jersey, things got so heated over the mask mandates that the school board was forced to shut down a meeting. In an interview following the meeting, parent Christina Valenti said:

It’s almost like they can’t go after the adults [to enforce the mandate]. The adults won’t comply, so they’re going after our children.

 

They’re innocent. They’re [at] the lowest risk.

 

If you’re afraid, put it on. If you’re not, don’t. But it’s my choice. I should have that choice as a parent.

 

You’re an educator, educate! Let me parent!

Valenti revealed part of a letter she sent to New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy:

Our parents have had enough of state-mandated masks for our children under the guise of safety. They want the choice to decide what is best for their own children.

 

This country was founded on the principle of Liberty, and safety does not come before Freedom.

In Chino, California, dozens of parents gathered on a downtown sidewalk waving signs with slogans that said “Let them breathe,” and “Our children, Our choice.”

In Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, parents filed a lawsuit against the mask mandate, this one aimed at the state’s Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam. The suit claims she doesn’t have the authority to mandate masks in the schools and that her order to do so violates the state’s constitution.

In White Hall, Arkansas, parents of school children have sued the school district for mandating masks. Said parent Laura Golden:

I think it’s everybody’s individual choice. If you feel safe wearing a mask, wherever you go, then that’s great: wear a mask. If you don’t, there shouldn’t be an issue with that.

 

Just like with the flu shots. When the school sent out the flu shot it’s not mandatory. You choose what you think is best for your child. You sign it, your child gets a shot a school. If not, they don’t. There’s no issue around that.

In New York, the Massapequa and Locus Valley school boards took the position of the parents. They sued New York Governor Kathy Hochul, the head of the Department of Health, and the state’s health commissioner:

The lawsuit demonstrates that neither the Health Commissioner, nor the new Governor, Kathy Hochul, have the power to establish a statewide mandate policy as an emergency health measure, that such authority resides only with the Legislature; otherwise, it is a matter for local control.

And in Charleston County, South Carolina, parent Ashley Regan told Fox & Friends that if a student fails to wear a mask the school board will send him home:

Not only do you have bullying students, you are isolating them. You are segregating them. You are discriminating against students who just want to breathe fresh air….

 

I don’t think it’s fair for our students to have to wear a mask all day.

Parents in other states across the country have voiced, and continue to voice, their objections to board-mandated masks for their children. Many of those parents are now reconsidering their decisions to send them to public schools. This is reflected in the 300-percent increase in homeschooling just in the last two years.

Perhaps those mask mandates being imposed by public school boards are the best thing to happen to public education, forcing parents to rethink their decision to let the state educate their children.

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Loudoun County School Board Member Resigns

Sunday, 17 October 2021 19:45
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Sunday, October 17, 2021:  

arents with children in the Loudoun County, Virginia, school system have successfully ousted one of the five progressive members of the school board: Beth Barts. She offered her resignation on Friday. The petition drive, organized by Fight for Schools (FFS), continues against the other four progressive members.

Barts was one of the most vociferous, cantankerous, and ill-mannered members of the board. Andrea Widburg of American Thinker called her “a far-left” school board member who was “a fierce advocate for Critical Race Theory (CRT) and transgender madness.”

Her bad behavior so outraged even her progressive colleagues that they were forced first to reprimand her, then formally to censure her, and finally to remove her from school committees. All because she repeatedly violated school board rules and policies in her interactions with parents opposing her support for the quasi-Marxist critical race theory in the district.

The petition, filed in late August, focused on her violation of Virginia’s open-meetings laws. Ian Prior, founder of FFS, said Barts “has shown a complete inability to comply with the law, her own code of conduct, and [lack of] the basic decency that accompanies being an elected official in the United States of America.”

But the issue, according to Prior, isn’t just about Barts:

We have made known our displeasure with her actions as a school board member over the past several months, but today she has done the right thing.

 

Her former colleagues should take notice.

 

The community should know, however, that the problems at Loudoun County Public Schools and on the school board go well beyond one school board member.

 

We … will keep fighting until we have a school board of common sense, non-partisan members and a superintendent who is accountable to parents and tells the truth.

The tipping point for parents was Barts’ involvement with a radical Facebook group called “Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County.” At first she denied any involvement, but was later found to be a supporter. The group collected private information about parents who opposed CRT and doxed them online. Dox is short for “dropping dox (documents),” publicly exposing private information about an individual with the intent to defame, embarrass, or disparage them.

The degradation of the culture in the public schools of Loudoun County showed up in May when a boy, claiming “gender fluidity,” sexually assaulted a girl at Stone Bridge High School. The board vehemently denied knowing anything about the incident, claiming that they first became aware of it through the media. The girl’s father has initiated a lawsuit against the county and the board.

Barts had filed a motion to dismiss the petition against her, but a local judge tossed it, allowing the recall process to continue. The judge also removed Buta Biberaj, the radical Loudoun County Commonwealth’s attorney, from representing Barts, noting that her close relationship with Barts through the Facebook group disqualified her from representing Barts.

Laura Zoc of Freedom Works for America claimed that Barts’ resignation “is a victory for parents and students in Loudoun County.” She added:

It also serves as an example for the nation of what a parent-led movement can do.

 

Beth Barts not only doxed families across her own district, whom she claimed to be protecting, but also promoted a divisive, anti-American curriculum that teaches children to divide each other by immutable characteristics.

That “victory” may be short-lived, however. In her letter of resignation Barts declared, “I am absolutely certain a member of this wonderful community will step forward to be appointed [in my place].”

The New American has followed the cultural degradation taking place in the public schools, including Loudoun County, and concluded that

the government system is beyond reform. The answer for every moral, right-thinking parent in Loudon County — and in every other county, city, town, municipality, village, or community in America — is simple: Stop trying to reform a tyrannical system that is recalcitrant in its tyranny. Instead, dismantle it by starving it of the one thing it cannot do without — students.

 

If you mean to save your children, pull them out of a system that is designed to destroy them. Bring them home and teach them. Or place them in a private school that holds your values.

 

You and your kids can do without government schools; they cannot do without you.

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Fifth Circuit Three-judge Panel Allows Texas Heartbeat Law to Remain in Place

Friday, 15 October 2021 14:16
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This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, October 15, 2021: 

A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled late Thursday that Texas’ S.B. 8 law — its so-called “heartbeat law” — is to remain in place. It rejected the Biden administration’s plea for a temporary injunction against enforcement of the law. And it’s the third time that the Fifth Circuit has ruled in favor of life for an unborn infant in the case.

The decision came after a brief from 17 state attorneys general was filed on Wednesday supporting the Texas law. Supporters of abortion feared that the heartbeat law as crafted by Texas could serve as a model for similar laws being enacted elsewhere, and this filing no doubt confirmed their fears.

Attorney General Merrick Garland called the Texas law “clearly unconstitutional” and filed a lawsuit against Texas over the law. Indiana AG Theodore Rokita blasted Garland, claiming “the Attorney General has no authority to act as a roving reviser of state law, challenging as unconstitutional any rule with which he disagrees.”

Biden’s Department of Justice now must decide whether to request a full-court review of the three-judge panel’s ruling, or to go directly to the Supreme Court on appeal.

The Supreme Court isn’t likely to accept the appeal, as it has already completed and announced its calendar of cases it will take for its fall term. Besides, one of those cases just might end the controversy over the Texas law.

When Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed the state’s appeal of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to the Supreme Court she asked, “Under the Constitution, may a State prohibit elective abortions [murder on demand] before viability? Yes! Why? Because nothing in constitutional text, structure, history, or tradition supports a right to abortion.”

That case won’t be heard until December, and the decision won’t be announced until June next year. But a brief review of where each Supreme Court justice stands on the issue is helpful.

Chief Justice John Roberts is a waffle. He dissented in a case in 2016 when the court struck down restrictions on abortion by Texas. Four years later, in a nearly identical case from Louisiana, he wrote the lead opinion for the court’s decision to strike down that law.

So, call him a waffle on the right to life in the womb.

On the other hand, both justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have voted for the right to life in every case they’ve considered.

That makes two, for life.

Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, on the other hand, support the right to abortion every chance they get. Breyer said the court’s decision to let Texas’ “heartbeat law” stand (without ruling on its merits) “was very, very, very wrong.” Kagan called the Texas law “patently unconstitutional,” while Sotomayor has voted repeatedly in favor of abortion on demand since she joined the court in 2009.

That makes three, for death.

The remaining three, justices Neal Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barett, voted to let the Texas law stand. Other than that, their brief time on the high court has not allowed them to accumulate a record on this vital issue. Kavanaugh has successfully avoided answering questions on his own personal beliefs, while Barett has made clear in the past her long-standing opposition to abortion “rights.”

That makes three more, for life. Hopefully.

The final decision in Dobbs should be 9-0. But more likely it will be be 5-4, on either side. In the meantime, babies are being saved from extermination in Texas, thanks to the Fifth Circuit.

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