A key ally of President Biden, Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, announced he would no longer oppose the proposed exception to the Senate’s filibuster rule. “I do not come to this decision lightly, but it has become clear to me that if the filibuster is standing in the way of protecting our democracy then the

Consider this information you may want to know in order to prepare. Zero Hedge reported on panic buying in China after its government told households: “Ministry of Commerce encourages households to stockpile daily necessities as needed.” While Americans may not care, this announcement should be a warning of things to come here. As David Knight

I have a column today on DOJ special counsel John Durham’s false-statements indictment of Igor Danchenko, the main source for the discredited Steele dossier that the FBI used as a basis for investigating the Trump campaign as if Donald Trump were a clandestine agent of Russia. One of the main allegations against Danchenko is that

Adapted from an address to the National Conservatism Conference 2021. Edmund Burke famously wrote in his Reflections on the Revolution in France: “The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.” It was poignant when Burke wrote it, and an attempt to

The emoji world is pregnant with ideas to bring unrealities to life. New “Pregnant Man” and “Pregnant Person” emojis are reportedly coming to Android 12L in an alleged effort to be more “inclusive.” An emoji depicting a man holding his supposedly “pregnant” stomach has already been approved in Emoji 14.0 and Unicode 14.0, and it

On Thursday the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the interim final rule and request for comment regarding the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for companies with 100 or more employees. The mandate will be imposed on tens of millions of workers in the United States. The entire document comes in at just under 500 pages. You

Maine voters rejected a proposal to construct a nearly $1 billion transmission line into the state from a Canadian hydropower plant, a project endorsed by the Biden administration. Central Maine Power (CMP) already started construction on the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) transmission line which would’ve stretched 145 miles, the Associated Press reported. But

A group of demonstrators with tiki torches stand on a sidewalk as Republican candidate for governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin arrives on his bus for a campaign event in Charlottesville, Va., October 29, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Jim commented on the Intercept story about Lauren Windsor and the Lincoln Project attempting to defend their role in the

Perhaps no one at MSNBC suffered more on Tuesday night with the election results than ReidOut host Joy Reid, who took her vile bile went into overdrive as she called Republicans racists, “dangerous” human beings, and “national security” threats. But Wednesday afternoon on the Fox News Channel, Virginia Lieutenant Governor-elect Winsome Sears (R) fired back

What a night! Not only did Glenn Youngkin defeat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia, but New Jersey shocked everyone by becoming a surprisingly competitive state when it really shouldn’t have been. Make no mistake about it, Tuesday night’s elections didn’t occur in a vacuum and have widespread implications. There were a bunch of winners and losers

Notable historical events that happened on November 4th. 2008 Barack Obama elected president of the United States. 1995 Israeli Prim Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated. 1980 Ronald Reagan elected president of the United States. 1979 Iranian militants take 90 people, including 63 Americans, hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. 1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower elected president

(Charles Platiau/Reuters) Three years after Google’s employees forced the firm to abandon an artificial intelligence contract with the Pentagon that could have improved U.S. drone capabilities, the company has decided to pursue a different contract with the Defense Department, the New York Times reported today. The abandoned contract, named Project Maven, was unveiled in 2017,

The Virginia result gives false hope to social conservatives who should remain disillusioned about a post-political, indeed, post-social economic order. On Tuesday evening, a man won an election in a place that does not exist. The man, who had previously been the CEO of a company that does nothing, was elected governor of Nowhere after

The liberal media’s immediate reaction to the left’s defeat in Virginia on Election Day was to start screaming at the state and accusing voters of forwarding a racist agenda because Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) had promised to get Critical Race Theory out of schools there. But to help perpetuate the false narrative, they ignored how

Presidentish Joe Biden never held much sway with two semi-centrist senators — Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema — from two states unfriendly to leftist Democrats, West Virginia and Arizona. Still, Biden needs them both to pass his ambitious “Build Back Better” agenda through the 50/50 Senate. After Tuesday night’s drubbing, Biden can kiss his pass

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court appeared poised to rule in favor of gun owners who want to carry a concealed firearm in New York. The law as it currently stands, requires a person to prove a reason they need a concealed firearm. This reasoning is called proper cause. According to SCOTUSblog, “Courts in New York

The CBS News affiliate in Minneapolis has the report. Five of the eleven Minneapolis city-council members seeking reelection were defeated, four of those were open proponents of Defund the Police, and for good measure, a ballot measure passed that stripped powers from the city council and handed them to the mayor. And the city’s progressive

Last night, the Atlanta Braves captured their first World Series title in 26 years after taking down the mighty Huston Astros in six games, concluding one of the most improbable championship runs in recent memory. While claiming the title is obviously incredible in itself, there is an added layer of situational irony that makes this

Internecine finger-pointing has begun on the left, with the Democrat Party’s various factions blaming Tuesday’s electoral failures on each other. “The DC establishment consolidated support behind their one-time rainmaker and in doing so sidelined two potentially history-making Black women running for the same office,” a statement from numerous progressive organizations reads. “There should be no

Candidates opposed to the teaching of critical race theory in public schools won school board elections across the United States on Tuesday. The victories ranged from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where the conservative education advocacy group 1776 Project PAC claimed victory in three races in a Twitter post, to the Spokane-area Central Valley School District, where the

A small victory lap of sorts: When a lot of the political media was ignoring the New Jersey governor’s race, I wrote last week that we should be watching it, which was showing some of the same dynamics that were fueling Democratic weakness in Virginia and national polls. I followed up with more polling evidence

It was a horrendous night on Tuesday for liberals as Republicans were poised to sweep into power in previously blue Virginia and running a close race for New Jersey’s governor’s mansion. And with that, MSNBC was beside itself with DEFCON-1 levels of hysteria that showed, at least for one night, that the far-left cable journalists

Rather than using social media as a notebook, it seemed better to establish a separate optionally accessible site: Signal to Noise. The benefit of a members-only site is it reduces trolling. The Belmont Club will remain open and free, as usual. To keep length manageable, I will start a new notebook every week or so.

Notable historical events that happened on November 3rd. 2021 A wave of anti-Democrat sentiment handed three statewide seats in formerly blue Virginia to Republicans. 2014 Rebuilt World Trade center opens for business 13 years after the 9/11 attack. 1992 Bill Clinton elected president of the United States. 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson elected president of the

I think we can predict that a lot of Democrats — especially those who want to argue that the Virginia results are not worrisome for the party in next year’s races — are going to say they’re a function of McAuliffe’s weakness as a candidate. Cutting against that spin: McAuliffe is a former governor and

Organize Right is a regular column with not so much a beat as a meander on the subject of organizing: how the right does it, how the left does it, lessons from its history, and its implications for today. It’s no secret that Righties kind of suck at protests. Like anybody else who sucks at

Even before the polls closed in Virginia Tuesday night, the liberals on CNN were chaffed by the exit polls and the obvious enthusiasm gap going into the day. Liberal commentator Van Jones was so irked that he took to comparing Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin to the delta COVID variant spreading the “disease” of Trumpism.

In October, an intensive care unit (ICU) physician notified the CDC and FDA regarding severe injuries and illnesses that, in her expertise, were a result of her patients receiving one of the COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Patricia Lee, who received the vaccine herself, has cared for patients at hospitals affiliated with Georgetown and Harvard. Despite the personal

More than 100 non-governmental groups demanded that the Biden administration evacuate tens of thousands of Afghan allies still stranded in the country, according to a letter posted by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America on Monday. The groups asked for all Afghans who are at-risk because of their collaboration with U.S. forces to be evacuated

No one paid much attention to the New Jersey governor’s race because it’s now a deep-blue state (President Biden won it by 16 points), incumbent Phil Murphy isn’t particularly disliked and Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli is an unknown former Assemblyman. Murphy was expected to win by double digits, or high single digits. A bookmaker rated