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
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending that young kids ages 5 to 11-years-old get vaccinated with the pediatric Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. “Today, CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., endorsed the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) recommendation that children 5 to 11 years old be vaccinated against COVID-19
Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin has defeated Democratic candidate and former Governor Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor’s race. The gubernatorial race in Virginia was widely expected earlier in the year to serve as a standard-issue referendum on national politics, as Virginia’s odd-year gubernatorial election often does. However, to a large extent, furor over local issues,
Only after Republican Glenn Youngkin won the race for governor in Virginia on Tuesday did ABC feel like doing some real journalism and go into the commonwealth to speak with parents and Democrats that swung for the other party this time around. In a Nightline report, those parents spelled out how they trusted Youngkin with
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
The New York Times just called the Virginia race for Republican Glenn Youngkin. Democrats did not have enough stolen votes to win this time. This was with 95% reporting in the race — for the second time. Hello Commenters! The Gateway Pundit is always committed to ensuring your voice can and will be heard. To
President Joe Biden removes his mask to deliver remarks on the importance of COVID-19 vaccine requirements in Elk Grove Village, Ill., October 7, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Joe Biden and the Democrats took power during a state of exception, during a crisis. Voters expected them to bring it to a close. When will they? NRPLUS MEMBER
Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., a left-wing “squad” member in the House, attacked Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., for his opposition to the multitrillion-dollar Build Back Better Act. Manchin is “anti-black, anti-child, anti-woman, and anti-immigrant,” according to Bush, because of his opposition to this mega-spending welfare bill. If Bush wants to identify politicians hurting blacks, children, women,
President Joe Biden has said Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping’s failure to turn up to the COP26 climate summit is a “big mistake”. Addressing reporters at the end of the second day of the climate conference in Glasgow, the president of the United States said China has “walked away” on the biggest issue of our time.
In this article MDLZ Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers and Sour Patch Kids will be more expensive in 2022, Mondelez CEO Dirk Van de Put told CNBC Tuesday. “We, at the moment, are looking at starting off 2022 with a 7% price increase in the U.S.,” he said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” Van de Put said
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
Reacting to the new Netflix documentary “Colin in Black & White,” Jason Whitlock tore into Colin Kaepernick on a recent episode of “Fearless with Jason Whitlock.” The ludicrous show is an attempt by the former 49er quarterback to deal with his “severe daddy issues,” Whitlock opined. “Kaepernick, to this day, doesn’t know who he is.
Minneapolis voters have rejected a ballot initiative that would have replaced the police department with a Department of Public Safety. The new department could have included police if necessary to accomplish its public safety role, according to the measure. “This amendment would create a Department of Public Safety combining public safety functions through a comprehensive
Minutes after polls closed in Virginia on Tuesday, MSNBC’s election night co-hosts made it clear that they were pessimistic about their chances as they instead continued to lie about gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin, his voters, and Republicans writ large by calling them “dangerous” human beings “to our national security” and racists “in fleece” peddling “lies”
Republicans swept Virginia – flipped all three major seats in a HUGE blow to Joe Biden and the Marxist-Democrat party. McAuliffe is trying to steal the election by delaying the results in Fairfax County so we will see what happens overnight. In the meantime, the fake news media is melting down. CNN’s Jake Tapper was
People cast their ballots at Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park as voters decide whether to abolish the police department and replace it with a new department of public safety in Minneapolis, Minn., November 2, 2021. (Nicole Neri/Reuters) Minneapolis’s City Question 2 was a ballot measure to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a
The embarrassing withdrawal from Afghanistan has reminded America that the threat of a second 9/11 is real. For the past 20 years, American forces have engaged terrorist organizations within the Middle East to prevent them from organizing and refitting for attacks against the mainland of the United States. However, the Taliban are stronger than ever
The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has spoken publicly for the first time since the fatal shooting. Dave Halls shouted “cold gun” to indicate the weapon was safe before handing the actor a firearm on the set of Western film ‘Rust’ in Santa Fe, New Mexico last
3715 S. Ocean Blvd in Highland Beach is a three level storm-proof fortress elevated on pilings and constructed of poured concrete and storm-proof glass. Daniel Petroni A waterfront megahome in Highland Beach has sold twice this year, and each time it has raised the bar for for this South Florida town, which has become one
As part of MSNBC’s Election Day 2021 preview on Tuesday, Andrea Mitchell labeled Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin a “textbook case” of a dishonest culture warrior who is pushing fake issues like opposition to Critical Race Theory. Mitchell’s false accusation against Youngkin matched up perfectly with the talking points being spewed by Democrat Terry
Joe Biden used to have a reputation as a legislative genius, a dealmaker who could convince most anyone to come to his side. During the 2020 campaign, Politico referred to him as “a true master of the art of the deal, a son of a car salesman who knows how to get to yes, a
Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo requested the inclusion of a provision in the bipartisan infrastructure bill shielding a $42 billion broadband funding program from public scrutiny, according to several people familiar with the matter. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a $1.2 trillion piece of legislation that passed the Senate in August with significant bipartisan support
Campaign signs for Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin stand together on the last day of early voting in the Virginia gubernatorial election in Fairfax, Va., October 30, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) In Virginia, every year is an election year. In addition to voting in federal elections in even-number years like the rest of the
Fox News political analyst Juan Williams claimed in a new essay that defending parents’ rights is meant to sow racial division while masquerading “as a defense of little children.” What did Williams say? Parents’ rights have become a prominent issue in recent months as parents nationwide dispute a number of issues impacting schools, including COVID-related
Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe really, really, really wanted former President Donald Trump to campaign with his GOP opponent in the Old Dominion. McAuliffe, the former governor seeking another term (Virginia does not allow governors to serve consecutive terms), did everything he could to tie Republican nominee, Glenn Youngkin, to Trump, who