It’s time for the post-election Bitter Tears Edition of the NewsBusters Podcast, recounting the media meltdowns as the Republicans took over all the statewide elections in Virginia and retook the House of Delegates.  When our media Democrats figure out they’re going to lose, the anger about the “whitelash” is guaranteed. Losing politicians might concede with
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The results of Tuesday’s elections across the United States were a comprehensive and broad punch in the gut for Democrats. But the morons (thank God) don’t seem to have gotten the message. The American public is fed up with the Democrats opening the border to illegal aliens, running up prices while screwing up the supply
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Michigan State Capitol building in Lansing. (pabradyphoto/Getty Images) Republicans in Michigan’s House of Representatives passed a bill to ban K–12 schools from teaching “race or gender stereotyping” in a special session on Tuesday. The bill passed 55–0 in the Republican-controlled House. All Democratic representatives refused to vote, saying that not everyone who wished to speak
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Alec Baldwin has shared a Rust crew member’s social media post defending the conditions on set following the death of the film’s cinematographer. The 63-year-old actor accidently, but fatally, shot Halyna Hutchins when a gun he was holding discharged during filming in New Mexico last month. Police are currently investigating the shooting, which also injured
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will not play Sunday agains the Kansas City Chiefs after he reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. Rodgers, according to sources, was never vaccinated against the highly contagious respiratory disease, despite insisting that he was “immunized” in August. Rodgers’ purported diagnosis and vaccination status also call into question his eligibility
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A law-and-order Republican on Tuesday defeated a Democratic candidate for Seattle city attorney who wanted to stop prosecuting misdemeanor crimes as a step toward abolishing the police. Attorney Ann Davison (R) won 59% of the vote, defeating former public defender Nicole Thomas-Kennedy in the race to succeed incumbent City Attorney Pete Holmes (D). During her
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A surefire sign that you’re losing an argument is when you resort to personally attacking your opponent. After Democrats lost in Virginia’s gubernatorial election Tuesday night, the media pulled out the race card from 2016, saying that the Republican candidate won because of racist whites (even though Republicans also elected the first black female lieutenant governor). That
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Fully vaccinated Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti tested positive for Covid on Wednesday and went into isolation. Mayor Garcetti tested positive for COVID-19 earlier today. He is feeling good and isolating in his hotel room. He is fully vaccinated. — MayorOfLA (@MayorOfLA) November 3, 2021 Recall, Garcetti banned people from sunbathing on dry sand last
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Then Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe looks on during his campaign rally in Arlington, Va., October 26, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) It may have even backfired. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I magine that on August 1, you had been told that Texas — the second most-populous state in the country — would effectively ban
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Rather than spending trillions that we do not have and making promises that cannot be kept, Congress and the administration should focus on implementing policies that reduce regulatory barriers to energy innovation, streamline permitting and regulatory reviews, and promote pro-growth tax policy. President Joe Biden’s approval ratings are more underwater than the Titanic. With rising
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Stephan Wollenstein, CEO of Volkswagen China, presents the new ID.6 Crozz electric car during the Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition on April 19, 2021. Hector Retamal | AFP | Getty Images BEIJING — When it comes to their favorite electric car brand, Chinese consumers’ top choice is Warren Buffett-backed BYD, according to a survey by
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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,
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