Wary progressives seek assurances on separate social policy and climate package.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) said he would support a $1.5 trillion social-policy and climate package, calling for a major cut to the legislation that Democrats have been preparing for weeks.

By WSJ

WASHINGTON—House Democrats dropped plans to vote on a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure bill Thursday night, as they came up short on reaching agreement around a separate social policy and climate package they hope will unite the party’s dueling factions.

Key lawmakers said they were making progress toward a framework mapping out the overall level of spending and central planks of the healthcare, education and climate package, but that the discussions required more time.

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) advised lawmakers shortly before 11 p.m. that the House wouldn’t hold further votes that day.

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The time for an avowedly “neutral” legal positivism has long passed, if it was ever felicitous to begin with.

By Josh Hammer, AM GREATNESS

The U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term next week, which means all eyes have again returned to the justices’ marble palace at 1 First Street, N.E. This court term, unlike the last one, promises to be a blockbuster: The hot-button issues of abortion, gun rights, and potentially affirmative action will all be on the justices’ docket. By the end of this term, we should have a definitive answer as to just how “conservative” the putatively conservative, six to three Republican-nominated majority court actually is.

And just as all eyes have returned to the court, observers of all stripes have been presented with a timely reminder as to how the court’s progressives view their jobs: to wit, as unabashed liberal partisans. That reminder has now come courtesy of the current court’s most far-left justice, Sonia Sotomayor. It follows an entire career’s worth of similar comments from Justice Sotomayor’s former colleague, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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RighT-wing groups slam the court’s ruling as a failure to combat the Palestinian Authority’s “creeping annexation” areas in Judea and Samaria. “Khan al-Ahmar has been, and continues to be, the test case for the larger strategic challenge,” says Regavim NGO.

By Yair Altman, ISRAEL HAYOM

The case has seen the small village emerge as the Palestinian Authority’s “flagship outpost in the systematic takeover of Area C,” which under the 1993 Oslo Accords is under full Israeli control.

Israel been trying to evict the area for years and has come under heavy criticism, with major European governments urging it to avoid the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar. The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has even warned the move could constitute a war crime.

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By Michael Kimmitt, AM THINKER

The ethical corruption of our national new media has extended to a degree that once would have seemed unimaginable.  We were exposed to yet another remarkable example with the reporting on the long-awaited audit of the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona.

Widespread election fraud had been suspected in Maricopa County, the largest in the state, and the state Legislature authorized a thorough forensic investigation.  A draft of the election report was leaked to the press last week, and every news outlet quickly released selectively chosen details.  The message was straightforward.  The audit proved that Joe Biden had actually won the state’s presidential election by even more than originally reported and thoroughly discredited charges of election fraud.

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Private Israeli intelligence firm releases photographs of facility outside Tehran, where at least two members of the Iranian military were killed earlier this week

By JUDAH ARI GROSS 30 September 2021,

Before and after photographs from an explosion at an alleged Iranian missile base, on September 27, 2021. (ImageSat International)

A private Israeli intelligence firm released satellite photographs of an alleged Iranian missile production facility outside Tehran on Thursday, showing the damage at the site after an explosion there earlier in the week.

In the images, taken on Monday shortly after the blast, at least a quarter of the building — a “secret missile base” belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to the company — can be seen completely destroyed, while additional damage can be seen on the roof along the entire structure.
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T. Belman. Abromowitz leaves out the fact that the US gave protective cover for  Islam and white-washed it.

Had America internalized the lessons of 9/11, its government would have charged the CIA, DOJ, FBI, DHS, and DOD with the task of rooting out both domestic and foreign physical terrorists, as well the cultural terror ideologies behind them.

By Ken Abromomitz, INN

We recently commemorated the tragedy of al Qaeda’s attacks on our homeland. On September 11, 2001, nineteen Islamist terrorists (fifteen from Saudi Arabia) highjacked and flew two airplanes into the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center, another plane crashed into the Pentagon, and the fourth plane crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 innocent Americans perished that day.

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By Victor Sharpe

If we live in a nation and in a world that still consists of truly clearheaded and moral thinking people, why then would so many yet fall into a deep morass of mental idiocy and support the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians? Do they not know how violent, how racist, how brutal and how hateful towards democratic values and human rights the Palestinian leadership in both Gaza and in the Palestinian Authority truly is?

The question must be asked of such people. So why do they do it and what’s in it for them?

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In Israel, COVID is fast becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated: Of the 644 patients in serious condition on Tuesday, 73 percent were from the small population of eligible Israelis who had not received any shots

By Sam Sokol, HAARETZ

Unvaccinated adults now account for the majority of severe COVID-19 cases and fatalities in Israel, with over six of every 10 new severe cases recorded on Tuesday linked to this group.

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by Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  September 30, 2021 at 5:00 am

• As far as [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud] Abbas and the PA leadership are concerned, any Palestinian who joins the jihad (holy war) against Israel and Jews and gets killed, wounded or imprisoned is a “hero” and a “freedom fighter.” This is the same PA that the Biden administration is now working to strengthen.
• This approach by the PA leadership has sent a message to generation after generation among the Palestinians that the murder or injuring of a Jew is a noble deed that earns the perpetrator boundless respect – even adoration.
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By Geoffrey Clarfield, AM THINKER

The founding fathers did not see themselves as constituting a new version of classical Greece.  Instead, they saw themselves as biblically inspired Romans, which is to say, modern Republicans.

Paul Meany has written insightfully about how the founding fathers were enamored of the Roman Republic and how, in many ways, collectively and personally, they modeled themselves on the ancient Romans.

The Founders lavished praise upon Roman heroes who defended their government from tyranny in the Republic’s turbulent final days[.] … [M]any 18th century Americans felt an affinity for ancient Rome, there are many parallels between the two societies. Akin to the Republican Romans, 18th-century Americans were mainly rural farmers[.] … The Romans praised the virtues of independence, patriotism, and moderation, which were also cornerstones of American society[.] … By anchoring arguments for freedom to ancient precedent, Revolutionary American authors aimed to demonstrate that their arguments were timeless and firmly embedded in history. Historians like Plutarch, Livy, and Tacitus successfully encapsulated in writing the eternal and unavoidable struggle between liberty and power[.] … Many of the educated American Revolutionaries did more than just read about the Romans as a scholarly pursuit — they actively tried to emulate their behavior and virtues.

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UNCOVERDC

The CyFIR Report on Friday showed the digital findings from Maricopa County’s forensic audit of the 2020 election. Founder Ben Cotton and his team allegedly found instances of cybersecurity breaches and malfeasance on the part of Maricopa County. Cotton remarked at one point in his presentation, “The election was neither accountable or secure.” 

CyFIR’s founder, Ben Cotton, is no stranger to the world of digital forensics. “A technical visionary and pioneer in Cyber Security and Computer Forensics for the U.S. Government and the SOCOM,” Cotton’s bio states:

“[Mr. Cotton is a] twenty-one year veteran of the US Army, Special Operations Command (SOCOM). Mr. Cotton served in both unclassified and classified units fighting the Global War on Terrorism, specializing in sensitive site and digital device exploitation, Computer Network Attack (CNA), and Computer Network Defense (CND).”

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By Patrick Byrne

Open letter to Congress

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On the morning of January 6, the January 5 Georgia Senate Run-off  results appeared. The data showed egregious artifacts of manipulation.[iii] Perhaps for this reason, temperatures on January 6 were running higher than they otherwise might.

5) Investigation into Maricopa’s November 3 election has uncovered massive election fraud, vindicating the concerns (not the unruliness) of those who rallied on January 6.

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ISRAEL UNWIRED

While everyone is focusing on Iran and China, Russia is beginning to make its move on Israel. Deepening cooperation with Turkey and unleashing Syria onto the Jewish State appears to be Putin’s newest Middle Eastern strategy.

For a long time, Syria had been counted out by Middle East observers as a viable threat to Israel. Turkey as well, was seen as a has been, but both are narratives that only exist before Russia delved into the Middle East fray. Now, with the military and financial backing that Russia injects into these partners, it can essentially terms to Israel.

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Just 2,386 new coronavirus cases reported as infection rate continues to decline.

Arutz Sheva Staff , Sep 29 , 2021

A total of 2,386 new cases of the coronavirus were diagnosed across Israel Tuesday, according to data released by the Health Ministry Wednesday morning, down from 5,178 new cases reported Monday.

The sharp decline in the number of newly diagnosed cases was a result in part of the lower number of tests conducted Tuesday, falling from 139,459 tests on Monday to 73,080 on Tuesday, when marked the Simchat Torah and Shmini Atzeret festivals.

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By MacAoidh, THE HAYRIDE

At The Blaze, David Horowitz has an interesting piece about what Louisiana’s Attorney General Jeff Landry is doing in an effort to keep ivermectin a viable option for people seeking early-symptom treatment of COVID-19…

“Never have pharmacists been allowed to practice medicine and get between a doctor and his patient,” stated Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry in an interview with TheBlaze. “Most certainly not in middle of a pandemic.”

State attorney general might not be the elected position that comes to mind when assessing the pandemic response, but Landry believes that his counterparts in other states have a vital role to play in ensuring that pharmacies, medical boards, and licensing boards are following the laws.

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Merkel’s Christian Democrats lost their bearings, and voters.

WSJ EDITORIAL   Sept. 28, 2021 6:52 pm ET

It’s hard to say whether Germany’s muddled election Sunday had a winner, but it definitely had a loser. The center-right Christian Democrats of departing Chancellor Angela Merkel, in power for 16 years, crashed to their worst electoral result ever. Something more than simple exhaustion with the party’s long tenure is at work.

Not only did Ms. Merkel’s CDU and Bavarian sister party CSU come second with a combined 24.1% vote share behind the Social Democrats (SPD) at 25.7%. The CDU/CSU lost nearly nine percentage points from the last election in 2017. This is a bigger drubbing than the CDU suffered in 1998 when voters ousted Helmut Kohl after 16 years in power. The party’s vote share fell by 6.4 points then, and that was against the backdrop of economic turmoil following reunification.

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What explains these insanities that are insults to the American people’s intelligence?

By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS

Think for a minute.

When did we become a nation of socialist AOCs wearing “Tax the Rich” dresses to $35,000-a-ticket celebrity galas, without mandatory masks, while being served by masked servants—a now tired script from the Obama birthday bash crowd to the grandees at the Emmys?

When did we discover that we must listen to oppressed billionaire Oprah from her $90 million Montecito estate commiserating with a billionaire Lebron or royal Meghan Markle about the racist white establishment? Is there anyone in the recent Washington intelligence and investigatory hierarchy who has not lied or feigned loss of memory under oath—a low bar that nevertheless excludes, among others, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Robert Mueller, or Peter Strzok?

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