News of the Week for Oct. 30th<\/sup>, 2022<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DeSantis endorses O’Dea in Colorado and Trump isn’t happy<\/a> Hialeah police: ‘No indication’ of political motive in attack on Rubio canvasser<\/a> Scenes from a Red Wave<\/a> Oregon Democrats in Disarray<\/a> As the Temperature in N.H. Drops, the Cost of Heating Rises, and the Senate Race Heats Up<\/a> Nevada county to start early mail-in ballot hand count<\/a> Fetterman vs. Oz debate: The elephant in the room<\/a> Environmentalists Killed Democracy<\/a> Even with Closed Captioning, Fetterman’s Impairment Is Evident at Debate<\/a> PA Republicans announce articles of impeachment against DA Larry Krasner<\/a> The Alaska GOP’s Circular Firing Squad<\/a> Hand count of ballots in Nevada county draws court challenge<\/a> How the Campaigns Are Breaking, Two Weeks Out<\/a> Chuck Schumer tells Biden Georgia ‘going downhill’ for Democrats on hot mic<\/a> Democrats Spending Millions to Defend Senator Patty Murray From Tiffany Smiley in Washington State<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Will the GOP rally around a 15-week abortion ban? Republicans debate their options<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Buying guns in Oregon could become more difficult if voters pass ballot measure<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n UPI hiding the decline in order to promote climate change agenda<\/a> Climate activists throw mashed potatoes at Monet work in Germany<\/a> “Farming Needs to Stop, That’s the Single Biggest Driver of Climate Change”<\/a> Colorado Governor’s Carbon Tax Idea Could Cost Over $42 a Gallon at Pump, Analysis Finds<\/a> Sunak Bans Fracking<\/a> Massive Increase in Greenland Surface Ice Sheet Suggests Possible Overall Gain in 2022<\/a> UN COP27 Blueprint: More Government, More Debt, More Taxes<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Breaking down all the changes coming to Obamacare next year<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Abandoned Russian base holds secrets of retreat in Ukraine<\/a> Russia Now Has a Second Frontline Set Up Just to Kill Its Deserters: Intel<\/a> Pentagon keeps China in crosshairs as top threat facing US<\/a> Russian journalist who is rumored to be Putin’s goddaughter has fled Russia for Lithuania<\/a> Is Putin scaling down his war aims?<\/a> ‘Massive’ Ukrainian Drone Strike Hits Russia\u2019s Black Sea Fleet <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Helium shortage: Doctors are worried that running out of the element could threaten MRIs<\/a> New California Laws Will Create ‘Ideological Purity Test’ for Police by Banning Ties to ‘Hate’ and ‘Bias,’ Critics Say<\/a> LA City Attorney Files Charges vs. Protesters at August Council Meeting<\/a> ABC Journalist James Gordon Meek Still Missing After FBI Raided His Home in April<\/a> CDC Weighs Using Oral Polio Vaccine for First Time in 20 Years<\/a> University launches pronoun database<\/a> Court Strikes Down Ban on Displaying “Indecent Speech” Where Children Under 17 Can See It<\/a> The Real Story Behind Drag Queen Story Hour<\/a> Reviewing Health and Safety Issues Associated With Puberty Blocking Chemicals<\/a> California Entrepreneur Who Was Fined $1000 for Drawing Informal Maps without a License Takes Regulatory Board to Court<\/a> Verdict reached in the Darrell Brooks trial: Guilty on all 76 counts<\/a> Gavin Newsom’s reelection campaign looks more like a run for president<\/a> San Jose transgender activist, teacher was vengeful ‘enforcer’ for all-female biker gang, leading to Oakland triple homicide, DA says<\/a> Lucianne Goldberg RIP<\/a> Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions<\/a> Transgendering Language<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The US now has just 25 days of diesel supply \u2014 the lowest since 2008. Here’s why that’s more alarming than a dwindling ‘oil piggy bank’<\/a> 3rd quarter GDP rose 2.6%<\/a> Biden Urged Not to Support ‘Communist Sympathizer’ for Development Bank<\/a> Threat of Nationwide Railroad Strike Grows after 2nd Union Rejects Proposed Deal<\/a> China \u2014 and Assumptions of Progress<\/a> ‘In Europe, The Bird Will Fly By Our Rules,’ EU Commissioner Warns Elon Musk<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NHS Warns Gender Dysphoria in Teens Could Be ‘Transient Phase’<\/a> Ally of Brazil’s Bolsonaro refuses arrest, attacks police with gun and grenades<\/a> Rishi Sunak says UK faces ‘profound challenges’ but he’ll work ‘day in day out’ in first address after winning PM race<\/a> Linguists slam Cambridge University for teaching ‘woke’ German: Fury as students are taught ‘gender-neutral’ version of the language that avoids using masculine forms that are not ‘inclusive’ to non-binary people<\/a> More than 30 dead in tribal fighting on Papua New Guinea’s ‘island of love’<\/a> Thai transgender activist buys Miss Universe org for $20M<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Case For Kids<\/a> We Need a Generational Turnover<\/a> All You Ever Think About is Race<\/a> Enforcing the Coming Affirmative Action Bans: A Modest Proposal<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Election 2022<\/h1>\n
\nGovernor Ron DeSantis recorded a robocall in support of Republican candidate for Senate Joe O’Dea. O’Dea is challenging incumbent Democrat Senator Michael Bennet. The move comes just days after Trump told grassroots Republicans to not support O’Dea.<\/p>\n
\nCase remains under investigation; victim identified<\/p>\n
\nThese are, for the most part, not verdicts on the strengths of these particular candidates and their platforms and qualifications for these particular offices. Not a lot of Minnesotans just woke up and decided that it was time for a change of parties in the state auditor’s office. As Nick Corasaniti of the New York Times complains in a story on the Nevada race, Marchant’s lead in the polls is “a reality some political experts in the state say reflects the race’s low visibility and broader political trends, which show Republicans with an edge in Nevada.”<\/p>\n
\nTina Kotek, the Democrat running for Oregon governor, has trailed her Republican opponent, Christine Drazan, in almost every poll for over a month. Analysts have repeatedly downgraded Democrats’ chances in the race, even though Oregonians haven’t elected a Republican governor since 1982 \u2014 Cook Political Report currently rates it a “Toss Up.” Part of the reason for the GOP\u2019s historically good shot this year is that Oregon’s outgoing Democratic governor, Kate Brown, has routinely polled as the least popular governor in the country. Until recently, Kotek \u2014 who served as the majority speaker in the Oregon House before launching her bid for the governor’s mansion \u2014 was a close ally of Brown’s. She was reluctant to criticize the governor in the initial days of her campaign and touted Brown’s endorsement \u2014 still listed on Kotek’s website as of this writing \u2014 with a quote from the incumbent about her would-be replacement’s career-long advocacy “for working families” this summer.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s no secret that many Republicans did not see Don Bolduc as the most effective candidate to run against incumbent New Hampshire Democratic senator Maggie Hassan. But Hassan started the cycle looking like one of the most vulnerable Senate Democrats \u2013 the Boston Globe contended she was the most vulnerable \u2013 and Bolduc, for all his flaws, trailed by only three percentage points in the Emerson poll and one point in the American Greatness\/Insider Advantage survey.<\/p>\n
\nWhen we recently learned about a mandatory hand count of all mail-in ballots in a rural Arizona county, I immediately wondered if this was an idea that was going to spread more widely around the country. The horrified reaction to the news by Democrats and their mainstream media stenographers seemed to be rather informative, at least to me. Well, there’s going to be more of that going on this week. Nye County, Nevada, a sparsely populated area once famous for its silver mines, was just cleared by the state supreme court to begin hand counting all of the mail-in ballots that are received, and they will be doing it prior to the election, not after the polls are closed on November 8th. Various precautions are being put in place to ensure that the early voting results don’t leak out in advance, but that isn’t calming down the progressives who are acting as if the end of the world is upon us.<\/p>\n
\nAs I write this the Fetterman vs. Oz debate is just ending. Right off the bat it looks like Fetterman’s camp was wise to lower expectations for his performance.<\/p>\n
\nAccording to Dowd, he isn’t saying voters are voting Nazi, but by voting for pocketbook issues, voters could be bringing about the rise of the Nazis in this country. <\/p>\n
\nAfter John Fetterman sat down in early October with NBC News for his first in-person interview since suffering a stroke in May, conventional wisdom has held that the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate might struggle to comprehend questions without closed captioning but is basically fine so long as he has use of the technology. <\/p>\n
\nThis summer, Republicans called for the impeachment of progressive DA Larry Krasner. A committee attempted to subpoena documents from his office and he refused to comply with that subpoena. So last month the Pennsylvania House voted to hold Krasner in contempt. The vote was overwhelming, 162-38, meaning even some Philadelphia Democrats agreed that Krasner was out of line to dodge the subpoenas. Today, the PA House announced articles of impeachment against Krasner<\/p>\n
\nAs the midterms heat up in the nation’s most frigid state, the Alaska Republican Party is full of figures giving each other the cold shoulder. <\/p>\n
\nAn unprecedented hand count of mail-in votes began for a second day in a rural Nevada county Thursday, while opponents asked the state Supreme Court to issue an immediate order to stop the process.<\/p>\n
\nThe red wave is building in the headline statewide races for Senate and governor.<\/p>\n
\nSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was caught Thursday on a hot mic telling President Joe Biden that Democrats are “going downhill” in Georgia and expressing disbelief that Republican Herschel Walker might win the Senate race.<\/p>\n
\n“the fact that Democrats are spending to shore up an incumbent in a solidly blue state is not a good sign for them”<\/p>\n<\/a>Abortion<\/h1>\n
Dobbs Decision<\/h2>\n
\nAfter the midterm elections Republicans may face the potential peril of success: winning a majority in Congress with the help of a base that expects them to pursue federal limitations on abortion.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nOregon will ask voters in the coming days whether to significantly increase restrictions on guns. If passed, a ballot measure in that state would require people who want to buy a gun to pay a fee, take a safety course, submit fingerprints and pass a background check to obtain a permit. High-capacity magazines \u2014 those that hold 10 or more rounds \u2014 would be banned outright.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &<\/a>“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nLast week, I ran across a UPI story that left me scratching my head. Titled “In a surprise, global greenhouse gas emissions seem to be on the decline” by Daniel J. Graeber, it’s purportedly evidence that there’s good news on the climate change front. The Joe Biden Inflation Reduction Act has caused a bunch of people to buy electric cars, and that, along with wind farms and increased solar capacity, shows we may have turned the corner on climate change, according to data. Except here’s the problem. The data suggests no such thing.<\/p>\n
\nTwo protesters pelt painting with potatoes and glue their hands to wall at Museum Barberini in Potsdam<\/p>\n
\nI know someone who almost lost the ability to have children because she was a vegetarian. According to her gynaecologist at least, about one in five people can’t tolerate a vegetarian or vegan diet. Excess carbohydrates apparently does catastrophic damage to susceptible people’s bodies, including their ability to have children.<\/p>\n
\nColorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, has gained national acclaim from some center-right pundits for proposing elimination of his state’s income tax. <\/p>\n
\nIt was by no means certain (to put it mildly) that fracking could make a significant contribution to reducing the energy shortfall faced by the U.K. in the next few years, but the decision by Liz Truss to reverse Britain’s blanket ban on fracking was a sign that, unlike Boris Johnson, a climate fundamentalist, she took the country’s energy needs seriously. And it’s also worth noting that, even if the details were, uh, vague, as to how exactly this would be accomplished, her decision replaced central control with community assent. Fracking would only be permitted if the locals agreed, reflecting the political reality of drilling in a small, overcrowded island, rather than, say, south-eastern New Mexico, a part of the U.S. better known for (alleged) UFO mishaps than for any lack of space. It’s worth adding that, in the U.S., people own the rights to the minerals that may lie beneath their property. In the U.K., they (sadly) do not, thus removing some of the economic incentives to agree to frack. Promises to spend money “on the community” generally don’t do the trick.<\/p>\n
\nWhisper it quietly, but the Greenland ice sheet may have made a net gain in size in the year to August 2022. A massive boost of 471 billion tonnes of ice was created on the surface during the last recorded year, the 10th highest increase in 42 years, and much higher than the 1981-2010 annual average of 368 billion tonnes. This year\u2019s surface gain, known as surface mass balance (SMB), continues the spectacular recovery seen on the ice sheet from 2012, when a low of 38 billion tonnes was reported. This year\u2019s figure, while high, was beaten in 2017 and 2018 when over 500 billion tonnes were created on the surface. The 2022 figures and comparisons can be seen in the graph below, compiled by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI).<\/p>\n
\nThe unusual alignment of Western political and electoral cycles has created an unprecedented opportunity for a massive green power grab.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nAfter four straight years of premium declines, Affordable Care Act policies will be more costly in 2023. However, most enrollees won’t feel the increase thanks to enhanced federal subsidies that congressional Democrats were able to extend.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nWhen Russian troops fled the Ukrainian town of Balakliia last month, they left behind thousands of documents that detail the inner workings of the Russian war machine.<\/p>\n
\nRussian’s Vladimir Putin sparked the wrath of his own people by drafting hundreds of thousands to join the war against Ukraine, and now it seems some of those men were sent not to fight the so-called “enemy” but to “snuff out” any of the Russian troops who dare to retreat.<\/p>\n
\nDespite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and recent nuclear saber-rattling, the Biden administration views China as the top threat facing America \u2014 and will focus the military on addressing the danger posed by Beijing. <\/p>\n
\nI don’t think I’ve ever heard of Ksenia Sobchak before and if I have I don’t remember it. She’s the daughter of the former mayor of St. Petersburg, a man who Putin once described as a mentor. She started out in media as a TV presenter and then moved into journalism. She’s quite famous and even ran for president in 2018. Tuesday night she fled to Lithuania.<\/p>\n
\nTargeting Ukraine’s power infrastructure may be a tacit admission of defeat<\/p>\n
\nSaturday’s drone strike was the biggest Ukrainian attack on Russian Black Sea Fleet in six months when they sank flagship cruiser “Moskva.”<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nA global helium shortage has doctors worried about one of the natural gas’s most essential, and perhaps unexpected, uses: MRIs.<\/p>\n
\nCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has signed two bills into law that will limit who is eligible to become a peace officer, even as many cities across the Golden State struggle with police shortages. Critics say the new laws will create an “ideological purity test,” preventing some conservatives and Christians from joining already-strapped police forces.<\/p>\n
\nTwo people who disrupted an Aug. 9 meeting of the Los Angeles City Council to protest an ordinance banning homeless encampments within 500 feet of schools and daycare centers have been charged with a combined 13 misdemeanor counts, officials said Saturday.<\/p>\n
\nMeek covered many sensitive topics in his career. Did he come across something that frightened the government?<\/p>\n
\nAs people are now vaccine-questioning, public health officials are looking for ways to prevent polio from becoming endemic again.<\/p>\n
\nThe University of Massachusetts Dartmouth sponsors a database for students to submit their chosen name, pronouns, gender identity, and sexual orientation. The Inclusive Identity Project allows students to choose from a variety of pronouns.<\/p>\n
\n“[T]he Punta Gorda ordinance imposes content-based restrictions on speech and those provisions can stand only if they survive strict scrutiny. Strict scrutiny requires Punta Gorda to prove that the restriction furthers a compelling interest and is narrowly tailored to achieve that interest.”<\/p>\n
\nAimed at children, the phenomenon is far more subversive than its defenders claim.<\/p>\n
\nDoing the safety assessment of Histrelin acetate and leuprolide acetate that Planned Parenthood won’t do.<\/p>\n
\nRyan Crownholm’s story perfectly illustrates how occupational licensing laws stifle competition.<\/p>\n
\nWith all of the drama yesterday (Brooks was in and out of the main courtroom several times) plus the 100+ pages of jury instructions which Judge Dorow had to read, the jury had a little less than two hours to actually deliberate.<\/p>\n
\nCalifornia’s governor is spending more time and money on two ballot measures and a possible presidential run than his own reelection campaign.<\/p>\n
\nVictim started keeping a pistol for protection, police say<\/p>\n
\n“Our beloved Lucianne passed away peacefully and surrounded by loved ones in her own home, the way she wanted. But she has left a hole in our lives that we can never fill completely.”<\/p>\n
\nChalking tires, curbing meters, and secretly recording videos.<\/p>\n
\nAs has become flagrantly obvious over the years, the political left and its myrmidons in the media, medical industry, social agencies, public libraries, and school system have become slickly adept at framing the cultural debate between conservatives and “progressives” by mutilating discourse, fudging long-accepted distinctions, and decoupling terms from their culturally ascribed referents. What was understood for centuries and millennia as decency becomes indecency, good becomes bad, virtue becomes vice, settled tradition becomes feral violence, family and marriage become barbarism and bondage (the feminist mantra), and so on. Conversely, what is destructive of customary order becomes enlightened transformation.<\/p>\n<\/a>Economy & Taxes<\/h1>\n
\nThe U.S. is facing a diesel crunch just as demand is surging ahead of winter \u2014 with only 25 days of supply left, according to the Energy Information Administration.<\/p>\n
\nExpect the champagne corks to fly in the White House today.<\/p>\n
\nWith a Mexican diplomat who has a record of praising the Cuban and Venezuelan dictatorships seeking the top job at a quietly influential multilateral development bank, a Republican lawmaker is sounding the alarm. In a letter addressed to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday afternoon, Representative Maria Salazar urged the Biden administration to act swiftly.<\/p>\n
\nGood news: The strike won’t happen until Nov. 8th. Bad news: I hope you didn’t need any Christmas presents or holiday foods. Meanwhile, Transportation Secretary Buttigieg is doing the campaigning nobody wants Biden to do.<\/p>\n
\nFinancial commentators continue to be shocked by Xi’s moves during and after the recent party congress in Beijing. It’s hard to see why. The regime has made clear for some time that the pursuit of rapid economic growth will, if necessary, be subordinated to the party’s social and political objectives. The economic system that prevailed in China prior to Xi was hardly a free-market paradise, but it has been replaced by an ever more harnessed capitalism that bears some resemblance to the model favored by mid-century fascist (or fascist-adjacent) theory and, to a degree, practice. Call it fascism with Chinese characteristics.<\/p>\n
\n“The EU official overseeing internet regulation cautioned the new Twitter boss that the social media giant must play by the bloc’s rules in Europe.”<\/p>\n<\/a>International<\/h1>\n
\nThe NHS is hitting the brakes hard on the transgender social contagion \u2014 to the point that it has discouraged puberty-blocking and social gender affirmation.<\/p>\n
\nA former Brazilian congressman with ties to President Jair Bolsonaro shot and threw grenades at police officers, injuring two, in a failed attempt to prevent his arrest, authorities said Sunday.<\/p>\n
\nRISHI Sunak has vowed to work “day in day out” to tackle the UK’s “profound challenges” after he was today named Britain’s 57th Prime Minister.<\/p>\n
\nCambridge University is being criticised for its gender-neutral German course. The course aims ‘to use gender- and non-binary-inclusive language’.<\/p>\n
\nAnother 15 people are missing after tensions between two groups boiled over into violence<\/p>\n
\nA Thai business tycoon and transgender activist has purchased the Miss Universe Organization for $20 million, her company announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/a>Opinion<\/h1>\n
\nThe most significant thing happening in the world may very well be a thing that is not happening: Men and women are not having children. The biblical logic has been reversed, and the barren womb has said \u201cEnough!\u201d (Prov. 30:16). The paradigmatic affliction of the Old Testament is now the great desire of nations. If \u00adRachel wanted children more than life itself (Gen. 30:1), our generation seems to have concluded that nothing gets in the way of life more than children.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s time for leaders who are too young to recall ‘Morning in America.’<\/p>\n
\nIs anyone genuinely surprised about the leaked tape becoming a national sensation? You know, the one where four “Hispanic” power brokers using some “choice” language while doing backroom dealing and attempting to get their team a bigger slice of the Los Angeles City Council? Certainly, some of the rhetoric was over-the-top and downright racist, but it just shows you the party of race sensitivity is really the party of racists. <\/p>\n
\nIn the wake of the recent opinions in Dobbs, Bruen, Carson, West Virginia v. EPA, and Kennedy, there is no serious question that originalism is not only ascendant but firmly in control in the Supreme Court. As a result, most seasoned court watchers and constitutional law scholars agree that it is highly likely that SCOTUS is going to overrule Grutter, Fisher II, and perhaps even Bakke, and hold that racial discrimination in higher education admissions decisions violates both the Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.<\/p>\n