Today’s Poser

Who did a better job of interfering with U.S. elections ... Russia with its FaceBook ads ... or China with its Wuhan virus?



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Headlines

6 Catholics, 1 Court: SCOTUS and the rise of the Federalist Society

Pelosi and Mnuchin take a last-ditch shot at a coronavirus stimulus deal

California passes bill establishing path to slavery reparations

UK: record boat migrants

Pope rejects meeting with Pompeo, citing U.S. election

Coronavirus vaccine trial participants report exhaustion, fever and headaches — but worth it

VP Mike Pence and Karen Pence test negative for coronavirus

EU unemployment rises for 5th month

Trump, Putin, Macron call for Armenia and Azerbaijan to cease hostilities

Biden is still leading in the polls, and voters say he won his first debate against Trump

Biden hires FaceBook executive for transition team

Federal judge halts Democrat attempt to eliminate witness requirement for mail-in ballots in North Carolina


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Headlines

Trump — not Biden — is being underestimated going into the debate

Coronavirus live updates: New infections rise in more U.S. states, meatpackers deny employees compensation for virus

More voters plan on watching first debate — but few think it’ll change their mind

Project Veritas busts alleged ballot harvesting by Ilhan Omar allies

Kentucky AG agrees to release grand jury tapes in Breonna Taylor case

New York bankruptcies reportedly surge 40% during pandemic

Biden’s Texas political director implicated in ballot harvesting scheme

PA Republicans ask Supreme Court to halt mail voting extension

Poll: Biden up 9 points in Pennsylvania

Biden campaign slams FaceBook for ‘regression’ in its efforts to safeguard the election

President Trump receives third Nobel Peace Prize nomination

Consumer confidence explodes higher


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Headlines

Judge strikes down DeVos plan to boost pandemic relief to private schools

Drug makers seek to reassure public about coronavirus vaccine with joint safety

President Trump purges ‘Critical Race Theory’ propaganda from federal agencies

Fmr acting AG: Facebook, Twitter algorithms could be viewed by DOJ as an ‘illegal campaign contribution’

Trump contradicts health officials, says ‘probably’ Covid-19 vaccine in October

The stock market’s shakeout is likely not over yet, even with Friday’s comeback

BLM harasses homeowners and trashes local businesses in Rochester

Oregon gov.: Not deploying National Guard to Portland because they aren’t trained or needed”

Biden: QAnon is ‘bizarre’ and ‘embarrassing,’ supporters should seek mental health treatment

Powell says low interest rates could last for years

President Trump oversees historic Kosovo-Serbia economic deal

Former Turkish PM says Erdogan aggression risks military clash with Greece

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Headlines

“Can you imagine if we’re waiting for Pennsylvania?”: State Dems scramble to avoid voting fiasco

Chuck Schumer calls GOP’s latest coronavirus stimulus plan ‘completely inadequate’

NYC shootings double in August

Data: New foreign-born voters in swing states exceed 2016 victory margins

U.S. workers filed 881K claims for jobless benefits last week

Coronavirus live updates: Pfizer vaccine trial may have results by October, Walmart plans for virtual toy shopping

Gov. Cuomo says Trump would need an army to be safe in New York

Pompeo: We are making sure U.S. has tools to respond to Chinese military threat

Facebook bans new political ads in the week before the election

NYC Mayor de Blasio threatens to sue U.S. after Trump tries to withhold federal funds

Pelosi demands apology from salon that exposed her hypocrisy

New Joe Biden ad: ‘Black Americans wake up knowing’ they can die

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Free Speech

By Norman Rockwell

I would like to believe that part of the appeal of this blog is that it stands up for free speech ... and doesn’t squelch dissenters in the comments section. I would guess about 90% of the comments here disagree with my post’s arguments ... usually responded to by my counter-thoughts. This is what keeps things free and interesting ... and eventually can iterate to truth.

Much of the internet today does not permit such free-wheeling dialog. Twitter, reddit, Facebook, etc. are becoming increasingly restrictive in the degree of woke dissent they will permit. What good is that after all? These social media sites become echo chambers and not sounding boards. Worthless! And, in my opinion, sadly anti-American.


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Headlines

Emboldened Pelosi takes hard line as relief talks drag on

U.S. weekly jobless claims total 1.186 million, lowest level of coronavirus pandemic

Teenagers arrested at Mar-a-Largo trespassing with AK-47

Coronavirus: UK Councils empowered to destroy ‘contaminated’ buildings

Facebook and Twitter sanction Trump for claiming kids are ‘virtually immune’ to coronavirus

McConnell believes Dems, GOP will reach a relief deal ‘in the near future’

Rioting predictably continues in Portland after Feds leave

Joe Biden snaps at black reporter over cognitive test Q: ‘You a junkie?’

Trump outraises Biden in July, breaking opponent’s short streak

Trump to sign executive order requiring U.S. to buy ‘essential’ drugs from American companies

Jeff Bezos sells $3.1 billion in Amazon stock

1 in 4 mail-in ballots disqualified in NYC primary

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Headlines

Pompeo claims he didn’t  interact significantly with ousted Ukraine Ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch

Trump suggests delaying election amid fraud claims, but he has no power to do so

Senate investigators target CIA, State records in expansion of Russian probe

Daily Caller experienced Google suppression, says EIC

Ruth Bader Ginsberg undergoes medical procedure [stent] at hospital

Former GOP presidential candidate, Herman Caine, dies after battle with coronavirus

1.43 million filed for [unemployment] benefits last week

Twitter under fire for flagging Trump posts but not Iran Ayatollah

U.S. suffers worse quarterly contraction on record as virus ravages economy

Congress has the goods on Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google

Additional 26 million Americans likely to qualify for round 2.0 of stimulus checks

Poll: Trump narrows gap in battleground states


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Censorship

YouTube took down the video from the two California doctors contending that the continuous lockdown was exactly the wrong strategy to deal with the coronavirus ... see: Freedom of Speech. It seems that they could not allow any opinions that were counter to Dr. Fauci’s dicta.

Now, the Masters of the Universe (Twitter, Google’s YouTube, FaceBook) are once again censorng what they don’t want Americans to see ... this time a Nigerian doctor vehemently attesting that hydroxychloroquinine (HCQ) is an effective Covid treatment ... see: RT Video.

I realize that the Masters of the Universe are private companies and therefore can censor whatever they want. But, it would seem when they have achieved such monopolistic powers over their media highways, that some constraints should be applied to their plenary powers.

And besides, Trump should have used reverse-English ... and disparaged HCQ to begin with ... and it would therefore have become the standard treatment ... possibly saving thousands of lives. So, in a way, these deaths really were the truculent anti-Trump media’s fault in the end.

Quotable Quote

My wife found the following on Facebook ... and it was so on the money, I had to share it. I hope its author, George R. Halsey, a friend of a friend, doesn’t mind. ...

“I understand what it means but I wonder if racism really benefits the racists. It’s really a great burden. For 90% of the white people in the south who could not own slaves or large amounts of real estate, slavery meant poverty for white people. In the North it benefits no one I believe. There is a political group who stoke up racism among disadvantaged whites to make sure they look for solutions in the wrong direction and not where the power is.”

Interestingly, one of the reasons that Abraham Lincoln’s father was an abolitionist was that he could not find work in the slave-state Kentucky and had to move his family to Illinois.

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Afterward: There is an interesting parallel between the reaction to slavery ... and the push back against very cheap Chinese labor arising out of globalism. Me thinks things are not over yet.

Headlines

Democrats discover a new team player: Bernie Sanders

OPEC and allies agree to extend record oil production cut

Buffalo cops who shoved elderly man charged with assault ...

Oprah to lead town hall on racism in America, with Stacey Abrams

France says it killed al-Qaeda leader in North Africa

Coronavirus updates: Amazon workers sue the company, tennis star Djokovic chafes at US Open restrictions

Ivanka rips ‘cancel culture’ after she’s dropped as commencement speaker ...

Abraham Lincoln statue vandalized and scaled in London BLM protests

Zuckerberg says Facebook will revisit policies in wake of Trump backlash

Wall Street’s latest surge isn’t benefitting many Americans

[Tropical storm] Cristobal on its way to Gulf Coast ...

57 member Buffalo police team resigns over officers’ suspensions

Headlines

German court ruling could tear EU apart, warns senior judge

NFL condemns racism, says ‘we were wrong’ not listening to player protests

National Guard told NOT to carry guns ...

Poll: More people blame protesters for violence than police

Facebook, Instagram join Twitter in removing Trump campaign videos over copyright complaints

Job gains narrow the White House vision for coronavirus relief, but Dems still want to go big

Looters in $350,000 Rolls Royce rob again ...

Nolte: Polls show Trump’s re-election numbers trending the wrong way

D.C. government dubs intersection where police cleared peaceful protesters ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’

Denver police ordered to stop using tear gas an plastic bullies In protests

Republican senator berates President, compares him to Hillary ...

Democrat senators kneel during moment of silence for George Floyd

Headlines

Fringe groups point finger back at Trump, Democrats

GDP is now projected to fall nearly 53% in the second quarter, according to Fed gauge

Police chief: I knelt to show black lives matter ...

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer: Trump ‘cowardly, weak anddangerous’

Episcopal bishop says Trump’s message is ‘antithetical to the teachings of Jesus’

Coronavirus: Tokyo issues stay-home alert, Canada film industry seeks government support

Cops drop to knee before protesters ... Troops gather around DC ...

St. Louis police: 4 officers shot in overnight riots

FoxNews’ Tucker Carlson goes after Trump and Kushner over protests

Civil rights leaders say they’re are ‘disappointed and stunned’ after call with Facebook’s Zuckerberg

Cop shot in the head on Vegas strip ...

Left rips New York Times over front page: ‘Endorsement of fascism’

Headlines

Famed Democrat pollster: Warren as VP would lead to Biden victory

Trump to sign executive order aimed at craking down on Facebook and Twitter, vows ‘FAIRNESS’

U.S. deaths from coronavirus surpass 100,000 milestone ...

Report: Fort Leavenworth soldier intervenes, takes out active shooter

2.1 million unemployment claims filed last week, as workers still struggle to get benefits

Coronavirus live updates: Continuing U.S. unemployment claims fall, CVS expanding to 1,000 testing sites

Asymptomatic cases may be more common than suspected ...

President Trump will sign executive order on social media censorship

Violence again rocks Minneapolis after man’s death, 1 killed

Mark Zuckerberg says social networks should not be fact-cheking political speech

TX students set to return to school — next week!

Minneapolis rioters smash charter school storefronts

Headlines

WHO head warns worst of the virus is still ahead

Coronavirus updates: New York begins antibody testing, public anger grows in Spain over death counts

Fauci warns USA needs to TRIPLE testing ...

Thousands defy coronavirus isolation order to attend Muslim cleric’s funeral

Facebook shuts down anti-quarantine protests at states’ request

Cannabis companies pay federal taxes but are shut out of small business loans

Oil price lowest in history ... Plunges 70% in day ...

Dick Morris: Biden Dem nomination ‘like a suicide march’

Gunman kills at least 16, including officer, in Nova Scotia

After a crazy 12 months, the S&P 500 is about back to where it started

Billionaire Branson begs for bailout ...

Report: 450,000 illegal immigrants are getting college degrees

Headlines

France’s Macron: EU external borders to close starting Tuesday

Facebook’s Sandburg, No one knows impact coronavirus will have on marketing biz

Saudi prince’s superyacht capsizes ...

Donald Trump: No nationwide quarantine for coronavirus

’A matter of weeks and months’: Larry Kudlow predicts short-lived coronavirus slowdown

Coronavirus live update: Trump issues ‘coronavirus guidelines,’ SF orders ‘stay home’

Police ask public to stop calling 911 over lack of toilet paper ...

Italy: 349 people die in 24 hours, coronavirus death toll tips 2,100

De Blasio called for ‘massive federal relief’ as city economy grinds to a halt — then he hit the gym

White House braces for political fight as it readies coronavirus airline bailout package

Supreme Court delays arguments ...

Coronavirus: Justin Trudeau to shut down Canadian border to foreigners

Headlines

Judge may hold Mueller-ensnared Russian firm in contempt

Experts toil in dangerous conditions to restore fire-ravaged Notre Dame

First case of unknown origin confirmed in northern California ...

Poll: Biden takes lead in Florida

Poll: Biden crushing Sanders in South Carolina

Coronavirus live update: Facebook cancels conference, Iran outbreak could get worse

Federal appeals court rules tech platforms can censor content ...

Trump admin insiders: Pentagon house cleaning of never Trumpers

‘I didn’t write them, but Bernie did’: Warren slams Sanders over delegate rules

Coronavirus is threatening to end the world air traffic boom

Infects Iranian vice president, kills ambassador to Vatican ..

Appeals court: Trump can withhold funding from sanctuary cities

Oil on the Water

One sure way to reduce the level of poison in our public discourse is to put an eight-hour delay and required confirmation on the publishing of any “reply all” emails ... Facebook, Twitter or other social-media communications.

Headlines

Warren, Biden and Buttigieg dangerously close to going broke

Facebook considers making clearer that pro-Bloomberg posts come from staffers

Weekend: A.I. Picks Sanders to win big in Nevada: Biden voters shifting to Buttigieg ...

Tim Scott predicts black support for Trump to increase by 50 percent

Down-ball or Republicans watch with glee as Sanders gains steam

WHO officials say coronavirus outbreak in Iran ‘very worrisome’

Poll: Satisfaction with USA highest since 2005 ...

Coronavirus drag on U.S. economy appears bigger than expected

Pompeo announces ‘understanding’ between U.S. and Taliban

Larry Kudlow says falling bond yields don’t reflect the U.S. fundamentals

NYT: Russia backs Trump re-election, and he fears Dems will exploit ... ‘Hoax number 7!’

Elizabeth Warren claims transgender athletes ‘not a threat’

Headlines

Jersey City attack investigated as domestic terrorism, hate crime

US has a phase one trade deal with China in principle pending Trump’s approval

McConnell plan to acquit Trump at trial ... Dem defections?

Joe Biden’s plan: amnesty for all illegals, free border crossers

Senate defied earlier White House block to unanimously recognize Armenian genocide

A ‘wimpy’ trade deal will be enough for markets as long as there are no new tariffs

Feds collect record taxes; historic spending ...

Dems accuse Trump of ‘bribery’ — after dropping it from ‘articles’

Newspapers in swing states have yet to embrace impeachment

Facebook falls on possible FTC injunction

Credit card debt 10-year high ...

DOJ IG: Obama may have known Trump campaign [was] spied on ...