Donald J. Trump is in Iowa today, Saturday, Oct. 9 for a rally in Des Moines. He is scheduled to speak at 7pm (7pm EST). CORRECTION: 8pm EDT.
Or click at the RSBN link here and access the livestream there.
UPDATE: Links are not working as of afternoon on Oct 10. Click here to access a replay of the rally at Right Side Broadcast News.
UPDATE: "Let's Go Brandon" banner flying overhead. Too funny.
Josh Mandel and William Kristol. Photo credit: wksu.org
This latest report from BigLeaguePolitics --
"Ohio Senate Candidate Josh Mandel Pocketed Donations Intended for 2018 GOP Nominee, Paid Tens of Thousands to Mistress"
-- will come as no surprise to readers of this blog, although it is of concern that an Ohio liberty group has endorsed Mandel's candidacy for the US Senate seat presently held by RINO Rob Portman. Richard Moorhead reports:
Ohio Republican Senate candidate
Josh Mandel paid tens of thousands of dollars to a woman he was dating during
his 2018 Senate campaign, while married to another woman.
FEC reports show that Rachel
Wilson, Mandel’s finance director and mistress, was
paid more than $100,000 between his 2018 campaign and a PAC supporting
his candidacy.
. . .
Three dozen Republican women,
including three women who left Mandel’s campaign citing a toxic work
environment created by Wilson in her continuing duties with Mandel’s 2020
campaign, have urged Ohio Republicans to reject Mandel, warning he’ll
“embarrass” the party if nominated as a candidate for the US Senate. Mandel
has run for statewide office five times in the past 12 years, with some Ohio
Republicans criticizing Mandel, who has served in elected office since 2003, as
a career politician who’ll put on the act he needs to in pursuit of the next
political gig.
. . .
Questions of Mandel’s ethics go
beyond his financial arrangements with his girlfriend while he was married to
another woman. Mandel broke onto the scene of national politics as a protege of
war criminal Bill Kristol, handpicked as an instrument to advance the
nefarious neoconservative’s political views in the United States Senate in an
ultimately failed 2012 campaign against Sherrod Brown. Kristol, an advocate of
Middle East regime change wars Donald Trump partly ran against in 2016, had
recruited Mandel as a candidate in Ohio’s 2012 US Senate election to
challenge Sherrod Brown.
Read the full – ugly - report here. Mr. Mandel says all the right things in front
of the camera, but he is obviously just another self-serving hack. Candidate Mike Gibbons looks better and
better.
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Cleveland Tea Party’s roving photographer got some good ones last night:
Images by Pat Dooley Photography (no Facebook page any
more!)
One of the more bizarre twists in
the saga of the COVID pandemic has been doctors growing increasingly
frustrated and even angry with patients asking for medical treatment
rather than wholesale vaccination. We have been told for almost two years that
COVID is a deadly disease. Naturally, when people test positive for COVID, they
want to be treated to avoid serious illness. Instead, they are sent home to
quarantine, with no medical treatment until they become seriously ill.
. . .
Doctors are having none of it.
Instead, they lash out at
the very idea that patients should expect to be treated for COVID. They
complain of being imposed upon by people who refuse to be vaccinated,
overlooking the fact that even the vaccinated have become seriously ill or died
of COVID or one of the many variants that have emerged since mass vaccination
began. Doctors are not supposed to hurt us—yet I can’t think of anything more
hurtful than telling people who test positive for COVID to go home and wait to
see how sick they will get, then getting angry at those same people when they
ask for a treatment that might prevent them getting sick at all.
Our household has experienced a physician’s unwillingness to prescribe therapeutics such as ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and zinc prior to admittance into a hospital, by which time it’s often too late. America's Frontline Doctors or Pushhealth are still offering help online, but for how long before they get cancelled and de-platformed?
Full article at American Thinker is here.
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Mark Steyn is my favorite author and columnist. I used to enjoy his appearances on Fox News, but since I crossed Fox off my list many months ago, I have to be satisfied with his written commentary. Yesterday, his commentary was decidedly pessimistic, but I could not see where he was getting it wrong. Here are some excerpts:
. . .
The biggest-selling book with
American conservatives right now argues that the answer to all of the above [litany of government-caused problems] is
"constitutionalism". On the other hand, the radio host
Jesse Kelly says:
We're not a serious country and we're not a country that will be around
much longer.
I incline to the latter view
myself. At this point, conservative complaceniks tend to trot out Adam
Smith: "There is a great deal of ruin in a nation." But not this much
- not Covid lockdowns and open borders, Afghan "translators" and
Haitian "refugees", Big Tech and Big Trans, BLM and CRT, ID for the
IHOP but not for the voting booth, China as America's manufacturer and
America's loan shark...
. . .
To go back to that Jesse Kelly
line, "we're not a serious country": A nation where a pasty
privileged pajama boy can demand the ruination of his professor because he
traumatized the class by making them watch a Laurence Olivier performance is
too unserious to survive, and doesn't deserve to.
If the Constitution is the bulwark
against madness, then it has already failed; if "capitalism" is the
bulwark against express-elevator descent into full-blown madness, the only
thing holding that up is the chimera of the US dollar's status as global
currency.
. . .
"Land of the free and the home
of the brave"? Both are conspicuous by their absence.
The full column is here.
Grim, but highly recommended.
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Betsy McCaughey was a go-to resource when Congress was preparing to ram Obamacare down our throats. Today in the New York Post, she gets into the weeds with the bazillion dollar Build Back Better bill:
Democrats are quarreling over the
price tag of
their Build Back Better bill. But the real problem is what’s in
it. The bill coerces workers to join unions, imposes racial preferences on
every facet of life and redistributes money from workers to takers.
Fortunately, the bill is in limbo.
Moderate Democrats like Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va) insist
the bill has to be pared down to less than half its current price tag.
The far left is outraged. But the bill can’t pass without every Senate Democrat
supporting it.
Not passing it would be best: This
bill is as un-American as it gets. Here are some of its details, which
Democrats would prefer you not see. Judge for yourself.
Here are the bullet points:
Click here for the rest of the column. None of it is good news.
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My kind of satire – this one on Babylon Bee:
Hackers Warn That If Demands Aren’t Met They Will Reactivate Facebook
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