On Wednesday, in the midst of the supply chain crisis that has plagued American consumers with empty store shelves, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced the “BEAT CHINA Act,” a bill to “bolster domestic manufacturing and reduce America’s overdependence on global supply chains.”
Roy issued a <a href="https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-roy-launches-beat-china-act-reduce-manufacturing-reliance-china">statement</a> saying:
<blockquote>As long as we depend on China and the rest of the world to keep our shelves stocked, our economic prosperity, our political liberty, and our national security are all in grave danger. Relying too heavily on supply chains based in other countries is a recipe for disaster — especially when the governments of those countries wish to destroy our way of life, as does the Chinese Communist Party. We must take bold action, consistent with the spirit of free enterprise, to reduce our dependence on foreign supply chains. The American people deserve an economy that can provide for itself; that’s why I am proud to reintroduce the BEAT CHINA Act, which would extend tax advantages to any foreign manufacturer that moves its production to the U.S.</blockquote>
Roy’s website explains:
<blockquote>This bill encourages reshoring by providing the tax advantages to manufacturers that move to the U.S. from abroad: </blockquote>
<blockquote>Non-residential real property purchases by qualifying manufacturers would be considered 20-year property instead of 39-year property, making the property eligible for full and immediate expensing, or “bonus depreciation.”</blockquote>
<blockquote>This bill would also make full and immediate expensing permanent. Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, this provision in the tax code is currently set to phase out after 2022.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Qualified manufacturers could also exclude from gross income any gain earned on the disposition of assets in its country of origin. This will prevent manufacturers from taking burdensome tax hits when they move to the U.S.</blockquote>
<blockquote>To qualify for these incentives, a manufacturer must maintain at least the same production levels in the U.S. as it did in its country of origin.</blockquote>
Roy&#8217;s office noted that in 2018, &#8220;China accounted for over 28% of the world’s manufacturing output, while the U.S. accounted for only 16%.&#8221; He quoted economist David Goldman, who <a href="https://asiatimes.com/2021/10/gobbling-chinas-exports-us-sinks-into-dependency/">stated,</a> “At a seasonally adjusted annual rate, the US is buying $635 billion of Chinese goods, equal to a staggering 27% of US manufacturing Gross Domestic Product&#8230;That’s the sort of import dependency economists associate with Third World countries dependent on former colonial powers.”
On Tuesday, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/desantis-to-the-rescue-floridas-created-incentive-packages-with-ports-to-solve-supply-chain-clog/">announced</a> that the state had created incentive packages to elicit companies using Florida&#8217;s ports to combat the supply chain crisis.
The governor&#8217;s office said in a statement:
<blockquote>At the event, JAXPORT announced that they will be offering incentives to any company that chooses to bring its business to the port, freeing up backlogs at other ports while ensuring Americans are able to receive the goods they order faster. Governor DeSantis was able to make the announcement that Florida Seaports are able to meet demand because Florida has continuously invested in its seaports.</blockquote>
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A Rhode Island man accused of dressing as a woman and taking pictures of women and girls in a bathroom with pen cameras laced into his sneakers was arrested later for possession of child pornography.
In August, Wrentham Outlets in Wrentham, Massachusetts, reported to police that a man had been noticed wearing a wig and acting suspiciously in a woman’s bathroom. “He allegedly entered stalls next to 12 victims and took videos without their knowledge. Of the 12, five girls were under age 18 and some were estimated to be as young as 8, Police Chief Bill McGrath said,” <a href="https://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/wrentham-police-say-rhode-island-man-secretly-videotaped-women-girls-in-bathroom-at-outlet-mall/article_73089562-d97b-5304-8904-108619db1a4d.html">The Sun Chronicle</a> reported.
An investigation found that Jacob Guerrero visited the mall close to 12 times between July 11 and Aug. 24. On August 24, a mother of a girl who had been at the mall called police, who were given a photo of Guerrero loitering in a hallway before he followed a group of young girls inside the bathroom.
On Sept. 2, Guerrero was arrested over a traffic stop and  later released “after pleading innocent to photographing an unsuspecting nude person, also known as the ‘up-skirting law,’ according to court records,” The Sun Chronicle noted.
&#8220;The law makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by 2 ½ years in the House of Corrections and a fine of up to $5,000, to secretly photograph a person’s ‘sexual or other intimate parts’ under or around their clothing under circumstances when ‘a reasonable person would believe’ those parts would not be visible to the public. It makes it a felony to disseminate such pictures. The penalties are increased when the victim is a child under age 18,” Mass Live <a href="https://www.masslive.com/politics/2014/03/gov_deval_patrick_signs_law_ma.html">explained</a>.
A search warrant for Guerrero&#8217;s car and cellphone later turned up 240 video clips and 23 images.
The investigation included a photo of pen cameras that record video laced into Guerrero’s sneakers, <a href="https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/10/19/wrentham-outlets-jacob-guerrero-amazon-driver-child-pornography-charges/">CBS Boston</a> reported.
Wrentham Police Chief Bill McGrath stated, “Some of the children he allegedly had on his phone were 8, 9, 10, 11 years old.” Guerrero worked for Amazon as a delivery driver. “Investigators say it was his work that led him to at least one victim,” CBS Boston reported.
Guerrero was accused of “taking a video of a 10- or 11-year-old girl in Norfolk who was changing into her pajamas in her bedroom. Guerrero was allegedly outside the home, which may have been on his delivery route, authorities said,” according to The Sun Chronicle. That allegedly happened on March 17.
McGrath said, “He had returned to a home that was on his route and actually filmed a child through a second-story window.”
“Police say much of the evidence was recorded out of state during trips that Guerrero took to New Jersey and California,” CBS Boston noted.
McGrath cautioned the public not to assume delivery drivers had ill-intent, saying, “If you have one person who’s done a horrific thing or a bad thing, I don’t care if it’s police or the media or Amazon drivers, it certainly isn’t a reflection of all of them, and that’s not a picture we want to paint.”
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Florida’s largest school district, which defied GOP Governor Ron DeSantis’ order for schools to permit parents to decide whether their children should wear masks in school or not, is now saying they may ease their mask mandate by the end of October.
“The number of students needing to quarantine in Miami-Dade County public schools has dropped significantly since school started in August, school Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said Wednesday,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-education-miami-florida-7683a4ae10a6d6834ef5a5df17b038c4">The Associated Press</a> reported. “He said the decision would be based on the latest COVID-19 data and the advice of a task force of local doctors advising the district.”
The mask mandate would not be completely removed, but rather, an opt-out feature for parents would likely be added, the superintendent said at a meeting this week, <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article255157612.html">reports</a> the Miami Herald.
&#8220;[L]ess than 1,000 of the district’s 330,000 students were required to quarantine&#8221; last week, the lowest number they have yet recorded, reports The Associated Press, citing Carvalho.
In early October, the Florida Board of Education <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/florida-board-of-education-sanctions-8-school-districts-says-they-wont-let-parents-opt-kids-out-of-mask-mandates/">voted to sanction</a> eight school districts, all of which the Board said implemented mask mandates but wouldn’t let parents opt their children out.
The Board of Education deemed that Alachua, Brevard, Broward, Duval, Leon, Miami-Dade, Orange, and Palm Beach counties had not complied with the <a href="https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/64DER21-15.pdf">emergency rule</a> issued by the Florida Department of Health on September 22, which stated:
<blockquote>In order to permit students to continue in-person learning, to minimize the detriment to students and school personnel from the added burden of recurrent removal of students, and to benefit the overall welfare of students in Florida, it is necessary to provide updated emergency guidance to school districts concerning the governance of COVID-19 protocols in schools.
This emergency rule conforms to Executive Order Number 21-175, which ordered the Florida Department of Health and the Florida Department of Education to ensure safety protocols for controlling the spread COVID-19 in schools that (1) do not violate Floridians&#8217; constitutional freedoms; (2) do not violate parents&#8217; rights under Florida law to make health care decisions for their minor children; and (3) protect children with disabilities or health conditions who would be harmed by certain protocols, such as face masking requirements. The order directs that any COVID-19 mitigation actions taken by school districts comply with the Parents&#8217; Bill of Rights, and “protect parents&#8217; right to make decisions regarding masking of their children in relation to COVID-19.”</blockquote>
“As a penalty, Florida Board of Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran has requested that funds for each district be withheld ‘in an amount equal to 1/12 of all school board members&#8217; salaries,’ in addition to withholding any amount equal to federal grant funds awarded to those districts by President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration,” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/07/us/florida-sanction-schools-covid-19-mask-mandate/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=link&amp;utm_content=2021-10-07T21%3A36%3A05">CNN</a> reported.
At the time the emergency rule was issued, DeSantis <a href="https://www.flgov.com/2021/09/22/governor-ron-desantis-announces-new-department-of-health-rule-to-protect-healthy-students-from-forced-quarantining/">stated</a>:
<blockquote>Parents have the right to have their healthy kids in school. In-person education is important for a students’ wellbeing, their educational advancement, and their social development. The idea that schools are somehow a big problem when it comes to spread of the virus has been refuted yet again. Not only is the forced quarantining of healthy children disruptive to a student’s education, but many folks in Florida are not able to work from home. With this rule, we are following a symptom-based approach to quarantining students in Florida.</blockquote>
In September, Judge K. Michael Moore in Miami <a href="https://apnews.com/article/health-courts-education-florida-coronavirus-pandemic-3c311cf49e6b65a37e97a950ccb2e3b5">refused to block</a> DeSantis’ executive order which was the basis for the state’s Florida Department of Health rule requiring school districts to permit parents to choose whether their children wore masks in school.
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Andrew Gillum and Ron DeSantis Debate in Tampa

Florida’s Largest School District, Which Defied DeSantis, May Soon Ease Mask Mandate

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A new poll conducted by one of the most respected pollsters in politics has found President Biden’ s support among independents has collapsed.
The <a href="https://www.grinnell.edu/news/62-americans-say-politics-not-law-drives-supreme-court-decisions">Grinnell College National Poll</a> results, which derive from a poll taken Oct. 13-17, 2021, by Selzer &amp; Company, on behalf of Grinnell College, stated, “Biden’s support among independent voters has collapsed.”
J. Ann Selzer of Selzer &amp; Company stated, “In 2020 exit polling, President Biden won independent voters by a 54% to 41% margin. If the election were held today, our poll shows former President Trump winning that group 45% to 28%. It is a massive shift in a demographic that helped carry Biden to victory less than two years ago.”
Additionally, the poll found “Joe Biden’s approval ratings overall and in three specific areas of focus are all under 50%. When asked whether they approve of the job President Biden is doing, only 37% approve (50% disapprove). Disapproval is highest when it comes to his handling of immigration (27% approve; 58% disapprove) and the economy (36% approve; 53% disapprove). Additionally, only 36% of Americans believe the economy will be in a stronger position 12 months from now – an 11-point drop from March 2021.”
The Grinnell College National Poll <a href="https://www.grinnell.edu/poll">states</a>, “First launched as a pilot project in August of 2018, the poll partners Grinnell College faculty and students with nationally-renowned pollster J. Ann Selzer to probe the political attitudes of the American public, providing thoughtful and timely information on current events, national trends and important policy questions.”
In January 2016, in an article titled, “<a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/selzer/">Ann Seltzer Is The Best Pollster in Politics</a>,” FiveThirtyEight wrote:
<blockquote>When Homer wrote of his hero Odysseus, he was “that godlike man.” The D.C. poets use the same laudatory epithet-style when they sing of Selzer; she is uniformly “<a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/after-obama-speech-2016-candidates-call-for-tougher-stance/">the great</a>” or “<a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="http://www.npr.org/2016/01/07/462230483/bush-rubio-aim-for-3rd-place-in-iowa-caucuses">most respected</a>” or, as I saw on a book jacket recently while walking through the Des Moines airport, “Iowa’s ‘polling queen.’”
It’s a reputation that is not unearned: She has on more than one occasion foretold an outcome that no one else saw coming, been pilloried for it, and not budged — the polling Cassandra of Des Moines. 
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This unwillingness to guess lies at the heart of her thinking about polling; Selzer doesn’t want to prejudice herself. “I like to say, “Keep your dirty hands off your data,’” she said. “That’s the making assumptions of what is or isn’t going to happen and then deciding you’re going to weight down the minority vote because you don’t think they’re going to show up.”</blockquote>
Seltzer told FiveThirtyEight: “We are not like many other polling firms that say, ‘Well, we think’ — they begin with a guess about what they think the future is going to look like. I don’t think that’s science.”
FiveThirtyEight <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/biden-has-lost-support-across-all-groups-of-americans-but-especially-independents-and-hispanics/">reported</a> on Thursday, “Two groups with whom Biden has lost support stand out: independents and Hispanics. Independents have soured on Biden to the extent that his approval ratings among this group approach the strongly negative ratings they gave then-President Donald Trump at the same point in his presidency, while increased disapproval of Biden among Hispanics could signal they are moving further away from Democrats after they shifted somewhat toward Trump and the GOP last November.”
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On Wednesday, Missouri GOP Senator Josh Hawley grilled Holly Thomas, President Joe Biden&#8217;s nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, on her past actions in which she signed briefs that alleged that concerns about having biological males in girls bathrooms were unfounded. Thomas repeatedly dodged when Hawley asked if she stood by her comments in two separate briefs when she served as an advocacy lawyer.
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Judge Holly Thomas has a deep understanding of and commitment to civil and human rights and would bring much needed professional diversity to the bench.
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Hawley charged, “Do you stand by your comments in these briefs that there is no evidence of violence or crime in restrooms by allowing biological males to use biological females&#8217; restrooms?”
Thomas answered, “In every case that I had as an advocate, it was my duty to represent the views of my clients.”
Hawley persisted, “Do you agree, still today, that there is no data, evidence in support of the claim that allowing people to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity will lead to increased violence or crime in restrooms.  Do you think that&#8217;s accurate?  You signed those statements. You filed that brief.  Do you think that that&#8217;s right?”
“At the time that I filed the briefs I was representing clients zealously as I was ethically bound to do,” Thomas dodged.
Still later, Hawley gave Thomas one last chance: “I just want to be clear; you stand by these comments. You stand by what you filed in these multiple different cases. You don&#8217;t think you were wrong about that? You haven&#8217;t changed your view.  You wouldn&#8217;t change anything that you said that you filed, that you put your name to?”
Thomas replied, “I was an advocate, represented my client. I did not represent my personal views about issues in the same way that my personal views don&#8217;t come into what I do as a judge.”
The exchange went like this:
Hawley:
<blockquote>I want to come back to an issue that Senator Grassley raised and I just want to make sure I understand your position. I&#8217;m thinking about these briefs that you signed in two different cases, one in North Carolina, one in Texas. Let me ask you about the North Carolina case first. You argued there that Title VII prohibits disadvantaging someone because of gender non-conformity, regardless of the birth assigned gender or current gender identity. The brief also suggests that the privacy and safety concerns underlying North Carolina&#8217;s proposed bathroom separation of boys and girls are unfounded and that the state had not demonstrated any public safety risk. 
In the Texas litigation, you said there was no data or tangible evidence in support of the claim that allowing people to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity will lead to crime in restrooms. I have to ask you, in light of what we are seeing in Loudoun County, there are reports about this in other places but it&#8217;s particularly troubling in light of the recent events in Loudoun County, where a boy in late May sexually assaulted a ninth grade girl in her school&#8217;s restroom after he identified as being gender-fluid. He was transferred to another school where a second assault occurred just earlier this year.  Do you stand by your comments in these briefs that there is no evidence of violence or crime in restrooms by allowing biological males to use biological females&#8217; restrooms? </blockquote>
Thomas:
<blockquote>As I explained to Senator Grassley, in every case that I had as an advocate, it was my duty to represent the views of my clients. And that&#8217;s what I did in those briefs which were filed when I worked for the New York State Solicitor General&#8217;s Office.  Now, I was not familiar before this morning with the Loudoun County incident, but again, what I would say is this: that I understand well being a judge now, the difference between being an advocate, advocating for your clients, and being a judge who is duty-bound, who takes an oath, and one that I take very seriously, to apply the law to the facts and the record and to review each matter individually as it comes before you. That&#8217;s what I would do were that issue to come before me if confirmed.</blockquote>
Hawley:
<blockquote>I&#8217;m just curious if you stand by these comments. Do you agree, still today, that there is no data, evidence in support of the claim that allowing people to use bathrooms corresponding with  their gender identity will lead to increased violence or crime in restrooms.  Do you think that&#8217;s accurate?  You signed those statements. You filed that brief.  Do you think that that&#8217;s right?</blockquote>
Thomas:
<blockquote>Again, at the time that I filed the briefs I was representing clients zealously as I was ethically bound to do, and in a new case on new facts, I would have to analyze it based upon what was presented to me or if sitting on appeal based on the record.</blockquote>
Hawley:
<blockquote>I&#8217;m asking you to do that now. I think that this is important. You were actually counsel of record in the North Carolina case. You signed the brief in the Texas case. Now I understand you were representing clients but of course I also understand you have a duty not to sign briefs that you think are unethical or that misrepresent facts so I assume that you think that the arguments made in these briefs are correct and accurate or you wouldn&#8217;t have signed them; certainly you wouldn&#8217;t have been counsel of record. 
These are quite dramatic claims that you made in both of these cases and now we have reports in various parts of the country but Loudoun County most immediately, and most publicly, about assault by a biological male on a ninth grade girl and then a second assault happening. It&#8217;s exactly what you said in these briefs wouldn&#8217;t happen. I&#8217;m just wondering what you would say to the parents of this girl who was assaulted in a restroom at school. She&#8217;s in ninth grade. Would you maintain to them that their concerns are unfounded and that they shouldn&#8217;t be concerned about what happened. Is that the message? </blockquote>
Thomas: “Sitting here as a judge my duty is to review the cases that come before me on the evidence that comes before me. I can&#8217;t comment on a case that&#8217;s pending, on a case that might come into my court —” 
Hawley: “Well, this case isn&#8217;t pending before you.”
Thomas: “I can&#8217;t comment on a case that&#8217;s pending anywhere per the California code of judicial ethics. So the only thing that I can tell you is that again, I understand —”
Hawley: “I just want to be clear; you stand by these comments. You stand by what you filed in these multiple different cases. You don&#8217;t think you were wrong about that? You haven&#8217;t changed your view.  You wouldn&#8217;t change anything that you said that you filed, that you put your name to?”
Thomas: “Again, I as an advocate, represented my client. I did not represent my personal views about issues in the same way that my personal views don&#8217;t come into what I do as a judge. I understand the difference between that advocacy role that I had then and the judicial role that I hold now.”
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WATCH: Hawley Grills Biden Judicial Nominee On Past Claims Boys In Girls Bathrooms Wouldn’t Lead To Violence

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A report from the leftist site Mother Jones states that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has told his colleagues he may exit the Democratic Party if President Joe Biden and Democrats on Capitol Hill stonewall his demand for a reduction of the social spending bill from a whopping $3.5 trillion to $1.75 trillion.
Mother Jones’ sources said Manchin stated that if he is rebuffed, he would change his party affiliation to Independent.
“He told associates that he has a two-step plan for exiting the party,” Mother Jones reported. “First, he would send a letter to Sen. Chuck Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, removing himself from the Democratic leadership of the Senate. … He would then wait and see if that move had any impact on the negotiations. After about a week, he said, he would change his voter registration from Democrat to independent.”
“It is unclear whether in this scenario Manchin would end up caucusing with the Democrats, which would allow them to continue to control the Senate, or side with the Republicans and place the Senate in GOP hands,” <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/senator-joe-manchin-democratic-party-exit-plan-biden-infrastructure-deal-exclusive/">Mother Jones</a> added.
Numerous sources quoted Manchin saying the claim that he might leave the party was false:
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&mdash; Zach C. Cohen (@Zachary_Cohen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Zachary_Cohen/status/1450887422624112645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Given the present 50/50 division in the Senate, Manchin’s vote is crucial for the Democrats if they are to pass the monstrously expensive social spending package. If that package is not passed, the $1 trillion bipartisan road-bridges-and-broadband <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/us/politics/infrastructure-bill-passes.html">infrastructure bill</a> the Senate approved in August would be in jeopardy.
“He has informed associates that because he is so out of sync with the Democratic Party he believes it is likely he will leave the party by November 2022,” Mother Jones declared, adding, “In a recent meeting with Biden, Manchin told the president that he sees government as a partner with the public not the ultimate provider, according to people who heard the senator’s account of the conversation. He explained to the president that in his view Biden didn’t win the presidency last year by championing progressive proposals, and he pressed the president to recall his campaign promise to bring people together.”
After Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gave a contentious speech on October 7 on the Senate floor  Manchin reportedly called the speech “f***ing stupid.”
“Manchin&#8217;s blunt assessment of Schumer’s remarks comes after the West Virginia senator was visibly upset in the Senate chamber, burying his head in his hands during Schumer’s speech,” <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/report-joe-manchin-told-chuck-schumer-he-was-fing-stupid-for-attacking-gop/">The Daily Wire</a> noted. “The particularly stark image underscored the battle that Manchin has waged for weeks attempting to restrain Democrats’ high-spending appetite.”
Punchbowl News <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1446439270626086915">reported</a>:
<blockquote>There was some last-minute drama, as well. Schumer went to the floor and harshly criticized Republicans for provoking the crisis. Schumer won this round of his never-ending battle with McConnell, and he made sure everyone knew it. But Republicans &#8212; and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) &#8212; didn’t like the tone of Schumer&#8217;s remarks. Senate Minority Whip John Thune complained personally to Schumer on the floor, while Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah) complained to reporters. 
Manchin told Schumer the speech was “f***ing stupid,” according to four sources. Then Manchin complained to reporters too. The incident doesn’t really signify anything, except to show how tense everyone is in the Senate these days. And it’s only going to get worse.</blockquote>
Manchin later said, “I just think that basically what we got to do is find the pathway forward and make sure that we de-weaponize; we have to de-weaponize. You can’t be playing politics; none of us can, on both sides, and both sides have been very guilty of this. The frustration was built up.”
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FCC Chairman Pai Testifies Before Senate Appropriations Subcommittee On Financial Services

Report: Manchin Tells Colleagues He’ll Leave Dems If They Stonewall Reducing Social Spending Bill. Manchin Denies.

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A Florida judge, deeming that it was inappropriate for him to be determining the level of dosage of Ivermectin for a critically ill woman, rejected for the second time in three days a petition from the woman’s husband requesting that the Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center administer Ivermectin.
Palm Beach County Circuit Judge James Nutt requested that Ryan Drock and the hospital try to resolve the dispute themselves, arguing, “The parties are directed to confer and, if possible, agree how this matter can expeditiously proceed to final resolution,” <a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/10/19/covid-ivermectin-palm-beach-gardens-hospital-judge-rejects-request/8522792002/">The Palm Beach Post</a> reported, adding, “If the correct legal papers are ‘squared away,’ Nutt said he would be willing to hold a hearing to explore why Drock, who is in the intensive-care unit tethered to oxygen, might benefit from ivermectin.”
According to the FDA, current data does not show Ivermectin to be effective against COVID-19.
<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-shuts-down-husband-who-demanded-hospital-give-ivermectin-to-covid-infected-wife">The Daily Beast</a> reported:
<blockquote>Though Nutt suggested he would consider a request for a temporary injunction “given the gravity and urgency of the case,” he hinted that it could also be unsuccessful in court. “It is not a right to substitute one’s judgment as to which treatments must [be] made available by others,” said the judge. “There is no right, constitutional or otherwise, of a patient to substitute one’s judgment for a medical professional.”</blockquote>
Nutt said at the hearing last Friday, “So every drug combination cocktail or procedure that is debated as to its efficacy … the hospital is going to be taken to court? It’s problematic where this is going.”
Drock’s attorney Jake Huxtable had said, “This woman is sitting on her deathbed. She flatlined a couple of days ago and they revived her. But the hospital is out of options.”
“Huxtable tried to persuade Nutt to hold the hospital to its previous promise to administer the drug. While an agreement was hashed out, Huxtable said it fell apart when a dispute arose over the dosage Drock would receive,” The Palm Beach Post <a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/10/15/covid-patient-wants-ivermectin-treatment-judge-wary-forcing-hospital/8470299002/">reported</a> on Friday.
Last month, Circuit Judge Bruce Anderson ordered a Jacksonville hospital to administer Ivermectin to a patient, saying that not using it could cause “irreparable harm” to the patient after the patient’s husband requested it, The Palm Beach Post noted.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/report-man-dies-from-covid-19-after-hospital-rejects-court-order-for-ivermectin/">reported</a> on October 6:
<blockquote>A 75-year-old New York man died last weekend after a hospital refused to give him the drug Ivermectin in a last-ditch effort to save his life, despite an order from a judge, an exclusive report from News10NBC&#8217;s <a href="https://www.whec.com/coronavirus/news10nbc-investigates-families-suing-local-hospitals-to-administer-ivermectin-to-dying-covid-patients/6261160/">Jennifer Lewke</a> revealed.
Although Jeremy L. Carter was vaccinated against COVID-19, he still caught the virus at the end of August, Lewke detailed. He became sick enough to be hospitalized at Rochester General Hospital and continued to deteriorate to the point where he was placed on a ventilator.
After consulting with Carter&#8217;s primary care doctor, Carter and his daughter Jill Alvarado wanted to try Ivermectin. Although the drug is not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat COVID-19, and the FDA has explicitly warned against using it, some doctors have prescribed Ivermectin for COVID-19 patients.
However, the hospital refused to administer the drug to Carter, even though the family said they would gladly sign away any right to file a malpractice lawsuit.</blockquote>
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On Monday, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot accused members of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) of trying to “induce an insurrection” for protesting the vaccine mandate that went into effect last Friday.
“The city&#8217;s vaccine mandate will place officers who do not submit proof of vaccination by the deadline on a ‘no pay’ status. The police union is preparing a lawsuit against the city of Chicago,” <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/chicago-police-union-chief-calls-officers-ignore-vaccine-mandate">The Washington Examiner</a> reported on October 13.
Last week, Chicago FOP President John Catanzara issued a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWPl--cAG7I&amp;t=7s">video</a> in which he stated, “Do not fill out the portal information. … I’ve made my status very clear as far as the vaccine, but I do not believe the city has the authority to mandate that to anybody — let alone that information about your medical history.” He continued, “I can guarantee you that no-pay status will not last more than 30 days. There’s no way they’re going to be able to sustain a police department workforce at 50% capacity or less for more than seven days without something budging.”
A reporter asked Lightfoot on Monday, “The big question is why legal action, but can I also put it this way, there is a different tone from CPS [Chicago Public Schools], from Pedro Martinez; he was asked what&#8217;s going to happen to those who don&#8217;t have their vaccines, and he said the other day, ‘We&#8217;re going to work with them. We&#8217;re going to talk to them. We&#8217;re going to make sure, try to understand what&#8217;s going on.’ So why a different tone for CPS than the police?”
“Well, I don&#8217;t think there is a different tone for one versus the other,” Lightfoot answered. “CEO Martinez has indicated that, and again, in agreement with the union, so that is one circumstantial difference, that every adult in the system has to be vaccinated. And that agreement was reached months ago and they&#8217;ve been working very hard to execute on that agreement reached with all the collective bargaining agencies that employ folks at CPS. So it&#8217;s a very different set of circumstances and I think he believes it&#8217;s going to be very small group that remains either unvaccinated or not signing up. And so he understands though that accountability is important, as do we.”
“You asked the question of why the lawsuit,” she continued. “Because we believe that the FOP leadership is trying to foment an illegal work stoppage, a strike. Pure and simple. We&#8217;ve laid that out in the materials. And we&#8217;re not having that. The contract is clear and it&#8217;s been known for a long time, the police unions are not authorized to strike. It&#8217;s in their collective bargaining agreement. It&#8217;s a matter of state law.”
“What we&#8217;ve seen from the Fraternal Order Police, and particularly the leadership, is a lot of misinformation, a lot of half-truths, and frankly flat-out lies, in order to induce an insurrection,” she charged. “And we&#8217;re not having that. So we want to make it very, very clear that the law&#8217;s on our side. We feel very confident about it and what he said even after, what I heard that he said even after the lawsuit was filed and we notified them, is urging members of the department to ignore their chain of command.”
“And let me be very clear about this: John Catanzara has destroyed his police career,” she threatened. “Destroyed it. He&#8217;s not fit and he&#8217;s never going to go back to the department in any kind of active position. I don&#8217;t want him to lead these young officers astray and have them destroy their careers like he&#8217;s destroyed his. If you ignore a directive of your supervisor or worse, a direct order that&#8217;s lawfully given, you&#8217;re going to destroy your career. That is going to follow you forever. Over what? Going to a website. Clicking yes or no. And if no, saying that you&#8217;re going to sign up for testing? Really? That&#8217;s worth it? I don&#8217;t think it is.”
“And I don&#8217;t think people are going to follow him over that cliff,” she predicted, adding:
<blockquote>But we&#8217;re going to make sure that he and the leadership of the FOP get a very clear message: we are not allowing them to jeopardize the public safety of our city, our residents, by making it seem as if he is in charge of the Chicago Police Department and he alone can determine staffing and whether or not officers come to work. The other thing that has to be clear: Officers swear an oath to abide by the U.S. Constitution, the state constitution and the laws of this city. That is a sacred oath. That separates them from civilian employees everywhere. It&#8217;s a sacred oath and we expect them to abide by it.
We can&#8217;t expect them and residents that hold them with any degree of legitimacy if those who are sworn to uphold the law, act as if they&#8217;re above the law. We&#8217;re not going to tolerate that. That&#8217;s not acceptable and I think what we&#8217;re going to see is that a lot of officers are going to abide by the mandate and fill out their information. Very simple, straight forward, on the portal.</blockquote>
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&mdash; Forbes (@Forbes) <a href="https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1450172020268965896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
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A Connecticut high school teacher who taught social studies and coached varsity golf was arrested on Monday on child pornography and voyeurism charges, accused of taking photos of children including up-skirt and buttocks shots of students in his class, according to police. An investigation is ongoing.
Christian Stevenson, 52, taught at Rockville High School in Vernon for 22 years and was reportedly linked to 48 images of young girls prepubescent and pubescent girls nude or partially nude, as <a href="https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-vernon-rockville-high-school-teacher-arrested-child-porn-students-20211018-enilwp42jvblxamy5aja5odq2y-story.html">the Hartford Courant reported</a>. “Some pictures showed girls in suggestive poses, while others showed a girl being made to perform a sexual act. Nine images qualified as child pornography under Connecticut state statutes,” the outlet reported.
“The investigation began after police received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that images of suspected child pornography were being uploaded through Yahoo! Inc. email accounts,” <a href="https://www.wfsb.com/news/longtime-vernon-teacher-coach-arrested-for-taking-voyeuristic-photos-of-students/article_3d18b408-302a-11ec-ba65-830ab6203d8e.html">WFSB</a> reported.
In September, police discovered hundreds of images from Stevenson from what looked like the inside of Rockville High School. “Cops recognized two students, ages 15 and 17, in the photos, which focused on young female students’ backsides, breasts or genitals. One image showed an upskirt shot of a teen student in his social studies class, cops said in one warrant,” the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/10/19/connecticut-teacher-took-upskirt-photos-of-student/">New York Post</a> noted.
According to a warrant, “The focus of the photographs were the buttocks, chest, or vaginal areas of young female students. None of the students appeared to have any idea they were being photographed.”
The Courant reported that the girl who was 15 years old at the time of the photos was “extremely distraught” when she was interviewed by police, saying she was devastated by the revelation because of her great respect for Stevenson. The girl who was 17 at the time said she “still owned the shorts she was wearing in the photographs and now felt the need to burn them.”
The warrants stated, according to WFSB:
<blockquote>None of the students appeared to have any idea they were being photographed or recorded. Some of the photographs/recordings appeared to have been taken while Stevenson was sitting at a desk, others while walking behind students in a hallway. I observed images of students at school sporting events that appeared to have been taken covertly.
 All of the images depicted young girls, several of them clearly prepubescent, in sexually suggestive poses and in revealing clothing, partially nude, or completely nude. There were several images of what appeared to be the same girl who appears to be about 12.</blockquote>
The superintendent of schools, Joseph Macary, said Stevenson was immediately placed on administrative leave upon officials learning of the investigation on Sept. 15 and that he resigned the same day, The Courant noted.
Police charged him with &#8220;importing child pornography, second-degree illegal possession of child pornography, eight counts of voyeurism, nine counts of disorderly conduct, four counts of voyeurism with a child under 16 years of age, and four counts of risk of injury to a minor,” WFSB concluded.
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After Meghan McCain, former co-host of ABC’s “The View,” discussed the hostile environment of the show that she experienced before she ultimately left and Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean sympathized with her, actor Billy Baldwin mocked Dean, tweeting, “Now do Fox News.” That prompted Dean to punch back twice as hard at Baldwin as she fired, “Awww are you still angry about your buddy @andrewcuomo having to leave? Poor thing.”
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Now do Fox News… <a href="https://t.co/dC9VMzgxwS">https://t.co/dC9VMzgxwS</a>
&mdash; Billy Baldwin (@BillyBaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillyBaldwin/status/1450476557995167744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Awww are you still angry about your buddy <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewcuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@andrewcuomo</a> having to leave? Poor thing. <a href="https://t.co/ECvc1LjGeL">https://t.co/ECvc1LjGeL</a>
&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1450477424240578562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In May 2021, Baldwin tweeted, “I have known the entire Cuomo family since the 1980s. I have tremendous respect &amp; admiration for every single one of them. Don’t you think, after 40 years as a New York public servant, he deserves and has earned the right to an investigation before everybody rushes to judgment?”
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I have known the entire Cuomo family since the 1980s. I have tremendous respect &amp; admiration for every single one of them.
Don’t you think, after 40 years as a New York public servant, he deserves and has earned the right to an investigation before everybody rushes to judgment?
&mdash; Billy Baldwin (@BillyBaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillyBaldwin/status/1370806317745639427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Dean sympathized with McCain after McCain’s interview with Ramin Setoodeh of Variety, writing, “I saw @meghan McCain go through this in real time. It made me sick and angry to see the torture she went through on a daily basis. There’s no question @TheView was a toxic work environment that made it impossible for Meghan to thrive.”
“They should balance the show with other opinions,” Dean continued. “And treat each other with respect. Until then, the token ‘conservative’ woman will be a punching bag until she leaves or gets fired. I used to love @theView. Now I can’t watch one single minute of it.”
“And one more thing. I am so proud of @Meghan McCain. She has an important voice in this crazy time we’re living in. A kind friend, wonderful daughter, wife, sister and mom. She has been there for me in some dark moments and I’m lucky to have her in my life,” Dean concluded.
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And one more thing. I am so proud of <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MeghanMcCain</a>. She has an important voice in this crazy time we’re living in. A kind friend, wonderful daughter, wife, sister and mom. She has been there for me is some dark moments and I’m lucky to have her in my life. ♥️
&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1450468516642099216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/meghan-mccain-the-view-exit-joy-behar-whoopi-goldberg-1235092148/">Variety</a> reported that on her second day back after maternity leave, having given birth to her daughter Liberty in September 2020, McCain was suffering from postpartum anxiety, frightened that someone would kidnap her or hurt her daughter, and was “terrified about being on TV again.” Variety continued, “During a political debate that day, McCain made a joke about how Joy Behar, the show’s resident liberal, must have missed her when she was gone. Behar scowled at her. ‘I did not miss you,’ Behar said. ‘Zero!’”
In her upcoming <a href="https://www.audible.com/badrepublican">audio memoir</a>, “Bad Republican,” McCain <a href="applewebdata://A703B604-CA79-446B-AC4E-9E232F2602E4/v">states</a> of Behar’s actions after McCain came back after maternity leave, “Joy seemed to smell that vulnerability like a shark smells blood in the water, and she took after it.”
McCain left the show in August of 2021.
She told Variety:
<blockquote>People were not comfortable around me. I was there less than a month when the first article came out about me, about what a disappointment I was and my nickname backstage was “Elsa the ice princess” [from “Frozen”]. My dad was dying of glioblastoma. I got permission from the network to take every other Friday off to go home to Arizona and help him get treatment. If I was cold, with this giant show with a group of strangers, I was trying to do well. 
There were never bad stories leaked about anyone else, and there was certainly bad behavior that could have leaked. Do you think all those women are peaches and cream in the morning? Are you f***ing kidding me? But it was always like, “Megan is …” I thought it was unfair.</blockquote>
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On Monday, for the third straight time, a men&#8217;s junior A hockey team defeated Canada&#8217;s women&#8217;s hockey team, which is preparing for the Olympics.
The latest defeat for Canada&#8217;s women&#8217;s hockey team came at the hands of the Drumheller Dragons, who shut out the women’s team 8-0.
“Adam Raesler scored a hat trick for the Alberta Junior Hockey League side, while Luke Fennig added a pair of goals. Ty Daneault, Grayson Dietrich and Ty Whitford all scored singles for the men&#8217;s junior A club,” <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/canadian-women-hockey-team-lose-3rd-straight-game-against-men-junior-a-team-1.6216140">CBC</a> reported. “Canada&#8217;s Kristen Campbell stopped 19 of 22 shots in two periods of work and Emerance Maschmeyer six saves in relief. Eric Ward saved all five shots he faced in 29 minutes of play for the Dragons and Garrett Fuller finished out the game, making six stops.”
It is not the first time that star female athletes have lost to lower ranked men.
In 2017, legendary tennis champion John McEnroe was pilloried after suggesting that if Serena Willams, whom he acknowledged was the “best female player ever,” “played the men’s circuit she’d be like 700 in the world.”
In an interview with Lulu Garcia-Navarro the exchange went like this:
<blockquote>Lulu Garcia-Navarro: We’re talking about male players but there is of course wonderful female players. Let’s talk about Serena Williams. You say she is the best female player in the world in the book.
McEnroe: Best female player ever — no question.
Garcia-Navarro: Some wouldn’t qualify it, some would say she’s the best player in the world. Why qualify it?
McEnroe: Oh! Uh, she’s not, you mean, the best player in the world, period?
Garcia-Navarro: Yeah, the best tennis player in the world. You know, why say female player?
McEnroe: Well because if she was in, if she played the men’s circuit she’d be like 700 in the world.
Garcia-Navarro: You think so?
McEnroe: Yeah. That doesn’t mean I don’t think Serena is an incredible player. I do, but the reality of what would happen would be I think something that perhaps it’d be a little higher, perhaps it’d be a little lower. And on a given day, Serena could beat some players. I believe because she’s so incredibly strong mentally that she could overcome some situations where players would choke ’cause she’s been in it so many times, so many situations at Wimbledon, The U.S. Open, etc. But if she had to just play the circuit — the men’s circuit — that would be an entirely different story.</blockquote>
Amid the storm of criticism of McEnroe, GQ <a href="https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/john-mcenroe-serena-williams">reported</a>, “Serena duly Tweeted a response, asking McEnroe to ‘please please keep me out of your statements that are not factually based’ and ‘Respect me and my privacy.’”
USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/tennis/aus/2017/01/21/serena-williams-nicole-gibbs-australian-open/96876832/">recalled</a> in 2017 what happened when Serena Williams and her sister Venus boasted as teens in 1998 to the men’s ATP office they could defeat any tour player ranked around the top 200.
<blockquote>It just so happened that Karsten Braasch of Germany, once a top-40 player, but at the time ranked 203rd, was in ear shot. He thought it would be fun so stepped up to say he’d be happy to take them on.
The date was set and the day arrived. Braasch played a warmup round of golf in the morning, then came to Melbourne Park. The threesome went out to a back court where each sister would have a one-set shot at Braasch. Word had spread around the grounds that the event was taking place, which caused tournament officials to restrict admittance to the area to only those with badges.
Braasch would smoke cigarettes and sip beer during the changeovers, and to be honest no longer looked the part of a fit professional athlete. It made no matter. Braasch led 5-0 over Serena before winning the set 6-1, and then posted a 6-2 set victory over Venus.</blockquote>
A previous version of this article misspelled the name of the journalist. She is Lulu Garcia-Navarro, not Garica-Navarro. 
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Making a surprise public appearance after her husband, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis, announced she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis stated: “I think there’s a lot that we can be upset about, that we can be sad about. The direction of our country; the future of our nation, our families, our communities, our safety, our children, their education, their futures, our health, and our well-being. And I’ll tell you one thing that’s for sure: I’m sure as hell not giving up.”
Appearing at the Hernando County Republican Party Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner on Saturday, Governor DeSantis stood at the lectern, where he told the crowd, “Probably the most important person who has stood by me is our wonderful First Lady.”
As that triggered a standing ovation, DeSantis continued, “I just want to thank you for all the thoughts and prayers. I trust in the Lord. I know how tough she is. She’s doing very, very well; in fact,  she’s doing so well that she wanted to come here tonight and say hello to you. And so, here she is.”
That triggered another emotional standing ovation as Casey DeSantis took the microphone from her husband and joked, “Well, I hear when you get a standing ovation before you even walk in the door you should probably just leave, right,” eliciting laughter.
“But I just want to say God bless you and thank you. And thank you for the pins. And thank you for, what you’ve done, gosh it means a whole lot.”
“I don’t want to start tearing up because I didn’t put on water-proof mascara,” she quipped. “I didn’t prepare myself properly. But you know, I’ve done a lot of thinking, obviously, as of recent. I think there’s a lot that we can be upset about, that we can be sad about. The direction of our country; the future of our nation, our families, our communities, our safety, our children, their education, their futures, our health, and our well-being.”
“And I’ll tell you one thing that’s for sure,” she asserted as she issued a statement not only about her health but the nation as a whole, “I’m sure as hell not giving up.”
That triggered another ovation as she galvanized the crowd: “When you know in your heart what is right, never, ever, ever give up, the fight. Ever.”
“And to steal some words — and I do this from a time or two, cause I steal some of his best lines, and I can do that, because I went before him — but to steal some lines from the strongest, most courageous person I have ever met in my life, who is my husband,  to steal some lines from him: I have only begun to fight,” she added.
In May, at the Republican Committee of Allegheny County&#8217;s annual Lincoln Day Dinner, Ron DeSantis <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/20/politics/ron-desantis-pittsburgh/index.html">asserted</a>, “I can tell you this: in the state of Florida, with me as governor, I have only begun to fight.”
DeSantis was quoting a version of the immortal (possibly apocryphal) line from Revolutionary War Captain John Paul Jones, who replied to a demand for surrender by stating, “I have not yet begun to fight.”
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I am so proud of Casey for her strength and courage as she stares down breast cancer. What an inspirational message! <a href="https://t.co/dTzL4iZ62k">pic.twitter.com/dTzL4iZ62k</a>
&mdash; Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantisFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantisFL/status/1450097460781756417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
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