Hey, everyone …
Yesterday was a “zero dollar day” for our year-end fundraiser. We’re stuck (as of 4:30am Eastern time on Wednesday, November 6) at $1,356.50 … and we need to reach $2,675.50 to wrap this thing up (once we do, supporter GL will “match funds” to get us to our goal of $5,531). Help us out at:
https://news.rationalreview.com/support-rrnd
Advance warning: My wife has a scheduled surgery tomorrow. We hope and expect that it will go well, but even assuming it does there MAY be disruptions in our publication times, amount of content, etc., if for no other reason than that we won’t even know when to arrive at the hospital until this evening. Could be oh-dark-thirty, could be late afternoon. Please keep her in your thoughts, and I’ll do my best to not make you notice any difference.
That URL again:
https://news.rationalreview.com/support-rrnd
Have a great day!
Yours in liberty,
Tom Knapp
Publisher
Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily
Source: Commentary
by Seth Mandel
“‘I see dead people.’ One of the most famous lines from any Bruce Willis film — and certainly the single best-known line in M. Night Shyamalan’s catalogue — was also a stroke of true genius. The Sixth Sense tells you the big twist up front but bets, correctly, that you won’t be paying close enough attention to realize it. Willis’s character is a specter, a figment the whole time, no matter how real he seems. Last night was the Sixth Sense Election. We were told, up front and in no uncertain terms, that this was the ‘vibes election.’ We were not misled — we misled ourselves.” (11/06/24)
https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/the-sixth-sense-election/
Source: New York Post
“CNN anchor Jake Tapper is going viral for his stunned reaction early Wednesday when told that Vice President Kamala Harris had failed to outperform President Biden’s 2020 results in a single state. Tapper asked CNN chief national correspondent John King to pull up a graphic showing in which states Harris had gotten at least 3% more votes than Biden had in the last election — just to be presented with a gray map reflecting her failure even in that. ‘Holy smokes!’ Tapper gasped. ‘Literally nothing?’ ‘Literally nothing,’ King confirmed. The slide, which would have lit up states where Harris outperformed Biden by 3% or more, was instead completely gray. ‘Literally not one county?’ Tapper asked again, still sounding shocked in the footage, which was viewed more than 5 million times in just one clip shared on X.” (11/06/24)
https://nypost.com/2024/11/06/us-news/jake-tapper-stunned-as-harris-fails-to-outperform-biden/
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“I’ve been right, wrong, and indifferent about the U.S. election, but I’m glad it’s over. Now, via a mix of top-down and bottom-up measures, we must continue pursuing liberation and decentralization.” (11/06/24)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/reflections-in-the-interregnum
Source: CounterPunch
by Jeffrey St. Clair
“Kamala Harris proved too cowardly even to address her supporters Tuesday night, as her loss to Trump became more and more inevitable. But what could she really say? She couldn’t honestly say she’d run a vigorous campaign that championed the poor, the downtrodden, and the voiceless or that she’d fought for peace, and human dignity, and to fix an unraveling climate. I’d be really interested to hear her say what she thought her campaign was all about, but even Harris probably couldn’t have pinpointed the purpose or the meaning of her doomed run …” (11/06/24)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/06/chronicle-of-a-defeat-foretold/
Source: Town Hall
by Tim Graham
“The 2024 presidential campaign is ending pretty much where it began: loathing the never-ending presence of Donald Trump. On the day before the election, The New York Times front page displayed a gaudy editorial (badly disguised as ‘News Analysis’) under the title ‘Torrent of Lies Redefines Political Norms.’ Doesn’t that sound like a hard-charging rerun of 2016? Nothing ever seems to change from the paper that gaudily proclaimed under Trump that ‘The Truth Is More Important Now Than Ever.’ You can point and laugh, since The New York Times refused to admit that Hunter Biden’s laptop full of corruption details was authentic until 2022, and then it acknowledged reality in a story on page A-20, in paragraph 23. It was buried, almost like an unmarked grave.” (11/06/24)
https://townhall.com/columnists/timgraham/2024/11/06/the-media-are-egotistical-exaggerators-and-liars-n2647313
Source: The Tennessean
“Nashville’s ‘Choose How You Move’ $3.1 billion transit plan is moving forward. Voters on Tuesday gave the overwhelming green light for a major overhaul of the city’s bus systems, sidewalks and traffic signals with 66% of the city voting to approve the plan. The approval means Davidson County’s sales tax will increase by half a cent, which will go directly to funding the transit plan. The increase will go into effect Feb. 1 and put Davidson County in line with surrounding countries like Williamson, Wilson, Rutherford, Dickson and Maury, which all have a combined 9.75% sales tax. Passage marks a major win for Mayor Freddie O’Connell, who has made the referendum a hallmark of his administration since he took the helm last year.” [editor’s note: Even some of my “progressive” local friends saw through this debacle, which raises the cost of groceries and clothing for everyone, to produce a long term screwup of the city – SAT] (11/06/24)
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/05/nashville-transit-referendum-election-results/75918047007/
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“A long-delayed conviction illustrates the difficulty of holding cops accountable for abusing their powers.” (11/06/24)
https://reason.com/2024/11/06/nearly-five-years-after-breonna-taylors-death-justice-remains-elusive/
Source: Washington Post
“Ukrainian troops have clashed with North Korean forces for the first time, senior Ukrainian officials said — a development that would open a ‘new page of instability in the world,’ President Volodymyr Zelensky said. … A Ukrainian official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, confirmed Wednesday there had been ‘small-scale clashes’ between Ukrainian and North Korean soldiers, but he did not provide further details. Biden administration officials said on Thursday that Russia had deployed some 8,000 North Korean troops in the Kursk region, a Russian border area where Ukrainian forces seized territory in a surprise attack over the summer.” (11/06/24)
https://archive.is/GWtTo
Source: Antiwar.com
“Netanyahu Fires Defense Minister Gallant, US Warns Iraq Not to Allow Attack on Israel, and More.” (11/06/24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43u6eTfkDic
Source: Law & Liberty
by Angel Eduardo
“Why do we have a First Amendment? This isn’t a facetious question. In fact, it gets at the core of so many arguments surrounding originalist approaches to First Amendment jurisprudence, and why arguments that rigidly appeal to the text and history are often cherry-picked or incomplete. In most cases it would be more productive to ask ourselves, ‘Why did Madison and his compatriots write ‘Congress shall make no law …’ to begin with?’ The First Amendment was designed to preserve our individual expressive freedoms, to ensure that American citizens can engage in the freest possible discussion and debate, and to prevent our newfound republic from descending into tyranny.” (11/06/24)
https://lawliberty.org/forum/nyt-v-sullivan-is-about-what-we-should-prevent-not-what-we-should-promote/
