Saturday, September 17, 2022

News Roundup and Comment 09.16.22

Synopsis: With enough material for two to three programs, Jim Schneider shared what time allowed. Here are some highlights:

Yesterday word came forth that the Senate is postponing the vote on the Respect for Marriage Act (HR8404).

Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney suggested that he might vote for an amended version of the Respect for Marriage Act if it contained “carve-outs” for religious liberty.

More than 400 prominent Republicans have signed on to a letter in support of the Respect for Marriage Act.

Former President Trump alleged via post on Truth Social that the FBI was paying people to steal the 2020 presidential election.

Tuesday evening, “Pillow Guy” Mike Lindell revealed that he was the victim of a surprise subpoena served by the FBI at a Hardees Restaurant in Mankato, Minnesota.

Facebook Chief Mark Zuckerberg has now been caught spying on private messages of those who use the social media platform and reporting them to the FBI.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has warned that every American should be terrified by the FBI’s recent confrontation with an innocent woman in which agents claimed an anonymous tipster told them she had been at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Florida-based U.S District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday appointed a senior Brooklyn federal judge to serve as special master to independently review documents that the FBI seized from former President Trump’s estate.

A senior World Economic Forum official accused Canadian politicians of spreading disinformation apparently for citing founder Klaus Schwab’s boast that the globalist organization had penetrated the nation’s cabinet.

Last Saturday, Vice-President Kamala Harris said she “can’t wait” to cast her vote to end the archaic Senate filibuster in order to advance measures that protect abortion at the federal level and implement voting reform legislation.

VP Kamala Harris was on Sunday’s Meet the Press. She told host Chuck Todd that the U.S. border is secure and pointed fingers at the Trump administration for the currently broken immigration system.

Two migrant buses sent by Governor Greg Abbott and carrying between 75 and 100 people arrived near the residence of VP Kamala Harris at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, yesterday morning.

Martha’s Vineyard called out about 125 National Guard members in response to 50 illegal aliens that were bused in, calling it a humanitarian crisis.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot shunts illegal immigrants to a suburban area after initially saying they were welcome in her city.

The Biden administration is spending nearly 80 million dollars on a new system to monitor illegal immigrants that prohibits the use of GPS technology, a decision that experts say will make it impossible to locate their whereabouts after they’re released into the U.S. These news items and many more.