Plus: Blame Government, Not COVID-19, for Supply Chain Collapse
October 18 2021
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden wants to force more Americans to get a COVID-19 vaccination. On the podcast, our Rob Bluey talks with a medical doctor whose stand against his state’s vaccine mandate got him shut down. Something is wrong with journalism when Katie Couric does damage control for the left’s favorite Supreme Court justice, Jarrett Stepman writes. Plus: Democrats purge references to women in their social spending bill, and LinkedIn decides its platform won’t work in China, given the communist nation’s demands on tech companies. On this date in 1972, the landmark Clean Water Act becomes law, creating strict regulations on pollution and quality controls aimed at conserving America’s waters.
Dr. Stephen Skoly, a surgeon in Rhode Island, doesn’t want to get the vaccine because of medical concerns related to his own medical history, and because he already had COVID-19.
Nearly 20% of beverage and bakery products are out of stock nationwide, while Costco and Sam’s Club stores are reimposing purchase limits on some goods.
Couric made the ridiculous excuse that Ginsburg, a Supreme Court justice who bore the responsibility of making decisions on the nation’s most important legal cases, didn’t understand the question.
White House chief of staff Ron Klain recently endorsed the idea that the inflation and supply-chain struggles Americans face are "high class problems."
