Cross-Examination

• Student loan forgiveness launches: On Monday, Joe Biden officially launched his federal student loan cancellation program, a program that Republicans have argued he doesn’t have the legal authority to enact. Seeing midterm polling turn against Democrats again, Biden hammered Republicans for refusing to support his unilateral overreach, which will force working Americans to pay off school loan debt for college students who willingly agreed to take on the debt in the first place. “Their outrage is wrong and hypocritical,” Biden bloviated. “I will never apologize for helping middle class Americans.” His hypocritical charge against Republicans had everything to do with the tax cut passed in Donald Trump’s first year. That tax cut helped over 80% of Americans keep more of their hard-earned money, and in turn proved to generate even more revenue for the federal government. Now, the nation is suffering sky-high inflation thanks to Biden’s spending splurge that includes this student loan gambit, which is estimated to cost taxpayers at least $400 billion over the next decade, and likely will cost a lot more.

• What parents need to know about “rainbow” fentanyl: For most kids, Halloween is primarily about dressing up and collecting copious amounts of candy. And for most parents, the worst they have to concern themselves with is enduring the sugar rush that results from their kids consuming their collected wares. Sadly, this year there are nefarious elements that may be hiding within their children’s goodies. Due to the wide-open border, an increasing amount of the highly dangerous drug fentanyl has been flowing into the U.S. It was recently discovered that some of this fentanyl has been packaged to appear like rainbow candies, similar in look to both Nerds or Skittles. Nearly 300,000 of these “rainbow fentanyl” pills were discovered and seized by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in the Bronx. The Heritage Foundation’s Lora Ries advises that parents “need to talk to their kids, as best they can age appropriately, to look out for rainbow-colored candy and two, parents themselves should be checking packaging.” Hopefully, no child accidentally consumes fentanyl-laced candy this season, but parents must remain vigilant.

• Pentagon’s woke diversity chief praises racist book: To be woke does not really mean to be against racism; it means pushing reverse racism. Therefore, it comes as little surprise that the Pentagon’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” chief, Kelisa Wing, has been outed for holding blatantly racist views. Just last month, attention was drawn to Wing’s social media posts from two years ago in which she expressed her resentment for white people and her displeasure with a woman who stated the fact that black people can be racist too — a statement Wing rejected. It has recently been learned that Wing has pushed the anti-white book by race hustler Ta-Nehisi Coates titled Between the World and Me. In the book, Coates describes the 9/11 first responders as “not human to me” and “menaces of nature.” The Pentagon was struck that day by one of the terrorist-controlled planes, killing 184 people. Just up the road from the Pentagon is Arlington National Cemetery, where a 9/11 monument stands with the names of the individuals who died. How in the world a woke ideologue like Wing ever made it into the Pentagon in the first place is shameful, as she is effectively advocating the very anti-American sentiments that motivated those murderous terrorists. Wing would never even be in the Pentagon to push her poisonous anti-American woke ideology if it wasn’t for Biden creating the position of a diversity, equity, and inclusion director to push “equity” instead of readiness.

Headlines

• Candy prices soar 13% to record levels ahead of Halloween season (NY Post)

• The most telling chart on inflation you’ve ever seen (PJ Media)

• Boston University researchers claim to have developed new, more lethal COVID strain in lab (Fox News)

• U.S. could sell oil from emergency reserve this week (Reuters)

• Liberal dark money network quietly launches gun group to create “narrative that guns make us less safe” (Fox News)

• Biden’s border security head takes internal flak for literally sleeping on the job (Free Beacon)

• Raphael Warnock denies his church evicts tenants; three eviction notices were filed last week (Free Beacon)

• Google employees are laughing at you for thinking “Incognito mode” is private (PJ Media)

• Kanye West set to buy Parler after social media ban over anti-Semitic remarks (National Review)

• China’s Xi Jinping stakes out ambitions, with himself at the center (WSJ)

• New reports show India will surpass China as the most populous country by the end of this year (Not the Bee)

• Policy: America’s military strength losing ground to China’s (Daily Signal)

• Humor: Jill Biden to dress up as real doctor for Halloween (Babylon Bee)

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