Issues & Insights
Man reading newspaper while floating on the Dead Sea. Source: Wikimedia Commons

What We’re Reading Today: COVID ‘Blessing,’ Veep Candidates Joust, Russia Scandal Lives On . . . And More

Some headlines that caught our eye.

Politics And COVID-19

Donald Trump: Catching COVID-19 a ‘Blessing in Disguise’ Because of Regeneron Drug — Breitbart

Biden: Maybe We Should Cancel Next Debate If Trump’s Still Contagious — HotAir

Pelosi Open to Aid for Airlines but Resists Stimulus-Checks Bill — Newsmax

McConnell: Pelosi ‘Never Made a Reasonable Offer’; ‘They Didn’t Want to Get a Deal This Soon’ — CNSNews

Biden Surrogate Jane Fonda Calls COVID ‘God’s Gift to the Left’ — Washington Free Beacon

Vice Presidential Debates Loom Large

VP Debate Opens on COVID, Gets Heated on Economy — Newsmax

Harris, Pence clash on taxes, Green New Deal, COVID-19, China and packing the Supreme Court — Just The News

VP Debate Verdict: Kamala Harris showed there’s still no there, there — Legal Insurrection, Via Instapundit

Deep-State Russia Scandal Widens

Intel Chief Sends 1,000 Pages Of Documents To Justice Department For Durham Probe — Daily Caller

Justice Department acknowledges ‘inadvertently’ altering Flynn document with sticky note — Politico

Newly released documents give a clearer picture about the Russia hoax — American Thinker

Flynn Defense Team Moves To Disqualify And Remove Judge Sullivan From Trial For Anti-Flynn Prejudice, Unethical Behavior — The Federalist

Barrett Supreme Court Nomination

Media Meltdown Over Judge Barrett Hits Peak Silly — PJ Media

Poll: Democrats See Double-Digit Increase in Support for Confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court — Breitbart

Census Forever?

Appellate judges let 2020 census continue through October — AP, Via Federal News Network

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow it to halt census count — The Hill

Trump Officials Ask Supreme Court To Block Order That Extends Census Counting — NPR

I & I Editorial Board

The Issues and Insights Editorial Board has decades of experience in journalism, commentary and public policy.

About Issues & Insights

Issues & Insights is run by seasoned journalists who were behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning IBD Editorials page (before it was summarily shut down). Our goal then and now is to bring our decades of combined journalism experience to help readers understand the top issues of the day. I&I is a completely independent operation, beholden to none, but committed to providing cogent, rational, data-driven, fact-based commentary that the nation so desperately needs. 

Discover more from Issues & Insights

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading