Manchin trashes Democratic spending bill: ‘Fiscal insanity’  —  Sen. Joe Manchin, a key centrist Democrat whose approval is required to pass the party's massive social welfare spending package, firmly rejected the proposal on Wednesday, criticizing the $3.5 trillion cost and the vast new entitlements it would provide.

White House gives a wink to progressives as they threaten Biden's infrastructure bill  —  Progressives in the House are revolting.  Inside the White House, they're welcoming it.  —  One by one, liberal lawmakers have announced that they will vote to defeat a bipartisan infrastructure bill …

The Right to Health  —  Immunization mandates aren't new.  One helped win the American Revolution.  —  The United States owes its existence as a nation partly to an immunization mandate.  —  In 1777, smallpox was a big enough problem for the bedraggled American army that George Washington thought it could jeopardize the Revolution.

After its mandate, Tyson Foods reaches a 91 percent vaccination rate.  —  When Tyson Foods announced on Aug. 3 that it would require coronavirus vaccines for all 120,000 of its U.S. employees, it was notable because it included frontline workers at a time when corporate mandates applied primarily to office workers.

Biden announces 14 more nominees to courts  —  President Biden on Thursday announced plans to nominate 10 people to the federal bench and four to serve on local Washington, D.C., courts.  —  It's the eighth round of nominees announced by Biden, who has now named 53 federal judicial nominees.