NBA to Strictly Enforce Mask Rules for Players, Coaches

UCSF team has engineered a tiny antibody capable of neutralizing the coronavirus

It’s Time for a National Pandemic Prediction Agency  (Wired ‘Science’) Gotta keep that panic going….

Olympics: Wear a Face Mask, and No Singing or Chanting

Andrew Cuomo Announces Indoor Dining Can Resume Despite Coronavirus Being Worse Than When He Banned It  Guess he’s feeling the heat.

Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing

San Francisco To Sue Its Own School District Over Lack Of Clear Reopening Plan To Force It To Open Classrooms

‘Capitalism Really Does Work’: Michael Bloomberg Blasts Government Handling Of Pandemic  Which is why he’s a Democrat? That does not compute.

‘I’m Not Making New Law, I’m Eliminating Bad Policy’: President Joe Biden Tries To Justify His Large Number Of Executive Orders

‘Gut Louisiana Like A Fish’: John Kennedy Warns Of Fallout From Biden’s Oil And Gas Orders

China Top Diplomat Warns Biden Not To Cross “Red Line” Of Interests  His master’s voice.

ON POINT: Leveraging Corrupt Media, China Draws a Red Line for Biden Administration

Biden staffs up with China sympathizers

Montana Lawmaker Outlines Troubling Implications of Biden’s Executive Actions

Joe Biden just made his first big mistake as president  At least, according to CNN.

Former CBP Head: Biden Has Decimated Border Protections With “Stroke Of A Pen”  Improper use of ‘decimated’, but nobody cares about that except me.

Biden’s Labor Board Begins Withdrawing Complaints Against Unions  It’s all about dat base….

Biden Education Secretary Pick Says Schools Have Responsibility To Let Boys In Girls Sports If They Are Trans

John Kerry Flew in Private Jet to Receive Award for Climate Activism  Rules are for thee but not for me.

Helpful Psaki Gives Reporters A List Of Questions To Ask Her  Babylon Bee.

John Kerry Accepted Environmental Award In Iceland After Arriving In Private Jet

The Biden Admin Abandons Major Racial Discrimination Lawsuit

‘What Planet Are You From?’ — Rand Paul Slams Biden’s Education Secretary Nominee Over Transgender Athletes

‘Joe Biden On Day One Killed Their Job,’ Wisconsin Congressman Says Of Keystone XL Pipeline Decision

Biden Admin Won’t Release Trump Visitor Logs

Biden appoints anti-Israel, pro-Hamas man to key Middle East post

In Historic First, Janet Yellen Becomes First Female Treasury Secretary To Request Ethics Waiver For Wall Street Speaking Fees

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As expected, the Justice Department, now under the control of Joe Biden, has voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against Yale for discriminating against Whites and Asian Americans on the basis of their race. I wrote about that suit here and here.

The Justice Department’s complaint demonstrates the magnitude of Yale’s race-based disfavoring of Whites and Asians. According to the complaint, which is based on the DOJ’s lengthy investigation of Yale’s undergraduate admissions process, Blacks in the tenth decile (the top one) are admitted to Yale at a rate of 60 percent. By contrast, Whites are admitted at a rate of 20 percent and Asians at a rate of only 14 percent.

Because Yale is a highly selective college, few applicants of any race or ethnicity are admitted from the third decile or below. However, in the fourth decile, Blacks are admitted at a rate of 12 percent — about the same rate at which Asians in the tenth decile (the top one) are admitted. The admission rates for Whites and Asians in the fourth decile are just 2 percent and 2.5 percent, respectively.

In the fifth decile, Blacks are admitted at a rate of 21 percent — about the same rate as Whites in the tenth decile. For Whites and Asians in the fifth decile, the admission rates are just 4 percent and 3.5 percent, respectively.

In other words, Blacks with slightly below average credentials in relation to other applicants stand about the same chance of being admitted to Yale as Whites and Asians whose credentials place them in the top 10 percent of the applicant pool.

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Xerox’s new printer is 9 feet wide, 7 feet tall, and reaches an internal temperature of more than 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s not an inkjet, of course—it’s a 3D printer that can produce bespoke metal components. The Naval Postgraduate School, an grad institution for Naval officers and others, is the first place to put one of these massive Xerox machines into service.

Let’s hope it works better than my printer.

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Elections have consequences.

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Perhaps the Republicans in Congress have decided to quit bringing a knife to a gun fight. That’s encouraging.

Could AOC be next? Stay tuned.

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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin fired hundreds of members of Pentagon policy advisory boards Tuesday, resorting to a blunt method of removing last-minute Trump administration appointees, The Wall Street Journal reported.

How very retro. Welcome to the 19th century.

Would that Trump had done the same when he came in. But we live and learn.

This Legal Hurdle Could Trip Up Biden’s Cancellation of Keystone XL Pipeline

NEW: Reporters Whine (Anonymously) Team Biden Wants To Know Questions In Advance  My, what a surprise.

Forget Myanmar: Here Are 12 Other Countries Biden Should Invade RIGHT NOW  Babylon Bee.

Biden’s Climate Plans are Energizing National Secuity Problems

Biden’s climate change plan and the battle for America’s most threatened workers

SHOCKER: CNN’s Zakaria Corners John Kerry on Biden Killing Jobs

Biden’s Strategic Gift To Russia And The Gulf Regimes

Richard Epstein: Biden’s Unlawful Re-entry into Climate Accord

McConnell Hammers Biden’s DHS Pick Over ‘Unethical’ Political Favors For Democrats

Biden Justice Department Nominee Faces Ethics Minefield From Father’s Corporate Interests

Rep. Andy Biggs to Newsmax TV: Biden Border to Get ‘Overwhelmed’

Republicans Demand Hold on Biden Commerce Pick Over Huawei Concerns

More Americans Have Received At Least One Dose Of COVID-19 Vaccine Than Have Tested Positive For Virus

Top NY Virus Officials Quit As Cuomo Wages “War” With His Own Health Department

Thousands Of Maskless Orthodox Jews Ignore Israeli Lockdown To Attend Funerals 

The Brazil Variant Is Exposing the World’s Vulnerability

UK COVID Cops Arrest Man For Handing Out Free Soup

Fauci: CDC May Recommend Wearing 2 Masks to Fight Virus

Democrats Announce It Is Safe To Reopen Now That Federal Government Has Tested Negative For Trump  Babylon Bee.

Lots of people moved out of New York and California in 2020. Here’s where they went

New COVID-19 Strain Could Be Vaccine-Resistant Due To New Mutation, Study Finds  Head ’em up, move ’em out….

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Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has a press release announcing that she will join the Senate Finance Committee. From the release: “She also announced plans to introduce legislation implementing a wealth tax on fortunes over $50 million. The Finance Committee’s jurisdiction covers taxation and revenue policy, including oversight of the Internal Revenue Service. The senator’s legislation reflects her 2020 campaign proposal to impose a two cent tax on every dollar of individual wealth over $50 million, with an additional surtax on every dollar of wealth over $1 billion.”

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Why would Biden select someone this incompetent for such an important job? Because LeVine and her husband donate generously to Democrats. The LeVines gave more than $400,000 to the Biden campaign and other Democratic causes in 2019 and 2020, according to federal campaign records. In 2017, they were appointed as deputy national finance chairs for the Democratic National Committee.

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Ten Senate Republicans released a $618 billion counterproposal to President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package hours before they met on Monday evening in hopes of finding some common ground, but the two proposals have far more differences than similarities.

The $618 billion package only slightly resembles Biden’s, whose proposal is three times as large and includes bigger stimulus checks for a greater number of people. Despite the differences, the senators expressed willingness to work with Biden, who campaigned on unity and his ability to reach across the aisle.

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz appeared for a 10-minute interview with CBS Minnesota’s Esme Murphy over the weekend. Here if you can withstand it and if you can keep up one can observe Walz’s blizzard of verbiage and question-begging along with the media support that enables it.

If you are not subject to the Walz regime of one-man rule, you may be able to watch this video with the kind of detachment that allows for amusement. If you have followed Walz’s press conferences over the past year, however, you may find it sickening. Joe Isuzu has absolutely nothing on this guy and he was a work of advertising art.

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“Incitement of Insurrection against him as moot, and thus in violation of the Constitution, because the Senate lacks jurisdiction to remove from office a man who does not hold office,” reads the filing.

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Last week, an official from Washington State was nominated by the Biden administration to be “Interim Assistant Secretary of the Employment and Training Administration”, a post in the Labor Department. And just what the hell is that? “Interim” “Assistant”? Someone must have searched long and hard for a suitable slot for the former Head of the Washington Employment Security Department, which handles unemployment claims.

Here in Washington State, Suzi LeVine presided over the loss to the State of $600 Million in Unemployment Fraud, during the Covid-unemployment deluge last year. The Department even today has a 40,000-claim backlog in processing 2020 claims. I wonder how much taxpayer money she will now lose for the rest of the country in her new job?

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For those of you who don’t know, law enforcement can issue various secret warrants that have some kind of gag order attached. You cannot tell anyone for any reason. You cannot even acknowledge that it exists. The workaround is to set up a warrant canary. This is some kind of flag that says “I have not received” a National Security Letter or something with a gag order. Since they cannot force you to lie, you can always remove the canary when you have received one of these legal notices. The absence of the canary informs people that something changed.

If you find this disturbing, welcome to the club.

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A New York bill aimed at confiscating body armor would also force parents to hand over safety products designed for school shootings.

Democrat assemblymember Jonathan G. Jacobson wants to make New York the first state to outlaw bulletproof vests, but his far-reaching legislation would also end up seizing protective backpacks from students and parents. Two bulletproof backpack makers and one local retailer said the bill damages an industry created to protect children from school shootings.

Democrat politicians keep stepping on their base.

What to expect from Biden’s envoy to Iran

SNL’s No Joe Zone

US Calls on Myanmar’s Military to End Coup ‘Immediately’  Oh, yeah, they’ll listen to that.

Devout Catholic? The Media vs. Biden’s Real Record

BARR: Biden’s Executive Actions Will Raise Nanny State To New Heights

Biden’s Big City Elite Agenda Will Harm Poor And Rural People

Some Of Biden’s Top White House Economic Advisers Are Reportedly Pushing Back On His Stimulus Package  He must have gotten some real economists by mistake.

Biden Cancels ‘Major’ Foreign Policy Speech Due to Two Inches of Snow  Pity party….

Biden Threatens Sanctions Against Burma Following Military Coup — Press Secretary Says It’s A ‘Message’ To China, Other Countries Ooooooo, I’ll bet they’re all scared….

‘I Hate To Disappoint Conservative Twitter’: Jen Psaki Continues To ‘Circle Back’ To Unanswered Press Questions

Biden’s Middle East Policy Might Stumble, And Beijing Smells Blood

American Petroleum Institute: Biden Admin ‘Heading In The Wrong Direction’ With Recent Energy Order

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Impeachment fever has struck Kentucky, where grievances over coronavirus restrictions and the outcome of the Breonna Taylor death investigation have spurred petitions to oust both the governor and the attorney general.

It’s a card rarely played in any serious way in the Bluegrass State, though Kentucky has had its share of provocative elected officials. In the two new cases, the effort to impeach was triggered by disagreements over policy or executive decisions at the highest levels of Kentucky government.

Biden’s Latest Move Just Handed the Vaccine Market to These 2 Companies

6 Warning Signs From Biden’s First Week In Office

State Dept Spox: ‘Largest Threat to U.S. National Security are U.S. Cops’

Biden Cabinet Nominee Open to New Taxes to Pay for “Climate Agenda”

Asian-American Activists Blast Biden’s ‘Pandering’ Anti-Racism Order

CBS Silent as Biden Readied COVID Vaccines for Guantanamo Terrorists

Cuomo Blames ‘Federal Guidance’ For Health Department Undercounting Nursing Home Deaths

Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Deceptions

ABC Maintains BLACKOUT of Cuomo COVID Scandal

L.A.’s New COVID Restriction: No TVs Allowed at Restaurants

Dem Billionaire’s Son Hops Vaccine Line in Wisconsin

Fauci Spins His Handy ‘Wheel Of Science’ To See What He Should Recommend Today  Babylon Bee.

CDC Mandates Masks on Planes, Public Transportation  An excellent excuse not to fly and not to take public transportation.

Biden’s COVID-19 Bill Costs More Than Entire 1981 Federal Government

Labor Unions Endorsed Biden — Now Their Members Are Getting Fired Pardon me while I snicker.

Joe Biden To Create ‘Family Reunification Task Force’ In Flurry Of Immigration Orders  He means ‘reunification’ on THIS side of the border, not on THE OTHER side.

Swagger and Panic: Katy Tur Touts ‘Facts and Science’ Reign in Biden’s Climate Push

The Next Hunter? Kamala Harris’s Stepdaughter Cashes in on Biden Presidency

Biden policies already creating job losses, energy costs will skyrocket

Trade Unions That Endorsed Biden Are Mad He Kept His Campaign Promise To Kill Keystone

9 Great New Jobs For Laid-Off Oil And Gas Workers  Babylon Bee.

Why Is Biden Trying to Punish Charter Schools for Their Success?

Texas Governor Orders Agencies To Sue Biden Admin For Climate Actions That “Kill Jobs”

WashPost, GushPost: Matt Viser Reports Biden’s ‘Tweets Read Like Fortune Cookies’

Wife Promises To ‘Circle Back’ To Question About How Much She Spent At Hobby Lobby  Babylon Bee.

Biden Plagiarizes Again After Bloomberg Points Out Virus Plan Is Basically Trump’s

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And whose fault is that? Who keeps them in those camps, and mired in poverty?

Could it be the U.N. High Commission on Refugees, which would be out of a job if there were none?

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The greatest political scandal in American history is going to be swept under the rug. That is the moral I extract from the story that former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to altering a key document supporting one of the government’s FISA renewal applications on the warrant taken out on Carter Page, who must be the cleanest man in the United States.

The Crust take care of their own.

Steve Sailer.

As commenter Reg Caesar points out, “amnesty” is the wrong word, not because it’s too strong but because it’s too weak. An amnesty means you won’t get punished for breaking the law but you still have to obey the law. What Biden is proposing is that not only won’t lawbreakers not be punished, they get to keep on breaking the law, and they get rewarded with citizenship.

Biden Coronavirus Advisor Says Wearing Two Masks ‘May Actually Be Counterproductive’

Silicon Valley Joins Push To Recall Newsom As New Candidates Eye Gubernatorial Bids

ABC, CBS Ignore New York Caught Covering Up Cuomo’s Body Count

Former San Diego Mayor Says There Is Bipartisan Support To Recall Gov. Newsom

‘We Are Being Targeted, Small Businesses Like Mine’: California Small Business Forced To Close Its Doors

Tony Blair: “Inevitable” Global Vaccine Passports Should Be Implemented Now

Vaccine Wars: EU Demands Seizure of Covid Vaccines Made in Britain

Biden Pledged To Seek ‘Consensus.’ Then He Signed 25 Executive Orders In His First Week

6 State Attorneys General Warn Biden Over Potential Presidential Overreach

Surprise: WH Reporters Bring the Heat on Teachers Unions, WH Going Against ‘Science’

‘Deliberate, Intentional And Devastating’: Experts Say Biden’s Week One Climate Actions Already Killing Jobs

‘Watch Yourself’: Biden Reportedly Asked Family To Rein In Business Activity Before Election

Biden’s energy & climate incompetence on full display

Blackburn Accuses Biden EPA Appointee of Breaking Law

Oil Industry Seeks Biofuels Alliance to Combat Biden Agenda

Biden COVID Team Derides Trump Plan While Borrowing Its Playbook

Biden refuses to take questions as executive order criticism grows

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Monsieur John F. Kerry is the Harris-Biden administration’s Climate Ambassador. He is assisted in his diplomatic duties by National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy. Earlier this week they held a press briefing with the psickening Jen Psaki. I have embedded the video below. It is excruciating. The White House transcript can be read without the full effect of Kerry’s otherwise audible hauteur.

The gentleman from Madame Tussauds killed the Keystone Pipeline in the blizzard of executive orders he unleashed on Day One (White House Fact Sheet here). It was executive order 7, by Politico’s count. There is a revolution for the hell of it quality to the thing that reveals the will to power implicit in the climate charade.

Biden Administration Sued For Halting Oil, Gas Leasing On Federal Lands  Saw that comin’.

New Secretary of State Favors Cooperation With China Despite Genocide of Uighurs  After all, what’s a Uigur or two more or less?

Biden Commerce Secretary Nominee Ran The State Ranked Worst For Commerce  Sounds about right.

Biden Energy Nominee Says Some Jobs ‘Might Be Sacrificed’ By Climate Action  Oh, ya think?

As Biden’s Keystone XL order sparks job losses, climate adviser says, ‘We’re not asking for sacrifice’

Biden signs ‘existential’ executive orders on climate and environment

Biden Chief Of Staff Offers Support For Teachers’ Unions Refusing To Reopen Schools

Biden Signs Executive Order To Ban The Term ‘China Virus’

Nets Dismiss Jobs Destroyed By Biden’s ‘Pause’ on New Oil & Gas Drilling

Biden Appoints Anti-Israel BDS Activist to Head NSC Intel

Court Packing, Here We Come?

Biden’s Wrongheaded Push for Expensive & Obsolete Rail Projects

Biden’s Anti-Unity Agenda

Biden Repeals Ban on Taxpayer Funding for International Abortion Providers  After all, he’s a Devout Catholic.

Ted Cruz DRILLS WashPost ‘Fact Checker’ on Lost Keystone Pipeline Jobs

Joe Biden, high priest of the cult of woke

White House Concerned That Latest GDP And Unemployment Figures Show ‘Significant Slowing Of Our Economic Recovery’  Does that surprise you?

Texas Dems Blast Biden’s ‘Devastating’ Energy Policy

While John Kerry Masquerades As Biden’s Climate Crusader, His Family Tools Around In Private Jet  Does this surprise you?

White House Pushes Back After NYT Editorial Board Urges Biden To ‘Ease Up On The Executive Actions’

‘Have we learned nothing?’ California faces backlash for lifting stay-home order (The Guardian) Certainly a backlash from the Covidians.

Most nursing home workers don’t want the vaccine. Here’s what facilities are doing about it.

American Airlines boots passengers for flouting mask rules

Biden’s Progressive Headfake on COVID

Hospital Apologizes For Inviting ‘VIP List’ Of Big Donors To Get Vaccine First

Cuomo Administration Undercounted COVID-19 Deaths In Nursing Homes By 50%, New York AG Says

Censorious YouTube Removes Over 500,000 Videos Discussing COVID-19

New York AG Says At Least 4,000 People Died After Cuomo’s Nursing Home Order

Doctor Tells NBC: Americans Should Consider Wearing Four Face-Masks  NOT the Babylon Bee.

Man Allegedly Buys Two Condos, Luxury Car After Fraudulently Applying For $1.9 Million Worth Of Coronavirus Relief  I’ll bet he feels relieved.

Going To The Dogs? NBA’s Miami Heat Subjects Fans To Virus-Sniffing Canines  Poor dogs….

New HBO Documentary Alleges Chinese Cover-Up of COVID-19

‘Disadvantage Index’ Considered For COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution In Oregon

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After Greene answered an audience question about her experience with cancel culture, the WRCB reporter tried to follow up.

“I’m talking to my constituents. This isn’t a press conference,” Greene responded.

UPDATE: ‘She’s Not A Republican’: Adam Kinzinger Blasts Marjorie Taylor Greene, Questions Party Future  Sorry, Adam, you RINOs don’t get to say who is and who isn’t a Republican.

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After Joe Biden’s inauguration, he ordered everyone on federal lands to wear a mask. That night, he and his family posed for pictures at the Lincoln Memorial — none of them wearing a mask.

California Governor Gavin Newsom told Californians it’s “essential” to avoid “mixing with people outside of your household.” Then he had dinner with lots of people outside his household, without masks.

Rules are for thee but not for me.

Germany Poised To Cut International Air Travel “To Almost Zero” On Virus Variant Fears

Wuhan lab theory in coronavirus outbreak bolstered by declassified U.S. intelligence

NBC Warns Reopening States Kills, Gawks at Restaurants Shutting Down

US States Ease Lockdowns Despite “Mutant” COVID ‘Boogeymen’

Welcome to the Corona Gulag!

CBS Bashes Florida’s DeSantis for Planning Ahead With Vaccine Doses

Nashville Locals Have A Message For People Moving From California And New York

BODYCAM: Officer Threatens To Tase A Man Over Not Wearing A Mask

Bureaucrats Improperly Raided Millions From Public Health Research Fund In Leadup To COVID-19, Inspector General Finds

Worrisome New Coronavirus Mutations Are Emerging. Why Now?  Gotta keep that panic going!

Biden Administration Considering COVID-19 Testing Mandate For Domestic Flights

Inside the Dutch anti-lockdown riots

DOJ Rescinds ‘Zero Tolerance’ Immigration Rule

Commerce Secretary Nominee Remains Open To Funding Biden’s Climate Agenda With Tax Hikes On The Middle Class

Ashley Biden Says Let’s ‘Make America Great’ With Social Media Post

Biden Plans to Cut Urban Crime by Boosting Suburban Crime

Biden Education Nominee Opposes School Reopening Despite CDC Finding In-Person Learning Safe

Migrants Increasing At “Concerning Rate” On Southern Border, Says CBP Agent

Biden State Department Sounds Off On Chinese Technology Abuses, But Refuses To Say If It Will Continue Trump’s Fight Against Chinese Telecoms

Why Biden’s Immigration Policy Will Harm Americans and Migrants Alike

Deep meaning of diversity, equity, & inclusion

Navy Faces Rough Waters Under Biden

Biden’s Energy Nominee Divvied Millions In Taxpayer Funds To Alternative Energy Startups That Went Bankrupt

Energy Prices to Rise Under Biden

Religious Liberty Advocates Fear ‘Tumultuous Days’ Under Biden  Oh, ya think?

Biden Administration Issues National Terrorism Advisory With No End Date — Prompted By Interagency ‘Domestic Violent Extremism’ Assessment  And so it starts.

Biden’s Asia Policy Czar Was An Executive Of Group With Chinese Communist Party Ties: Report

Rep. Andy Biggs: Ending Keystone XL Pipeline Will ‘Endanger Our Opportunity To Be Energy Independent’  As if Democrats give a shit about that.

Biden Admin ‘Reviewing’ Uighur Genocide Designation, U.N. Ambassador Nominee Says  ‘Geez, how can we wiggle out of this one?’

Media May Ignore It, but Biden Presidency Is Already Radical  And YOU get a pony! And YOU get a pony!

Biden Assembling Commission To Study Supreme Court Reform  Prelude to packing….

Superfan Roker Thrilled Biden Dictating Radical Climate Policy By Fia

Rep. Biggs: Biden’s Immigration Rules Attracting Crowds to Border  WELCOME FUTURE DEMOCRAT VOTERS!

Biden’s United Nations Nominee Praised China At CCP-Funded Institute, Report Says

Biden Orders Pentagon To Include Climate Change In New Strategy & War Games

“Your Order Is A Direct Attack”: Utah Tribe Seeks Exemption From Biden Drilling Pause

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The sinister role that teachers’ unions play in our society has come clearly into focus, as our children’s lives have been devastated by needless school closures across the country. These closures–still in effect in most places, despite all scientific evidence that they are both unnecessary and harmful–largely reflect the power of the teachers’ unions. They evidently want to get paid, without ever entering a classroom again.

UPDATE: Unions Move The Goalposts On School Reopenings To The Detriment Of Children

Dr. Anthony Fauci Says Two Masks Are Better Than One Hey, he’s always been right before … oh, wait….

Carlsbad, CA Says No More to Lockdowns. May It Be A National Model

Joseph Moure: The ‘Liberation’ of Dr. Fauci

Everyday activities are more dangerous now that new Covid-19 variants are circulating, expert says (CNN) Gotta keep that panic going!

Fauci says he worried Trump’s disinfectant comment would make people ‘start doing dangerous and foolish things’ (CNN) Push that hoax! Push that hoax!

NYC Badly Misses 1 Million COVID Vaccination Target  My, what a surprise.

Tech Workers, Businesses Flee San Fran for Austin, Miami

Americans Are On the Move

Another Study Shows—Yet Again—That Lockdowns Don’t Work

US Sees Largest Rise In Poverty Rate In 50 Years Amid Pandemic  My, what a surprise.

Hollywood Elites ‘Cutting in Line,’ Offering ‘Bribes’ To Get First Vaccines  What’s the use of power if you can’t abuse it?

‘You Can Reopen Now!’ Governor Newsom Shouts At Row Of Abandoned, Dilapidated Buildings  Babylon Bee.

Variants and variations

Netherlands Headed Toward Civil War Due To Lockdowns, Official Warns

Andrew Cuomo Says ‘Incompetent Government Killed People’ While NY Has Second Highest COVID-19 Death Rate  He was talking about Trump, of course.

Biden’s Eviction of Churchill Bust Signals Weakening Ties With UK  Few can surpass Creepy Joe at re-building the relations with our allies that Trump supposedly trashed.

Biden Far Outpacing Trump on Early Executive Orders, Actions  It’s amazing how they can make his mouth move.

Biden Administration Considering Allocating COVID-19 Funds To Climate Change Programs: Report

Making America California

FNC’s Peter Doocy Presses Biden, Psaki on COVID Hypocrisy, Left-Wing Violence

Rep. Ronny Jackson to Newsmax TV: Biden’s Virus Plan is ‘the Trump Plan’

It’s Trump’s world, and Biden only governs in it

200 Republicans Pledge Support For Hyde Amendment As Biden Takes Aim At Pro-Life Legislation

Schumer Asks Biden To Declare Climate Emergency, Says He ‘Can Do Many, Many Things Under The Emergency Powers’

Laid-off Keystone XL worker says decision to cancel pipeline ‘is going to hurt a lot of people’

Portents of the Biden Regency

Biden Taking Executive Action To Address Racial ‘Equity’ — Two Orders Will Reportedly Undo Major Trump Polices

Biden To Halt Oil, Gas Leasing On Federal Land

‘This Political Theater … Is Scary’: Arizona Sheriff Pushes Back On Biden Border Policies

Biden Education Pick Is Leading Opponent of Return to Classrooms

Man Who Called Half The Country Racists All Year Calls For Unity  Babylon Bee.

Google Reports Sudden Spike In Searches For ‘Can You Take Back Your Vote For President’ Among Biden Voters

Journalists Justify Loudly Cheering On Biden As It’s Needed To Keep Him Awake  Babylon Bee.

Here’s How President Biden’s Executive Orders Could Hurt Workers

Judge Blocks Biden Deportation Freeze Nationwide Following Legal Challenge by Texas  The biter bit.

Sen. Blackburn to Newsmax TV: Biden Bypassing Congress With Exec Orders  Does this come as a surprise?

Reflecting the Authoritarian Climate, Washington Will Remain Militarized Until At Least March

In Stunning Reversal Of Previous Administration, New Biden COVID Plan Features Mask Wearing, Vaccinations, And Travel Bans  Babylon Bee.

30 Years of Research Rebut Biden’s Minimum-Wage Agenda

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National School Choice Week has taken on renewed importance this year, as too many families are approaching the one-year mark of crisis online learning provided by their public school district.

Last March, the coronavirus pandemic shuttered schools nationwide, forcing teachers, parents, and students to transition to virtual classrooms and grapple with the various effects of lockdowns. Ten months later, parents report that 53% of K-12 students are still learning in their virtual classrooms.

Public schools have remained largely closed to in-person instruction.

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The Seattle City Council is about to pass “hazard pay” legislation, mandating an additional $4-per-hour for grocery store workers, lasting “for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic.” The main sponsor of said legislation is, of course, the grocery-store workers union.

Prediction 1: Grocery store workers will lose hours, and/or lose their jobs entirely if their employers are forced to pay them an additional $4-per-hour on top of their already-inflated Seattle-mandated wages.

Prediction 2: Small grocery stores will leave Seattle for the suburbs, given that grocery stores already operate on razor-thin margins.

Prediction 3: The “Covid-19 Pandemic” will never end.

Biden’s Energy Executive Orders Will Have ‘Huge Costs’ on American Families, Economist Says

Biden To Reinstate Trump’s COVID-19 Travel Bans, Will Add South Africa

White House Acknowledges ‘Confusion’ On Vaccine Distribution, Blames Trump Administration  Of course they do.

Top Iranian Official Celebrates Biden’s Rumored Iran Envoy

NBC Touts Pro-Abortion Biden as In-Touch With American Catholics

Biden may force American taxpayers to foot bill for San Francisco homeless hotels

In Another Despicable Act Of Insurrection, Republicans Fail To Celebrate Biden’s Executive Orders  Babylon Bee.

New York Times Boldly Proclaims: ‘Liberal Christianity Ascends With Biden’s Faith’

Executive Order Seesaw on Environmental Rules Inflicts Vertigo on Economy

Jen Psaki Says It Isn’t ‘A Fair Articulation’ To Say Then-Candidate Biden Called Trump Admin’s China Travel Ban ‘Xenophobic’

FARRELL: Biden’s First Week — Will America Have Buyer’s Remorse? ‘Buyer’s’ remorse? For a stolen election?

Biden said to be assembling cyber dream team to sort out US govt computer security  Good luck with that. (Give it to Elon Musk. Then, when it spontaneously explodes, there’ll be someone to blame)

As Thousands Die From COVID on His Watch, Biden Vows to ‘Speed Up’ Efforts to Redesign $20 Bill

The megarich have already recovered from the pandemic. It may take the poor a decade to do so (CNN) Not just the ‘rich’ but the ‘megarich’ – just like it’s never the ‘right’ but always the ‘ultra-right’. But you never hear about the ‘megapoor’ or the ‘ultra-left’.

Chicago Teachers Vote To ‘Strike’ Against In-Person Instruction Over COVID-19 Fears

Merck First US Pharma Giant To Abandon COVID Vaccine Efforts

Moderna Vaccine Not Effective Against “Mutant” South African COVID Strain, But Works With UK Variant

REPORT: Student Suicides Double In Locked Down Nevada County. Officials Now Surveil Students’ Devices 24/7

Stephanopoulos, Fauci Lament ‘Pressure’ of Working With Trump Vs. ‘Refreshing’ Science-Following Biden

Newsom Lifts California Stay-At-Home Orders, Allows Outdoor Dining  Guess he’s feeling that Recall petition.

‘Telling Us To Kill Ourselves’: Bar Owner Facing Lawsuit For Defying Lockdown Says She’s Received Death Threats

5 graphs that show how bad COVID-19 is in LA County

Triple-Masker Looks Down On People Who Only Double Mask  Unexploited business opportunity: A Basic Virtue Signalling kit, full of masks, BLM signs, eco-Nazi stickers, and whatever else we can think of.

Mayor Calls In Chick-Fil-A Manager To Help Speed Up Drive-Thru Vaccine Site  Could do worse.

How A Legitimate Theory About COVID-19 Emerging From A Lab Got Dismissed By Media Fact Checkers  It’s all about the Narrative.

Billionaires Thriving as Poor Suffer in Widening COVID-19 Divide: Oxfam  And whose fault is that?

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On Jan. 19, a federal court, citing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, upheld conscience protections for physicians and struck down the transgender mandate that ordered doctors to perform transgender interventions when doing so violated the provider’s sincerely held religious beliefs.

The Russians have a proverb ‘Just because a dog is born in a stable doesn’t make it a horse’, and one might equally say ‘Just because a man wears a dress doesn’t make him a woman.’

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At last, Republicans are punching back.

California Refuses To Disclose COVID-19 Data Used To Drive Lockdowns

Charlie Cooke.

Last month, I got a notice in the mail from a debt collector. It was a personal property tax bill for my wife’s car — from a different state, Connecticut, which we had left three years earlier.

In Connecticut, they charge you for the privilege of owning a car, and I apparently owed taxes from 2017 — which, 814 days after they were levied, I was finding out about for the first time.

I don’t like taxes, but I always pay them. Had I known about this one, I’d have paid it, too. (The total fee was $250 — $150 for the tax, $70 for interest, and $30 in debt collection fees.) But I didn’t know about it, because, for three years, I was never told. Despite having my mail forwarded for a year and having family members who still live in the house we left, I didn’t receive a single letter or notice. Now, I had a debt collector’s letter in my hand.

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Here’s a look at Biden’s proposed 401(k) changes:

The 401(k) tax deduction would disappear.
Workers would instead get a tax credit for 401(k) contributions.
The tax advantage of contributing to a 401(k) would be reduced for higher earners and increase for low and middle earners.
The creation of an automatic 401(k) for workers without access to a workplace retirement account.
Allowing caregivers to make catch-up contributions to retirement accounts.

The devil is, of course, in the details.

The problem with most such ‘soak-the-rich’ plans is that ‘the rich’ wind up being anybody who makes more than, say, a waitress or a cab driver — i.e. it winds up being a ‘soak-the-middle-class’ scheme (although that’s not on your copy) — the reason being that in order to get all of the money the Democrats are wanting to spend on their pet schemes the amount they can bleed from the Real Rich is totally inadequate.

Biden Breaks His Own Mask Mandate  What did you expect?

Is It Almost Over: US Sees Record One-Day Drop In COVID Hospitalizations

Major Tour Operator Refuses To Book Holidays For The Unvaccinated

Senior MP: British Public Will “Rise Up And Bring Down” Lockdown If Exit Plan Isn’t Outlined

“It Was All A Lie”: Biden-Linked WHO Adviser Says COVID-19 ‘Likely’ Leaked From Wuhan Lab

REPORT: Fauci Says Second Vaccine Shot Made Him Feel ‘Fatigued,’ ‘Achy’ For 24 Hours  Gee, that’s what seeing him on television makes me feel.

Oops: Media Darling Tony Fauci Debunks Massive CNN Story on COVID Vaccines

UK Reports 6,500 COVID-Related Prosecutions In First Six Months Of Pandemic

Infectious Diseases Expert Says UK Lockdown Is Not Working

Hong Kong Imposes Unprecedented COVID Lockdown As China Scrambles To Protect Beijing

Trump Administration’s Omission Of Facts Regarding COVID-19 ‘Very Likely’ Cost Lives, Fauci Says  Had nothing to do with Fauci’s lies, of course.

REPORT: Couple Married 70 Years Die Of Coronavirus Holding Hands Before Their Vaccination Appointment  Your tax dollars at work.

‘I Was Lied To’: Meghan McCain Lashes Out At Biden, Fauci And Amazon Over COVID Hypocrisy  Wakey, wakey.

Janet Yellen Used To Say Minimum Wage Hikes Killed Jobs — What Changed?  They name on her paycheck.

Texas Governor Orders New Arrivals From California To Quarantine For 30 Years  Babylon Bee.

UK Chief Scientist Says New Coronavirus Variant May Be More Deadly And Transmissible, But Cautions That Extra Research Is Needed  Gotta keep the panic goin’, gotta keep the panic goin’….

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Texas sued the U.S. government for ordering a halt to most deportations of undocumented immigrants, the first major lawsuit challenging President Joe Biden’s policies just two days into his term and a likely sign of what’s to come from other Republican-led states.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claims the directive from the Department of Homeland Security violated federal law by failing to seek input from the state. Paxton also accused the administration of failing to enforce immigration laws and granting a “blanket amnesty.”

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“They’re soldiers,” DeSantis told Fox News during an interview. “They’re not Nancy Pelosi’s servants. And this comes on the backend of them trying to investigate the backgrounds of our guardsmen … This is a half-cocked mission at this point.”