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Maybe the dam is breaking on a more-rational expert consensus on vaccination.

By Justin Katz | January 17, 2022 |

A few weeks ago, this sort of commentary would have been unthinkable: Dr. Clive Dix, who played a key role in helping pharmaceutical firms create the COVID-19 vaccines, told LBC radio on Jan. 16: “The Omicron variant is a relatively mild virus. And to just keep vaccinating people and thinking of doing it again to…

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The contrast in coverage of the Texas synagogue hostage situation has been remarkable.

By Justin Katz | January 17, 2022 |

Matt Margolis is completely right.  The rhetoric from the White House would be completely different if the perpetrator, the motive, and the victims weren’t as they were. It’s curious that Psaki failed to mention that the hostage situation was in a synagogue, wouldn’t you agree? While details are slim right now, it’s very clear that…

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“New Media” is too tied to an ideology to maintain success.

By Justin Katz | January 15, 2022 |

John Ransom thinks the cratering valuation of BuzzFeed is will burden the investment plans of other organizations in the same category, whether we call them “new media,” youth media, digital media, or whatever. Why BuzzFeed is languishing is an interesting question, and I can’t help but think it has a lot to do with the organization’s progressive…

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Forcing health insurers to cover at-home tests is just plain foolish.

By Justin Katz | January 14, 2022 |

Sorry, but I don’t see how this, from Janine Weisman, isn’t a display of the need for greater education in economics: Good to know: Starting tomorrow, health insurers must pay for your at-home #COVID-19 home test kits. All @BCBSRI plans except Medicare fully cover the home test kits without a prescription, and each person on…

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Biden gives away the scheme of his proposed election takeover.

By Justin Katz | January 14, 2022 |

Perhaps you’ve seen video of Joe Biden shouting about how important it is for his government to seize authority over who counts votes in America: Biden, appearing to admit defeat on ending the filibuster & nationalizing elections, randomly starts shouting: States’ voter reform laws are “about who gets to count the votes! Count the vote!…

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Some possible specifics of the reason for Alexander-Scott’s resignation emerge.

By Justin Katz | January 14, 2022 |

Per John DePetro: What caused the relationship to deteriorate rapidly was a McKee media mouthpiece [Dan Yorke] who bragged that the Governor shared with him a plan to remove Scott if elected in the fall. Scott angrily confronted McKee who denied the conversation [Yorke] but the damage was done. John thinks it was a “blunder”…

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Going forward, disregard the American Psychological Association as a bunch of politicized kooks.

By Justin Katz | January 13, 2022 |

Look, the APA was ideologically captured decades ago, but at least they were judicious about it.  They kept their profession front and center and only advanced the ideology where it didn’t seem to interfere too much.  Christopher Ferguson’s explanation of his resignation from the organization is an acknowledgment that the organization has gone off the…

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Fauci didn’t do himself any favors punching back at Paul politically.

By Justin Katz | January 13, 2022 |

I haven’t seen the same thing some of my fellow conservatives have in video of the latest heated exchange between Republican Senator Rand Paul and top health bureaucrat Anthony Fauci.  Paul made some good points, but he didn’t leave Fauci quivering in guilt and fear, as some would have it.  Actually, it would have been…

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Broadly speaking, maybe we shouldn’t fear the Omicron.

By Justin Katz | January 12, 2022 |

Well, this is what a lot of us are hoping to see: The SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron is leading to the end of the worldwide pandemic, Denmark’s chief epidemiologist predicted, meaning “we will have our normal lives back in two months.” Tyra Grove Krause said on Danish TV 2 that a new study from Denmark’s State…

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Here’s a great response to demands for student debt cancelation.

By Justin Katz | January 12, 2022 |

Robert Wiblin gets to the economics of student debt cancelation in a dead-on way with this comment: Cancelling student debt is good but we could do more. The government should also tax non-college grads in order to fund a $5,000 annual gift for all college grads as a way to show appreciation for how smart…