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Contrasting coverage when people lie to the FBI is instructive.

By Justin Katz | September 16, 2021 |

Remember the massive coverage and overheated rhetoric (continuing to this day) when the FBI tangled General Michael Flynn into a “false statement”?  Compare that memory with this just-the-facts coverage of a Democrat National Committee lawyer’s predicament in the New York Times.   The headline is in the passive voice: “Durham Is Said to Seek Indictment of Lawyer…

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Elorza bowing out of the gubernatorial race was the right thing to do.

By Justin Katz | September 15, 2021 |

GoLocalProv is reporting that Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza won’t be following through with his plan to seek the governor’s office.  It’s the obvious move to make, given the state of political play in the state right now.  I suppose it would be too much to hope, however, that Elorza has realized he’s out of his depth…

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A NY judge has halted healthcare worker vaccine mandates in that state.

By Justin Katz | September 15, 2021 |

At least the Northeast isn’t completely gone.  Particularly encouraging, here, is how deeply the lawsuit is framed in terms of our complete loss of rights under perpetual “emergency” declarations.

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Tucker puts the Milley scandal bluntly: treason.

By Justin Katz | September 15, 2021 |

This is surreal and shocking: Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Add it to the sense that public health experts, right down to people’s doctors (anecdotally) seem to be following political winds in their advice related to COVID-19, and it sure feels like our society is drifting in a stormy sea.  The people in roles…

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Read the last paragraph first in mainstream stories about anti-vax tragedies.

By Justin Katz | September 13, 2021 |

The story of Ray DeMonia is floating around social media.  The short version is that the Alabama man had a heart attack, but it took so long for his family to find a hospital with a cardiac ICU bed (because they were all occupied by people who hadn’t gotten the COVID vaccine) that he died.…

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When seconds count…

By Justin Katz | September 13, 2021 |

Add this to the list of progressive policies’ harmful effects: According to The Oregonian, people dialing 911 are often left waiting over two minutes for their call to be answered, far longer than the national standard of 15 to 20 seconds. People calling 911 to report a Sept. 4 shootout at a Pearl District restaurant…

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Clueless Biden copies Trump’s first-responders photo-op and gets photo bombed.

By Justin Katz | September 12, 2021 |

Priceless.  And photos are from two angles, so it’s really unheard of Photoshopping if it’s fake. And the boy in the red shirt 🤣 pic.twitter.com/oML0EqumNe — CLE mama 🇺🇸 (@cle_mama) September 12, 2021

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Typical obnoxiously dishonest and divisive Biden.

By Justin Katz | September 10, 2021 |

Thursday, issue one of the most direct rhetorical assaults on tens of millions of Americans that most of us have ever heard from the White House.  Friday, call for unity and respect… on the same day news comes out that he accidentally drone-killed an ally and his young children during a performative counterattack against ISIS.…

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Bette Midler’s pro-abortion no-sex pledge sums things up really well.

By Justin Katz | September 10, 2021 |

This is too perfect: “I suggest that all women refuse to have sex with men until they are guaranteed the right to choose by Congress,” Midler said on Twitter while responding to the Supreme Court’s 5-4 vote to deny an emergency request to block the Texas law, deemed by critics as the most restrictive abortion…

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The Left’s Q-Anon is its mainstream.

By Justin Katz | September 10, 2021 |

That’s my summary of the last line of Kevin Williamson’s reflections on Rolling Stone’s fake story about Oklahoma emergency rooms filling up with ivermectin overdoses: A note to our progressive friends: This is your version of Q-Anon — falling for obvious, ridiculous lies because you want to believe the worst about people you hate. The biggest difference…