GOALPOSTS MOVED: Has the definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ changed? These universities are already imposing booster mandates.
Why aren’t they following the science? World Health Organization reiterates warning against Covid boosters for healthy people.
AND EVEN THE PENNIES AREN’T WORTH AS MUCH: Frontline workers are getting raises, but inflation is whittling the gains to “pennies.”
Previously: Inflation Is Good for You.
HERO: ‘Give them something to hold on to’: Man travels to Kentucky with cooker to feed tornado victims.
“I just came down here, trying to feed the people,” Finch said. “Everybody’s talking about they’re sending up prayers and, you know, their well wishes and everything. You know, folks can’t eat no prayer. We gotta put something in their stomach. Give them something to hold on to.”
Finch brought a cooker and together he and the Moss-Leavell family are operating out of their food truck that miraculously still stands in the middle of destruction.
“Everything around them got hit, but the food truck is still standing,” Moss-Leavell said.
Look for the helpers.
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Matt Margolis: NYT Columinst Begs ‘Alarmingly Incoherent’ Biden Not to Run For Reelection. “That the New York Times is not only acknowledging it but also not even mincing words about it is telling.”
Stephen Kruiser: Happy One-Year Anniversary to the ‘Game-Changer’ Vaccine! “What’s lost in all of the brouhaha about people who are vax skeptics is perhaps the main reason for their skepticism: the messaging about the vaccine last year at this time was horrible.” (Back then it was the dreaded “Trump vaccine.”)
Yours Truly: Energy Independence, Another Big Reason We Need a Republican Back in the White House. “Then, and only then, will we be able to give little oil-rich headaches the single-finger salute they so richly deserve.”
THE ESTABLISHMENT PROTECTS ITS TOOLS: DC Bar Restores Convicted FBI Russiagate Forger to ‘Good Standing’ Amid Irregularities and Leniency.
A former senior FBI lawyer who falsified a surveillance document in the Trump-Russia investigation has been restored as a member in “good standing” by the District of Columbia Bar Association even though he has yet to finish serving out his probation as a convicted felon, according to disciplinary records obtained by RealClearInvestigations.
The move is the latest in a series of exceptions the bar has made for Kevin Clinesmith, who pleaded guilty in August 2020 to doctoring an email used to justify a surveillance warrant targeting former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Clinesmith was sentenced to 12 months probation last January. But the D.C. Bar did not seek his disbarment, as is customary after lawyers are convicted of serious crimes involving the administration of justice. In this case, it did not even initiate disciplinary proceedings against him until February of this year — five months after he pleaded guilty and four days after RealClearInvestigations first reported he had not been disciplined. After the negative publicity, the bar temporarily suspended Clinesmith pending a review and hearing. Then in September, the court that oversees the bar and imposes sanctions agreed with its recommendation to let Clinesmith off suspension with time served; the bar, in turn, restored his status to “active member” in “good standing.”
Before quietly making that decision, however, records indicate the bar did not check with his probation officer to see if he had violated the terms of his sentence or if he had completed the community service requirement of volunteering 400 hours.
All our institutions have been corrupted.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Helping support illegal aliens waiting in Mexico to cross into the U.S.
IT USUALLY IS: That Dana Milbank column is even dumber than you think.
Milbank claims journalists have been harder on President Joe Biden in the first year of his presidency than they were on former President Donald Trump in his last.
To support his position, he points to a report prepared by the analytical firm FiscalNote, whose “artificial intelligence” reviewed some 200,000 news articles to determine “sentiment” based on variables including adjective placement.
The group’s findings, which supposedly show the press have been tougher on Biden, confirm the Washington Post columnist’s worst fears: “My colleagues in the media are serving as accessories to the murder of democracy.”
His thesis is obvious bunk — as if a computer could ever hope to gauge “sentiment” accurately depending on adjective placement. However, after some additional digging, most notably by Don’t Walk, Run! Productions, which did the lion’s share of assessing FiscalNote’s data, it turns out Milbank’s theory is even flimsier than initially suspected.
Put simply, the research upon which his entire thesis rests, the supposed proof of the press’s collective failure to defend our big, wet Core Democracy™, is utter trash.
Read the whole thing.
I’d just add that for Milbank, Cillizza, et al., the important thing is to establish the lefty meme regardless of facts, so that they can be endlessly repeated on social media platforms that won’t fact-check them.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Crime fear grips US, 68% say it’s getting worse. “Nearly 9 in 10 voters are worried about the crime surge across the nation, and almost 70% fear that there is no end in sight. In the latest problem facing Democrats and President Joe Biden, 89% of likely voters told Rasmussen Reports that they are concerned about the crime wave. That is 10 points higher than in July.”
You can’t expect effective crime control from a party that believes that every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners saints. To be honest, I think they’re in need of some restraint.
THIS IS CNN: CNN’s Don Lemon Rails Against Misinformation About Covid – By Omitting Key Part of Trump Quote. “However, the clip was selectively shortened to exclude the full quote, which showed that Trump, contrary to popular misconception, did not tell people to inject themselves with bleach in response to Covid.”
PELOSI IS THE ELEPHANT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE JANUARY 6 ROOM: That select House committee that cited Mark Meadows for contempt is operating illegally, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has never answered key questions about what she decided and when on January 6 about the National Guard.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Elizabeth Warren Is Really Cranking Up the Commie Stupidity This Week. “A sane world would recognize that she doesn’t have the talent to be an unpaid intern at Tesla or SpaceX and tell her to stop barfing up nonsense.”
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WAR ON THE MIDDLE CLASS: House Dems Reject GOP Plan To Replenish Oil Reserves Biden Drained.
Democrats are about consuming capital, not replenishing it. Always and everywhere.
JUST IN TIME FOR IT TO NOT MATTER NEARLY AS MUCH AS OMICRON CROWDS OUT DELTA: Pfizer’s anti-COVID drug still looks effective after further analysis.
SENATOR KAREN HOLDS FORTH: Sen. Warren announces support for packing the Supreme Court.
If there’s a policy that undermines America, you can count on Fauxcahontas to be behind it.
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT! Wyden blocks advancing Uyghur bill, Biden nominees over child tax credit.
“Unexpectedly,” given that Wyden’s top financial contributor is Nike.
POLLS. NEXT QUESTION? Why Does San Francisco’s Mayor Suddenly Want to Get Tough on Crime?