TECHNICALLY, THIS IS SATIRE: Meghan Markle Inspires Millions Of Young Girls With Message That No Matter How Famous, Rich, And Powerful They Are, They Will Always Be Oppressed.
Welcome to the 21st Century, where even a literal duchess can be “oppressed.”
OBAMA’S THIRD TERM: Democrats are gearing up to fight for net neutrality.
AS THE VACCINES ARRIVE: Warp Speed’s Manhattan Project Success Doesn’t Mean the Wuhan Virus War Is Over.
Operation Warp Speed, created by former President Donald Trump’s administration, rates as a medical Manhattan Project. Within a year, Warp Speed developed at least three vaccines effective against COVID-19/the Wuhan virus.
“Manhattan Project” has become slang for a chancy venture (e.g., a crash software development program) that succeeds in an astonishingly short time. The 1960s Apollo program to send humans to the moon and return them alive was occasionally called a peacetime Manhattan Project because Apollo produced and successfully employed revolutionary space technologies (plural) to achieve its goal inside a decade.
The virus is still out there, but thanks to vaccines we’re turning the corner.
As far as the CDC is concerned, Moderna and Pfizer have proved their worth. The CDC issued new guidelines (effective March 8) advising Americans that “If you’ve been fully vaccinated … You can gather indoors with fully vaccinated people without wearing a mask.” Another CDC bullet point: “If you’ve been around someone who has COVID-19” — again, if you’ve been vaccinated — “you do not need to stay away from others or get tested unless you have symptoms.”
For Americans who respect the U.S. Constitution, Warp Speed vaccines protect the Bill of Rights. Americans, the vaccines are restoring your right to freely assemble.
Read the entire column.
THE BIDEN ILLEGITIMACY: Twenty-eight states changed voting rules to boost mail-in ballots.
But if you say things were rigged, you’re a conspiracy theorist.
SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Activist Milo Yiannopoulos is now ‘Ex-Gay,’ consecrating his life to St. Joseph.
LifeSite: In what ways has this impacted your personal and social life?
Milo: Well, the guy I live with has been demoted to housemate, which hasn’t been easy for either of us. It helps that I can still just about afford to keep him in Givenchy and a new Porsche every year. Could be worse for him, I guess.
Uh-huh.
POWERLINE: Coke Demands that Its Law Firms Engage in Unlawful Discrimination.
Note that Mirengoff is asking any lawyers with knowledge of how law firms are reacting to the Coke policy to write him. Confidentiality is guaranteed.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Our Border Is Being Overrun But, Hey, No More Mean Tweets!
TAR. FEATHERS. Joel Kotkin: Climate Policy: Covid on Steroids?
For most people around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic seems a great human tragedy, with deaths, bankruptcies, and fractured mental states. Yet for some, especially among the green Twitterati and in some policy shops, the pandemic presents a grand opportunity to enact permanent lockdowns on economic growth, population growth, and upward mobility.
Remember, they don’t see making ordinary people’s lives worse as collateral damage. They see it as a collateral benefit. Or maybe as the goal.
STEPHEN L. CARTER: Maybe Politicians Should Have Employment Contracts.
#SCIENCE: Washington Governor Jay Inslee Joins the League of COVID Nursing Home Governors.
As John Nolte of Breitbart.com wrote a week ago, the DNC-MSM dogpile over Cuomo’s (very real) #metoo problems are really an excuse for the media to attack him over his COVID debacle, but protect other Democratic governors. “Why is America’s corrupt media not at all interested in some 15,000 dead senior citizens while they tar and feather Cuomo over the allegations he made three left-wing women uncomfortable? The answer is obvious…Four other Democrat governors issued the same sociopathic nursing home order as Cuomo. Four other Democrats ordered infected coronavirus patients be admitted into nursing home facilities where 1) the most vulnerable live, and 2) they’re not set up to handle an infectious virus.”
HMM: Twitter sues Texas AG Paxton, claiming he ‘retaliated’ over Trump ban. “Twitter is seeking to halt an investigation launched by Paxton into moderation practices by Big Tech firms including Twitter for what he called ‘the seemingly coordinated de-platforming of the President,’ days after they banned him following the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.”
It wasn’t an insurrection.
NOT NORMAL: A Permanent National Guard Force At The Capitol?
Well, we’ve been told that when the government fears the people, there is liberty. So is this liberty?
AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING: This Fertilizer King Funneled Cuomo $1 Million—and Got a New York Health-Care Empire.
Note that this article is at the Daily Beast, which a year ago was running Cuomosexual headlines like this: Governors Like Andrew Cuomo Must Save Us From Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Madness.
And asking the serious questions: Pierced or Not? The Mystery Over New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Nipples.
THE PEOPLE PUSHING THIS ARE NOT NORMAL: The de-normalization of “normal.”
Related thoughts here.
JOSH BLACKMAN & SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Comparing the Impeachment Process under the United States Constitution (1788) and the New York State Constitution (1894).
“ANTIRACIST” DOESN’T GUARANTEE “SCAM,” BUT IT’S CLOSE: President of Taxpayer-Funded Antiracist Group Funneled Nearly $300K to Husband’s Law Firm. “Antiracism is a profitable industry for consultants and educators.”
OPEN THREAD: Make the most of this special moment.
THE MEDIA NARRATIVE IS THAT WHEN ANYONE — EVEN A LITERAL DUCHESS — COMPLAINS OF RACISM IT MUST BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. The public, as usual, is more sensible. Survey reveals public fury at the Sussexes as majority call for Harry and Meghan stripped of their titles, believe they said the wrong thing at the wrong time, do not deserve to be funded… and have damaged reputation of entire Royal Family.
RIPPED-OFF BY SPRINT/T-MOBILE: So I’ve been a Sprint customer for 23 years. I upgraded my Iphone to a 12 last Fall. There were two offers at the time, one for a $200 credit from Apple, one for an additional $200 credit from Sprint for “loyal customers” (over five years) who traded in their old phone. Got the first, sent in my old phone for the second. Got a text that I wasn’t eligible for the credit because my phone wasn’t in working order. This was a lie. I called to complain and they agreed to give me the $200 credit. Never showed up. Contacted Sprint twice. Twice was assured credit would show on my next bill. It didn’t. Contact Sprint’s Twitter team. First they told me the phone I traded in wasn’t in working order. They then gave up on that and claimed there was only one promotion, not two. I managed to find an email showing the two promotions were simulatneous: “Because T-Mobile loves loyal customers like you, we are giving you an extra $200 off,” and an article from the same time stating “The carrier is also giving those who have been with T-Mobile or Sprint for five years or more an extra $200 off ‘any new iPhone’ when you ‘trade or turn in any active iPhone on an eligible plan.'” You would think that would be that. Nope. “Our managers reviewed your information and we would not be able to apply any further credits.” Not only did I not get the $200, I also don’t have my phone, which I could have given to my son who now needs one. And I wasted several hours on this, less for the $200 and more on principle… Caveat emptor. I likely would have kept the records showing exactly what the promised at the time, but I was recovering from Covid and was a bit out of it.
SAFER AT HOME: Has the risk of arbitrary detention made China unsafe to travel to for foreigners?
Don’t trust China. China is asshole.
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