#Social security will fail and other commentary

#Social security will fail and other commentary

“#Social security will fail and other commentary” Fiscal watch: Social Security Will Fail At The Washington Post, Mitch Daniels admits defeat: All efforts to stop Social Security and Medicare from collapsing are futile, as “our political process is not capable of the kind of decisions that are necessary. The temptation to savage anyone proposing safety-net…

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#Dem bill spreads wealth upward and other commentary

#Dem bill spreads wealth upward and other commentary

“#Dem bill spreads wealth upward and other commentary” From the left: Dem Bill Spreads Wealth Upward The Democrats’ relief bill, warns Karl Polzer at the Washington Examiner, “would send billions of dollars to people who don’t need the money,” while potentially shortchanging those who need it for food and rent. That’s because it sends rebates…

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#Will Biden’s team kill another year of standardized testing?

#Will Biden’s team kill another year of standardized testing?

“#Will Biden’s team kill another year of standardized testing?” Education Secretary-designate Miguel Cardona will soon face a tough decision: Does he let states like New York get away with using the pandemic as an excuse for canceling federally required standardized testing for a second year in a row? Trump-era Secretary Betsy DeVos reluctantly issued waivers…

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#Double standards abound at The New York Times

#Double standards abound at The New York Times

“#Double standards abound at The New York Times” Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, decided to give science reporter Donald McNeil a second chance despite finding that he’d made offensive (allegedly quite racist) remarks on a trip with schoolchildren. Fair enough — but how does that square with the Times’ crucifixion…

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#In push for woke ‘equity,’ Biden abandons equality

#In push for woke ‘equity,’ Biden abandons equality

“#In push for woke ‘equity,’ Biden abandons equality” President Biden’s embrace of utter nonsense pushed by the “woke” continued with last week’s executive orders to “advance racial equity” and “root out systemic racism in housing and criminal justice.” The “equity” approach assumes that any outcome that doesn’t meet inane racial quotas is the result of…

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#Andrew Cuomo’s appalling nursing-home defense

#Andrew Cuomo’s appalling nursing-home defense

“#Andrew Cuomo’s appalling nursing-home defense” “It’s not about pointing fingers or blame. This became a political football,” Gov. Cuomo said Friday in response to questions about Attorney General Tish James’ finding that the state vastly underreported COVID-19 deaths of nursing-home residents. “Who cares,” he asked, if they died in a home or a hospital? “They…

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#A new libel against Israel from Human Rights Watch

#A new libel against Israel from Human Rights Watch

“#A new libel against Israel from Human Rights Watch” Israel has led the world in rapidly vaccinating much of its population, so naturally the global left has to find fault: hence the drive to condemn Jerusalem for not taking responsibility for vaccinations in Gaza and the West Bank. In a series of tweets, Human Rights…

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#Big Tech’s war on indie news and other commentary

#Big Tech’s war on indie news and other commentary

“#Big Tech’s war on indie news and other commentary” From the left: Big Tech’s War on Indie News “Major press outlets celebrated” videographer Jon Farina’s footage of the Jan. 6 Capitol assault, shown on the Status Coup site, reports Matt Taibbi at his TK News blog. But on Jan. 18, “another Farina live stream was…

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