#The boot comes down in Hong Kong

#The boot comes down in Hong Kong

“#The boot comes down in Hong Kong” Beijing just put the boot down hard in Hong Kong, ordering the arrest of 50-plus elected pro-democracy officials and activists Wednesday morning. The Chinese Communist Party will no longer brook any dissent in the once-free city. It’s the largest roundup of dissidents since Beijing imposed its new “national…

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#It’s time for America’s center to stand strong

#It’s time for America’s center to stand strong

“#It’s time for America’s center to stand strong” The mob that stormed Capitol Hill on Wednesday afternoon handed a huge gift to the very forces it claims to oppose. And while the roots of this madness were many, with some blame across the spectrum, it’s fundamentally on President Trump. It’s been building all year: The…

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#Facebook’s COVID Coverup

#Facebook’s COVID Coverup

“#Facebook’s COVID Coverup” New York magazine’s latest cover story, “The Lab-Leak Hypothesis,” concludes that COVID-19 is a human-engineered virus that escaped from a Wuhan lab — the very same theory that moved Facebook to suppress a Post opinion piece for weeks last year. Steven W. Mosher only called it a possibility in these pages on Feb….

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#Quit the excuses — and get New Yorkers vaccinated

#Quit the excuses — and get New Yorkers vaccinated

“#Quit the excuses — and get New Yorkers vaccinated” Amid their bungling of the vaccine rollout, Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio are proving great at two other things: making excuses — and passing the buck. “This was a much more aggressive undertaking than anyone thought,” Cuomo whined Monday. The nation “was not prepared.” Huh?…

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#‘A-woman’: Oy vey!

#‘A-woman’: Oy vey!

“#‘A-woman’: Oy vey!” We pray that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver was just making a bad joke Sunday when he closed his prayer marking the 117th Congress with “amen and awoman,” but he definitely managed to shine a light on the absurdity of the push for gender-inclusive language. As an ordained Methodist preacher, the Missouri Democrat surely…

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#Stop politicizing the pandemic and other commentary

#Stop politicizing the pandemic and other commentary

“#Stop politicizing the pandemic and other commentary” Libertarian: Stop Politicizing the Pandemic “There is an all-too-familiar gracelessness in politicized conversations about the coronavirus,” sighs Reason’s Matt Welch. Anti-lockdowners and dour mask fanatics alike “feel surrounded by murderers and denialists,” who “are either intentionally trying to make things worse or just too blinkered to admit there’s…

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#Wokeness is no mere academic threat and other commentary

#Wokeness is no mere academic threat and other commentary

“#Wokeness is no mere academic threat and other commentary” Liberal: Wokeness Is No Mere Academic Threat “You may have assumed that woke activism was a sideshow” affecting academe and the media, writes Mickey Kaus at Newsweek. But we learned recently that “it had penetrated an important, once-revered government scientific agency,” touching “basic questions of life and…

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