#The CDC needlessly creates panic and other commentary

#The CDC needlessly creates panic and other commentary

“#The CDC needlessly creates panic and other commentary” From the right: The Needless CDC Panic In the face of the Delta variant, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should have reiterated that vaccines overwhelmingly prevent serious COVID illness and death, period — instead, the agency created a ­“fiasco” by offering “murky new guidance without…

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#Big Tech widens censorship and other commentary

#Big Tech widens censorship and other commentary

“#Big Tech widens censorship and other commentary” Libertarian: Big Tech Widens Censorship Tech giants have started “partnering with watchdog groups and law enforcement to share information about so-called extremists using their platforms,” warns Reason’s Robby Soave. PayPal will work with the left-wing Anti-Defamation League to identify and block “extremists,” while the likes of Facebook, Twitter…

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#Dr. Fauci’s intolerable obfuscation and other commentary

#Dr. Fauci’s intolerable obfuscation and other commentary

“#Dr. Fauci’s intolerable obfuscation and other commentary” Iconoclast: ‘No’ to the ‘New Normal’ Globalist elites insist that “the way we live and work in the post-COVID world will be very different to how we lived and worked in the pre-COVID world,” notes Frank Furedi at Spiked Online — to which our answer should be: Hell…

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#Eric Adams the ‘Godsend’ and other commentary

#Eric Adams the ‘Godsend’ and other commentary

“#Eric Adams the ‘Godsend’ and other commentary” Conservative: Eric Adams the ‘Godsend’ Many Gotham progressives view the prospect of an Eric Adams mayoralty as a “nightmare,” notes The New York Times’ Bret Stephens, but “for the rest of big-city America, not to mention the Democratic Party that usually runs it, he’s a godsend.” The reason:…

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#Biden to ban good showers and other commentary

#Biden to ban good showers and other commentary

“#Biden to ban good showers and other commentary” Libertarian: Biden To Ban Good Showers President Biden is reversing a “Trump administration rule that eased restrictions on the pleasing flow of multiheaded showers,” laments Reason’s Christian Britschgi. A 1992 law “imposed a host of convenience-crushing” regulations on appliances, including a water-output cap of 2.5 gallons per…

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#They didn’t warn Germany and other commentary

#They didn’t warn Germany and other commentary

“#They didn’t warn Germany and other commentary” Climate beat: No, They Didn’t Warn Germany With everyone from Greta Thunberg to Angela Merkel blaming Germany’s recent floods on climate change, Ross Clark at Spectator World points out that “far from predicting more summer rainfall in the German Rhineland, climate models have tended to do the opposite:…

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#Why cops are quitting in droves and other commentary

#Why cops are quitting in droves and other commentary

“#Why cops are quitting in droves and other commentary” Urban beat: Behind the Cop Shortage “In the past year, city police departments across the country have reported a dramatic drop in manpower, as cops retire, resign or leave for the suburbs,” reports Charles Fain Lehman at City Journal. Why? “Since last year’s explosive protests, they…

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#Critical race theory gaslighters and other commentary

#Critical race theory gaslighters and other commentary

“#Critical race theory gaslighters and other commentary” Culture critic: Critical Race Theory Gaslighters A “counterrevolution” against critical race theory has “exploded,” and its defenders are trying to protect it by pushing a “kind of political quietism — since you don’t know what CRT is, how can you struggle against it?” observes Hugo Gurdon at the…

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#Hands off Chick-fil-A and other commentary

#Hands off Chick-fil-A and other commentary

“#Hands off Chick-fil-A and other commentary” From the Left: Hands Off Chick-fil-A Assembly Democrats “are wrong to suggest that Chick-fil-A be essentially canceled, at least from public property in New York, for its political views and contributions,” explain the editors of Albany’s Times-Union, and not just because the company “mostly stopped giving to groups opposed…

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