#Why isn’t Biden a Nazi, too and other commentary

#Why isn’t Biden a Nazi, too and other commentary

“#Why isn’t Biden a Nazi, too and other commentary” Iconoclast: Why Isn’t Biden a Nazi, Too? The left acted like President Trump “was always either embodying the evils of the Second World War or propelling humanity into a third,” but now that President Biden is “doing a lot of the same things,” it’s telling that…

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#Anti-Cuomo Johnny-come-latelies and other commentary

#Anti-Cuomo Johnny-come-latelies and other commentary

“#Anti-Cuomo Johnny-come-latelies and other commentary” Conservative: Anti-Cuomo Johnny-Come-Latelies New York’s liberal political class, including Mayor de Blasio, are turning against Gov. Cuomo and calling for his emergency powers to be revoked — “but why now?” asks The Federalist’s Christopher Bedford. De Blasio and others cite Cuomo’s withholding of nursing-home death data, but “that fact, you…

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#Rethinking Trump’s performance and other commentary

#Rethinking Trump’s performance and other commentary

“#Rethinking Trump’s performance and other commentary” Pandemic journal: Rethinking Don’s Performance The Washington Examiner’s Byron York sees “the beginning of a sense of perspective about the way the Trump administration battled the virus. The bottom line is: Of course, the crisis was awful, but on balance, overall, the United States handled it as well or…

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#Lockdowns don’t work and other commentary

#Lockdowns don’t work and other commentary

“#Lockdowns don’t work and other commentary” Libertarian: Lockdowns Don’t Work “Despite the stark difference in policy,” America and Britain “saw remarkably similar COVID-19 trends this winter,” Reason’s Jacob Sullum points out. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s lockdown “closed most businesses” and required everyone without a “reasonable excuse” to stay home. Britain’s “seven-day average of new cases…

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#Biden’s vaccine inertia and other commentary

#Biden’s vaccine inertia and other commentary

“#Biden’s vaccine inertia and other commentary” Pandemic journal: Biden’s Vaccine Inertia Evidence suggests “vaccines really do work and that normal life is just a few hundred million shots away. How about a bit of urgency in ­administering them?” urges Oliver Wiseman at Spectator USA. “Maddeningly, the Biden administration and the public-health establishment” have no “can-do…

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#Cuomo’s scandal rocks world and other commentary

#Cuomo’s scandal rocks world and other commentary

“#Cuomo’s scandal rocks world and other commentary” From the left: Cuomo’s Scandal Rocks World Gov. Cuomo didn’t just “wildly mismanage” his state’s COVID response, “while netting himself a lucrative book deal and an Emmy. He did something worse,” explains The Guardian’s David Sirota: “He used his office to help one of his largest political donors…

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#Media created Cuomo myth and other commentary

#Media created Cuomo myth and other commentary

“#Media created Cuomo myth and other commentary” Media watch: Media Created Cuomo Myth Gov. Cuomo ordered COVID-positive patients into elderly-care facilities and relented only after news of deaths trickled out, fumes The Federalist’s Christopher Bedford. He never took blame for that but instead offered “lie after lie,” plus his usual bullying. And “what did the…

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#Commentary across the spectrum is demanding schools reopen

#Commentary across the spectrum is demanding schools reopen

“#Commentary across the spectrum is demanding schools reopen” Kids have suffered grievously over the past year: lousy remote “learning,” lost routines and social lives, spiraling mental illness. Most of the blame lies with teachers ­unions that refuse to return to the classroom, despite all evidence that schools aren’t COVID spreaders, and politicians beholden to Big ­Labor,…

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#Comedy’s Trump-era failure and other commentary

#Comedy’s Trump-era failure and other commentary

“#Comedy’s Trump-era failure and other commentary” From the left: Comedy’s Trump-era Failure Saturday Night Live bungled a golden chance for sharp satire in the Trump years, notes Chapo Trap House’s Matt Christman at The Drift, offering only drab finger-wagging and “apocalyptic moralism.” Right after Election Day 2016, it gave us a lame open of “Kate McKinnon sitting at…

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#The New York Times dilemma and other commentary

#The New York Times dilemma and other commentary

“#The New York Times dilemma and other commentary” Media critic: The Times’ Dilemma The New York Times’ media critic Ben Smith examines recent events and muses that the paper’s “unusual, perhaps unhealthy, central place in American news, culture and politics” makes it “an object of obsession” for others, intensified by its “media ambitions” as it “seeks to…

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