#Lincoln Project’s disgrace and other commentary

#Lincoln Project’s disgrace and other commentary

“#Lincoln Project’s disgrace and other commentary” Scammer alert: Lincoln Project’s Disgrace Last summer, donations to the Lincoln Project rolled in “by the tens of millions,” as “the group tried to claim a higher moral ground in an effort to purge Trump from the GOP,” recount Steve Peoples and Brian Slodysko at RealClearPolitics. Yet multiple sources…

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#Tense times at the Times and other commentary

#Tense times at the Times and other commentary

“#Tense times at the Times and other commentary” Media watch: Tense Times at the Times A “tense debate” on a Facebook group for New York Times staffers “provides a window onto the latest racial controversy roiling the paper,” reports The Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium. Star science ­reporter Donald McNeil Jr. was “ousted” after staff…

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#Open Our Schools and other commentary

#Open Our Schools and other commentary

“#Open Our Schools and other commentary” From the right: Open Our Schools “Many liberals continually ignore the science that shows students can safely return to school,” notes Wisconsin ex-Gov. Scott Walker at The Washington Times. The CDC confirmed that “vaccinations of teachers is not a prerequisite for safely reopening schools,” and “plenty of teachers ….

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#YouTube cancels the Senate and other commentary

#YouTube cancels the Senate and other commentary

“#YouTube cancels the Senate and other commentary” Conservative: YouTube Cancels the Senate In removing two videos from a US Senate committee hearing that note the promise of the drug ivermectin for early treatment of COVID-19, “Google’s YouTube has ratcheted up censorship to a new level,” worries Sen. Ron Johnson at The Wall Street Journal. Though…

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#Truths about vaccine timetable and other commentary

#Truths about vaccine timetable and other commentary

“#Truths about vaccine timetable and other commentary” Pandemic journal: Truths About Vax Timetable Maybe some national leader should stand up and admit “the best-case scenario” is that all “higher-risk Americans get at least one shot by the end of April or early May” and others probably not before Mother’s Day, suggests Jim Geraghty at National…

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#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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#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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#How media monetized polarization and other commentary

#How media monetized polarization and other commentary

“#How media monetized polarization and other commentary” Media beat: How Media Monetized Polarization How did our public square become so intensely polarized? By sucking up advertising dollars, the Internet devastated traditional newspapers that treated opinion “like a volatile substance” to be “fenced off from ‘factual’ reporting,” Martin Gurri argues at City Journal. That prompted a…

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#Obama-era gaslighting is back and other commentary

#Obama-era gaslighting is back and other commentary

“#Obama-era gaslighting is back and other commentary” Media watch: Obama-Era Gaslighting Is Back After four years of complaints from the media that “outgoing President Donald Trump treated them as an enemy,” we are about to return to “the gaslighting of the Obama era,” predicts Ben Shapiro at RealClearPolitics. Outlets are already “praising the newfound veracity…

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