#Extremist epidemiologists and other commentary

#Extremist epidemiologists and other commentary

“#Extremist epidemiologists and other commentary” Libertarian: Extremist Epidemiologists A New York Times survey of 700 epidemiologists reveals that several believe it will never “be safe for normal life to resume,” Robby Soave notes at Reason. And in their own lives, “only 29 percent were willing to get a haircut, even though the most infamous case…

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#Democrats denied Trump’s legitimacy and other commentary

#Democrats denied Trump’s legitimacy and other commentary

“#Democrats denied Trump’s legitimacy and other commentary” Roll tape: Yes, Dems Denied Don’s Legitimacy New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently claimed that Democrats “never” questioned President Trump’s legitimacy. And that, RealClearPolitics’ Carl M. Cannon snarks, is what happens to a Nobelist brain high on “hyper-partisanship.” In fact, “millions of Democrats” spent the past four…

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#NYC must downsize its government and other commentary

#NYC must downsize its government and other commentary

“#NYC must downsize its government and other commentary” Budget expert: NYC Must Downsize Its Gov’t With tax revenue down sharply thanks to the pandemic, Yankees president and former labor commissioner Randy Levine, at Empire Report New York, sees no alternative to “downsizing” city government. “The private sector has taken an enormous financial hit.” Yet “for…

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#Jewish docs for Jew-haters and other commentary

#Jewish docs for Jew-haters and other commentary

“#Jewish docs for Jew-haters and other commentary” Foreign desk: Jewish Docs for Jew-Haters It’s ironic, if not “weird,” that Saeb Erekat, a top Palestinian official who “did his best to destroy” Israel before his death last month, looked to ­Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem to treat his coronavirus, snarks Reuven Berko at The Investigative…

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#Why Biden will restart Iran deal and other commentary

#Why Biden will restart Iran deal and other commentary

“#Why Biden will restart Iran deal and other commentary” Foreign desk: Why Biden Will Restart Iran Deal Joe Biden “will move quickly to lift sanctions” against Tehran, predicts Lee Smith at Tablet, so the suspended nuke deal can be “completed.” That deal “was never about the Middle East,” which opposed it, but part of an…

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#Tapping Tanden burns Bernie-ites and other commentary

#Tapping Tanden burns Bernie-ites and other commentary

“#Tapping Tanden burns Bernie-ites and other commentary” From the left: Tapping Tanden Burns Bernie-ites Neera Tanden, Joe Biden’s pick to run the Office of Management and Budget, “is famous for two things,” notes Matt Taibbi at his TK News site: “Having a puddle of DNC talking points in place of a cerebrum, and ­despising Bernie…

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#’Buy local’ is just nonsense and other commentary

#’Buy local’ is just nonsense and other commentary

“#’Buy local’ is just nonsense and other commentary” Econ desk: ‘Buy Local’ Is Just Nonsense The holiday-shopping injunction to “buy local or buy from small businesses . . . is pure nonsense,” opines Kevin D. Williamson at National ­Review. The idea is that if you patronize, “say, your locally owned coffee shop over Starbucks, then…

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#Progressives’ elitist college-debt plan and other commentary

#Progressives’ elitist college-debt plan and other commentary

“#Progressives’ elitist college-debt plan and other commentary” Economist: Left’s Elitist College-Debt Plan “Progressive calls for President-elect Joe Biden to forgive student debt in his first 100 days of office should be ignored in lieu of a more moderate proposal: forgiveness capped at $5,000 of debt,” argues Beth Akers at The Wall Street Journal. The reality…

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#The Left’s ‘big-turnout’ myth and other commentary

#The Left’s ‘big-turnout’ myth and other commentary

“#The Left’s ‘big-turnout’ myth and other commentary” Election journal: Left’s ‘big-turnout’ myth At City Journal, Nate Hochman recalls how “progressives take it as an article of faith that ‘a durable majority of Americans,’ in [Elizabeth] Warren’s words, would support a left-wing policy agenda, if not for various Republican-sponsored voter-suppression efforts, gerrymandering and anti-majoritarian institutions like…

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#Trump’s Middle East gift to Biden and other commentary

#Trump’s Middle East gift to Biden and other commentary

“#Trump’s Middle East gift to Biden and other commentary” Foreign desk: Don’s Mideast Gift to Joe The foreign-policy establishment gripes about President Trump nonstop, notes Ray Takeyh at Foreign Policy, but “overlooked is the fact that the Trump administration has pursued a successful Middle East policy” — and will bequeath to its successors a more…

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