#No vax required after DeSantis threatens fine

#No vax required after DeSantis threatens fine

“No vax required after DeSantis threatens fine” The Special Olympics bowed to pressure from Florida officials and will scrap vaccination requirements for athletes at its event this weekend after the state threatened the games’ governing body with $27.5 million in fines, according to a report. The event, which is being held in Orlando, is expected…

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#Right turn vs. free speech and other commentary

#Right turn vs. free speech and other commentary

“Right turn vs. free speech and other commentary” Conservative: Right Turn vs. Free Speech Govs. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) and Greg Abbott (R-Texas) are not “marginal actors” in “the conservative movement,” notes Paul Matzko at The Dispatch. So their recent anti-speech moves against Disney and Big Tech suggest the “old fusionist detente between social and business conservatives…

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#Film producer Charles Cohen has prescription for ‘resilient’ New York

#Film producer Charles Cohen has prescription for ‘resilient’ New York

“Film producer Charles Cohen has prescription for ‘resilient’ New York” Film producer, developer, distributor, theater owner Charles Cohen owns everything but the popcorn. His newie film’s “Operation Mincemeat.” A true story starring Colin Firth, it supposedly changed the course of World War II. Nazis believed an Allied invasion was on for Sicily. Hidden by British intelligence was a…

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#Biden still betting on windmill power instead of US oil

#Biden still betting on windmill power instead of US oil

“Biden still betting on windmill power instead of US oil” If Sleepy Joe Biden just didn’t trip over every other word, he could be much more effective in his divisiveness. That was the assessment after our president’s latest tone deaf, erratic, often nasty and definitely embarrassing display of economic ineptitude from a group of Wall…

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#Letters to the Editor — May 10, 2022

#Letters to the Editor — May 10, 2022

“Letters to the Editor — May 10, 2022” The Issue: Manhattan Museum of Jewish Heritage’s refusal to host an event with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. In her column, Karol Markowicz reflects on the seemingly unbreakable bond between Jews and liberalism (“Shutting out the ‘Wrong Kind of Jew,’ ” PostOpinion, May 9). That Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish…

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#Brooklyn GOP pol yanks K in funding for NYC Jewish museum

#Brooklyn GOP pol yanks $5K in funding for NYC Jewish museum

“Brooklyn GOP pol yanks $5K in funding for NYC Jewish museum” A local lawmaker announced Sunday she is yanking $5,000 in previously planned funding for a Manhattan museum after it allegedly barred Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis from speaking there in June.  Councilwoman Inna Vernikov — a Ukrainian-born American Jew — revealed in an open letter to museum donors that she will…

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#NYC’s Jewish museum bans DeSantis for having wrong opinions

#NYC’s Jewish museum bans DeSantis for having wrong opinions

“NYC’s Jewish museum bans DeSantis for having wrong opinions” History shows us that forced ideological conformity never ends well for Jews, but liberal Jewish institutions keep wanting to give it another go. In a Wall Street Journal piece, Elliott Abrams and Eric Cohen, respectively chairman and CEO of Tikvah and co-chairmen of the Jewish Leadership…

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