New York Times (yes, really)

The Blue States are the problem. They are not taking actions consistent with their professed beliefs. Liberal hypocrisy is fueling American inequality (video).

NAACP President: Rittenhouse Acquittal ‘Worse Than the Emmett Till Trial’

Austria plans compulsory Covid vaccination for all

Country goes into fourth lockdown amid soaring cases and announces jab mandate from February 2022

On the same day that the Rittenhouse verdict was declared a victory for white supremacy, a black Florida man was found NOT GUILTY via self-defense in the shooting death of his girlfriend. This was despite the fact that Andrew Coffee IV was shooting at police officers and was in criminal possession of a firearm.

Alex Berenson

Vaccinated English adults under 60 are dying at twice the rate of unvaccinated people the same age

And have been for six months. 

The Two Hispanic Journalists Who Defined the Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse

Tulsi Gabbard via Althouse (video)

"The jury got it right—finding Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges. The fact that charges were brought before any serious investigation is evidence that the government was motivated by politics, which itself should be considered criminal."

Was Sergei Millian one of a parade of FBI assets sent to entrap George Papadopoulos?

 Retired liberal UW law prof Ann Althouse:

"I am angry about some things other than the verdict. I'm angry that Governor Evers didn't take steps to end the violence before it devolved into the chaos that Rittenhouse entered. I'm angry that the media did such a terrible job of reporting on the Jacob Blake incident that inflamed people and led to the violence. And I'm angry at Joe Biden for contributing to the inflammation back when he called Rittenhouse a white supremacist."

Why the Pandemic Will Not End

250,000 more COVID deaths by March?

 

Glenn Greenwald (video)

The Rittenhouse verdict was just, and the media narrative was particularly deceitful and morally repellent.

Matt Taibbi

The Rittenhouse Verdict is Only Shocking if You Followed the Last Year of Terrible Reporting

A year of pronouncing the "Kenosha shooter" a murderer could have serious real-world consequences

Alex Berenson

More proof the mRNA Covid vaccines don't produce long-lasting immunity

If you like a functional T-cell response from your vaccines, Moderna and Pfizer may not be for you. The DNA vaccines might be better. (They could hardly be worse.)

Enes Kanter takes direct aim at LeBron over his endorsement of Nike and the company’s alleged disregard for Uyghur forced labor in China.

NBC News

"A staggering increase": Drug overdose deaths in the US surpassed 100,000 in a 12-month period for the first time, mostly because of opiods 

Victor Davis Hanson: Why I Left National Review

Law Prof Glenn Reynolds: 

Students suing Yale Law show America’s elites have a low opinion of minorities

Bill Maher (video):  

"If Don Jr. Had done what Hunter Biden had done, it would be every night, all night on MSNBC.”

Victor Davis Hanson

The FBI might be beyond saving

Steve Cortes

Poll; On the Economy, Biden has a 1% surplus approval from white college grads, and a stunning -54% deficit among working-class.

Pat Buchanan

Kyle Rittenhouse, Both Right and Righteous

Politico

'This experience broke a lot of people': Inside State amid the Afghanistan withdrawal

The chaos that came with ending America's longest war extended to Foggy Bottom, where staff were left with psychological scars.

Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Does the presence of worms make a difference in the effectiveness of this "dewormer" medication?

The Dispatch

We Are Less Educated Than We Think

More people than ever have a bachelor’s degree. But the content, rigor, and quality of college education has changed dramatically.

Bari Weiss

The Media's Verdict on Kyle Rittenhouse

Why so many got this story so wrong.

Matt Taibbi

The Russiagate Whitewash Era Begins

After the WMD mess, Judith Miller got the blame, while a long list of just-as-guilty media villains failed upward. Now, a nervous press is looking for Russiagate's fall guys

Ann Coulter

GET RITTENHOUSE!

WSJ

The FBI has set up a process to track threats against school-board members and teachers, moving to implement a Justice Department directive that some law-enforcement officials and Republican lawmakers say could improperly target parents protesting local education policies.

Joe Rogan compares media Rittenhouse trial spin to left wing "cult shit" (video)

“They are only looking at it like you would if you were in a f**king cult.”

Mollie Hemingway

TBT that time when National Review boldly asserted that "claims from Trump supporters that the dossier is a Clinton campaign project are overstated." -- National Review, October 7, 2017

New York Post

The real lesson of the Rittenhouse trial: 

Riots guarantee death and ruined lives

"[I]f [Gov. Evers] had the guard out in force as soon as the riots started last year, there probably wouldn’t be a trial now. That is: If Kenosha hadn’t descended into chaos, the chances of such a deadly encounter ever happening would have been much diminished. Two lives wouldn’t have been ended, and Rittenhouse would still be just another basically normal kid.... Rioting attracts trouble-makers, whether Antifa goons or militia loons. In the chaos, even sane people can go mad.... Joe Biden last year called Rittenhouse a 'white supremacist'; no one’s ever shown the least evidence of that.... But Biden, and all the others who’ve polarized this case, saw some value in fueling the flames."

Conservative 6th Circuit selected to decide OSHA mandatory vaccine reg before SCOTUS review

OSHA suspends mandatory vaccine reg pending completion of legal proceedings.

Prosecutors withheld Exculpatory Evidence/HD Video from Rittenhouse Defense Team

Zero Hedge / Tyler Durden

In Shock Closing Statement, Rittenhouse Prosecutor Claims Teen 'Lost The Right To Self-Defense' By Carrying Gun

Jonathan Turley  

The Steele Dossier and Adam Schiff's Lack of Shame

Matt Taibbi

Another Humorous Mainstream Media Substack Panic

Has the Empire really struck back at "independent newsletters"?

Glenn Greenwald

Kyle Rittenhouse, Project Veritas, and the Inability to Think in Terms of Principles

Those whose worldview is bereft of universally applied principles, and based solely on tribal allegiances, assume everyone else is plagued by this very deficiency.

FBI Whistleblower releases documents that Garland authorized the FBI Counterterrorism Division to target parents at schoolboard meetings

8 Dead, Dozens Infected With COVID-19 Due to Outbreak at Connecticut Nursing Home

Almost all vaccinated.

Jonathan Turley: Facebook and Politfact "experts" completely wrong re Rittenhouse gun charge.

Alex Berenson

Why you cannot trust US Covid data

In Connecticut, fully vaccinated people are rising from the dead

Althouse: "My hypothesis: The Bidens deliberately froze Kamala Harris's political career."

Byron York: The Biden White House dumpster fire

Former House Intelligence Committee investigator Kash Patel accused former Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the FBI and DOJ of withholding information from House GOP investigators in the Trump-Russia collusion investigation.

MSNBC host targets trucking for being populated by White males over 55 who are ‘aggressive’ on the road

Host Tiffany Cross suggests diversifying the sector will lessen road rage

With COVID Hospitalizations At Year-Long High, Doctors Urge Minnesotans To Get Vaccinated; ‘We Are Essentially At 100% Capacity’

Oklahoma Guard goes rogue, rejects COVID vaccine mandate after sudden change of command

German state health ministers call to extend state of emergency as COVID cases soar

Axios

The media’s epic fail

A reckoning is hitting news organizations for years-old coverage of the 2017 Steele dossier, after the document's primary source was charged with lying to the FBI.

Why it matters: It's one of the most egregious journalistic errors in modern history, and the media's response to its own mistakes has so far been tepid.

Outsized coverage of the unvetted document drove a media frenzy at the start of Donald Trump's presidency that helped drive a narrative of collusion between former President Trump and Russia. 

Dr. Fauci Admits Vaccines Did Not Work as Advertised and that Vaccinated Are in Danger Today

Don Surber

Media needed to attack Rittenhouse because his claim of self-defense betrays the lie that the Kenosha riot was a mostly peaceful protest.

Et tu, Politico?

FBI raid on Project Veritas founder’s home sparks questions about press freedom

The action against James O’Keefe has prompted concern about the Biden administration’s commitment to the First Amendment.

“This is just beyond belief,” said University of Minnesota law professor Jane Kirtley, a former executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. “I’m not a big fan of Project Veritas, but this is just over the top. I hope they get a serious reprimand from the court because I think this is just wrong.”

Jonathan Turley

Rittenhouse trial: Perils of weighing public opinion over evidence

"What is most striking about the trial is that, even more than a year later, prosecutors seem to be learning critical details at the same time as the jury. A strikingly different image of the victims and shootings quickly emerged. There also were glaring prosecution blunders, including a potentially case-ending violation of a court order — and long-standing constitutional law — in using Rittenhouse’s post-arrest silence against him."

Althouse responding to WaPo article comment: "Rural Americans "may not be supportive, safe and welcoming." You "fear driving" when you pass through their territory. But do you know any of these people or are you just prejudiced against them? Where did you learn that prejudice? In the city? And here you are wishing for a more homogeneous society. This is a prime example of how much racism is woven into anti-racism."

Legal Insurrection

Getting Jurors To Imagine “Provocation” In Blurry Photo And Video = Rittenhouse Prosecution Endgame

Even if all the prosecution gets is a hung jury, that’s a “win” for the prosecution; re-trial would be certain.

Rodgers In, Roethlisberger Out: ‘Fully Vaxxed’ Steelers QB Out with Covid as Unvaxxed Packers QB Returns to Action

Jonathan Turley

Was Rittenhouse’s Possession of the AR-15 Unlawful?

The problem with the Wisconsin statute is not a problem of pluralization but definition. It is not clear that the statute actually bars possession by Rittenhouse. Indeed, it may come down to the length of Rittenhouse’s weapon and the prosecutors never bothered to measure it and place it into evidence.

Dershowitz: Liberal Media, Not Rittenhouse, Guilty of 'Vigilante Justice'

Kyle Rittenhouse "should be acquitted" of killing two men and wounding a third during last year's Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha, Wisc., and then he should hold liberal news outlets accountable for insisting he's guilty of murder and committed vigilante justice, Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz insisted on Newsmax Saturday.

Althouse: This NYT headline displays an unabashed belief 

that censorship is desirable and expected, 

as if the tradition of freedom of speech has evaporated.  

With dismay, I am reading "On Podcasts and Radio, Misleading Covid-19 Talk Goes Unchecked/False statements about vaccines have spread on the 'Wild West' of media, even as some hosts die of virus complications."

Talk goes unchecked! 

Freedom of speech is an artifact of the "Wild West," not the foundation of our republic!