Brownstone Institute

Martin Kulldorff, Famed Epidemiologist and Early Opponent of Lockdowns, Banned by LinkedIn

Rich Lowry / New York Post

The left should prepare to lose the school-mask wars

The people in contemporary America who most pride themselves on their alleged commitment to science and public health are also the most superstitious and immune to evidence. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the debate over masking kids at school — an ongoing, flagrant example of collective irrationality.

Jeremy Carl / Newsweek Opinion

Whose Borders Should America Defend?

If we are going to spend blood and treasure defending borders, let's start with our own.

The Federalist

Why The Wall Street Journal Is Wrong About The 2020 Election

The problem was not ‘mass voter fraud,’ but a privately funded ‘shadow campaign’ for Joe Biden within the formal structure of the election system, particularly in Wisconsin.

Pat Buchanan

Is Democracy Dying or America Disintegrating?

 Again, the American right is today routinely compared to Nazis, fascists and Klansmen. Why would good liberal Democrats accept an electoral victory and future rule by Nazis and fascists rather than seek to overturn it, by whatever means necessary?

Ultimately, the logic of our situation must lead us to consider something like this. Western Maryland’s attempt to secede and join West Virginia, and Eastern Oregon’s attempt to secede and join Idaho, may be harbingers of what is to come.

Enough fentanyl seized in Texas to kill 222 million Americans

Alex Berenson:   Israel is overrun with COVID despite being nearly fully vaccinated. 

Pennsylvania appellate court strikes down 'no-excuse mail-in voting' law

Mark Steyn: The laughably misnamed 'Free World' is killing itself (video)

Townhall

NJ Gym Owner Who Refused to Close During Lockdown Fined $1.2M and Sentenced to One Year Probation

Voters for the two parties are becoming more divided on whether to trust or distrust the science establishment, according to a new survey by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dissed the anti-mandatory vaccination trucker convoy heading to Ottawa this weekend as a”fringe minority” with “unacceptable views.”

Russell Brand (video): Why The Mainstream Media Blackout of the Canada Truckers Convoy?!

Elon Musk tweets against Biden and in support of Canadian truckers

Laura Ingraham

Biden twice filibustered Bush 43's nomination of African American woman Janice Rogers to D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals

Tyler Cowen

The Latest Bias to Worry About: Recency Bias

In politics and economics, too many predictions give disproportionate weight to the events of the recent past.

I fear we are committing a form of recency bias by not focusing more on nuclear weapons and the policies surrounding nuclear proliferation and nuclear-weapons use. Atomic bombs have not been used against humans since 1945, and so for many people they are not a major concern, having been supplanted by fears of climate change. But a broader lesson of human history is that, if a weapon is available, sooner or later someone will use it.

Althouse to Biden before the election:

[I]sn't your pledge to appoint a black woman — just a black woman, not the person with the greatest skill and integrity — more political than Trump's list of real people, whose skill and integrity we can investigate?"

Dr. Marty Makary

The High Cost of Disparaging Natural Immunity to Covid

Vaccines were wasted on those who didn’t need them, 

and people who posed no risk lost jobs.

Public-health officials ruined many lives by insisting that workers with natural immunity to Covid-19 be fired if they weren’t fully vaccinated. But after two years of accruing data, the superiority of natural immunity over vaccinated immunity is clear. By firing staff with natural immunity, employers got rid of those least likely to infect others. It’s time to reinstate those employees with an apology.

Jonathan Turley 

Supreme Identity Politics: 

Biden Pledges To Only Consider Black Females For Supreme Court Pick

"Sandra Day O’Connor voted in favor of an admissions policy that allowed race to be one of many criteria in the 2003 case. She emphasized that the majority expected that “25 years from now the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.” The policy that Biden has taken goes far beyond that case and, if he used it, would come around the time when O’Connor foresaw the end of racial preferences in admissions. It would turn out that, roughly 25 years later, the Supreme Court would actually witness, not an end to race or gender preferences in admissions, but the application of such criteria for itself."

Glenn Greenwald

The Neocons' Primary War Tactic: 

Branding Opponents of U.S. Intervention as Traitors

By rehabilitating neocons and elevating them as thought leaders, liberals live in their framework. Thus are opponents of U.S. involvement in Ukraine deemed treasonous.

One of the most bizarre but important dynamics of Trump-era U.S. politics is that the most fanatical war-hungry neocons, who shaped Bush/Cheney militarism, have become the most popular pundits and thought leaders in American liberalism. They have not changed in the slightest — they are employing the same tactics they have always invoked, and for the same causes — but they have correctly perceived that their agenda is better served by migrating back to the Democratic Party which originally spawned their bloodthirsty ideology. 

Matt Taibbi

Let’s Not Have a War

The American foreign policy establishment, chasing decades of failures, appears to be seriously considering the unthinkable in Ukraine

Jonathan Turley

Sixty-Five Percent of College Students Believe that They Cannot Speak Freely on Campus

The poll is an indictment of our educational system and, yes, our educators. Faculty have remained silent (or supported) the establishment of a new orthodoxy on our campuses. The speech intolerance shown on many campuses stifles intellectual discourse and chills the free speech of many of our students. However, most faculty members remain conspicuously silent rather than risk being tagged or targeted in the next cancelling campaign.

Pat Buchanan

Is Biden Right? Does the Left Own the Future?

"Biden appears to be a failing president who believes in the inevitable victory of the ideology toward which he himself has been moving over his half-century career since arriving in Washington as a 30-year-old centrist Democrat.

Unfortunately, he may not be wrong."

Sharyl Attkisson 

Fact-Checkers Are Used to Confuse the Public

Alex Berenson

The world's most mRNA vaccinated countries now have shockingly high Covid infection rates. Hospitalizations and deaths are rising fast too.

Ruy Teixeira via Althouse

"Confessions of a Liberal Heretic/Ruy Teixeira was co-author of one of the most influential political books of the 21st century. Now, he says, Democrats are getting its lessons all wrong"

"Do they really believe that the Black voters who formed the base of the Democratic Party think like Ibram X. Kendi, or the leaders of BLM? Are they crazy?"

Ukrainian President Mocks Biden’s USA: ‘Americans Safer in Kyiv Than in Los Angeles — or Any Other Crime-Ridden City in US’

Andy McCarthy / National Review

How ‘Progressive’ Prosecutors Are Betraying the Constitution

Nicholas Wade / City Journal

A Covid Origin Conspiracy?

Newly released emails make more plausible the contention that Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins presided over the suppression of the lab-leak theory for political reasons.

American Compass:  The Folly and Failure of College for All

 

Martin Kuldorff and Jay Bhattacharya / Newsweek Opinion

How Fauci Fooled America

A list of his major errors

The Economist: Growing Diversity of Gun Owners Is ‘Bad for Gun-Control Advocates’

According to The Economist, a study by of Northeastern University shows that of the millions of first time buyers between January 2019 and April 2021, “half were female, a fifth black and a fifth Hispanic.”

Ed Yong / The Atlantic

It’s a Terrible Idea to Deny Medical Care to Unvaccinated People

Omicron is pushing hospitals to their limit, but the medical system still has an ethical responsibility to all patients—no matter the choices they make.

[M]edical care should be offered according to the urgency of a patient’s need, not the circumstances leading up to that need. People whose actions endangered themselves, like smokers with lung cancer or drivers who crash while not wearing a seatbelt, still get treated. Those whose actions endangered others, like drunk drivers or terrorists, also get treated. “We are all sinners,” Carla Keirns, a professor of medical ethics and palliative medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center, told me. “No one has made all the perfect decisions, and any of us could find ourselves in a situation where we are sick.” It is a fundamental principle of modern medicine that “everyone has an equal claim to relief from suffering, no matter what they’ve done or haven’t done,” Daniel Goldberg, a medical historian and public-health ethicist at the University of Colorado, told me.

. . . [T]he most privileged people usually benefit when care is allocated. 

NPR:  A Texas team comes up with a COVID vaccine that could be a global game changer

Andrew Sullivan via Althouse

"[State voting] laws — like that recently passed in Georgia — are far from the nightmares that Dems have described, and contain some expansion of access to voting."

"Georgians, and Americans in general, overwhelmingly support voter ID laws, for example. Such laws poll strongly even among allegedly disenfranchised African-Americans . . .

To argue as Biden did last week in Georgia that the goal of Republicans is 'to turn the will of the voters into a mere suggestion — something states can respect or ignore,' is to add hyperbole to distortion...."