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In a free and open society we would have a robust public debate on the response to Covid. What we have is censorship of views not acceptable to the government.

Switzerland Stops Recommending COVID-19 Vaccination

“…Swiss authorities have stopped recommending COVID-19 vaccination, including for people who are designated at high risk from COVID-19.

Switzerland’s Federal Office of Public Health now says that “no COVID-19 vaccination is recommended for spring/summer 2023.”

People designated high risk are also not recommended to get a COVID-19 vaccine, authorities said.

They attributed the change to the number of citizens who have received a vaccine, recovered from COVID-19, or both received a vaccine and enjoy natural immunity from post-recovery protection.

“Nearly everyone in Switzerland has been vaccinated and/or contracted and recovered from COVID-19. Their immune system has therefore been exposed to the coronavirus. In spring/summer 2023, the virus will likely circulate less. The current virus variants also cause rather mild illness,” Swiss health officials said.

Seroprevalence data from mid-2022 showed that more than 98 percent of the Swiss population had antibodies against the COVID-19 virus, indicating that people had immunity from prior infection, vaccination, or both…”

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The law as politics. There is no choice now.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ramps up Biden admin lawsuit over $1.6 trillion spending package

Paxton filed an injunction to prevent ‘millions of dollars from going to illegal immigrants in Texas’

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National Democrats urge Biden to disregard the law. The law only applies to Democrats when Democrats say it does.

Also Wyden:

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Ocasio-Cortez: Supreme Court ‘No Longer Has Legitimacy’

Can you imagine the outrage if a Republican said this kind of bullshit?

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The effects of Democrat policies and the lies they concoct to cover them up…

California’s Attacks on Big Oil Will Only Drive More People Out of the State

“…California does indeed have the highest gasoline prices in the nation. Those prices have fallen quite a bit in recent months to $4.82 a gallon. That’s still $1.38 a gallon higher than the national average—and $1.70 a gallon higher than in Texas. Oil companies are national operations, so a normal person might wonder why those companies are so much greedier in California than they are elsewhere.

The answer isn’t hard to find. For starters, California has the highest gas taxes in the nation. (We also get the least bang for our buck given the state of our freeways, but that’s a separate issue.) Those higher taxes instantly make our gasoline 48 cents a gallon higher than in Texas. There’s still a pricing gap, but despite officials’ blathering about a “mystery gas surcharge” here in California, it’s not a mystery at all.

“California’s tough environmental rules mandate that gasoline sold within the state be produced according to strict formulas that reduce pollution,” per a Los Angeles Times analysis. “But the gas is more expensive and difficult to produce than dirtier fuel sold elsewhere. Few refineries outside the state are equipped to produce it.” The report adds the number of California refineries is plummeting and our state has no interstate pipelines, thus forcing us to rely on costlier forms of transportation…”

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Matt Taibbi eviscerates the garbage at MSNBC. Destroys them.

Eat Me, MSNBC

The piece is too long to summarize here. I recommend clicking over for a liberal journalist’s detailed take down of the fakery and Trump obsession from the usual suspects.

I estimate that I disagree with Taibbi on many issues. I respect real journalism and truth telling without regard to which side gets hurt and without regard to the politics of the journalist, assuming personal politics do not color the reporting.

There are few real journalists left. Taibbi is one of them. As is Glenn Greenwald.

 

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Trump takes commanding lead among Republican candidates…

Donald Trump Expands Dominating Lead over DeSantis to 37 Points

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I have no sympathy for NPR being labelled state-affiliated-media. They are a partisan monoculture as predictable as they are liberal.

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Ideologues. Blindly partisan advocates of insanity. It is another Democrat cult.

Biden tries to supersede all state laws with new Federal Title IX rule on Trannies

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More evidence that the Biden Administration is staffed with nincompoop ideologues. Can mismanagement of the federal government get worse?

Pentagon Investigates More Social-Media Posts Purporting to Include Secret U.S. Documents

“Pentagon reeling, powerless to stop leaks”

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The idiots in Chicago voted for continued failure and that’s what they got – continued failure at an accelerated pace in an all-out race to total destruction.

Newly-Elected Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Declares Blacks Should Be Free To LOOT Without Fear Of Criminal Prosecution

“…Brandon Johnson, the newly elected mayor of Chicago, has stated that in order to combat “white supremacy,” black people should no longer be subject to criminal prosecution and be taken out of “state-sponsored policing.”…”

Chicago looting:

 

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Andrew McCarthy on the garbage indictment of Trump…

Bragg’s case against Trump is utterly incoherent

“…Alvin Bragg alleges that Donald Trump defrauded voters into electing him president on November 8, 2016.

Alvin Bragg also alleges that the first crime Donald Trump committed occurred on February 14, 2017.

Are you seeing the problem here?

There may not be enough space in the mega-verse to describe the sundry flaws in the Manhattan district attorney’s indictment against the former president of the United States.

It fails, despite its 34 counts, to state a crime. It is time-barred under the statute of limitations.

Bragg is attempting to enforce either federal election laws that a state prosecutor lacks jurisdiction to enforce or state election laws that do not apply to US presidential elections.

The DA’s biggest problem, however, is that his indictment is utterly incoherent.

As a standard-issue Trump-deranged progressive Democrat, Bragg naturally cannot accept that Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election because she was a historically bad candidate. Ergo, the election must have been stolen from her.

The thief, Bragg deduces, was Trump, who stole the election by sinister fraudulent schemes.

There’s just one thing: The only schemes Bragg accuses Trump of carrying out prior to the 2016 election are non-disclosure agreements. More darkly stated, the NDAs were hush-money deals to silence people who were otherwise poised to reveal information that would have damaged Trump politically.

Yet there is nothing illegal about NDAs. They are a staple of civil litigation and private negotiations. And while some of the underlying information, if revealed, would have portrayed Trump in an unsavory way, none of that information involved illegal activity.

In fact, to the extent anything was even on the edge of a crime, Trump was a victim — the NDAs happened because people made extortionate threats to humiliate him if they did not get their paydays.

As a good woke progressive, Bragg is upset because this is Donald Trump we’re talking about, so if embarrassing information about him was kept under wraps prior to Election Day, that simply must be a crime.

But since Bragg well knows, however much it grates on him, that NDAs are not crimes, the DA is left to make up crimes to fit his fever dream of a stolen 2016 election.

He tries to do this by taking a single transaction — Trump’s reimbursement to Michael Cohen of the $130,000 Cohen paid to Stormy Daniels to stay mum about an alleged 2006 fling — and ludicrously slicing it into 34 transactions, each of which he brands as felony falsification of business records.

The transaction in question may have been accounted for inaccurately. It was the reimbursement of a loan from a lawyer, but it was booked to look as if legal fees had been paid.

But no one was harmed by this. These were records of Trump’s own privately held companies, and even Bragg does not claim that Trump committed tax evasion or cheated someone out of money or property.

Leave all that aside, though.

Even if this bookkeeping amounted to fraud crimes that Bragg could prove (and it doesn’t), the transactions in question could not possibly have had the slightest impact on the 2016 election. They didn’t occur until months later — specifically, from February 14 through December 5, 2017.

What’s more, even if Bragg had jurisdiction to enforce federal campaign finance law (he doesn’t), and even if Bragg were correct that the hush-money payments were in-kind campaign contributions that had to be disclosed to the Federal Election Commission (he isn’t), the NDAs he alleges happened late in the 2016 campaign cycle.

That means Trump’s campaign would not have had to make an FEC disclosure until several months into 2017. Again, there could not conceivably have been any impact on the 2016 election…”

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Higher education…

Fired DEI whistleblower details attacks she faced for defending Jews, different religions: Colleagues also told Lee her diversity project was ‘unacceptable’ because it wasn’t about ‘decentering whiteness.’

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This guy has some good ideas. He has an important voice.

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Woke science is political science is bad science. This should be obvious. Woke stupidity has nothing to do with science.

Scholars say DEI is having a potentially disastrous impact on the hard sciences

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Life among Democrats – California edition…

California would pass law to include accents and ‘ñ’ of Hispanic names in official documents

Democrats resolving the critical issues in California.

Doug Santo