Powerline blog's regular "Week in Pictures" included this cartoon by Gary Markstein:
Sunday, August 1, 2021
Saturday, July 31, 2021
Rand Paul endorses Mike Gibbons
Our household gets regular emails from Sen. Rand Paul (we are on lots of mailing lists). Whether you like him or not, Sen. Paul has certainly been stepping up to the plate in challenging Anthony Fauci, especially on gain-of-function research on the Wuhan virus and the ties between Fauci and the Wuhan lab. Here's Sen. Paul's message:
Only one thing is stopping Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer from implementing their radical agenda - our hold on the Senate.They are already plotting their 2022 election plans to expand their majority...Fortunately, my friend Mike Gibbons could foil all of their plans.Mike Gibbons is running for Senate in an open seat in Ohio that Biden and Harris DESPERATELY need to win if they wish to keep the Senate in 2022.I am personally endorsing Mike Gibbons because he is fighting for our shared values and he is a man of principle.
- Putting an END to Critical Race Theory and cancel culture
- Fighting for an America-First agenda
- Securing our borders
- Standing up for the Second Amendment and for the rights of the unborn
You know what I like most about Mike Gibbons? He is not a politician and has worked hard all of his life and achieved the American Dream.Growing up, he had a paper route. Later, he operated a bandsaw on a factory floor in Ohio. He poured concrete. He sacrificed and worked hard to create a livelihood and provide for his family.It wasn’t until age 37 he opened up his own business above a dentist’s office. Since then, Mike Gibbons has achieved success beyond his wildest dreams.Now, he’s decided to run for Senate to fight for the Bill of Rights, an America-First agenda, and for liberty.What’s at stake? The left is attempting to rewrite American history, silence our voices, and control our schools.The reality is I need back up in the U.S. Senate against Biden and his cronies to stop this madness.
Sen. Paul then makes another fund-raising pitch for Mr. Gibbons, and should you be interested in looking into Mr. Gibbons's campaign, click here.
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Friday, July 30, 2021
Some Cuyahoga County voting places have changed for Tuesday’s primary
About 14,000 registered voters in
Beachwood, Broadview Heights, Richmond Heights and Cleveland’s Wards 7 and 15
will have to vote in new locations when they cast ballots in Tuesday’s special
primary election, the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections said Friday.
The primary will determine the
Democratic and Republican nominees to fill the congressional seat that
Democratic former U.S. Rep. Marcia Fudge of Warrensville Heights vacated to
head the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Click here for details.
Thursday, July 29, 2021
CDC : another about-face on COVID "guidelines"
Here’s Tony Perkins at Patriot Post
CDC: Why Mask? Don’t Ask
The CDC’s latest decision “is just going to create more vaccine hesitancy. It’s going to backfire.”
On Tuesday, new CDC guidance
directed vaccinated persons to wear masks indoors over most of the country, and
urged everyone in K-12 schools to wear masks in the fall. The guidance reversed
the rules the CDC issued earlier this year, which recognized that people
vaccinated against COVID-19 do not need to wear masks because they are immune,
at least to its most harmful effects.
“Why do people who have the vaccine
need to now wear masks the same as people who have not had it?” That’s the
question Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.
Psaki’s response was telling, “Because the public health leaders in our
administration have made the determination.” That response was not much
different from a parent looking upon a questioning child with, “because I said
so.” But there is one big difference, Americans aren’t children, we are
rational adults with a responsibility to hold the government accountable. Why
won’t the Biden administration give us a straight answer?
Apparently, because they don’t have
one. . . .
Full report is here.
RELATED: And here's Nick Arama at RedState : “Get Ready for the Whiplash With What CDC Director Says About 'Two Weeks'” [my emphasis]
Here we go all over again.
The CDC has flipped and is once again recommending that people go back to wearing
masks, even if fully vaccinated, in areas where the Delta variant is “surging”
(which they are defining as most of the country). As my colleague Kate Paul
Dillon wrote earlier, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky claimed data
showed some vaccinated people could be infected with the Delta variant and
spread it to others, but didn’t show her work as to that data.
Walensky was making the round on
the shows and it was like a throwback to last year in what they were trying to
sell us.
According to the AP, Dr. Walensky told “CBS This Morning”
something that may sound awfully familiar.
“We can halt the chain of
transmission,” she said. “We can do something if we unify together, if we get
people vaccinated who are not yet vaccinated, if we mask in the interim, we can
halt this in just a matter of a couple of weeks.”
Oh, my, suddenly, we’re back to “15
days to slow the spread” more than a year later. We were told that 16 months
ago. How did that work out when we acceded to that before? . . .
Full article is here.
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LeBron Graffiti
Citizen Free Press has the image:
AKRON, Ohio — Vandals defaced a mural dedicated to LeBron James and his role in the Space Jam sequel. The unidentified vandal spray-painted the words “LA FLOP” across the mural Monday, along with a red clown nose, Akron police spokesman Lt. Michael Miller said.
. . .
2016 seems so far away. Sad.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Masks or injections? What works?
JD Rucker at The
Liberty Daily:
. . . this particular Tweet by The Blaze’s Daniel Horowitz stands
alone. In response to the unhinged actions by the CDC to reverse themselves on
mask guidelines, Horowitz said this:
Only the sick governing elites can
look you in the eye with a straight face and force experimental injections on u
because masks didn’t work while simultaneously forcing masks on you because the
injections didn’t work.
Boom.
So-o-o-o this is all Kabuki Theater.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Americans, Choose Freedom and Take Off the Mask
Michael Walsh posted his commentary “Americans, Choose
Freedom and Take Off the Mask” at The Epoch Times. Here’s the opening:
In the midst of an 8,000-mile car
trip around the formerly United—and now fractured—States of America, I
arrived in Southern California a couple of weeks ago, just in time to fall
victim to an indoor mask mandate jackbooted by Los Angeles County in the
interests of leftist conformity, virtue signaling, and general fascist
stupidity.
From New England, where my journey
started, to central Florida and back again, thence from the Northeast to the
Golden State by way of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia,
Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, my drive was
almost entirely mask-free, except for the occasional “Karen” sightings,
sporting their slave muzzles as badges of submissive honor. It wasn’t until I
got to Gallup, New Mexico, that masks and
their ugly companions, closed restaurants taped up like crime scenes, became
evident.
And then I got to Los Angeles—and
once again, here in sunny SoCal, I got a glimpse into America’s future, unless
we finally put an emphatic stop to this unconstitutional and irrational
madness. To put it in terms that even an Antifa progressive can understand, and
which conservatives need to adopt, we need to start resisting by any means
necessary.
The collapse of personal autonomy
and individual agency in the face of an onslaught of punitive,
soul-corroding COVID-19 restrictions has been perhaps the most
frightening and depressing development in modern American history. Given its
minuscule—barely a blip above normal—death toll, COVID-19 is as close to a hoax
as can be imagined. Advertised relentlessly as the second coming of the Black
Death, it is instead the New Coke of viral diseases.
The damage it has done, however, is
still considerable—not to the nation’s health but to its economy and, more
important, to its psyche. Our country of yeoman farmers began disappearing into
urbanism in the aftermath of the Civil War, but it was not until the twin
catastrophes of World Wars I and II that authoritarian collectivism began to
supplant personal initiative and liberty.
The postwar injection of Marxist
poison by the red-diaper scholars of the Frankfurt School into our educational system is now
serving to finish the transformation of our country into a third-rate, 1930s
socialist fantasy.
. . .
Mr. Walsh expands on his comments here. He is particularly critical of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
RELATED: "Natural Immunity 700% Better Than the Vaccine" by Dr. Joseph Mercola at NOQ: click here.
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