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Over the past week, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spent more time on TV trying to “rescue” Republicans from self-destruction than Dr. Anthony Fauci spent trying to save Americans from the latest Covid variant. Of course, the health of American democracy would improve tremendously if Christie’s pleading resonated. This, just as surely as the… Read more.
The Hitz Report cleared the CIA of injecting crack cocaine into cities across America. Well, suspicions abound that big pharma CEOs are manufacturing Covid variants to sell vaccines. And it might take another congressional report to clear them. Pharma CEOs Pushing Covid Vaccines A colleague vented this suspicion about big pharma during a Zoom on Tuesday. Everyone on… Read more.
Russia used “little green men” in Ukraine. China used predatory loans in Uganda. But the effect was the same in both countries: Extraterritorial control! First a little context: You should all have a friend like my old college roommate … One of the many reasons why is that he texted me on Saturday to invite… Read more.
Of course Donald Trump is a racist. But let’s call this spade a spade. President Biden will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other African countries to try to contain a troubling new variant of the coronavirus, senior administration officials said on Friday, though they said it would be impossible to prevent it from… Read more.
Guilty, Guilty, Guilty… And so it went, as the judge read 9 of 9 guilty verdicts for Travis McMichael, the first, and clearly most guilty, of three men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. But I suspect many Blacks (and, to be fair, many whites) were so relieved after hearing that first guilty verdict, they probably… Read more.
Episode 55: Many Recipients Were Unworthy; Many Worthy Candidates Never Received… Related commentaries: famine… Suu Kyi… Democracy Matron… Listen.
Last year, China notoriously disappeared no less a person than Jack Ma, its Jeff Bezos who founded Amazon-like Alibaba, for three months. All indications are that the government detained him for re-education after he got so big for his britches, he thought he could publicly ridicule the ham-handed way apparatchiks were implementing President Xi’s domestic… Read more.
Covid is clearly far more infectious than the flu. And, with a death toll of over 750,000 in the United States and over 5 million worldwide, it is clearly far more deadly. But you’ve probably noticed medical pundits all over the media lately drawing all kinds of comparisons between Covid and the flu. Their apparent… Read more.
Just weeks ago, Europe was hurling moral indignation at the migrant crisis America allowed to unfold under a bridge near the US-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas. As it happened, I alluded to Russian mischief in the title to my commentary on that crisis, namely “Er, VP Harris, the Migrants Are Coming, the Migrants Are… Read more.
