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CDC chief: A third of "breakthrough" infections are asymptomatic and "many" infected don't transmit the virus to others

Celebrities will not have to wear masks at the Oscars while the cameras are on — but they will need to wear them during commercials

Virginia moving to eliminate all accelerated math courses before 11th grade as part of equity-focused plan

Workplace wokeness: The moment I couldn't take it anymore

Mass. Locals Organized to Force Businesses to Embrace BLM

The Courage of Our Convictions - How to fight critical race theory

I still do not know what it is

McCarthy: Derek Chauvin Convicted — but What Comes Next?

Getting Rich in the Diversity Marketplace - Ethnic studies consultants ride a wave of profits across America’s schools and corporate workplaces

Taking Off the Mask - The Department of Education just made it clear that it will promote critical race theory.

Media trust is at an all-time low

Caught Red-Handed: NBC News Busted for Editing Out a Crucial Detail in the 911 Call of the Ohio Shooting

"It was just a schoolyard fight."

Ma’Khia Bryant Police Shooting: Media and Activists Try To Stoke Racial Tension With False Narrative

Dershowitz: The Jury Was 'Under Extraordinary Pressure' To Convict Chauvin

‘I Didn’t Want to Go Through the Rioting’: Juror in Chauvin Trial Makes Stunning Admission over ‘Guilty’ Verdict

China's Fishing Fleet Is Vacuuming the Oceans

Israel intensifying air war in Syria against Iranian encroachment

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re Getting Rich in the Diversity Marketplace - Ethnic studies consultants ride a wave of profits across America’s schools and corporate workplaces

Of course they are.

Graft, rent seeking, acquiring power and influence is what this is all about.

#1 feeblemind on 2021-04-23 08:57 (Reply)

Who could have expected an heroic jury out of Minneapolis; I supposed that was the point of holding the trial there. The competent people, capable of rendering an honest verdict, would also be capable of calculating the risk to their families and livelihoods. Who can blame them for weeding themselves out of the jury.

#2 Exasperated on 2021-04-23 08:58 (Reply)

Let's not forget the jury got doxxed by the media (CBS started it) right before they went into deliberations. Although the story did not specifically identify who they were, it gave enough information to signal to the jury members they could be fully doxxed if they did not come out with the "right" result.

#2.1 Jim on 2021-04-23 15:10 (Reply)

I used to like Andrew McCarthy's thinking and looked forward to coming across his thought pieces, but his writing has become such a stalwart defender of the system I hardly bother anymore.

Pick almost any example: It seems like McCarthy's standards and ethics are so flexible they can be twisted into almost any pretzel, as long as it comes out to fit the narrative in favor of the institutions.

By their collective in-actions and actions, the Judge failed his courtroom, and the two loudmouth politicians failed their oath of office. It's that simple. The jurors failed too, in my opinion, but they rose to the task and that is how our system works.

Chauvin is a nasty piece of work by all accounts, but that doesn't make his trial a fair one - as McCarthy explicitly outlines, - and then excuses. A lot of journalists have parachuted into this outcome eager to tell us how confident we should be that justice has been served. The sad thing is, it might have been, and the only cost would have been a little less showboating.

#3 Aggie on 2021-04-23 10:25 (Reply)

Back when OJ was on trial for murdering his ex-wife and her friend, I was willing to put aside my misgivings and say, "Well, the jury found him not guilty and I have to go along with that finding and trust that the system works and the jury came to the right decision." I don't think anybody trusts the systems any more. And for good reason. Once you've lost that trust, that's the end of a society, it's just every man for himself.

#3.1 Jerryskids on 2021-04-23 10:33 (Reply)

I think in this case, the jury made the worst possible decision (assuming the small subset of the evidence that I'm aware of is as determinative as I thought). An innocent police officer who was following his training will be in prison for the rest of his life - which may not be very long and the mob's influence has been validated and accepted. Expect this scenario to be played out over and over again (often with similar results) all over the country whenever the case involves a black person killed by a policeman. It will put fear in every day people, not just the jury, and the police - to the detriment of those every day people and especially to the detriment of every day black people..

#3.1.1 mudbug on 2021-04-23 13:28 (Reply)

Who was the better general, Grant or Lee?

They faced each other for the first time at The Battle of The Wilderness

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2021/04/21/the-battle-of-the-wilderness-inside-the-lethal-first-encounter-of-grant-and-lee/

#4 feeblemind on 2021-04-23 11:01 (Reply)

The South had the most talented leaders in the field, and I would rank Thomas ‘Stone Wall’ Jackson as the best general. His army literally ran circles around the Union commanders in the Shenandoah campaign. I give the edge to Grant, over Lee, only because playing defense is easier to coordinate than attacking. Lee didn’t fair to well when he invaded Pennsylvania.

That had to be a snide remark, from Lee, when he said, “McClellan by all odds.” With his bumbling around, McClellan, gave victory after victory to the South in the first two years of the war. The war would have been much shorter in duration, if McClellan had the skills of Grant or Lee.

#4.1 B. Hammer on 2021-04-23 12:01 (Reply)

I've always thought of Grant as the better general, the prototypical American general. He might not have been as talented a tactician or a strategist, but he knew he was operating an 800 pound gorilla and knew when you're operating an 800 pound gorilla you don't have to worry about being talented. Grant may have been a butcher, but he could afford to be a butcher, he knew the Union was much stronger than the Confederacy and it was just a matter of slugging it out until the Confederacy collapsed. He didn't try to get fancy.

#4.2 Jerryskids on 2021-04-23 18:36 (Reply)

Workplace wokeness: The moment I couldn't take it anymore: OOOOOOOOH RAH!!!!!

WITCH HUNT: Mass. Locals Organized to Force Businesses to Embrace BLM. Massachushits is shooting its feet off with a 155mm howitzer. Couldn't happen to a nicer state, and Mass clearly isn't "nice".

Critical race theory is fast becoming America’s new institutional orthodoxy. Yet most Americans have never heard of it: I've heard of it, and it's CRAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!

Liar Liar, Media Pants on Fire: I despise, detest, and totally distrust the "media". It/they liiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

DEMOCRATS BRING A GUN TO A KNIFE FIGHT:
And the NYT lies to us again.

#5 Sam L. on 2021-04-23 11:09 (Reply)

re China's Fishing Fleet Is Vacuuming the Oceans

As I have long said, China plays by China's rules.

They will continue the practice of over fishing until someone makes them stop and who has the resources and the fortitude to do that?

This also illustrates how differently China views the natural world compared to the West. It should also be noted that widespread famine is still within living memory in China. They take keeping everyone fed seriously. It has been over 200 years since the West has had a food shortage on such a scale.

It makes for entirely different perspectives relative to the food supply.

#6 feeblemind on 2021-04-23 11:15 (Reply)

Hillsdale College's publication, Imprimus, has a pretty good explanation of Critical Race Theory.

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/critical-race-theory-fight/ or just e-search 'hillsdale critical race theory'.

It all boils down to post-modern, Marxist revolutionary excuses to tear it all down. People who are unhappy with their lives and blame the universe instead of themselves.

#7 Jack Walter on 2021-04-23 11:35 (Reply)

Sorry. The link you have is the same essay that I mentioned, but a different publisher.

#7.1 Jack Walter on 2021-04-23 12:21 (Reply)

Why not have separate police forces for Black people, made up of only Cops of Color?

#8 Marina on 2021-04-23 13:33 (Reply)

Critical race theory, bird dog, " I still do not know what it is "
I hope that was a really bad joke.

#9 Dennis Lukas on 2021-04-23 23:37 (Reply)

Re: Syria

To be honest, I couldn't care less what happens to Syria. That horrible country could disappear tommorow, and it would be fine with me. What a cesspool. Be I still don't like it when the media shops around fake stories. Read this: Capitalizing on a longtime alliance with Syria, Iran is moving parts of its advanced missile and arms industry into pre-existing underground compounds to develop a sophisticated arsenal.

Really? Is Iran going to make F-35 airplanes? Look: If the United States and Israel decide that it's time to give Syria and Iran an ass-whooping, then just go ahead and do it. Everybody is sick and tired of those assholes anyway. The stage is already set for a global shakedown. So I suppose it has to begin somewhere. And when those two crappy little despotic regimes are gone, it will be time to take care of the crappy big despotic regime.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/trump-china-taiwan/

#10 Ron Liebermann on 2021-04-25 03:58 (Reply)

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