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Conservative: Your COVID Dollars at . . . Work?
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) and three co-defendants stand “charged with stealing federal COVID funds” to counterpoint themselves, fund her House marketing campaign and buy bling like a 3.14-carat diamond ring, stories the Washington Examiner’s Byron York. Florida’s Division of Emergency Management erroneously overpaid her her health-care biz an additional $5 million as half of a federal COVID program — and Cherfilus-McCormick & Co. did not report the error, they then used the dough for personal functions and straw donations to her marketing campaign, and lied to the IRS about it. Ah, these days when the feds have been “shoveling billions out the door in the name of COVID relief”: “Who knows how much” was stolen or wasted?
Foreign desk: UK Cops’ Israeli-Smearing Lies
West Midlands Police was “brazenly twisting the truth” when it claimed “Maccabi Tel Aviv fans . . . had thrown ‘innocent members of the public into the river’ in Amsterdam last year” to justify banning Maccabi followers from “their team’s clash with Aston Villa in Birmingham” on Nov. 6, marvels Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill; in reality, “they were accusing Maccabi fans of things that were actually done to them.” Now “Dutch law enforcement is accusing West Midlands Police of using ‘fake claims.’” On the river story: “The only known case, say the Dutch, related to a man who supported Maccabi. He was filmed by his Amsterdam tormentors who said he could leave the freezing water if he said ‘Free Palestine’.” And that’s only one of many WMP ban-justifiying claims that the Dutch say “are simply ‘not true’.” The UK should get to the underside of this “most serious police scandal.”
Housing beat: Cities Aren’t for Everyone
The “Yes in my back yard” strategy has been the “go-to answer to the housing crunch in policy circles” be aware Oren Cass & Daniel Kishi at Commonplace, however faces “obvious limitations” because it “defaults to densifying places where most Americans don’t live or want to move” and treats “suburban growth and single-family neighborhoods” as “problems to fix.” In actuality, most younger people need to “build a decent life in their hometown” and occupy “detached single-family housing.” While “building more in dense metros is fine,” the conservative, mainstream various is “to move opportunity closer to where Americans already live.”
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Health watch: RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vax Weaseling
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been conscripted into” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “anti-vaccine campaign,” fumes The Wall Street Journal editorial board. During affirmation hearings, “RFK Jr. promised not to remove” the header “Vaccines do not cause autism” from the Vaccine Safety web page on the CDC web site “to win Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy’s vote.” But on Wednesday, the CDC up to date the article below that header to learn, “Studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” No, say the Journal editors: “The studies haven’t been ignored. They’ve been examined and found deeply flawed.” “Retaining the header is a lawyerly attempt” by RFK “to keep his word while flouting it in spirit.”
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From the fitting: Dem Ignorance of Dem Extremism
In a sitdown with Bill Maher, Patton Oswalt appeared “genuinely stunned and confused” to be taught “that California law allows birth certificates to list ‘non-binary’ as a designated sex for newborns,” groans Becket Adams at The Hill. The classes: One, Democratic lawmakers undertake “positions so demented that even their supporters refuse to believe they’re real”; two, “many Democratic voters appear to have created a cocoon of ignorance” to keep away from “learning what their party is doing or how it functions.” Indeed, “Pollsters have found that voters will turn against Republicans for describing certain Democratic positions too accurately” as a result of they’re “too awful to believe.” Yet it’s worse that the Democratic base “seems to be in denial about what its elected leaders are doing.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
