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COVID Enforcers Try to Shut Down Packed Restaurant, Realize Their Grave Mistake When the Patrons Themselves Step In

Customers at a restaurant in Vancouver, British Columbia, stood in solidarity to eject authoritarian health inspectors who tried to shut down the eatery while they were dining. The brouhaha was captured on a viral video posted to Reddit. It’s the latest incident in a growing movement around the world showing how people are fed up…

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Nearly Half of All New US COVID Cases Are Coming from 5 States

Remember “Neanderthal thinking?” It’s a moment worth remembering, because it sums up the problem with the Biden administration’s approach to fighting COVID-19. It’s one that I revisit frequently, even though it happened over a month ago. In early March, two states — Mississippi and Texas — removed all mask mandates and occupancy limits, trusting its…

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Space Jam 2 Cut a Cartoon Skunk Over Sexism Fears, But Added a Gang of Murderous Rapists

Adult fans of the “Space Jam” franchise — they exist, and I never want to meet them — are worked up into a digital lather about the trailer for “Space Jam 2: A New Legacy” because LeBron James’ fictional cartoon team is too strong. I don’t remember much about the original 1996 cartoon/live animation hybrid…

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NFL Player Kills 5 Then Himself…


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The gunman who killed five people including a prominent doctor in South Carolina was former NFL player Phillip Adams, who killed himself early Thursday, according to a source who was briefed on the investigation.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly, said Adams’ parents live near the doctor’s home in Rock Hill, and that he had been treated by the doctor. The source said Adams killed himself after midnight with a .45-caliber weapon.

The York County Sheriff’s Office said they had searched for hours before finding the suspect in a nearby home.

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New CBP Border Crossing Numbers Released Today — And They’re Just SHOCKING!


One of the lost children apprehended at the border in April.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) today released operational statistics for March 2021, which can be viewed here.

Joe Biden’s open border policies have created a massive crisis on the US Southern border.
And today the numbers reveal what we all knew would happen.

Here are the March 2021 numbers (blue line) for single adults apprehended at the border.

And here are the numbers for unaccompanied children (blue line) apprehended at the US border.

Nearly 20,000 unaccompanied minors were apprehended at the border in March!

It took Joe Biden and Democrats just three months to destroy our borders and allow illegal migrants and fake refugees to flood into America.

This is a man-made crisis all thanks to Joe Biden and his handlers.

It’s clear that they cannot blame this on President Trump!

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He Questioned Microaggressions. Then His University Gaslit Him, Claiming He Was A Threat, And Suspended Him From Campus

In one of the most bizarre campus stories in recent memory, a medical student at the University of Virginia posed mildly skeptical questions about microaggressions to a university panel. Afterward, his school claimed he was hostile, implied he was disrespectful to authority and a threat to future patients, and began investigating him. As anyone in this situation would, the student was confused and frustrated by the school’s actions. The school then used that confusion and frustration to further claim the student was unstable.

Impossible to believe? Well, Reason’s Robby Soave has the facts.

Kieran Bhattacharya, a student attending UVA’s School of Medicine, attended a panel discussion on October 25, 2018, regarding microaggressions, a term used to claim unintentionally rude comments are actually bigotry. During that panel, Bhattacharya asked some pointed questions to presenter Beverly Cowell Adams, an assistant dean at UVA, about the definition of microaggressions. Here’s a description of the exchange, from Bhattacharya’s lawsuit against UVA:

Bhattacharya: Hello. Thank you for your presentation. I had a few questions just to clarify your definition of microaggressions. Is it a requirement, to be a victim of microaggression, that you are a member of a marginalized group?

Adams: Very good question. And no. And no—
Bhattacharya: But in the definition, it just said you have to be a member of a marginalized group—in the definition you just provided in the last slide. So that’s contradictory.

Adams: What I had there is kind of the generalized definition. In fact, I extend it beyond that. As you see, I extend it to any marginalized group, and sometimes it’s not a marginalized group. There are examples that you would think maybe not fit, such as body size, height, [or] weight. And if that is how you would like to see me expand it, yes, indeed, that’s how I do.

Bhattacharya: Yeah, follow-up question. Exactly how do you define marginalized and who is a marginalized group? Where does that go? I mean, it seems extremely nonspecific.

Adams: And—that’s intentional. That’s intentional to make it more nonspecific … .

After the initial exchange, Bhattacharya challenged Adams’s definition of microaggression. He argued against the notion that “the person who is receiving the microaggressions somehow knows the intention of the person who made it,” and he expressed concern that “a microaggression is entirely dependent on how the person who’s receiving it is reacting.” Id. He continued his critique of Adams’s work, saying, “The evidence that you provided—and you said you’ve studied this for years—which is just one anecdotal case—I mean do you have, did you study anything else about microaggressions that you know in the last few years?” Id. After Adams responded to Bhattacharya’s third question, he asked an additional series of questions: “So, again, what is the basis for which you’re going to tell someone that they’ve committed a microaggression? … Where are you getting this basis from? How are you studying this, and collecting evidence on this, and making presentations on it?”

As Soave reported, Nora Kern, an assistant professor who helped organize the panel, considered Bhattacharya’s questions to be inappropriate, and filed a “professionalism concern card” against him, which Soave described as “a kind of record of a student’s violations of university policy.”

In her complaint, Kern wrote that Bhattacharya “asked a series of questions that were quite antagonistic toward the panel.”

“He pressed on and stated one faculty member was being contradictory. His level of frustration/anger seemed to escalate until another faculty member defused the situation by calling on another student for questions. I am shocked that a med student would show so little respect toward faculty members. It worries me how he will do on wards,” she added.

This concern card, according to Bhattacharya’s lawsuit, caused other administrators to be concerned about his behavior. An assistant dean from the medical school emailed the student asking to meet, assuring him “I simply want to help you understand and be able to cope with unintended consequences of conversations.”

Bhattacharya informed the dean that he had not shown hostility toward the panel.

“Your observed discomfort of me from wherever you sat was not at all how I felt. I was quite happy that the panel gave me so much time to engage with them about the semantics regarding the comparison of microaggressions and barbs. I have no problems with anyone on the panel; I simply wanted to give them some basic challenges regarding the topic. And I understand that there is a wide range of acceptable interpretations on this. I would be happy to meet with you at your convenience to discuss this further,” Bhattacharya wrote.

During their meeting, according to Bhattacharya’s lawsuit, the dean asked him about his “views on various social and political issues—including sexual assault, affirmative action, and the election of President Trump.”

After this exchange, the dean of student affairs asked for a meeting with Bhattacharya. At the same time, UVA’s Academic Standards and Achievement Committee discussed Kern’s concern card, voting to instruct Bhattacharya to “show mutual respect” to faculty members and to “express yourself appropriately.” The committee also suggested Bhattacharya seek counseling.

A month after the panel, Bhattacharya was informed that he was banned from classes until he was evaluated by a psychologist.

“Bhattacharya repeatedly asked university officials to clarify what exactly he was accused of, under whose authority his counseling had been mandated, and why his enrollment status was suddenly in doubt, according to the lawsuit. These queries only appear to have made UVA officials more determined to punish him: Bhattacharya’s mounting frustration with these baseless accusations of unspecified wrongdoings was essentially treated as evidence that he was guilty. At his hearing, he was accused of being ‘extremely defensive’ and ordered to change his ‘aggressive, threatening behavior,’” Soave wrote.

Bhattacharya was suspended for allegedly “aggressive and inappropriate interactions in multiple situations.” By the end of 2018, UVA police told him to leave campus.

Soave argued that UVA essentially engaged in “gaslighting” Bhattacharya:

UVA’s administration engaged in behavior that can be described as “gaslighting.” Administrators asserted that Bhattacharya had behaved aggressively when he hadn’t, and then cited his increasing confusion, frustration, and hostility toward the disciplinary process as evidence that he was aggressive. And all of this because Bhattacharya asked an entirely fair question about microaggressions, a fraught subject.

Bhattacharya sued, alleging UVA violated his First Amendment rights when it retaliated against him for asking unfavorable questions. UVA attempted to have the case dismissed, arguing in its motion to dismiss that “Offensive student speech does not enjoy First Amendment protection,” author and history professor K.C. Johnson reported on Twitter.

U.S. District Court Judge Norman K. Moon — a President Bill Clinton appointee — dismissed UVA’s claims and ruled that Bhattacharya’s lawsuit can move forward.

“Bhattacharya sufficiently alleges that Defendants retaliated against him,” Moon wrote. “Indeed, they issued a Professionalism Concern Card against him, suspended him from UVA Medical School, required him to undergo counseling and obtain ‘medical clearance’ as a prerequisite for remaining enrolled, and prevented him from appealing his suspension or applying for readmission.”

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Why The Silence In The Face Of COVID Tyranny?

Why The Silence In The Face Of COVID Tyranny?

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From the indispensable Lockdown Sceptics I learned recently of this job ad in Britain:

This is an exciting role for an experienced communications professional and offers the opportunity to work at the heart of the Department of Health. The role is a senior leadership role within the NHS Communications team and may offer the first step in developing a possible future career in a senior communication role in the Civil Service.

You will primarily be responsible for delivering a communications strategy to support the expansion of asymptomatic testing that normalises testing as part of everyday life. The role offers the opportunity to work with a wide variety of stakeholders across the public and private sector and provide communi-cations [sic] support to our marketing campaigns.

Note especially the words that I’ve bolded and italicized.

Because I was alerted to this ad by Lockdown Sceptics’s collection of links to Covid-19 developments, several of which are to news items about the coming regime of vaccine passports – and also because by now humanity has been subject to more than a year of the devilment unleashed by Covid Derangement Syndrome – this ad didn’t surprise me. What did surprise me, however, is my lack of surprise.

Had I encountered this ad any time before mid-March of 2020 I would have been stunned, stupefied, staggered. The revelation that British health authorities are seeking to make the testing of asymptomatic people a normal part of everyday life – and that an effort is underway to propagandize in support of this grotesque invasion of privacy and infringement of freedom – would have sent me first to Google to ensure that this ad isn’t a hoax. Discovering, to my horror, it to be genuine, I’d have then blasted out from my keyboard a furious protest.

But encountering the ad in early April of 2021 sparks no surprise at all. Such a violation of liberty is a predictable part of what David Hart calls the “hygiene socialism” that has descended upon much of humanity over the past 13 months.

How sad. How tragic.

Reading this ad makes me ask yet again: Where are the friends of freedom now? Why do so many remain silent in the face of this monstrous battering of liberty and civilization? I truly do not understand today’s muteness of so many once-reliable and eloquent voices for freedom – voices that in the past unfailingly warned of the preposterous pretenses of government officials, as well as of these officials’ perverse incentives.

I continue to believe that it’s not my place to pass judgment on other people’s silence. But I can avoid passing judgment while nevertheless seeking to understand this silence. Here’s what I suspect – I emphasize suspect – is going on in the minds of the many libertarians, classical liberals, and free-market conservatives who are quiet on Covid tyranny.

Association with Trump

In the Spring of 2020 the mainstream media and most elite voices were already primed by their aggressive hatred of Donald Trump to lay the blame for any amount of suffering from Covid squarely on Trump.

In their minds, Trump’s failure to have the national government do even more than it did to restrict freedom in the name of fighting Covid is the major source of Covid’s spread among Americans.

The reality here doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter that the U.S. President has no constitutional power to unilaterally lock down a country in any way similar to how Boris Johnson locked down Great Britain, or how Gov. Gretchen Whitmer locked down Michigan and how many other governors locked down their states. 

It doesn’t matter that Trump – foolishly, in my view – gave a prominent perch to pro-lockdowners Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx to convey out-of-context, and sometimes even intentionally false, information about the disease. It doesn’t matter that a great deal of evidence has been assembled showing that lockdowns have little or no impact on the spread of the coronavirus.

It doesn’t even matter that Trump did indeed issue a long series of truly idiotic claims about Covid. He was so despised that no matter what he did or said (short of “I resign immediately”), he was destined from the start to be cast as the villain upon whom the blame for Covid must be pinned.

Further fueling the Trump-is-to-blame narrative is the perceived association of people on the political right in general, and of Trumpians in particular, with hostility to science. This essay isn’t the place to explore the justice of this association; I here make only three summary points. First, what many people on the political left treat as settled science is, in fact, not. Second, many people on the political left are no less wont than are people on the political right to ignore science – especially, but not only, economic science – when doing so furthers their political ends. Third, what ultimately must determine how trade-offs are made is not, and cannot be, science; instead, it’s human value judgments. While public policy should be informed by science, public policy cannot possibly be determined by science. Anyone who says or suggests otherwise understands neither science nor society.

None of the above matters. What matters is only that Trump was associated, whether accurately or inaccurately, with opposition to lockdowns and other restrictions imposed in the name of combating Covid. This association is bolstered by the fact that there is more resistance to lockdowns and mandated mask-wearing in red states than in blue states. Because Trump and the Republican party today are also assumed to be at the “unscientific” pole of American politics and ideology, the illogical conclusion is drawn that Covid lockdowns and restrictions – perceived as being anti-Trumpian – must therefore be pro-science and, hence, rational and justified.

I suspect that many of these now-curiously-silent friends of liberty genuinely believe that right-wing opposition to lockdowns and to Covid hysteria is itself sufficient proof of the worthiness of Covid lockdowns and of intense fear of Covid. Others of these friends of liberty might harbor silent doubts about the lockdowns and Covid hysteria, but are reluctant to publicly express these doubts out of fear that they’ll be perceived as being Trumpian Neanderthals.

Of course, each now-curiously-silent friend of liberty has his or her own unique set of reasons for remaining mute in the face of the ongoing appalling assault on liberty. Undoubtedly, my ‘allergic-to-anything-Trumpian’ explanation offered here doesn’t explain the silence of everyone. Some silent individuals sincerely (if, in my mind, inexplicably) do believe that Covid-19 poses such a uniquely grave threat to humanity that we have no good alternative to allowing the state to lock us down, to mask us, and to otherwise restrict our activities for as long as the state determines is necessary – no questions asked.

Some other individuals might be drawn into silence for reasons that I can’t begin to guess.

But I worry that much of the silence today of many friends of liberty is rooted in nothing more solid than the tenuous identification of lockdown opposition with Trumpism. The detestation of Trump is so intense that it overrides the common-sense understanding that, as president, Trump did not possess powers of the sort that King Canute boasted. And the desire to distance oneself from Trump and his followers is so strong that it seemingly blinds many people to the inexcusable destruction of liberty and civilization now underway.

Do not infer from the above that I’m a fan of Trump. I most certainly am not. I’ve been highly critical of him from the start. But when one weighs whatever is the quantum of tyranny that might realistically be ascribed to Trump against the quanta of tyranny that infest and fuel Covid lockdowns, mask mandates, school closures, and the Covid hysteria still being stirred up by government officials, the tyranny of the Covidocracy is far, far greater than was the tyranny of Trump.

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Is CBS… Racist? Network Touted GA Boycott, Now Pushing Masters Tournament on CBS

Is CBS… racist? After spending a week promoting the far-left boycott of Georgia, as well as lobbying for companies to join it, CBS This Morning on Thursday dropped everything to run nearly seven minutes of coverage of the opening ceremonies of The Masters golf tournament (located in Augusta, Georgia). Apparently paying the bills for network is a higher priority for the hypocritical journalists. Or, according to CBS’s own standards… could the network just afraid to oppose bigotry? 
Co-host Gayle King used the 8 AM hour to promote The Masters on CBS and still push the boycott: “[The tournament] begins under a cloud of controversy over Georgia’s restrictive new voting law as we’ve been telling you about all week now. Major League Baseball moved the all-star game out of Atlanta last week in response to the measure. ViacomCBS, that’s us, is one of many companies publicly opposing the voting law.”
 
 
It’s not a shock that CBS This Morning’s parent company is officially opposing the law. The show’s journalists have been doing it on-air. On March 31, King repeatedly pushed African American CEOs to join the boycott.
Talking to a former CEO of Xerox, she demanded, “Ursula Burns, there was no call for a boycott even though other people are calling for boycotts. Why was the decision not to go that far?” After reading a quote from a full page ad appearing in The New York Times, King underlined, “But they do not call for an outright boycott of the state.”
Last Saturday, CBS “News” was forced to delete a tweet advocating how companies can oppose Georgia Republicans.
Still though, the cross-promotion must continue. King on Thursday cheered, “CBS Sports will broadcast The Masters as it’s done for more than 60 years." "That history there,” she marveled. The morning show then played introductory ceremonies of The Masters for 6 minutes and 34 seconds. CBS can’t even live up to its own far-left standards.
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CBS This Morning
4/8/2021
8:14 AM ET
GAYLE KING: [Masters theme plays.] You recognize that music? The 85 Augusta Masters tournament is under way in Georgia.
TONY DOKOUPIL: Beautiful. Beautiful.
KING: It begins under a cloud of controversy over Georgia’s restrictive new voting law as we’ve been telling you about all week now. Major League Baseball moved the all-star game out of Atlanta last week in response to the measure. ViacomCBS, that’s us, is one of many companies publicly opposing the voting law. CBS Sports will broadcast the masters as it’s done for more than 60 years. That history there. This year the masters is honoring 86-year-old Lee Elder. That’s a good thing. In 1975, Elder became the first black man to compete in the tournament. That was a monumental moment for the sport. Augusta National Golf Club Chairman Fred Ridley officially began the tournament morning along with golf great Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Lee Elder, at the honorary starter ceremony.
DOKOUPIL: There’s so much iconic about that the —
[Cuts to the opening ceremonies of The Masters.]

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