https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667193X22002010

Yet another study which adjusts for every known demographic risk factor finds that living in a “conservative” Congressional district significantly increases your risk of death from Covid. In the words of the authors . . .

“In the context of adult vaccine availability, the higher the exposure to conservatism across several political metrics, the higher the COVID-19 age-standardized mortality rates, even after taking into account the districts’ social characteristics.”

Maybe someone should do something about people spreading deadly disinformation?

Source: The American Spectator.

The story explains how the death of J. Edgar Hoover and the shock of 9/11 helped transform the FBI.

Is domestic intelligence a legitimate function of government? I don’t think so. Once you start down that slippery slope, falling down to the bottom becomes all but inevitable.

 PM Twitter files 6 Improper ties to FBI 

The FBI treated Twitter as a subsidiary agency, including blatant 1st Amendment violations. 

Daily Caller CDC deletes data at request of Gun Control Group 

The CDC, at the request of gun control advocates, removed data on defensive use of firearms for no reason other than the Gun Violence Archive claimed the numbers made it hard to pass gun control laws. 

Due to different methodologies, the range of defensive uses was wide, from 60,000 instances in which a gun was actually used. to 2.5 million counting cases where the presence of a firearm was only displayed or implied. Even the low estimate is 4 times the fatal criminal uses. 

But on the request of the GVA the estimates of defensive uses were omitted entirely. 

The CDC and the government as a whole are the enemies of truth, but claim they are the arbiters of what is misinformation. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-suspends-accounts-several-journalists/

That did not take long.

WSJ Freelink Jewishness 

Posted without comment because it is something I did not know about and thought Mr Green might find it interesting. 

Yesterday, Donald Trump said he would be making a “big announcement” today. People speculated everything from announcing a running mate to announcing a new book. But nobody… absolutely nobody, expected this!

Better hurry and send him your $99! Those trading cards will be “gone soon.”

https://legiscan.com/VA/bill/HB1395/2023

These “Christians” are never going to stop chipping away at women’s rights.

https://tinyurl.com/yupd6mmu

Brilliant politician Ron DeSantis shows how thoroughly he understand the MAGA-Republican Party.

With Donald Trump faltering, Governor DeSantis is the putative front-runner for the next GOP Presidential nomination. Adding anti-vaxxers to the current “deplorables” coalition is undoubtedly a shrewd step for someone looking to win MAGA-Republican primaries.

Was there ever better evidence of a moribund party in collapse than this nonsense and abuse of prosecutorial power?

The 5th Estate as a check on the 4th Estate 

Twitter 2.0 can prove to be very valuable if it remains neutral. You can tell how useful by how desperately the MSM tries to ignore it and how intensely the former dictators of the public square seek to disparage it.