Power Line,
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John Hinderaker
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Joe Biden never misses an opportunity to politicize any issue, including the relatively benign Delta Indian variant of Covid. Today, Biden tried to blame Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis–coincidentally, both Republicans–for the Indian variant’s inevitable spread:
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Republican leaders in Florida and Texas – home to roughly a third of all new U.S. COVID-19 cases – to follow public health guidelines on the pandemic or “get out of the way” as the country struggles to contain the rapid spread of the disease’s Delta variant.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has opposed strict COVID-19 restrictions. On Friday, he issued an order blocking
Breitbart,
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John Nolte
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8/3/2021 9:35:36 PM
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Not even the USA winning the gold for all-around gymnastics lifted the ratings for the 2020 Woke Olympics anywhere close to respectable territory.
“NBC said Friday that Thursday’s primetime coverage of the Tokyo Summer Olympics averaged a 10.8 rating and 19.5 million viewers across all of its platforms, down 43% in ratings and 41% in viewership from the comparable night of the Rio Games in 2016 (18.9, 33.0M),” Sports Media Watch reported. “Versus the most recent Olympics, the Pyeongchang Winter Games three years ago, ratings fell 5% and viewership 1% from an 11.4 and 19.3 million.”
“So far, all seven nights of the Olympics have averaged 20 million or fewer viewers
Newsbusters,
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Curtis Houck
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8/3/2021 9:25:02 PM
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The White House press corps continued into Tuesday its strategy to turn their guns toward Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) as, over the course of a press briefing and presidential press conference, numerous reporters urged President Biden and Press Secretary Jen Psaki to declare that DeSantis and fellow Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) were sickening their own citizens with the coronavirus due to their refusal to reimplement restrictions.
CBS’s Nancy Cordes broke the ice by telling Psaki that DeSantis “is taking a very different approach than New York” in not requiring vaccination to enter indoor places as the Sunshine State “hit another record today of Covid cases
National Review,
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Brittany Bernstein
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8/3/2021 8:12:28 PM
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Missouri governor Mike Parson announced Tuesday that he had pardoned Mark McCloskey and Patricia McCloskey, the armed St. Louis couple who confronted Black Lives Matter protesters outside their mansion last year.
The Republican governor pardoned the pair on Friday. Mark McCloskey pleaded guilty in June to misdemeanor fourth-degree assault and was fined $750, while Patricia McCloskey pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment and was fined $2,000.
“Mark McCloskey has publicly stated that if he were involved in the same situation, he would have the exact same conduct,” said Joel Schwartz, the McCloskeys’ lawyer. “He believes that the pardon vindicates that conduct.”
As the charges were misdemeanors
Hot Air,
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Ed Morrissey
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8/3/2021 6:22:33 PM
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The White House points its finger at Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi points it right back to the Biden administration. Progressives blame the CDC. The one point on which everyone agrees is that the collapse of the eviction moratorium is “a mess,” as CBS reporter Weijia Jang notes in this update: Not only are Democrats in disarray over this flop, the infighting between their caucuses has broken out into the open. Progressives lashed out at Joe Biden all day yesterday for not ordering the CDC to take steps that the Supreme Court had already precluded:
Tensions escalated sharply Monday between liberal Democrats and President Biden
CNN,
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President Joe Biden said Tuesday he that his top health agency was planning to announce a new eviction moratorium after he allowed a previous freeze to expire, setting off fury among members of his own party.
The new ban is expected to apply to areas of the country with high or substantial transmission of Covid-19 and last 60 days, according to an official familiar with the matter.
The eviction issue had escalated into a contentious dispute between the White House and progressive Democrats, who accused the President of saddling them with passing an extension at the eleventh hour. Biden’s aides said everyone should have known
Hot Air,
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Allahpundit
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Well, yes. Even to a layman, that was clear. The problem with the Provincetown study and later the studies from Wisconsin and Singapore is that the samples were self-selecting. Instead of taking a random sample of the vaccinated population and assessing who was infected, who was symptomatic, and who had a high viral load capable of infecting others, they looked at vaccinated people who sought testing on their own initiative. (Or, in the Singapore case, actually needed hospital care.) Vaxxed people who feel the need to get tested are likely to do so because they have symptoms, but people with symptoms may have higher viral loads
Washington Examiner,
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David Hogberg
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National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins was forced to backtrack after saying parents should wear masks at home if they have unvaccinated children.
"Let me clarify the masking message that I garbled on this morning [at CNN]," Collins wrote in a tweet Tuesday afternoon. "Vaccinated parents who live in communities with high COVID transmission rates should mask when out in public indoor settings to minimize risks to their unvaccinated kids. No need to mask at home."
Earlier in the day, in an interview on CNN, Collins advocated mask-wearing at home and said, "Parents of unvaccinated kids should be thoughtful about this, and the recommendation is to wear masks there as well.
PJ Media,
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Matt Margolis
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While the Delta variant of COVID is making headlines, Joe Biden is attempting to shore up support from minority voters, a normally solid Democratic voting bloc, in advance of the upcoming midterm elections.
Biden and White House aides are meeting with key figures in the Latino, and Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, reports the Washington Examiner. These are two demographics that Biden and Democrats have been warned they can’t take for granted in 2022, says former Democratic consultant Christopher Hahn.
“I believe they did in 2020, and it almost cost him the election,” Hahn told the Washington Examiner. Hahn is the host of the podcast Aggressive Progressive.
Politico,
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Sarah Harris
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Heather Caygle
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During a closed-door lunch last week with some of his most vulnerable incumbents, House Democrats’ campaign chief delivered a blunt warning: If the midterms were held now, they would lose the majority.
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) followed that bleak forecast, which was confirmed by multiple people familiar with the conversation, with new polling that showed Democrats falling behind Republicans by a half-dozen points on a generic ballot in battleground districts. Maloney advised the party to course-correct ahead of 2022 by doing more to promote President Joe Biden’s agenda, which remains popular with swing voters.
“We are not afraid of this data ... We’re not trying to hide this,”
Associated Press,
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Lolita C. Baldor
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Sagar Meghani
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Washington — An officer died after being stabbed Tuesday during a burst of violence at a transit station outside the Pentagon, and a suspect was shot by law enforcement and died at the scene, officials said.
The Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. military, was temporarily placed on lockdown after gunshots were fired Tuesday morning near the entrance of the building, A Pentagon police officer who was stabbed later died, according to officials who were not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
More details about the violence were expected at a Pentagon news conference.
National Review,
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Zachary Evans
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, among them current and former state employees, in violation of federal and state law, state attorney general Letitia James announced at a press conference on Tuesday.
The announcement represents the conclusions of a months-long probe by the attorney general’s office into sexual harassment allegations made against the governor. Several women have alleged that the governor inappropriately touched them, although Cuomo has denied wrongdoing.
“Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law,” James told reporters. Cuomo and the Executive Chamber cultivated a “toxic” workplace