The editors of one the leading (and still reasonably sane) conservative magazines in the country is calling for Joe Biden to relieve Dr. Anthony Fauci of his “duties at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as chief medical adviser...
Anthony Fauci
U.S. Senators on the Senate Health Committee who seem to care less about public health
In case you didn’t see it, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease official, testified yesterday before a Senate health committee hearing. Here is his exchange with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul: Here is Fauci last night on CNN: Here...
Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s pro-vaccination op-ed praises Trump and trashes the “because the science says so crowd”
The former former Trump press secretary and gubernatorial candidate is calling her fellow Arkansans to take the vaccine. Only 35.62% of the Arkansas’s population is vaccinated. Only Mississippi and Alabama have lower vaccination rates. As expected, Huckabee Sanders is incapable...
“There’s nothing like a near-death experience to serve as a wake-up call.” Unless you’re Donald Trump.
Damian Paletta and Yasmeen Abutaleb are the authors of the forthcoming Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History. In an excerpt published at The Washington Post, we learn that Trump’s case of COVID-19 was...
Trump may have hit a new low last night
Here is the AP: Former President Donald Trump on Thursday defended some of his supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, saying they posed “zero threat” to the lawmakers who had assembled there to certify the Electoral...
Fauci: “When it became clear that in order to maintain my integrity and to get the right message I had to publicly disagree with [Trump], he did things—or allowed things to happen—that were terrible.”
Here is James Ross at The Daily Beast: Dr. Anthony Fauci’s sense of relief that he no longer has to deal with Donald Trump is very clear in his latest interview. Speaking to British newspaper The Telegraph in an interview published Friday,...
Trump supporter says that prayer for “election integrity” may lead to the “Third Great Awakening.” (And other court evangelical news)
Russians are hacking the U.S. government and Trump remains silent. Thousands of people died today from COVID-19 and Trump remains silent (except when he takes credit for the vaccine in a tweet about the stock market). Meanwhile, Trump continues to...
Why is Biden getting most of the mail-in votes?
Several people are asking me why the mail-in ballots are trending heavily toward Joe Biden. I am a teacher, so I thought I would do a quick post for the record: First, Democrats tend to believe doctors and scientists (like...
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Today at *Time*: Conspiracy theories then (1790s) and now (2020s)
Time is running my piece on the Bavarian Illuminati. A taste: In the final weeks before the 2020 election, the outsize role of conspiracy theories in American politics has become unmistakable. For some Trump supporters in particular, campaign-season news is filtered through...
Dr. Tony Fauci pushes back against Senator Rand Paul
Fauci doesn’t back down:...
How John MacArthur politicizes science
Last Sunday John MacArthur, the pastor of Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, told his congregation that “there is no [COVID-19] pandemic.” The congregation cheered. Watch: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI4X7svEhlw&w=560&h=315] Notice that MacArthur says that he is not giving a “political speech.”...
The “Deep State” of the 1790s?
Is there a “deep state” seeking to undermine the Trump presidency? Yes, if you define the “deep state” as men and women working to stop Donald Trump from undermining American democracy and institutions. But for many Trump supporters, the “deep...
What Mike Pence said about COVID-19 on June 16, 2020
Mike Pence is the vice president of the United States of America. Here is what he wrote in The Wall Street Journal on June 16, 2020. Today is July 16, 2020. In recent days, the media has taken to sounding the...
Should we believe Dr. Anthony Fauci or former gameshow host Chuck Woolery?
Chris Cuomo sums it up pretty well: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLGHTfSmmbQ&w=560&h=315] Read this....
Saturday night court evangelical roundup
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since yesterday’s update? Liberty University’s pro-Trump Falkirk Center doesn’t see the irony of today’s tweet: Too much power over people in anybody’s hands is always a threat to liberty and justice. pic.twitter.com/ZsFRjf0Icp — Falkirk Center (@falkirk_center) June...
Are Americans Giving-Up on the Pandemic?
Alexis Madrigal and Robinson Meyer think they are. As they say in the subtitle of their recent piece at The Atlantic: “Business are reopening. Protests are erupting nationwide. But the virus isn’t done with us.” Here is a taste: There’s no point...
This is a “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” moment
Above is a picture of some of the men protesting at the Michigan state Capitol in Lansing. Yes, you do see machine guns. Michigan mayor Gretchen Whitmer will not open the state to business yet and continues to stand behind...
Will Tony Fauci be Voted Off the Island?
As many of you have seen by this point, Trump retweeted a #FireFauci post from his new favorite network–OANN. Here it is: Sorry Fake News, it’s all on tape. I banned China long before people spoke up. Thank you @OANN...
Fauci: “You don’t make the timeline. The virus makes the timeline”
Easter Sunday? Here is Anthony Fauci: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkyO1DTqoWQ&w=560&h=315] ...