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Tuesday, June 22, 2021

China Pushing for Nobel Prize for Wuhan Lab

In an effort to make the narrative of the last 15 months seem even more Orwellian. Jim Geraghty: The Chinese Foreign Ministry argues that the Wuhan Institute of Virology deserves to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine; a look at the blatant contradictions in China’s propaganda about vaccine diplomacy… The fact that the Chinese government insists the Wuhan Institute of Virology deserves celebration is another indicator that it intends to change nothing in the aftermath of the pandemic. (NRO). Jazz Shaw: I doubt that the leaders of the CCP even believe the crap they are peddling, but their state-run news agencies have to keep up appearances on the home front. They continue to spread rumors that if the virus didn’t come from the wet markets it probably came out of a military laboratory in Maryland (HotAir).

Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock Denies He Ever Opposed Voter ID Laws

From Fox News: Senator Raphael Warnock, claims he has “never been opposed” to voter ID laws — but a review of Warnock’s past comments found that he has been a fierce opponent of voter ID requirements. “I have never been opposed to voter ID,” Warnock said. ” In fact, I don’t know anybody who is — who believes people shouldn’t have to prove that they are who they say they are.” (Fox News). From a nell poll by Monmouth University: Fully 4 in 5 Americans (80%) support requiring voters to show photo identification in order to cast a ballot. Just 18% oppose this. (Monmouth University).

IRS Denys Tax Exempt Status to Religious Group Claiming "Bible's Teachings are Typically Affiliated with the Republican Party”

From First Liberty: First Liberty Institute appealed an IRS determination denying tax exempt status to Christians Engaged, a nonprofit organization that exists to educate and empower Christians to pray for our nation and elected officials, vote, and be civically engaged (First Liberty). Christian Headlines: The IRS, in a May 18 letter, charged that the organization operates “for the private interests” of the Republican Party. “Specifically, you educate Christians on what the Bible says on areas where they can be instrumental including the areas of [the] sanctity of life, the definition of marriage, biblical justice, freedom of speech, defense, and borders and immigration, U.S. and Israel relations,” the IRS letter says. (ChristianHeadlines).

Supreme Court Ruling Will Weaken NCAA

At issue before the court was the NCCA’s strict limitations on compensating college athletes. They ruled unanimously that the association had violated antitrust laws. Wall Street Journal: The decision marks a historic loss of control for an organization that for decades has maintained a narrow view of how athletes are compensated for playing college sports—and wielded a powerful enforcement club at those who violated them. It held the power to vacate titles and remove wins (WSJ). Justice Kavanaugh: Nowhere else in America can businesses get away with agreeing not to pay their workers a fair market rate on the theory that their product is defined by not paying their workers a fair market rate. And under ordinary principles of antitrust law, it is not evident why college sports should be any different. The NCAA is not above the law (SCOTUS). A weakened NCAA may open the door for state standards on compensation and protection of gender-specific sports.

Issue of Gender Entering Tokyo Olympics as New Zealand Announces Male-to-Female Weightlifter

From Daily Wire: Laurel Hubbard, a male-to-female transgender weightlifter, is set to make history as the first openly transgender person to participate in the Olympics. Hubbard, 43, was selected to join New Zealand’s weightlifting team at the Olympics in Tokyo this summer (Daily Wire). The United States may be sending Chelsea Wolfe, a transgender athlete as well. From Breitbart: In comments, Chelsea Wolfe made it clear that his goal was to win and burn the flag as a way of exacting retribution against the Trump Administration for hurting “trans children” (Breitbart).

Indiana University Sued for Mandating Vaccine for Faculty and Students

The Federalist: After Indiana University recently implemented a vaccine mandate for all students, parents founded The IU Family for Choice not Mandates group and filed a lawsuit Monday against the university. The publicly funded university sent an email to all faculty, staff, and students announcing they are “required to receive a COVID-19 vaccine,” according to a press release. The university threatened employees who do not want to take the vaccine, noting that if they refuse it, their employment will be terminated. Similarly, students who refuse the vaccine will lose access to all IU systems and have their class registration revoked (The Federalist). From The Washington Post: The nation’s youngest adults remain the least likely to be vaccinated against the coronavirus and their weekly rates of vaccination are declining (The Washington Post).

House Minority Leader McCarthy Renews Push to Move Olympics from China

Beijing is currently scheduled to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Free Beacon reports: In a letter to House Republicans on Monday, McCarthy offered a “roadmap” for confronting China on its coronavirus lies, urging for renewed efforts to relocate the Olympics. The Republican leader said China should not be “rewarded” with the games after concealing information about COVID-19, which has killed more than 600,000 Americans and 3.8 million people worldwide, from the international community. “The unfortunate reality is that countless friends and family members could have been saved had it not been for the deception of the Chinese Communist Party,” McCarthy wrote. “Like all of you, I am deeply angry about the avoidable loss of life, hope, and futures resulting from the CCP’s actions. They and their conspirators must be held accountable” (FreeBeacon).

Q: "Does the President Believe That a 15-Week-Old Unborn Baby Is a Human Being?"

Answer, from Jen Psaki: “Are you asking me if the president supports a woman’s right to choose? He does” (Twitter). Washington Examiner: The tense exchange on abortion came just days after the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops voted 168-55 to pursue the creation of a document that could lead to pro-abortion rights politicians being banned from receiving Holy Communion (WashEx). Robbie George: If we take him at his word: 1) Joe Biden believes that unborn children are human beings who bear inherent and equal dignity and a right to life. 2) Joe Biden believes that this particular class of persons should be denied protection against homicide afforded by law to all others (Twitter).

The Backlash Against Critical Race Theory Is Real

The opposition is not fading quickly … and, no, you didn’t have to do your Ph.D. research on Critical Theory in order to be qualified to stand against it. Ryan Girdusky: People concerned with it’s growing influence are expected to quote critical race theorists including Richard Delgado and Derrick Bell, post structuralist like Michel Foucault, and marxists like Antonio Gramisci or be considered uninformed on the issue. The media are actively attempting to set the parameters by which one has a legitimate debate on the merits of critical race theory (Mediaite). Charles Cooke: Just as one does not have to fully understand the details of Modern Monetary Theory in order to be vehemently against the federal government’s choosing to borrowing tens of trillions of dollars, so one does not have to have a graduate-school-level understanding of critical race theory in order to oppose the intellectual and educational trends that it has engendered…. [Parents] will not be stopped by academic sophistry. They will not be stopped by epithets and insults. And they certainly will not be stopped by professional pococurantists who simply refuse to believe that anyone could possibly care about the matter at all. (NRO).

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The New York Times Is Blind to What it Has Bec

Lee Siegel—writing for the City Journal—argues they are guilty of projection: Reading the Times over the last four years, you could be forgiven at times for thinking that the paper’s longtime motto, “all the news that’s fit to print,” had been replaced by the Trotskyist slogan: “the worse, the better.” “If it bleeds, it leads” has been the guiding imperative for the news business since its inception, but the combination of fear of being outpaced by social media, sinking profits, and generational conflict in the newsroom taking the form of an ideological putsch transformed the Times from a genial, if sometimes comical Margaret Dumont, reliably huffing in outrage and indignation, into a shrieking Cassandra (CityJournal).