Good morning from Washington, where the Biden administration is tracking the faith of federal employees who seek a religious exemption from its COVID-9 vaccine mandate. Sarah Parshall Perry and GianCarlo Canaparo, who broke the story, now count 19 participating agencies. The pandemic turned political from the start, Victor Davis Hanson recounts. Plus: David Harsanyi on Biden’s untruthfulness about Democrats’ power grab at the polls; Raynard Jackson on conservative outreach to blacks; and Tim Graham on CNN’s partisan hysteria. Fifty years ago today, singer-songwriter Don McLean’s “American Pie,” a whimsical survey of rock ‘n’ roll clocking in at 8:36, hits No. 1 on the Billboard charts.
As the nation’s largest employer, with over four million civilian and military employees, the federal government has received tens of thousands of religious exemption requests.
Suddenly the people with three shots, who had blasted the red-state rubes as the ignorant unvaxxed—got sick. More have now died from the virus on Biden's than on Trump's watch.
"Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?" was the false choice offered by a man who repeatedly praised Wallace early in his career.
