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February 10 2022
Good morning from Washington, where the left throws around the word “racist” a lot. But some states are fighting racism productively, Jon Butcher writes. Biden’s nominee for Fed governor isn’t a friend of freedom, Star Parker argues. On the podcast, an oral surgeon recounts how his state stopped him from practice because of his vaccination status. Plus: what The Heritage Foundation can tell you about your state’s election laws; Big Tech’s COVID-19 “misinformation” czars; and “Problematic Women” considers Jane Austen’s advice for romance. Sixty years ago today, the Soviet Union releases American spy-pilot Francis Gary Powers in exchange for a senior KGB spy caught in the U.S. five years earlier.
Florida’s proposal, for example, says that a public employee cannot force a teacher or student “to believe” that an individual should “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish” based on their skin color.
It's not the job of our politicians or our government to decide what America's future should or should not look like. It's not their job to decide which industries will flourish and which will fail.
There were many deficiencies in the sloppy, chaotic procedures in the 2020 election in some states, but many states acted to address those problems in 2021 by passing new legislation.
“Big Tech set up a system where you can’t disagree with ‘the science’ even though that’s the foundation of the scientific method,” says Dan Gainor of Media Research Center.
Dr. Stephen Skoly's request for a medical exemption to the state's vaccine mandate was denied. Then the Rhode Island Department of Health ordered him to stop his critical surgical care in October.
Far more than the usual novelist, Austen instructs readers toward a moral good, just as a philosopher would, says Brenda Hafera of The Heritage Foundation.
