1) Happy George Washington's Birthday (Observed Two Days BEFORE His Real Birthday)
It’s important and appropriate that we celebrate the birthday of the father of our country and arguably our greatest president. Why isn’t the holiday on his birthday?
The National Archives explains:
Before 1971, Washington's Birthday was one of nine federal holidays celebrated on specific dates…
Washington's Birthday was uprooted from its fixed February 22 date and transplanted to the third Monday in February...
That Washington's birth date—February 22—would never fall on the third Monday in February was considered of minimum importance.
In other words, Congress in its infinite stupidity defined Washington's Birthday (observed) in a way that it could never actually fall on his birthday. (It should have at least been the 4th Monday in February.)
In the meantime, here is a quote from Thomas Paine that George Washington read to his troops before crossing the Delaware, a reminder of the importance of always fighting for freedom:
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
2) Headline Of The Day: Woke Disney Battles Its Woke Employees
For some reason, we found this Washington Post story so richly ironic.
The once iconic, family-friendly company that now campaigns for radical gender policies, climate change alarmism, the Black Lives Matter agenda, and worker empowerment – can’t get its woke employees back on the job. This is what happens when you can’t control your own Frankenstein monster.
Does this mean Disney World will only be open four days a week?
3) Hopefully A FINAL Reminder That COVID Lockdowns Had Almost No Impact On Saving Lives
Three years ago the Covid virus began to invade these shores. We now have three full years of evidence that the lockdowns of businesses, stores, restaurants, churches, and schools had a minuscule impact on saving lives. The chart below updated through February 2023 shows that there was almost no difference in death rates in lockdown states versus states that remained open. (Of course, the non-lockdown states did much better economically and academically.) Amazingly, states with no lockdowns had LOWER death rates per capita than states with strict lockdowns.
But mark our words: more health and climate change lockdowns are coming our way from the same gang that lectures us about “following the science.”
We agree with Nikki Haley. It seems to us a matter of great significance to our national security and our economic well-being that all presidential candidates when they reach the age of 70 or 75, should be required to pass a mental competency test. Every Supreme Court Justice over that age should as well.
A naysayer is Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, 81 years old, and took great offense at the former South Carolina Governor’s wise recommendation that mental competency tests be done for high office holders older than 75. He told CBS it was “absurd” and ageist. (By the way, this rule would apply to 76-year-old Donald Trump.)
Except that Dr. Lawrence Altman noted in the Times that Biden’s longtime physician, did not answer any questions about his evaluation of the President’s mental fitness, such as whether he had administered the Montreal (MoCA) or other screening tests, which can be done in a few minutes.
Dr. Thomas Wisniewski, the director of cognitive neurology at N.Y.U.-Langone Medical Center, said in an interview that all 80-year-olds should have such minimal mental-screening tests as part of a general assessment because “the incidence of dementia in 80-year-old patients is sizable, about 30 percent.”
The bottom line is we don’t know for sure the condition of Joe Biden’s mental health. Show us the test results, Mr. President.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Education Freedom in State of the State address last week:
"We must empower parents. Parents deserve access to curriculum to school libraries and to what their children are being taught. We will do that with our Parental Bill of Rights. Parents also deserve education freedom without that freedom some parents are hindered and being able to help their child succeed. That must change this year. The way to do that is with school choice - through state funded education savings accounts.
"We've seen them work in other states and we've also seen them work right here in the state of Texas. I created education savings accounts for special needs students it worked so well a bipartisan super majority passed it into law and are now seeking to increase funding for it. Now what we need to do we want to expand that program to provide every parent with the ability to choose the best education option for their child. Under this school choice program all public schools will be fully funded for every student this issue is so vital to the future of our state I am making education freedom and emergency item this session."
