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‘It’s Her’: Cruz Ally Victoria Coates Identified as ‘Anonymous’ Author

Posted on | April 15, 2020 | 1 Comment

Ted Cruz campaign adviser Victoria Coates in a March 2016 TV appearance.

Oh, of course, the anti-Trump mole in the White House is a woman.

Victoria Coates, an art history Ph.D. who served as an adviser to Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign, has been identified as “Anonymous,” administration sources tell RCP reporter Paul Sperry:

Ever since a “senior official in the Trump administration” penned an anonymous 2018 New York Times column attacking President Trump as unfit for office, Washington has been engrossed in a high-stakes whodunit. After an exhaustive investigation, the White House believes it’s cracked the case, identifying Trump’s turncoat as his former deputy national security adviser, Victoria Coates, according to people familiar with the internal probe.
Rather than fire Coates, the White House has quietly transferred her to the Department of Energy, where she awaits special assignment in Saudi Arabia — far from the president.
Trump effectively demoted Coates just four months after promoting her last fall to the No. 2 spot on his National Security Council. The move was made amid a whisper campaign, started in January, that identified Coates as “Anonymous,” the person who wrote the Times Op-Ed and a subsequent book, “A Warning,” claiming to be part of a cabal of “fellow Republicans” resisting Trump and his policies from inside the administration. . . .

Read the whole story of how Coates was identified by a trail of clues, including her distinctive writing style. “Piss poor OpSec,” basically. Anyone familiar with the use of computer analysis knows that, if you are writing thousands upon thousands of words under a pseudonym, and you are also a published writer under your own byline, your mask of anonymity will eventually be penetrated. People who write for a living develop habits, and it turns out that using a pseudonym was one of Coates’s habits — she had written for Red State as “Academic Elephant.” As Sperry points out, former Red State editor Erick Erickson was, like Coates, a supporter of the Ted Cruz campaign, and there are many other dots like that in the pattern that identifies Coates as the “Resistance” saboteur who was embedded in the National Security Council.

Let me quote Elbert Hubbard here:

If you work for a man, in heaven’s name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault — resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart’s content — but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it.

It is dishonorable to be two-faced toward your employer, to smile at your boss and then badmouth him behind his back, to collect a paycheck and then constantly demean your employer to others. This kind of gossipy, backstabbing behavior destroys the spirit of teamwork, and if you have ever been in a workplace when this vicious spirit takes hold, you know how damaging it can be to the morale necessary to successful organizations. Having witnessed such situations more than once in my career, I deplore the bitchy gossips and childish tattletales who do this stuff. It is disloyal and dishonorable, and if you ever encounter someone in your workplace acting this way, you need to shut them down.

Of course, everybody has their share of grievances to grumble about in any job, but slanderous backstabbing, such as Victoria Coates is accused of doing, ought never to be tolerated in the workplace. I have myself had to counsel people against such behavior, and let me give you a hint: If some gossip comes to you badmouthing another person, what do you think the gossip is going to say about you behind your back?

The habit of gossip is always a mark of untrustworthy character. Gossip is un-Christian, repeatedly condemned as sinful in the Bible.

Politics is a team sport, and success requires everyone on the team to be committed to victory. Sorry, Ms. Coates, you got cut from the team.

Enjoy your exile in Saudi Arabia. Bon voyage!

UPDATE: Linked by Vox Day — thanks!




 

Category: Donald Trump

In The Mailbox: 04.14.2020

Posted on | April 14, 2020 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 04.14.2020

– compiled by Wombat-socho

Gloria Sol, (originally) from the r/SexyButNotPorn subreddit. FYI, if you missed the daily Coronavirus Task Force briefings, EBL has them all. Check ’em out.

Ukrainian actress & model Gloria Sol

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Ignoring Hashem’s Wisdom (Part III)
357 Magnum: Liberal Assault On Christianity Comes Up Short
EBL: President Trump Meets With COVID-19 Survivors
Twitchy: Raleigh Police Remind #Reopen NC Protesters That Protesting Is A Non-Essential Activity
Louder With Crowder: Donald Trump Eviscerates The Mainstream Media & CNN’s Chyron Graphics Show It

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Podcast #140 – The Barbeque Episode
American Conservative: Inspectors General Drain The Swamp, So Why Is Trump Firing Them?
American Greatness: Barbara Streisand Claims 20,000 Dead Because Of Trump
American Thinker: Viruses 101 – How Overprotecting People From COVID-19 Could Make It More Lethal
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Supply Chain News
Babalu Blog: Prominent Member Of Cuomo Family Displays Famous Pic Of Che Guevara
Baldilocks: The Illegal And/Or Unconstitutional Actions Of President Barack Obama, Part II
BattleSwarm: Bill Maher Blasts SJW Opposition To “Wuhan Coronavirus”, also, Questioning The Official “Wet Market” Origin Of Corona-Chan, Part I
Cafe Hayek: Teaching Me Some Economics To The Economist
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part LXXXV
Da Tech Guy: JonTron Vs. Goop & Other Thoughts Under The Fedora, also, Report From Louisiana – Passing Time
Don Surber: My Plan To Reopen America
First Street Journal: Apparently Only Republicans Are Concerned About Our Constitutional Rights
The Geller Report: Heinous News Hag Paula Reid Is Married To Red Chinese Operative, also, UK Cops Threaten Journalist Reporting On Mosque Violating Coronavirus Restrictions
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Mental Illness On The Left
Hollywood In Toto: Anne Tyler Defends American Dirt Against The Woke Mob, also, Star Trek‘s Hope Went AWOL With Trump
JustOneMinute: Two Americas
Legal Insurrection: Missing In Action: Dems Have No Plans To Reconvene House Until May, also, Obama “Proud To Endorse” Biden After Months Of Silence
Megan McArdle: The World Will Reopen – “When” Is Not The Question To Ask
Michelle Malkin: The Council To Reopen…America’s Borders?
The PanAm Post: The COVID-19 Crisis Is The Result Of Decades of FDA Misrule, also, Remembering Andrew Cuomo’s Connections To The Castro Regime
Power Line: NYT Changes Biden Sexual Assault Story At Campaign’s Request, also, We Never Needed To Flatten The Curve
Shark Tank: Coronavirus Death Tolls In Miami, Broward/Dade, Don’t Match State Numbers
Shot In The Dark: The New Stasi, Part II
STUMP: Use Data Visualization Responsibly
This Ain’t Hell: That Covington Kid, also, President Trump Accused Of Not Acting Fast On The Coronavirus
Victory Girls: Media Burned By Own Words, CNN Goes Full TDS
Volokh Conspiracy: We’re All Federalists Now
Weasel Zippers: Trump Shows Supercut During Briefing Of Media Downplaying Coronavirus, also, Biden Wants To Put “Citizens On A Pathway To Citizenship”, Says He Needs Sanders’ Help To Govern
Mark Steyn: Stark Truths, also, Fire & Faith

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“My hovercraft is
Full of eels.” Sure, I stole that.
But what else is new?
#BidenHaikus

Posted on | April 14, 2020 | Comments Off on “My hovercraft is
Full of eels.” Sure, I stole that.
But what else is new?
#BidenHaikus

by Smitty

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Rule 5 Tuesday: Easter Komi

Posted on | April 14, 2020 | 3 Comments

– compiled by Wombat-socho

[obligatory apology for lateness]
This week’s appetizer is Shouko Komi, heroine of Komi Can’t Communicate, a series of manga chronicling the attempts of a lovely but…perhaps autistic? girl to gain 100 friends.

Not your usual Easter Bunny.
Art by @Bottomtext on Twitter.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #951, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Tax Scam Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Norma, Shirley Bassey, Aida, Honor Blackman RIP, Girl Of The Golden West, Maria Callas, Ailyn Perez, Parsifal, Shirley Jones, Romeo & Juliet, and Andrea Bang.

A View From The Beach: Who’s That Masked Stranger? – Alicia Arden, Fish Pic Friday – Jewfish, Tanlines Thursday, 
Federal Judge Keeps Ocean City Nipple Imprisoned, Alas, No More Pussy, Will WuFlu Save The Bay?, Another Messy Monday and The Real Palm Sunday.

Red Pilled Jew: Sun & Surf

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

 

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Trump Holds Media Accountable, Media React With Childish Tantrums

Posted on | April 14, 2020 | Comments Off on Trump Holds Media Accountable, Media React With Childish Tantrums

In his crucial role as Media Troll-in-Chief, our President had a memorable moment Monday, playing a brief video at his press conference contradicting the “Blame Trump” narrative that has been promoted in the media. Here’s the video, courtesy of the Telegraph:

 

Victoria Taft chronicles the reaction:

Donald Trump absolutely lit up his own Coronavirus Task Force press briefing with a more than six-minute, tour-de-force media takedown that had CNN and MSNBC sputtering and reaching for the plug.
Trump said hello and turned the media briefing over to the NIH’s Dr. Anthony Fauci to clarify his words uttered on CNN on shutting down the country earlier to prevent more deaths.
Then, Trump took over and it was ON. He listed the timeline of his response to the coronavirus and presented a video of incorrect statements by the press on COVID-19. . . .
MSNBC and CNN, which usually begin taking the updates only after Trump has spoken, stayed with for Fauci and, when Trump began bagging on the media, bugged out early . . .

The CNN chyrons were instant classics:

 

CNN had to claim that Trump was “angry” and “melt[ed] down,” and that the video was “propaganda,” because CNN viewers — what few of them remain — are accustomed to being sheltered from any fact that contradicts the last-place network’s anti-Trump narrative.




 

Category: CNN, Donald Trump

Against ‘Experts’ and the ‘Elite’: Because All of Us Know More Than Any of Us

Posted on | April 14, 2020 | 1 Comment

Here’s a secret that isn’t really a secret: I am opinionated.

I know what you’re saying: “Where is Sarah Hoyt’s shocked face?”

The reason I’m opinionated is because I know a lot of stuff. From the time I was 7 years old, my hobby was reading The World Book Encyclopedia, and I’d more or less read the whole thing by age 12. Having a lot of knowledge tends to make one confident in one’s opinions, and thus I became an obnoxious know-it-all at an early age. Arrogant punk that I was, there followed a sort of graduate training program in the School of Hard Knocks, whereby I added “street smart” to my bookish achievements, and I have never stopped learning.

Have some of my opinions changed? Yes, rather drastically in some cases, but when you get to be my age, you ought to have formed quite solid opinions on the subjects that you know best, while also gaining wisdom enough to adopt an attitude of intellectual humility in regard to subjects with which you are less familiar. When it comes to epidemiology, I have tried to avoid being like those Twitter pundits who, as recently as February, were regaling us with their expert opinions of Ukraine and the constitutional limits on presidential authority, only to switch hats quite suddenly and begin posing as authorities on contagious disease.

Who are these people? Why do they consider themselves all-purpose experts, and expect the rest of us to accept their opinions as authoritative? Quite simply, they are members of the intelligentsia, calling to mind a famous aphorism of George Orwell: “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.” Members of the intelligentsia specialize in persuasion, employing their superior skill in the use of language to advance particular views on various subjects — economics, politics, etc.

Yet it is a fact, as true in our era as it was in Orwell’s, that many members of the intelligentsia are fools who, by their superior skill in rhetoric, become articulate proponents for bad ideas.

Let me emphasize this point: Rhetorical cleverness can easily be mistaken for being right, if you care so much about the form of argument that you can be persuaded by mere eloquence. Think about the so-called philosophes of 18th-century France — Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, et al. — whose ideas were so influential in provoking the French Revolution. Perhaps most mischievous of these was Rousseau, whom Edmund Burke acknowledged as “a writer of great force and vivacity” with “a style glowing, animated, enthusiastic,” and yet wholly vicious in his influence. Of the revolutionaries who would soon murder thousands of their fellow citizens by the guillotine and other means, Burke wrote: “Rousseau is their canon of holy writ . . . he is their standard figure of perfection.” And it has remained true, for more than 200 years, that nearly every genuinely bad idea in the world first emerged from the mind of a French philosopher. Don’t get me started on Foucault. But I digress . . .

It is enough to persuade some people of the truth of an opinion that it is widely endorsed by “experts.” Some people who in general disdain religion nevertheless have a mystical reverence toward academic credentials. Some people would believe that frogs could fly, if the argument in favor of this proposition was offered by a Harvard professor with a Ph.D., and published as an op-ed in the New York Times.

Think about the scientific “consensus” in favor of the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW, also known known as “climate change”). There are scientists who are skeptical toward this theory, but such is the practice of modern academia that all research funding in this area is monopolized by those who endorse the “consensus” view. So the skeptics are marginalized, even while the predictions made by proponents of AGW theory prove to be false, and such eminent climate-change “experts” as Michael Mann resort to lawsuits in an effort to silence their critics. (“Creator of Global-Warming’s Infamous ‘Hockey Stick’ Chart Loses ‘Climate-Science’ Lawsuit.”) Many similar examples could be cited of credentialed experts whose once-popular ideas have since been discredited, but the point is that idolatry of expert authority has caused serious problems in our society because so many (allegedly) educated people lack the kind of common-sense skepticism necessary to independent thought. If there were a “consensus” among Ivy League professors that frogs can fly, the editors of the New York Times would never express the slightest doubt. And such has been the case, generally, with the media’s treatment of the coronavirus pandemic.

In January, and continuing through most of February, the danger of the Chinese disease was widely dismissed by Democrats and the media:

Trump’s critics want us to forget, for example, that when the president announced a ban on travel from China on Jan. 31, many of them condemned this measure as a racist overreaction. “This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia — hysterical xenophobia — and fearmongering to lead the way instead of science,” Joe Biden said the day after the China travel ban was announced . . .
The headline on a Jan. 28 BuzzFeed article advised Americans, “Don’t Worry About The Coronavirus. Worry About The Flu.” On Jan. 29, Farhad Manjoo published a column in the New York Times with the headline “Beware the Pandemic Panic.” Manjoo downplayed the danger of the virus and instead cautioned, “What worries me more than the new disease is that fear of a vague and terrifying new illness might spiral into panic, and that it might be used to justify unnecessarily severe limits on movement and on civil liberties, especially of racial and religious minorities around the world.” One thing we can never expect from elite journalists is accountability. Rather than admitting his own errors, Manjoo simply pivoted to blaming Trump: “Coronavirus Is What You Get When You Ignore Science” was the headline on his March 4 column, in which he asserted that the president had “gut the United States’ pandemic-response infrastructure.”

When did the “consensus” shift? It was right after the “Super Tuesday” primary, when Biden finally showed he could stop the Bernie Sanders insurgency, that the media decided that Trump was “ignor[ing] science” by failing to do more than he had already done. Now? The media is keeping up a drumbeat that nationwide lockdown orders must be continued indefinitely. To advance this argument, the media keeps repeating the cumulative death-toll from COVID-19, ignoring the fact that (a) the vast majority of these deaths are in a handful of major urban areas, and (b) on a per-capita basis, the pandemic in the United States is much less severe than in Europe. In most parts of America, the coronavirus outbreak hasn’t been nearly as widespread or as deadly as in the big cities, but the media is keeping up their incessant fear-mongering theme, because they’re deliberately seeking to cause a prolonged recession for which they will blame Trump. And their justification, you see, is their professed faith in “science” and “experts.”

This faith treats a certain small number of people as a secular priesthood, qualified to speak ex cathedra on all things scientific, whose judgment on such matters is beyond dispute. Yet the scientific “experts” behind the IHME model spectacularly failed to project the trajectory of the pandemic, and why? Because skepticism was forbidden. No one inside Dr. Murray’s IHME cabal would have dared to question the accuracy of the computer model they utilized to create their projection.

Discredited by failure, however, the priesthood can still do no wrong in the eyes of their worshipful admirers in the media. And so “science” is invoked as the basis of arguments for why Florida, for example, cannot be allowed to end its statewide shutdown orders. In case you didn’t notice (CNN won’t report this) Florida has already “flattened the curve” of its COVID-19 outbreak. The statewide number of daily new cases reported peaked April 3 — more than a week ago — at 1,308 and last week, Monday through Friday, averaged about 1,100 new cases daily. So the dreaded “surge” of new cases that Florida had been warned about is already over, and the state’s hospital system was not overwhelmed. Indeed, fewer than 3,000 Floridians have ever been hospitalized with COVID-19. The state’s cumulative total of cases (21,019) represents an infection rate of 98 per 100,000 residents, which is 99% lower than the rate in New York. Keep in mind, of course, that 59% of all Florida coronavirus cases are in three counties — Dade, Broward and Palm Beach — yet the entire state has been under a lockdown order.

See my point? If the public data is available, everybody with sufficient interest and knowledge can run their own analysis, and interrogate the “science” behind these foolish policies, without the media distorting the story by reporting cumulative totals of cases and deaths, as if this were the number that actually mattered most. From a public-health perspective, however, the issue is whether the spread of the contagion is so rapid that it overwhelms the health-care system. Outside of three counties, Florida has never had that problem and likely never will. The net number of hospitalizations in the state went down slightly on Monday, the governor reported, and if this trend continues another week, by next Monday (April 20), we can guess that the number of new cases daily will be in the vicinity of 700. By May 1, even the “hot spots” in Dade County will probably be under control.

This problem with the failed “expert” projections of disaster (the IHME predicted that Florida’s pandemic wouldn’t peak until early May) is that no one person — not even the most experienced and credentialed scientist — possesses as much knowledge as all the rest of us combined. This is a point that the Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek made, and it was the subject of James Surowiecki’s 2004 book, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations. The Internet makes possible a form of research known as “crowd sourcing,” where everyone interested in a subject collaborates to find answers, and it’s amazing to see how this works. If the “experts” are wrong, the rest of us can grab hold of the facts to prove them wrong.

Here is a commenter (“miked765”) at Instapundit:

As of today rounded approximate numbers from covid19stats.com show the states of NY/Jersey/Michigan account for approx 276k of the US 561k cases, just about half of all US cases. These same three states combine for approx 13k the est. 22k covid-deaths in the US, about 59% of all US deaths. Combined population of NY/NJ/Mich is 38 million. These are the only three US states with 1k+ covid fatalities. Michigan 6% death rate is the highest in the US, a full point higher than second-place New York.
However…California has 39 million population, but 11k cases and 651 deaths.
Texas population 29 million, approx 14k cases 271 deaths
Florida population 21 million, 21k cases, 474 deaths
That’s 89 million people, 46k combined cases and 1,396 combined fatalities, a fraction of the combined totals in NY/NJ/MI.
By contrast, Spain 46 million population approx 169k cases, 17k deaths.
South Korea 51 million population 10k cases, 211 deaths
This is why you cant compare the USA with any other country. We have both an entire Spain and an entire South Korea within our border in terms of relative harm done by/success fighting the virus.

This is not — NOT — a nationwide crisis, and our coronavirus pandemic is not — NOT — nearly as bad as Europe’s, on a per-capita basis.

You see? We may not be “experts,” but some of us can do basic arithmetic, while the “elite” journalists can’t seem to figure it out.




 

Category: Health Care

In The Mailbox: 04.13.20

Posted on | April 13, 2020 | 1 Comment

– compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Texans Are Still Armed
EBL: Democrats & Media Desperately Trying To Spin Disease Disaster
Twitchy: POTUS Savages Media With Video Clips For Downplaying COVID-19 Threat; Networks Pull Away
Louder With Crowder: NYT Deletes Tweet About Joe Biden Sexual Assault Charge
Vox Popoli: And Then They Came For Anime, also, Corona-Chan Hates Fatties

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Easter & Truth
American Conservative: Michael Gerson’s Tedious Anti-Trumpism
American Greatness: Herd Immunity vs. Herd Mentality, also, The Resistance Fights To Keep The Country Locked Down
American Power: Playmate Iryna Updates
American Thinker: How Long Has Corona-Chan Really Been In America? also, I’m a High-Risk Person, And I Object To The Coronavirus Panic
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Remember Elian Gonzalez? Twenty Years Ago Today
Baldilocks: The Illegal & Unconstitutional Actions Of President Barack Obama, Part I
BattleSwarm: Our Horrible, incompetent Media, Coronavirus Edition, also, Say Goodbye To The Clown Car And Hello To BidenWatch!
Cafe Hayek: The Economy Is An Immense Web, Not A Series of Chains
CDR Salamander: Lies, Damn Lies, And A Fired CO
Da Tech Guy: Don’t Think We Ain’t Keeping Score, also, Bleeding The American Economy
Don Surber: Media Roots For COVID-19 Over Hydroxychloroquine, also, Highlights Of The News
First Street Journal: Nothing Quite Says “Freedom Of The Press” Like Government Paying For It
Fred On Everything: It’s A Man’s World
The Geller Report: Coronavirus Is Exposing Little Dictators All Over The Country, also, MI Governor Bans Sales Of Seeds & Gardening Supplies
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, “Chinese Chernobyl”
Hollywood In Toto: FLASHBACK – Lady Gaga Joins Joe Biden For #MeToo PSA, also, Why American Psycho Doesn’t Want Our Love Or Pity
JustOneMinute: A Goofy Poll On The Origin Of Coronavirus
Legal Insurrection: Federal Court Bars Louisville Mayor From Banning Easter Sunday Drive-In Service, also, Government Gone Wild – MI Governor Bans Sale Of “Non-Essentials” Like Seeds For Gardening
Michelle Malkin: Settling Into A New Home
The PanAm Post: Maduro’s Aides Shipped 1.3 Tons Of Cocaine From Venezuela To France, also, WHO’s Red Chinese Loyalties
Power Line: What Would We Do Without Experts? also, Chloroquine Effectiveness Vs. Coronaviruses Documented In 2005
Shark Tank: FL Ag Commissioner Nikki Fried Hypocritically Violates Stay At Home Order
Shot In The Dark: Declaring The Causes That Impel Us
STUMP: Mortality With Meep – Major U.S. Mortality Trends 1955-2017
The Political Hat: Concerning The Coronavirus
This Ain’t Hell: Even A Blind Chipmunk, also, Toilet Paper Cakes Selling Like Toilet Paper
Victory Girls: Anthony Fauci Wrong About A Whole Lot
Volokh Conspiracy: “On Holy Thursday, An American Mayor Criminalized The Communal Celebration Of Easter”
Weasel Zippers: Alyssa Milano Tries To Justify #MeToo Double Standard For Joe Biden, also, Attorney General Barr Taking Action Against Government Officials Who Regulate Religious Services
Mark Steyn: JFK, also, Let It Be

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COVID-19: The Insanity Pandemic

Posted on | April 13, 2020 | Comments Off on COVID-19: The Insanity Pandemic

 

Long before anyone heard of the Wuhan coronavirus, America was already gripped by a pandemic of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). Our news media were particularly hard-hit by that illness, and unless you were immune to TDS, it was not safe to expose yourself to CNN or MSNBC. An irrational desire to blame Trump for this disease from China was a typical symptom of the comorbidity between TDS and COVID-19:

One word keeps recurring in online discussions of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s latest orders to fight the state’s raging COVID-19 outbreak: “insanity.” Last week, the first-term Democrat issued an order extending the state’s stay-at-home policy, which had been set to expire April 15, until May 1. Michigan has the third-highest number of coronavirus cases of any state in America, and certainly strong measures are required to get the pandemic under control. But the devil is in the details, and Whitmer’s new order instantly provoked a firestorm of outrage.
Among the complaints was that Whitmer had prohibited sale of seeds and other garden supplies at a time when vegetable gardens need to be planted. Executive Order 2020-42 is titled, “Temporary requirement to suspend activities that are not necessary to sustain or protect life,” and it is quite specific about which activities are and are “not necessary.” . . .

Read the rest of my latest column at The American Spectator.




 

Category: Democrats, Health Care, Michigan
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