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Cuomo’s Fake ‘How Much Is a Human Life Worth?’ Rhetoric (Townhall)
There’s sanctimonious, self-serving preening that offends the sensibilities of average American citizens and then there’s the latest obnoxious hectoring from New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo.
At his daily coronavirus briefing Tuesday, Cuomo addressed increasing pressure to resume some level of commerce and normalcy in America.
“How much is a human life worth?” Cuomo asked the fawning press and the ever-present television lens. “That’s the real discussion that no one is admitting openly or freely. But we should.” [Read More]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has called for the “immediate release” of a Dallas salon owner who was arrested and sent to jail for opening her business in defiance of Gov. Greg Abbott’s stay-at-home orders.
Shelley Luther, owner of Salon A La Mode, was sentenced to seven days in jail Tuesday after Dallas judge Eric Moye said she violated those orders as the coronavirus pandemic continues. [Read More]
SCOTUS continues to make history.
A participant in oral arguments flushed a toilet during the conference. pic.twitter.com/B0prXlJhVz
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) May 6, 2020
Senator Rick Scott: Against ‘Blue-State Bailouts’ (NYT)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and liberal talking heads continue to misuse data to distract from the poor fiscal management of states like New York, Illinois and California.
Your editorial advocates blue-state bailouts by comparing federal taxes paid by individuals to federal benefits (like Medicare and Social Security) received by individuals. The issue at hand is not about what the citizens of our states pay in and receive in federal taxes and benefits. It’s about how states have managed their budgets, and which ones are better prepared to withstand the coming fiscal challenges. [Read More]
I Believe Tara Reade. I’m Voting for Joe Biden Anyway. (NYT)
Let’s be clear: I believe Tara Reade. I believed Anita Hill, too. Remember the buttons? I wore one. What’s the constant here? Joe Biden, then the bumbling head of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
Long before Ms. Reade, before the reports of the rubbing and the sniffing, I interviewed an adviser to Ms. Hill, who said she’d tried to warn Mr. Biden of what was happening in the Thomas hearings — how unchecked Republicans were smearing an upright woman’s character. But “the United States Senate was still very much a boys’ club” back then, the adviser told me, and there was no getting through to him. Democratic primary voters knew all about Mr. Biden’s membership in that boys’ club when there was still time to pick someone else. Alas. [Read More]
The Justice Department is siding with a Virginia church suing Gov. Ralph Northam after police threatened a pastor with jail time or a $2,500 fine for violating the state’s coronavirus lockdown restrictions by holding a 16-person church service on Palm Sunday.
The DOJ decision came after police in protective garb served a summons to Kevin Wilson, the pastor of Lighthouse Fellowship Church on Chincoteague Island, for holding the service on April 5 with 16 people spaced far apart from one another in a church that could fit 293 people. State officials said Wilson and the church violated the Virginia Constitution by breaking state-imposed social distancing restrictions intended to stop the spread of the coronavirus. [Read More]
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Wednesday that the state would slowly begin to ease his stay-at-home order, granting permission for certain outdoor activities and allowing doctors to schedule some elective surgeries.
The small step toward reopening came as state schools Superintendent Karen B. Salmon announced public school campuses would remain shuttered for the rest of the academic year. Until Wednesday, Maryland was one of just three states that had held open the possibility of resuming in-person instruction. [Read More]
