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Mark Alexander
You may have heard⦠On January 6, 2021, there was an âinsurrectionâ in the Capitol building â apparently a much more egregious assault on that building than that inflicted when the British visited in 1814.
Predictably, as a final chapter of Trump Derangement Syndrome while he was still in office, Demo Rep. Nancy Pelosi and her Senate sidekick, Chuck Schumer, immediately seized on the riot as theatrical fodder for the 2022 midterm elections.
Letâs review.
On that unfortunate January day, after former President Donald Trump held a rally down the road, some outlying miscreants at that rally, spurred on by conspiracy theory luminaries such as InfoWars chief Alex Jones and others, unlawfully entered the Capitol building to disrupt the Electoral College process. A few of those protesters disgracefully attacked police, but most trespassed in the building without causing harm or damage.
Douglas Andrews
For the government, itâs been about power. For businesses, itâs been about liability. And for Joe Biden, itâs been about looking consistently ridiculous whether indoors, outdoors, or on a Zoom call. But in any case, yesterday marked the practical end of a yearlong pseudoscientific face-diaper folly.
âThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 no longer need to wear masks or physically distance â whether indoors or outdoors in most circumstances,â NBC News reports.
âWe have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some sense of normalcy,â said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky. âBased on the continuing downward trajectory of cases, the scientific data on the performance of our vaccines and our understanding of how the virus spreads, that moment has come for those who are fully vaccinated.â
Mark Alexander
It is now clear that government lockdowns have proven disastrous for people and our economy. They have also been ineffective. According to the most recent summary of social-distancing measures published by Nature, âStay-at-home orders did little to mitigate the pandemic spread.â The authors say there is âno evidence that the number of deaths/million is reduced by staying at home.â
In discussions this week with physicians who are career disease specialists, I noted these interesting data points. This information is receiving no mention by the Biden administration or its Leftmedia propagandists in order not to disrupt their perpetual âfear and angstâ agenda â ensuring their constituents believe BIG Gov is their savior.
The decision will ultimately be up to the shareholders in May, when it’s sent to them for approval.
“We are keenly aware that the relationship of our company’s name to a person who figured prominently in the Confederate Army is the source of discomfort, even pain, for many of our fellow citizens,” Decherd said during the call. “And that is intolerable to the leaders of this enterprise.”
Belo got involved with the company after the Civil War. His family had owned slaves, but he never did, Decherd said. Belo went to Houston in search of work and met Willie Richardson, the publisher of the oldest newspaper in the state,