The fulcrum of the Biden administration is “equity,” which is only vaguely defined, yet is directed to be practiced by every department and integrated into every executive action and bill.  On his first day, Biden signed an executive order creating “woke government” by empowering Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice to “coordinate efforts to embed equity principles, policies and approaches across the Federal Government." — Dennis M. Powell, The Hill The Biden administration is, as Obama himself said during a recent interview , “essentially finishing [my] job.” Obama added, “Ninety percent of the folks who were there in my administration, they are continuing and building on the policies we talked about, [including] figuring out how do we improve the ladders to mobility.” “Mobility” is another word for “ equity ,” the socialist, utopian goal of equal results (“to each, according to needs”) that replaces the traditional American “equality of opportunity.” Government eng...

From the Left: a sector of the left has tilted toward the promulgation of censorship. And with some chance of success, given the enormous power of the media outlets that are cooperating for reasons of their own, including the four horsemen of surveillance: Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon. — David Bromwich, The Nation , which provided the above illustration From the Right: The “process” rejected by today's Left are the traditional rules of fair play in our culture: freedom of speech, majority rule paired with minority rights, free exercise of religion, due process of law, checks and balances. Specifically, “open debate” is not valued by the ascendant social democrats who set the rules in our media and at our Big Tech platforms. And in the halls of government, dissent is increasingly seen as dangerous. — Editorial, Washington Examiner Matt Taibbi is a well-known leftist writer, author, and contributing editor to Rolling Stone . Taibbi has noticed the Trump conservatives shari...

Shi Jengli, China’s Wuhan Lab Bat Lady (2017) A lot of what you’re seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science , because all of the things that I have spoken about, consistently from the very beginning, have been fundamentally based on science. [emphasis added] — Dr. Anthony Fauci If you “believe in science,” you don’t bow to their authority. You don’t transform them into living legends and teach your children to follow the example of their lives. You don’t light votive candles to them and castigate anyone who dares doubt their infinite wisdom. Instead, you demand the best proof they can offer. You consider their motivations, their ideological biases and their conflicts of interest. You interrogate their advice, and weigh it against that of their critics. You exercise diligence. You ask questions. You trust in evidence, not in people. You think for yourself. — Leighton Akira Woodhouse, “Rough Cut” As of now, it appears that 1) the Covid pandemic that has killed ...

Minneapolis Burning I.   FOX News Poll (5/23-25/21): Issue                                                                                         Yes          No Need Photo ID to Vote (4/21 Poll)                                77%        19% Crime Up in Past Year                                                       73%        17% Trust in Police: Gr...