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By: Alex Berenson – wsj.com – May 15, 2022 Do social-media companies collude with the federal government to suppress speech? On April 29, Judge William Alsup issued a ruling in a case I brought against Twitter that could become a watershed in holding social-media companies accountable for censorship. This problem became acute at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic. On Jan….

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 15, 2022 The political campaign to save Roe v. Wade includes urgent warnings about all the other historic precedents that are now purportedly under threat. Listen instead to Yale Law Professor Akhil Reed Amar, who supports abortion rights but is honest enough to rain on this implausible parade of horribles. “Lib law…

Many leaders in the pro-life movement aren’t ready to seriously think about policies and strategies for a post-Roe America. They need to be.  

To President Biden, public health researchers, and the media, violent crime is all about guns. But a new survey finds that people are badly misinformed about how much violent crime involves guns. The average likely American voter is way off, thinking that over 46% of violent crimes involve guns. In fact, the true figure is less than 8%.

By: Brittany Bernstein & Isaac Schorr – nationalreview.com – May 16, 2022 Dems, Media Blame GOP, Conservative Media for Buffalo Shooting A tragedy unfolded in a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket over the weekend when an armed 18-year-old white man named Payton Gendron allegedly opened fire in a grocery store in a predominantly African-American neighborhood. The shooting left ten people dead and…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 16, 2022 By now you’ve heard that some 40% of the nation’s baby formula is out of stock, causing new mothers to hunt from store to store to feed their infants. This should never happen in America. How did it? Here’s the government part of the story you won’t hear from the…

If U.S. News and World Report’s ratings can be taken seriously, Yale is home to America’s top law school. Tuition at Yale Law School is just shy of $70,000 a year plus expenses for room, board, books …

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – May 13, 2022 Netflix has discovered the magical healing power of “No.” In a “culture memo” that was distributed to its staff this week, the company said what every company of its type ought to have said a long, long time ago: “If you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix…

By: Barton Swaim – wsj.com – May 13, 2022 Less funny but similarly paradoxical was Barack Obama’s April 21 address lamenting online disinformation, in which he propounded at least one easily disprovable assertion. Tech companies, the former president said, “should be working with, not always contrary to, those groups that are trying to prevent voter suppression [that] specifically has targeted…

An analysis by ABC News of federal data found that a growing proportion of COVID-19 deaths are occurring among the vaccinated.

President Biden campaigned on reducing wealth inequality (as well as income inequality). Hey, mission accomplished! The four-month stock market slide, the worst for the S&P 500 since 1939, has made a lot of wealthy people a lot less wealthy.