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I have always believed that bureaucrats working on behalf of the American people should be visibly neutral politically. We shouldn’t know what their political ideologies are or what political parties they belong to or the causes they support. Source: Federal Government Stamp of Approval of BLM

Forty five percent of counties across the United States are currently battling uncontrollable COVID-19 outbreaks, a data map shows – as the latest models predict the number of deaths will surge by at least 20,000 in the next four weeks. Source: Coronavirus US: 45% of counties seeing epidemic spread | Daily Mail Online

Texas Democratic Senate nominee M.J. Hegar repeatedly equated U.S. immigration policies to Uyghur concentration camps in China, saying Americans “cannot lecture China” on human rights issues. Source: Cornyn Challenger Equates U.S. Border Policies to Chinese Concentration Camps – Washington Free Beacon

It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times. I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago. I was hired with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your pages: first-time writers, centrists, conservatives and others who would not naturally think of…

When it comes to social justice, the NBA is filled with activists. When it comes to China, criticism is nowhere to be found. Over the weekend, NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski was suspended by ESPN for emailing “f— you” to Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri after Hawley sent an open letter criticizing NBA commissioner Adam Silver for the league’s warm…

The Jacobin Left is just now beginning to get edgy.  A few of its appeasers and abettors are becoming embarrassed by some of the outright racists and nihilists of BLM and the Maoists of Antifa — and their wannabe hangers-on who troll the Internet hoping to scalp some minor celebrity.  Source: Protests & The Left: Peak Jacobinism? | National Review

The first Wuhan coronavirus vaccine is showing promising results, meaning it’s likely to begin a final clinical trial. Researchers say the vaccine boosted people’s immune systems, which could be enough to protect against the virus. Source: The First Wuhan Coronavirus Vaccine Has Promising Results

A major Los Angeles teachers union said in a research paper issued Thursday that the reopening of schools should be conditioned upon the passage of Medicare-for-All at the federal level, along with a slew of other left-wing policy staples at the state and local levels. “It is time to take a stand against Trump’s dangerous, anti-science agenda that puts the…

By: Editorial Board – wsj.com – July 13, 2020 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 children under age 15 have died from Covid-19. In a typical year 190 children die of the flu, 436 from suicide, 625 from homicide, and 4,114 from unintentional deaths such as drowning. Only two children under age 18 have died in Chicago—fewer…

By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – July 6, 2020 Some early assumptions about Covid-19 no longer add up—and that could be good news for the future progress of the virus. There are reasons to think the novel coronavirus began spreading earlier than previously understood, raising the possibility that herd immunity is closer than we think. Chinese authorities say they first…

Dr. Thomas Sowell has just published “Charter Schools and Their Enemies.” He presents actual test scores of students in traditional public schools and charter schools on New York State Education Department’s annual English Language Arts test and its Mathematics test. Sowell gives the results of student tests in charter schools such as KIPP, Success Academy, Explore Schools, Uncommon Schools, Achievement…