The most curious redaction in Saint Fauci's emails -
We've seen a lot of FOIA documents before, and it's normal for them to have redactions. But this redaction is different from the typical "deliberative process" and privacy exemptions.
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It's in an email from Peter Daszak, whose EcoHealth Alliance was the pass through for taxpayer funding to get from Fauci’s NIH to the Wuhan lab. Daszak thanks Fauci for rejecting the lab leak theory and there’s a big block-redacted paragraph with a 7(A) exemption.
That exemption is for:
“(7) records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such law enforcement records or information (A) could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings”
What could Daszak and Fauci have been discussing that is now subject to law enforcement action?
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What Do People Living In Cities Run By Democrats Have To Lose?
This was Trump’s pitch to voters of inner cities whose lousy schools, out of control crime, and high taxes keep driving people out. What have the “progressive” Democrats done for you?
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The Census Bureau just released the head count for cities in 2020. Here are the largest cities in the United States that lost population over last decade.
Detroit -6.4% -46,000
Baltimore -5.6% -35,000
Long Beach -1.7% -8,000
Milwaukee -1.0% -6,000
Chicago -0.7% -20,000
The cities above are extraordinarily high city-state tax rates, rioting, and failing schools among other economic problems.
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina asked the Congressional Budget Office to estimate the impact of Joe Biden’s myriad budget busters already passed or in the works.
If everything that Biden has proposed were to be approved by Congress, the national debt would climb by a cool $22 trillion over the next decade. That’s a $7.6 trillion increase in the debt path that he inherited. And that’s with COVID over!
Here’s how the numbers stack up:
The so-called stimulus plan passed in February adds $2.1 trillion of debt spending.
Bidens first formal budget proposal adds another $665 billion for programs like more funding of the IRS, EPA, foreign aid, the Education Department plus more.
San Francisco is losing its 17th Walgreens drug store this week.
The reason: Theft in Walgreens’ San Francisco stores is four times the average for stores elsewhere, and the chain spends 35 times more on security guards in the city than elsewhere.
The SF Chronicle recently asked a Walgreen’s clerk why the shelves were near-empty. He said, “Go ask the people in the alleys, they have it all.”
Contributing to the crime spree: a new law which lowers penalties for thefts under $950 as well as a failure to fully prosecute organized crime rings behind much of the theft.
Term limits mean that New York City will finally be rid of the haplessly incompetent Bill de Blasio at the end to this year. Election Day is June 22 with the Democratic primary. The city’s declining quality of life is emerging as the biggest issue.
Crime rate is rising for the first time since the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations cleaned up the city. For the month of April, the overall index of crime is up 30%, compared with a year ago. Grand larceny is up 66%, felony assault up 36% and shootings have increased 156%.
Half the city's Democratic primary voters rate “public safety and crime rates” as one of their top two priorities. Only 18% of New Yorkers want to see less police presence in their neighborhoods.
In NYC, 80,000 city employees will return this week. They’ve had a year long paid vacation, it’s time.
But city employee unions have learned something from teacher unions, who are masters in delay and exaggerated safety concerns.
The union demand is for no return to work until at least September, giving everyone a version of the summer vacation teachers have.
Over the weekend, hundreds of union members gathered outside City Hall to protest any return to work. "We as city workers are concerned that the mayor's hasty return to office planning is all risk and no reward," one speaker shouted. Um, isn’t a paycheck a reward?