Woke watch: RBG Rewritten
The âAmerican Civil Liberties Union honored the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the one-year anniversary of her death â by rewriting her famous defense of a womanâs right to abortion,â . With âreferences to women and female pronounsâ deemed âoffensive,â âpast pđronoun offenses are being scrubbed away even for feminist icons like the ânotoriousâ Ginsburg, for referring to the right of âwomenâ to have abortions.â RBG herself âwould have made short work of such âwokeâ revisionism.â In reality, we can âallow for the adoption of alternative pronouns and the recognition of different gender identities without seeking to compel others to do so.â
COVID beat: The Lancet Gives Up
The Lancet, the elite medical journal, has âdisbanded [its] entire commission investigating the origin of COVID-19,â , because âapparently it is just too hard to find qualified scientific minds who donât have some past tieâ to Dr. Peter Daszak or his nonprofit EcoHealth, which funded âgain of funcā˛tionâ research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Daszak originally led the task force despite his clear conflicts of interest, and now it turns out that âother members of the task force had collaborated with Dr. Daszak or EcoHealth Alliance on various projects.â The bigger picture is a âUS virus-research bureaucracy that has deliberately withheld, covered up, lied, and obscured relevant information.â
Conservative: Demsâ Border Madness
Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales, who represents much of the southern-border area, says heâs never seen anything like last weekâsđ âchaosâ at Del Rio, where thousands of Haitians camped under a bridge, . Del Rio residents saw âtheir lives turned upside down,â she notes: âIf youâre a small-business owner and your business has somehow survived COVID-19, something like this could easily wipe you out.â Yet âDemocrats, journalists, and the White Houseâ ignored the crisis â until đTwitter made viral a photo of a mounted Border Patrol agent herding migrants. Then they falsely accused the agent of abuse. Maybe if one of them âspent a few days living in a border town,â theyâd âunderstand just how dire and dangerous life there has become.â
Eye on SCOTUS: Gorsuchâs Bid To Be Scaliaâs Heir
Supreme Court Justice Neilę§ Gođ rsuch plainly aims to inherit the late Antonin Scaliaâs âintellectual leadership of the conservative legal movement,â ; the âaspiration . . . fairly bursts from his votes and opinionsâ: âIn every case, no matter how small or large, he takes pains to shape a consistent judicial philosophy that defines the conservative position.â Yet âhe also authored the landmark opinion Bostock v. Clayton County, which conferred workplace anti-discrimination rights on gay and transgender people,â because of his insistence on âlogical consistency.â That means his coveted role may wind up belonging to Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who is âa credible, competing heir to Scalia.â In short, âThe coming debate between Gorsuch and Barrett about Scaliaâs legacy will shape the future of conservative jurisprudence.â
Libertarian: Bidenâs Loan-Forgiveness Rush
âProgressive Democratsâ have yet to pass a âuniversal student loan forgiveness bill,â , yet the Department of Education has ânevertheless forgiven billions of dollars in federal ęĻŋstudent loan debt since Joe Biden became president.â And itâs on track âto forgive increasingly moreâ in the future, âthanks to the Biden administrationâs expansive interpretation of the Education Departmentâs existing authorities, as well as a law signed by George W. Bush.â Under that law, âanyone with a Federal Direct Loan who makes 120 qualifying paymentsâ while working for a nonpolitical nonprofit or a government agency can have the remainder of his or her loan forgiven. And âitâs likely only a matter of time until millions of private-sector workers begin to wonder why you have to be poor or work for the government or a nonprofitâ to have your loans forgiven.
â Compiled by The Post Editorial Board