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Conservative: Your COVID Dollars at . . . Work?
Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) and three co-defendants stand “charged with stealing federal COVID funds” to enrich themselves, fund her House campaign and buy bling like a 3.14-carat diamond ring, reports the Washington Examiner’s Byron York. Florida’s Division of Emergency Management erroneously overpaid her her health-care biz an extra $5 million as part of a federal COVID program — and Cherfilus-McCormick & Co. failed to report the mistake, they then used the dough for personal purposes and straw donations to her campaign, and lied to the IRS about it. Ah, those days when the feds were “shoveling billions out the door in the name of COVID relief”: “Who knows how much” was stolen or wasted?
Foreign desk: UK Cops’ Israeli-Smearing Lies
West Midlands Police was “brazenly twisting the truth” when it claimed “Maccabi Tel Aviv fans . . . had thrown ‘innocent members of the public into the river’ in Amsterdam last year” to justify banning Maccabi fans from “their team’s clash with Aston Villa in Birmingham” on Nov. 6, marvels Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill; in fact, “they were accusing Maccabi fans of things that were actually done to them.” Now “Dutch law enforcement is accusing West Midlands Police of using ‘fake claims.’” On the river story: “The only known case, say the Dutch, related to a man who supported Maccabi. He was filmed by his Amsterdam tormentors who said he could leave the freezing water if he said ‘Free Palestine’.” And that’s just one of many WMP ban-justifiying claims that the Dutch say “are simply ‘not true’.” The UK must get to the bottom of this “most serious police scandal.”
Housing beat: Cities Aren’t for Everyone
The “Yes in my back yard” approach has been the “go-to answer to the housing crunch in policy circles” note Oren Cass & Daniel Kishi at Commonplace, but faces “obvious limitations” as it “defaults to densifying places where most Americans don’t live or want to move” and treats “suburban growth and single-family neighborhoods” as “problems to fix.” In reality, most young people want to “build a decent life in their hometown” and occupy “detached single-family housing.” While “building more in dense metros is fine,” the conservative, mainstream alternative is “to move opportunity closer to where Americans already live.”
Health watch: RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vax Weaseling
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been conscripted into” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “anti-vaccine campaign,” fumes The Wall Street Journal editorial board. During confirmation hearings, “RFK Jr. promised not to remove” the header “Vaccines do not cause autism” from the Vaccine Safety page on the CDC website “to win Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy’s vote.” But on Wednesday, the CDC updated the article under that header to read, “Studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” No, say the Journal editors: “The studies haven’t been ignored. They’ve been examined and found deeply flawed.” “Retaining the header is a lawyerly attempt” by RFK “to keep his word while flouting it in spirit.”
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From the right: Dem Ignorance of Dem Extremism
In a sitdown with Bill Maher, Patton Oswalt seemed “genuinely stunned and confused” to learn “that California law allows birth certificates to list ‘non-binary’ as a designated sex for newborns,” groans Becket Adams at The Hill. The lessons: One, Democratic lawmakers adopt “positions so demented that even their supporters refuse to believe they’re real”; two, “many Democratic voters appear to have created a cocoon of ignorance” to avoid “learning what their party is doing or how it functions.” Indeed, “Pollsters have found that voters will turn against Republicans for describing certain Democratic positions too accurately” because they’re “too awful to believe.” Yet it’s worse that the Democratic base “seems to be in denial about what its elected leaders are doing.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board