Executing an about-face, President Biden has publicly stated that he no longer favors requiring vaccine passports for all Americans who’ve got their anti-COVID-19 shots. Yet, the president has left the door open to the states and private industry to develop their own vaccine passports.
America’s Frontline Doctors now has called on all USA citizens to demand that Biden immediately and unequivocally ban the use of vaccine passports in the United States – whether the passports are initiated in the public sector or in private business and industry.
Unfortunately, such a call flirts with the flip side of the First Amendment.
Wearing and displaying a “vaccine passport” should be up to the individual. Some people who have received the requisite number of shots to blunt COVID-19 have turned their own vaccination records into their personal passports. They regard their passports as a tribute to President Donald Trump for ramping up Operation Warp Speed in 2019, which resulted in vaccine rollouts faster than anyone believed possible.
Others proudly wear their passports on lanyards in public, having left their face masks at home. If a store manager or a business owner demands that they put on their masks before entering a facility, the passport holder can simply show his Wu Flu credential. If the passport bearers still are refused entry, they can tell the store or business representative that they will gladly take their business elsewhere and be on their merry ways. Once again, common sense and reliable science trump tyranny and hypocrisy.
Black lives do matter, but the stats don’t show it – In 2018 (latest year for which figures are available), at least 117,626 black children were killed by surgical abortion in the United States, accounting for nearly 34 percent of the total abortions that year, according to the federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The number could be higher, because only 31 of the nation’s 52 reporting areas provided figures. Not reporting were California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York City, New York State, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
For white children — 135,328 were killed by abortion (nearly 39 percent of the total reported); Hispanics — 70,195 (or 20 percent of the total); and Other Ethnicities — 26,975 abortions (nearly 8 percent of the total).
But the racial orientation of these lost lives doesn’t really matter. As a people, we should mourn over these statistics. What matters is that more than 232,500 babies were killed in the womb. In a nation that bills itself as the land of the free and the home of the brave, those figures are depressing and totally unacceptable.
Silence can be golden – The illegal immigration crisis at the U.S.- Mexico border continues – with Vice President Kamala Harris continuing to draw criticism, because she has yet to conduct a news conference regarding her duties in dealing with the crisis more than 25 days after being appointed to sit in the catbird’s seat.
President Biden chose Harris last month to be his border czar and to focus on rallying Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua to implement measures that would put the brakes on migrating hordes flooding the USA’s southern border.
But ducking the press by Harris could be a blessing in disguise. The public doesn’t need her sanctimonious doublespeak. And we certainly don’t need another dose of her goofy laugh when she doesn’t have a good answer to a legitimate question.
So, will the radical Democrats ever eat crow? — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said this past week that Republicans should be calling out Democrats for making the absurd claim that the GOP supports Jim Crow laws when, in fact, history shows that the Democrats have always been the political party enacting the racist, voter-suppression laws.
The leftists took off on a tirade when Republican-dominant Georgia enacted new election rules to guarantee the integrity and safety of its elections. Since then, other states have jumped on the bandwagon.
Jim Crow laws were state and local statutes enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Deep South designed to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by black people during Reconstruction following the Civil War. But we have come a long way since then to repeal and not repeat such blatantly racist laws.
In the wake of Georgia’s legislative action last month, critics – including Joe Biden – have claimed that the bill makes it harder for people to vote, because it restricts giving water to voters standing in long lines outside the polling place, makes voting periods shorter and requires some form of voter identification instead of signature matching, among other grievances.
In fact, if you bother to read the new law, here are some of the key provisions:
The only people restricted from handing out water are politicians, candidate representatives, and those pushing a cause. And even they can provide drinks of water if they’re 150 feet away from the polls or no closer than 25 feet to the nearest voter (meaning people can step out of line to get a drink while the next person in line holds their place).
There’s more of a chance to vote because the new law provides for voting on two Saturdays for each county (under the old law, it was only one Saturday) as well as allowing two Sundays for “souls to the polls” voting from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Election supervisors may extend those voting hours to 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., just as they are on voting day itself.)
Many forms of identification besides driver’s licenses are acceptable (a free state-issued ID card, a Social Security card, a bank statement, a government check and even a current utility bill that contains the voter’s name and address) so that poll workers can see that you are who you say you are.
To eliminate waiting in line to vote for sometimes up to five hours, the new law mandates more voting equipment and access, or smaller precincts where long lines have been identified.
A deadline for issuing absentee ballots will be at least 25 days before a federal primary, general election or special election or 22 days before a municipal general election or primary. The deadline applies equally to all races and cultures. There’s plenty of time before the deadline to take care of business.
Election superintendents must report the returns of verified and accepted absentee ballots by 5 p.m. the day following an election day. The old law allowed a week to finalize and certify the final vote count – leaving too much time for political shenanigans.
For mail-in ballot applications, a cutoff date of 11 days is mandated before a primary, a general election or a runoff election. In prior elections, absentee ballots were accepted until 7 p.m. on an election day.
State and local governments are now prohibited from sending out unsolicited absentee ballot applications. And third-party groups can face financial penalties if they mail applications to people who have already applied for a ballot.
The new law restricts buses and “other readily movable” facilities, allowing their use for emergencies only. County superintendents may provide portable polling facilities for a given precinct at their discretion.
Why is it that when honest reform takes place, the opponents and their lapdog media allies raise the red flags of racism, white supremacy and political oppression. Yet when the socialist shepherds mandate change by hook or by crook or by autocratic executive orders, that’s supposedly OK with all the sheep.