Here’s Why the CDC Is Telling Men to Shave Their Facial Hair

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Men may need to hack off their muttonchops, void their Van Dykes or pluck their ducktails if they plan on using a respirator, according to information from the CDC about how facial hair can interact with the devices.

A graphic released by the agency shows the fashionable facial-hair-wearer which styles will conflict with potentially life-saving respirators as the US braces for the quickly spreading coronavirus to emerge state-side.

Handlebar, walrus, and Zorro mustaches are fine, but the CDC says folks may need to lose their Fu Manchus, Dalis, and Englishes — because they could prevent respirators from making a seal on wearers’ faces. . .

Standard beards and chops are also risky, as the hair could come in contact with a respirator’s exhalation valve, reducing their effectiveness, the graphic said. (Read more from “Here’s Why the CDC Is Telling Men to Shave Their Facial Hair” HERE)

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Harvard Epidemiologist Predicts Most of the World Will Be Infected by Next Year; U.S. Soldier Stationed in South Korea Tests Positive for Coronavirus; Senator ‘Appalled’ by Trump’s Classified Briefing on Coronavirus

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CDC Warns Disruption to U.S. Life “May be Severe”

By Alexandria Hein. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday warned that it expects the novel coronavirus to begin spreading in the U.S. at the community level, and that “disruption to everyday life may be severe.”

Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the agency’s director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said in a press briefing on Tuesday that the time for Americans to begin preparing for a potential outbreak of the virus is now . . . “As more and more countries experience community spread, successful containment at our borders becomes harder and harder,” Messonnier said. “Ultimately, we expect we will see community spread in this country. It’s not so much a question of if this will happen anymore, but rather more a question of when this will happen, and how many people in this country will have severe illness.”

Citing the recent uptick in cases in countries with confirmed illnesses, Messonnier said health officials recognize that once the virus hits, it moves “quite rapidly,” adding that the outbreak is inching closer toward pandemic status. She explained several measures the U.S. is prepared to take should the outbreak become severe, including closing schools and hosting meetings remotely.

“I understand this whole situation may seem overwhelming and that disruption to everyday life may be severe, but these are things people need to start thinking about now,” Messonnier said. (Read more HERE)
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US Soldier Tests Positive

By The Blaze. An American soldier stationed in South Korea has tested positive for COVID-19, the coronavirus, the U.S. military announced Wednesday, in what is the first confirmed case of a servicemember contracting the new disease. . .

The patient is a 23-year-old male stationed at Camp Carroll near the southeastern city of Daegu. According to a statement issued by United States Forces Korea, the soldier “is currently in self quarantine at his off-base residence.”

The command said that “health professionals are actively conducting contact tracing to determine whether any others may have been exposed,” adding, “USFK is implementing all appropriate control measures to help control the spread of COVID-19 and remains at risk level ‘high’ for USFK peninsula-wide as a prudent measure to protect the force.”

The Daily Mail reported that South Korea announced the same day that the country has 1,146 cases of COVID-19, which means it has “the biggest outbreak outside mainland China.” China has reported more than 2,700 deaths due to coronavirus with another 78,000 confirmed cases of infection.

The U.S. currently has around 28,5000 troops stationed in South Korea, as a deterrent against North Korean aggression. (Read more from “U.S. Soldier Stationed in South Korea Tests Positive for Coronavirus” HERE)

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Yes, You’ll Likely Get It – Harvard Epidemiologist Predicts Most of the World Will Be Infected by Next Year

By The Atlantic. . .Coronaviruses are similar to influenza viruses in that they both contain single strands of RNA.* Four coronaviruses commonly infect humans, causing colds. These are believed to have evolved in humans to maximize their own spread—which means sickening, but not killing, people. By contrast, the two prior novel coronavirus outbreaks—SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome, named for where the first outbreak occurred)—were picked up from animals, as was H5N1. These diseases were highly fatal to humans. If there were mild or asymptomatic cases, they were extremely few. Had there been more of them, the disease would have spread widely. Ultimately, SARS and MERS each killed fewer than 1,000 people. . .

The Harvard epidemiology professor Marc Lipsitch is exacting in his diction, even for an epidemiologist. Twice in our conversation he started to say something, then paused and said, “Actually, let me start again.” So it’s striking when one of the points he wanted to get exactly right was this: “I think the likely outcome is that it will ultimately not be containable.”

Containment is the first step in responding to any outbreak. In the case of COVID-19, the possibility (however implausible) of preventing a pandemic seemed to play out in a matter of days. Starting in January, China began cordoning off progressively larger areas, radiating outward from the city of Wuhan and eventually encapsulating some 100 million people. People were barred from leaving home, and lectured by drones if they were caught outside. Nonetheless, the virus has now been found in 24 countries.

Despite the apparent ineffectiveness of such measures—relative to their inordinate social and economic cost, at least—the crackdown continues to escalate. Under political pressure to “stop” the virus, last Thursday the Chinese government announced that officials in Hubei province would be going door-to-door, testing people for fevers and looking for signs of illness, then sending all potential cases to quarantine camps. But even with the ideal containment, the virus’s spread may have been inevitable. Testing people who are already extremely sick is an imperfect strategy if people can spread the virus without even feeling bad enough to stay home from work.

Lipsitch predicts that within the coming year, some 40 to 70 percent of people around the world will be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. But, he clarifies emphatically, this does not mean that all will have severe illnesses. “It’s likely that many will have mild disease, or may be asymptomatic,” he said. As with influenza, which is often life-threatening to people with chronic health conditions and of older age, most cases pass without medical care. (Overall, about 14 percent of people with influenza have no symptoms.) (Read more from “Yes, You’ll Likely Get It – Harvard Epidemiologist Predicts Most of the World Will Be Infected by Next Year” HERE)

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Democrat ‘Appalled’ by Classified Senate Briefing on Coronavirus: ‘Should Have Been Fully Open to American People’

By Raw Story.Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) blasted the Trump administration for withholding information about coronavirus preparations from the public.

The administration gave senators a classified briefing Tuesday morning on the virus, which Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) warned Monday could turn into a potential pandemic unless President Donald Trump and his team took swift action.

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WATCH: Biden Accidentally Tells South Carolina Crowd He’s a Dem Candidate ‘for the United States Senate’

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Former Vice President Joe Biden made an unfortunate gaffe just days before the critical South Carolina primary, telling voters he’s a Democratic candidate for the “United States Senate.”

Biden was one of several 2020 hopefuls to attend the South Carolina Democrat Party’s First in the South Dinner, where he reportedly received the longest ovation of any of his competitors. . .

“You’re the ones who sent Barack Obama the presidency. And I have a simple proposition here: I’m here to ask you for your help,” Biden pleaded to Democratic voters. “Where I come from, you don’t go very far unless you ask. My name’s Joe Biden. I’m a Democratic candidate for the United State’s Senate. Look me over. If you like what you see, help out. If not, vote for the other Biden. Give me a look though, okay?”

Biden, a former senator, has called South Carolina is “firewall,” hoping to clinch his first primary victory after having disappointing turnouts in Iowa and New Hampshire as well as coming in at a distant second in Nevada last weekend. (Read more from “WATCH: Biden Accidentally Tells South Carolina Crowd He’s a Dem Candidate ‘for the United States Senate'” HERE)

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Four Babies in NYC Have Recently Gotten Herpes From Controversial Jewish Circumcision Ritual

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A seldom-practiced religious ritual has led to a cluster of herpes cases among infants, New York City health officials said Sunday. At least four infants have contracted the potentially fatal viral disease since last September, all after undergoing a circumcision during which the circumciser placed their mouth on the genital wound.

Last September, health officials issued a public health alert about the practice, known as metzitzah b’peh, following a case of neonatal herpes reported to the New York City Health Department. On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported there have been three more cases documented in NYC since December.

Jewish circumcision nowadays rarely involves any oral contact between the baby’s genitals and the circumciser, or mohel, and is actively discouraged by the community at large. But the ancient practice of suction—said to cleanse the wound—is still performed within some ultra-orthodox communities. (Read more from “Four Babies in NYC Have Recently Gotten Herpes From Controversial Jewish Circumcision Ritual” HERE)

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Supreme Court Declines to Intervene… Where It Actually Belongs

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Does the Supreme Court control the outcome of broad political and social questions? Not at all. The Constitution vests the high court with mandatory original jurisdiction over only four types cases, which tend to be pretty uncommon. But these very cases seem to be the only ones the Supreme Court declines to take.

There’s a dirty little secret about our political system that few realize. Congress has plenary power over the entirety of what is known as the Supreme Court’s “appellate jurisdiction.” That means that Congress can regulate or exclude any type of case from the Supreme Court’s reach through the appeals process, except for one of the four types where the Constitution vests it with “original jurisdiction.” One of those cases just came before the Supreme Court, and on Monday, the court finally showed humility at the wrong time and declined to take the appeal.

Art. III, § 2, cl. 1 of the Constitution vests the high court with original jurisdiction over “all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;–to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;–to controversies to which the United States shall be a party;–to controversies between two or more states.”

Well, Arizona has a complaint that California is taxing Arizona citizens who have nebulous ties to the Golden State and thereby draining Arizona’s government revenue. California assesses an $800 “doing business” tax against Arizona businesses and banks that conduct no real business in California, other than a passive investment in a California company. Since the “doing business” taxes are deductible, Arizona loses an estimated $484,000 in tax revenue every year. According to Arizona’s attorney general, Mark Brnovich, 13,300 Arizona-based LLCs pay about $10.6 million a year in California taxes without having any presence in California.

This case obviously opens up a nasty can of worms related to interstate taxation and the concept of taxation without representation. As the National Taxpayers Union warned in an amicus brief: “California’s cross-border seizure of funds from the bank accounts of Arizona residents amounts to casus belli in the classic sense of requiring collective self-defense. But unlike conventional cross-border raids that rely on physical mobilization, technological advances allow California to reach into Arizona bank accounts without physically traveling outside its own borders. This precedent, if allowed to stand, would allow any state with revenue aspirations to reach passive investors in every other state by using multistate banks as conduits for backdoor extractions.”

In other words, this is exactly why we have a federal government and more specifically why the Constitution mandated that the Supreme Court mediate these disputes.

Instead, the Supreme Court dismissed Arizona’s motion yesterday without offering any explanation. Now Arizona has no recourse but to sue in California state courts, which our Founders sought to avoid, for obvious reasons.

Justice Thomas, joined only by Justice Alito, tore into his colleagues for dismissing this case.

The Constitution establishes our original jurisdiction in mandatory terms. Article III states that, “[i]n all Cases . . . in which a State shall be [a] Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction.” §2, cl. 2 (emphasis added). In this circumstance, “[w]e have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given, than to usurp that which is not given.” Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheat. 264, 404 (1821) (Marshall, C. J., for the Court). Our original jurisdiction in suits between two States is also “exclusive.” §1251(a). As I have previously explained, “[i]f this Court does not exercise jurisdiction over a controversy between two States, then the complaining State has no judicial forum in which to seek relief.” Nebraska v. Colorado, 577 U. S. ___, ___ (2016) (opinion dissenting from denial of motion for leave to file complaint) (slip op., at 2). Denying leave to file in a case between two or more States is thus not only textually suspect, but also inequitable.

Well, indeed, the modus operandi of the federal courts these days is to “usurp what is not given” to them, while declining to exercise “the jurisdiction which is given.” It’s truly ironic to watch the federal courts insert themselves into all issues of internal order within a state where they doesn’t belong, be it life, marriage, election law, or internal economic issues. We have federal courts hearing cases that statute explicitly precludes them from hearing. We have federal courts abusing the rules of standing. And we have federal courts issuing injunctions outside the parties properly before the court.

Yet there is this erroneous perception that the federal courts reign supreme over the other branches and can usurp their power with impunity, when in fact the opposite is true. There can be no greater authority on this matter than Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth, who served as the first Senate Judiciary Committee chairman and is often called “the father of the national judiciary.” Writing an opinion in a 1796 case, Ellsworth authoritatively asserted, “If Congress has provided no rule to regulate our proceedings, we cannot exercise an appellate jurisdiction; and if the rule is provided, we cannot depart from it.”

As Clarence Thomas wrote in a 2018 case, “When Congress strips federal courts of jurisdiction, it exercises a valid legislative power no less than when it lays taxes, coins money, declares war, or invokes any other power that the Constitution grants it.”

For example, Congress stripped the federal courts of all power to block deportations under “expedited removal,” but the courts are issuing injunctions anyway. There is no apparent will on the part of the Supreme Court to remove its inferior courts from this realm.

Yet when it comes to an interstate dispute, the one area where the high court must insert itself, plaintiffs are told to go to the other state’s court for relief because the justices have washed their hands of the case. Truly a system upside down.

Perhaps, if the Supreme Court doesn’t want to use its power where the Constitution requires it, Congress should negative its power in all the cases where that authority exists solely at the discretion of Congress. (For more from the author of “Supreme Court Declines to Intervene… Where It Actually Belongs” please click HERE)

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FBI Raids Fashion Mogul Peter Nygard’s NY Office After He Was Accused of Sex Assault and Sex Trafficking

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By CNN. Fashion tycoon Peter Nygard’s New York office was raided Tuesday as the magnate faces allegations of sex trafficking in a civil lawsuit.

The FBI and New York police executed the search warrant, said Nicholas Biase, a spokesman for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

Nygard’s spokesman Ken Frydman said authorities executed search warrants on Nygard’s offices in New York and California, and he said his client is “not surprised” by the raids.

“Nygard welcomes the federal investigation and expects his name to be cleared,” Frydman said. “He has not been charged, is not in custody and is cooperating with the investigation.” (Read more from “FBI Raids Fashion Mogul Peter Nygard’s NY Office After He Was Accused of Sex Assault and Sex Trafficking” HERE)

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Peter Nygard Resigns as Head of Fashion Company After Sex-Trafficking Raid

By New York Post. Fashion mogul Peter Nygard is stepping down as head of the international women’s clothing giant he founded, a spokesman for the Canadian-born multi-millionaire announced following an NYPD/FBI raid of Nygard’s Manhattan offices Tuesday.

“Recognizing the priority of the welfare of the thousands of Nygard employees, retail partners, loyal customers, vendors, suppliers, and business partners, Peter Nygard has made the decision to step down as chairman of the Nygard
Companies and will divest his ownership interest,” Ken Frydman, a spokesman for the wealthy playboy, said in a statement. (Read more from “Peter Nygard Resigns as Head of Fashion Company After Sex-Trafficking Raid” HERE)

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DHS Whistleblower Found Dead; Rep. Steve King: “Phil Haney Didn’t Kill Himself”; Scant MSM Coverage

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Philip Haney, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) whistleblower who was an outspoken critic of the administration of former President Barack Obama, was found dead Friday, about 40 miles east of Sacramento, Calif., local authorities said.

Haney, 66, “appeared to have suffered a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound,” the Amador County Sheriff’s Office said in a release. Sheriff and coroner Martin A. Ryan shared the initial details of the case.

“On February 21, 2020 at approximately 1012 hours, deputies and detectives responded to the area of Highway 124 and Highway 16 in Plymouth to the report of a male subject on the ground with a gunshot wound,” the release read.

“Upon their arrival, they located and identified 66-year-old Philip Haney, who was deceased and appeared to have suffered a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound. A firearm was located next to Haney and his vehicle. This investigation is active and ongoing. No further details will be released at this time,” the office added. . .

In June 2016, Haney testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he alleged that the Obama-era DHS had ordered him to delete hundreds of files about reputed associates of Islamic terrorist groups. Haney made the case that several attacks in the U.S. could have been prevented if some of the files had not been deleted, the Examiner reported. (Read more from “DHS Whistleblower During Obama Era Found Dead” HERE)
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Gunshot Wound to Chest, “Apparently Self-Inflicted”

By Edwin Mora. Although authorities have said the gunshot wound “appears” to be “self-inflicted,” stressing that the investigation is ongoing, 66-year-old Haney had been missing since February 19. and died from a gunshot wound to his chest two days later, Red State and Heavy reported.

Gunshot wounds to the chest are uncommon in the case of suicides, data reportedly show. Haney’s death has triggered a wave of claims suggesting he may have been a victim of foul play.

Echoing some of the whistleblower’s friends, a number of senior congressional officials have expressed alarm to Breitbart News about this, noting that they do no believe Haney was suicidal.

Law enforcement found Haney’s body 40 miles east of Sacramento, California. . .

“If I am found dead, it wasn’t suicide,” Haney told multiple people, confirmed by two anonymous sources, the NOQ Report learned. (Read more about the DHS Whistleblower who was shot and killed HERE)
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Multiple Friends: “No Way He Would Have Killed Himself”

Haney, 67, had many enemies. An outspoken critic of the Obama administration and supporter of President Trump, the Middle East expert has been fighting against radical Islamic terrorism since becoming a founding member of the Department of Homeland Security in 2002. He was reportedly in the middle of independent investigations to help “protect America from progressive leftist socialists” when he was found dead near his car outside of San Francisco.

He was scheduled to be married later this year. Friends who talked to him before his disappearance on February 19th say he’d “never been happier” and that there’s “no way he would have taken his own life.” But law enforcement appears to be treating this as a suicide. Hopefully, this is a smokescreen and they’re at least considering the possibility he was murdered. . .

If this is really a suicide, it comes at not only an odd time but also by an odd means. Nearly all suicides by firearms are committed at home. Allegedly, Haney drove out to the area of Highway 124 and Highway 16, got out of his car, and shot himself in the chest. The gun was found next to him and his car. No note has been reportedly found, nor are there social media posts indicating any preconceived notions of depression, let alone suicide. His last Facebook post was a meme ridiculing the impeachment saga. (Read more about the DHS Whistleblower HERE)

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Mystery Deepens In Italy On How The Coronavirus Is Spreading – Alleged Patient Zero Tests ‘Negative’; China Pushes Factories To Reopen, Risking Renewed Virus Spread

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By The Straits Times. Italy raced … to contain the biggest outbreak of coronavirus in Europe, sealing off the worst affected towns and banning public gatherings in much of the north as the number of those infected jumped above 100.

An elderly cancer patient became the third person known to be infected with the coronavirus to die, health officials said on Sunday. The woman had been in hospital in Crema, located in Lombardy, where most cases of infections have been reported. . .

Health authorities are struggling to work out how the outbreak started. The first cases were announced only on Friday and doctors do not know its source.

Initial suspicion in Lombardy fell on a businessman recently returned from China, the epicentre of the new virus, but he has tested negative. In Veneto, doctors tested a group of eight Chinese visitors who had been to the town that was home to the first fatality, but again, they all tested negative.

“We are (now) even more worried because if we cannot find ‘patient zero’ then it means the virus is even more ubiquitous than we thought,” Zaia said. (Read more from “Mystery Deepens In Italy On How The Coronavirus Is Spreading – Alleged Patient Zero Tests ‘Negative’” HERE)

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China Discharges 22,888 Recovered Patients Of Coronavirus Infection

By The Jakarta Post. A total of 22,888 patients infected with the novel coronavirus had been discharged from hospital after recovery by the end of Saturday, the Chinese health authority said on Sunday.

Saturday saw 2,230 people walk out of hospital after recovery, the National Health Commission said in its daily report. (Read more from “China Discharges 22,888 Recovered Patients Of Coronavirus Infection” HERE)

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China Pushes Factories To Reopen, Risking Renewed Virus Spread

By Bloomberg. China is trying to get people back to work, risking a renewed spread of the coronavirus.

Central and local governments are loosening the criteria for factories to resume operations as they walk a tightrope between containing a virus that has killed more than 2,400 people and preventing a slump in the world’s second-largest economy.

The rush to restart has been propelled by China’s leader Xi Jinping and top leaders, who are urging companies to resume production so the country can continue to meet lofty goals for growth and economic development in 2020. At stake are the fates of millions of Chinese businesses facing collapse because of the shutdowns, and the ability of companies across the globe from Apple Inc. to Nissan Motor Co. to access crucial components.

Officials in China’s provinces have taken up Xi’s call, with one region after another relaxing rules that had kept more than half the nation’s industrial base idle following the Lunar New Year holiday. After weeks of empty streets and shuttered shops, signs of life are emerging along the manufacturing belt in the country’s coastal regions. (Read more from “China Pushes Factories To Reopen, Risking Renewed Virus Spread” HERE)

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Ghislaine Maxwell Bragged ‘Jeffrey Epstein And I Have Everyone On Videotape’

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Last month there were rumors that the personal emails of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged fixer Ghislaine Maxwell could be released. If the emails were released, they could reveal power brokers from around the world. A new report that Ghsilane and Jeffrey recorded every encounter involving their associates could has influential people scared to their core.

Before Ghislaine Maxwell was known as the madam for Jeffrey Epstein, she was a British socialite. Fellow U.K. debutante Christina Oxenberg became friends with Maxwell since they ran in the same high society circles in the early 1990s.

Oxenberg, who is a relative of a royal family, was at Maxwell’s home in Britain. “We were alone,” Oxenberg said. “She said many things. All creepy. Unorthodox. Strange. I could not believe whatever she was saying was real. Stuff like: ‘Jeffrey and I have everyone on videotape.’”

Oxenberg didn’t really understand the implications of that statement at the time. But now she understands the meaning of the eery conversation.

There are widespread accusations that Maxwell supplied young women, sometimes underage girls, to Epstein. Before his bizarre and suspicious death in a prison cell in August, Epstein was on trial for federal charges of sex trafficking. In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida for procuring an underage girl for prostitution and sentenced to 18 months in prison. (Read more from “Ghislaine Maxwell Bragged ‘Jeffrey Epstein And I Have Everyone On Videotape’” HERE)

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It’s Looking As Though One Super Tuesday State Is Setting Itself Up For Voter Fraud

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By Townhall. While all eyes were on the Nevada Caucuses, people in Super Tuesday states started receiving their absentee ballots. In places like California, voters are encouraged to vote absentee. It’s been a way to garner greater political involvement and participation.

Adam Housley, a former correspondent for Fox News, said he received two ballots: one for non-party preference (NPP) and one for the libertarian ticket. What makes the scenario even more troubling? Housley said he has never registered as a libertarian.

In a state with millions of people, a small flub here and there is likely to happen, but it turns out Housley wasn’t the only one who received multiple ballots..

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Unthinkability Bias Comes for the Democrats

By Real Clear Politics. Voting in the Democratic Primary contest is getting ready to heat up, but the contest itself will be more-or-less over shortly after it begins. By the end of March, fully two-thirds of the delegates to the national convention will be awarded. Barring a major collapse in his poll numbers between now and then, Bernie Sanders is likely to win the lion’s share – perhaps even a majority – of these delegates. The results from Saturday’s Nevada caucuses certainly did nothing to suggest otherwise. At that point, denying him the nomination becomes an extremely tricky proposition.

If you are among those who believe Sanders is the strongest candidate Democrats could run against Donald Trump, then this is all for the good. If you think the outsider is a general election problem for the party, you may be wondering how it came to this, especially in an election where there seemed to be so many promising candidates. Particularly perplexing is the decision of the Democratic candidates to hammer Michael Bloomberg – who won’t be on the ballot for two more contests – at the most recent debate. . . Finally, beyond the enhanced fundraising and core of strong supporters, candidates like Trump and Sanders have benefitted from what I dubbed “unthinkability bias” in 2016. This is like a strong version of confirmation bias, where people set their prior probabilities of an event occurring to zero and refuse to update their priors because they just can’t conceive of the possibility coming to pass. In the summer of 2016, I wrote a series of pieces suggesting that Trump could win the general election; these were met such derision and invective that I took a month-long break from Twitter. In late 2019, I wrote a piece suggesting that people were underestimating Sanders’ chances of becoming the Democratic nominee. While the response was less angry, it was still met with a degree of skepticism that seems unwarranted today.

This is harmless in and of itself, but it has the potential to transform the trajectory of races. By writing off Trump and Sanders in the summer and fall before the election year, candidates allowed their candidacies to strengthen and their core bases of support to grow. In addition, by attacking each other, the more “traditional” candidates collectively weakened themselves, diminishing themselves compared to the insurgent. (Read more from “Unthinkability Bias Comes for the Democrats” HERE)

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