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In some ways, it’s unfair to compare California and Georgia, for they are remarkably different. California’s population is 39,512,223 with an average population density of 253.6 per square mile; Georgia’s population is 10,617423 with an average population density of 165 per square mile. California’s largest city, Los Angeles, has 3,990,456 people; Georgia’s largest city, Atlanta, has 523,738 people. Nevertheless, because I haven’t forgotten April 21, when Dana Milbank, of the Washington Post, promised us that “Georgia leads the race to become America’s No. 1 Death Destination,” the two states deserve to be compared. The occasion for Milbank’s article was Governor...

The Washington Post was slammed late Monday night for its bizarre framing of the latest developments that emerged surrounding the allegations made by Biden accuser Tara Reade. Reade, who came forward last month accusing former Vice President Joe Biden of sexual assault as a Senate staffer in 1993, has had more corroborating evidence surface in recent days. A clip from "Larry King Live" back in 1993 purportedly showing Reade's mother calling into the show anonymously and alluded to her daughter's "problems" she had with a "prominent senator" was brought to light on Friday. And on Monday, two more people, a...

The ads on Facebook sounded populist and passionate: "The people are rising up against these insane shutdowns," they said. "We're fighting back to demand that our elected officials reopen America." But the posts, funded by an initiative called "Convention of States," were not the product of a grass-roots uprising alone. Instead, they represented one salvo in a wide-ranging and well-financed conservative campaign to undermine restrictions that medical experts say are necessary to contain the coronavirus - but that protesters call overkill and whose economic fallout could damage President Trump's political prospects. A network of right-leaning individuals and groups, aided by...

The Washington Post's so-called "Fact-Checker" omitted critical facts from his article criticizing President Donald Trump's condemnation of the World Health Organization. On April 17, 2020, Glenn Kessler's "Analysis: Trump's false claim that the WHO said the coronavirus was 'not communicable'" gave President Trump three out of four "Pinocchios" for the allegedly deceptive statement that the WHO "publicly endorsed the idea that there was not human-to-human transmission happening" and that the WHO said it was "not communicable."

Ruth Marcus and others at the Washington Post who led the effort to destroy Brett Kavanaugh's life based on unsubstantiated allegations know that what they did was evil. The Washington Post has a problem. The newspaper led the massive effort against the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by publishing and relentlessly hyping a completely unsubstantiated allegation of sexual assault against him. Now, the paper is leading Democrats’ efforts to bury a similar, if stronger, allegation of sexual assault against Joe Biden. To accomplish this dramatic turnabout, the paper is collectively trying to rewrite history, pretending the allegation against...

There is not, as of writing, any medication which has been shown in controlled trials to significantly hasten recovery from covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus that's become a global pandemic. Last week, there were nonetheless some new developments on that front. One drug seems to show signs of promise. Another has seen red flags raised. The one that's raised hopes isn't the one that President Donald Trump has been hyping. Again: It is not the case that we have new, incontrovertible proof of a drug's efficacy. But news of a trial demonstrating some benefit for covid-19 patients from...