The Obama-Biden Virus Response - WSJ

#U.S.A. #Health #Trump

Is it reasonable to blame a single politician for the spread of a highly infectious virus, especially in a free country with 50 states and 330 million people? Joe Biden is lucky that wasn’t the standard a decade ago.…

Jacques Bopp

NZZ: Journalismus und Grundlagenphysik: Gibt es hier Analogien?

#Politics #Science

_Konformismus und Gruppendynamik behindern das kritische Denken. Ohne Innovation aber stagniert jede Entwicklung, in der Grundlagenphysik wie im Journalismus.…

Jacques Bopp

An American Coup Attempt - WSJ

#U.S.A. #Trump

The U.S. is in a constitutional crisis. It began on the day of President Trump’s election, when unelected bureaucrats mobilized against his presidency. This is a crisis in the executive branch, perpetrated by subordinate officials who don’t see themselves as answerable to the president.…

Jacques Bopp

Second Film: Ribbons of Coral and a Giant Cod (By Jennifer Marohasy)

#Nature #Global Warming #Australia

Many of the media headlines that give the impression the Great Barrier Reef is a ruin are based on aerial surveys by one man. The same Terry Hughes who incorrectly claimed the inshore reefs off-Bowen are now mud-flat.…

Jacques Bopp

The FBI’s Bad Intelligence - WSJ

#U.S.A. #Trump

It was worse than we thought. We’re referring to the FBI’s 2016 investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia, as new documents this week reveal.…

Jacques Bopp

Hunter Biden, Andrew Cuomo and the Russian Billionaire - WSJ

#U.S.A. #Trump

How many millions of dollars did Hunter Biden collect from foreign tycoons while his father was vice president? A new Senate report makes some headway toward answering this question.…

Jacques Bopp

Breaking Judicial Norms: A History - WSJ

#Politics #U.S.A.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is widely reported to have told his Democratic colleagues on Saturday that “nothing is off the table for next year” if Republicans confirm a Supreme Court nominee in this Congress.…

Jacques Bopp

The Russia Farce Continues - WSJ

#U.S.A. #Trump

Contrary to a media chorus, the Justice Department inspector general did not find the FBI handling of the Clinton and Trump cases free of “political bias.…

Jacques Bopp

Woodward’s Non-Revelation - WSJ

#U.S.A. #Health #Trump

The books professing dark revelations about President Trump appear to be lined up from here to Election Day, like aircraft heading into LaGuardia. This week it’s Bob Woodward’s turn, with the big news reportedly being that Mr. Trump told him in a taped conversation on Feb.…

Jacques Bopp