Update on “Sh*thole” Cities 

Homeless man says this liberal city practically pays him to be homeless. Click here.

Update on Pandemic Mandates 

On Feb. 9, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said it would not reinstate President Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal employees, declining to overrule a lower court that had put the order on hold. The appeals court declined to stay the lower-court injunction against the mandate by a 2-1 vote, and asked both parties to file arguments in March.

Meanwhile. On Feb. 18, Biden extended the “national pandemic emergency,” started by Trump, that allows the government to keep in force all sorts of mandates and requirements that would otherwise be unconstitutional.

 How the CDC Peddles Misleading “Science” 

During the height of the pandemic, the CDC published a poster claiming that wearing a mask in indoor public settings lowered the odds of testing positive for COVID.

However, the study cited in the poster says it doesn’t. In fact, while the poster states that cloth masks reduced the risk of testing positive for COVID by 56%, the study itself says that wearing a mask may make you 17% more likely to test positive than wearing no mask at all. (You might notice that an asterisk in the fine print at the bottom of the poster explains that the claim is “Not statistically significant.”) Click here.