Sunday, January 10, 2021

Week in review, 01/04 - 01/10

Photo: Reuters

When one stops and thinks about it, it’s just amazing. Never have any of us seen a presidency implode like this. And let us pray we never see it again ...

Video timeline: How pro-Trump insurrectionists broke into the U.S. Capitol

‘An effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule.’ General Mattis directly blames Trump for security breach in the U.S. Capitol, says ‘Mr. Trump will deservedly be left a man without a country’ 

People are tired of chaos. May a quieter and saner decade be ahead: The majority of Americans want Trump removed immediately after U.S. Capitol violence

‘Snowflakery for me, but not for thee.’ Jonah Goldberg: American Benghazi

Historian Michael Brenner: ‘As the German example warns us, however, knocking down an insurrection does not yet mean winning the fight for democracy. This fight will go on until our politicians learn the crucial lessons from the past’

A blatant a**hole who was just begging to have someone knock him down. It was written all over his face and in his demeanor: Arkansas man who invaded Speaker Pelosi’s office as part of the raid on the U.S. Capitol is charged with multiple crimes

‘Multiple air traffic controllers in New York heard a chilling threat Monday in audio obtained exclusively by CBS News: "We are flying a plane into the Capitol on Wednesday. Soleimani will be avenged”’

‘(S)cientists are warily watching a different variant found in South Africa, but not yet reported in the U.S. There have been some reports that the mutation might make treatments called “monoclonal antibodies” less likely to work’

‘States with laws mandating flu shots for hospital workers saw reductions in deaths from influenza and pneumonia annually across their populations, a study published ... by the Annals of Internal Medicine found’

The Biden administration plans COVID-19 vaccination blitz shortly after Inauguration Day

‘There have been 431 new COVID-19 cases among students and staff in Massachusetts schools in the last week, according to the latest data from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’

Pfizer and other top pharmaceutical companies raise drug prices, and ‘it is expected that further drug price increases are to be announced in early January as the pandemic continues to hit companies in 2021’

A prime example of liberty lost. Tyrant China baring its teeth in the former British colony: ‘About 50 pro-democracy lawmakers and activists have reportedly been arrested in Hong Kong under the controversial national security law’ 

Despot Kim Jong Un declares five-year economic plan a failure at party congress; North Korea’s GDP estimated to have contracted by 9.3% in 2020

Tommy Lasorda dies at 93: Godspeed to this great figure of our greatest sport, and condolences to all in Dodger Nation

The last video store chain in the country closing all 250 of its locations

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