Fox Business reports, “Meta, the company that owns Facebook, has reinstated the ads account of the conservative children’s book publisher, Heroes of Liberty, after it previously told the publisher that its account had been ‘permanently disabled.’

Facebook originally said that Heroes of Liberty – which has published books about Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, former President Ronald Reagan and author Thomas Sowell – violated the company’s rules against ‘Low Quality or Disruptive Content.’ Facebook originally locked the ads account on Dec. 23, and after Heroes of Liberty appealed the ruling, the company permanently disabled the account.

Seriously Facebook? https://t.co/Kj4mbQtntv

— Martha MacCallum (@marthamaccallum) January 4, 2022

‘I wanted to let you know that the ads account was disabled in error and has been restored,’ Drew Pusateri, a spokesperson for Meta, told FOX Business on Monday…

Mandel suggested that Facebook caved to a vocal minority of users who claimed that Heroes of Liberty was disruptive.

‘There was a small but noisy group of responders to our ads who didn’t like the fact we published books about Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sowell and Amy Coney Barret; people we called Heroes of Liberty,’ she told FOX Business. ‘They made nasty comments, especially about Reagan, and about us for publishing these books and even shared their desire to burn them.”

Read the entire story.

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CDC: Schools with mask mandates didn’t vary significantly in COVID-19 transmissions compared to schools with optional policies

As the ACLU prepares to sue South Carolina and some other states over their ban on mask mandates, FEE’s Jon Miltimore finds some interesting statistics.

Miltimore writes, “A recent New York magazine article states that the science on masks ‘remains uncertain,’ but noted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in May published a large-scale study of COVID transmission in US schools.”

“The study, which analyzed some 90,000 elementary students in 169 Georgia schools from November 16 to December 11, found that there was no statistically significant difference in schools that required students to wear masks compared to schools where masks were optional,” Miltimore observes.

As New York magazine’s David Zweig noted, the CDC’s findings “cast doubt on the impact of many of the most common mitigation measures in American schools.”https://t.co/xclcp2WLdm

— Jon Miltimore (@miltimore79) August 25, 2021

He continues, “The 21% lower incidence in schools that required mask use among students was not statistically significant compared with schools where mask use was optional,’ the CDC said. ‘This finding might be attributed to higher effectiveness of masks among adults, who are at higher risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection but might also result from differences in mask-wearing behavior among students in schools with optional requirements.”

Miltimore adds, “As New York magazine’s David Zweig noted, these findings, as well as other statistically insignificant preventive measures, “cast doubt on the impact of many of the most common mitigation measures in American schools.”

Read the entire column here.

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Education Secretary Cardona and President Biden should be ashamed for threatening states with mask bans

Secretary Cardona and President Biden should be ashamed. Using @usedgov as a weapon against states, like Utah, that have had some of the best education results during the pandemic is as wrong as it is low. https://t.co/VQnwVrSKIK

— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) August 19, 2021

Salt Lake City’s Fox 13 reports, “The U.S. Department of Education is warning Utah it could face a federal investigation for laws the legislature passed severely restricting masks in schools.”

U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona wrote, “Utah’s actions to block school districts from voluntarily adopting science-based strategies for preventing the spread of COVID-19 that are aligned with the guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) puts these goals at risk and may infringe upon a school district’s authority to adopt policies to protect students and educators as they develop their safe return to in-person instruction plans required by Federal law.”

Cardona also warned that other states “that have imposed mask bans could face civil rights investigations, arguing that they could discriminate against students and educators.” Some of those states include Texas, Arizona, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee.

“Possible sanctions for any violation could include pulling millions in federal funds from the state,” Fox 13 notes.

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I sent a letter to Biden urging him to end his unconstitutional eviction moratorium

.@SenMikeLee and I led a letter to President Biden urging him to end his unconstitutional eviction moratorium.

$50B in rental assistance funds are waiting to be used. It’s time to end this government overreach and get our economy back on track. https://t.co/R41o4il3eu pic.twitter.com/LXilrIHIeg

— Rep. Chris Jacobs (@RepJacobs) August 11, 2021

FEE’s Hannah Cox writes,”The Supreme Court and the White House appear headed for a showdown.

On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it would renew a moratorium on evictions, a policy that was set to expire and end a 15-month ban — flouting the Supreme Court and contradicting claims from the Biden Administration that it could not act without Congress…

Since the beginning of the pandemic, a mixture of federal policies have allowed people to stay in their rentals without paying rent. Landlords who violated the moratorium faced hefty fines and even potential jail time.

The scheme started with Congress in March of 2020 when the legislature passed an eviction ban that expired in August of the same year. Politicians had shut down businesses and forced people out of work, they reasoned, so it wasn’t right to kick them out of their homes if they couldn’t pay rent.

When that legislation expired, then president Trump issued an executive order asking the CDC to take action under an obscure law that says the CDC director ‘may take such measures to prevent such spread of the diseases as he/she deems reasonably necessary, including inspection, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, and destruction of animals or articles believed to be sources of infection.’

And in September of 2020, the CDC did just that, despite concerns expressed from some corners.

‘[The policy] essentially nationalizes millions of private rental properties and strips landowners of their basic rights FEE’s Brad Polumbo wrote at the time.

This move concerned anyone with even the faintest respect for our institutions, the rule of law, and property rights. Unelected bureaucrats should not set national policy—especially one that essentially nationalizes people’s private property.”

Read the rest of Hannah’s column here.

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