America Between Good And Evil
The United States of America is being tested acutely in the crucible of the COVID-19 emergency. This novel coronavirus outbreak has followed closely at the heels of perhaps the most grievous…
Harvard quietly backtracks on air pollution-coronavirus deaths link
Harvard researchers publicly walked back Monday a key finding in a highly touted but hotly contested paper linking air pollution exposure to deaths from the novel coronavirus, slashing the estimated mortality…
Judge Stops Illinois Governor From Extending State Lockdown
In one of the nation’s first successful legal challenges to mandatory quarantine directives, an Illinois state judge has thrown a wrench into Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s extension of his stay-at-home order…
Mail-In Ballots Are a Recipe for Confusion, Coercion, and Fraud
Enormous pressure is being mounted to use our current crisis as an excuse to transform how we vote in elections. “Coronavirus gives us an opportunity to revamp our electoral system,” Obama’s…
Emergencies Do Not Expand Constitutional Power
Fear is a powerful driver of public policy. Ordinarily, that is not greatly troubling. We have speed limits, food sanitation laws, and many other regulations based on rational fear of…
How America Arrived at the Cruel New Normal
Very soon, you and I will have to figure out how to navigate a semi-open America where coronavirus is a terrible fact of life. The lockdowns and stay-at-home orders that…
Recovery, Pandemic and China
There appear to be two major stories contending for coverage by the press and the attention of Congress at the moment, both related to the COVID-19 pandemic: the economic recovery…
AMERICA NEEDS PAYROLL TAX HOLIDAY, NOT MORE PELOSI SPENDING, TO RECOVER FROM THE CORONAVIRUS
Not a moment too soon, the reopening of America has begun. When the coronavirus crisis began, and the nation’s governors began to order the closure of factories, restaurants, parks, beaches…
Media Attack Gov. Kristi Noem For Not Panicking And Destroying Her State
As the Coronavirus spread from Wuhan, China, to the United States, most governors quickly acquiesced to the media’s demand that they force a governmental shutdown of their states in order…
How Advocates of ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ Distort Shareholder Power
Many years ago now, Milton Friedman explained something that should never have needed explaining, when, writing for the New York Times Magazine, he reminded his readers what —and whom — a company is meant to…
Former NYT Reporter Opposes Investigation of Biden Assault Claim: ‘I Want a Coronation’
A former New York Times reporter opposes an investigation of the sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden, calling for a “coronation” of the presumptive Democratic nominee. “I want a coronation of Joe Biden,”…
Sen. Rand Paul: Coronavirus reaction — Is your government embracing tyranny?
“Of all tyrannies,” C.S. Lewis once observed, “a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” We’re seeing the truth of these words play out right now all across…
Report: ICC Colluding With Terror-Tied Groups to Push Prosecution of U.S., Israeli Personnel
The International Criminal Court is working alongside several organizations and individuals tied to terrorism as it seeks to prosecute American and Israeli personnel for war crimes, according to a new report…
Can America Achieve a “Future Without Waste”?
America used to be the place where, as Emerson is said to have observed, the person building the better mousetrap could be assured the world would beat a path to…
Notes on the President’s May 3rd “Town Hall”
Fox News presented a “virtual Town Hall” program last evening featuring President Donald Trump answering videotaped questions for two hours. For those who have been catching the President’s daily news…