Free Labor Markets vs. Biden’s Push for Compulsory Unionism

Free Labor Markets vs. Biden’s Push for Compulsory Unionism: "Joe Biden’s pro-union labor agenda, if implemented, would rob all those working for a living the liberty and latitude to do so freely and of their own choosing. They would be reduced to servants and supplicants to those controlling the unions and who possess the power to allow or prevent people...

The Question of Masks

The Question of Masks: "Until a substantial portion of us stand up and make clear that we will not tolerate being stripped of life, liberty, property, and dignity, our governments will continue to inflict these repressive measures." ~ Jenin Younes

What Does It Mean for a Virus to Become ‘Endemic?’

What Does It Mean for a Virus to Become ‘Endemic?’: "The sooner we recognize Covid as endemic, the sooner we can overcome this unfettered hysteria. By comparison to the previous year’s headlines, the media would no longer be able to act as a foghorn of fear-mongering. Citizens could become increasingly tolerant of the virus, and responsibility...

Carlsbad, CA Says No More to Lockdowns. May It Be a National Model!

Carlsbad, CA Says No More to Lockdowns. May It Be a National Model!: "Those who are sickeningly intoxicated with power can’t incarcerate us all. As for the businesses terrorized by the political class in Carlsbad, they decided they no longer have any choice. Given the choice between going out of business and defying politicians, they chose the latter. Good for...

New Study Indicates Lockdowns Didn’t Slow the Spread of Covid-19

New Study Indicates Lockdowns Didn’t Slow the Spread of Covid-19: "Perhaps there is a sort of heroic romanticism about flexing the muscles of the state to stop a fearsome enemy that makes lockdowns so attractive. The only problem with this is that we are dealing with reality, and society is not a playset." ~ Ethan Yang

Pandemic Security Theater

Pandemic Security Theater: "After ten months of lockdowns and shocking degrees of economic and social carnage, millions of Americans have decided that there surely must be some rationale for all the insanity and have signed on to become enforcers themselves, even and perhaps especially when the rules make no sense at all...

Congressional Hypocrisy and the Crackdown

Congressional Hypocrisy and the Crackdown: "It is possible to condemn both the protestors who rampaged in the Capitol and the career politicians whose perennial abuses have destroyed Americans’ faith in the federal government. It would be especially unwise to confuse last week’s buffoonery with a bona fide coup attempt – which could...

What They Said about Lockdowns before 2020

What They Said about Lockdowns before 2020: "Significant present-day evidence continuously demonstrates that mass quarantine is both ineffectual at preventing disease spread as well as harmful to individuals. Learning the wrong lesson – assuming that mass quarantines are both good and effective – sets a dangerous precedent for future...

The Liberal-Left Has Gone Fully Illiberal

The Liberal-Left Has Gone Fully Illiberal: "Human rights are negotiable under this new ideology. I am not certain what this political theory should be called – perhaps left-wing authoritarianism – but it bears no resemblance to liberalism whatsoever. To the extent we have not gone quite as far as China in violating human rights in the...

10 Times Democrats Urged Violence Against Trump And His Supporters

10 Times Democrats Urged Violence Against Trump And His Supporters: Many of these same Denocrats blaming Trump for the Capitol riot have for years called for violence against those who believe differently than they do.

New Study Links Lockdowns to Potential Long-Term Increases In Excess Deaths

New Study Links Lockdowns to Potential Long-Term Increases In Excess Deaths: "Regardless of your position on lockdowns, addressing the economic damage these policies have created is just as important to preventing excess death as containing the virus. Failing to heed this lesson will simply be fighting one disease by creating another." ~ Ethan Yang

The Myth Of The Pacific Response

Should the US Have Been More like Pacific Countries?: "Those wishing to use Australia as a 'model' for the United States would be wise to investigate other causes besides lockdowns that explain their differences. They may also soon find that some of those causes are not only incapable of being replicated elsewhere – they also defy the same experts’...