Politicians and journalists will sometimes mischaracterize their opponents’ views and then argue against those phantoms rather than real views. It is a cheap but effective political and journalistic trick. Medical news sources have adopted this tactic during the pandemic, with disastrous consequences for public trust in public health and medicine. The latest example comes from Medpage Today, a medical news…
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The Lodi School District official who asked police to respond to an orderly school board meeting earlier this month said police presence would make a board member “feel better.” “We would like to have a Lodi officer up at the district office,” Maureen Palmer, administrative assistant to District Administrator Vince Breunig says in a 911 call November 8 to the…
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Glenn Youngkin’s gubernatorial win in Virginia sent a clear message to government bureaucrats: treat parents with more respect. Parents are paramount to their kids’ welfare and education, and they have a right to be angry when treated otherwise. Yet parents should also reflect on how we got here and consider how they share at least some of the blame. For…
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Time and time again, people have questioned the intense culture of freedom that the United States has held since its liberation from the British. We have been told that culture is irrelevant today. COVID-19 has shown us this is clearly not the case. Australia’s atrocious handling of the pandemic is as great an apology for liberty as you’ll find in the…
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At the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdowns, we were asked to stay home for two weeks in order to flatten the curve. Nineteen months later, Americans are being denied their right to make health decisions for themselves. Our economy and the livelihood of millions of American workers stands at risk thanks to President Joe Biden’s alleged mandate forcing private businesses…
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In the spring of 2021 during my first year at the U.S. Military Academy, I was told that my decision to reject getting the “optional” COVID-19 vaccine would not negatively affect my time as a cadet at West Point. That quickly changed. My Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act medical privacy rights were violated when my vaccination status was released…
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MADISON, Wis. — Surprise, surprise. Dane County, home to Wisconsin’s capital city of Madison, once again extended its indoor mask mandate on Monday until Nov. 27, meaning one thing we aren’t allowed to be grateful for this Thanksgiving is the freedom to breathe fresh air. The order — which the unelected bureaucrats at the county health department first handed down…
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Sofia Steele, a 7-year-old special needs student with Down syndrome who attends Brevard Public Schools (BPS) in Florida, recently came home from school short of breath and with a mask tied to her head and neck with nylon rope. Her mask was saturated with her own saliva. “There’s a special place in hell for the three members of the Brevard…
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Washington State University announced the termination of football Head Coach Nick Rolovich and four assistant coaches on Monday after the coaches failed to meet the state’s deadline to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Rolovich filed for religious exemption before the deadline of Oct. 18 but WSU athletic director Pat Chun told reporters the coaches could not be accommodated. After the Cougars’…
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Blaming people for contracting a catchy virus has been one of many widely deployed COVID manipulation tactics. That has shifted into blaming people for dying of a catchy virus after they decided their risks from taking the vaccines outweighed their risks from catching the disease. Shaming people for dying by accident is a bit twisted, but it might make sense…
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In this week’s edition of “How Mentally Slow Leftists Undermine Themselves Without Even Knowing It…” There’s a popular theory on the left for why frustrating labor shortages persist, even after those sweet federal COVID unemployment benefits have dried up. Here’s how Paul Krugman of The New York Times put it Thursday: Well, it’s only speculation, but it seems quite possible…
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Few things about the last 18 months of pandemic-induced hysteria, executive overreach, and bureaucratic bullying have left me with a heavier heart than what is currently transpiring in my native Australia. Public officials increasingly treat citizens in a manner that resembles less a social contract and more an abusive relationship. This is not the lighthearted country that any honest, rational…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for schoolchildren age 12 and older — and other similar mandates popping up around the country — raises the question: For a patient population that predominately suffers only mild to no symptoms, is it ethical to coerce them to receive a vaccine that provides little benefit and causes rare but significant side effects?…
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A new study out Friday revealed that global rates of anxiety and depression soared by more than a quarter over the course of the coronavirus pandemic. According to the report, authored by a worldwide team of academics led by Dr. Damian Santomauro at Australia’s University of Queensland, researchers attributed 53 million new cases of major depressive disorder and 76 million…
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You probably saw that the Department of Labor’s September jobs report came out last week and that it was, in a word, abysmal. As one CNBC panelist reacted, “Woah … that is real low.” When President Joe Biden gave a speech addressing the report on Friday, he painted a rosy picture, of course, spinning the numbers into a glowing reflection…
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This week Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, announced he will be stepping down from his post by the end of 2021. Collins is probably the best known evangelical Christian in the federal science establishment, and among many Christians he has long held the status of a rock star, with people lining up for “selfies” with him…
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Leftist “squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., admitted on Wednesday that she was only wearing a mask for theatrical reasons, not scientific ones. Tlaib’s confession came during a joint event with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge in Detroit. Video shows the masked politician gathered in a circle with several other people and shaking the hand of a maskless…
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If you asked President Joe Biden right now where we are in the pandemic, how confident are you that you would get an even slightly intelligible answer? What if you asked media sex god Dr. Anthony Fauci? No one at this point can possibly expect that they would get a meaningful response. Biden was elected with the expectation, thanks to…
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State lawmakers and public school officials should heed parents’ concerns about quarantining healthy children and forcing them into masks so parents don’t have to file lawsuits to defend their rights, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) told The Federalist in a statement Monday afternoon. The Federalist reported Monday morning on four Indiana families who were driven to file a lawsuit…
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After more than a year of remote learning, students in New York City finally went back to school. Sadly, the city’s Department of Education fear of COVID-19 and servitude to teachers’ unions means that these schools will more closely resemble Siberian gulags than places of learning. A recent opinion piece in the New York Post details the ridiculous lengths that…
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