- Horowitz: Politicians indicating that flu season is the new threshold for emergency powers & panic
MicroStockHub | Getty Images The notion that we would lock down our society until a vaccine is introduced to counter a virus with a 0.3% infection fatality rate and near-zero risk for non-immunocompromised individuals was shockingly insane. Then we were told that even after a vaccine is in place, the social control will not end […]
- Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti orders utilities shut off for TikTok influencer’s mansion due to lockdown-defying parties
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) ordered utilities cut off at a mansion where large parties were being held in defiance of social distancing guidelines. Garcetti announced the extreme measures from his official social media account on Wednesday. “Today I authorized the City to disconnect utility service at a house in the Hollywood Hills to […]
- Horowitz: Venezuela in America: CDC to confiscate property rights with new anti-eviction order
“Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.” ~James Madison Rational thought, constitutional rights, […]
- Joe Biden and Kamala Harris call for a nationwide mandatory mask order; Trump slaps down the suggestion
The presumed Democratic presidential candidates called for a federal order for mandatory mask mandate that would apply to all Americans nationwide. Former Vice President Joe Biden made the demand on Thursday and California Sen. Kamala Harris endorsed the policy. “Every American should be wearing a mask when they’re outside for the next three months at […]
- DC committee pushes for capital makeover stripped of names of slaveholders like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson
A committee advising Democratic Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser has proposed renaming dozens of schools, parks, and various other government buildings over their namesakes’ connections to slavery, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Included in the list of individuals who the committee says should not have public works named after them are former Presidents George Washington, […]
- Nancy Pelosi ‘all for’ holding a ‘review’ on taking down statues of Washington and Jefferson
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested holding formal discussions over whether statues of Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson should be taken down, saying she is “all for” such a review. What are the details? During an interview Thursday with Washington Post Live, host Robert Costa asked Pelosi for her response to activists who believe […]
- Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer reportedly blocking Michigan from playing fall football season
The Big Ten has cancelled its fall football season, and the conference’s official stance is to look toward a possible spring season (although there are a number of major problems with that plan). Still, some schools within the conference are trying to find a way to play in the fall, as three other Power Five […]
- RIP ‘flattening the curve’: Gov. Murphy says New Jersey won’t go to ‘new normal’ until ‘a proven vaccine is widely available’
You may have thought that the social distancing measures forced upon us by our governments were designed to help “flatten the curve,” ensuring that there weren’t excess deaths caused by COVID-19 due to hospitals being overwhelmed. You may have thought that because government officials repeatedly stated that this was the justification for keeping us all […]
