Commentary It was March 12, 2020, and I was sitting on a moving Amtrak train out of Manhattan and headed to the Hudson train stop. From what I experienced in New York City that day—people drinking themselves silly at noon and otherwise scurrying through the streets to get out because of the bad germ on…
Tyranny Thy Name Is Emergency
March 15, 2023
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Commentary In the last few days, the federal government has embarked on a disastrous path as regards banking and finance. Their actions guarantee a worsening of the problem whether in the near term or down the line. These “emergency” actions have effectively created a moral hazard that could wreck the entire sector and the whole…
Run for Your Lives: It’s the Bird Flu
February 24, 2023
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Commentary So many people made bank (both power and money) on the last pandemic, they are already preparing for a new one. The bit about Monkeypox (remember that health emergency only a year ago?) didn’t really go well, so they are reverting again to the fear of infectious disease, this time the old standby H5N1,…
End the COVID-19 ‘Emergency’—Now
Commentary Almost every decision that has been made in Washington and in the states that deals with COVID-19 has been about politics and money, hundreds of billions of dollars, and not about public health. COVID-19 is a deadly virus that has killed over a million Americans—almost all over the age of 65. But from day…
The Emergency Is Not Really Ending
January 31, 2023
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Commentary The Biden administration has announced that it will end the public-health emergency on May 11, 2023. Why not earlier? Why not now? Because that “would create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty throughout the health care system.” What the heck? Yep, they are concerned that it will take time to “retrain [hospital] staff and establish new…
My First Anti-Lockdown Article From 2020
January 27, 2023
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Commentary These days, many people are justifying the egregious government response to the virus based on the claim of ignorance. We just didn’t know and could not know, they say. It’s preposterous. It was obvious from early on, to anyone who cared to look, that COVID was a textbook respiratory virus and that lockdowns would…
Progressivism Versus Popular Sovereignty
January 27, 2023
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Commentary On Thursday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed a letter, on behalf of 16 state attorneys general, to U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). The letter, which pertains to Biden administration policy on COVID-19, is both important on its own merits, insofar as what it urges the new Congress to do, and more broadly…
The Newly Rebranded Emergency Powers Could Turn Western Australia Into a Police State
Commentary A state of emergency has been in place in Western Australia (WA) since March 15, 2020. This has given its government extraordinary powers to impose draconian rules and restrictions with the stroke of a pen. These measures are currently renewed every two weeks by the simple signature of the emergency services minister, Stephen Dawson….
It Ends as It Began: As a Political Ploy
September 21, 2022
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Commentary The current U.S. president finally said it during a 60 Minutes interview: “The pandemic is over.” Though obviously true by the classical definition, Biden’s comment seemed almost accidental, said as an echoed response to a direct question. Consider, however, that many times as many people die from COVID daily in the United States (300-400) than when…
Taxpayers on the Hook for Ruling-Class Debts
August 25, 2022
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Commentary Remember the transitional and temporary inflation that was supposed to come and go? We are now getting warnings from high up that this is the new normal. It’s a pattern with which we’ve become very familiar. Two weeks of lockdown became two years. One-hundred days of masking turned into a full year, and the…
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