Category: mandates

Freedom Truckers Versus GoFundMe Leftists

Commentary When GoFundMe shut down funding Friday for the truckers’ Freedom Convoy, it didn’t just clobber Canadian rig drivers; it dealt a blow to the rights of Americans. Silicon Valley executives are trying to limit the causes Americans support, favoring leftists and canceling conservatives. We Americans have a constitutionally protected right to donate money to…


Suspicious Package Scare at WA Premier’s Office Amid Mandate Backlash

A swathe of chemical specialists, police, ambulance and firefighters appeared at the electorate office of Western Australia (WA) Premier Mark McGowan on Tuesday in response to the discovery of a package filled with an unknown white substance. The item was seized and taken to the WA Chem Centre for analysis, with preliminary testing indicating the…


Opposition Echoes Dissenting Liberal MP’s Demand That Trudeau End ‘Politicization’ of Pandemic

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced off familiar calls from the official opposition to drop pandemic mandates during question period today, but this time they leveraged the words of a dissenting Liberal MP who broke ranks this morning by heavily criticizing COVID-19 restrictions and calling for their dismissal. Interim Conservative Party Leader Candice Bergen said her…


Truckers Convoy Versus the Media

Commentary Is the media lying about the truckers? There’s one thing that takes a long time to build but only moments to lose—trust. Unfortunately though, trust in journalism has been eroding for some time now and coverage of the Canada’s Freedom Truckers Convoy is the most recent example. Whether you support the convoy or not,…


Canadian Truckers Overwhelmed by Support, Unity; Americans Get Inspired

Canadian truckers say they’ll stay in the nation’s capital until their demands are met. Benjamin Dichter, Freedom Convoy 2022 coordinator, explains what it’s all about.  And on the American side of the border, truckers are organizing to support the Canadian movement. Denby Melisha Morgan is behind the Convoy to Save America.  And in our first,…


The Power of Protest

Commentary All in less than one week, Israel has repealed restrictions and is backing off vaccine mandates, even as cases and deaths are hitting new highs, and implausibly so in the most vaccinated and boosted country in the world. The UK has backed off too. Same in Denmark, Ireland, Finland, and Norway. Switzerland has joined in,…


Graduation Rates Fell Across US Due to Remote Learning, Studies Show

The pandemic is driving academic proficiency and graduation rates down in U.S. schools. That’s the consensus of several studies assessing the impact of a string of COVID-19 related viruses on the education of America’s school children over the past two years. Michigan State University’s Education Policy Innovation Collaboration last month released a 350-page study, which…


The Reactionary Political Ethos of Lockdowns and Mandates

Commentary The national press barely covered the anti-mandate, anti-lockdown rally in D.C. (Jan. 23, 2022), and when they did, they mostly described it as an “anti-vaccine rally.” That’s a ridiculous thing to say about an event involving some 10K-plus people who have had enough of the coercive impositions of the last nearly two years. To…


Capitol Report (Jan. 24): Thousands March Against Mandates in DC

In the heart of the nation, a massive and diverse crowd marched for freedom from the mandates. We spoke to attendees and speakers to find out why they’re opposed to unilateral mandates for masks and vaccines. There were many highly respected doctors at the “Stop the Mandates” rally in Washington, D.C. We caught up with…


The DC Rally and the Rise of the Resistance

Commentary By long American tradition, protest movements manifest themselves most fully in gatherings in Washington, D.C, starting at the Washington Monument and culminating in speeches at the Lincoln Memorial. At long last, after two years of astonishing attacks on fundamental rights that most everyone once believed were protected by the U.S. Constitution, this happened yesterday,…