Commentary COVID-19 represents the first time in the history of pandemics that we confined healthy populations. While the ancients did not understand the mechanisms of infectious disease—they knew nothing of viruses and bacteria—they nevertheless figured out many ways to mitigate the spread of contagion during epidemics. These time-tested measures ranged from quarantining symptomatic patients to…
The Lesson: Sticking to Principle and Truth Works
Commentary Early in the evening when the returns started coming in, there were moments of elation among Republicans. It was a red wave and more. It appeared even to be a flood and tsunami. The verdict was absolutely overwhelming. Voters were embracing the Republican message and rejecting the command-and-control wokeness of the Democratic left. Florida…
The Fed Has Just Begun to Fight
November 3, 2022
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News Analysis There was widespread fear and loathing on Wall Street after the Fed’s announcement of further rate increases, 75 basis points again and the sixth increase this year. The Fed has not increased rates this far this fast in the entire postwar period. The pace is without precedent, and indicates that the Fed is…
The Book We Need and Only Justin Hart Could Write
November 2, 2022
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Commentary Sometimes, even now, even after writing a book and probably a thousand or more articles on the topic, and following it every step of the way, it still feels like I dreamed the whole thing. Not a good dream but a nightmare of exceptionally dark attacks on freedom. It got so bad that online…
No Amnesty for Lockdowners
Commentary Now that we can talk to our friends and neighbors about it, the reality is sinking in. What our public-health experts and politicians did to this country was egregious. Inspired by the totalitarian lockdowns in Wuhan, China, and urged to replicate that policy by the World Health Organization in a report that Fauci’s National…
A Closer Look at the COVID Mortality Rate
Commentary One of the most consistent efforts made by “experts” during the early stages of the pandemic was to attempt to impress on the public that COVID was an extremely deadly disease. While it’s clear that for the extremely elderly and severely immunocompromised, COVID does present significant and serious health concerns, the “experts” did their…
Lockdowns Are the Pons Asinorum
October 25, 2022
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Commentary The Latin phrase pons asinorum literally means “bridge of asses” but for some 300 years has been deployed to mean the critical test of a formula or person, the decisive issue that reveals the essence of what we need to know. The pons asinorum of politics today concerns lockdowns, no more and no less….
The Economic Disaster of the Pandemic Response
October 21, 2022
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Commentary On April 15, 2020, a full month after the President’s fateful news conference that greenlighted lockdowns to be enacted by the states for “15 Days to Flatten the Curve,” Donald Trump had a revealing White House conversation with Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease who had already…
Why Fauci Can’t Whitewash His Disastrous Legacy
Commentary This week, ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, the soon-departing head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, if it was a “mistake” for schools to be shuttered as long as they were during the COVID pandemic. “We should realize, and have realized,” Fauci answered, “that there will be…
A Big Picture Look at the Disastrous Public Health Response to COVID-19
Commentary An underlying principle of public health is, or was, to provide the public with accurate information so that they can make good health choices for themselves and their community. The past 3 years have seen this paradigm turned on its head, with the public’s money being used to deceive and coerce them, forcing them…
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