You have probably never heard of Sean Ernest Ruis, but the Michigan man’s death last week marked the convergence of two current media propaganda themes — police shootings and the threat of COVID-19. The proximate cause of Ruis’s death was…
In the first half of the year, 546 bills were introduced in 44 states and the District of Columbia reinforcing access to abortion and other “reproductive health” measures, a new study reports. The National Institute of Reproductive Health (NIRH) announced…
After 10 weeks of lockdown and eight and a half weeks of declining case numbers, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Monday that Michigan’s coronavirus lockdown will come to an end. Starting Thursday, people can walk into retail stores without first calling…
I was reading the New Yorker the other day — as one does when stuck at home — and noticed something new: In certain circumstances, it’s no longer socially unacceptable to gather in large groups. The author, Jelani Cobb, was…
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has done plenty of dumb things during the COVID crisis, but one thing he got right. On March 23, when he was posting his “stay home” order to Twitter, he added an all-important caveat. “You can…
Washington On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump did what he does worst — he took to Twitter to type two tweets that threatened to withhold federal funds from Michigan and Nevada because he doesn’t like what state officials are doing…
On May 4, with a more recent update, the Committee to Unleash Prosperity and FreedomWorks released a report card on the COVID-19 response by the Nation’s governors. Nine governors, eight of whom were Republicans from the South or Midwest, got…
Years from now, when the American public’s memory of the Wuhan virus craze has crystallized into something coherent, it’s a good bet most of us will see the economic shutdown that was the governmental reaction as the dumbest, most wasteful,…
When politicians begin slinging around words like “expert” and “science,” any sensible citizen becomes a skeptic. Being elected to public office does not qualify anyone to lecture the public on scientific matters, but this is never pointed out to cable…
