The list of municipalities that botched the coronavirus pandemic is long and inglorious, but if any place distinguished itself as the paragon of COVID mismanagement, it is New York, both state and city. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s dispatch of elderly virus…
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-CA). The letter, which pertains to Biden administration policy on COVID-19, is both important on its own…
“The pandemic is over, but the purge continues,” Stephen Crampton, senior counsel for the conservative Thomas More Society, told me. We were talking about Zach Loesch, a Coast Guard aviation survival technician — a real hero about to lose his…
The U.S. is nearing the fourth year of the post-COVID-19 world. While the coronavirus remains a pandemic, its evolution into endemic status is within sight and some degree of normalcy has returned to daily life in most places. While it…
Is monkeypox our new worldwide hysteria, what with the public getting a bit tired of COVID? Ask the British tourist who, according to news reports, was placed inside a sealed capsule on a Greek island and then put aboard a…
It has become ever more difficult in recent years to write satire because the world is going crazy so fast that satire becomes reality — sometimes poisonous reality — before you can finish writing or even start laughing. Even somewhat…
As the commissioned pitchman for the year almost past, I find “2021, even better than 2020” as the most captivating slogan for my client not in violation of hangups over truth in advertising. The Oxford English Dictionary named “vax” and…
This year our family decided to do something a little off the beaten track for Christmas. We spent it at a casino. We picked one of the big venues on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, figuring that food, fun, and fellowship…
“We’re a free market economy. They [Congress] should be able to participate in that.” At a time when the American public’s trust in politicians and government is nearing an all-time low, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has decided to give the American…
Tuesday afternoon, President Biden demonstrated why he has been no more successful than former President Trump in controlling the coronavirus, despite the advantage of vaccines and therapeutics that were not available to the latter. Speaking at the White House, Biden…