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September 2, 2020 – Lee Friday …… If we really are at the mercy of a serious pandemic, politicians would comply with the rules which they expect the rest of us to obey. Continue reading →

August 30, 2020 – Jon Miltimore …… French President Emmanuel Macron recently ruled out initiating a new series of economic lockdowns despite a resurgence of COVID-19 cases. Continue reading →

August 24, 2020 – Gilbert Berdine, MD …… At best, lockdowns have deferred death for a short time, but the lockdowns cannot possibly be continued for the long term. Continue reading →

August 19, 2020 – Mary L. G. Theroux …… Rather than simply reprinting government press releases with facts and figures on the coronavirus pandemic, hospitals being overwhelmed, the threat from thousands of “cases,” etc., it would be refreshing if reporters actually went out and did some investigative checking for themselves. Continue reading →

August 18, 2020 – James A. Montanye …… Commercial enterprises eagerly began squeezing value out of long-idled private assets as the state-mandated COVID shutdown progressively was relaxed. Tax-funded county operations, by contrast, were content to deny service to patrons despite the conspicuous idleness of public assets under their jurisdiction. Continue reading →