By: Merrill Matthews – thehill.com – May 6, 2020 The vast majority of Americans are completely unaware of how much models that predict the future of the economy and the climate – and now disease – dominate our lives. There’s no escaping their reach. Those models drive many of our public policy debates and much of the major legislation passed...

By: Dennis Prager – townhall.com – May 5, 2020 The idea that the worldwide lockdown of virtually every country other than Sweden may have been an enormous mistake strikes many — including world leaders; most scientists, especially health officials, doctors and epidemiologists; those who work in major news media; opinion writers in those media; and the hundreds of millions, if not...

By: Grady Means – thehill.com – May 5, 2020 The coronavirus has led to the greatest economic catastrophe in our lifetimes. Record losses in the market, record bankruptcies, record unemployment and, soon, record insolvency of local governments. This social and economic firestorm will lead to massive shifts in political alignment. The question is, which way will politics shift this year...

By: Brad Polumbo – washingtonexaminer.com – May 05, 2020 First, we ran out of toilet paper, and now, we’re running out of… hamburgers? As the coronavirus crisis and ensuing societal lockdown hit roughly the two-month mark, we’re starting to have serious problems with the meat supply chain due to meatpacking plant shutdowns and preexisting regulatory dysfunction. Now, the New York Times reports that...

By: Gary Bauer – ouramericanvalues.org – April 28, 2020 As many of you know, I am proud to be one of three people appointed by President Trump to serve on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. One of the Commission’s responsibilities every year is to examine the condition of religious liberty around the world and to report on countries that are engaged...

By: Brett Samuels – thehill.com – May 4, 2020 The Trump administration is projecting that the United States could see up to 3,000 deaths per day from the coronavirus by June 1, a person familiar with internal documents confirmed to The Hill on Monday. Data and modeling from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the federal...

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – May 1, 2020 From the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, it has been obvious that the fates of public health and the economy were tied together. Weeks before formalized “lockdown” policies began appearing, as news about the danger of the coronavirus spread, economic activity dramatically slowed. And it obviously won’t speed up again until the...

By: Alex Parker – redstate.com – April 30, 2020 When Bernie burst onto the scene (again) for the 2020 presidential race, fans in favor of socialism were stoked. Bern was gonna get in there and change things up. Who needs to be able to own their own business? Let the Nazis’ favorite economic system take hold! But alas, it was not...

By Louis Casiano – foxnews.com – April 30, 2020 Dozens of protesters, some of whom were armed, gathered Thursday inside Michigan‘s Capitol building to voice their opposition to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer‘s stay-at-home order, with tensions high as lawmakers were poised to debate an extension of an emergency and disaster declaration. Holding American flags and handmade signs, the demonstrators in Lansing first congregated shoulder-to-shoulder outside before demanding...

By: First Liberty Staff – firstliberty.org– April 29, 2020 First Liberty Institute Blasts New York City Bill de Blasio for Remarks Targeting the Jewish Community New York, NY—First Liberty Institute’s President, CEO, and Chief Counsel Kelly Shackelford condemned remarks made by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s statement targeting the Jewish community in New York.  The following statement may be...