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BIll Maher’s Insightful and Funny Covid Monologue
powered by Surfing Waves Bill Maher has been a voice for sanity from the beginning of the lockdowns, raising plenty of questions along the way. His latest material is gold, however. He rightly decries the politicization of medicine and the manner in which the media has been a handmaiden of panic throughout. Let us hope that his monologue, transcript below, is a foreshadowing of what will soon emerge as the conventional wisdom. And finally new rule, don’t spin me when it comes to my health. Over the…
Op-Ed: Uncle Sam is broke but continues to run deficits
powered by Surfing Waves Out-of-control government spending is a dangerous problem that both political parties are failing to address. The national debt of the United States is $28 trillion and rising and the federal government continues to run massive deficits. The COVID-19 pandemic has only escalated government spending. The national debt represents a significant crisis for the nation. A recent review of the federal government’s finances by Truth in Accounting estimates that the national debt is $123.11 trill…
If Johnson & Johnson Coronavirus Vaccine Shots Are Halted Because of Blood Clots, Why Have Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Shots Not Also Been Halted?
powered by Surfing Waves When the United States government’s Food and Drug Administration earlier this week called for temporarily halting the giving of Johnson & Johnson’s experimental coronavirus vaccine shots because of the developing of blood clots in people who have received the shots, I asked if we were seeing an example of regulatory favoritism for the new mRNA technology shots over more traditional vaccine shots such as the Johnson & Johnson shots. The question arises because the US government …
Abuse Escalation
powered by Surfing Waves On 31 December 2020 , AIER’s Lou Eastman and Micha Gartz published a smart piece warning that the behaviors of lockdown-happy governments parallel those of domestic abusers. From “dismissing your opinions” to punishing you for “breaking” unclear or ever-changing rules, the 15 signs that you might be in an abusive relationship published by the Workplace Mental Health Institute, they showed, tracked almost perfectly with various federal and state Covid policies. The 15 signs, th…
4 Characteristics That Made Milton Friedman an Effective Advocate for Liberty
powered by Surfing Waves Executive orders! Mask Mandates! COVID Lockdowns! Will we lose our country? In a few years, will we even recognize our country? Many people are worried that the Left is on the move and that they are taking over. What can we do? It is that last question that I get asked most often and, honestly, I am asking it myself quite often too. What can we do? Sometimes I find putting a larger problem in the context of a smaller situation, I can find a little clarity. In my town, a neighbor deci…
Longleaf pines’ comeback: An environmental success story
powered by Surfing Waves Folks living in or driving through the southeastern United States may have noticed that an iconic tree that once dazzled European settlers, and then all but disappeared, is making a comeback. The longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), which can grow to a height of 115 feet and whose dark green, needle-like leaves grow to a foot long, fell on hard times as land was cleared for farms and towns in the 18th and 19 th centuries. Healthy stands of longleaf pines once stretched from the coastal plai…
American Rescue Plan Allocates $1.6 Billion To Counties That Don’t Exist
powered by Surfing Waves (The Center Square) – The Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation has calculated that about $2 billion worth of taxpayer money from the Democratic-passed American Rescue Plan Act is allocated to local governments that don’t exist or aren’t in financial distress. The act is a $1.9 trillion spending plan that President Joe Biden and Democrats hailed as another COVID-19 stimulus package. It includes extended unemployment benefits, direct funding to states and municipalities, and $1,400 checks for most Ame…
Interior secretary revokes Trump administration’s orders prioritizing energy development
powered by Surfing Waves (The Center Square) – U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday revoked a dozen of the Trump administration’s secretarial orders that prioritized energy development on federal lands. Haaland signed a secretarial order revoking the past orders and also signed a secretarial order establishing a Climate Task Force that will seek to advance renewable energy development and prioritize climate change in the department’s decision-making processes. Haaland said in a statement the pair of orders will ali…
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