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The Stench Of Bipartisan Cooperation On The Potomac

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Well, here is a picture worth a thousand words. Featured front and center is Mr. Crony Capitalist Never Trumper, Mitt Romney, explaining how  another $908 billion of Everything Bailouts–on top of the $3.5 trillion that have gone before—is  just the thing to do. In the above photo Romney is speaking for a “bipartisan” group of Spenders Senators including  the GOP’s Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Bill Cassidy and Dem Senators Joe Manchin, Mark Warner, Jeanne Shaheen and independent Angus King. He claimed the group was walking  a prudent line between Nancy Pelosi’s $2 trillion+ demand and Leader Mitch McConnell’s latest  purportedly stingy $500 billion offering: “We’ve been very careful. This is not a $1.8 trillion stimulus bill,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R.,  Utah), part of the bipartisan group, said Tuesday. “This is a relief measure—half that  amount.” Wow! If that’s careful, god save us. And if this is prudent bipartisan compromise, no thanks. After all, keep in mind what ...

The Conflict of the Ages

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The year 2020 was a dreadful year as it relates to individual liberty, free association, commercial freedom, and private property, and 2021 isn’t looking much better. The main reason, of course, is not the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), but the government response to it. Volumes could be written about the government-mandated restrictions on peaceful activity  that have been instituted during this manufactured crisis: curfews, lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, shelter-in-place orders; the closing of “unessential” businesses, public beaches, parks, swimming pools, basketball courts, and playgrounds; the canceling of concerts and sporting events; church closures, school closures, “social distancing,” mask requirements, indoor dining bans, alcohol bans, and store and restaurant capacity limits. A skateboard park in Southern California was filled in with 37 tons of sand by city government workers after skateboarders refused to stop using it. During the holiday season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued “guidelines” for holiday celebrations and gatherings. Americans were told not to travel for Thanksgiving. However, ...

Republicans Fail to See the Real Issue with Head Start

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President Biden’s “Path out of the Pandemic” mandated that four groups of people be vaccinated against COVID-19: all federal executive branch workers, contractors that do business with the federal government, health care workers at Medicaid- and Medicare-participating hospitals, and employees of private-sector businesses with 100 or more employees. Federal courts have struck down three of these mandates. The Supreme Court allowed to stand the requirement that facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid must mandate that their employees have at least one dose of the vaccine by February 14 and be fully vaccinated by March 15. After the “Path out of the Pandemic” was promulgated, “the Office of Head Start (OHS) published an Interim Final Rule with Comment Period (IFC) on Nov. 30, 2021, requiring all staff, certain contractors, and volunteers to be vaccinated for COVID-19 by Jan. 31, 2022.” The official summary of the rule states: This interim final rule with comment (IFC) adds ...

Government Policies Have Worsened the Coronavirus Crisis

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Few would disagree that we have been and are living through some unprecedented times in 2020. A global pandemic, government-imposed and mandated lockdowns and shutdowns of much of the world’s economic activities and social interactions, and total government debts that cumulatively are almost equal to the global economy’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But while comparisons are being made between the ...