Rhode Island Sends National Guard on Hunt for New Yorkers
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. A sign of the times: Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo (D) has dragooned the National Guard and state law enforcement to go door-to-door…
Pennsylvania Slides Into Prohibition, While Colorado Keeps the Marijuana Stores Open
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. One byproduct of the states’ coronavirus responses? States are having to tinker with the liquor control laws and in at least one state,…
Gun Rights Groups File Suit Against Sheriffs in North Carolina and California for Closure of Gun Stores
Article from The Washington Free Beacon by Stephen Gutkowski. The suits come in the wake of California governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to allow local authorities to close gun stores under his emergency lockdown order. Los…
State and Local Governments use Threats of Fines, Arrest, Lost Licenses to Bolster Containment Orders
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Some state and local governments have decided to use scarce law enforcement resources to enforce social distancing. According to news reports, Chicago Mayor…
Fed Regulations Creating HUGE Roadblock for New Mask Production
Article from Reason by Christian Britschgi. At the same time, government regulations are stifling the ability of manufacturers to set up new N95 mask production facilities—handicapping the private sector’s ability…
One Upside of a Pandemic: Exposing ‘Useless Laws’
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. If there’s a genuine, long-term good to come out of the virus crisis, it’s the number of laws and regulations governments have suspended…
The Stimulus Feeding Frenzy
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Congress and the White House may be very close to agreement on a $2 trillion stimulus package, but the details on what’s inside…
The Long-Term Costs of a Quarantined America
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. The list of states ordering business to shut down and schools to close gets longer each day. But the question of whether such…
Lobbyists Circle the Stimulus
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Congressional bickering over a $1 trillion-plus stimulus bill may make it seem like everything in official Washington has changed for good. The fiscal…
The big CON That Caps Hospital Beds and Health Care Resources
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. One of the major worries about the COVID-19 outbreak is that local hospitals will be overwhelmed with patients, leading to shortages– and rationing…