COVID emergencies revealed the sweeping power given to state executives
Small government backers got a rude awakening during the pandemics’ darkest days: state codes and constitutions gave governors and health officials sweeping powers over all sorts of activities, with only…
Big government research AWOL for COVID
One might expect that when a global pandemic strikes, the federal government’s vast, and well-funded, research lab complex would drop (just about) everything and focus on the health crisis at…
DCCC polling shows voters believe Democrats went “too far” on COVID restrictions
The rapid change of heart among some Democrats regarding COVID-19 restrictions caught a lot of their allies off guard. The obvious reason for the change: politics. And it turns out,…
GAO: HHS unprepared for the next pandemic
The Government Accountability Office recently issued a report on whether the Department of Health and Human Services would be able to handle a new pandemic or other global health threat….
Johns Hopkins researchers: lockdowns were a failure
Just two years ago, the nation was about to plunge into an unprecedented series of actions in response to a global pandemic. The most sweeping were a series of lockdowns…
Some Democratic pols finally read the room on mask mandates
It’s taken a lot of time, and a few harsh election results in 2021, but the blue state Democratic move away from mask mandates has gone from a slow walk…
Masks for thee, but not for me
Statewide mask mandates. They are still a fact of life in some places, but are increasingly rolling off the books – even in blue states — because just about everyone…
Biden’s “free” COVID tests are no such thing
When it’s not busy chasing the phantoms it believes are responsible for inflation, the Biden administration is still wrestling with the coronavirus pandemic. For the last few weeks, the big…
Schools closures scrambled political lines
Even as some public schools continue to face a number of challenges keeping kids in class, and teachers on the job. But as the pandemic winds its way into another…
Chemical compounds in marijuana could be used against COVID
Marijuana legalization proponents, and medical professionals, have long known that the plant’s chemical compounds are highly effective at helping treating a variety of health issues. But there’s a possibility it…
