Pennsylvanians May Amend Constitution to Stop Endless Lockdowns
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Everything They Don’t Like Is Now a Public Health Emergency
Last summer, infectious disease experts at the University of Washington wrote what they called an “[o]pen letter advocating for an anti-racist public health response to demonstrations against systemic injustice occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic.” It is essentially a letter explaining that white supremacy is a public health issue, especially in light of covid-19. The letter was signed by 1,288 “public health professionals, infectious diseases professionals, and community stakeholders.”
Why No State Needs Thousands of Nuclear Warheads
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The Trump Political Show Trial
AOC and Schumer Want Taxpayer Funding for Covid-19 Funerals
Gold Could Offer a Way Out of Switzerland’s Failing Inflationist Experiment
How the Progressives Conquered Corporate America
George Will’s Tepid Defense of Freedom
The Conservative Sensibility
by George F. Will
Hachette Books, 2019
xxxix + 600 pp.
The well-known Washington columnist George Will was long ago a libertarian, but he soon changed his mind, adopting instead a statist variety of conservatism. In The Conservative Sensibility, he returns to his libertarian roots, but the return is incomplete, and he ends up with a confused position that, in trying to do justice to competing goods, as he sees it, ends up in intellectual sloppiness.
This Impeachment Is Now about More Than Donald Trump
The move to impeach an ex-president is no longer about Donald Trump.
The Democrats’ coming lawless impeachment trial violates the Constitution and libertarian tradition. The Constitution states impeachment can only be used against federal officials, that it doesn’t apply to private citizens. Article II, Section 4, states who can be impeached. “The president, vice president and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Convictions of Treason, Bribery and other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.” It doesn’t cover postoffice careers.
State Legislators Are Considering a Host of New Sound-Money Reforms
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More state lawmakers than ever are introducing sound money legislation in the opening days of the 2021 legislative session.
Several states will consider measures to remove sales or general excise taxes on the purchase of gold, silver, and other precious metals.
Many other states will weigh bills to eliminate income taxes on gold and silver.
