At a press conference last week, Anders Tegnell said a massive decline in new COVID-19 cases shows Sweden’s “lighter touch” strategy is doing what it was designed to do. “It really is yet another sign that the Swedish strategy is working,” Tegnell, Sweden’s top epidemiologist, said. “It is possible to slow contagion fast with the
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One bad decision can be a mistake. Two is a pattern. In late May, Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the Supreme Court’s four liberal members in South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom to deny a request from a California church that it be allowed to operate under the same conditions as similar secular
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Most people understand that the constitutional guarantee of free speech does not include falsely yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater. A panicked mob can crush or trample weak and vulnerable people as the instinct to survive overtakes common decency. This maxim came to mind when Breitbart announced that Twitter and Facebook censored a press conference
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With Major League Baseball’s return during the COVID-19 pandemic being unstable at best – especially given the Toronto Blue Jays’ expulsion from Canada – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo extended an interesting invite to teams across the country. “New York state could host any Major League Baseball game that any teams want to play and they could
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For the last several months we have waged our coronavirus war. In some states we wear the mandated facemasks to enter grocery stores or even to walk through public parks, we maintain safe distances, and we squirt sanitizer on our hands from time to time. Some of our governors kept most businesses running while others
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Watching the way COVID-19 has become a political football, especially for the Democratic Party, one must wonder about its possible value under a Joe Biden presidency. Raising this question is by no means an endorsement of Donald Trump for president, particularly as I have expressed critical views about the president’s “loose tongue” and “incoherent, insulting tweets” more
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