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  • Wisconsin’s Safer at Home Order: ‘Unlawful, Invalid, and Unenforceable’

    Wisconsin’s Safer at Home Order: ‘Unlawful, Invalid, and Unenforceable’0

    Wisconsin’s State Supreme Court struck down Emergency Order 28 on Wednesday, lifting the “Safer at Home Order” that Gov. Tony Evers’ administration sought to impose upon Wisconsinites. The Republican-led state legislature sued Andrea Palm, the secretary-designee of the Department of Health Services, for failing to follow emergency rule procedures necessitated by state law. They argued that the

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  • The Indispensable American Family

    The Indispensable American Family0

    In August 1884, Washington Gladden, possibly the most famous Christian preacher in the America of his day, wrote an article in The Century Magazine on “Three Dangers” besetting the welfare of the nation he loved. Of the first and third dangers he named, intemperance and gambling, I have little to say here. I will note

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  • Sweden’s COVID-19 Strategy Is Quietly Becoming the World’s

    Sweden’s COVID-19 Strategy Is Quietly Becoming the World’s0

    Sweden’s unique approach to the COVID-19 pandemic has been drawing a great deal of scrutiny for weeks, including both admiration and criticism. The Swedes, unlike most other nations, have eschewed the hardline approach that has led to mass economic shutdowns and skyrocketing unemployment. Restaurants, bars, public pools, libraries and most schools remain open. While the

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  • How Bad Is the Economic Fallout?

    How Bad Is the Economic Fallout?0

    How bad is it? That is the question on everyone’s mind as we come to grips with the economic carnage caused by global economic shutdowns, supply chain disruptions, and ongoing quarantines of million of people. Do we face another Great Depression, or simply a deep recession more like 2008? And equally important, are soft Americans

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  • An Open Letter to the Tyrant of Michigan

    An Open Letter to the Tyrant of Michigan0

    Dear Governor Whitmer, It appears the “non-essentials” are gathering to protest again today. Unfortunately, this third protest – termed “judgment day” by some, makes it a little hard for you to enjoy the contemplative life that government-mandated quarantine would seem to afford us. Yet given that this is your decision, and you have a guaranteed paycheck, I

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  • Survey: Majority of Parents Believe Online Learning Is Going Well

    Survey: Majority of Parents Believe Online Learning Is Going Well0

    A teacher friend of mine was secretly pleased when she heard that schools were going to finish out the year with online classes. Curious, I asked for her reasoning. The answer was simple: she has a mute button while teaching online. Because of that mute button, this teacher doesn’t have to spend time dealing with

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  • Lying Media Can’t Be Trusted on Ahmaud Arbery Story

    Lying Media Can’t Be Trusted on Ahmaud Arbery Story0

    The media lies all the time. We have seen it on Russian collusion, Covington Catholic, the coronavirus, and a host of other subjects. When they are not lying, they engage in a kind of willful distortion of the facts, focusing on unrepresentative stories of the “man bites dog” variety without providing useful context. This is

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  • Curing the Global Pandemic of Loneliness

    Curing the Global Pandemic of Loneliness0

    Millions of people within our country are experiencing extreme social isolation and loneliness. In a time defined by a pandemic and lockdowns, one would naturally expect people to feel this way, being cut off from family, friends, and neighbors. In actuality, the coronavirus has just exacerbated an existing pandemic that had been plaguing the United

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  • Cuomo Will No Longer Force Nursing Homes to Accept COVID Patients

    Cuomo Will No Longer Force Nursing Homes to Accept COVID Patients0

    Last week I wrote about the troubling policy in New York and many other states that forces nursing homes to admit COVID-19-infected patients. This week, under mounting scrutiny and political pressure, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced an outright reversal of the policy. Via the New York Post: Patients in New York hospitals must now

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