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  • Death and Taxes: The Motivation Behind Selective Reopening

    Death and Taxes: The Motivation Behind Selective Reopening0

    America is slowly beginning to reopen, with different states running the course at varying speeds. While the Wisconsin Supreme Court recently repealed state-wide regulations instantaneously, most states do not have the benefit of such decisive action, and are instead suffering through phases arbitrarily decided by state and local governments or executive fiat. In most of America, liquor

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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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  • 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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  • Communist Survivor Warns Americans Against Taking Freedom for Granted

    Communist Survivor Warns Americans Against Taking Freedom for Granted0

    Too few have learned about the horrors of communism. Fewer still have escaped it and lived to tell the tale. Amy Phan West is one such survivor. In 1984, Phan escaped Vietnam’s communist dictatorship by concealing herself in the bottom of one of her father’s fishing vessels before it set out to sea. Escape wasn’t

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  • China’s Rags-to-Riches Ascent at America’s Expense

    China’s Rags-to-Riches Ascent at America’s Expense0

    A friend of mine who traveled China from the 1970s until recently described what the country was like 30 years ago: Its cities were sprawling, impoverished places with dirt roads and low-rise structures. With few automobiles in the country back then, the Chinese people got around mostly by rickshaws and bicycles. The country had only

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