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We Just Got Even More Proof that Stay-At-Home Orders Lethally Backfired
Life under lockdown was hard for all of us. From economic destruction to social isolation, the costs of restrictive government…
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Corrupt Unions — Not COVID — Locked Kids Out of School
Locking kids out of school for months (over a year and counting in some places) is likely to be by…
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In The News
Costs of Mitigation Efforts Vastly Outweigh Benefits for 89% of Population, Health Researchers Conclude
COVID mitigation measures were always a question of costs and benefits, of good intentions versus unintended consequences. Two health researchers…
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Entertainment, Health and Lifestyle
New Study Reveals That Stay-at-Home Orders Backfired. Here’s Why
Last summer, NBC News reported that New York state health officials were stunned by the number of hospitalized patients who…
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Money & The Economy
Economist: Lockdowns ‘Greatest Peacetime Policy Failure’ in Canada’s History
Earlier this month, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease official in the United States, struggled to explain why COVID…
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Opinion
A 75-Year-Old Warning about Those Who Say ‘Listen to the Science’
On his first day as president, Joe Biden, flanked by a portrait of Ben Franklin, called on the federal government…
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Opinion
Minnesota Covid Numbers Defy Logic And Should Piss Everyone Off
Spoiler: Despite being billed as the next Black Death, after a year of exposure to Covid, almost no healthy Minnesotans…
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Biden Is Asking Americans ‘To Sacrifice A Little Bit Longer’
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that President Joe Biden is asking Americans “to sacrifice a little bit…
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Opinion
Why the Push Is on to Make Pandemic Life ‘Permanent’
One year after Americans were ordered to close down society for “two weeks to flatten the curve,” Bloomberg columnist Andreas…
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Money & The Economy
Free States Faring Far Better Than Lockdown States in One Huge Way, New Data Show
When COVID-19 first came to our shores, it presented policymakers and elected officials with a crisis like nothing in living…
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World News
Sweden Saw Lower Mortality Rate Than Most of Europe in 2020, Despite No Lockdown
Few people in 2020 came under more heat than Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s top epidemiologist. But the man who forged Sweden’s…
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In The News
New Census Data Show Homeschooling Tripled During the Pandemic—And One Key Group is Driving the Surge
My daughter had a friend over this week whose parents just took her out of public school for homeschooling, and…
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Entertainment, Health and Lifestyle
Americans Got Way Fatter During Pandemic Lockdowns, Poll Finds
Some 42% of U.S. adults reported packing on undesired weight since the start of the pandemic, according to a recent…
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Senate Testimony: The Life-Threatening Unintended Consequences of Pandemic Lockdowns
On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, Foundation for Economic Education Opinion Editor Brad Polumbo will testify before the Senate Small Business…
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Opinion
An Old Time (circa 2019) Christmas in Baton Rouge
Pastor Tony Spell is a man who takes his texts seriously. He believes in the plain truth of the Bible…
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