Biden Is Using the Pandemic as an Excuse for Permanent Expansions of Government Power
For Biden, the pandemic has become a catchall justification for a slew of big-government programs that he and the Democratic Party already wanted to pursue.
For Biden, the pandemic has become a catchall justification for a slew of big-government programs that he and the Democratic Party already wanted to pursue.
"Incompetent government kills people," he said in January.
Physician Rand Paul is curiously absent.
Biden tonight, like LBJ in 1964, Ford in 1975, Reagan in 1981, and Obama in 2009, is ready to make some terraforming asks to a pliant Congress.
Who could possibly have known that that would happen?
Secretary of State’s office verifies his opponents have gathered enough valid signatures.
Rochelle Walensky: "There are many situations where fully vaccinated people do not need to wear masks."
Evaluating risk is hard in an era of parenting panic.
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The researchers highlight the danger posed by tiny, well-circulated respiratory droplets.
But only after the company jumps over more regulatory hurdles.
As stimulus checks started landing in Americans' bank accounts, demand for medical marijuana went through the roof.
The crackdown on pain medication made drug use more dangerous and did nothing to address the factors driving "deaths of despair."
The former Olympian, reality TV star, and conservative Republican will challenge incumbent Gov. Gavin Newsom in an impending recall election.
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But where is the outrage?
Unresponsive government institutions fuel state-level measures to help parents and children pick learning models that suit them.
Madam's Organ owner Bill Duggan says opening venues for the vaccinated would be a "win-win-win." Artists could perform, businesses could make money, and people would have one more reason to get their shot.
More than half of Americans don’t have these new licenses. Airports are supposed to start checking them by October.
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It's unscientific, wastes precious resources, and keeps Americans unjustifiably scared of the virus.
Cases are rising mainly in states with stricter disease control policies.
The Massachusetts Congresswoman is a two-time supporter of the Rent and Mortgage Cancelation Act.
Connecticut, California, Oregon, and Colorado have all signaled that their mask mandates will outlast their pandemic restrictions on businesses.
Executive order leaves it to individual businesses, not the government.
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2020 was nobody’s idea of a good year, but the ability to smoke pot in my own backyard, mostly free from fear of arrest, majorly redeemed it.
From protests to the coronavirus, it thinks it can protect you from anything.
The latest data underscore an appallingly partisan split on what should be a more science-based decision.
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Who's being irrationally paranoid?
More than 4,000 people released on home confinement could be sent back to federal prison after the pandemic. Senators and advocacy groups say it's cruel and unnecessary.
Nothing is more permanent than an “emergency” mandate.
Deprived of social interaction for a period of time that constitutes a significant percentage of their short lives, kids are falling apart.
The decision by the CDC and FDA to pause the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was a disastrous misstep.
Even during a pandemic, major changes to laws and policies should be funneled through state assemblies.
Leveling that grave accusation at every aspect of American life will produce disengagement, alienation, and reaction.
The Supreme Court reaffirms that COVID-19 regulations must comply with the First Amendment.
The risks of blood clots are much lower than the risks of COVID-19 illness, hospitalizations, and deaths.
The majority reminds the 9th Circuit that the First Amendment puts limits on COVID-19 policies.
For months, the owners of Tin Horn Flats have refused to comply with restrictions on their business.