What Do Recent COVID-19 Trends Tell Us About the Merits of Lockdowns?
New infections are down nationwide but rising in some places as people rebel against government-recommended precautions.
New infections are down nationwide but rising in some places as people rebel against government-recommended precautions.
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"We have long interpreted the Georgia Constitution as protecting a right to work in one's chosen profession free from unreasonable government interference."
The sooner everyone else recognizes those limits, the sooner we can shift to policies that balance public health and economic freedom.
Gov. Greg Abbott made the change after a Dallas salon owner was jailed for reopening her salon.
Empty displays of ritual militarism are always a waste of time, money, and goodwill, but especially during a pandemic.
Texas salons are allowed to reopen on Friday. Shelley Luther will be sitting in jail.
"You can't exactly eat with a mask on, and I have a small space where people would be in close proximity to each other."
Lockdown enforcement is becoming more authoritarian.
"Delaying abortions by weeks does nothing to further the State's interest in combatting COVID-19," they say.
She posted on social media about deliberately spreading the disease, but she's not actually sick.
The ACLU is also suing Washington, D.C. jails.
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The relics of terrible segregationist government policies are still felt in East Austin, an area that's quickly gentrifying
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg says it's reasonable to presume that Gerald Goines also lied in other drug cases.
Council member Gregorio Casar: "I think the state of Texas should come out of the Stone Ages and not only decriminalize but legalize marijuana in the state."
The city limits busking to its tiny Theater District, and it makes you jump through hoops even to play there.
A New York Times study describes how both red and blue states use public education to indoctrinate students in their preferred ideologies. This dynamic should dampen hopes that public education can fix the problem of widespread political ignorance.
Thanks to the police union, bad officers don't stay fired for long.
Texas is ignoring federal law to harass small farms.
Two victims were killed at a church shooting in White Settlement, Texas. It would have been much worse had some parishioners not been armed.
Body camera footage captured Aaron Dean fatally shooting Atatiana Jefferson without announcing that he was a police officer.
One woman alleged that Floyd Berry became aroused during an unlawful search.
Rodney Reed is set to die by lethal injection in less than two weeks.
Some 76 percent of Texas voters approved a constitutional amendment that prohibits the state from imposing any income tax.
The video Abbott shared was not of a homeless person—it was a mentally ill person having a serious episode. Whoops.
"There is absolutely no excuse for this incident," said Police Chief Edwin Kraus.
Mayor Betsy Price: "The gun is irrelevant. She was in her own home caring for an 8-year-old nephew. [Jefferson] was a victim."
The neighbor later said, "If I had never dialed the police department, she'd still be alive."
Jury rejects attempt to claim she feared for her life and acted in self-defense.
Now she's on trial for murder, and she's claiming self-defense.
Kerri Owens' firing from her job at Allen High School may well be a First Amendment violation.
While the narcotics officers charged with murder and evidence tampering were bad eggs, Art Acevedo says, their colleagues acted "in good faith."
Forensic experts claim there is no way Larry Swearingen raped and killed Melissa Trotter. The state is still putting him to death.
If your neighbor were unbalanced, armed to the teeth and busy posting social-media messages about how much he hates you, you'd certainly support measures to disarm him. But you'd feel more secure if he didn't hate you in the first place.
It's foolish for media outlets to imply that laws which were signed in May and June were passed in relation to the tragic shooting in El Paso.
Political donations are made public so that citizens can hold politicians accountable, not the other way around.
The Department of Justice calls puppycide an epidemic.
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