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Omicron and COVID-19 Groundhog Day
This Monday’s topic is lockdowns and mandates for masks and vaccinations. Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie discuss it with Katherine Manguward and Peter Suderman. Deja […]
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Don’t Expect Joe Biden’s Travel Ban To Save America From the Omicron Variant
Belated but oddly targeted U.S. bans on international travel created an appearance that something was being done, even though it didn’t have much impact on […]
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Why the 14th Amendment Does Not Prohibit Abortion
Oral argument will be heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday Dobbs against Jackson Women’s Health OrganizationThe justices will then reconsider how the Constitution safeguards women’s […]
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FDA Plans Fast Approvals of Updated COVID-19 Variant Vaccines
“In the event, hopefully unlikely, that updated vaccinations or boosters are needed to respond to this new variant, we will accelerate their development and deployment with […]
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Man Imprisoned for 16 Years for Raping Lovely Bones Author Is Exonerated
Alice Sebold’s bestseller 1999 memoir LuckyThis story is about a young woman who was raped while she attended Syracuse University. The book tells the story […]
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Incoming New York Mayor Makes Vague Case for the ‘Proper’ Kind of Stop-and-Frisk
The Writing of the Daily NewsEric Adams, New York’s Mayor-elect is promising to be kinder and gentler in his “stop and flee” police work. On […]
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Today in Supreme Court History: November 27, 1964
11/27/1964 – WGCB carried an approximately 15 minute broadcast of Reverend Billy James Hargis’s “Christian Crusade series”. Red Lion Broadcasting Co., v. Federal Communications Commission […]
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Failing to Overrule Roe and Casey “Would Threaten to Destroy the 40-Year Effort to Restrain the Court with the Founders’ Interpretive Principles”
Ed Meese (ex-Attorney General) wrote today an opinion piece in The Washington Post entitled “Did it succeed?” It all hinges on whether or not the […]
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When Lawyers Make Things Worse
Tyler Cowen pointed out Boaz Absramson’s working paper, which suggests that certain policy measures that were intended to assist tenants in their protection may lead […]
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Jack Dorsey’s Exit From Twitter Could Worsen Tech Censorship
Jack Dorsey is now Twitter CEO. He has been with the company for several years and held various leadership positions since 2007. In a statement, […]