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Online Voting Is Not the Answer Even in a Pandemic
What is the best way to conduct elections in a time of epidemic? The simplest and most obvious answer might appear at first glance to be voting over the internet—via email, fax, blockchain, or smartphone apps. While this would certainly seem to fit with our internet-dependent lives as we socially distance, online voting is not… -
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Governors Need Some Skin in Game With Stay-at-Home Orders
As April nears a close, America’s small business sector focuses anxiously on May 1, the date arbitrarily selected by many governors to reopen their state economies. Many small business employers and employees will mark it as the day they finally regain their livelihoods. For most of them, this day has been a long time coming…. -
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Today’s Americans and Yesteryear’s Americans
Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a military historian, and a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno. He has written two articles relevant to today’s society. Last October, Hanson published a commentary article headlined “Members of Previous Generations Now Seem Like Giants,” and he… -
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Our Pharmaceutical and Medical Supply Chain Poses National Security Issue, Says Rep. French Hill
Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., recently proposed legislation to ensure that the U.S. expands its medical supply chain to decrease dependence on foreign manufacturers, including those in China. Hill joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss why is it important to do so, incentives to make it happen, whether decreasing dependence on China for pharmaceuticals would… -
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Trump Showcases Jobs Preserved by Paycheck Protection Program Amid COVID-19 Shutdown
Michael Heup not only got his job back at Bitty & Beau’s Coffee, which was temporarily closed because of the COVID-19 crisis, but he also had the chance to talk about it at the White House on Tuesday. “I love my job, and I am excited about going back to work,” Heup, a disabled employee,… -
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Misinformation Isn’t the Only Danger
Who gets to determine what’s “misinformation” and what’s not? As social media companies, under pressure, move in a direction of imposing stricter rules about permissible content on their platforms, this is the question users should be asking. Earlier this month, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said the video giant would be removing videos that go against… -
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Our Dress Rehearsal for a Police State
All my life, I have dismissed paranoids on the right (“America is headed to communism”) and the left (“It can happen here”—referring to fascism). It’s not that I’ve ever believed liberty was guaranteed. Being familiar with history and a pessimist regarding the human condition, I never believed that. But the ease with which police state… -
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To Prepare for COVID-19 Vaccine, Let’s Ensure Manufacturing Capacity Will Meet Demand
Pharmaceutical and biotech companies, in collaboration with scientists in academia and government, are working flat-out to develop drugs and vaccines to treat or prevent COVID-19. Although a vaccine is still months away, policymakers and the public should ask now: If and when their efforts succeed, will there be sufficient manufacturing capacity to meet the likely… -
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The Supreme Court Punts on an Easy Second Amendment Case
It’s been a decade since the Supreme Court affirmed, in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010), that the Second Amendment protects an individual and fundamental right, striking down laws that effectively prohibited the possession of handguns in one’s own home. Since then, the court has routinely declined to… -
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Nothing Novel About Communist China’s Coronavirus Lies
Lying comes naturally to the Chinese Communist government, which will say anything to maintain its tight grip on the reins of power. Officials in Beijing continue to lie about the number of deaths in Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus. The official death toll is 2,500, but some 5,000 burial urns were delivered to just one Wuhan crematorium, and… -
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Parental Consent Laws for Underage Girls Seeking Abortion Help Fight Against Human Trafficking
It is welcome news that Florida is now set to become the sixth state to require both parental consent and notice before minor girls can get an abortion. A bill mandating this has passed both houses of the state Legislature, and Gov. Ron DeSantis has promised to sign it. Ensuring that a child’s parents are involved before any medical or surgical procedure… -
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The Generation That Faced Hunger, Polio, and War Would Be Ashamed
Getting my parents and grandparents to talk about their experiences during the Great Depression and World War II was always difficult. They lived in the pre-Dr. Phil generation before people went public with their deepest thoughts. I have been thinking how they might have responded to the current panic caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. I… -
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Doctor-Turned-Senator Who Predicted Pandemic Outlines Steps America Needs to Now Take
In 2005, then-Sen. Bill Frist had a message for Americans: a pandemic was coming, likely out of Asia, and due to increasing global travel, it would likely affect the United States. Now Frist, a doctor himself, is looking at how and when America can safely reopen. One example of a locale doing it right, in… -
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Trump Backs DOJ Move to Safeguard Constitutional Rights Amid COVID-19 Crisis
President Donald Trump seemed supportive of Attorney General William Barr’s directive to protect the individual rights of citizens against the potential encroachment by state or local governments. Asked in the Rose Garden press briefing Monday if the administration would bring lawsuits against states, Trump left the door open. “It would depend on the circumstances of… -
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‘Constitution Isn’t Suspended’ for COVID-19, Attorney General Barr Warns Public Officials
Attorney General William Barr on Monday publicly released an official memorandum he sent to United States attorneys and to his assistant attorney general for civil rights. The subject of the memo was “Balancing Public Safety with the Preservation of Civil Rights.” The memo is a succinct acknowledgment of the extraordinary challenges posed by the coronavirus, a… -
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How Close Is US to Herd Immunity for COVID-19? What the Numbers Show
There has been considerable interest lately in Sweden’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Sweden’s top epidemiologist, Dr. Anders Tegnell, Sweden is expected to achieve herd immunity in several weeks’ time. Sweden pursued a much more relaxed mitigation strategy, practicing social distancing while avoiding a national lockdown, and approximately 20% of Swedes may have… -
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Appeals Court Judge Eric Murphy Reminds Colleagues of Their Proper Role
Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee—the states that fall under the jurisdiction of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals—as of April 23 effectively have their public schools overseen and regulated by federal judges. Two judges of a divided three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit have declared that hidden between the lines of the Constitution’s guarantee… -
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Here’s Why Development of a Vaccine Takes So Long
As the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic, the White House has warned time and time again that a vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2 virus won’t be available for another 12 to 18 months. In a crisis, that sounds like forever. >>> When can America reopen? The National Coronavirus Recovery Commission, a project of The Heritage Foundation,… -
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EXCLUSIVE: AG Barr Directs Federal Prosecutors to Protect ‘Civil Liberties’ During COVID-19
Attorney General William Barr on Monday directed U.S. attorneys to “be on the lookout” for state and local governments violating constitutional rights of individuals during the strict COVID-19 restrictions at the state and local level. “Many policies that would be unthinkable in regular times have become commonplace in recent weeks, and we do not want… -
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In Tweet, Chinese Government Suggests US Is ‘Hiding’ Information on COVID-19
The Chinese government’s Foreign Ministry portrayed China as the victim of coronavirus disinformation on Monday, before suggesting minutes later that the U.S. government is “hiding something” regarding the pandemic. “China always stands against disinformation campaign. We are victim rather than producer of disinformation,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry wrote from its Twitter account. The account then suggested without…