Baseball has decided to move Major League Baseball’s All-Star games from Atlanta to Denver’s Coors Field. By rushing to abandon Atlanta without first protesting the substance of the law, Rob Manfred, the MLB commissioner, made a serious mistake, argues Fay Vincent in the WSJ. Organizations like Major League Baseball have sometimes participated in public debates […]
The Press at War with Georgia
The Democratic Party is lying over the Georgia state legislature’s latest election bill, accuses The Morning Dispatch. Joe Biden went so far as to call the bill “Jim Crow in the 21st Century” and falsely claim that the legislation will end voting early. Partisan opposition toward the bill has proliferated far beyond the world of Democratic Party […]
MLB and Georgia Voting Laws
Major League Baseball has a problem with Georgia’s legislation that requires voters to present valid identification in order to be eligible to vote. The MLB has called it a violation of “fair access to voting,” legislation that is similar in many other states. You need identification to board a plane, pick up a prescription or […]
Putting America Last
Nancy Pelosi is looking to pass Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill by the 4th of July. Like the COVID relief bill, which had little to do with fighting the virus, only about a quarter of this latest $2 trillion boondoggle has to do with “infrastructure.” Joe Biden’s Climate Subsidies and Social Welfare: advance “environmental justice” expand […]
Florida: Enjoy Certain Freedoms and Individual Liberties
In a recent news conference, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) announced he would introduce an “executive function” against COVID vaccine passports, which he previously called a “terrible idea” that wouldn’t get support in Florida. Governor DeSantis in Tallahassee on COVID Vaccination: We always said we wanted to provide if for all but mandate it for […]
Vaccine Passport: The Dark Web Has You COVID
Along Comes the Black Market Psst! Don’t want to wait any longer for a vaccine shot? Well if shelling out $500 is no big deal, you can skip the line and get a COVID-19 dose (overnight shipping not included). Getting a vaccine from an anonymous source makes you a little edgy? Well, how about a […]
The Four Progressive Horsemen of Inequality
There’s much talk these days about inequality and how capitalism is a nasty side effect of the disease of inequality. Andy Kessler (WSJ) writes of a discussion he had on equality with John Cochrane, economist and senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. In discussing inequality, Mr. Cochrane, asks, “Are capitalism and free markets the reasons […]
Vaccine Passports Required?
Amid news of a system of vaccines being required in the state of New York, called the “Excelsior Pass” (to be required for many social activities starting on April 2nd) (Read more here at Hotair.com), Texas Governor Greg Abbott has this positive update for Texas (28 March): The 7-day positivity rate dropped to a new recorded […]
Biden’s Sorry Theatrical Press Conference
Joe Biden’s first press conference is an accurate image of what has happened to American democracy. The United States no longer looks like itself, writes Dominic Green in Spectator.US. The White House is no longer the home of democracy. It was more like a reality TV series in a care home, Mr. Green warns in […]
Despite Dr. Fauci, Great News on Herd Immunity
In an editorial for the WSJ (24 March), Dr. Marty Makary, professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health and Cary School of Business, offers some terrific news: Herd immunity, despite denials by Anthony Fauci, is likely close at hand. After advising that 70-80% of the population needs to be jabbed […]
