Capitalist: The Whole Truth

A European friend was living with us for several months whilst working locally on the Taieri Plains. He’s a right winger, a supporter of Donald Trump and distraught at the assassination attempt on the president in July. During July, August and September, he often expressed frustration at polling showing Kamala Harris ahead, often asking, ‘How is it that Trump isn’t miles ahead in the election race?’ Well the fact is – he was! The media in America simply lied and published fake polls to pretend Harris was a serious contender when she wasn’t. Now the truth has emerged from the Harris campaign itself, admitting they never once had her leading President Trump.

Richard Epstein: California’s War On Vaccine Skeptics

A new law seeks to punish doctors who challenge politically imposed medical policies.

It is now approaching three years since the advent of COVID-19 in March 2020 provoked the most comprehensive and coercive response to a public health crisis that the United States has seen. 

From the earliest date, that policy has included lockdowns, social distancing, masking, and mRNA vaccines—all to stem the spread of the disease throughout the country. 

These tactics have long been opposed by many who think that more focused responses, which seek to isolate and protect the most vulnerable populations, offer a more tempered and effective response to the disease—a position well-expressed in the Great Barrington Declaration of October 4, 2020, which the conservative Brownstone Institute a year later observed “shattered the notion that there was a scientific consensus in favor of lockdowns.” 

Many other physicians have also expressed their uneasiness about COVID vaccine mandates, even as the federal government issued its own vaccine mandate in the employment context (it was struck down in January 2022 by the US Supreme Court in NFIB v. OSHA).