Brickbat: Canadian Initiative
A report by Canada’s Heritage Ministry has recommended that all companies delivering “audio, audiovisual, and alphanumeric news content” to Canadians be licensed and regulated by the government. That would include not …
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Masks For All: Sensible and Helpful
Fast reduction of the COVID-19 pandemic is necessary for public health, re-opening the American economy, restoration of rights and liberties, and prevention of large second or third waves. There is …
Badass Ukrainians on a Portuguese-Flagged Canadian-Operated German Cruiseship Sink (?) Venezuelan Attack Boat
See these items from the Jerusalem Post, Portugal Resident, Columbia Cruise Services; from the Jerusalem Post: A Venezuelan navy ship fired shots at a German-owned cruise ship on March 30 and …
COVID-19 ‘Immunity Passports’ Could Be a Good Idea
In the United Kingdom, Health Secretary Matt Hancock says that the government is looking into issuing “immunity certificates” to COVID-19 patients who have recovered from the illness. Such certificates, he …
Coronavirus Gives the Illiberal Right Fever Dreams of Power
“In this time of global pandemic,” Harvard law professor and anti-liberal vanguardist Adrian Vermeule writes in the third paragraph of a much-discussed new Atlantic essay, “it has become clear that …
“COVID19 Exposes the Shallowness of Our Privacy Theories”
I’ve long much admired Prof. Bambauer’s work, and when I saw this forwarded to a lawprof discussion list I’m on, I asked her for permission to repost it: The importance …
Can a Negative COVID-19 Test Be Trusted?
A couple of weeks ago, my oldest daughter, who is about to turn 27, developed symptoms consistent with COVID-19: a dry cough, a fever, and difficulty breathing. On March 23, …
This Rap-Based School Curriculum Is Teaching Kids That John Locke Was Cool Like Che Guevera
Che Guevara was many things: a bloodthirsty executioner, a propagandist, an admirer of mass murderer Mao Zedong. But he was not a big fan of the Enlightenment philosopher John Locke, …
Anti-Trump Democrats Learn That Internet Censorship Blocks Them Too
Last fall, the most-enlightened folks among us praised the move by some tech giants to police and even censor political ads. Sure, back in the day, Barack Obama had used …
Texas Inmates Sue for Access to Hand Sanitizer As Coronavirus Threatens Prisons
Two Texas inmates have filed a lawsuit to improve conditions in their facility as COVID-19 threatens to tear through America’s prisons and jails. On Monday, two Texas inmates filed a …