News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Since 2020, California has seen 82,000 excess deaths from non-Covid causes, almost as many as its official Covid death tally. And it still has a higher death rate than no-lockdown Florida.
When Gavin Newsom debates Ron DeSantis Thursday night on Fox News, voters might finally hear a serious discussion of an issue that most politicians have wanted to forget: the disastrous mistakes of the COVID-19 pandemic.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has said criticism of California’s tough COVID-19 restrictions was valid and he would have taken an entirely different approach, given what he knows now about the pandemic.
Hundreds of bald eagles and other large birds are being killed by wind turbines across the U.S. every year, but green activists don't seem to care, as California rolls back its protections yet further.
People with mental health conditions and a history of substance abuse are massively overrepresented among the homeless. Yet homelessness doesn't seem to correlate with those two factors across U.S. states.
Paul Stevens has written a postcard from California for the Daily sceptic. Despite the mask mandates being lifted, some Californians continue to wear masks, having become habituated to the humiliating ritual.
Flu is back with a large and early surge, leading several Southern California hospitals to begin using overflow tents to cope with a rising number of patients with respiratory illness. What's driving it?
California appears to be waging war on internet freedom, with two new laws that effectively treat all citizens like children by imposing severe censorship requirements to prevent "harm".
Woke, authoritarian California has become a basket case state where no one (except illegal immigrants, who get showered with freebies) wants to live.
The city of Oroville in California has declared itself a constitutional republic in defiance of the state's Covid restrictions.
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