News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
David Bell says his tribe on the 'progressive Left' abandoned him during Covid as it lurched into authoritarianism. But he moved to Texas and found a new community with those who love freedom.
Democrat Governor J. B. Pritzker of Illinois, who has made much of his being a 'sanctuary state', has now found himself overwhelmed by illegal immigrants and resorted to pleading with Texas to stop sending them.
Pfizer is facing legal action in Texas for false advertising and selling a fraudulent product, with additional accusations of conspiring to silence critics.
Elon Musk is moving Tesla's headquarters from Silicon Valley to Texas after criticising lockdown measures by local leaders as “fascist”. Musk is a steely-eyed lockdown sceptic.
Lockdown Sceptics received a fantastic response to our call for news from the reopened states in America with which to shame our own timid Government as it delayed reopening for yet another month. Here they are.
All government entities and private businesses in Texas are now banned from requiring proof of vaccination as a condition for service or entry, with Governor Greg Abbott declaring that the state is "open 100%".
As the UK contemplates even more delays to the end of lockdown, we hear from someone in Texas – where restrictions ended at the start of March – that "life is normal". Yet there's no sign of a "third wave".
A central assumption of SAGE's latest model of doom is that the lockdowns are holding back the flood. When will the evidence from free states like Florida, Texas and South Dakota break through the groupthink?
When the virus is surging somewhere we never hear the end of it. But when somewhere like Florida or Texas lifts restrictions we hear not a thing. The public is kept in the dark by a biased and doom-obsessed media.
Michigan is doing worse than Texas because people are ignoring the lockdown, Anthony Fauci tells Congress. Do feeble answers like this suggest lockdownism is collapsing?
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