Plus: CDC Misunderstands Why People Hate It, Attempts to Reorganize Anyway
August 19 2022
Happy Friday from Washington, where the left still bangs the drum for government-run health care. That’s not exactly a winner in the United Kingdom, argues Heritage Foundation health policy veteran Bob Moffit. Vandals deface another pro-life pregnancy center in Massachusetts, Virginia Allen reports. On the podcast, our Fred Lucas interviews journalist Cheryl Chumley about her book on the erosion of liberty during the pandemic. Plus: the CDC tries to get its act together; China isn’t so super with superconductors; and the media keeps giving Biden a break. On this date in 1919, breaking with convention, President Woodrow Wilson appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to argue for ratification of the Versailles Treaty to end World War I.
Throughout the waning COVID-19 pandemic and going into the waxing monkeypox mess, the CDC has repeatedly beclowned itself with contradictory or dangerous policies.
After investing billions in developing the semiconductor industry in the past decade, China has not yet been able to reduce its reliance on importing advanced chips produced by other countries.
As businesses closed, the government grew in power and Americans' liberties shrank, says the author of the book "Lockdown: The Socialist Plan to Take Away Your Freedom."