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DES MOINES, Iowa — Gov. Kim Reynolds has eliminated most of her COVID-19 restrictions in the latest health proclamation. According to the Governor's Office, the proclamation removes indoor mask requirements in public spaces, gathering limits and restrictions on businesses starting 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 7. Advertisement "The proclamation strongly encourages Iowans, businesses and organizations to take reasonable public health measures consistent with guidance from the Iowa Department of Public Health," said Pat Garrett, a spokesperson for the Governor's Office. The proclamation states, "I strongly encourage that all businesses or other employers remain open with in-person operations take reasonable measures under...

We all know we are going thru a pandemic, State and Local Governments everywhere are coming up with new and crazy ideas to deal with the situation, many of the ideas shred the Constitution.....Valley County, MONTANA of all places is trying to force people to wear PINK armbands before a person could enter a store to purchase items. What's next, are they going to force Jews to wear Stars of David, oh wait that was tried once before with catastrophic results...

The debate over marijuana legalization is just one of the many ways the political landscape is changing as the US comes to terms with drug and criminal justice policies that many experts and Americans consider to have failed at a great cost to the nation’s liberty and finances. The war on marijuana in particular has cost the US billions of dollars over decades, led to a black market for pot that criminal organizations use to fund violent operations, and contributed to the explosive growth of America’s incarcerated population, which is now the largest in the world. And despite those costs,...

As someone who has spent the past year tangled in the minutia of excise taxes and curve bending and subsidy levels, it is good to finally say this: With the passage of the reconciliation fixes, the health-care reform debate is finally over. But if you're thrilled to hear that, then I also have some bad news: Health-care reform itself is just beginning.

Move over, health care reform, climate change, and the economy. Judging by White House visits by various government agency heads, the Obama administration instead appears preoccupied with the re-regulation of communications, media, and the Internet. The Administration has just released logs of all visitors to the White House and Executive Office Buildings from Obama’s inauguration through August—including a staggering 47 visits by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski. By contrast, no other major agency head logged more than five visits. Chairman Genachowski obviously has an audience with those at the highest levels of power, including the President himself, but...

...Alan Greenspan turned his back on the very structural beliefs about gold’s inextricable connection to freedom that he championed some twenty years earlier. However, Greenspan’s failure to uphold the ideals he once championed does not invalidate their keen insight and validity. Today, these very ideals are especially pertinent to the impending economic catastrophe we face today, despite the continued three-ring circus of government, Central Bankers, & corporate executives...

Today’s leftists – and some on the right – have decided that health is now a moral issue. It has become a value, a religion, as important and ethically relevant as any other value Americans hold sacred. This morality is manifesting itself through a combination of marginally coherent (and agenda-driven) feel-good science and the propensity of today’s liberal to emote as a process of creating policy. Clearly more critical than the ongoing war against Islamo-fascism is America’s real battle, the next true menace. While the word “victory” was vanquished by America’s leftists from any discussion relating to the war in...

Freedom fears as the DNA database expands By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor (Filed: 05/01/2006) The government was accused last night of compiling a national DNA database "by stealth" as police reported a rapid increase in genetic profiling in recent years. New Home Office figures estimate that by 2008, the samples of some 4.2 million people - seven per cent of the population - will be contained on a central criminal database, which is growing by about half a million a year. Damian Green: Alarmed at how fast the database has grown The system, which held only 700,000 samples when...

Teresa was a 14-year-old from South Carolina when she came to New York City with her mother for a lateterm abortion in 1971. Her story is one of many testimonies of women who regret having abortions and have posted their experiences in detail on the Web site of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, which began in late 2003. I first became aware of this nonprofit organization when I went to Washington last year to cover the annual March for Life.This year,the terrible weather and my crippling arthritis kept me home, in body but not in spirit.     Not many New...

London, England (LifeNews.com) -- While the current British government says it opposes euthanasia, it supports coming legislation that would legalize passive euthanasia, or euthanasia "by neglect" on mentally incapacitated adults. A draft of the Mental Incapacity Bill is being prepared for presentation to Parliament. An attempt to clarify difficult medical and financial decisions for those unable to do so themselves as a result of illness or accident, it opens the door to starvation and dehydration of those suffering from dementia, stroke or traumatic brain injury, as well as other illnesses. If passed, the Mental Incapacity Bill would be the first...

A quick rundown of the lunch time rally in Nashville organized by Steve Gill of 99.7 WWTN Nashville Talk Radio. At any given time there were about 50 people who love America at the rally with many coming and going. I stood right on the street with my "FREE IRAQ" sign and had a couple of chances to "debate" the America haters as they stopped for the traffic light. For those of you unfamiliar with the location, Beaman Used Cars is right on Broadway and an I-65 on/off ramp. It is a VERY busy intersection and not condusive to circling...

At one time it would have wounded me greatly to write this column. Then I wouldn’t have understood myself if I had read these words as written by someone else. At that time I had some feelings left for the "American people." Then I read this by John Loeffler, radio host and columnist: "Witness the worldview changes that have occurred since the radical left flower child revolution of 1960s. Americans have experienced such historical revisionism in schools that few can tell you what the Bill of Rights contains and why those rights are so important. America has been in a...