Author: Jennifer Schubert-Akin
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A common-sense approach to securing our schools
The Onion needs some new material. The satirical news website has run the same headline — “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” — after every mass shooting over the last several years to highlight the lack of federal gun safety efforts and prod lawmakers to act. This faux headline…
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Restaurant closures — the real ‘war on women’
For years, the mainstream media have claimed that there’s a “war on women.” This conjecture — based on a misleading and largely debunked “gender pay gap” — has always been more rhetoric than reality. Yet, now that there is an actual war on women being waged in the form of government closures of restaurants, which…
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Curbing COVID shouldn’t crush our civil liberties
Just in time for Thanksgiving, states across the country are re-implementing restrictions on traveling, gatherings, and commerce in response to rising COVID-19 cases. The specter of large-scale lockdowns looms once again. In Colorado, 15 counties are on the verge of another lockdown if new COVID-19 cases continue to rise. Business capacity in these “red” counties…