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Oklahoma Mayors Acted Unlawfully With COVID-19 Orders

5/27/2020

In response to COVID-19, the mayors of Oklahoma’s three largest cities subjected their citizens to draconian shelter in place orders, restricting their freedom, damaging them financially, and undermining their constitutional rights. The mayoral decrees were more restrictive than those of the Governor, and in significant ways contradicted his policy. To this day, city-mandated social distancing...

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Oklahoma Mayors Acted Unlawfully With COVID-19 Orders
May 27, 2020 at 09:05AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

The Bravery of Those Who Died to Defend Us Highlights Our Cowardice

5/25/2020

Memorial Day commemorates those who died in military service to our country. These people died not for a chunk of land, for the natural resources available on that chunk of land, nor for any such simple material possession. They died for an idea, a way of life, as well as for each other. We used to be the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave. Now we're the land of the lockdown and the home...

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The Bravery of Those Who Died to Defend Us Highlights Our Cowardice
May 25, 2020 at 09:50AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Hypocrisy Exposed by Mindless Bureaucracy in COVID-19 Responses and the Quality Adjusted Life Years Methodology

5/20/2020

Life or death circumstances can bring out the best in people or the worst in people. They definitely expose the hypocrisy in people. The COVID-19 crisis has done this in spades. And we have an example playing out in Oklahoma right now with a bill that has gone to Governor Stitt for signature. That bill, HB 2587, would require implementation of safeguards against state health agencies that would...

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Hypocrisy Exposed by Mindless Bureaucracy in COVID-19 Responses and the Quality Adjusted Life Years Methodology
May 20, 2020 at 09:07AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Even If Pandemic Models Were Right Were Covid Lockdowns Wrong?

5/18/2020

1889 has been quite critical of pandemic modeling that government officials have relied on for their Covid-19 response. We have also criticized shutdown orders in light of flaws in the models. But let’s assume for a moment that the worst predictions really would have come true if nothing was done. Even in those worst case scenarios, it’s fair to ask if our governments did the right thing. Were...

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Even If Pandemic Models Were Right, Were Covid Lockdowns Wrong?
May 18, 2020 at 09:46AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Education Reforms that Would Do Some Good

5/13/2020

Several months ago, 1889 Institute published Education Reforms to Make a Difference in which six fundamental institutional reforms to public education in Oklahoma were suggested. Now we publish More Education Reforms to Make a Difference, which suggests six more reforms. It’s clear that anything other than relatively fundamental institutional reform in public education is only the equivalent of...

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Education Reforms that Would Do Some Good
May 13, 2020 at 09:11AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

COVID-1984: Have Americans Become Too Complacent in Our Liberties?

5/11/2020

Alongside the coronavirus, another pandemic is gripping our country, one that we will feel the consequences of long after we reach herd immunity. I dub this pandemic COVID-1984, and I fear it will rot the roots of the Tree of Liberty. The consequence will be a government emboldened by a passive citizenry. One of the most surprising aspects of our current situation is how willing people have been...

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COVID-1984: Have Americans Become Too Complacent in Our Liberties?
May 11, 2020 at 09:16AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

The Legislators in Black Robes Strike Again

5/6/2020

Once again, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has usurped the Legislature’s constitutional authority. This time, it has legislated new election rules, behind closed doors, on a compressed timetable, and without public input. All with an election looming in which the new rules will apply. On Monday, the Court eliminated the requirement that citizens voting by absentee ballot have their identity verified...

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The Legislators in Black Robes Strike Again
May 06, 2020 at 09:10AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org

Intellectual Corruption in Public Schools Exposed by COVID-19

5/4/2020

Oklahoma is opening up in stages at last, thank goodness. While we have thought, from the beginning, that shutdowns have been a bad idea, what’s done is done. Now is the time to start recovering, and the faster we get fully re-opened (with prudent precautions for the vulnerable, of course), the better off we will be. Luckily, we are in the United States; the economic damage done here by shutdowns...

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Intellectual Corruption in Public Schools Exposed by COVID-19
May 04, 2020 at 09:24AM - Unknown Click the headline to read the entire report, at www.1889Institute.org