Category: COVID-19
A Timely Exit from WHO
In a new commentary for Congressional Quarterly, National Center President David A. Ridenour asserts that the Trump Administration’s decision to begin the process of withdrawing the United States from the United Nations's World Health Organization (WHO) is “well-timed.” The July ...
Winning China’s Cunning Cold War
To those who speculate that the United States is on the brink of a “cold war” with Communist China, National Center President David Ridenour declares that we are already deep in one that too many people have ignored for too ...
The Correct Way to Rebuild American Medical Security
“Buy American” initiatives to bring manufacturing of vital medications and personal protective equipment (PPE) back to the U.S. is a worthwhile policy, but it’s “worth doing well.” That’s what National Center President David Ridenour notes in a commentary published by ...
China and Our Medical Supply Chain
The White House may soon issue an executive order that would require drug companies to manufacture certain essential medicines here in the United States. Lawmakers in both parties are pushing for more domestic manufacturing of drugs and medical products. Proponents ...
Clock is Ticking for WHO Reform
President Donald Trump has begun the yearlong process of pulling the United States out of the United Nations’s World Health Organization (WHO). While getting out of WHO may not come soon enough considering the group’s missteps and apparent allegiance to ...
Environmentalists Criticize EPA for Protecting Workforce
Efforts to halt the reopening of the economy while making allowances for radical Black Lives Matter protests isn’t the only blatant hypocrisy from the left when it comes to COVID-19 protection measures. Over at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a ...
PPP Funding and the Liberty Movement
The following is a statement from David A. Ridenour, president of the National Center, on Paycheck Protection Program funding: The leftist publications Slate and Daily Beast published articles suggesting that a number of limited-government groups have violated their deeply-held principles ...
Questionable Climate Models Persist Despite COVID-19 Model Failures
Remember when the world locked down on the assumptions of a model suggesting 2.2 million Americans would die from COVID-19? Oh, that’s right; it’s still going on. That model has subsequently been proven to be nonsense. As National Center Fellow ...
COVID-19 Model Failures Show Why Climate Science Isn’t ‘Settled’
The scientific models used to predict the global impact of the COVID-19 crisis have cast into acute doubt the idea of iron-clad, unquestionable scientific modeling itself. Model failure has had potentially catastrophic effects on the world economy. It should have ...
More Prosecution and Preaching Needed Post-Protest
George Floyd’s tragic death, and the “black lives matter” protests that rose up afterward, made a couple of things clear to Project 21 Co-Chairman Stacy Washington. On “Spicer & Co.,” on the Newsmax television network, Stacy exposed a double standard ...
