Andrew Cuomo

21WIRE | Fed-up gym owner shows government of New York where they can put their lockdown fine.

If someone had told you this time last year that in 2020, almost every country in the world would have ordered its citizens to close their businesses, wear masks in the street, and stay home, what would you have said? Alas, we are now far beyond this scenario, but the worldwide lockdown has been applied […]

21WIRE | Under the guise of COVID, New York's governor is flexing his authoritarian muscle again.

By James Bovard | American Institute for Economic Research | October 27, 2020 The simultaneous defining down of both democracy and despotism is 2020’s darkest legacy. Voters are recognizing that their ballots merely choose elective dictators who can exempt themselves from the Constitution simply by pronouncing the word “emergency.” At the same time, despotism is […]

21WIRE | It's a claim that borders on insanity and is devoid of any logic or real evidence.

RT | September 9, 2020

Republican and Democrat politicians have both embraced legislation to immunize themselves and their deep-pocketed corporate donors from legal liability for ill-thought-out pandemic policies blamed for the deaths of thousands.

American Institute for Economic Research, September 9, 2020 The War on Terror Presaged Covid Mania by James Bovard   This week is the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. America never recovered politically from those attacks, and government responses to the Covid pandemic are repeating many of […]
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo delivered a shocking bit of rhetoric after President Trump threatened to cut off federal funding to Democrat-run cities.
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Daily Caller / American Renewal August 29, 2020 How Joe Biden Embraces Democrats’ Shutdown Insanity James Bovard “We’ll have a national mandate to wear a mask — not as a burden but as a patriotic duty to protect one another,” declared Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden at last week’s Democratic National Convention. Biden’s plan to […]
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I was talking with one of my oldest friends early in the pandemic. He had locked himself up in his small New York City apartment and was extremely stressed out, insisting his spouse, who would walk down and then back up the 8 flights of stairs to the lobby to pick up delivered items they had ordered, immediately put all clothing into their washer and dryer. My friend didn't need a mask.