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If you think school closures are a thing of the past, think again. The Washington, D.C., school system adopted a vaccine mandate for COVID-19, as well as other diseases, known as “no shots, no school.” That means not only barring students from on-site instruction but not offering alternative online home instruction. The city council and health bureaucrats were very proud of themselves. “None of this was ever meant to be punitive,” one council member told DC List. “It was always about, how do we protect the school community enough to keep kids in school.” “Enough to keep kids in school”?...

Italy’s government on Wednesday issued a decree making COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for everyone aged 50 and other, while French citizens pondered President Emmanuel Macron’s assertion – using coarse language – to the effect that he wanted to make life so unpleasant for the unvaccinated that they would submit. After a unanimous vote by the Italian cabinet, Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s government did not announce what penalties would be applied in cases of non-compliance. Workers over 50 will have to show passes before entering workplaces, certifying them to be vaccinated or recently recovered from COVID-19. Vaccine mandates will apply, regardless of...

How is it that more than 190 governments from all over the world ended up dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in almost exactly the same manner, with lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccination cards now being commonplace everywhere? The answer may lie in the Young Global Leaders school, which was established and managed by Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum, and that many of today’s prominent political and business leaders passed through on their way to the top. The German economist, journalist, and author Ernst Wolff has revealed some facts about Schwab’s “Young Global Leaders” school that are relevant for...

The chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology charged Thursday that reports from the United Nations and the White House on the threat of global climate change “appear to be designed to spread fear and alarm” in an effort to provide the Obama administration with “an excuse to control more of the lives of the American people.”

The nation shouldn’t be debating the nation’s health-care system or the successful jihadi attack in Benghazi in 2012, President Barack Obama complained at a May 19 fundraiser in Maryland. “Yes, we can have a legitimate debate about does every government program work… [but] the debate we’re having right now is about, what, Benghazi? Obamacare?” Obama told his donors in the wealthy Potomac district of Maryland. “It’s not serious [and] is not speaking to the real concerns that people have,” Obama insisted.