Articles from American Spectator

This time it’s different. We’re used to seeing the big dogs come running when disaster hits. Whether it’s a typhoon that devastates part of Indonesia or a hurricane that destroys most of New Orleans, the U.S. military — hospital ships helping the sick and injured, helos operating from aircraft carriers dispensing food and bottled water — meets the challenge.

The most prominent physicians on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Drs. Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci, have generally managed to outmaneuver members of the media who have attempted to inveigle them into undercutting the President by endorsing a nationwide lockdown. Birx insists that Trump trusts the American people to follow current mitigation strategies, and Fauci has maintained a similarly diplomatic position.

Governments in the United States are restricting freedoms to unprecedented degrees in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. As dangerous as this expansion of power is, in some ways, federal, state and local governments are also reducing their intrusions into our lives by cutting many regulations.

A pandemic is sweeping the U.S. and Middle East. Coronavirus is spreading among military personnel, undercutting readiness.

Washington is broke. Congress voted an emergency stimulus package that costs 40 percent as much as the federal government spent last year. Even before that the federal government was running trillion-dollar annual deficits.