Vows to keep her state open.

PIERRE, South Dakota (PNN) - April 20, 2020 - South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem accused Amerikans across the nation of giving up their liberties for a little bit of security, vowing to go against the grain and keep her state open as protests against lockdown orders are staged nationwide.

TRENTON, New Jersey (PNN) - April 17, 2020 - New Jersey citizens demonstrated in Trenton Friday against the “stay-at-home” order of Governor Phil Murphy during the coronavirus crisis.

The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce recorded video of the protest that showed a long line of cars honking their horns along West State Street, across from the Statehouse and Murphy’s office.

LANSING, Michigan (PNN) - April 15, 2020 - A group of sheriffs have announced they will not enforce some of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's executive orders relating to the COVID-19 lockdown.

Sheriffs Mike Borkovich, Ted Schendel, Ken Falk and Kim Cole of Michigan's 101st District released a press statement this afternoon detailing their decision to place their oath to the Constitution above Whitmer's demands. They want the state open for business (with proper precautions).

By Jacob G. Hornberger

April 15, 2020 - One of the core principles of statists (i.e., people who look to government to take care of people) is the concept of the “safety net”. It entails using the government to provide assistance to people to ensure that no one falls off the “high wire” of life and hits the ground and dies of starvation, illness, or any other such thing. Without a “safety net,” statists argue, people would be dying in the streets, alleys, and gutters of Amerika.

MARYVILLE, Kentucky (PNN) - April 12, 2020 - A Kentucky church defied coronavirus lockdown orders to hold a packed Easter Sunday service, despite a heavy terrorist pig thug cop presence and even nails blocking the parking lots.

Maryville Baptist Church appeared to have a near-full house for its Sunday service despite orders to avoid in-person services, and the supposed heightened risk of catching COVID-19.

LONDON, England (PNN) - April 11, 2020 - A lot of other people are writing to politicians, elected representatives, celebrities, and other people who have “platforms” or “influence”. I’ve decided to write to you.

You are no doubt aware that there is a man being held in your prison by the name of Julian Assange. I am sure that you are also aware that a great many people believe that he should not be there, or in any prison. They (and I) believe that the only crime he has committed is having revealed actual crimes committed by people and institutions much more powerful than himself.

By Allen Stevo

April 9, 2020 - In West Coast lockdown land, where everyone is compliant, I saw a miserable looking old man taking photos of children and parents who were having an amazing time together at an officially closed playground.

Locked in for more than a week, the parents had had enough and took the children out to play.

April 8, 2020 - George Orwell’s 1984 describes the ultimate tyranny to come. Or the retro-nightmare future that might-have-been, had it not been outdone by reality. Aldous Huxley - famous author, heir to the intellectual threads of Eugenics, Darwinism, Fabian Socialism and Humanitarian Scientism as a world religion - made his disagreements with his former pupil George Orwell quite clear in a 1962 speech at the University of Kalifornia at Berkeley, as well as in writings like Brave New World: Revisited.

By Shawnna Morris

April 3, 2020 - The email from my son’s teacher hit us like a ton of bricks.

The students will not be returning from spring break, it read. School will be closed until April 17. In the meantime, the children will receive their lessons online. Like many parents in the first days of social isolation, we were alarmed.

FARMINGTON, Maine (PNN) - April 11, 2020 - Reading Ludwig von Mises Institute President Jeff Deist’s Monday article All Crises Are Local, I was struck by a mention that some sheriffs have stood bravely against impositions of soft martial law in the name of countering coronavirus.