LAFAYETTE, Louisiana (PNN) - August 23, 2021 - Landlords in Louisiana are asking a federal appeals court to block the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s legally dubious nationwide eviction moratorium while that court considers an appeal from the landlords.

MONROE, Louisiana (PNN) - August 20, 2021 - A court has ruled that a Louisiana medical school wrongly prohibited students from attending because they refused the COVID-19 vaccine under a religious exemption.

AUSTIN, Texas (PNN) - August 15, 2021 - The Texas Supreme Court on Sunday temporarily blocked mask mandates in Dallas and Bexar counties, marking a pivotal moment in the showdown between state and local government as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations reportedly surge in Texas.

NEW YORK (PNN) - August 10, 2021 - Amid a bevy of COVID-19 vaccine mandates being handed down by governments and businesses, there has been an explosion of fabricated vaccination cards.

“As a segment of the population tries to avoid the new measures, the darknet reacts to the real market and thus demand gives birth to offers,” said Dmitry Galov, a researcher at cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, referring to the fake vaccine cards.

PARIS, France (PNN) - August 7, 2021 - Almost a quarter of a million people took to the streets across France on Saturday for the biggest protests yet against a coronavirus health pass needed to enter a cafe or travel on an inter-city train, two days before the new rules come into force.

By Senator Rand Paul

August 4, 2021 - Resist. They can’t arrest us all. They can’t keep all your children home from school. They can’t keep every government building closed - although I’ve got a long list of ones they should.

We don’t have to accept the mandates, lockdowns, and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and feckless bureaucrats. We can simply say no, not again.

By Eric Peters

August 3, 2021 - The presumption of innocence is something not paid much respect - or even given much thought - anymore. Everyone is guilty - of everything. No matter that you or I haven’t actually done anything.

It is just a matter of accusation.

PARIS, France (PNN) - August 1, 2021 - Hundreds of thousands of people across several countries, including France, the Fascist United Kingdom, and Israel, have demonstrated against new anti-COVID restrictions, with the majority of the protests held in the Paris metropolitan area.

In Paris and other French cities, more than 200,000 protesters flooded streets on Saturday, outraged about COVID-19 health passes. The passports were instituted by tyrannical politicians who seek to dictate their whims to the general population.

By Roger Kimball

July 31, 2021 - The most cheerful headline I have seen in weeks was on Glenn Reynolds’ New York Post column: No, Karen, we’re not masking again. I hope he is right. I do wonder, though. I have no doubt that the second part of his headline - A winning GOP message for 2022 [and] beyond - is correct. At least it’s correct if it is expressed as a conditional: It would be a winning strategy were it adopted. As Reynolds notes, “There is a great deal of pent-up frustration and resentment over the inconvenience, the loss of freedom, and the general climate of hectoring that the government’s pandemic response has created.”

AUSTIN, Texas (PNN) - July 28, 2021 - Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan has signed an arrest warrant for one of the runaway Texas Democrats holed up in Washington, D.C., to avoid debating an elections integrity bill back home.