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BREAKING NEWS: A Missouri Led Coalition Just Obtained an Injunction HALTING Joe Biden’s CMS Healthcare Worker Vaccine Mandate
Today a Judge placed an injunction putting a halt to the Biden CMS Healthcare workers vaccine mandate. This is a big win for liberty and control over one’s health decisions and also a continuation of the successful lawsuits being brought across the country challenging unconstitutional mandates.
Missouri Receives National Attention Over Ben Brown Lawsuit
Last week Ben Brown, Owner of Satchmo’s Bar and Grill and candidate for State Senate, made big waves when Judge Dan Green ruled in favor of his lawsuit challenging mandates across the state. Since then Missouri has gained national attention providing a pathway for other states and citizens to take action against the unlawful mandates that have swept the country.
From The Hill: “A Missouri judge ruled that local health officials can no longer issue COVID-19 safety orders, which he said infringe upon the constitutional separation of powers between branches of government, reported the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The ruling from Cole County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Green means local health regulations throughout Missouri are struck down and rendered obsolete, reported the Post-Dispatch.
“This case is about whether Missouri’s Department of Health and Senior Services regulations can abolish representative government in the creation of public health laws, and whether it can authorize closure of a school or assembly based on the unfettered opinion of an unelected official. This court finds it cannot,” said Green, according to the Post-Dispatch.
Among those who filed the lawsuit was Ben Brown, who is running for state Senate in Missouri and owns Satchmo's Bar and Grill, which he fought to keep open during the pandemic against St. Louis County officials' orders, reported the Post-Dispatch.
Brown posted about the ruling on Tuesday on his Twitter account, where he wrote, "The age of mandates and forced quarantine of students by local health departments in our state is over!" and "Freedom wins!"
Build Back Better Will Only Make Bidenflation Worse
Consumers already have been suffering from near-record high inflation for months now, and today’s Black Friday Christmas shopping will deliver only more sticker shock. While almost everything people buy has become more expensive under President Joe Biden, it is actually low-income voters who are most likely to tell pollsters that rising gas and grocery prices are a “very big problem” facing the country. Don’t worry though, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said last week, because Biden’s Build Back Better agenda has “a number of components” that “will lower costs next year for the American people.” Psaki then promised that the price of child care, preschool, and housing would all go down next year if Build Back Better Became law.How completely delusional. Only someone who believed implementing a catch-and-release policy on the southern border wouldn’t lead to record high illegal border crossings could possibly make such a promise. Oh, wait. The problem with the child care and preschool policies in Build Back Better is the same problem that relentlessly drives up costs in the higher education and healthcare sectors. In healthcare, the federal government has passed countless regulations, such as Obamacare's guaranteed issue regulation, that drive up healthcare prices for everyone. The federal government then “solves” this problem by giving consumers subsidies to buy the now more expensive healthcare. This cost-shifting may make healthcare more affordable for a few people, including those with preexisting conditions, but it raises prices for everyone else, which are then paid for by consumers in the form of higher deductibles and by taxpayers in the form of higher subsidies.
Opinion: An Open Letter to Missouri Legislators About Larger and Juster Meaning of ‘Property’
By Ron Calzone
Pre-filing of legislation begins in just a couple of days, and there are a lot of important things to accomplish in these peculiar times: A lot of injustice to fight; a lot of upright things to promote.
The temptation to overlook, and even violate, foundational principles in the process is tangible.
As you file bills and consider which bills to throw your support behind, don’t forget that property rights is at the core of our liberty, and protection of property rights of all sorts is the very reason America exists as a body politic.
Enlightenment philosopher John Locke, arguably, had more influence on the founding generation than any other man. In his Second Treatise on Civil Government Locke wrote:
“The reason why men enter into society, is the preservation of their property; and the end why they chuse and authorize a legislative, is, that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the members of the society.”
Locke said one’s “property” is his “life, liberty, and estate.” In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson borrowed from Locke when he wrote:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”
In 1776, Americans declared property rights are from God and “unalienable.” The people of Missouri made the same declaration in Article I, Section 2 of their Constitution.
James Madison’s also borrowed from John Locke when he defined “property,” as you will see below. Locke and Jefferson gave guidance to you, Missouri legislator, about the importance of focusing on property rights — in the full and glorious meaning — when you go about your duties. And Madison’s definition of “property” brings clarity about the extent of those duties:
“[This] term (‘property’) in its particular application means that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.
In its larger and juster meaning, it embraces every thing to which a man may attach a value and have a right; and which leaves to every one else the like advantage. In the former sense, a man’s land, or merchandize, or money is called his property.
In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions, and in the profession and practice dictated by them. He has a property very dear to him in the safety and liberty of his person. He has an equal property in the free use of his faculties and free choice of the objects on which to employ them.
In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights….
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own…”
Ron Calzone is a businessman and rancher in rural Maries County. For the past two and a half decades he has been an unpaid citizen activist spending a lot of time at the Capitol. Ron is also one of the founding directors of Missouri First, a free-market, constitutionally-focused think
Supreme Court to Hear Landmark Abortion Case This Week
The justices will hear arguments Wednesday over a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks in a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade. The case poses the clearest test yet of the 6-3 conservative court’s trajectory. Conservatives and anti-abortion activists have since 1973 sought to narrow or overturn the legal right to an abortion first recognized in the Roe decision. They hope the upcoming Mississippi case finally leads to its dismantling. The state's Republican attorney general, in a court brief filed over the summer, explicitly urged the justices to overrule Roe and related rulings, calling the court’s precedent on abortion “egregiously wrong.” “This Court should overrule Roe and Casey,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R) wrote, referring also to the court’s 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. “Roe and Casey are egregiously wrong. They have proven hopelessly unworkable. ... And nothing but a full break from those cases can stem the harms they have caused.”
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