DANIEL VAUGHAN: New COVID variant poses first challenge for Biden administration

• On Jan. 21, 2020, the CDC confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in the United States. At the time, it was described as “a mysterious...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: CNN nukes credibility on Biden administration and vaccine rollout

• Trust is something that is earned, not given. And once trust is lost, it’s tough to win it back. Lost trust requires hard work...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: The vaccine rollout is a success, not a disaster

• Every night on the evening news, the drumbeat is the same: the vaccine rollout in the U.S. has been a disaster, they say. Of...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: America produces miracles while China sits on a throne of lies

• Technically speaking, the COVID-19 pandemic started sometime in the fall of 2019. For most Americans, the pandemic’s real start began with President Trump shutting...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: The leadership crisis of America

• My last column was about how America was both in a leadership crisis and risked losing what made it great because of that crisis....

DANIEL VAUGHAN: Carnage at US Capitol threatens America’s great gift

• Civilization is a gift, not a given. This point is one of the fundamental truths of modern American conservatism: the idea that any government,...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: COVID-19 relief checks could pave way for universal basic income

• The second round of COVID-19 relief checks from the federal government is going out to start off the new year. Most Americans will receive...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: Taxation is not theft, especially in a pandemic

• A typical line among a particular type of conservatives and libertarians, especially in memes, is that “taxation is theft.” It’s not uncommon to see...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: The true heroes of 2020 don’t hide in basements

• On Christmas morning, the peaceful calm you’d expect to see in times of dawn was shattered in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, when an RV exploded,...

DANIEL VAUGHAN: Fauci, health experts lie about COVID-19 herd immunity

• Classically speaking, when we describe a situation wherein a politician or leading expert purposefully lies to manipulate public opinion or what people do, we...