What’s left is a pleasant and cohesive story that follows a direct and unsurprising plot, reminiscent of the 1971 film Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory but without the dryness or wacky turns. Instead, Wicked is pure kitsch and sparkle.
If you still stand behind these policies, I welcome the opportunity to engage in public dialogue about their impact. This could be a chance for both sides to be heard. Your willingness to participate would demonstrate confidence in your position.
An Open Letter to Councilman Lincoln Restler Continue Reading
Kennedy has an unprecedented opportunity to strike at the root of what makes our healthcare system so dysfunctional: to dismantle the institutions that stifle the production of medicine, distort information about its safety, and suppress alternatives.
What Kennedy Must Do to Defeat Regulatory Capture Continue Reading
I live in the UK, the home of the Bill of Rights and the Magna Carta, the mother of parliamentary democracy. But those days seem long gone when police knock on your door to arrest you for an X post.
The EU and European nations should work on establishing a relationship with the new leadership in the White House and on Capitol Hill so as to be able to influence the outcome of the greatest geopolitical upheaval of our time.
Europe Sleepwalks into Irrelevance as the U.S. Ascends Continue Reading
When the history of our time is written, this period will be a case study for students of global corruption, classical tragedies, and mass psychosis, and we’ll be used as an example of what humans must never do again.
Our Last Innocent Moment Is Our First Step Forward Continue Reading
While not easy, should the political will be mustered, the process of breaking the stranglehold Big Pharma has on us would be surprisingly simple. Six changes in Federal law – four repeals of existing law, and two new pieces of legislation – would go a long way toward reining in and even reforming Big Pharma.
The puppycide movement made a good effort. The ACLU took it one step further, situating violence against our pets within the scope of the militarization of policing. While the ACLU was directionally correct, policing is downstream of something more fundamental.
A goal of $2 trillion of budget savings is crucial to the future of Constitutional democracy and capitalist prosperity in America. The Federal budget threatens to become a self-fueling financial doomsday machine. So more power to Musk and Ramaswamy.
How to Cut $2 Trillion of Fat from the Federal Budget Continue Reading
Unless their advice regarding the withdrawal of the vaccines is heeded, we could face the dystopian prospect of a world which – like the fictional one in Gattaca – is riven into two irreconcilable groups, the ‘vaccine valids’ and the ‘vaccine in-valids.’
Gattaca’s Warning against Vaccine Passports Continue Reading
The good will be better able to fend off wickedness if they grow more competent in understanding how words (information, hate) are being weaponized by wicked elites. We grow our competency by applying sound moral philosophy to such matters.
Phrases like the Latino, black, or Asian-American vote are increasingly meaningless. This can only be good for the long-term health of American democracy, contrary to the hysterical warnings of its imminent collapse should Trump win.
