But Shirley has set off a nationwide movement by citizen journalists to expose fraud. Incentivized by the fact whistleblowers get 15-30% of recoveries. Unless we see a lot of people in handcuffs, we’re this close to a taxpayer revolt.
The Fraud Industrial Complex Read Journal Article
The NSS articulates the administration’s national security vision and how the elements of US power will be used in pursuit of national security goals. It is meant to bring the different elements of his international policies into a coherent strategic framework.
Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy Read Journal Article
There was no good reason for the Great War. The world had stumbled into war based on false narratives and the institutional imperatives of military mobilization plans, alliances, and treaties arrayed into a doomsday machine and short-term diplomatic maneuvers.
The Great War Was the Great Error Read Journal Article
The POUCH Act is a beginning, not an endpoint. If lawmakers are serious about improving public health, they must resist the gravitational pull of the Sinclair Trap and design a nicotine policy that rewards switching rather than punishing it.
Why Governments Prefer Cigarette Revenue over Safer Alternatives Read Journal Article
All farmers have a choice, and the faster our society respects them enough to put their choice consequences in their hands, the sooner farmers will make more creative and innovative decisions. The crop insurance safety net prejudices decisions.
Ditch the Subsidies, Grow What Actually Works Read Journal Article
There will be no shortage of economists and policy apparatchiks offering very legitimate and serious questions centered over that portion of the population that is not young and healthy. The more pressing problem is unburdening wage earners from economic insanity.
Congress Is Focused on Healthcare…Again Read Journal Article
Trump hit the nail squarely on the head. Above all other factors, the reason we have runaway health costs is that the fundamental payment mechanism for health care in the US is ass-backwards.
Steps Toward Fixing Health Care Read Journal Article
Its architects meant to appeal to the public, promising what the old system could not fully deliver – guaranteed access to affordable health cover and coverage for pre-existing conditions (PECs). But they were wrong about being able to keep your doctor.
Why ObamaCare Is Failing and How to Replace It Read Journal Article
By relaxing USDA regulations and allowing the states to use their own inspectors to inspect “custom” meat processing facilities (which are currently not allowed to sell meat but only process it for personal use), this bottleneck could be eased quickly.
Administration Announces Vague Help for Ranchers Read Journal Article
Politics is a lagging indicator of consciousness. Maybe the consciousness behind organic, regenerative, and permaculture practices—tracing a lineage from indigenous and traditional roots through Steinbeck and Steiner—is strong enough now to alter the soulless juggernaut of agricultural policy.
The Grapes of Wrath Read Journal Article
A century of American prosperity has rested on predictable trade policy. Doubling the cost of handmade cigars would not revive US manufacturing, defend workers, or punish tyranny abroad. It would raise prices, destroy jobs, and invite adversaries to fill the gap.
Tariffs, Tobacco, and Policy Whiplash Read Journal Article
Our message to Powell was that there are multiple reasons to stop cutting interest rates, but one of the most compelling arguments is that the Fed’s cheap money policies have essentially destroyed any semblance of fiscal discipline in America.
What I Told Jerome Powell: Don’t Cut Rates Read Journal Article
