Our food system is not a free market. It is not capitalism in any recognizable form. It is a government-engineered economy propped up by taxpayer dollars at every stage. Each year, more than $40 billion is used to subsidize commodity crops.
The Most Socialist System in America Is the One Feeding Us—and It’s Failing Read Journal Article
Pandemics will happen. The world will benefit from an international health organization that can help coordinate rational responses, whilst also assisting in managing other public health priorities. The WHO risks making the latter worse by abandoning a robust evidence-based approach.
WHO’s New Pandemic Approach: Expediency over Evidence? Read Journal Article
We need to decouple meritocracy from credentialocracy, and we must return to a state in which meritocracy can flourish. This will require unlearning the progressive garbage that’s replaced critical thinking, and an economic environment that fosters individual initiative.
Meritocracy vs. Credentialocracy Read Journal Article
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
