March 1, 2023 12:48 pm
President Biden’s Budget Deficit Legacy
The Congressional Budget Office creates a detailed 10-year budget projection of the U.S. government’s spending, revenues, and deficits every year. The CBO’s 10-year budget and economic outlook for 2023 are now out. This new report puts the lie to one of the most bizarre claims President Joe Biden made in his State of the Union address just ten…
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February 28, 2023 1:50 pm
The FTC is Guilty of Violating the Laws that Authorized Its Creation
“The FTC’s Antitrust Collusion” (Wall Street Journal editorial page, February 24) pieces together 628 pages of redacted emails revealing that the Federal Trade Commission coordinates with foreign antitrust officials to block mergers involving U.S. companies. (The emails were obtained by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in a lawsuit forcing the Commission to comply with the…
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February 27, 2023 2:03 pm
Festivus in Spring
Right before Christmas, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) issued his Festivus Report for 2022. Unfortunately, because the Senator also tweeted his own reworked version of Clement C. Moore’s A Visit from St. Nicholas at that time, I missed his annual Festivus Airing of Grievances over some of the federal government’s most wasteful spending. But, like Christmas, people can feel the spirit of…
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February 24, 2023 9:58 am
Persecution of Dissent: Canada’s Growing Culture of Censorship
The Winston-Salem Witch Trials took place during the 17th century in colonial Massachusetts. Hundreds of people were accused, thirty were found guilty, and nineteen were executed by hanging. Even animals could not escape the hysteria sweeping the land where anyone could point a finger at another person and have them arrested. In Canada, a witch…
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February 23, 2023 11:56 am
The FDA is Too Little Too Late in Tinkering with Covid-19 Booster Schedules
An article written in Yale Medicine notes that medical professionals across the globe are monitoring over 300 different subvariants of the omicron Covid-19 variant. The first known omicron variant infection in the United States was reported in late November 2021. Omicron mutates quickly, but this is not necessarily a cause for concern. Most omicron…
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February 22, 2023 1:58 pm
Freedom Took a Hit During the Coronavirus Pandemic. Will It Recover?
The Cato Institute recently released its 2022 Human Freedom Index. The news is not good, revealing a broad decline in freedom worldwide in 2020. “Most areas of freedom fell, including significant declines in the rule of law and freedom of movement, expression, association and assembly, and freedom to trade. Based on that coverage, 94.3 percent…
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February 21, 2023 10:27 am
Choice Words From Biden
“I think every kid, in every zip code, in every state should have access to every education opportunity possible. I guess, for some, that isn’t the consensus view.” That was Joe Biden, criticizing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, seemingly unaware that he was making a strong case for parental choice in education. “Every education opportunity possible” includes…
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February 20, 2023 9:49 am
A Possible Solution for the War in Ukraine
Many foreign policy analysts across the world seem to be resigned to a long, grinding, and painful war in Ukraine, throwing up their hands to declare that neither Ukraine nor Russia has any obvious incentive to reach a settlement ending the war. Recently, the Ukrainians have had momentum in South and Northeast Ukraine and…
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February 17, 2023 3:53 pm
López Obrador´s Honeymoon with Cuba
Mexico´s president, López Obrador, recently bestowed on his Cuban counterpart, Díaz-Canel, the highest honor his country confers on foreigners—the Order of the Aztec Eagle. This was not an ordinary diplomatic gesture, but a full-blown show of ideological, political, and even geopolitical support. AMLO (the Mexican president is widely known by his acronym) praised the…
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February 17, 2023 2:28 pm
Deregulation Remains Our Best Hope to Combat Alzheimer’s Disease
This January, the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Leqembi to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Leqembi is pathbreaking in two ways. First, while the vast majority of Alzheimer’s drugs can only help slow the progress of the disease, Leqembi can stop and reverse cognitive decline. As an FDA news release states, “This treatment option…
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February 16, 2023 2:18 pm
The Inflation Outlook: By the Numbers
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI data, inflation for 2022 was 6.5%, with the annual rate slowing from 9% at mid-year. Prices increased by 0.8% in January 2023, showing that inflation persists. Three months of price increases at that rate would put inflation above the Fed’s 2% target rate in three months. Prices…
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February 15, 2023 1:18 pm
Bureaucrats Gone Criminal
2020’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is an epic case study of government failure. It was intended to help small businesses survive being shut down because of state and local government-mandated pandemic lockdowns. It was instead a feeding frenzy for lobbyists and extremely wasteful. There’s a good reason why it’s known as “the biggest fraud in a generation“….
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February 14, 2023 2:16 pm
Transportation Secretary Buttigieg Goes Off the Rails
As we noted, Federal Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is fond of taking trips on private jets funded by taxpayers. As the nonprofit Americans for Public Trust revealed, Secretary Buttigieg has taken at least 18 trips on private jets funded by taxpayers, including a trip to Montreal, Canada, to receive an award. The Secretary’s response to a recent…
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February 13, 2023 4:23 pm
Former Senior U.S. Department of Education Appointees Defend UNC-Chapel Hill Board, Chastise Accreditors
The Independent Institute’s Williamson Evers and other past top U.S Education Department officials are chastising an accrediting agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), for attempting to block the creation of a new school based on free inquiry within the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. UNC-Chapel Hill’s trustees intend the…
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