Commentary Public health as a profession has fallen into dispute but it is hardly the only one. The economists bear responsibility too, for it is they who should have been aggressive, open, and loud about every aspect of the pandemic policy response. And yet, they were largely silent as markets were wrecked, Congress blew up…
As the Economy Collapsed, Why Were Economists Silent?
CCP Cleans House as World Focus on Forced Organ Harvesting Continues
Since the start of 2022, the Chinese medical system has seen dozens of people terminated from their jobs due to a widespread “anti-corruption” campaign. The cleanup has affected numerous officials within government and clinical hospitals. This happens as worldwide attention is being focused on the forced harvesting of human organs by the Chinese Communist Party…
Vice-Director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology Revealed to Be Chinese Communist Party Official in Charge of Biosafety
News Analysis A newly discovered email from 2013 discloses that the vice-director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Yuan Zhiming, is a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official who was formally in charge of international cooperation and biosafety at the Institute. The Institute is suspected to be the origin of the Coronavirus pandemic. The email is…
The Rise of the Chiselers
Commentary An early check-in at this $1,000 per night hotel costs an extra $100. A late check out is $100 per hour you stay past 10am. In the same hotel, there is a coffee pot but a K-cup to put in it runs $4. It’s an incidental. If you use more than one towel, you…
The Establishment’s Response to Trump’s Presidency
Commentary In late July 2016, FBI Director James Comey notified certain members of the Obama White House, along with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper about the FBI’s opening of the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. CIA Director John Brennan was already aware, since he was the one who had…
Inflation: Where Are We Now?
Commentary Well, that left nothing to the imagination. The August CPI report, in fact, buried the idea that inflation is abating and that new “juice” from the Fed is just around the corner. Again, the trusty 16 percent trimmed mean CPI, which removes short-term fluctuations from the trend, made it abundantly clear that inflation has…
Biden Is Truly Clueless About Inflation
Commentary Yesterday, sitting at the airport, I bought a small 16-ounce bottle of water. The bill: $6.00. To be sure, this was the airport where the elasticity of demand is more vertical. Thirsty travellers are going to pay the bill. Also it was Las Vegas, a lovely and exciting town but certainly a place where…
Social Media Censorship of Speech May Head to Supreme Court
Commentary A New Orleans federal appellate court for the Fifth Circuit has reversed and remanded a lower court decision that held that a Texas law, House Bill 20, (HB20) was unconstitutional. The law bans social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring speech based on the user’s viewpoint, the viewpoint of another user, or the…
Congressional Records Prove Biden’s Student Loan Cancellations Are Illegal
News Analysis Overview On the day before President Biden announced that he is “forgiving” part or all of the student loans of nearly everyone who owes them, his administration released a legal memo declaring that he had the authority to do this under a 2003 law. That claim is belied by Congressional records recently unearthed…
Electric Cars Are Not ‘Zero-Emission Vehicles’
News Analysis While praising California’s decision to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, Governor Gavin Newsom declared that this will require “100 percent of new car sales in California to be zero-emission vehicles” like “electric cars.” In reality, electric cars emit substantial amounts of pollutants and may be more harmful to the environment than conventional cars….
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