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Last summer, amid the United States’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, a dispute with France over nuclear submarines, and a speech to the United Nations in which President Biden declared “America is back,” one criticism started appearing again and again: Joe Biden is just like Donald Trump. If you squinted you could see the broad outlines…Continue Reading

Roughly a half century ago, rising energy prices devastated Western economies, helping make the autocrats of the Middle East insanely rich while propping up the slowly disintegrating Soviet empire. Today the world is again reeling from soaring energy prices; but this time the wound is self-inflicted — a product of misguided policies meant to accelerate the transition…Continue Reading

Advocates on both sides of a debate over dramatically restricting Medicare’s coverage of an expensive and controversial Alzheimer’s treatment are waging competing campaigns to influence a final decision in April.The dispute also raises larger questions about whether lawmakers and regulators will revisit the fast-track pathway the drug was approved under, with the issue even entangling…Continue Reading

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U.S. research institutions and universities are gearing up to implement steps announced last month by the Biden administration to ensure that scientists seeking federal grants are not beholden to foreign governments or interests. The White House National Science and Technology Council issued a set of guidelines in January designed to ensure that scientists seeking federal grants do not…Continue Reading

Most of us only get to live one life. You establish yourself in one town, pursue a career in one field. For the partisans among us, you back just one party. Not Tom O’Halleran. The Chicago cop turned futures trader turned business consultant turned Arizona retiree turned state lawmaker turned radio host turned Democratic congressman has…Continue Reading

For Cynthia Lummis, the Senate’s “crypto queen” and owner of somewhere between $170,000 and $230,000 worth of Bitcoin, it all started with a hunch.Not about blockchain technology’s still unproven promise to revolutionize finance or Bitcoin’s growth potential. “I was skeptical,” said Lummis, R-Wyo. “The notion of having something of value on the internet that I…Continue Reading

By just about any measure, the economy is in terrible shape. There are several measures of inflation in data coming out of January that just aren’t good. New data out today continues to not only confirm that it’s not good but getting worse. The producer price index is showing similar data to what we saw…Continue Reading

In May 2021, I wrote an article titled Carville, Axelrod Deliver Blunt Message to ‘Smug,’ ‘Arrogant’ Dems — They’ll Totally Ignore It, in which I said the following: Today’s Democrat Party isn’t even the Democrat Party of former Clinton official James Carville and former Obama official David Axelrod, anymore. And no one knows that better…Continue Reading