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POLITICS
Why Government Should Leave Oil and Gas Mergers Alone
O&G mergers are good for America because they increase domestic production, which makes oil cheaper and increases our national security. Government should get out of the way immediately.
50 Common Fallacies About American Health Care
Virtually all discussion of health care policy today avoids explicit reference to underlying principles.
How Medicare Reduces Quality and Access To High Quality Medicalcare
Declining reimbursement rates, on top of losses in purchasing power, result in reduced access to care, as some physicians have limited the number of Medicare patients they accept or have stopped accepting new Medicare patients altogether.
“Trump is a Hitler-Level Threat To Democracy”: On Civil Discourse and Political Reality
The idea that any one candidate is a threat to democracy is ridiculous, and anyone making such claims was never taught about our Constitution and the checks and balances within our three co-equal branches of government.
MARKETS
GOP Trade Platform Would Penalize Forgotten Americans
The GOP platform calls for new Buy American restrictions, but this is just warmed-over Bidenomics.
What’s Wrong with Bernie Sanders’ 32-Hour Bill
A shortening of the hours of work is a highly desirable goal. But it cannot be achieved along with growing prosperity except in a free market.
Trump’s Proposal To Replace The Federal Income Tax with Tariffs
If Trump’s goal is simply to eliminate the federal income tax, then he should advocate for doing that and only that.
American “Protectionism” Means Putting America Last!
Americans should ask protectionists such as Donald Trump and Josh Hawley just how America is put ‘first’ by US government trade barriers that constrict ordinary Americans’ freedom to spend their incomes as they choose.
CULTURE
America’s Evolution Away From Founding Values
Why America’s Founders Didn’t Want a Democracy
Put the Independence Back in Independence Day
The American Revolution remains unique in human history: a revolution–and a nation–founded on a moral principle, the principle of individual rights.
On July 4th: Love America or Lose Her
Patriotism is more than a sentiment. It is a necessity. To keep what history has presented to us, Americans must either love it or lose it. Balkanize America and you risk becoming the Balkans.
Parent Power Can Improve US Education
Parents must seize control of their children’s education from the “interlocking directorate” that is waging a war against children’s minds.
LAW
How Elon Musk’s X Drove The Mainstream Media Narrative After the Trump Assasination Attempt
What stood out above all else was the way free speech on X worked to ferret out the real story, while actually driving forward the mainstream press to correct its errors and get the story right.
Access to Justice
To access legal justice, pathways must exist. The access-to-legal-justice problem can be viewed as a lack of available pathways for people of all economic backgrounds, including those who can’t afford much, the middle class, and even the wealthy.
Overturning The Chevron Deference
Despite sky is falling rhetoric from some quarters, this decision is hardly the end of the administrative state.
Murthy v. Missouri: The U.S. Supreme Court Green-Lights Censorship
The majority opinion here has found a way to codify this new form of censorship that threatens the whole idea of free speech itself.
SCI-TECH
8 Ways the Biden administration is Working to Increase Gasoline Prices
Biden’s claim that he released 1 billion barrels of gasoline to “lower prices at the pump” is his latest attempt to convince Americans he’s trying to lower gasoline prices. But in fact, he’s doing his utmost to raise prices, because this is necessary for his anti-fossil-fuel goals.
The Case for EV Freedom
Government should remove all preferences for electric vehicles and allow them to compete and grow on a free market. This will enable EVs to reach their full potential to provide affordable, no-tailpipe-emissions transport without harming consumers or the grid.
What Should Government Do To Address Climate Change?
“Addressing climate change” is the wrong target; we want to reduce climate danger—and that requires liberating, not eliminating, fossil fuel use.
Why You Shouldn’t Be Alarmed About Unusually Warm Temperatures
Even with recent temperatures, which are a temporary anomaly, not the new normal, cold is a bigger problem than heat and fossil fuels keep us safer from both.
WORLD
Ley Bases: Milei’s New Monetary Regime for Argentina
Argentina needs a monetary regime whose survival depends as little as possible on domestic politics.
Why No Arab or Muslim Nation Has Been Willing to Accept Palestinian Refugees from Gaza
The only reason that Ireland, Norway and Spain can safely recognize a Palestinian state is that they do not have to live with the consequences.
Why Does No Arab or Muslim Nation Accept Palestinian Refugees from Gaza?
The only reason that Ireland, Norway and Spain can safely recognize a Palestinian state is that they do not have to live with the consequences.
The Hong Konger: The Martyrdom of Jimmy Lai
In his quest to save Hong Kong’s rapidly fading freedom, however, Lai has sacrificed his own. The entrepreneur and media mogul currently sits in a Chinese prison, charged with “conspiracy to collude with foreign forces” and “conspiracy to publish seditious publications.”