Trump Earns a Failing Grade in Civics (K-12) in North Carolina.
BY Mike Magee MD
Events over the past year clearly have confirmed that we are a “work in progress” even as we stubbornly affirm our good intentions to create a society committed to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
With the Dobbs’ decision, our Supreme Court has unleashed long-abandoned regressive state laws designed to reinforce selective patriarchy and undermine the stability and confidence of America’s women and families. As a result, our nation’s health professionals, and the patients they care for, potentially find themselves “on the wrong side of the law.”
It calls to mind ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Non-Health Donald Trump Mike Magee North Carolina Republican Supreme Court Source Type: blogs
On Investigating Presidents
Patrick G. EddingtonAs you probably have heard or otherwise know by now, the 37 ‐count indictment against former President Trump has beenreleased (WARNING: large file). I ’ve highlighted a number of sections in yellow that I think are particularly telling.For the benefit of those who are not fluent in Intelligence Community (IC) speak, I offer the following translations regarding certain key acronyms contained in the indictment:HCS = Human intelligence Control System. Think confidential, foreign national sources.TK = Talent ‐Keyhole. That’s satellite imagery‐derived information.And I doubt I need ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 12, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Patrick G. Eddington Source Type: blogs
White House Extends Ukraine ’s Steel Tariff Exemption; Sad Reminder of Steel Protectionism
Clark PackardOn the heels of Russia ’s aggressive war against Ukraine in early 2022, the Biden administration temporarilyexempted Ukrainian steel from the Trump administration ’s bogus “national security” tariffs imposed under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (at the behest of the domestic steel industry). The exemption was set to expire on June 1, 2023, with tariffs snapping back to 25 percent. Last week, the White Houseannounced it would maintain Ukraine ’s exemption from tariffs and expanded it to cover Ukrainian steel processed within the European Union (EU). For free traders battered by ill‐...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 5, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Packard Source Type: blogs
The Continuing Effort to Deny that Libertarian ‐ish Voters Exist
David BoazHere we go again. David Leonhardt of the New York Timesdredges up a poorly designed chart from 2017 that purported to show that there are very few “fiscally conservative, socially liberal” American voters. At the time Karl Smithpointed out some basic design flaws in the analysis. Emily Ekinsnotedthat determining the number of liberal, conservative, libertarian, and populist/ communitarian/statist voters depends very much on the definitions you start with and the issues you choose. She concludes: “The overwhelming body of literature, however, using a variety of different methods and different defin...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 30, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
How the World Trade Organization Can Get Its Groove Back
James BacchusIn this, the third year of his presidential term, President Joe Biden is clearly not making trade —much less trade liberalization—a priority. For the most part, his trade policy is a less strident echo of that of his predecessor, Donald Trump, and, in trade, his has been, as I have previously described it,the reign of polite protectionism. To the extent that he and his administration are negotiating on trade at all, they are negotiating trade deals that cannot truly be called trade deals. Witness therecent announcement of a supply chain coordination agreement with 13 other countries as the first tangib...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 30, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: James Bacchus Source Type: blogs
The HALT Fentanyl Act Doubles Down on Denialism
Jeffrey A. SingerYesterday the House of Representatives voted 289 –133 topass the HALT Fentanyl Act.* Theact permanently classifies fentanyl ‐related substances (FRS)—analogs of fentanyl that differ chemically from analogs currently used medically (e.g.,sufentanil,remilfentanil,alfentanil) —as Schedule 1 drugs. The Drug Enforcement Administrationdefines Schedule 1 drugs as having “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.”Set aside the fact that politicians have no way of knowing that future analogs have no potential medical use (think of all those years lost intreating mental hea...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 26, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Shape of the Earth: Views Differ
A newly elected Republican district chair in Georgia wants to tell you aboutthe most pernicious and widespread conspiracy on, well, earth:
In an interview with David Weiss (AKA “Flat Earth
Dave ”) and Matt Long on her “Jesus, Guns, and Babies” podcast, Taylor
and her guests discussed biblical “evidence” that the Earth is actually
flat as a pancake. “The people that defend the globe don’t know anything
about the globe,” said Weiss. “If they knew a tenth of what Matt and I
know about the globe they would be Flat Earthers.” “All the globes, everywhere” Taylor said later in the discussion. ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 25, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Durham Report: Trump ’s Vindication?
Patrick G. EddingtonFor years, now former President Donald Trump and his key supporters have claimed the FBI ’s investigation into his alleged collusion with Russian officials in order to influence the outcome of the 2016 election–internally known at the FBI as CROSSFIRE HURRICANE–was a hoax. Yesterday, Mr. Trump got some validation for his claim.Late on the afternoon of May 15, Attorney General Merrick Garland released, in nearly unredacted form, the finalreport of Special Counsel John Durham. Durham ’s “investigation of the investigation” was authorized on October 19, 2020, by then‐Attorney General Will...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 16, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Patrick G. Eddington Source Type: blogs
A Better Approach to U.S.-China Trade
Clark PackardFive years ago next month the Trump administration began an aggressive trade war with China over a number of Beijing’s abusive trade and investment practices. The tariffs caused predictable retaliation imposed enormous costs on the U.S. economy, particularly manufacturing, and perhaps worst of all, failed to discipline Beijing’s legitimately troubling high tech mercantilist practices. Despi tecalling the Trump administration ’s China tariffs “damaging” “reckless” and “disastrous” on the 2020 campaign trail and despitehigh inflation, President Biden has not reversed course and indeed has emb...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 9, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Clark Packard Source Type: blogs
TikTok Panic Threatens Speech
Will DuffieldTikTok is a social media app that hosts short ‐form videos and serves them to users via algorithm. Because TikTok is owned by the Chinese tech firm ByteDance, its surging popularity with teenagers and young adults in America has prompted concerns that it could be used for illicit data gathering and influence operations. These concerns, and a broader crisis of confidence in American culture, have launched host of proposals to ban TikTok. A ban would frustrate the many millions of Americans who use TikTok to express themselves, and efforts to crush the app risk giving the government new power...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 21, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Will Duffield Source Type: blogs
America ’s Violent Extremists: Past Tragedies, Future Threats
Patrick G. EddingtonTwenty ‐eight years ago today, two Army veterans utilized a truck bomb in Oklahoma City to kill 168 people, including 19 children. It was the high watermark of right ‐wing violent extremist activity in the 20th century, justified by its key perpetrator, Timothy McVeigh, as a reaction to alleged and actual state ‐sponsored violence against other Americans.McVeigh had been inspired by a small but influential white supremacist novel calledTheTurner Diaries which espoused a “leaderless resistance” concept. The author, William Luther Pierce III, wrote it under the pseudonym ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 19, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Patrick G. Eddington Source Type: blogs
Get Fired as Quickly as You Can
This week Rachelle and I have been attending the NAB Show, a major creative conference and expo in Vegas covering content creation and production across film, radio, TV, broadcast, streaming, and more. This is the show’s 100th anniversary, so it’s been evolving over many years. I’ve never been to it before, but I heard of it last year, and Aputure offered us free passes this year, so I figured we’d at least check it out. I’m glad we went since it’s been worthwhile.
My favorite part was a one-hour conversation with Brett Goldstein, who was very warm, open-hearted, and funny. Brett is the actor...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - April 18, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Relationships Values Source Type: blogs
Coverture – Could History Repeat?
BY MIKE MAGEE
All eyes were on Wisconsin – not last week, but in 1847. That’s when Wisconsin newspaperman and editor of the Racine Argus, Marshall Mason Strong, let loose in a speech on the disturbing trend to allow women the right to buy and sell property. It seems the state had caught the bug from their neighbor, Michigan, which was considering loosening coverture laws.
“Coverture” is a word you may not know, but should. It was a series of laws derived from British Common Law that “held that no female person had a legal identity.” As legal historian Lawrence Friedman explained, “Essentially ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Coverture Lawrence Friedman Marshall Mason Strong Source Type: blogs
Arizona Governor Hobbs Makes the Right Call by Vetoing Fentanyl Mandatory Minimums Bill
Jeffrey A. SingerToday Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoedSB 1027, which would have placed a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison on the first offense, and 15 years on the second offense, for anyone convicted of possessing, distributing, transferring, selling, or manufacturing heroin, fentanyl, or fentanyl analogs. In 2006 Arizona voters passedProposition 301, imposing mandatory minimum prison sentences for possessing, transferring, selling, distributing, or manufacturing methamphetamine. This did nothing to decrease meth ‐related deaths.Meth ‐related drug deaths per 100,000 increased nationally...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 11, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Abandoning the US, More Scientists Go to China
David J. BierThe Organisation for Economic Co ‐operation and Development (OECD)—an intergovernmental organization with 38 member countries—has publishednew data showing that the United States is losing the race for scientific talent to China and other countries. China ’s strategy to recruit scientific researchers to work at China‐affiliated universities is working.In 2021, the United States lost published research scientists to other countries, while China gained more than 2,408 scientific authors. This was a remarkable turnaround from as recently as 2017 when the United States picked up 4,292 scientists ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 11, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
