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- How Trump enforcers are sabotaging efforts to bring down drug prices. PBMs delenda est.
- VDH: Are we becoming Gondor? He's not wrong.
- Europe forgot about its people. He's not wrong either.
- Jonathan Turley: Jack Smith sheds his mask. TDS is a mental disease and Smith's got it bad.
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- The EU's Say-Do Gap Goes to Sea. The EU's official motto should be "Do as I say - not as I do."
- There are those who mistake identity for truth. Some good points.
- They hate him because he's speaking the unvarnished truth. And not apologizing or seeing permission to do it.
- One does not simply decommission a nuclear carrier. Two from Commander Salamander today mostly because I was late to the first.
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- Playing God - Human Genome, CRISPR, and AI changing the game.
- A need for candor. People need to know the rules and the consequences.
- Jonathan Turley on what the defeat of Orban means for the EU. I disagree with the conclusion this is good for the EU.
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- New FAFSA updates flags colleges with 'lower earnings' for graduates. Would like to see colleges fight to have better tuition vs graduate earnings ratings as much as they fight for Newsweek ratings.
- TIME's top 100 photographs of 2025.
- Interesting - Find My Tax Breakdown. How your taxes are spent.
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- Peter Attia: is there a tradeoff between strength and aerobic capacity?
- Jonathan Turley: The EU unleashes the DSA on X. This could be the end of the EU (Brexit was just the start). He's not wrong.
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- EU fires a free speech warning at X. Have to wonder if this was a clumsy attempt by EU officials to get free "Blue Checkmarks" on their X accounts gone globally wrong?
- Harvest Now Decrypt Later (HNDL). Was unaware of this cyber threat. (HT Tim Ferriss)
- How AI is uncovering hidden geothermal energy recourses.
- How AI can actually increase employment - like in radiologists.
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- Why Congress should let the enhanced ACA subsidies expire. Agree 100%.
- From the archives: Do other countries do it? A simple litmus test for RFK Jr's ideas.
- Antisemitism and Anti-Americanism are Evil Twins. Agree 100%.
- Energy and the EU. "National security requires AI. AI requires energy." Not a fan of solar though.
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- Jonathan Turley: Biden DOJ official raised concerns about pardons. New questions raised about the use of the autopen.
- VDH: What is the Democrat alternative to Trump? He's not wrong.
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- White House touts major MAHA wins on food dyes. Doesn't make many of these products more nutritious but it stops them from being poison or addicting.
- VDH: Will John Brennan ever tell the truth?
- The US does not want to be like the EU.
- Indonesia become latest country to sign a trade deal with the US.
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- The end is nigh for Ukraine. Well put.
- Lessons on Populism from France. Good primer on modern French politics. French politics have pretty much been a mess since before the Revolution.
- VDH: Is the jig up for elite higher education.
- Chuck Schumer caves on Continuing Resolution. His bluster was all a bluff. Someone must have gotten to him and said a government shutdown would be election suicide.
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- From the archive: Thomas Sowell's 3 questions. Good practice to be in.
- John Fetterman has no regrets. Interesting (but longish) profile of a guy who could become the face of a new Democratic Party or is one step away from saying he's an Independent.
- Jonathan Turley on the EU declaring war on free speech in the US. People should boycott traveling to Europe in favor of traveling to US states instead in response to this attack on our "indispensable right." Tourism from America to the EU is big business.
- Biden accused of abuse of power, obstruction in blistering House Republican impeachment report. Not new details but still kind of chilling to see this all documented in one place.
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- VDH: The Harris Flop Would be Scarier than her Flip.
- Were the 12,000 year old carvings at Gobekle Tepe memorizing a meteor strike?
- Nicole Shanahan does look much better in comparison.
- EU regulations made the Crowdstrike fiasco much worse. (HT Steve Landry)
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- Future Lawyer on Project Gutenberg. Going to have to check this out! (HT Stephen Landry)
- Alex Tabarrok on the EU visa mess. Agree with the idea that this will put a damper on Americans traveling to the EU. We don't mind the added expense - it's the extra days being added. We just won't wait and I don't think EU officials understand how many of their economies rely on tourism.
- The Tablet on when did the Psalms become part of Jewish prayer. Combining history and the Bible - love this stuff!
