Vioxx & Roll: How Big Pharma Turned Heart Attacks Into a Business Model

Once upon a time in the magical land of Shareholder Value, a pharmaceutical giant named Merck gazed deep into the void of human suffering and asked the question all noble drugmakers must ask: “How can we make arthritis treatment more profitable than oil?”

How To Deal With “Signalgate”–A Guide To The Perplexed

Last week, The Atlantic published an explosive report claiming that its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was invited to a “Principals Committee (PC) Small Group” discussion on Signal, where Cabinet officials discussed plans to strike the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Sensitive details—including the iconic who, what, where, when, and how of military operations—were publicly disclosed.

A DC Whodunit: Who added Goldberg?

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) might be the happiest man in Washington this week. Jeffrey Goldberg’s shocking exposé about his inexplicable inclusion in a Signal chat with 18 senior national security officials has completely overshadowed calls for Schumer to step down from his leadership role in the Democratic Party. Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The …

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Why Don’t We Return to Charitable Giving? Why Must Everything Go Through the Government?

It was back in 2023 that one of my fellow parishioners at St Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church told us that the Estill County Community Food Bank was losing the ‘extra’ money coming from the federal government in COVID-19 ’emergency’ money was ending. The parish council then decided that we would take up a quarterly …

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Download or Lose Your Farm: How the Canadian Government is Now Punishing You for Being Amish

Imagine this: you live a peaceful, self-sufficient life. You raise livestock, grow food, worship freely, and ride a horse-drawn buggy into town for flour and fence nails. You don’t own a smartphone -Then one day, the Canadian federal government says, “Download this app or we’re putting a lien on your farm.”