By Jim Edwards, Executive Director, Conservative Property Rights The bad idea of “international reference pricing” is raising its ugly head again. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reintroduced H.R. 3, which contains several government price controls and other punitive measures. Among them is international reference pricing. So is government price-fixing of 250 medicines […]
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The American Rescue Plan’s Disastrous Pension Bailout
By Charles Blahous On March 12, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (ARP), a $1.9 trillion spending package moved through Congress on a party-line vote. The legislation is controversial for several reasons, one being that many of its provisions are wholly unrelated to the COVID pandemic from which it’s supposed to provide relief, […]
“Reimagining” Mice and Men
By Marilyn Singleton, MD While everyone is preoccupied with mask-shaming and vaccine-cheerleading, scientists are engaged in critical research with a more lasting effect on our lives. For 100 years scientists have dreamed of creating and developing life outside of a womb. In March 2021 that dream came true. Scientists grew naturally conceived mouse embryos in tiny beakers […]
Washington Beyond the Headlines: NYS Celebrates Bailout By Raising Taxes
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor The U.S. is finally leaving Afghanistan — just a decade or two late and with no prospect of lasting peace or stability for that turbulent region. Yet somehow this momentous news pales in comparison to the ongoing drama of COVID-19, now dominated by the discovery of “rare” blood […]
Over 100 doctors sign letter criticizing JAMA’s flawed ivermectin study
Some 120 doctors have signed a public letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) criticizing the publication of a flawed study claiming to find ivermectin ineffective against COVID-19. In addition to the numerous shortcomings of the study itself, the signatories also warned against medical science’s obsessive focus on randomized controlled trials […]
RealClearHealth: Lower Drug Costs By Demolishing “Rebate Walls”
Writing in RealClearHealth, Dr. Madelaine A. Feldman, a rheumatologist, and Wayne Winegarden, an economist with the Pacific Research Institute, explain how the Biden administration and state attorneys general could lower drug prices by ending anti-competitive industry practices known as “rebate walls“. “Rebate walls, also known as rebate traps, block competition in parts of […]
Is Klaus Schwab the world’s most dangerous man?
By John Mac Ghlionn, TES Contributor Internationally, levels of personal freedom continue to decrease; COVID has, of course, played a role, but the downward spiral started long before the pandemic. For freedom to flourish, democracies are required. Around the world, however, established democracies are in decline. Again, the decline was occurring long before the pandemic hit. Democracy, we’re told, […]
Anno Mundell: An Elegy for the Father of the Golden Age
By Ralph Benko, TES Contributor Nobel Economics Prize holder Robert Mundell has left the building. Why should we care? He wasn’t a celebrity like Elvis or Kim Kardashian or Donald Trump. Rather, Mundell quietly and emphatically improved the lives of billions of people. Including you and me. Mundell was the founder of […]
Protected: Open Letter by U.S. Doctors: JAMA Ivermectin Study Is Fatally Flawed
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Patent Troll Complaints at the ITC Threaten Consumers
By Mario H. Lopez, Hispanic Leadership Fund More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic and the array of challenges that it has wrought for Americans of all walks of life, one area that has met this unique challenge and demonstrated resiliency is our broadband networks. The Internet infrastructure has been largely successful in […]