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Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans are starting to self-evaluate the nation’s public health agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to determine their role in preventing and suppressing the pandemic. If prying into the FDA and CDC’s previous reactions to other epidemics provides any insight, our national leading health agencies lack transparency, and have in fact harmed the public by their failure to provide truthful evidence. This cynicism of the science coming out of the FDA and CDC should have started earlier. In the late summer...

When people talk about markets, they talk about transparency. This word is being construed to mean different things than what transparent markets are really supposed to be about. There are two editorials today, one here and one here, that illustrate how damaging the past four years of excess regulation added to the books really are. Most of the really bad stuff in all the things Obama has passed come after the election, which is why it is critically important that he be defeated. Ironically, a lot of the things that take effect after 2013 affect personal liberty. If you are...

POLITICIANS in the former British colony of Virginia are starting to wake up to the fact that its government is about to sign a secret treaty called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) that will give sweeping powers to the movie and music businesses to lock up filesharers. Two US senators are not happy about allowing the government to sign such a treaty, which is so secret that hardly anyone knows about it and the entertainment cartels have the right to send death squads around to the houses of people who are in the know but shouldn't be [you made the...