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Dr. Scott Atlas interviews competitive collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines. One of the most decorated swimmers in history, Gaines sounds the alarm regarding women’s competitive sports and the damage to women and their futures if their athletics are invaded, and thus made irrelevant, by men.
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Benjamin Powell (Inside Sources)
Congressional Republicans are in a struggle with the White House to rein in federal spending after the U.S. national debt ballooned past $32 trillion after the COVID pandemic. The 2023 “Farm Bill” is an excellent place to start cutting some pork. Starting with the subsidies to well-off farmers....
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Barton J. Bernstein (The Beacon)
Spirited contentions that the atomic bombing of Japan was unwise, unnecessary, and immoral are not new—nor did they start with the 1960s Left. Conservatives, at the time and post-War, made those charges first. The history here makes compelling reading....
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Álvaro Vargas Llosa (Fortune)
Progressives celebrate recent employment numbers, but if we don’t fix the larger issues in the US economy, in just three years, Americans will suffer a nearly 20% decline in purchasing power. And that assumes the prices of oil and other commodities stay low. (They won’t). So, where is the GOP alternative plan to reverse the Biden decline?
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Volume 26, Issue 32: August 1, 2023
Dr. Scott Atlas interviews competitive collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines. One of the most decorated swimmers in history, Gaines sounds the alarm regarding women’s competitive sports and the damage to women and their futures if their athletics are invaded, and thus made irrelevant, by men.
WATCH NOW »Benjamin Powell (Inside Sources)
Congressional Republicans are in a struggle with the White House to rein in federal spending after the U.S. national debt ballooned past $32 trillion after the COVID pandemic. The 2023 “Farm Bill” is an excellent place to start cutting some pork. Starting with the subsidies to well-off farmers....
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Plowshares & Pork Barrels
The Political Economy of Agriculture
The Political Economy of Agriculture
By Ernest C. Pasour, Jr., Randal R. Rucker
Barton J. Bernstein (The Beacon)
Spirited contentions that the atomic bombing of Japan was unwise, unnecessary, and immoral are not new—nor did they start with the 1960s Left. Conservatives, at the time and post-War, made those charges first. The history here makes compelling reading....
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In Search of Monsters to Destroy
The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace
The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace
By Christopher J. Coyne
Álvaro Vargas Llosa (Fortune)
Progressives celebrate recent employment numbers, but if we don’t fix the larger issues in the US economy, in just three years, Americans will suffer a nearly 20% decline in purchasing power. And that assumes the prices of oil and other commodities stay low. (They won’t). So, where is the GOP alternative plan to reverse the Biden decline?
READ MORE »
The Beacon: New Blog Posts
- From Troubled Beginnings: The Journey of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Edward Fuller
- What Happens After Social Security’s Trust Fund Runs Out?, by Craig Eyermann
- CBO Sends Dire Fiscal Message in 2023 Long Term Budget Outlook, by Craig Eyermann
Catalyst: New Articles
- Nature Journal ‘Caught-Red-Handed’ in Alleged Scientific Fraud, by Jon Miltimore
- The Emperor Who Died Bringing Sound Economics Back to Rome, by Lawrence W. Reed
- Makoko: The City on Stilts, by Scott Beyer
- The State of Electricity Transmission, by Paige Lambermont
- California’s High Speed Rail Authority Hires “Sustainability” Consultant, by K. Lloyd Billingsley
