Feb 22, 2019
Happy Friday from Washington, where a teen’s defamation suit against the 800-pound gorilla that is The Washington Post is the stuff of many conservatives’ dreams. Fred Lucas looks at three libel cases that may suggest the outcome. Our politicians should get Medicare back on its feet, health care expert Bob Moffit writes. In California, some parents think sex ed innovations go too far, Courtney Joyner finds. Plus: Bill Walton on red tape, Victor Davis Hanson on what’s in a word, and David Harsanyi on why Democrats fear their own Green New Deal. Enjoy the weekend.
Recent libel cases offer guidance as to how Covington teen Nick Sandmann's case against the Washington Post might end.
Increasingly we now hear terms like “migrants”—a vague term that further divorces illegal immigration from reality by conflating the acts of leaving and entering the country.
Medicare’s Financial Condition Is Getting Worse. Here’s What Trump and Congress Can Do.
The Medicare board of trustees estimates that the Part A hospitalization trust fund is headed for insolvency by 2026. That means the program will not be able to pay for all of the legally prescribed hospital benefits.
Podcast: Jussie Smollett's Hate Crime Hoax Unravels
The truth comes out: “Empire” star Jussie Smollett faked a hate crime against himself to advance his career.
California Parents Object to New Sex Ed Program in Public Schools
Fed-up parents participate in a “Sexxx Ed Sit Out” to protest the state’s sex education curriculum, calling it pornographic, age-inappropriate, and “highly biased and medically inaccurate instruction.”
Hope for an Overregulated Nation
We’re paying a fortune for existing regulations, and major new ones are coming out at the rate of 3,000 per year.
GOP Pounces by Allowing Democrats to Vote on Their Own Idea
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's greatest sin was injecting some reality into the debate. You don't wean America off its affordable and predominant energy sources without reinventing the entire economy through authoritarian intrusions and enormous economic pain.
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