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Last month, the Department of Justice unsealed a case against an Iranian agent charged with plotting the assassination of former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton. In the alleged murder-for-hire scheme, the defendant attempted to pay operatives $300,000 to carry out the assassination on American soil. This was not the first Iranian terror plot in the United States exposed this year.  This summer, the FBI foiled Iranian operatives’ attempted kidnapping of Iranian American […]

On August 24, when President Biden, in conjunction with the Department of Education, announced his income-based student debt relief plan, the reaction from both sides of the political aisle was swift and contentious, with incendiary rhetoric deployed to politicize what is a multifaceted issue. With U.S. student loan borrowers, many from vulnerable communities, owing a staggering $1.75 trillion in […]

National Farmer’s Day is October 12. As problems such as inflation and supply shortages persist across the country, Americans should take this day to recognize the farmers we rely on for our personal and national well-being. Inflation continues to touch every industry and facet of life in America, but one industry is particularly affected because […]

It should be no surprise that the monumentally misnamed Inflation Reduction Act is filled with provisions likely to accomplish something other than the advertised purpose. Perhaps phoniest of all are the environmental justice measures that, in truth, will inflict injustice on the very people and communities the statute’s proponents claim to be helping. Building on […]

Over the decades, Americans have bought into many falsehoods — cigarette smoking is safe, for example. Some false beliefs are relatively benign, while others — like smoking — are deadly. The belief that mentally ill people cause mass murders is likewise grievously harmful and untrue. The truth is that the United States exceeds every country […]

Food and Drug Administration officials believe they should be funded when they fail. In their 2023 budget request, they ask for a 34 percent increase, to $8.4 billion, from direct and indirect taxpayer funding (i.e., user fees). In 2019, the FDA’s budget was only $5.7 billion. From 2000 to 2021, it increased by 541 percent. […]

In a recent White House proclamation, President Joe Biden called for Congress to pass the “Freedom to Vote Act,” which imposes national Election Day voter registration requirements, automatic voter registration, and mail-in voting requirements on states. While researching my book, “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections,” I found a startling metamorphosis […]

Many of us have been reminded over the last two years just how important it is to have safe, effective, and accessible pharmaceutical drugs and a functioning healthcare system. Unfortunately, as we continue to deal with COVID-19 variants, Congress and the White House are targeting innovators with price controls in reconciliation and through Biden’s Environmental […]