Posted on Thursday, December 12, 2024 | by Outside Contributor | 0 Comments | Print Odds are that you’ve seen ads recently that sought to inform you in one way or another about pharmacy benefit managers, also known as PBMs.  These little-known middlemen, long operating in the shadows, are finally…

Donald Trump’s recent trip to Paris brought stability and order to a city – and continent – ravaged by war and terrorism, insidious secularism and bureaucratic deadlock, that has left the cradle of Western civilization a tired and worn-out shell of its former self. Over the last four years, Europe has faced its first all-out…

Posted on Thursday, December 12, 2024 | by Andrew Shirley | 0 Comments | Print In the latest blow to “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) programming, the University of Michigan announced earlier this month that it would no longer require DEI statements as part of hiring decisions and is considering…

Years ago, I used to hunt birds. Some were easy, partridge and pheasant, but not quail. They are slippery little dinners, fly-by-wire things, up, out, gone – fun but frustrating. The trick is to focus. Truth is, much of life is about focus. How did Trump win? He studied the electoral map, focused on radiating…

Posted on Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | by Outside Contributor | 0 Comments | Print ActBlue, the massive online fund-raising platform for liberal causes, has informed Congress it did not automatically block donations made with foreign-bought gift cards until recently, a potentially significant revelation in an ongoing investigation into whether…

Posted on Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | by Outside Contributor | 0 Comments | Print Suspected shooter Luigi Mangione is led from the Blair County Courthouse after an extradition hearing December 10, 2024 in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. This week, a deranged 26-year-old anti-capitalist allegedly shot to death the CEO of UnitedHealthcare,…

Posted on Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | by Outside Contributor | 0 Comments | Print A government designed to secure our unalienable rights has become something of a black-hole that devours liberty. In the sum total of our three national branches, fewer than 1,500 (One president, 100 senators, 435 congressmen,…

As one lives, one learns, or should. We see failures in government—outcomes, character, and trust—at federal and state levels. We see out-of-touch leaders and gaps in accountability and public safety. Such failures are not new, but they must be corrected in dangerous times . One of the most famous, effective leaders and callers of good men to…

In Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, one man asks another how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” the first man replies. “Gradually and then suddenly.” Hemingway’s famous quote gave rise to what would become known as the “Hemingway Law of Motion,” or the notion that changes, whether in the economy, business, or politics,…

Posted on Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | by Outside Contributor | 0 Comments | Print Struggling Americans told political candidates early in 2024 that healthcare costs topped the list of their financial worries. Congress would do well to listen. Hospital costs have been nothing short of a gluttonous sinkhole of American wealth.  Not…