Archive for August, 2019
FDA Investigates Supposed Link Between Vaping and Seizures

Although the FDA acknowledges it has yet to find a causal relationship between vaping and seizures, it may continue and strengthen its “historic crackdown” of the vaping industry.

Trump’s Trade War Makes Us All Losers

The commercial war between the world’s superpower and the Chinese dictatorship has affected the U.S. economy, which has dropped from an annual rate of growth of 4 percent to 2 percent.

How Uncle Sam’s Borrowing Binge Might Spark a New Financial Crisis

The sale of U.S. Treasuries in a relatively short period of time appears set to cause problems in global credit markets.

How Government Prolonged the Lobotomy

The use of the lobotomy in US medical history is a shocking and concerning event which continues to leave many asking how such a thing could happen.

All Gain for Criminals, All Pain for Motorists: California’s Prop 47 Prompts Catalytic Converter Thefts

California’s Prop 47 brought about some positive criminal justice reforms, but the law sparked a surge in automobile break-ins and shopliftings throughout the state.

Three Assumptions the Left Makes About Economic Inequality

Are policies to reduce inequality beneficial to those who are least fortunate? Sometimes they are; sometimes they are not.

Universal Won’t Release The Hunt, but the “Satirical” Movie’s Backstory Is Eerily Familiar

As Variety reports, Universal Pictures has canceled the September 27 release of The Hunt, a “satirical social thriller.”

U.S. Government Sets New Records for Spending and Revenues

The government’s budget deficit through the first 10 months of its 2019 fiscal year now exceeds the full year deficit of $777 billion recorded in 2018.

Worst Mass Shooting in North America Still Unsolved

To this day, nobody has been jailed over the 1968 massacre in Mexico City, the worst mass shooting by far in North America.

With California’s Public Pensions, Nothing Exceeds Like Excess

As they downsize and disappear, newspapers have avoided hard news on California’s pension crisis.

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