Pharmacy giant Walgreens has agreed to pay a staggering $300 million after being found liable for illegally filling hundreds of thousands of opioid prescriptions. The settlement, announced by the U.S. Department of Justice, marks one of the largest ever in a series of cases against pharmacies accused of fueling the opioid epidemic.
Medicine and This Thing We Call the State
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/medicine-and-this-thing-we-call-the-state-5871220
We need only consider the U.S. medical system here. It is run by industry at all levels, but includes vast amounts of trillions of transfer payments in addition to huge bureaucracies to regulate the industry. The regulators and industry do not work in opposition to each other but generally in tandem, often in hiding.
We Cannot Avoid Entitlement Reform
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/we-cannot-avoid-entitlement-reform-5870575
Land acknowledgements are very modern in their silliness | Adam James Pollock | The Critic Magazine
https://thecritic.co.uk/land-acknowledgements-are-very-modern-in-their-silliness/
An Open Letter to HHS Secretary Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary: Deliver on MAHA Agenda
https://solarireport.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-hhs-secretary-kennedy
How Alcohol Is Linked to Common Cancers
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/how-alcohol-is-linked-to-common-cancers-5851176
Alcohol is a Group 1 carcinogen, in the same category as tobacco and asbestos. Research has established that alcohol is a cause of cancer, even at low levels of intake.
The College-for-All Fallacy
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-college-for-all-fallacy-5854695
Old Antibiotic Shows Promise Against Lyme Disease at Ultra-Low Doses
Scientists uncover why Lyme disease lingers and how to fight it.
Foreign Holdings of US Treasurys Reach All-Time High in March
We continue to sell our county to foreigners and this will persist as long as the federal government continues to spend more than it takes in.
The $TRUMP Meme Coin Scheme | National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/the-trump-meme-coin-scheme/
What does this have to do with the Constitution? A lot, I’m afraid.
President Trump has hit a new low in accepting a luxury jet from Qatar | Column
What Trump is doing is wrong. It is illegal. It is unconstitutional.
Trump Strikes $244 Billion in Deals With Qatar, Including ‘Historic’ Boeing Jet Sale
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/qatar-airways-signs-agreement-to-buy-160-boeing-planes-5857662
In addition, American companies will be selling drones and anti-drone tech to Qatar? What is to prevent that from being shared with Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas?
It seems to me that they are giving a bonus for crossing our border illegally:
DHS Says It Will Pay Illegal Immigrants $1,000 to Self-Deport
“We’re doing a self-deportation, and we’re going to make it comfortable for people,” Trump said. “And we’re going to work with those people to come back into our country legally.”
This is certainly troubling:
The Trump family is taking crypto payoffs in the middle of Fifth Avenue. Who will stop them?
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-corruption-cryptocurrency-abu-dhabi-20250504.html
From a Persian Gulf dictator to a trucking magnate, a shocking line to pay off the Trump family in crypto is growing.
These GDP Numbers Deserve Maximum Incredulity
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/these-gdp-numbers-deserve-maximum-incredulity-5850664
All told, it seems like our economic data are no better than our infectious disease data, numbers tossed around for political purposes and having not much to do with on-the-ground reality.
Confessions of a Post-Trump Clout Chaser
https://croakycaiman.substack.com/p/confessions-of-a-post-trump-clout
What’s especially rich about Richard Hanania’s post hoc enlightenment tour is that it comes after a full year of sneering at the only adults in the room—namely, the conservatives who backed Ron DeSantis. Not because they were sycophants or sellouts, but because they were attempting, however imperfectly, to salvage conservatism from the meme-fueled sewer of MAGA demagoguery.
Cannabis Use Disorder Linked to Psychosis, Elevated Dopamine Activity in Specific Brain Regions
Scientists have found a potential mechanism connecting cannabis use to psychosis risk: elevated dopamine levels in key brain regions.
FAA to Increase Support, Oversight for Air Traffic Controllers at Ronald Reagan National Airport
Josh Shapiro’s taxpayer-funded self-promotional horror show
National Democrats are embarrassing themselves on social media.