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Judy Butler & Adriane Fugh-Berman: Opioids are still overprescribed
A new government report found that although naloxone prescriptions have increased substantially in recent years, prescription rates are still too low. Naloxone, a drug that temporarily reverses the effects of opioids, can help prevent overdose deaths and should be prescribed with all high-dose opioid prescriptions. According to the Centers for...
Vince Mercuri: Learning, growing by sharing worldviews
More than 12 years ago, my future son-in-law confidently posed this question to me: “What is your worldview?” What followed was a discussion/debate about a wide-ranging set of principles — religion, politics, finances, values and the importance of family. While there was agreement on most of these topics, on others...
Lawrence McCullough: Making consumers’ green choices pay off for everyone
Is it possible the U.S. economy can successfully transition to a clean energy foundation without top-down legislative reform effort from Congress? Three market-based approaches would seed and speed the process at the local, micro-economic level and lay groundwork for far-reaching effects in U.S. energy policy: 1. Suspend for three years...
Cal Thomas: They’ve lost their minds in San Francisco
San Francisco, a city described in song for its natural beauty, is descending into an abyss of homelessness, the use of sidewalks as toilets and a place you might not want to visit, much less live. The latest, but surely not the last demonstration of insanity, is San Francisco’s Board...
Pat Buchanan: When, if ever, can we lay this burden down?
Earlier this month, President Trump met in New Jersey with his national security advisers and envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who is negotiating with the Taliban to bring about peace, and a U.S. withdrawal from America’s longest war. U.S. troops have been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001, in a war that has...
Jonah Goldberg: Maybe liberty isn’t a lost cause in China
Here’s a crazy idea: Maybe the forces of liberty will win. Sadly, few people are rooting for liberty these days, and even among those who are, there’s a dismaying amount of pessimism about its prospects. Consider China. There’s a new bipartisan consensus these days: The “elites” made a “bad bet”...
Cal Thomas: Pick me or else, Trump tells voters
During a December 2015 debate among Republican presidential candidates in Las Vegas, former Florida governor Jeb Bush said to Donald Trump: “You can’t insult your way to the presidency.” Never mind. The question for next year’s election is whether the insulter-in-chief can use the same tactic to win a second...
Ray Regan: Words do count, and they can save lives
We use anywhere from 20,000 to 40,000 of the 171,476 basic words that make up the English language. Language entertains us. We use it to share joy, to express anger, to influence, to appreciate, or just to enjoy an idle chat. Words are like food; we need them to live....
S.E. Cupp: Bashing press becomes a bipartisan affair
Among the many consequences of Donald Trump’s ascendancy in modern American politics is a renewed and deepened hostility for the press, not only among his far-right base, but within the general electorate. In recent decades, trust in media has plummeted from a high of 72% who had a great deal...
Peter Morici: Economy will drag on Trump’s re-election hopes
The U.S. economy is delivering bad news to the White House. Second-quarter growth was only 2.1% and is not likely to return to 3% on a sustained basis. Significant wage increases, booming corporate profits, and double-digit stock grains SPX, -1.22% are not likely in the months leading up to the...
Walter Williams: College is not the only road to success
For many parents, August is a month of both pride and tears. Pride because their teenager is taking that big educational step and tears because for many it’s the beginning of an empty nest. Yet, there’s a going-away-to-college question that far too few parents ask or even contemplate: What will...
John Stossel: Deconstructing Trump’s deregulation promise
President Trump promised he’d get rid of bad rules. “Remove the anchor dragging us down!” he said when campaigning for president. “We’re going to cancel every needless job-killing regulation!” Trump was a developer, so he knew that the thicket of rules government imposes often makes it impossible to get things...
Sally Pipes: Trump’s socialist price controls will harm patients
The Trump administration is planning one of the biggest changes to Medicare in decades. The draft rule would effectively bring socialist drug price controls to the United States. The change would threaten patients’ health and discourage companies from funding experimental treatments for deadly diseases. The rule impacts Medicare Part B,...
Pat Buchanan: Trump’s great gamble
President Trump’s reelection hopes hinge on two things: the state of the economy in 2020 and the identity of the Democratic nominee. The further left the Democrats go to select their candidate, the greater the probability Trump wins a second term. Thus Trump got good news last week. The verbal...
Jonah Goldberg: Epstein’s death reflects new age of conspiracy theories
Anyone who’s watched a courtroom TV drama has heard the phrase “Hard cases make bad law.” It’s a legal maxim that says really extreme — i.e., rare or weird — cases are not only hard to generalize from, they’re also a bad foundation for new legislation or policy. This also...
Doyle McManus: Trump’s silence on Hong Kong is making America weaker
WASHINGTON — As China and its unruly possession Hong Kong teeter on the edge of catastrophe, President Trump has issued a series of messages with a common theme: If his friend Xi Jinping decides to crack down on the city’s pro-democracy movement, the United States will understand. It’s the wrong...
Michelle Malkin: Who’s funding the wicked war on ICE?
All the gun control zealots out in full force this month have apparently gone to the beach. An alarming shooting took place at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Antonio on Tuesday. Local media reported that “multiple shots were fired on two floors targeting ICE officials.” The...
Colin McNickle: Attendance matters to students, schools
The nexus between school attendance and academic performance is well established. In general, the better a student’s attendance is, the better that student’s academic results. And, of course, the better the respective school’s attendance rate and academic results. But an updated analysis of Pittsburgh Public Schools by a scholar at...
David Urban: Trump has kept his promise to revive manufacturing
My late father was a lifelong steelworker at J&L Steel’s famed Aliquippa works. Growing up in Western Pennsylvania, I was witness to politicians of every stripe too easily accepting the death of the American steel industry, and manufacturing in general. We were told that it was simply the way of...
G. Terry Madonna & Michael Young: Will Trump become ‘new normal’ in American politics?
Paradigms, sometimes called “world views,” are the ways we experience, think about and often measure particular ideas, subjects and institutions. Paradigms are notorious for “shifting” as described by a generations of scholars dating back to Thomas Kuhn in 1962. Paradigm shifts are fundamental changes in the way we look at,...
John Stossel: Why shouldn’t we be able to sell our organs?
Have you volunteered to be an organ donor? I did. I just clicked the box on the government form that asks if, once I die, I’m willing to donate my organs to someone who needs them. Why not? Lots of people need kidneys, livers, etc. When I’m dead, I sure...
Walter Williams: How important is today’s racial discrimination?
There is discrimination of all sorts, and that includes racial discrimination. Thus, it’s somewhat foolhardy to debate the existence of racial discrimination yesteryear or today. From a policy point of view, a far more useful question to ask is: How much of the plight of many blacks can be explained...
Donald Boudreaux: Do business people make better government officials?
Is it better for high-ranking government officials to have experience in the private sector as business owners or executives? Many people answer “yes!” But my answer is that of the economist: It depends. The characteristic that, above all, is best in a politician is humility. Unlike business executives who must...
Jason Wilburn: USMCA is 21st-century enhancement America needs
Just like the unseen parts used to make automobiles and airplanes work, the contributions of the Keystone State are often experienced — even if not always seen — every day around the world. The products manufactured in Pennsylvania help make the world function, but all of that could slow down...
Pat Buchanan: China, not Russia, the greater threat
Ten weeks of protests, some huge, a few violent, culminated Monday with a shutdown of the Hong Kong airport. Ominously, Beijing described the violent weekend demonstrations as “deranged” acts that are “the first signs of terrorism,” and vowed a merciless crackdown on the perpetrators. China is being pushed toward a...
