 To Be An American In The 21st Century by Ro Khanna via Eureka The question of what it means to be American has been debated since the founding of our republic, and we are at another moment when the question has taken on a new urgency. Post-Apocalyptic Health Care
by John H. Cochrane via Grumpy Economist Post-apocalyptic life in American health care is a fantastic blog post on the state of American health care and insurance. (HT Marginal Revolution) Bottom line: American health care organizations can no longer operate systematically, so participants are forced to act in the communal mode, as if in the pre-modern world.
Trump and the 'Rule of Necessity'
Editorial of The New York Sun | August 24, 2018 https://www.nysun.com/editorials/trump-and-the-rule-of-necessity/90364/
Trump Has Already Won on Impeachment by Conrad Black
American Greatness August 25, 2018 http://www.conradmblack.com/1414/trump-has-already-won-on-impeachment NY SUN EXAMINES PREVIOUS PRESIDENTIAL IMPEACHMENT SCANDALS & WHY LOCAL ELECTIONS MATTER MOST IN 20188/23/2018 
'Get Ready' For the Perils Of Impeachment
By SETH LIPSKY, From the New York Post | August 22, 2018 https://www.nysun.com/national/get-ready-for-the-perils-of-impeachment/90363/
DON’T OVERLOOK THE STATE ELECTIONS
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen City Journal Thirty-seven states will elect governors this fall. If the negative trends apparent at the federal level hit Republicans here, too, the repercussions could be felt in the party for years. Read More 
The Reexamination Of Security Clearances Was Long Overdue
by Victor Davis Hanson via National Review Much has been written about former CIA and FBI official Philip Mudd’s recent unhinged outburst on CNN against Paris Dennard for the latter’s credible suggestion that many ex-officials have monetized the fact that they have retained their security clearances. VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ON RED/BLUDE DIVIDES IN USA & TRENDS TO EVALUATE - WATCH FOR 2018 MID-TERMS8/21/2018  The Classicist: The Divided States Of America interview with Victor Davis Hanson via The Classicist What’s driving the growing tension between red state America and blue state America? HENRY OLSEN Don’t Overlook the State Elections Whatever happens nationally in November will likely be mirrored at the local level. The US Economy And The Midterm Elections
by Michael J. Boskin via Project Syndicate The US economy's strength should boost Republicans' prospects in congressional elections this November. But polls currently show that Democrats will retake one or both chambers of Congress, which means that even if the econo  Disruption Ahead—and Regulation Reflections on Apple’s historic $1 trillion valuation and the lessons of history NICOLE GELINAS
You Can’t Take It with You America’s private-sector and public-sector debt crises are colliding.
The Four Horsemen of the Regulatory State
And how to rein them in
To reorganize government agencies, Trump should channel Truman
James C. Capretta | RealClearPolicy Given the deep divisions between the parties, the administration’s reorganization agenda will probably be ignored in Congress. The best hope to avoid that is to copy the Truman-Hoover model, giving up some control of the agenda to a bipartisan commission.
Trump’s Federal Worker Pay Freeze Misses the Real Problem
Nicole Gelinas, New York Post President Trump may or may not freeze federal workers’ pay: Last Thursday, he sent a letter to congressional leaders saying that he would, citing “serious economic conditions,” but said later he’d think about it after criticism from some Republicans up for re-election.Trump is right to be concerned about public-worker costs — but a pay freeze is unlikely to do much good or much harm. The far bigger problem is benefits costs, and at the state and local level, not the federal level — something the president could tackle indirectly were he to be a bit more creative. Read more here....  The economics of the opioid crisis Roger Bate | AEIdeas Policymakers have clamped down on prescribing practices of physicians and sanctioned pharmaceutical companies producing vast quantities of opioids. The result has been a lowering of legal opioid sales. Reducing prescriptions of opioids should create fewer addicts in the long run and is probably the right policy approach. But it’s a poisonous short-run trade-off. ‘Dopesick’ and ‘The Addiction Solution’ review: Examining an epidemic
Sally Satel | The Wall Street Journal The emotional devastation of opioid addiction is staggering. So is the economic fallout. Families can be bankrupted by the cost of in-patient rehab. Sally Satel reviews two books on the epidemic: “Dopesick” by Beth Macy and “The Addiction Solution” by Lloyd I. Sederer. |
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