Spiking crackdown to see more funding for test kits
Modernising the law and training for door staff are also among measures announced by the government. Source link
Ellie Middleton: 'Learning the way my brain works has changed everything for me'
Author Ellie Middleton on her late ADHD and autism diagnoses. Source link
The Houthi Assault on Global Shipping
The press is reporting that the Biden Administration is contemplating the use of military force in response to continuing attacks on commercial shipping by the Houthi militia in Yemen. It’s about time. The Houthi missile attacks pose the most significant threat to global shipping in decades, and they will continue unless a global coalition unites […]
Biden’s Drug-Price Boomerang – WSJ
President Biden keeps trying to persuade Americans his policies are helping them, but voters aren’t buying it. The latest example is the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) Medicare drug rebates, which are raising the cost of medicines. The White House on Thursday proclaimed that the IRA’s drug rebates are already saving seniors money: “President Biden’s prescription […]
DeSantis Is Right About Medicaid
North Carolina has become the 40th state to succumb to federal cash and adopt ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion for able-bodied working-age adults. A new study from the Paragon Health Institute shows there is little to celebrate. Overall health is unlikely to improve despite this massive increase in public welfare. We now have 10 years of data […]
Minnesota’s Xenophobic Restrictions on Speech
By Bradley A. Smith and Eric Wang A federal judge on Monday will consider a Minnesota law that surreptitiously attempts to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Citizens United v. FEC (2010) that corporations have a constitutional right to speak independently about politics. While Citizens United and other judicial decisions have loosened restrictions on […]
Small Talk, Big Revelations
At holiday parties, ask about highs and lows to get people to tell their best stories. Source link
Seven Things We Learned Analyzing 515 Million Wordles
Millions of people play Wordle every day, and share, discuss and debate how they tried to win. For the first time, we’ve analyzed how players performed in half a billion of those Wordle games over the past year and compared their results with the strategies that our WordleBot recommends. Here are seven things we learned: […]
How Jews Escaped Their Dismal Fate
Throughout history Jews have suffered mass murder on a regular basis. It began with the expulsion from Judea (which the Romans renamed Syria Palestina) after the Bar Kokhba rebellion in the year 135. Crusaders killed thousands in the Rhineland massacres of 1096. During the Black Death of 1346-53, Jews were blamed for the plague and […]
It’s the Magnificent Seven’s Market. The Other Stocks Are Just Living in It.
Listen to article (2 minutes) Big tech stocks reclaimed their position as the market’s leaders this year. Just how far ahead of the pack have they run? Collectively, the stocks known as the Magnificent Seven—Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon.com, Nvidia, Tesla and Meta Platforms—have jumped 75% in 2023, leaving the other 493 companies in the S&P […]