FBI Arrests Eight Suspects In $60 Million LA County Over Hospice Fraud

Since Lockdowns, A 12% GDP Loss; Half Of US Dollar Purchasing Power Stolen Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Many of us have had the intuition that the economic damage from 2020 – including industrial stoppages, monetary printing, supply-chain disruptions, extended school closures, and general population demoralization – was in fact far greater than official statistics indicate.  What follows will shore up this intuition, using new techniques and numbers from an innovative project called RealityIndex.co.  It’s true that official data is bad enough, showing a 26% loss in purchasing power, slow growth...

Turkey Could Be 'Next Iran' For Israel: US Envoy Scrambles To Calm Tensions Via Middle East Eye US Envoy Tom Barrack has downplayed escalating tensions between Turkey and Israel as just "rhetoric" and pushed for regional cooperation between the two countries in security and energy projects. Speaking during a panel at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, Barrack pushed back against comments from some officials in both countries that suggested they could come into conflict in the near future. "I think Turkey is just not a country to be messed with," Barrack said. ​​​​​Handout: Antalya Diplomacy Forum via AFP Barrack said that...

Assisted Suicide Is The Logical Outcome Of Government-Controlled Medical Care Authored by William Andersen via The Mises Institute, Christianity Today recently published an article by Kristy Etheridge that was very critical of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, something that would not be surprising, given the magazine’s evangelical Christian outlook on issues. The article—again, not surprisingly—dealt mostly with how many Christian groups, and especially the Roman Catholic Church, have spoken out against Canada’s program and similar programs in Europe and in the US. Wrote Etheridge: Many Christians spoke out against assisted suicide in the 1990s when Dr. Jack Kevorkian became...