Source: CNBC
“Novo Nordisk filed a lawsuit against Eli Lilly, alleging that its advertising campaigns for its blockbuster obesity and diabetes drugs are designed to mislead consumers about their superior efficacy relative to the Danish drugmaker’s rival injections. Novo Nordisk is specifically taking issue with nationwide ads that cite what it called ‘outdated’ clinical trials to compare the highest doses of Lilly’s medicines to lower doses of Novo’s drugs. Novo asked the court to permanently stop Lilly from running the ads and require the drugmaker to issue corrective advertising.” (07/21/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/novo-nordisk-sues-eli-lilly-glp-1-ads.html
Source: Law & Liberty
“Senior Writer John McGinnis joins the podcast to discuss the latest term of the Supreme Court.” (07/21/26)
https://lawliberty.org/podcast/an-independent-and-originalist-court/
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“In his book The Vision of the Anointed, Thomas Sowell argues that most people’s political opinions are shaped by ‘a particular set of underlying assumptions about the world—a certain vision of reality.’ By vision, he means an instinctive sense of the correct way of understanding the world and making sense of what we see or hear. The same insight applies to people’s understanding of political labels like libertarian or conservative. We assume we know what a libertarian means by reference to his ideology, or that we know what it means to describe a position as conservative. But often these assumptions owe more to our own vision of the world than they do to the speaker’s intention.” (07/21/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/ideology-behind-american-revolution
Source: Townhall
by Alan Joseph Bauer
“The U.S.-Israel relationship will change after Donald Trump. It may become more transactional, and the U.S. does benefit enormously from its friendship with Israel. Every high-tech company has a research office here, and the U.S. gets all of Israel’s military tech and knowledge. The world is not collapsing, but the relationship may well be changing.” (07/21/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2026/07/21/the-world-is-collapsingor-is-it-n2679745
Source: Houston Chronicle
“Tropical Storm Bertha is expected to make a Louisiana landfall later this week—possibly Wednesday—before a more disorganized system impacts the Texas Gulf Coast on Friday and Saturday. If that turns out to be true, the biggest impact for Texas could turn out to be low levels of rain from one to four inches. … If Bertha heads to Texas, it will most likely do so as a tropical depression or weaker. That could mean rain for portions of the Texas coast. The 4 a.m. update downgraded that rain chance and mostly erased predicted rainfall south of Victoria. Houston would still get potentially two inches of rain.” (07/21/26)
https://www.chron.com/weather/article/tropical-storm-bertha-texas-22353383.php
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“President Donald Trump told a prime-time national audience, last week, that the Department of Homeland Security found 278,000 noncitizens on state voter rolls after checking roughly half the states. ‘It’s a number,’ as my old boss says. The Washington Post called it ‘an exaggerated claim that noncitizens are registering to vote en masse.’ No, noncitizens are not really registering to vote so much as being registered — without their knowledge or understanding through deliberate government policy that pretends it’s pro-democracy to throw folks on the voter list who are not legally entitled to vote.” (07/21/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/07/21/truth-be-told/
Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
“The senator from purple Georgia is leading in polls and fundraising without picking a fight with party progressives. Maybe there’s a lesson there.” (07/21/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/21/jon-ossoff-is-proving-democrats-dont-need-to-punch-left/
Source: ABC News
“The deposed leader of Turkey’s main opposition announced plans on Tuesday to create a new political party to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Ozgur Ozel ‘s announcement came months after he was removed as leader of the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, by a court order — a ruling critics say was a politically motivated effort to weaken the opposition. His ouster, and the reinstatement of the party’s former and unpopular leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, sparked outrage among many CHP supporters. … The new political movement, which is expected to be called Yeni Parti, or New Party, will be formally launched later this week, according to reports. Many of the CHP’s 135 legislators in the 600‑seat parliament were expected to defect and join the new party, which Ozel said would become the parliament’s main opposition ‘by a wide margin.'” (07/21/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/turkish-oppositions-deposed-leader-plans-new-party-erdogan-134945551
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos joins me to make sense of the world in our weekly visit. We talk about keeping politics in its proper perspective as well as whether texting and driving should be illegal.” (07/21/26)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-rexbj-1b1882d
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Paul R Pillar
“An image of Iran as a regional bête noire has long served Israel’s objective of drawing international attention away from Israeli conduct. This is a major reason Israel has promoted unending confrontation with Iran, including the starting and continuation of the current war. This also helps explain why Israel opposes and often seeks to sabotage diplomacy with Tehran. Netanyahu’s government is using the current preoccupation with a rekindled U.S.-Iranian war to intensify its violent subjugation of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. While President Donald Trump has said little about Gaza in recent weeks, Israel’s actions there are undermining the president’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza, which he proposed last October.” (07/21/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-netanyahu-gaza-peace-plan/
