Save American Lives & Prosperity by Cutting FDA Bureaucracy

Source: American Greatness
by Thaddeus G McCotter

“By statute, the approval process of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to determine the safety and effectiveness of a new drug. If both requirements are met, the new drug is approved. The process usually takes roughly a decade. Most people would reasonably assume the lengthy approval process is due to the need to prove a new drug is safe for use by patients. But the years-long lag between a drug’s submission for approval and its arrival on the market often stems from the process of assessing its effectiveness. The easiest way to think about it is this: determining safety protects patients; determining effectiveness protects consumers.” (06/27/26)

https://amgreatness.com/2026/06/27/save-american-lives-and-prosperity-by-cutting-the-fda-bureaucracy/

Steve Trinward

AOC whines that tech companies think they’re as very special and important as her

Source: Fox News

“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., revealed that she believes Congress should look to break up companies like Apple amid news that the tech giant might soon raise its prices on phones and laptops due to a strained processing chip supply chain. ‘We need to break up a lot of these companies that are far, far too big and we need to be instituting consumer protections for people,’ Ocasio-Cortez said. … ‘The problem that we have is that these big companies think they are governments. They want to be governments. They want to have totally unchecked power,’ Ocasio-Cortez said.” (06/28/26)

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-major-tech-company-on-notice-amid-looming-price-increases-far-too-big

Thomas L. Knapp

Don’t Let the Country’s Wet Blankets Ruin Independence Day

Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille

“Leading up to our Independence Day party, my wife asked whether she should buy us T-shirts celebrating America’s 250th anniversary or stick with what we already have. We went with our existing garments. When the red, white, and blue string lights are up and the Gadsden flag is flying out front, my son will don his free speech shirt, my wife will wear one with USA printed across it, and my shirt will show an image of George Washington crossing the Delaware and text reading: ‘Americans. Willing to cross a frozen river to kill you. In your sleep. On Christmas. Not kidding, we’ve done it.’ It will be festive. But not everybody shares our enthusiasm for celebrating the nation’s birthday and the liberty at the core of its founding philosophy.” (06/26/26)

https://reason.com/2026/06/26/dont-let-the-countrys-wet-blankets-ruin-independence-day/

Thomas L. Knapp

Does US AI Depend on Big Companies Throwing Money in the Toilet? The Chinese Competition

Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker

‘Most of us tend to think that the people controlling billions, or even hundreds of billions of dollars, at major corporations have a pretty good idea of what they are doing with their companies’ money. But that clearly is not always the case.” (06/26/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/26/does-us-ai-depend-on-big-companies-throwing-money-in-the-toilet-the-chinese-competition/

Thomas L. Knapp

Trump regime allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI model to some companies, government agencies

Source: CNBC

“The U.S. government on Friday granted Anthropic permission to release its Mythos 5 model to a group of roughly 100 companies and federal agencies, CNBC has confirmed. The decision, detailed by the Commerce Department in a letter to Anthropic, marks a major step forward in the negotiations between the Trump administration and the artificial intelligence company, which have been engaged in a two-week standoff over its latest models: Fable 5 and Mythos 5.” [editor’s note: The US government enjoys precisely zero right to decide whether AI creators can release their models, or if so to whom – TLK] (06/27/26)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/us-government-anthropic-claude-mythos5-ai.html

Thomas L. Knapp

Auberon Herbert’s Practical Measures toward Liberty

Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman

“‘I will now sketch,’ English classical liberal, ‘voluntaryist,’ Auberon Herbert wrote in ‘The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State’ (1885), ‘the practical measures by which, as it seems to me, we could give the best effect to a system of the widest possible liberty; our great object being to secure the limitation of services undertaken by the government.’ Herbert was one of the most earnest defenders of individualism in late Victorian England. He remains an inspiration today; seeing how he thought liberty should be protected ought to be instructive.” (06/26/26)

https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-auberon-herbert-and-practical

Thomas L. Knapp