Source: The hill
by William S Becker

“The U.S. Constitution is our secular society’s most revered text. It is the bedrock on which the republic was built. It has generally served us well for the last 237 years. Changing it is like trying to rewrite the Ten Commandments. More than 11,000 amendments have been proposed since 1791, when the Bill of Rights was added. Only 17 have been ratified. This anniversary year is a time to celebrate how far America has come and to ask a direct question: Is the Constitution still fit for purpose?” (07/06/26)

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5950372-us-constitution-still-relevant/

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Douglas Carswell

“Perhaps it is not so much the party of those we send to Congress or to our state legislature that counts. Perhaps what matters more is that so many of the decisions about how your money is spent are made in the dark. Setting a budget is complicated. The data might exist. Some of it might even be public. But it sits squirreled away on a spreadsheet somewhere, and you would need a CPA to make sense of it. Frankly, most folk do not have the time. But what if technology could suddenly take all that data and build something that makes it easy to see? Easy to see who gets your tax dollars, and what they do with them once they have them.” (07/06/26)

https://fee.org/articles/what-do-they-do-with-your-tax-dollars/

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“Normal people use language to communicate and connect, while manipulative people use language to control and extract. Propagandists, hasbarists, politicians, and people with disorders which incline them toward manipulative behavior like narcissistic personality disorder or antisocial personality disorder, use language with the goal of advancing agendas rather than to convey information and connect with other people. Manipulators use their words to influence the thoughts people think about themselves, about others, and about their world. They use language to extract favors, money, resources, sex, esteem, loyalty, or submission from other people. They use it to trick people in order to ensure that life transpires in accordance with their will. For the manipulator, language is a tool you use to move people around and get them to do what you want them to do.” (07/06/26)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/07/06/manipulators-do-not-use-language-the-same-way-normal-people-do/

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Margaret Hampton

“Healthcare systems (insurers and other payers) only reimburse what is coded and billable. The lack of codes for all healthcare options started in 1983 when the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) agreed that HHS would only use the AMAs codes to process Medicare and Medicaid claims. In 2002, HHS mandated use of the AMA’s codes for filing electronic claims. ABC codes were mentioned as an option but not adopted and the AMA currently has a monopoly on billing codes. … As a result, patients frequently experience long wait times and expensive interventions only after disease has advanced.” (07/06/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-reimbursement-code-monopoly-is-a-threat-to-health/

Source: New York Post
by Kirsten Fleming

“Hakeem Jeffries is rolling out the welcome mat for the people who want his head mounted on their trophy wall. The House minority leader offered a hearty “welcome aboard” to state Assembly members Claire Valdez and Micah Lasher as well as congressional candidates Darializa Avila Chevalier and Brad Lander, both progressive Democrats associated with the Democratic Socialists of America. All but Lasher were backed by slick DSA kingmaker Mayor Zohran Mamdani. ‘Congratulations to our newest members of the NYC congressional delegation,’ he wrote on X. ‘From public servants to union organizers to community activists, the path is different but the work is the same. We must decisively address the affordability crisis and crush far-right extremism!’ Never mind that Dems would classify immigration enforcement and strong borders as ‘far-right extremism’.” (07/05/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/07/05/opinion/scared-hakeem-jeffries-rolls-out-the-red-carpet-for-dsa-extremists-while-they-prep-to-feast-on-is-carcass/