During the past week, Senator Ted Cruz has been embroiled in controversy as he and his family fled freezing north Texas for a vacation in Cancun, while many of his constituents suffered under extreme weather and their state’s inability to cope with conditions. Natural gas pipes and wind turbines alike froze, leaving 10 million people…
The disaster that was 2020 is finally over. Now it’s time for the inevitable post-mortems. First and foremost, the COVID-19 pandemic posed enormous challenges to American institutions, and continues to do so. Frankly, we were not prepared. We need to diagnose what went wrong, so that we are never caught unaware like this again. Fortunately,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Mylan and Sun Pharmaceuticals face two lawsuits alleging the companies colluded to gouge consumers for a generic pill used to treat asthma and other respiratory problems. A workers union in New York and the Self-Insured Schools of California have filed suit against Mylan and Sun Pharmaceuticals for raising…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Paul Meekin “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” -Ronald Reagan “I’m a drug dealer?! No, you’re the f******g drug dealer,” Spits Ron Woodruff to a DEA crony at a Town Hall meeting. If it were anyone else, this would…
by Eric Lieberman The pharmaceutical drug industry has spent exorbitant amounts of money lobbying against state laws aimed to restrict the amount of prescription opioids. The makers of prescription painkillers like OxyContin, Vicodin and fentanyl, spent $880 million on campaign contributions and lobbying initiatives from 2006 through 2015, according to the Associated Press and Center for Public…
Shkreli Concedes on Twitter: Bernie Doesn’t Understand Economics Martin Shkreli, who became the most hated man in America for raising the price of a drug used to combat HIV, has had no shortage of media coverage over the course of several months. From buying the only existing copy of a Wu Tang Clan album for millions of…