Jon Miltimore

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Jon Miltimore

In the summer of 2020, Ohio medical examiner Anahi Ortiz was receiving more bodies than her office could process. The cause of death wasn’t COVID-19; it was drug overdoses. Over just 36 hours, Ortiz’s small office handled nine fatal overdoses at one point. “We’ve literally run out of wheeled carts to put them on,” Ortiz told the Washington Post.

1 month ago | jjmilt.substack.com | Jon Miltimore

Kenneth Emde of Minnesota, who came of age during the Swinging Sixties, last year explained why he is childless today. “I was a college student when I read [Paul] Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb,” he said in a letter published by the Wall Street Journal. “I took it to heart and now have no grandchildren, but 50 years later the population has increased to eight billion without dire consequences. I was gullible and stupid.”The Take (by Jon Miltimore) is a reader-supported publication.

1 month ago | jjmilt.substack.com | Jon Miltimore

In March, the Wall Street Journal reported that British drugmaker GSK “brought an unusual claim to federal prosecutors in Manhattan” following Donald Trump’s electoral victory. “A senior GSK scientist, who formerly worked at rival Pfizer, had told GSK colleagues that Pfizer delayed announcing the success of its Covid vaccine in 2020 until after that year’s election,” the Journalreported. According to the report, the scientist denied telling colleagues what had been reported.

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Jon Miltimore

During a recent appearance on PBS, Washington Post editor Jonathan Capehart criticized the Trump administration’s recent directive instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to “cease federal funding for NPR and PBS.” Capehart called the move “a fundamental attack on our Constitution” and claimed it threatened the very foundation of the United States.

1 month ago | thedailyeconomy.org | Jon Miltimore

There are plenty of memorable scenes in Star Wars, but one of the most vivid comes in Revenge of the Sith as viewers watch the fall of the Old Republic. Chancellor Palpatine, disfigured following his battle with Mace Windu and other Jedi, rises in the Imperial Senate to speak. With the bureaucracy in control and the scattered Jedi crushed following Order 66, the Sith Lord tightens his fist around the galaxy.