Independent Insights
DNA as Data: 23andMe’s Bankruptcy and Your Genetic Blueprint at Risk
This week, 23andMe – once a $6 billion biotech star – filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, leaving 15 million DNA samples in limbo. A darling of Oprah’s “Favorite Things,” it tanked after one-and-done sales, a 2023 data breach, and CEO Anne Wojcicki’s failed privatization push. Now, creditors are circling, and the big question hits: …
“The Trial Of Lyndon B. Johnson: Opening Statement For The Prosecution”
On November 22nd, 1963, the actions and orders of the defendant in this matter, Lyndon B. Johnson, culminated in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, ensuring Johnson would become the President of the United States. We are confident you will return a guilty verdict at the conclusion of this historic …
“Opinion: Serious questions for Fauci”
To their credit, the organizers of the Ringling College Town Hall Lecture Series over the decades have attracted as speakers some of the most powerful and influential world leaders in modern times. That is quite extraordinary for a small arts college and its library association in the minor market of …
Naomi Wolf: “Europe’s Own Wars”
Updating a US-Europe Relationship Frozen in 1949 President Trump’s announcement, which followed a dramatic live confrontation in the White House on Feb 28, 2025 with Ukrainian Prime Minister Vladimir Zelenskyy, that the American President would suspend all aid to Ukraine, caused shock waves around the world. This was followed by President Trump’s …
“How Not To Be a Patriot”
Why Your Favorite President Does Not Need Your Blind Allegiance I recently wrote an essay titled “The Sack of Rome,” about my deep concerns about how Elon Musk and his team of young engineers — including one who had earlier released private data — were handling their investigations at the …
“The Profit Interests of Big Pharma are Fundamentally at Odds with the Health Interests of the Public”
Originally published on the author’s Substack With a new HHS Secretary, there is an opportunity to think big about structural reform Stopping the iatrogenocide in the U.S. requires understanding and dismantling the structures that produced it. There are lots and lots of specifics that we will get into soon. But for now I just …
“The People of New York v. Mayor Adams: Will Manhattan DA Bragg Come to the Rescue Yet Again?”
The article discusses whether Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will pursue state charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams after a potential dismissal of his federal case. Adams faces federal charges, including campaign finance violations and bribery, related to alleged public corruption. If the federal case is dismissed, Bragg’s office …
“The Pattern Beneath”
Originally posted on the author’s Substack USAID and the Architecture of Perception The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has long portrayed itself as America’s humanitarian aid organization, delivering assistance to developing nations. With an annual budget of nearly $40 billion and operations in over 100 countries, it represents …
“The Most Dramatic Narrative Shift in Modern History”
Original article (via Brownstone Institute) The most dramatic narrative shift in this post-lockdown period has been the flip in the perceptions of government itself. For decades and even centuries, government was seen as the essential bulwark to defend the poor, empower the marginalized, realize justice, even the playing field in …
“RFK, Jr. asks if nation can come together over health; Democrat senators say No.”
Originally published on the author’s Substack Furious Dems launch coordinated attack on the son of Dem hero Robert F. Kennedy in a two-day series of hearings before Senate committees. Everything now depends on Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana “Today, America’s overall health is in grievous condition. Over 70 percent of adults …
“DEBATE: Is the new $TRUMP Memecoin a Way to Send Anonymous Crypto Bribes to the President?”
Originally posted on the author’s Substack A Conduit for Bribes or a new way to make America great? Interesting news today. Last night, Donald Trump created a new cryptocurrency called $TRUMP. 80% of this cryptocurrency is owned by insiders, likely Trump himself and possibly his family. At the time of this …
“Why Was Reservoir Supplying Pacific Palisades Empty?”
Originally published on the author’s Substack There’s a funny scene in the film Smokey and the Bandit when Sheriff Buford T. Justice tells his son “Junior” to hand over his service revolver so that he can use it to shoot the fleeing Bandit’s tires. Junior obeys his father and hands over his …
“Understanding the Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Asthma, COPD, and Long-Term Lung Problems”
Original article California Fires May Lead to Long-Term Pulmonary Disease The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency for California on Friday January 10, 2025 to address the health impacts of the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles County. The declaration provides greater flexibility for Medicare and Medicaid …
“What is a War?”
The Battle of Brentwood: Fourth Attack on US Soil Photo by Adam Wilson on Unsplash Since the wildfires (which, in my California childhood and girlhood, used to be called “forest fires”) broke out last week in Los Angeles, I have been living in a kind of anguish. It is not, …
“The ‘Liberals’ Shrieking In Defense Of ‘Our Democracy’ Are Doing Far More To Crush It Than Trump Ever Did”
By barking endlessly about TRUMP’S Nazi playbook, the Democrats and “our free press” have freed THEMSELVES to use that playbook with impunity, and “liberals” to CHEER them for it “Eric Adams Tells Fox News Democrats Lost Election By Comparing Trump to Hitler: ‘What The Hell Are You Talking About?’” (link) “You …
“Why I’m Quitting The Washington Post”
Original article I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations—and some differences—about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen …
“January 6th: Trudeau Resigns!”
Originally posted on the author’s Substack Why does President Trump suddenly want to annex Greenland and Canada? In a shock move that will reverberate through the free nations of the world, the Prime Minister of Canada — the loathsome dictator Justin Trudeau — just announced his resignation on the same day …
“The Semmelweis Effect and The Great Barrington Declaration”
Originally published on the author’s Substack The story is often told in medical school about Ignaz Semmelweis, the Hungarian obstetrician who discovered that hand washing with chlorine reduced maternal mortality from puerperal fever. An intervention seemingly so simple and obvious but when first proposed in the 1840s, the experts of …
“Textbook Case of FBI Grooming a Troubled Young Man to Commit Violent Crime”
Original article Schizophrenic Jerry Drake Varnell was encouraged and assisted by an undercover FBI agent in “foiled” plot to blow up BancFirst building in Oklahoma City In researching the strange cases of Thomas Matthew Crooks and Luigi Mangione, I have wondered with whom they were in contact, and if they were possibly groomed …
“Let’s Retire the Word ‘Misinformation'”
Original article A renowned doctor and journalist call for leaving this false word behind in 2024 to end the censorship that corrupted the nation’s covid response and cost countless lives. FROM RESCUE: Today we publish an important essay, originally published in realclearhealth.com, by a team of medical and journalistic heroes who have …