Source: Independent Institute
by Raymond J March

“The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability recently hosted Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf in a hearing to discuss the agency’s recent blemishes. The Committee’s website stated that ‘under the Biden Administration, the FDA has stumbled from crisis to crisis.’ The amount of ‘stumbling’ — even for a government agency — has been dumbfounding. … Despite these alarming failures, the FDA asked Congress for ‘more authority’ to address continuing prescription drug shortages and other pressing healthcare issues. It’s an audacious request. They’ll probably get it. They certainly have in the past.” (04/24/24)

https://blog.independent.org/2024/04/24/will-the-blundering-fda-receive-more-power

Source: New York Post
by Isaac Schorr

“Joe Biden has long attributed his decision to run for president to 2017’s tragic events in Charlottesville, Va., and President Donald Trump’s [alleged] response to them. ‘It was a wake-up call for us as a country — and for me, a call to action,’ said Biden in 2020, referring to Trump’s infamously inadequate [sic] statement following the neo-Nazi rally and murder of a counterprotester. Yet while the rest of the country stood aghast at the overt expressions of antisemitism on America’s elite campuses over the weekend, the president remained silent, delegating the task of reacting to a deputy press aide. When he finally did address them Monday at a reporter’s behest, this is all he mustered: ‘I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.'” (04/24/24)

https://nypost.com/2024/04/24/opinion/bidens-breathtaking-political-cynicism-laid-bare-in-his-both-sides-response-to-jew-hating-protests/

Source: Orange County Register
by John Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead

“‘Nothing is real,’ observed John Lennon, and that’s especially true of politics. Much like the fabricated universe in Peter Weir’s 1998 film The Truman Show, in which a man’s life is the basis for an elaborately staged television show aimed at selling products and procuring ratings, the political scene in the United States has devolved over the years into a carefully calibrated exercise in how to manipulate, polarize, propagandize and control a population. Take the media circus that is the Donald Trump hush money trial, which panders to the public’s voracious appetite for titillating, soap opera drama, keeping the citizenry distracted, diverted and divided. This is the magic of the reality TV programming that passes for politics today.” (04/24/24)

https://www.ocregister.com/2024/04/24/divide-and-conquer-the-governments-propaganda-of-fear-and-fake-news/

Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by staff

“President Biden today signed legislation that kickstarts a process to ban TikTok and empowers the president to block other communications platforms used by millions of Americans. By passing this bill into law, Congress has set a grave precedent for free speech by starting the clock on banning TikTok. FIRE opposed nearly identical legislation when it passed the House last month. The law effectively grants the president permanent authority to ban widely used speech platforms with only weak connections to foreign entities. This is a dangerous power for the president to hold over websites and apps that Americans use to exercise their First Amendment rights.” (04/25/24)

https://www.thefire.org/news/tiktok-legislation-sets-grave-precedent-free-speech