23+ min ago (698+ words) Mary's hospital might close. Mary is a mother in rural Alabama who faced a difficult pregnancy and gave birth prematurely to a fragile baby. Her local hospital, the only one with an obstetrics ward in her county, was where her child received lifesaving care. For Mary, that hospital isn't just a building; it's the reason her baby survived. Across Alabama, more than 1.6 million people live in rural counties where hospitals and clinics face financial and staffing pressures that threaten access to essential services. For families like Mary's, rural health reform doesn't succeed when it is announced; it only succeeds when it endures. In earlier columns, I explored transparency, which helps communities see clearly the challenges they face, and accountability, which ensures commitments turn into results. Now comes the test of sustainability: the capacity to make progress last. Together, transparency, accountability,…...

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35+ min ago (730+ words) Post covid, few phrases should be more chilling than "an abundance of caution." Based on that phrase, when data on the actual danger of covid was quite scarce, we shuttered the world." The cost remains immeasurable to this day." Much has been poured into examining the educational costs, and they are extreme." The economic loss can probably only be (poorly) estimated." We know there have been rises in deaths from disease that might have been preventable had healthcare permitted screening and routine examinations." We will be paying for our covid related "abundance of caution for a very, very long time." And yet that phrase continues to haunt us. The post Little Data, Lots of Fear, and "An Abundance of Caution appeared first on The Hugh Hewitt Show. Post covid, few phrases should be more chilling than "an abundance of caution....

38+ min ago (218+ words) U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) complimented the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently for proposing a new rule that would rein in federal overreach that was seen during the Biden administration. Palmer participated in an event at the EPA Headquarters Wednesday where the EPA and the Department of the Army announced a proposed rule that would establish a clear, common-sense definition of "waters of the United States" (WOTUS) under the Clean Water Act. "This proposed rule is long overdue and a win for the American people," Palmer said. "The Biden Administration's EPA exercised federal overreach by using a broad definition of WOTUS and failing to implement the direction provided by the Supreme Court in 2023. Thankfully, common sense is back at the EPA." The proposed rule follows the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 decision in Sackett v. EPA, cutting regulatory red tape and providing clarity for American…...

53+ min ago (12+ words) An argument from JD Vance's nomination speech continues to stir debate....

53+ min ago (42+ words) This proposal, as originally drafted, validates the aggressor, cripples the defender, and humiliates the negotiator. Negotiators must come up with something better and, if they can't, reject this " for Ukraine's sake, and to preserve American credibility on the world stage....

54+ min ago (43+ words) Ken Burns's new documentary, "The American Revolution," implies that the Iroquois Confederacy, a union of six Indian tribes in New York State, crucially influenced the founding of the United States. This is a nice fairy tale, but it has no connection to reality....

54+ min ago (587+ words) On this episode of "Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words," Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler take aim at the six congressional Democrats who called on military members to defy "illegal" orders from the Commander-in-Chief. JACK FOWLER: These six Democrat congress members. One of the most interesting, odd examples of political performance art. They concocted this video encouraging, warning, urging members of the military not to follow illegal orders. Wow, Victor, it was just so weird. Your thoughts on it." VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: So,"we have 1.3 million soldiers on active duty, and there are representatives, six of them Congress people and senators, say on this video, and they all say, we have served,"we're"veterans, and you"don't"have to obey an unlawful order, OK?"And"it's"in the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The idea is that Donald…...

1+ hour, 21+ min ago (41+ words) The Bulwark is home to Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol, JVL, Sam Stein, and more. We are the largest pro-democracy bundle on Substack for news and analysis on politics and culture'supported by a community built on good-faith....

1+ hour, 24+ min ago (351+ words) Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, has had a great ten days. To invert Dora Gaitskell's acid comment on a crowd-pleasing speech by her husband Hugh, the then Labour leader, all the right people are furious. The Church of England, the Refugee Council, Rachael Maskell MP, the Green Party: as a full bingo-card of the woolly-minded and wrong, who could want more? The only way to stem the numbers is to make the deal less appealing. To find a place for all the illegal migrants which is safe, which is compliant with UK law, which recognises that some genuinely need protection " but which is also somewhere they really, really won't want to be. In the middle of East Falkland, thirty miles from the nearest tree, in a bleak moor where the wind never stops blowing, is a big RAF airbase with…...