continued from page pricey pills and supplements at the drugstore one can purchase to “unclog the human drain,” but prunes work great sometimes and have nutritional value. And I once defeated an itchy fungus growing on my husband’s back with tea tree oil, which worked better than the tube of “stuff” his dermatologist prescribed. I’m certainly not knocking traditional medicine....

continued from page Of course, the sentiments of Hay and Palmerston are from long ago. It is likely that Joe Biden and the people around him feel about those attitudes the way John Kerry felt after Vladimir Putin went into Ukraine the first time in 2014: “You just don’t, in the 21st century, behave in 19th century fashion.” National honor, in any robust sense, presumably strikes th...

continued from page earned income tax credit from 2.9% in 1975 to 9.3% in 2021. The oldest and largest of these programs is Social Security. Whenever I convey that Social Security comes under the heading of federal entitlements, I get irate letters from those getting Social Security telling me they worked to get their benefits. But that isn’t the point. The point is most Americans ...