Sunday roundup

I've always maintained that freedom is elegantly simple compared to any alternative. That's demonstrated once again in this piece at Market Watch entitled, ""The US Can Slash Health Care Costs With 2 Fundamental Changes - and Without Medicare For All."

Protests flare across Iran in the wake of a three-fold increase in gasoline prices. 

Denver radio talk show host Craig Silverman was doing his show Saturday, discussing the late attorney Roy Cohn's mentorship of Donald Trump in the 1970s, when suddenly the station went to network news, and program director Kelly Michaels came into the studio and said, "You're done." KNUS is owned by Salem Communications. You'll recall that the website Red State was purged of non-Trumpists after it was acquired by Salem.

Insightful piece at the Washington Examiner by Joel Gehrke on how Mike Pompeo was 'powerless' to prevent Marie Yovanovitch's ouster as ambassador to Ukraine.

If anything I'm mentioning here is a must-read, it's Kevin Williamson' National Review piece on what a crock Marco Rubio's "common good capitalism" is. 

Um, how's that again?

A Texas school district’s decision to allow a drag queen to conduct a class on makeup application has many parents up in arms after the fact. A Willis ISD English teacher added fuel to the fire when he posted on social media that ‘parents should not have the final say’ and ‘don’t know what is best” for their children.

Colin Kaepernick's latest spoiled-brat stunt gets the cold shoulder from the NFL.