1. Dr. Tim Murphy: The Enormous Cost of Failing to Treat Schizophrenia
2. Michele Steeb: The Homeless Epidemic Takes a
Tragic Turn
3. Todd Sheets: The Never-ending Struggle
Against Socialism
4. Daniel Greenfield: Warmth of Collectivism - 16 Dead
After Mamdani Lets Homeless Freeze
5. Josh Hammer: The Rise of the New Confederacy
6. Kenneth Rapoza: November Trade Deficit Returns
to Normal After October Lull; Record Goods Deficit Likely In 2025
The Enormous Cost of Failing to Treat Schizophrenia
By Tim Murphy, Bestselling Author of The Christ Cure
Its cost is driven by the failure to intervene early, provide sustained care, and recognize that neglect is the most expensive option of all.
A newly released study on schizophrenia exposes a hard
truth: The greatest cost of this illness is not treatment, it is neglect.
Schizophrenia affects roughly 1.2 percent of the adult population, (3.7
million), yet its annual economic burden has reached a staggering $366.8
billion. Most of this cost is not driven by medical care, but by poor,
delayed, or entirely absent treatment. The dominant narrative suggests that
serious mental illness is simply expensive. [more...]
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The Homeless Epidemic Takes a Tragic Turn
By Michele Steeb, Discovery Institute's Fix Homelessness Initiative
We're watching in horror as policy changes in New York City
recently caused the deaths of 16 homeless people who froze to death. Across
America's streets, the homeless epidemic is claiming lives,
fracturing families, and eroding public safety. Often deeply intertwined with
mental illness and addiction, it has become a humanitarian crisis that traps
vulnerable individuals in cycles of dependence and despair while destabilizing
the communities around them. This crisis has been worsened by policies that
elevate the notion of "freedom" over timely, life-saving
intervention. Recent events make the consequences of that choice unmistakably clear.
When public policy relies on voluntary compliance alone, this version of "freedom"
becomes a slow, preventable death sentence for those least capable of
protecting themselves. The result is a system paralyzed by fear of
intervention, even as untreated illness escalates into violence, loss, and
irreversible harm. [more...]
The Never-ending Struggle Against Socialism
By Todd Sheets, Author of 2008: What Really Happened
From the end of World War II until Reagan's
victory in the Cold War, we've fought to defend the Western values that had
finally lifted mankind up from the ash heap of history from international
socialists fighting to overthrow those values. Today, despite centuries of
evidence showing how disastrous socialism has been in practice, we are engaged
in an equally dangerous battle against those same forces within our own
borders. We can only hope that Trump's decision to de-escalate in Minneapolis,
his continued enforcement of immigration laws, and his various other
initiatives will ultimately lead to a victory as momentous as the one Reagan
delivered as the twentieth century came to an end. [more...]
Warmth of Collectivism - 16 Dead After Mamdani Lets Homeless
Freeze
By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center
It's cold in New York City. This isn't a harsh blizzard where
people stumble around and die walking down the streets, but it's colder than
usual (NYC winters have been light in past years) and the expanding population
of junkies and mentally ill addicts hanging out on the street are at risk of
going to sleep and never waking up again. Zohran
Mamdani, who leveraged a predatory saturnine grin and the graphic arts squad to
take over the city, has no idea of how to deal with it for dropping the policy
of pushing homeless vagrants into shelters ahead of cold freezes instead of
letting them stay in encampments. The current total is 16 dead. [more...]
The Rise of the New Confederacy
By Josh Hammer
...and Trump's clear legal precedent to respond to Minnesota.
Minnesota AG Keith Ellison and his Minnesota's Democratic Party
leadership confreres argue that the constitutional federalism articulated in
the Tenth Amendment and its corollary of "states' rights" can shield
the Land of 10,000 Lakes from the long enforcement arm of federal immigration
law. Ellison and Minnesota Democrats claim that by declaring their state and
cities to be illegal alien "sanctuaries," they can "nullify"
federal immigration law. Democrats in America have a long and inglorious
history of invoking "states' rights" and shirking federal law. It has
never ended well. [more...]
November Trade Deficit Returns to Normal After October Lull;
Record Goods Deficit Likely In 2025
By Kenneth Rapoza, Reporter/Columnist for Coalition for a Prosperous America
The November trade deficit numbers returned to a more normal
figure, with the services surplus still in the $20 to low $30 billion range,
and the goods deficit jumping from the October lull. A few immediate
takeaways here from Thursday's Bureau of Economic Analysis' (BEA) spreadsheet:
Any cheering over the October goods deficit falling to a low $58.9 billion was
misplaced. Assumptions that the October
trade figures were an example of tariffs working were a bit impatient. We
needed to see November and December import data to set a trend and that trend
was quickly reversed. The November goods deficit was $86.9 billion. [more...]
