South Korea Detains Its President, but Crisis Is Far From Over | New York Times
- South Korean citizens, government representatives, and everyone in between showed incredible strength and commitment to democracy by detaining former president Yoon. The swift justice administered by the governing party and law agencies is a testament to have elected representatives around the world should be treated. No one is above the law, especially when working corruption gets to a point where representatives are trying to dismantle the system that empowered them for their own gain. If the U.S. showed this level of strength and commitment to its own internal democracy we wouldn’t have a second Trump administration. It makes us look like fools.
- Healthcare in this country is so backward in certain ways that it’s upsetting even to those who haven’t had to deal with the system personally. What’s even more upsetting is the government has been inactive for decades to combat it. A program enacted in 1990 by Congress delegated the ability to negotiate lower drug prices to an outside company. That company in turn makes hundreds of millions in revenue a year through fees associated with the program. So we first have private middleman companies profiting off the sick. What’s WORSE is this program that was envisioned to lower medications costs has done the OPPOSITE in repeated cases. This middle-man corporation finds lower medication costs for hospitals. Hospitals then take those savings and charge ABOVE the market rate for those drugs than hospitals that are NOT getting the lower medication costs. Everything is so backwards.
Supreme Court will hear Texas anti-pornography law that challengers say violates free-speech rights| Associated Press
- To what degree should pornography be regulated for both adults and minors? What falls under the first amendment right to free speech and expression and what are common sense protections? When does the price of regulating pornography for minors impede adults’ consumption? All questions that the Supreme Court will be debating on as over a dozen states around the country try to pass laws that require age verification to access pornography sites within their respective states.
Rubio Is in Spotlight on Second Big Day of Cabinet Hearings | New York Times
- One of Trump’s more sensible cabinet picks, Marco Rubio for Secretary of State, seems up to the task. Rubio’s views are much more widely accepted than many of Trump’s other cabinet picks. What is more notable is how Rubio has starkly different views on critical issues such as Russia. What’s left to be seen is how much Rubio will bend his personal views to accommodate Trump’s goals.