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Richard Williams is a senior affiliated scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and former director for social sciences at the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

Over the decades, Americans have bought into many falsehoods — cigarette smoking is safe, for example. Some false beliefs are relatively benign, while others — like smoking — are deadly. The belief that mentally ill people cause mass murders is likewise grievously harmful and untrue. The truth is that the United States exceeds every country in the Western world in death by guns and in overall gun ownership. Massive gun ownership lays the groundwork for these mass killings to happen.

In a recent White House proclamation, President Biden called for Congress to pass the “Freedom to Vote Act,” which imposes national Election Day voter registration requirements, automatic voter registration and mail-in voting requirements on states. While researching my book, “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections,” I found a startling metamorphosis for Biden.

Food and Drug Administration officials believe they should be funded when they fail. In their 2023 budget request, they ask for a 34 percent increase, to $8.4 billion, from direct and indirect taxpayer funding (i.e., user fees). In 2019, the FDA’s budget was only $5.7 billion. From 2000 to 2021, it increased by 541 percent. As food writer Matt Siegel put it, many believe that the “FDA is too overtasked and underfunded.”This perspective is half right.

Many of us have been reminded over the last two years just how important it is to have safe, effective, and accessible pharmaceutical drugs and a functioning healthcare system. Unfortunately, as we continue to deal with COVID-19 variants, Congress and the White House are targeting innovators with price controls in reconciliation and through Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), pursuing a blanket ban of commonly used chemicals the FDA deemed safe and effective.

Former President Bill Clinton, appearing on Fareed Zakaria’s program on CNN, summed up the migrant relocation by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this way: “Look, he’s sending Venezuelans who were coming here, fleeing the successor to Hugo Chavez’s disaster because the guy doesn’t want to go, and he has no economic answers. Right? So he (DeSantis) sends them to Martha’s Vineyard. Why? Because Martha’s Vineyard symbolizes where the elite goes on vacation.

Winston Churchill used to advise young people to read “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations,” the oft-updated compilation of brief quotes from just about anyone who said something memorable. Of course, Churchill added more than a few of his own. He may have added more to the storehouse of aphorisms than any writer since Shakespeare. But others have been no slouches.

Storms should never be taken lightly. Hurricane Ian is a fresh reminder of what we know too well, that nature’s beauty can turn savage when the skies darken and the wind picks up. One such catastrophic event brought out the worst the elements can inflict on man, followed by the best of man helping his fellow man. All within the same coastal community. Galveston, Texas was a bustling place in the summer of 1900.