Sunday Links Posted on February 9, 2025February 9, 2025 by John C. Goodman Gingrich: Goodman Institute is right on eliminating waste. Why we had a baby boom. Betsy DeVos: “Since its creation in 1979, the Department of Education has sent well more than $1 trillion to schools with the express purpose of closing the gaps between the highest and lowest performers. Today, those gaps are as wide as they have ever been, and by many measures, even wider.” Forever chemicals: “No one has figured out how to destroy the compounds, whose fluorine-carbon bond is the single most stable in organic chemistry, at scale.” Why is the CDC sitting on three bird flu studies? A Medicaid block grant would save $670 billion over 10 years.