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Raining on Medicaid Expansion’s Parade
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Healthcare, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US North Carolina is becoming the 40th state to adopt Medicaid expansion with Republicans putting it over the top like they did in Virginia. Medicaid expansion is the government health program for childless able-bodied adults making up to 38 percent more than the federal poverty level. It’s how the Democrats claim so many more […]
Mask Mandates in Healthcare Facilities are the Evilest of them All
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Aaron Hertzberg Of all the odious evils prosecuted by the government and medical establishments throughout the pandemic, mask mandates remain the paradigmatic visual symbol of the senseless capital-‘S’ Science quackery so destructive to society that contributed nothing towards mitigating covid disease or transmission. Thankfully, mask mandates have become so politically toxic that the mainstream […]
Planned Parenthood Pivots To Hormones As A Major Funding Stream
/in Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Emma Wilenta In the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, many speculated that Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, would struggle to continue to turn a profit. This, however, has not been the case. Rather, it has turned to an alternative high-demand service: transgender hormone therapy. Planned Parenthood is not new […]
Giving New Heart to the Wounded
/in DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Catholic Thing Note: The following text is a slightly edited version of remarks that the author gave recently at the Catholic Information Center in Washington D.C. to mark the publication of her book Adam and Eve After the Pill, Revisited, with an introduction by the late Cardinal George Pell. – Robert Royal Mary Eberstadt: As pressure mounts on […]
Congresswoman demands answers over D.C. children’s hospital Youth Pride Clinic’s ‘life-altering gender procedures’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier It’s about time. There’s much work to do to start protecting children from a dangerous element of the trans community that has mutated into a cult, and is now inflicting grooming and mutilation upon children, allegedly without parental consent. 🚨BREAKING EXCLUSIVE REPORT🚨 .@ChildrensNatl admits in damning audio recording that they do “gender affirming” […]
Weekend Read: Hillsdale College’s Imprimis – America’s Broken Health Care: Diagnosis and Prescription
/in Featured, Healthcare, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy John Abramson The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on March 5, 2023, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on “Big Pharma. I developed a serious cardiac arrhythmia, ventricular tachycardia, seven years ago. It worsened over the past summer and early fall, and over the past six weeks I’ve […]
Transgenders
/in Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky This topic somehow has become one of the most important subjects in America. It is characterized by some as “the civil rights fight of our time.” A recent column by one of the “sterling” columnists at the New York Times finally made me address this issue. Jamelle Bouie belongs to the chorus […]
Sen. Rand Paul, Rep. Chip Roy To Introduce Legislation To Eliminate Fauci’s NIAID
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Texas Rep. Chip Roy will introduce legislation Thursday that would eliminate the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the bill, which is titled the NIH Reform Act. The bill would specifically replace the NIAID with […]
Supreme Court Vacates Ruling that Minors Have Constitutional ‘Right’ to Abortion; One Justice Dissents
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council The U.S. Supreme Court has vacated a lower court’s opinion asserting that underage girls possess a constitutional right to have an abortion without notifying their parents. Only one justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented that her colleagues effectively erased the pro-abortion decision from the books, preventing lawyers from citing it as a […]
J.K. Rowling: ‘There is something dangerous’ about transgender movement ‘and it must be challenged’
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch Despite vicious woke attacks against acclaimed Harry Potter author J.K Rowling, she refuses to back down from her warranted criticism of the trans movement, which has gone out of control. “I can only say that I’ve thought about it deeply and hard and long and I’ve listened, I promise, to the other side. I […]
Mortality Rates for U.S. Children and Teens are Rising for the First Time in 50 years
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities President Joe Biden is so concerned about the future of American children that he inserted a mandate for affordable child care into a major bill authorising subsidies for vital semiconductor manufacturers. “Lack of childcare is a significant barrier to labor force participation,” tweeted economist Joseph Stiglitz. Policies like these have the potential […]
Third Reich Eugenics in America’s Hospitals—Part Two
/in DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Kelleigh Nelson READ: Therapeutic Nihilism by The Lords of Healthcare—Part One “The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the Feeble-Minded and Insane classes, coupled as it is with a steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate. Winston Churchill in a […]
Moderna CEO Said He Knew in 2019 a Lucrative Pandemic Would Happen
/in Featured, Healthcare, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado During the January 18 World Economic Forum (WEF) panel State of the Pandemic at Davos 2023, Moderna CEO said, “When the [COVID] pandemic happened, Moderna had made a hundred thousand doses in 2019 for the whole year. And I remember walking after those into the office of my other manufacturing and I […]
Woke Universities Sacrificing Science on the Altar of Ideology and Profit
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Healthcare, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Three case studies from Canada and Australia about suppression of heterodox opinions in universities. Two thousand five hundred years ago the Greek playwright Aeschylus is reputed to have said “the first victim of war is truth.” Recent events in the academic world have demonstrated that truth is also a […]
A Wasteland of Corpses, Living and Dead: A Devastating Inside Look at Phoenix’s Homeless Zone
/in Featured, Healthcare, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Corinne Murdock Intense poverty, frequent crime, social instability, high mortality, poor living standards: these qualities describe third-world countries. They also describe “The Zone”: the sprawling encampment of over 1,000 homeless in downtown Phoenix just blocks from the state capitol and amidst what was once a thriving business district. It’s an area where law and […]
What the WHO Is Actually Proposing
/in Featured, Healthcare, National Security, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy David Bell The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently developing two international legal instruments intended to increase its authority in managing health emergencies, including pandemics; (1) Amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR), and (2) A pandemic treaty, termed ‘CA+’ by the WHO. The draft IHR amendments would lay out new powers for […]
Lying to Ourselves
/in Featured, Healthcare, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Theodore Dalrymple One of the peculiarities of our age is the ferocity with which intellectuals and politicians defend propositions that they do not—because they cannot—believe to be true, so outrageous are they, such violence do they do to the most obvious and evident truth. Agatha Christie (a far greater psychologist than Sigmund Freud), drew […]
Thousands of Schools Won’t Tell Parents About Kids’ Gender Transition: Report
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council More than 5,000 schools across the nation allow teachers to hide a child’s decision to identify as a member of the opposite sex from the child’s parents. The parental exclusion policy — which is heavily advocated by LGBT lobbying groups and applies to more than 3.2 million children nationally — has […]
WATCH: Biden Says Opposing the Mutilation of Children Is ‘Close to Sinful’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch Old Joe Biden appeared on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show Monday night, where the guest host Kal Penn, star of the deathless classic Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, asked him about same-sex marriage and boys who want to become girls and girls boys. In response, Biden struck a moral tone, suggesting that support for same-sex […]
Therapeutic Nihilism by The Lords of Healthcare—Part One
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Kelleigh Nelson “Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one or it may be a physical […]
‘Murder!’: Jane Fonda’s Homicidal Call to Action Against Pro-Lifers
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Friday morning, on the infamously progressive talk show “The View,” 85-year-old actress Jane Fonda made a disturbing recommendation for dealing with pro-lifers: murder. The remarks came amid a conversation regarding Fonda’s pro-abortion activism, particularly in the months following the Dobbs Supreme Court decision last June. As hosts Sonny Hostin and Joy Behar simpered […]
Hospitalized With, or Hospitalized For? (A COVID Revelation)
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jon Sanders You can fool all of the people some of the time; you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” The fact that this quote is attributed either to Abraham Lincoln or P.T. Barnum perhaps testifies to its originator’s bona […]
Department of Energy’s Lab Leak Bombshell Exposes the Utter Bankruptcy of ‘Experts’ and the Media
/in Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jarrett Stepman In 2020, if you thought it was possible COVID-19 came from a lab in China you were labeled a conspiracy theorist, a peddler of misinformation, “bonkers,” and a racist. Facebook and other social media removed the lab leak claim from their apps or slapped “misinformation” labels on it. Facebook did so in […]
‘Horrifying’: Huge Proportion Of Children Pursuing Gender Transitions Are Actually Autistic, Experts Believe
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Adolescents with autism are overrepresented in the youth transgender population, and some medical professionals attribute this to autism spectrum traits such as obsessive thinking, vulnerability to body image issues and a sense of social rejection and isolation during adolescence. Dr. Susan Bradley, a Canadian psychiatrist who began working with gender dysphoric […]
Doctors Around the World Say It’s Time to Stop the Covid Shots
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report People are dying, young people, but still the Democrats are mandating it for children and banning unvaxxed athletes like Novak Djokovic from entering the country. By: Jennifer Margulis, Joe Wang, Epoch Times, March 11, 2023: Recently “COVID-19” and “Fauci” have been trending on Twitter. And when you click on those hashtags, […]
The ‘Trans’-Fem Debate: The National Version of ‘My Wife is Always Right’
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Selwyn Duke “A pox on both their houses,” we may say, when wishing both sides in a contest could lose. I surely feel this way, too, with the “transgender” vs. feminist debate over men masquerading as female entering women’s sports and private spaces. Oh, I don’t fence-sit. Not only have I likely written more […]
Med School Walks Back Alleged Race-Based Programs After Federal Investigation
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Alexa Schwerha The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) revised or eliminated several scholarships and programs accused by medical watchdog Do No Harm Senior Fellow Mark Perry of being discriminatory after a federal probe was launched, Do No Harm reported. Perry filed a complaint in September 2022 against eight scholarships and programs offered by […]
Are We Medicating Millions of ADHD Children without Scientific Justification?
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Yaakov Ophir “As glasses help people focus their eyes to see,” medical experts from the American Academy of Pediatrics rule, “medications help children with ADHD focus their thoughts better and ignore distractions.” In their view, as well as in the view of multiple other expert consortiums, the most appropriate way to treat the “lifelong […]
As Fentanyl Deaths Reach Historic Highs, White House Claims Fentanyl at Border Is at ‘Historic Lows’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Healthcare, Immigration, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre asserted that the level of fentanyl present at America’s southern border is currently “at historic lows.” Amid calls for the Biden administration to secure the border after the deaths of two kidnapped Americans in Mexico at the hands of a drug cartel, observers […]
House Unanimously Votes To Declassify COVID-19 Intelligence
/in DrRichSwier.com, Healthcare, National Security, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The House of Representatives unanimously voted Friday to declassify intelligence detailing the emergence of COVID-19. All 215 present Republicans and all 204 present Democrats voted to pass Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley’s legislation, which previously passed the Senate by unanimous consent. The White House has not signaled whether or not President […]