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How to Think about the Drug Crisis

By Charles Fain Lehman Almost nobody is taking America’s drug crisis seriously. To be sure, the ever-mounting deaths attract headlines. They get a mention in the State of the Union, or on the campaign trail. But based on the outcomes, policymakers appear to have more or less given up. Some numbers put the problem in […]

Which is More Frightening: Global Warming or Demographic Winter?

By MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Ross Douthat holds the dubious distinction of token conservative at the New York Times. Of course, what passes for conservative at the Times doesn’t hold a candle to what’s considered conservative here in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Nonetheless, Mr Douthat leads me to believe that his employment notwithstanding, he may be aware […]

5 Ways Doctors Could Get Better Payment From Insurers

By Justin Nabity @ Physicians Thrive Physicians and insurance companies have a complicated relationship. They both depend on each other but also seek to maintain their own margins. In the end, it is the patient that typically comes out as the winner regardless of this rocky relationship. That being said, physicians need to be adequately […]

1 in 4 High School Students Identify as Homosexual

By The Geller Report Almost Half Students at Ivy League University Identify as LGBTQ+ — Doubling the Share. The poison fruit of radical LGBT education in schools. At one Ivy, The number of heterosexual students went down 25.2% and homosexual students went up 26% from Fall 2010 to Spring 2023. 1 in 4 high school […]

Fauci, Collins Bagged 58 Royalty Payments Amid $325 Million Collected By NIH

By Tyler Durden Editors’ Note:  This information seems to go even beyond what is called “regulatory capture.” Rule making agencies often lack expertise and hence tend to recruit personnel from the very companies they regulate. Progressives argued that “market failure” required the guiding hand of bureaucrats to correct abuses. However, in this case, regulators actually […]

Why Prostitution is Not ‘Sex Work’

By National Center on Sexual Exploitation Since the 1970s, a tactical and politically driven agenda has been advanced to promote the global sex trade. This agenda has rested on the reframing of prostitution along two seemingly disparate lines, one being the promotion of prostitution as ordinary work, and the other being the promotion of prostituted […]

Weekend Read: Revolutionary State of Mind

By Peter Hitchens Editors’ Note: The debate about legalization may not really be the debate. Smoking tobacco is legal, but restricted. Advertising is banned and its use is now severely frowned upon in today’s culture. Even the tobacco companies themselves must fund education against their own product. But marijuana gets a pass. It is an […]

When the Transgender Movement Kills

By Family Research Council The most common question transgender activists use to bully parents into approving their daughter’s lifelong dependency on experimental hormone injections is: “Would you rather have a living son or a dead daughter?” But the tragic story of Abigail Martinez’s daughter, who took her own life after attempting to transition to life as a […]

The FDA Can Say—and Do—Anything It Wants

By John Droz, Jr. For example, they can’t be sued for providing false or dishonest information. This is an extraordinarily important commentary! The gist of a current court case that you’ve likely never heard of, is that three heroic doctors are suing the FDA about the loss of their jobs, about their careers being derailed, […]

Nature’s Proximal Origin [Covid] Paper Was a Work of ‘Fraud and Scientific Misconduct,’ Say Scientists Demanding a Retraction

By Jon Miltimore A trove of recently published documents reveals that authors of the Proximal Origin paper believed that the lab leak scenario was not just possible, but likely. A growing number of people, including prominent scientists, are calling for a full retraction of a high-profile study published in the journal Nature in March 2020 that explored the […]

Shocking Photo of Jill Biden at ‘Mannys’ Drag Queen Event

By Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. A recent photo of Jill Biden in San Francisco was just posted online, you will find it below. The Bidens hide a lot of things in their life but one topic not at all hidden or quiet is their divisive political agenda. Family and traditional values which helped make America […]

Biden Regime Concedes No Evidence Behind Recommendation for 6 COVID Booster Shots a Year

By The Geller Report What’s different than any of their other Covid policies? There was never any science behind their totalitarian, injurious horror. This regime is evil and dangerous. Biden Admin Concedes No Evidence Behind Recommendation for 6 COVID Booster Shots a Year By Zachary Stieber, August 7, 2023: President Joe Biden’s administration concedes that there is […]

U.S. Authorities On Alert After Discovering New Chinese Migrant Smuggling Route in Florida

By Dr. Rich Swier Federal authorities are growing increasingly concerned about a route Chinese migrants are utilizing to make their way to Florida illegally, according to an internal federal intelligence report obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The report states that law enforcement lacks information regarding who is coordinating the smuggling between the Bahamas […]

Medical Malpractice Insurance – Everything You Need To Know As A Physician

By Justin Nabity @ Physicians Thrive All content presented here and elsewhere is solely intended for informational purposes only. The reader is required to seek professional counsel before beginning any legal or financial endeavor. For those working in the healthcare industry protecting yourself is essential. Malpractice insurance for doctors is an extra but essential expense […]

Leftists Attack, Then Blame Responding Conservatives as Culture War Aggressors

By Family Research Council Old dogs sometimes do learn new tricks. And President Joe Biden is so pleased with his latest attainment — criticizing Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) for delaying military promotions over the Pentagon’s illegal abortion policy — that he is showing it off just about everywhere. This month, Biden has bashed Tuberville’s courageous, […]

It appears that Pfizer employees had a special batch of vaxx just for them, not the same as the public was made to take

By Vlad Tepes Blog Thank you M: The Gateway Pundit – Pfizer Executive Can’t Provide Definitive Answer Why Its COVID-19 Vaccine Causes Myocarditis and Pericarditis During Australian Hearing Pfizer Under Question The company was very reluctant to attend the committee hearing and also reluctant to supply a straight answer, automatically falling back on their ‘safe and […]

Gavin Newsom’s Office Funded Illegal, Secret Chinese Biolab Found With Infectious Material, Viral Agents

By The Geller Report “I’ve been in government for 25 years. I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Nicole Sieba, Reedley City Manager, to Your Central Valley. Last week I wrote about the discovery of a secret China-linked biolab in an ostensibly empty warehouse outside Fresno California. Covertly operating for a year, it was shut […]

How to Lose a War

By The Catholic Thing How to Lose a War David Carlin: If we elect not to defend the teaching on homosexuality that dates back to the Age of the Apostles, and even earlier into Jewish tradition, the faith our descendants inherit will be no more than a shadow of the Catholic faith handed down by […]

How Refreshing: An Actual Debate on Transgenderism on Capitol Hill

By MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities “I am a detransitioner. Another way to put that would be I used to think I was born in the wrong body, and the adults in my life, whom I trusted, affirmed my belief. And this caused me lifelong, irreversible harm. I speak to you today as the victim […]

Majority Of Heat Deaths In Maricopa County Due To Meth

By Corinne Murdock A majority of heat deaths in Maricopa County are attributable to methamphetamine, according to the latest Maricopa County Department of Public Health heat deaths report. 53 percent of heat deaths involved meth last year, or 226 deaths. 67 percent of deaths involved some type of substance abuse. The county noted that the proportion of […]

The U.S. Military Is Quietly Using A Little-Known Program To Enable Child Sex Changes

By The Daily Caller The U.S. military is quietly making accommodations for military families with children or dependents seeking gender transition help through a little-known program initially meant to assist families with special needs members. Through the Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP), the military has allowed special assignments for servicemembers so their dependents can access gender transition services, and could take […]

Oklahoma Governor Signs ‘Women’s Bill Of Rights’ Defining ‘Female’ And ‘Mother’

By The Daily Caller Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed a bill into law which defines the words “female” and “mother” in order to “bring clarity, certainty, and uniformity” to state laws. The bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Jessica Garvin, told the Daily Caller in January that the bill would protect women from men invading their single-sex spaces. “There are states […]

The Disaster of “Free” Universal Health Care

By Mark Wallace When a Far Left screed like The New York Times publishes a first-page article that is harshly critical of some “free” or low-cost socialist program, you know that (1) it’s got to be really, really bad, and (2) what The New York Times is writing about it just has to be true.  […]

People Are Questioning? It’s About Time

By Mark Oshinskie During the luncheon following a recent family funeral, people reminisced about my Uncle Bob, whom I never met. Bob, trained to translate Russian, was shot out of the sky while flying at 20,000 feet in a 17-person Air Force plane over Soviet Armenia on September 2, 1958. He was not yet 23. […]

Watch My Interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that YouTube Removed

By O’Keefe Media Group After deciding to release my full podcast interview with Presidential Candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., YouTube decided that the discussed topics didn’t fit within their allowable content. YouTube removed my podcast interview with RFK Jr. due to COVID-19 misinformation. This is not the first time I’ve been censored by a major platform […]

The Terrifying Reality of GitHub: How Any of Us Can be Exploited in Seconds

By National Center on Sexual Exploitation Let’s play a game. Raise your hand if there’s a picture of your face online. Now, raise your other hand if there’s one of your daughter, your girlfriend, your sister, or any other loved one. It’s probably safe to assume that most or all of you have both hands […]

‘Barbaric Pseudoscience’: Detransitioners, Clinicians Implore Congress to Halt Transing of Minors

By Family Research Council The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Thursday addressing the dangers and due process violations of “gender-affirming care” for children. Dr. Blaire Peters, a “gender-affirming” surgeon, admitted that doctors in this field are just learning as they go. “We’ve maybe done a handful of pubertally suppressed adolescents as a field, and no […]

One in Six Democrats Believes Violence Is Justified to Restore Abortion: Poll

By Family Research Council One in every six Democrats believes that “force [is] justified to restore abortion rights,” a new poll has found, underscoring the secular Left’s growing support for political violence. The number of Democrats backing abortion-related terrorism has doubled, from 8% to 16% since January — a period when multiple states have enacted pro-life protections. In all, 31 […]

Democrats Join GOP in Alarm at Treatment of Unaccompanied Minors by Becerra’s HHS

By Family Research Council As the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S. border reaches unprecedented highs, concerns are growing that the ongoing border crisis is fueling a rise in the abuse of minors through sex trafficking, forced labor, and other forms of exploitation. On Wednesday, during a House Oversight Committee hearing to address the […]

Judge Halts Arizona Transgender Sports Ban, Horne Promises Appeal

By Cameron Arcand A federal judge ruled against Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne in a lawsuit over banning transgender girls from participating on girls’ sports teams in schools. Arizona District Court Judge Jennifer Zipps, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, ordered a preliminary injunction that will allow girls who identify as transgender […]