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    SMOKING GUN: HHS Focuses on ‘Anti-Racism,’ Contrary to Becerra’s Denials

    Published July 10, 2024
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    SMOKING GUN: HHS Focuses on ‘Anti-Racism,’ Contrary to Becerra’s public denials, documents show. by Tyler O’Neil The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden has received multiple recommendations to implement “anti-racism” in policy based on the premise that America suffers from “systemic racism,” even though HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra publicly denied […]
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    Chevron Decision Reins in Regulators

    Published July 10, 2024
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    The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a 40-year-old legal precedent that forced judges to defer to federal agencies in interpreting ambiguously written federal statutes. The landmark decision in Loper Bright Enterprise v. Raimondo on June 28 limited the authority of federal agencies, that set rules governing almost every aspect of Americans’ lives. By a six-to-three margin, […]
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    HHS Urged Crackdown on ‘So-Called’ Whistleblowers Exposing Gender Medicine

    Published July 10, 2024
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    An office of the Department of Health and Human Services that enforces medical privacy laws expressed concern last summer that “so-called” whistleblowers had exposed “gender-affirming care,” shortly after a surgeon disclosed that Texas Children’s Hospital was secretly transitioning children. Official video of an HHS committee meeting in July 2023 sheds light on the Biden administration’s agenda just days before […]
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    Bold Advocate for Health Care Integrity and Honesty—Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D. – Obituary

    Published July 9, 2024
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    Never afraid to swim upstream—even at the risk of professional retaliation from entrenched interests with good reason to fear her—Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D., never forgot that the calling of a physician is to treat patients in need of care. Singleton, aged 77, died unexpectedly on June 18, according to the Association of American Physicians […]
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    FBI Targets Child Trans Treatment Whistleblowers

    Published July 8, 2024
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    Two employees of Texas Children’s Hospital are facing the wrath of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) after blowing the whistle on the hospital’s alleged illegal secretive treatment of sex-confused children. In June, the DOJ indicted Eithan Haim, M.D., on four felony charges for exposing child transgender surgeries and hormone treatment of minors at Houston-based […]
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    ‘South Park’ Mocks Massive Health Care Dysfunction: Review

    Published July 5, 2024
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    Review of South Park: The End of Obesity (Paramount+), 50 minutes, 2024 The nation’s health care system has become so blatantly dysfunctional that the producers of the satirical television series South Park devoted an entire 50-minute episode to a serious matter—obesity—which manages to keep you laughing every single second. Granted, it’s South Park, where obscenities […]
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    Big Hikes in Seniors’ Drug Costs

    Published July 3, 2024
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    Seniors are facing major increases in premiums for Medicare prescription drug plans (Part D) as well as higher prices at the pharmacy, under provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Instead of lowering health care costs, the IRA is a “masterplan in cost shifting,” says Joel White, founder and president of Horizon Government Affairs, a […]
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    California Blocks Life-Sustaining Telehealth Treatment

    Published July 2, 2024
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    California licensing laws are blocking a patient’s access to care from a medical specialist in another state, leaving her to go without help or make a 14-hour car trip for treatment in person. Shellye Horowitz of Trinidad, California, suffers from a rare bleeding disease affecting women and girls known as hemophilia A. There are no […]
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    $27.9 Trillion Federal Deficit Bolsters Case for ‘Plan for America’ – Founders

    Published July 1, 2024
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    The nation’s $27.9 trillion federal debt, which is equal to 99 percent of annual gross domestic product (GDP), is one of the strongest reasons yet why Plan for America (PFA) is the “most viable, long-term solution,” say its founders. PFA is a voluntary alternative to Social Security and Medicare, that would also eliminate the national […]
  • Research and Commentary: New York Senate Wants Clear Terms of Services from Social Media Companies

    Published June 29, 2024
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    The emergence of social media has elevated political dialogue and discourse to a breadth nearly unimaginable a decade ago. When originally developed, these emerging technologies and mediums made the democratization of free speech possible. However, this mass communication network is managed by a handful of large techology firms that are protected from liability and functionally […]
  • Research and Commentary: New York Assembly Wants Clear Terms of Services from Social Media Companies

    Published June 29, 2024
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    The emergence of social media has elevated political dialogue and discourse to a breadth nearly unimaginable a decade ago. When originally developed, these emerging technologies and mediums made the democratization of free speech possible. However, this mass communication network is managed by a handful of large technology firms that are protected from liability and functionally […]
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    Michael Barone: COVID Showed That Our Health Bureaucracy is a System Sure to Fail

    Published June 28, 2024
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    Between 1998 and 2003, the budget of the National Institutes of Health was doubled. This was an extraordinary enterprise after the multi-year, post-Cold War decline in defense spending and at a time when government agency budgets tended to be increased marginally or carried over from previous years. It was a bipartisan project put into effect […]
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    U.S. Supreme Court Upends Purdue Pharma Opioid Settlement

    Published June 27, 2024
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    U.S. Supreme Court upends Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement that would extinguish claims against Sackler family members. By Walter Olson In today’s Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, the Supreme Court confronted a recurring issue in the context of mass legal settlements: Should the courts uphold individualized justice, in the form of each plaintiff’s right to pursue each defendant, even if […]
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    Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D., Medical Freedom Champion – R.I.P.

    Published June 18, 2024
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    The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons released the following news about Marilyn Singleton shortly after 10 pm ET on June 18, 2024: “Today we have some very difficult news to share. Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD, a longtime member of the AAPS family, a true heroine of American medicine, and valiant defender of the patient-physician […]
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    U.S. Supreme Court Ignores Precedents in Abortion Pill Case

    Published June 18, 2024
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    A U.S. Supreme Court ruling will keep the abortion pill available, with the justices declining to decide the merits of the case. In FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the high court ruled unanimously the plaintiffs lacked standing, meaning they did not show an injury to themselves, on June 13. The court did not rule […]
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    Marlboro Adds Puberty Blockers to Cigarettes to Make Them Legal for Kids – Satire

    Published June 17, 2024
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    From the Babylon Bee RICHMOND, VA – Cigarette maker Marlboro has announced that they have added puberty blockers to cigarettes to make them legal for kids. “Now that our smooth Marlboro cigarettes can block puberty, 13 and 14-year-old kids should be able to use them legally, without parental consent,” said a spokesperson for the company. […]
  • Why Lawmakers Shouldn’t Trust the Uniform Law Commission or American Law Institute—Two of America’s Biggest Threats to Freedom

    Published June 13, 2024
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    Introduction Among other activities, the American Law Institute and Uniform Law Commission impact society and public policy by drafting and proposing uniform legislation for adoption in all 50 states. Every state has numerous laws that were first developed by the ALI and ULC, the most notable of which is the Uniform Commercial Code, a far-reaching […]
  • Ensuring Students Learn the Truth About Communism

    Published June 13, 2024
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    For decades, the public education system in the United States has failed to accurately teach generations of American students about communism. Even worse, a new movement is afoot in middle schools and high schools in which vulnerable children are being indoctrinated with pro-socialist propaganda and neo-Marxist rhetoric. The infiltration of academia by socialist sympathizers goes […]
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    Premier Scientific Journal Nature Takes on ‘Climate of Fear’ Surrounding Research on Sex and Gender

    Published June 13, 2024
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    Nature, one of the world’s premier scientific journals, has acknowledged the importance of studying sex and gender differences and officially denounced the “climate of fear and reticence” that is stymying research on the topic. To that end, the journal in May launched “a collection of opinion articles” on the topic to be published over the coming months to […]
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    Biden DOJ Indicts Doctor Who Exposed Child Mutilating Surgeries

    Published June 12, 2024
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    Biden DOJ indicts doctor who exposed child mutilating surgeries and transgender hormones to minors at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. by  Patrick Hauf  The Biden administration indicted the whistleblower who exposed how doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston secretly provided sex alteration surgeries and transgender hormones to minors. Dr. Eithan Haim, now a general […]
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    California to Repay $52 Million in Improper Medicaid Payments for Migrants

    Published June 11, 2024
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    California to repay federal government $52 million in improper Medicaid payments for migrants’ health care. By Eric Lendrum The state of California has agreed to repay the federal government over $52 million following an investigation which determined that there were “improperly claimed” Medicaid disbursements to “noncitizens with unsatisfactory immigration status[es].” As Fox News reports, the payment […]
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    VA Now Covering IVF for Gay Couples and Unmarried Vets

    Published June 11, 2024
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    The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is expanding its coverage of in vitro fertilization (IVF) for service-connected infertility to gay couples and unmarried vets. The VA previously only covered IVF if the veteran was in a married relationship and could conceive naturally if not for an injury or a health condition resulting from military […]
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    Are New Cases of Measles Causing Undue Concern?

    Published June 10, 2024
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    Outbreaks of measles and other diseases are causing alarm in the media and public health circles, but public health critics say the risks are exaggerated. For example, Washington Post columnist Leana Wen, M.D., former Baltimore Health Commissioner and president of Planned Parenthood, criticized Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo for his ho-hum response to the “burgeoning […]
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    Measles, TB Outbreaks Prompt Calls to Vaccinate Migrants

    Published June 10, 2024
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    An Exclusive From the Washington Examiner By Anna Biaritelli The Biden administration is no longer vaccinating migrants in custody at the southern border ahead of their release into the United States, according to the federal agency and a vaccine provider contracted by the U.S. government. The federal government rolled back its flu and COVID-19 vaccination […]

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