As discussed in the introductory essay in this series, standard doctrine surrounding vaccines – pertaining to clinical trials, licensing, marketing, and vaccination schedules – is largely a pseudoscientific façade, constructed on a shaky foundation of falsehoods. In this series, we examine each of the five Big Lies propping up vaccinology, plus two “Honorable Mentions.” The…
Executive John Ameriks emphasized Vanguard’s core view of the crypto sector hasn’t changed, seeing the asset class as highly speculative. What to know: Vanguard’s John Ameriks likened bitcoin to a “digital Labubu,” viewing it as speculative rather than a long-term investment. Ameriks emphasized Vanguard’s core view of the crypto sector hasn’t changed, seeing the asset…
US Southern Command announced on Monday that Joint Task Force Southern Spear attacked another drug smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific, killing one male “narco-terrorist.” “Intelligence confirmed the low-profile vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” SOUTHCOM said in a statement. Low-profile vessels like submarines…
A special guest post by the iconic political cartoonist AF Branco Merry Christmas, everyone! Here’s a pleasant surprise just in time for Christmas… I’m political cartoonist AF Branco, and I’m proud to introduce The Frogleg Christmas Show–Ho Ho & New Year’s Jamboree. Frogleg is short for Intellectual Froglegs —and if you’ve never heard of Intellectual…
cartoon by the late Michael Leunig There goes a chunk — the sick and aged along with the huge apparatus of doctors, social workers, hospitals, nursing homes, drug companies, and manufacturers of sophisticated medical equipment, which service their clients at enormous cost but don’t help them very much. There go the college students along with…
Gun rights groups have labeled legal arguments advanced by the Trump administration in an ongoing lawsuit as the “most anti-Second Amendment” ever filed by a Republican administration. Gun Owners of America (GOA), a leading gun rights organization, has strongly condemned a brief filed by the Trump-era Department of Justice, calling it an “alarmingly expansive theory…
The Federal Communications Commission and the Trump administration have introduced new legislation and a new rule that would further erode local governments’ ability to limit the rollout of 5G small cells. On December 3rd, the House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced a package of fifteen bills that would reduce the ability of local municipalities to regulate…
Do you remember all of those people over the years that warned us that the cost of living would eventually spiral out of control? It turns out that they were right. Our leaders flooded the system with trillions upon trillions of new dollars, and now we have a real life nightmare on our hands. The…
Almost 100 mayors in the state of Minnesota have sent a letter to state lawmakers complaining about the fraud scandal and how it is going to impact the communities they serve. They are clearly not happy with the leadership of Governor Tim Walz and his connections to the fraud scandal that has rocked the state…
Brown University campus security chief Rodney Chatman. Credit: Brown University Brown University has (finally) placed campus security chief Rodney Chatman on leave. It’s difficult to see how they could have avoided this. There are simply too many unanswered questions about how the shooter so easily gained access to the building where the shootings occurred. Especially…
