American Academy of Pediatrics pushes mRNA shots for babies against HHS guidance — as Health Canada approves Pfizer’s LP.8.1 mRNA injection for infants. In the United States, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued new recommendations that infants as young as 6 months should receive COVID-19 mRNA booster injections. This…
In a bold and controversial video recirculating on social media, Dr Leonard Coldwell, challenges conventional views of cancer, arguing that tumors are not malignant invaders but protective mechanisms created by the body to contain toxins. “The tumor is working on keeping you alive,” he says. “Cancer is not even…
Clarity in thinking or writing is extremely rare. Nearly always, we get ducking, dodging or just plain lying, with the entire US political establishment especially adroit and shameless at these practices. American writers, even dissident ones, are also expert at dancing around obvious truths. How bracing, then, to wake…
And the state never kills a large government program or admits it was wrong. There’s a funny story about a Pennsylvania farmer traveling to Washington D.C. during the Civil War to complain to President Lincoln that his Union Army was wrecking his fields and harassing his livestock. Lincoln replied…
In 1990, the primary demographic for loud, guitar-based music was young white men. The most prominent type of music genre which provided loud, guitar-based music to young white men in 1990 was heavy metal, as it had been for the last several years prior. Heavy metal promoted aggression, machismo, and…
Even the “suck on this” version of Thomas Friedman was nicer than this one. Metaphor master Thomas Friedman, in the New York Times this morning: Can anyone identify a single U.S. diplomat in Moscow or C.I.A. analyst who is advising [U.S. chief negotiator Steve] Witkoff and…
It seems that all of the conventional opinion of America’s chattering class is condensed and printed once a week in the pages of the New Yorker. In normal times, this process yields some good writing and reporting. In certain periods, the magazine has produced some magnificent work. But we have…
Nothing changed due to yesterday’s meetings. Ukraine offers $100bn weapons deal to Trump to win security guarantees (archived) – Financial Times, Aug 19 2025 Ukraine will promise to buy $100bn of American weapons financed by Europe in a bid to obtain US guarantees for its security after a peace…
Knoxville’s IndiaFest last weekend thrilled Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett. He sent out not one, but two X posts declaring he had a great time at the event. The posts drew fierce criticism from the denizens of the Online Right. They couldn’t believe a conservative congressman would celebrate Indian migrants. But Burchett doubled-down…
When Kanye West, more popularly known as “Ye,” recently released a song titled “Heil Hitler,” it was not the first time a hip-hop artist’s rhetoric strained Black-Jewish relations. In 1989, Professor Griff of Public Enemy made antisemitic claims in an interview that set off a media firestorm and…
