Many organizations with dubious intentions have continued to promote unsubstantiated use of ivermectin for COVID-19. This has led to a dramatic rise in ivermectin prescriptions and a flood of calls to U.S. poison control centers for ivermectin overdoses.
Trump already helped get two Democratic Senators from Georgia elected because his cries of "election fraud" were taken by his supporters to mean that their votes would not count. Now he's threatening to keep all his supporters home for the next elections.
Molnupiravir, another pharmaceutical mouthful, sounded like a nice breakthrough and very needed. Good news for a change. But it turns out to exceptionally good news for the executives and shareholders at Merck—from a profit standpoint.
The return on investment from the Pentagon budget is death. Investing in people sounds like a much better deal. Unless of course some military, pharma, insurance or oil lobbyist is paying your freight.
Only a small percentage of people who hold extremist views ever actually commit acts of violence, but the findings of a survey by University of Chicago reveal how many Americans hold views that could turn them toward insurrection.
After the Civil War, a propaganda campaign was launched against the recently freed African-Americans. They were labeled animals, shiftless, lazy, dumb, poised to take a white man’s job, but perhaps their biggest sin, the biggest lie propagated, was a suppose desire to rape white women. In other words, all lies, no facts.
My wife and I have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 for many months now. Since two weeks after that out last shot we have felt quite safe, even though as a moderately elderly asthmatic I am the apparent target market for the Covid-19 virus.
Over-reliance on fees, fines and forfeitures drives a wedge between police and the communities they serve. It's detrimental to both crime-solving and the profession of law enforcement.
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who waved firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters streaming passed their mansion last year have now pled guilty to misdemeanor charges and had to forfeit their guns to avoid prison time.
