The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is blaming barriers to high-quality prenatal care and systemic racism for the alarming 30 percent increase in newborn syphilis cases in the past year, but the real cause is much more complex than…
On National Football League playoff games, Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs has been promoting vaccines for new COVID “variants,” to be conveniently taken “two things at once,” with the annual flu shot. Before they follow Kelce’s advice, fans…
Suicides in the United States have been rising for a long time — and, according to provisional numbers released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this week, they’ve now risen even higher. This past year, 2022, totaled…
Saying one thing while doing another is a practice most would seek to avoid. However, for social media giants like Meta, Google, and others it is simply business as usual, particularly when it comes to free speech. The U.S. Court…
When President Biden established the Disinformation Governance Board in 2022, it was dubbed his Ministry of Truth, evoking the dystopia of George Orwell’s 1984. That Board was a project in censorship. “Disinformation” is the deliberate propagating of “misinformation.” But what is…
The Food and Drug Administration approved the latest COVID booster shots from Pfizer and Moderna on Monday. While 57 percent of Americans intend to get the latest shots, the nation remains sharply divided along party lines over the boosters, according…
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has stayed District Judge’s Terry A. Doughty’s July 4 injunction in the free speech case Missouri v. Biden. This injunction forbade vast swaths of the Biden administration from urging social media platforms to remove or deprioritize users’ lawful…
Confession: I chestfed my baby. Chestfeeding is a real thing. When my very premature babies were born at 24.5 weeks gestation weighing 750 and 810 grams respectively, they were intubated because they could not breath on their own. On day…
Some of our nation’s politicians seem to know very little about basic economic principles despite constantly proposing legislative action on economic issues. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) and Rep. John Bowman (D–N.Y.) now want federal regulators to impose rent control on…
Hey, who’s ready for the holidays? Your writer, that’s who. I hate being this damned busy before Christmas. There’s nowhere near enough drinking, and I’ve got to carve out late-night time to watch cheesy Christmas movies. Not to mention that…