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The FDA is meeting on October 26th to give advice to parents on vaccination for children ages 5-12 and the Biden administration is poised to roll out vaccines for this age group for COVID-19. Is this a good idea and what information do parents need to make this decision for their kids? I am not a pediatrician -- I am a recently retired Internal Medicine doctor. I am not an anti-vaxxer. I have taken all the vaccines that have gone through the usual approval protocol for my age group. I have prescribed vaccines for adult patients for 35 years. I...

Most journalists and other Democrats like to pretend that they want to unite the country, but their rhetoric and actions are always meant to sow division. Most journalists and other Democrats like to pretend that they want to unite the country, but their rhetoric and actions are always meant to sow division. No matter which Republican the Democrats are running against, or what policies they are supporting, most of the media and other Democrats always resort to playing the race and sex card. They call Republican’s xenophobes, homophobes, and whatever other despicable name they can think of. They even frequently...

How to respond to the coronavirus pandemic has been a major issue in the Virginia’s governor’s case. Democrat Terry McAuliffe, the former governor seeking his old job, has supported vaccine mandates, while Republican Glenn Youngkin has opposed them. Youngkin has been vaccinated, and has encouraged coronavirus vaccination. But McAuliffe has labeled him an “anti-vaxxer” because, McAuliffe charges, Youngkin sends a different message when he goes on right-wing radio or speaks to conservative audiences. In speaking about the threat of the coronavirus to the state, McAuliffe frequently touts numbers — often wrong numbers about the impact on children. When we first...

Starting yesterday, the unvaccinated are prohibited from stepping inside a gym, theater, or restaurant without a negative COVID-19 test. If huge crowds at SEC college football games are any indication, much of the country has moved on from the media's ticker-induced COVID-19 hysteria. Conversely, in the dystopian Pacific Northwest, Governor Jay Inslee's reign of terror against the unvaccinated goes largely unchallenged and unabated. According to Marty Makary, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, citing an Israeli study of more than 700,000 people, natural immunity from infection confers 27 times more protection than the jab. And yet,...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemJob 14 His sons used to hold feasts in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would make arrangements for them to be purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular custom. _______________________________________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

The supply chain crisis and fuel shortages that will harm Americans this winter and beyond have been created by dumb, but deliberate, government decisions. During World War II, U.S. coal companies ran radio advertisements cautioning people to buy only what they needed for immediate use. The government anticipated needing to use much of the available coal to keep pace with the urgent demand for it by the military. Eventually, the U.S. government rationed gasoline and oil, too. Eighty years later, electric utilities are once again warning Americans that we could be in for a long, cold, dark winter. However, the...

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Tech and IT workers' resignations risk "spiralling out of control" as chronic burnout, limited career progression, and unrealistic demands from employers prompt technology industry employees to jump ship. New research by training platform TalentLMS and Workable, a provider of recruiting software, suggests that tech and IT workers are likely to be planning an exit soon. In a survey of 1,200 tech and IT workers in the US, nearly three-quarters (72%) said they intended to quit within the next year. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the quit rate in the US hit a record high of 4.3...

Inflation, empty shelves, energy prices, Chinese hypersonic missiles, Taiwan, Afghanistan and trhe border she's in charge of fixing are of less interest to our intrepid Veep. Kamala Harris took to Twitter to announce the issuance of “the first ever National Gender Strategy,” as if that were more important than her assigned duty of taking charge of the border, not to mention the multiple other crises that are making most Americans poorer and endangering out national security. Oh, and by the way, driving down the polling for the Biden administration. You’ll be relieved to know that it covers both equity and...

Old-school Democrats are screaming at the Hard Left as the storm clouds gather.A rare snippet of truth surfaced on MSNBC Monday morning, and it came from a somewhat shocking source.You’re aware of Donny Deutsch, right? He might win the prize for the most typical ruling-class Democrat in America. Deutsch comes from the advertising field — he inherited a New York ad agency from his father, which he unloaded on a larger company and pocketed $265 million. What did Deutsch like better than crafting advertising messages and placing media? Going on TV, of course. CNBC gave him a show from 2004-08,...

Once you understand how our society is almost hardwired to embrace endlessly failing leftist solutions, you can learn how to avoid those same mistakes. The whole Progressive, Leftist enterprise can be characterized as the astonishing practice of trying to improve things by making them worse. It has always been so. A hundred years ago, half of Moscow, at one time or another, languished in jail, while the other half feared being arrested. The Muscovites who were still at large were forced to wait in long lines for provisions that remained in short supply. Agriculture had been disrupted by cockeyed regulations....

The Administration hopes to sell a bill of goods to reluctant senators: Other countries are raising corporate taxes, and so should we. That’s not likely to work; if the Biden increase goes into effect, only Portugal and Colombia will have higher corporate tax rates than the U.S. Its other argument is more nefarious. Long story short, the Administration now wants to change the way companies calculate their tax liabilities on international profits. Combined with the new global tax regime just negotiated, U.S. companies could be hit hard with higher taxes.

Loudoun County, Virginia is emerging as the American epicenter of official school corruption and deceit, and the facts become more disturbing the closer we look. Girls need protective dads. So do boys. God designed fathers with the instinct to defend and stand in the gap for their children, and those who would mischaracterize or dishonor that motive are not to be trusted. Loudoun County, Virginia is emerging as the American epicenter of official school corruption and deceit, and the facts become more disturbing the closer we look. In a heated Virginia political climate, subterfuge is metastasizing day by day. Instead...

Apparently the in-the-know Bishops have no idea what Synodality even means. We're in good hands, folks. ...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin released a new ad on Monday, featuring a mother who pushed to have the 1987 novel "Beloved" banned from her son's English curriculum in Fairfax County, Va. roughly eight years ago. Laura Murphy is the centerpiece of the 60-second ad, titled "McAuliffe Shut Us Out," which details her push to require schools to tell parents if books in their child's curriculum contained explicit content and allow students to opt-out of reading the material. Murphy said she met with lawmakers, who agreed with her on the issue. "It was bipartisan. It gave parents a say, the...

Thousands of people are challenging the vaccine mandates. For them the “get shot or get fired” ultimatum is a bridge too far. Southwest Airlines recently discovered that such pressure isn’t working when they had to cancel a lot of flights because they didn’t have staff. Locations with Lockdown Lefty Lunatics in charge are losing people. Over a thousand people a day are moving to the Free State of Florida where mandates are strongly discouraged. But federal courts are ruling in favor of mandates right and left. Why? Welcome to the Supreme Court. In 1905 (Jacobsen v. Massachusetts, 197 US 11)...

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Police in Seattle went undercover to break open what they said was a trafficking ring involving the sale of expensive stolen goods: Lego, taken from an Amazon store. Saying they had seized 171 sets, police released a picture showing the boxes stacked together. Biden urges action on infrastructure and spending in New Jersey speech: ‘Let’s get this done’ – as it happened Read more The accused store owner denied knowingly selling stolen goods, protested against the picture and said he would fight the resultant charges. According to one expert, Lego theft and trafficking has become a major concern....

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson was back in public last week, taking part in a University of Virginia live stream event hosted by Larry Sabato. “Before we leave,” Nelson interjected near the end of the live stream, “I haven’t even talked about the search for extraterrestrial life.” … “Now I know what you’ve seen is what those Navy pilots saw in 2004,” Nelson said during the live stream chat. “And there have been some three hundred sightings since then.” “I’ve talked to those pilots,” Nelson added, saying that “they know they saw something, and their radars locked on to it. And...