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A Louisiana mother is threatening to sue, claiming that her 16-year-old son was vaccinated for COVID-19 while at his Jefferson Parish high school without her consent. Jennifer Ravain alleged that during a visit by an Ochsner Health System mobile vaccination clinic to East Jefferson High School, her son was allowed to sign a consent form and receive a COVID-19 vaccination despite the Louisiana Department of Health requirement of a parent’s signature for persons under 18 being vaccinated, WWL-TV reported. G. Shelly Maturin, Ravain’s attorney, told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Ravain “is not necessarily against vaccines, but she wanted...

Democrats' proposal for a new billionaire's tax to pay for Joe Biden's Build Back Better agenda has hit a public stumbling block just hours after the proposal was rolled out Wednesday. It was introduced by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore) earlier today. Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass), chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, said on Capitol Hill the tax is 'out of the Biden plan.'

A new public benefit corporation backed by billionaires Reid Hoffman, George Soros, and others is launching Tuesday to fund new media companies and efforts that tackle disinformation. Why it matters: Good Information Inc. aims to fund and scale businesses that cut through echo chambers with fact-based information. As part of its mission, it plans to invest in local news companies. The group will be led by Tara McGowan, a former Democratic strategist who previously ran a progressive non-profit called ACRONYM. ACRONYM invested in for-profit companies that built media and technology solutions for progressive causes. It ran one of the largest...

Novel obesity treatments such as modulation of the gut microbiome and gene therapy are underutilized and could help fight the obesity epidemic, according to a new manuscript published in the Endocrine Society’s journal, Endocrine Reviews. Nearly half of the adults and 20 percent of children in the United States have obesity, yet doctors are under prescribing effective weight loss medications and many patients are not receiving the treatment they need. The weight stigma that exists in healthcare settings makes people with obesity hesitant to seek care until comorbidities develop and reach a dangerous stage. Lack of insurance coverage and cost...

Type 2 diabetes is a condition that around one in 10 Americans deal with on a daily basis. When you factor in the costs of changing diets and lifestyles, doctor visits, and drugs for managing blood sugar, diabetes is not just a health burden — but a financial burden as well. Now, researchers in Finland say eating more whole grains significantly reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Moreover, their review finds adding more whole grains to the public’s diet will substantially cut down the economic costs that come with treating diabetes. Study authors say the target should be...

1. Former Communist News Network camera operator arrested for threatening to kill Matt Gaetz. 2. 2. The Senior Skank wants to know if there is a way to remove a sitting VP (i.e., Kampuchea)? (Links & images at the site---25 stories)

Hi. Can anyone recommend some good Christian authors and novels? Or even if not overtly Christian, just clean and well-written novels written by intelligent people? I really don't enjoy the romance-type books where everything wraps up perfectly at the end. I'm looking for realistic stories. Thank you in advance.

SNIP A new study out Tuesday reports that far too often, small amounts of industrial chemicals called phthalates (pronounced THA-lates), which are used to make plastics soft, have been found in samples of food from popular outlets including McDonald's, Pizza Hut and Chipotle. George Washington University researcher Lariah Edwards, professor Ami Zota and their colleagues purchased 64 fast-food items from national burger chains McDonald's and Burger King; pizza chains Pizza Hut and Domino's; and Tex-Mex chains Taco Bell and Chipotle, all around San Antonio, Texas. The study found harmful chemicals in a majority of samples collected. Phthalates are linked to...

Louisiana is going to lift the statewide indoor mask mandate, except for schools that allow parents to decide whether to quarantine their kids after a COVID-19 exposure in the classroom, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Tuesday. “I stand here today optimistic, relieved that the worst of the fourth surge is very clearly behind us now,” said Edwards, who reinstated the mask mandate in August as the state faced an increase in COVID-19 cases driven by the Delta variant of the virus. He said the improved situation was a “direct result” of the people who chose to get vaccinated and follow...

Wendy Martinez is also the star of Project Veritas’ second video that was just released. This time, she exposed how the governor has secretly given tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to illegal aliens in New Jersey. By her estimates, the total that the governor has given to date is somewhere around “$40 million” and he has plans to shell out a lot more… Yep, you guessed it. AFTER he is able to secure re-election. Martinez: “It [money] was for the excluded workers – for the undocumented workers. I think it’s $40 million, something like that, and to designate that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed two prominent anti-Trump Republicans to serve in the Biden administration on Tuesday with former Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona approved to serve as the ambassador to Turkey and Cindy McCain, the wife of the late Sen. John McCain, approved to serve as the ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture. The Senate also voted to confirm former Democratic Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico to serve as ambassador to New Zealand and Victoria Reggie Kennedy of Massachusetts, the widow of former Sen. Ted Kennedy, to serve as ambassador to Austria. The...

The man then goes on a racist rant about being black, seemingly referring to punching the woman for speaking out while being white. The woman's boyfriend was standing beside her but seemed shell-shocked over the incident.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. immigration authorities will no longer make routine arrests at schools, hospitals or a range of other “protected” areas, under new guidelines released Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security. As part of a further effort to make immigration more targeted, agents and officers are being directed to consider the impact of enforcement actions on communities as well as “broader societal interests,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in announcing the new guidelines. “We can accomplish our law enforcement mission without denying individuals access to needed medical care, children access to their schools, the displaced access to food...

A surgeon in Minnesota who told the local school board that parents should be the ones to decide whether their children wear masks has been fired from his job. Dr. Jeffrey Horak appeared before the Fergus Falls school board on October 11, where he told officials that masks should not be ordered, but rather voluntary. “You mandate this across the road — that’s a tough place to go,” Horak told the board, according to Fox News. “Who does God put in charge of these kids? Their parents. God gave each one of these kids… to their parents and they speak...

... A new study says that putting a high-paid diversity bureaucrat on the school payroll may actually make things worse for black and Latino students. No, that sound you’re hearing is not a nationwide cicada infestation: That’s just 10,000 heads being scratched in school administrators’ offices. You mean, all those diversity hucksters who said we could close racial gaps by hiring lavishly paid diversity hucksters were just in it for themselves? Yeah, and you should think about feeding the shredder with all of those Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo books about how you should blow $15,000 or so to...

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Dominion (Utility) has been funneling piles of cash to a Democrat dark money group that’s posing as a conservative outlet upset by Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin’s supposed squishiness on the Second Amendment. The political news outlet Axios reported in late September that the Accountability Virginia operation has ties to Democratic activists and is funding an ad campaign in which the Democrats pose as conservatives “to drive a wedge between the Republican candidate for Virginia governor and his core voters.” The ads on Facebook, Instagram, Google and Snapchat target rural areas of the state that support Youngkin, and the ads question...

People genetically predisposed to mental health disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and anorexia nervosa prefer to live in urban areas as adults, a study published Wednesday by JAMA Psychiatry found. Those with higher genetic risk for these disorders were 5% to 10% more likely to "preferentially move" from rural to urban areas as adults, the data showed. This means that people with more genetic mutations who increase their risk for mental health problems are drawn to urban environments, which is significant, given that city-living long has been associated with increased risk for schizophrenia, the researchers said. "This study adds...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Angus King, a Maine independent who caucuses with Democrats, said he won't support ending the Senate filibuster that has enabled the Republican minority to block key portions of President Joe Biden's agenda, further complicating Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's drive to pass voting rights and other measures.

It's buried somewhere in the wilds of the CDC website, I haven't been able to find the original source. Need the CDC source URL to post a vaccine related reply on nextdoor. *sigh*