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Do you remember how we got out of the mandates for smallpox? Most of my readers won't remember it, probably because it happened over 135 years ago. Here's the amazing story of what happened.Steve Kirsch Image from article - historical black and white protest against compulsory vaccinationThis insight comes from one of my readers, A Midwestern Doctor who Writes A’s Newsletter (which was just launched 3 hours ago).In turn, he got it from the amazing book “Dissolving Illusions” by Dr. Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk which describes the history of vaccines, public health, and the anti-vax movement (which started in...

Explanation: This is what the Earth looks like at night. Can you find your favorite country or city? Surprisingly, city lights make this task quite possible. Human-made lights highlight particularly developed or populated areas of the Earth's surface, including the seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan. Many large cities are located near rivers or oceans so that they can exchange goods cheaply by boat. Particularly dark areas include the central parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The featured image, nicknamed Black Marble, is actually a composite of hundreds of pictures remade in 2016 from data...

Andrea Suchy-Shinn owns six rental properties in St. Paul, at least half of them open to low-income tenants subsidized by federal Section 8 housing vouchers, but she's in the process of selling. Her townhomes in the Selby-Dale neighborhood likely will be converted into condominiums. Her triplex off Congress Street, on the city's West Side, is poised to be sold to a new owner who may not accept new tenants who rely on federal vouchers to pay the rent. "It'll be up to him," Suchy-Shinn said. "Right now, he says the Section 8 tenant that's currently there can stay." Her reasoning...

Friends it's Sunday night again and time to relax. Warm up the tubes for another 4 hours of classic radio Americana. Listen LiveInfo *tonight's show will be available at the "Info" link starting tomorrow.

Coca Cola's social division and political bias have placed the business on the wrong side of history on multiple occasions. Unfortunately, it's becoming a pattern. The manufactured image of Coke as an American patriotic drink, sending the message both at the front and at home that drinking Coca-Cola was synonymous with fighting against the enemies of freedom and democracy. Yet Coca-Cola was sending this message to its public. It was also doing business in Nazi Germany, where apparently the "Coca-Cola logo rested comfortably next to the swastika." This leads one to question whether or not the Company should have attempted...

On Grace Schara’s last day, she had been given a combination of a sedative, an anxiety medication, and morphine leading up to her time of death at 7:27 p.m. on Oct. 13, 2021.With an armed guard standing near the doorway of her room at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton, Wisconsin, Jessica, Grace’s sister and patient advocate, screamed at nurses she saw standing in the hallway begging them to help Grace, who had been admitted to the hospital on Oct. 6 after testing positive for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus on Oct. 1.Grace felt cold after the 6:15 p.m. morphine...

According to a report just filed by Special Counsel John Durham, lawyers for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign paid a technology company to “infiltrate” servers belonging to Trump Tower and the White House in order to fabricate a narrative connecting Donald Trump to Russia. Durham’s filing focuses on potential conflicts of interest related to the representation of Michael Sussman, a former lawyer for the Clinton campaign. Sussman has been charged with making a false statement to a federal agent. He has pleaded not guilty. The indictment against Sussman alleges that he told then-FBI General Counsel James Baker, less than two...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Police are searching for suspects who reportedly shot a Corvette driver after he refused to race. Police said the incident happened early Sunday around 5 a.m. on Raleigh Lagrange Road. Prior to the shooting, the suspect and the victims got into an argument about racing among other topics, according to a police report. At some point, the driver of the Mustang blocked the Corvette in a parking lot. The Corvette’s driver managed to get away and that’s when he was shot. Incidents like these are a cause for concern for community members. These type incidents are not...

Sunday’s "State of the Union" featured a critique of President Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by CNN host Jake Tapper. A preview of Biden’s pre-Super Bowl interview aired on "NBC Nightly News" with Lester Holt on Thursday. In the segment, Biden admitted that he rejected the U.S. Army investigative report that argued the administration was not prepared to pull out troops from Afghanistan in August.

“The country needs the police to do their job,” said Blair, a former Toronto police chief After police cleared the Ambassador Bridge Sunday morning, talk turned to how to deal with the Ottawa protesters, with a senior Liberal cabinet musing about bringing in the War Measures Act. “We have an emergency act that I will tell you, there has been a near-constant and vigorous examination of those authorities and what’s required,” Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said in an interview on CTV’s Question Period Sunday. When circumstances exceed the capacity of the provinces to manage it under their authorities, we’re...

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission is my favorite federal agency. Not only do they serve a purpose explicitly designed to help normal people by holding businesses accountable for shoddy products, they also post some dank-ass memes. I may even go as far as to argue that the USCPSC's social media manager, Joe Galbo, is one of our greatest living American heroes (seriously, I could not recommend the interview at that link more highly). Case-in-point: to mark the occasion of National Pizza Day, the USCPSC reminded its followers that nearly three-thousand people were so severely injured in pizza-related incidences in...

KYIV, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during phone call on Sunday invited U.S. President Joe Biden to visit Ukraine, the presidential office said. "I'm convinced that your arrival in Kyiv in the coming days, which are crucial for stabilizing the situation, will be a powerful signal and contribute to de-escalation," the presidential office quoted Zelenskiy as saying in a statement.

“‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven’” (Matthew 5:3). Achieving humility doesn’t mean merely putting yourself down. Because of sin, you are already spiritually down, whether you know it or not; humility just recognizes this truth. Furthermore, this recognition comes only from God, which is why asceticism, self-denial, and other human efforts are so futile in seeking humility. Yet even though genuine humility results from God’s sovereign, saving work, He still commands it of men and women (cf. Matt. 18:4; 23:12; James 4:10; 1 Peter 5:5). Therefore it is always helpful to remember some...

The “Holy Grail” of virtually limitless clean energy from nuclear fusion reactors is within reach after a major breakthrough, scientists believe. An “artificial sun” burning at 150million degrees smashed the world record, helping the UK-based research team retake the lead in a global race that also involves China, the US and tycoons such as Jeff Bezos. More than 4,800 scientists from the UK and across Europe are busy working on the Joint European Torus, or JET, an experimental reactor in Abingdon near Oxford. Today they announced the intense ring of fire it contains – superheated to ten times hotter than...

Independent voters give former President Donald Trump an edge in a hypothetical 2024 head-to-head matchup against President Joe Biden

A CNN headline on Sunday compared Joe Rogan's use of the "N-word" in several episodes of his show to January 6, before the outlet altered the headline by removing the analogy. The article, which is classified as an analysis, is titled, "Joe Rogan's use of the n-word is another January 6 moment." The analysis opened by noting Rogan "did not join a mob" and rush and deface the Capitol, before nonetheless making the comparison. CNN has since changed the headline to read, "Why shrugging off Joe Rogan's use of the n-word is so dangerous."

FIRST ON FOX: Unearthed Hillary Clinton tweets from days before the 2016 presidential election show the candidate pushing now-debunked information that Donald Trump was using a "covert sever" linking him to Russia. Just a day after Fox News first reported that Special Counsel John Durham alleged that lawyers from her campaign had paid to "infiltrate" servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an "inference" and "narrative" to bring to government agencies linking Trump to Russia.

Walter Shaub A congressional stock trading ban is likely to pass. So some members are trying to push competing bills with a spousal loophole that they can drive a truck through. Let’s be clear: a congressional stock trading ban is worthless if it doesn’t cover spouses.

Rudy Giuliani is in active discussions regarding testifying before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and potentially responding to some of the committee's questions, sources familiar with the matter confirm to ABC News. The extent of the cooperation remains to be seen and no deal is anywhere near final, the sources said. Sources have told ABC News that the negotiations could easily dissolve. Giuliani was subpoenaed by the committee last month to appear for an interview last week. "Mr. Giuliani's appearance was rescheduled at his request," a committee aide told ABC News on...

Cyber security expert J. Alex Halderman's sworn testimony that his 12 week investigation of Dominion Voting Systems' machines "identified multiple severe security flaws that would allow bad actors to install malicious software." Plaintiffs in a case challenging Georgia's continued use of these machines want Halderman's report made public. On February 2, U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg ruled that the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) should have a look at the report before any decision about making it public is rendered. The CISA opposes immediate release of the findings because "more time is needed to assess the risks and how...