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Trust me, I’m a doctor” is a humorous expression that suggests one’s opinion should be accepted without question, regardless of whether the person offering the opinion has actual medical expertise or experience. The assumption is that physicians are knowledgeable, competent, and trustworthy. At one time, few would have questioned that assumption. ... Lies and coverups are a great way to destroy trust. Dr. Anthony Fauci and his cabal lied to the public about the origins of COVID ... and to conceal their illegal gain-of-function research. Additionally, it may have been to maintain and protect money flow from China to the...

Former left-wing congresswoman Cori Bush’s husband was charged on Thursday with defrauding the federal government to illegally collect tens of thousands of dollars in loans under COVID-era small business relief programs. Cortney Merritts, who secretly married Bush in 2023, falsified details about his purported businesses in order to obtain more than $20,000 in loans from the Small Business Administration in 2020 and 2021 under the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program, the Department of Justice said in a statement. Bush represented St. Louis before suffering a primary loss last year that she blamed on the Jews. She...

It’s been eight years since I started to transition—and four years since I started to detransition. I realized my mistake when I was 16 years old. I’d tried to change genders before I was even a teenager... This week Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw will introduce a bill to protect kids from being forced down the dark road of gender transitioning... A huge number of US hospitals perpetrate this medical and moral monstrosity — 54, according to the medical nonprofit Do No Harm. Those hospitals gave nearly 14,000 sex-change treatments to kids between 2019 and 2023. More than 5,700 of those...

It was late in 1972 — a year in which the science of genetic engineering really began to sizzle — that two California researchers announced the unusually tidy transfer of genetic information from one bacterium to another with help from a specialized enzyme. It was a scientifically heralded result, but behind the hoopla was just one small catch. The information transferred enabled a common human disease bacterium, E. coli, to resist not just one antibiotic, but two. “Alarm bells should have rung,” writes Matthew Cobb, in his deeply researched and often deeply troubling history of gene science. And that nothing...

Some Democratic insiders are already expressing concerns over newly elected Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg just two weeks into his tenure in leadership. Hogg has already ruffled some feathers within the DNC for using the committee’s contact list to solicit donations for his own political action committee (PAC), Leaders We Deserve, according to a report from the New York Post. "David Hogg here: I was just elected DNC Vice Chair! This is a huge win for our movement to make the Democratic Party more reflective of our base: youthful, energetic, and ready to win," reads one of...

Bill O’Reilly made a stunning prediction Wednesday night on NewsNation’s Cuomo: Donald Trump is going to destroy NY Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. And Trump may just have an unlikely ally to make that goal a reality. O’Reilly claimed that New York Mayor Adams “knows where the bodies are buried” when it comes to James and Bragg, the two figures who aggressively pursued Trump in court. What he means by this is Adams may hold damaging information that could help Trump turn the tables on the prosecutors who have relentlessly targeted him. “I’m going to predict...

Are federal judges allowed to be on the boards of NGOs? Can they preside over cases that impact the funding of their NGOs?

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Tuesday that some Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) employees who worked on "mis-, dis-, and malinformation" were put on administrative leave. In a statement to Scripps News, DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote CISA needs to "refocus on its mission," starting with election security. "The agency is undertaking an evaluation of how it has executed its election security mission with a particular focus on any work related to mis-, dis-, and malinformation," according to the statement. As first reported by Fox News Digital, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified in April 2022...

CNN — President Donald Trump is removing the head of the Office of Government Ethics from his post, the agency said Monday – the latest example of Trump acting against a government watchdog. The agency’s director, David Huitema, was confirmed to the post by the Senate in November and officially began the job in December. He had been nominated by President Joe Biden but had languished for more than a year in the Senate before lawmakers confirmed him by a 50-46 vote during a post-election lame-duck session.

...EXACTLY what she falsely accused President Trump of doing!

The hot news this week in politics has been the sober approach of Elon Musk and DOGE to federal spending outlays, specifically to USAID, and the wailing reactions seen from the Democrats and the intemperate criticisms of this in the press. The amazement in all of this has been the outrage that many have expressed over DOGE looking to eliminate wasteful, useless spending. This is apparently so contradictory to political thinkers as to appear like a hate-crime. Now, we are in the midst of an adjacent storyline, one involving Politico and other news outlets, and the federal spending involving these...

The Fulton County Board of Commissioners opted against allocating a substantial monetary increase for the county district attorney’s office when finalizing its 2025 fiscal year budget on Wednesday, perhaps bringing a monthslong standoff with DA Fani Willis into its next phase. The board allocated $39.3 million of its nearly $1 billion budget to the DA’s office, a figure that Willis has insisted will not allow her staff to properly carry out its duties. The adopted budget also fails to provide additional funding requested by other justice and safety partners, like the magistrate courts and the solicitor general. Capital B Atlanta...

SNIPThe disease afflicts nearly seven million Americans, about one in every nine people over the age of 65, making it a leading cause of death among older adults. SNIPOver the past 25 years, Alzheimer’s research has suffered a litany of ostensible fraud and other misconduct by world-famous researchers and obscure scientists alike, all trying to ascend in a brutally competitive field. During years of investigative reporting, I’ve uncovered many such cases, including several detailed for the first time in my forthcoming book.Take for example the revered neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah, whose groundbreaking research has shaped the development of treatments for memory...

DOLTON, Ill. – Embattled Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard was found in contempt of court Friday morning in a case over her alleged refusal to sign off on promised liquor licenses. Attorneys for the owners of St. Patrick’s, a three-story restaurant and banquet hall, said the business will finally be able to open after a judge found Henyard in contempt and forced her to sign the liquor licenses she’d allegedly been stonewalling for months. “It’s been a challenge to put it mildly. It shouldn’t be so difficult. This is an ordinary event to get liquor licenses issued,” Adrian Vuckovich, an attorney...

Andrew Slavitt, a former executive at the technology company tasked with saving HealthCare.gov and current second-in-command at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was granted an ethics waiver by the Department of Health and Human Services to begin working with his former company immediately.The waiver was granted despite Republican lawmakers’ concerns about Slavitt’s potential conflict of interest. The Daily Signal revealed those concerns in a story yesterday.Slavitt, a former OptumInsight/QSSI group vice president, left the company last month to work as the principal deputy administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs Obamacare and HealthCare.gov. His...

A charity led by Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) in 2018 illegally campaigned in support of Democrat Stacey Abrams's failed Georgia gubernatorial campaign that year, the group admitted before state authorities on Wednesday.Warnock was the chairman of the New Georgia Project when the charity and its affiliated dark-money group engaged in a full-bore effort to elect Abrams in 2018, the groups admitted during a hearing Wednesday. The charity, which Abrams founded in 2014 and from which she stepped away just before running for governor, effectively operated as an arm of her campaign that year, managing at least 10 field offices...

The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial When I learned the trans agenda targets gay, indigenous, fostered, lonely, autistic, & SA’d kids, that felt so evil, I couldn’t wrap my head around it. But now I’ve seen cases of transing severely incapacitated kids who already required lifelong care There is no ethical threshold. Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @BillboardChris In 2015, California social worker Aydin Olson-Kennedy helped raise money for this girl with Down Syndrome to get her breasts cut off. Did she have cancer? No. This girl, named Sky, had been told she was really a boy. She was already on testosterone and had...

LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - We have new details on the shooting death of a southern Kentucky man at the hands of London police. That warrant was for items stolen from property owned by the county’s judge-executive, David Westerfield. Now, audio reveals the call Judge Executive Westerfield made the next day to police. He called dispatch to ask about that stolen lawn equipment, and the deadly shooting was discussed. Police say man killed by officer pointed gun at them At one point, Westerfield raises concerns about police going to his property to speak with that homeless man, saying, “I don’t...

Former St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner failed "to make her job as circuit attorney her top priority," according to a report. Republican Missouri State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick released a 71-page report on Tuesday... The former Democratic prosecutor spent 34.5 working days, or about seven weeks, in the office during business hours working on her studies at Saint Louis University.. Gardner told auditors that she was pursuing a family nurse practitioner post-master’s certificate "to improve the office and bring mental health awareness" to the office....

The federal U.S. Judicial Conference on Thursday said it will not be referring Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to the Justice Department over allegations that he could have violated ethics laws. Thomas has been accused of violating the court's ethical guidelines by failing to report certain luxurious trips that was [sic] covered by close friend and mega Republican donor Harlan Crow. Thomas claimed he was told that he did not need to report the trips because of his close relationship with Crow and his wife. U.S. District Judge Robert Conrad, who serves as the conference's secretary, also noted that Thomas...