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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Friday that it did not know that a Baltimore factory had discarded millions of possibly contaminated doses of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine when President Biden last month released the company to ship vaccines manufactured there to Mexico and Canada. Canadian and Mexican officials said on Friday that they had assurances from AstraZeneca that the millions of doses they received were safe. Some of the doses have been distributed to the public in both countries, the officials said. Biden administration officials said they had not vouched for the quality of the AstraZeneca vaccine doses made at...

In a new James O’Keefe video doctors, staffers, and a top official are captured on hidden camera speaking about the problems that continue to plague the Department of Veterans Affairs. VA doctor tells undercover Project Veritas journalist: “We’re way below water in terms of the ability to supply, to meet the requests that’s demanded.” According to VA Undersecretary/ Brigadier General: “Once you’ve entered the appeals process all bets are off, the only solution to that is changing the law or more people.”

It's a hardy perennial in the more philosophically-oriented conservative circles, despite its manifest political infeasibility: the argument that the Seventeenth Amendment should be repealed or should never have been passed. While this argument does have its virtues, I disagree. Regardless of whether it was a good idea at the time, repealing the 17th Amendment today would only weaken the mechanisms that are essential to conservative policies and conservative philosophy. Specifically, restoring to state legislatures the power over the election of Senators would make the Senate less directly accountable to the people and insulate the federal courts even further from public...

The D.C. Council vented frustration yesterday about crumbling schools and hundreds of potential teacher layoffs by saying the city could find money by eliminating high-paying salaries and jobs in the school system's central administration office. "It's never about that big, humongous central administration office," said D.C. Council member Kwame Brown, at-large Democrat. "I want to see some additional cost savings there before we start laying off teachers." The discussion came before the council narrowly rejected a proposal by council member Kathy Patterson, Ward 3 Democrat, to use $10.7 million from other city agencies to help avoid the layoffs.

ITunes Customer Wants A Bite Of AppleChris Crum | Staff Writer | 2005-01-06 http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050106iTunesCustomerWantsaBiteofApple.html Thomas Slattery of California has filed a lawsuit against Apple claiming that it is not fair that he has to use an iPod to listen to iTunes songs. According to the lawsuit, "Apple has turned an open and interactive standard into an artifice that prevents consumers from using the portable hard drive digital music player of their choice." A BBC News article claims that, "Mr. Slattery called himself an iTunes customer who ‘was also forced to purchase an Apple iPod' if he wanted to take his...

District 1 selects Hilliard Wilder Former Clarendon 2 superintendent to lead Summerton schools By SHARRON HALEY Item Staff Writer shaley@theitem.com SUMMERTON — Dr. Rose Hilliard Wilder was chosen Tuesday to replace Dr. Clarence E. Willie as superintendent of Clarendon School District 1 beginning Oct. 11. After meeting behind closed doors for 40 minutes in a special called meeting Tuesday, the District 1 board of trustees voted unanimously to offer the position to Wilder, who was sitting in the audience. Willie left District 1 to become superintendent of Fairfield County School District, a job Wilder held from July 2001 until July...

The parish nurse began to unravel the unusual pattern one Sunday in June when she went on the Internet and entered the title of that day's scheduled sermon at National City Christian Church. The Rev. Alvin O'Neal Jackson, a charismatic preacher and leader of the denomination, had chosen his subject and titled it "Sorry Mr. President, I Don't Dance." But the search engine Google revealed that a sermon with the same title had been delivered months earlier by the Rev. Thomas K. Tewell, pastor of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City. The nurse, Kathy McGregor, then went to...

There has been a recent tremendous hubbub over at The New York Times on the subject of one Jayson Blair, who apparently spent most of his "journalism" career fabricating news pieces for his various employers (like the Times and the Globe). Some have suggested that Jayson was allowed to get away with his transgressions against the facts because political correctness rules all at his place of employment. Jayson appears to be a member of a protected class at The New York Times. Do other national daily newspapers have similar "protected class members" in their newsrooms? At The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, there...