Month: May 2022

New Behavioral Vaccines Raise Unsettling Questions

In its 2016 to 2020 strategic plan, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), promoted the promise of “anti-addiction vaccines aimed at eliciting antibodies that block the effects of a specific drug.” Certainly addiction is a huge problem, with opioid addiction leading the way, taking more than…


Senate Candidate in Pennsylvania Files Lawsuit Forcing Mail-In Ballots Without Handwritten Date to Be Counted

Republican Senate candidate David McCormick filed a lawsuit on May 23 to ensure all mail-in ballots submitted without a handwritten signature are not disqualified in the tightly contested GOP primary election for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. The lawsuit, filed in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, seeks to compel all of the state’s 67 counties to count ballots that were…


Texas Moms Demand Revision of Textbook That Encourages Withholding Info From Parents

A parental rights watchdog is calling on the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) to redact an online curriculum that it believes encourages withholding information from parents about their child’s mental and physical health. In an email sent to a board member about language included in textbook publisher Goodheart-Willcox’s instructional material, Moms for Liberty alleges…


Airbnb Announces Domestic Business Withdrawal From China

Airbnb announced Tuesday that it will discontinue domestic operations in China and instead focus on serving Chinese users traveling abroad amid the ongoing COVID-19 lockdowns in China. The San Francisco-based company said in a letter posted to its social media account that it will remove all Chinese listings and experiences from its platform on July…


US Starts Process to Release Vaccine for Monkeypox: CDC

Doses of the Jynneos vaccine are being released in the United States to prevent monkeypox amid rising cases in the past few weeks in several countries not endemic for the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There are more than 1,000 doses of the Jynneos vaccine that were approved in the…


New Australian PM Promises ‘Ambitious Action’ on Climate Change

Freshly minted Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is pledging an ambitious climate change agenda in line with U.S. President Joe Biden, including sending foreign aid to developing nations. Albanese met with the leaders of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue in Tokyo just days after he won the May 21 federal election. The leaders addressed a range…


DC Attorney General Sues Zuckerberg Over Cambridge Analytica Data Breach Scandal

Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine on Monday filed a lawsuit against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly failing to secure millions of users’ data during the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. The 37-page filing (pdf) accuses Facebook, now known as Meta Platforms, of violating the district’s Consumer Protection Procedures Act by misleading users about how…


Australian Liberal Senator Says His Party Needs to Stop Their Leftist Experiment

In the wake of the Liberal Party’s election loss on Saturday, Liberal senator for South Australia, Alex Antic, has stated that his party needs to stop catering to the left side of politics and return to the centre-right, where the Liberal Party values lie. “And the reality is here that this is a centre-right conservative…


Imagine the Compliance

Commentary Don’t say you weren’t warned. The onslaught against individual liberty is ramping up big time, especially among governments and self-designated elites whose guiding passion is to run your life. One prominent source of this animus against liberty is the World Economic Forum, the Davos-based coterie of nanny-state busybodies. Their most recent large-scale initiative is…


Uproar over Abortion Views Cause Victorian Liberal Party to expel Veteran MP

Victorian state MP Bernie Finn has been expelled from the Liberal party after it passed a motion on May 24. This comes after the state Opposition organised a meeting at the state parliament and asked its members to vote on Finn’s party membership. The conservative MP, who has been a member of Victoria’s upper house…