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Nearly Half of All U.S. COVID Cases Are This New Variant

The latest SARS-CoV-2 variant, JN.1, was first detected in the U.S. in September 2023. By mid-December, it accounted for about half of all COVID cases in the country,1 and calls to get the latest “updated” COVID shot resumed. Cases associated with this variant are also on the rise in the U.K., China and India.2

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rapid spread of JN.1 suggests it may be more transmissible and/or has greater immune-evading abilities:3

“JN.1 is si...

What’s the Source of the Astounding 50% Boost in Corporate Profits?

No wonder Corporate America added $1.2 trillion in profits to be distributed to the elites of America: everything is diminished, stripped of quality and rendered miserable. Too bad there’s no real competition left in the US economy.

One of the most extraordinary economic marvels of the past decade is the astounding 50% leap in corporate profits, from $2.4 trillion (pre-tax) pre-pandemic lockdown to $3.6 trillion (pre-tax) in the years since the lockdown ended.

Strangely, few seem to ask the sour...

69% of Germans Support the Farmers’ Protest

Undeterred by the protesters’ popularity, the press continue their smear campaigns, while “Extremism researcher” Matthias Quent demands that the farmers paint rainbows on their placards to repel Nazis.

Almost 70% of Germans support the great farmers’ protest, and only 22% are opposed, according to a new INSA survey. The support is present across the political spectrum but strongest on the right, with 88% of AfD voters siding with the farmers. By comparison, Letzte Generation enjoys the support o...

Spectacularly Shabby and Sordid Corruption

ZeroHedge just reported allegations pertaining to the Trump prosecution in Atlanta—allegations that seem too spectacularly shabby and sordid to be true. Indeed, even a satirical novelist as zany as Carl Hiaasen would probably hesitate to make up such a ridiculous farce.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis hired her secret lover to serve as special prosecutor in the Georgia racketeering case against Donald Trump and 18 other defendants, according to a Monday filing on behalf of Mike Roman...

40 Years in Jail for a Marijuana Offense

When I read an article yesterday by a man named Edwin Rubis, I sat there, shook my head, and asked myself how any government could do such a thing to anyone.

The reason that Rubis’s article caught my attention is captured in the title of his article: “I’m Serving 40 Years in Federal Prison. Here’s a Glimpse Into My World.” That title intrigued me because I have often wondered what daily life is like for prison inmates. Do they sit around all day reading books? Do they work out? Do they have jobs...

The Food Police

The world, said James Boswell, is not to be made a great hospital; but to a hammer everything is a nail, and to doctors and medical journals everything is either a medical problem or a medical solution.

Looking at the website of the Journal of the American Medical Association today, I came across a paper with the title “Effect of an Intensive Food-as-Medicine Program on Health and Health Care Use.” It was published just above “A Young Pregnant Person With Old Myocardial Infarction.”

Could that p...

Here’s a Sample Short Story

This will be different from my usual Substack posts. As many of you know, I started out writing fiction, and still consider myself primarily a novelist, even though I’ve only had one novel published. I also wrote a bunch of short stories, which like all my fiction invariably wind up venturing into Twilight Zone territory.

I’m thinking of posting my short stories (maybe even my poetry- I have even more of that) on Substack, including it in the paid option. Free subscribers will still get all of m...

Family of Ashli Babbitt Files $30 Million Wrongful Death Action

The long-awaited tort action from the family of Ashli Babbitt has now been filed in Southern California. Babbitt was shot and killed on Jan. 6th and her family is seeking $30 million in a wrongful death action. Equally important, the lawsuit could force additional answers to why Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd shot and killed the unarmed protester as she attempted to climb through a window near the House Chamber. I have previously raised concerns over the shooting as conflicting with governing s...

Take a Stand: The Dangers of Prolonged Sitting

Interestingly, evidence of the biological effects associated with lack of movement go further back than you might think — straight into the human fossil records, as reported by NPR in 2014 (audio above).

According to biological anthropologists at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the fossil record suggests that when early man traded their nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyles for a more settled one, it resulted in a less dense bone structure. As reported by NPR:2

“The lightweight...

Was Ronald Reagan a Neoconservative Rhino?

Did Reagan Drain The Swamp?   Did Reagan expose Bush?   Did Bush go to jail for the Iran-contra Affair?   Reagan largess credit was the demise of communism in Soviet Russia.   But he is also responsible for the inadvertent transfer of that communist ideology into Washington via George Bush.  An ideology that united The Bush’s with the Clintons and Obamas in the Fall of America.  

The Heritage Foundation was founded in 1973 to advance anti-communism doctrine.   The Foundation dictated Reagan poli...