The hippocratic oath—missing completely from assisted suicide discussion—taken by doctors states: “I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.” The American Medical Association’s official position is that it does not support doctor-assisted suicide. The US supreme court says there’s no constitutional […]
Canada is considered a world leader in doctor-assisted suicide, or “medical assistance in dying”—MAID, as they’ve termed it. And yet, just seven years ago, the practice wasn’t even legal until a unanimous Supreme Court struck down Canada’s law banning it. The court gave Parliament 12 months to write a new law and instructed that law […]
For the first time since it was enacted in 1996, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is being reviewed by the Supreme Court. Section 230 shields tech companies from being sued for what their users post, and it’s considered what allowed the internet to grow into what it is today rather than having been […]
Mike Davis, founder & president of the Internet Accountability Project (IAP) has been working hard to forge bipartisan support in Congress to break up big tech. He thinks he’s there and says, even if Republican leadership isn’t on board, 218 House members could move forward with a discharge petition. “It is time for Republicans to […]
The vast majority of money for political campaigns comes from big donors—mega-rich individuals, corporations, and industry lobby groups. Often, those big donors hedge their bets by giving to both political parties. The question is, what return do they expect on their investment? And what does it all mean for the average citizen if their politicians […]
More than $16.7 billion was spent on the 2022 midterm elections at the state and federal levels combined, which is another new record. As recently as eight years ago, spending was a mere $9.4 billion. Adam Goodman at Ballard Partners has been in the political ad business for four decades. He was also the first […]
Rafael Bejar, director of outreach at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, is in South Texas where three Latina GOP candidates could win House seats: Mayra Flores, Monica De La Cruz, and Cassy Garcia. Flores won a special election back in June, becoming the first Mexican-born woman to sit in the House. It was also the […]
There are a lot of close midterm races to watch, and one demographic that could tip the scales is Hispanic American voters, the nation’s fastest-growing bloc. Of the nearly 8 million new voters added since 2018, 62 percent are Hispanic, according to the Pew Research Center. Traditionally, Hispanics vote reliably Democrat. In the 2018 midterms, […]
Recently, across the nation, crime levels have risen and the price of committing a crime has fallen. Some blame pandemic cabin fever or economic hard times. But according to the Heritage Foundation, it’s more accurately traced back to George Floyd’s death in police custody in May 2020. In the protests and riots that followed, the […]
Violent crime is up in big cities across the United States, rising to levels not seen since the early 1990s, including aggravated assault, murder, domestic violence, and carjacking. And while crime rises, the cost of being a criminal has fallen, with police stepping back, and, importantly, progressive district attorneys (DA) in many cities declining to […]
On Oct. 30, veteran civil rights activist Ward Connerly will make the case against affirmative action on the steps of the Supreme Court the day before SCOTUS hears arguments on two discrimination cases, one against Harvard the other against the University of North Carolina. Connerly is a long-time critic of race-based discrimination at colleges. He’s […]
The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Oct. 31 on two affirmative action cases brought forward by Students for Fair Admissions—one against Harvard, the other against the University of North Carolina. Kenny Xu has been following closely the Harvard case in particular. Xu is president of Color Us United, a podcaster, and […]
The government and big pharma know some people will have severe reactions to vaccines. That’s why they created a compensation program for victims. And yet, it’s been largely taboo to talk about vaccine injury when it comes to COVID shots. Victims and doctors have been censored and smeared for discussing these facts. That’s starting to […]
Wayne Rohde, a top expert in the laws and politics of vaccine compensation, is the dad of twin sons. One of whom, Nick, was diagnosed with regressive autism after receiving his first set of childhood vaccinations. Last summer he published a second edition of “The Vaccine Court: The Dark Truth of America’s Vaccine Injury Compensation […]
Cigarettes and prescription opioids were once touted by the medical establishment—until the fallout from addiction and abuse became too big to deny. Ben Cort says we’re on the same path with legalizing marijuana and turning it into big business, since any industry with addictive potential follows a similar trajectory. “It’s just inevitable that in a […]
When marijuana was approved for medical use, it did not go through the normal FDA drug development process, says Dr. Ken Finn, president of the American Board of Pain Medicine and co-vice president of the International Academy on the Science and Impacts of Cannabis (IASIC). Today, it remains a poorly regulated industry. Virtually anyone can […]
There’s a common misperception pornography is created by consenting actors, getting paid for their work, so no harm done. But this couldn’t be further from the truth, says our guest, Jaco Booyens, an anti-sex trafficking activist and filmmaker. Booyens describes the brutal reality of the booming porn industry, how it relies on human sex trafficking, […]
Pornography and porn addiction are topics generally shunned in polite society. But it’s so rampant and so deeply harmful that we have to bring it out from the shadows. On the one hand, representations of sex are completely normalized. On the other hand, barely anyone talks about pornography as a highly addictive drug that destroys […]
Doctors who are critical of official positions on COVID policy are facing retaliation from their certification boards. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons Education Foundation (AAPS) is suing three medical specialty boards for threatening doctors who speak publicly on these issues: The American Board of Internal Medicine The American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology […]
Dan Hartman’s Twitter account, @Answers4Sean, is a loving, daily tribute to his son Sean, who died suddenly 10 months ago. Sean was a healthy, 17-year-old, hockey-playing kid from Ontario, Canada. Dan suspects the COVID vaccine caused Sean’s death—a shot he had to get to play hockey again. But mostly, Dan just wants honest answers about […]
