The Supreme Court issued a baffling ruling on Thursday upholding Biden’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in facilities receiving Medicare or Medicaid funds, but struck down an OSHA rule that covered the employers of 80 million American workers. The next day, Friday, January 14, 2022, fo[...]
Archive for January, 2022
Canadian political scientist foresees a “coming storm from the south”
A Canadian political scientist has warned his government the U.S. might descend into civil unrest and come under a rightwing dictatorship by 2030. In an op-ed in The Globe and Mail, Thomas Homer-Dixon, director of a think tank affiliated with a British Columbia university, said Canada should prepare[...]
January 14th, 2022 - 7:57 pm § in Misc.
First major Jan. 6 indictments issue
A federal grand jury indicted 11 members of the Oath Keepers, a rightwing militia, including its leader on Wednesday, January 12, 2022. The indictment, made public the following day, accuses the defendants of “seditious conspiracy” (read statute here). This crime consists of planning, no[...]
January 14th, 2022 - 7:17 pm § in Law and Courts
Democrat crook found!
Republicans aren’t the only amoral sticky-fingered greedheads among us. (It just feels like there are more of them.) I fervently believed that, if I was patient, I’d get to write about a thieving Democrat someday. Today’s the day! Seth Andrew (photo below, bio here), 42, a former O[...]
January 14th, 2022 - 4:10 pm § in Law and Courts
“Pharma bro” banned from drug biz
A federal judge presiding over a civil lawsuit against Martin Shkreli, 38, nicknamed “Pharma Bro,” permanently banned him from participating in the pharmaceutical industry and ordered him to disgorge $64 million of profits on Friday, January 14, 2022 (read story here). Shkreli (bio here)[...]
January 13th, 2022 - 7:15 pm § in Law and Courts
Sirhan denied parole
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) overruled the parole board’s recommendation of parole for RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan on Thursday, January 13, 2022 (see story here). The governor’s rationale goes like this: “He does not understand, let alone have the skills to manage, the complex r[...]
Army Reserve fires medical officer for his vocal racism
A lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve who likes Confederate flags and statues, and doesn’t like Barack Obama, Democrats in general, Black Lives Matter, or Muslims has been found guilty of “conduct unbecoming,” Military.com reported on January 7, 2022 (read story here). Not becau[...]
January 12th, 2022 - 11:27 pm § in Foreign Affairs, Health
Surprise! Cuba is a Covid-19 vaccine powerhouse
Cuba’s homegrown biotech sector has developed FIVE vaccines against Covid-19, all of which offer 90%-plus efficacy. Cuba pours resources into healthcare, and has doctors and clinics in every neighborhood. To fight Covid-19, it’s vaccinating every Cuban over age 2, and most of its people [...]
Ted Cruz wants to legalize bribery
Ted Cruz is already an awful senator, but not one to rest on his dubious laurels, he’s trying to make things worse. He’s suing the Federal Election Commission to overturn a federal anti-corruption law. If he succeeds, that will “enable any lawmaker to make a high-dollar, high-inte[...]
January 12th, 2022 - 10:29 pm § in Politics
Republicans in 3 key states forged electoral certificates
After the 2020 election, Republicans in Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin created forgeries of official election documents, made out to show Trump won those states, and sent those counterfeit documents to the U.S. Senate and National Archives. (Read MSNBC story here.) Regarding the Michigan forgeries[...]