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drug war dishonesty revealed

🎯 The newly unveiled HHS rationale for rescheduling marijuana underlines drug warriors' dishonesty. From: Jacob Sullum/Reason. The points about marijuana's risks and benefits that the department now concedes were clear long before last August.

World Health Organization: 'Incredibly low' COVID, flu vaccination rates. From: Newsmax. Who’s surprised? No rush to potentially dangerous vaccines that neither provide immunity nor stop the spread.

🔎 How Moderna came up with a vaccine against vaccine dissent. From: Real Clear Investigations. Rather than enter the arena of debate, they opt to shut down “misinformation.”

When a man is a woman and the law is not the law. From: Front Page Mag. How men believing they were women became a disability.

⭐️ No more playing by the Left’s rules. From: Eric Peters Autos. Lucy will always pull the football away just before Charlie Brown gets close enough to kick it. That is a Peanuts life lesson many have still not learned – about the Left. It does not play fair. It plays to win.

Feds could be fired at any time for any reason, under a bill that was just reintroduced. From: Government Executive. The bill also would abolish the Merit Systems Protection Board and threatens to reduce former federal employees’ retirement benefits if they file “frivolous” appeals of adverse personnel actions.

👉 Trump adviser: fire any federal employees who walk out in protest of US-Gaza policies. From: The Messenger. 'Someone get their names, it will be a great resource for 2025 federal bureaucracy cuts,' Caputo wrote on X.

MSNBC hosts denounce white Christians as racist and pledge to censor Trump after Iowa win. From: Jonathan Turley. In an early glimpse of what to expect from coverage of this election, MSNBC and CNN hosts went into full rage mode with Iowa caucus results.

😬 Tesla drivers struggle to charge vehicles in bitter Chicago cold. From: Washington Examiner. Cold weather performance is never featured in ads for EVs.

If you say men give birth, we know your position on Hamas. From: Dennis Prager/Creators. Theoretically, the two claims — that men as well as women give birth and Israel is the villain in its war against Hamas — have absolutely no connection. But, they do.

🇺🇸 SHORT: Ignorance is the Friend of the Tyrant