Biden’s COVID-19 Vax Mandates Spawn Lingering Bad Results

• President Joe Biden was unable to overcome the judicial and legislative roadblocks to his full set of COVID-19 vaccine mandates two years ago, but the damage of that policy lingers.
• The simple fact is this: the COVID-19 vaccines, aiming to prevent grave illness and death, nonetheless can carry serious risks.
• Based on preliminary research from the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, there’s a heightened risk of stroke when older patients received the vaccine at “the same time” as the flu vaccine.
• Likewise, researchers writing in the British Journal of Pharmacology in October found that the leading COVID-19 vaccines can increase cardiovascular risks.
• Confirming previous findings,  the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still reporting a risk (although small) of myocarditis/heart inflammation among young adult males.
• Biden’s attempted imposition of these mandates two years ago largely failed, but the damage they inflicted survived their demise. They compromised the doctor-patient relationship, further undermined public trust, and based on emerging scientific evidence, overrode legitimate safety concerns.

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Woke Iowa School Board Disrespects Parents, Students, and the First Amendment

• A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently overruled a district court and instructed it to issue a preliminary injunction against enforcement of a school board policy in Iowa that would have disciplined students for expressing opinions that diverge from leftist gender orthodoxy — specifically, for refusing to “respect” a student’s gender identity.
• The policy prohibited school administrators, teachers and counselors from informing parents that their children were having to cooperate with or were undergoing “gender support” accommodations for transgender students “regarding names, pronouns, restroom and locker facilities, overnight accommodations on school trips, and participation in activities.”
• Any refusal to “respect a student’s gender identity” would violate the school’s prohibitions against bullying and harassment, which could lead to suspension and expulsion.
• While the school board has a right to appeal the decision, what they should do instead is realize that it made a grievous error in implementing this restrictive, unconstitutional policy and get rid of it in its entirety.

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The U.S. Must Oppose a Premature Cease-Fire in Gaza

• It’s time to get Israel out of the suicidal habit of leaving Hamas standing at the end of wars started by Hamas.
• As scenes of devastation emerge from Gaza, calls for a cease-fire will come with accusations that Israel is using “disproportionate force.”
• Civilian casualties that become unavoidable because of Hamas’s use of human shields are war crimes attributable entirely to Hamas.
• Israel must defeat Hamas, and America must stand united with our great ally as they work to fully defeat the terrorist organization. The Biden administration must do everything possible to get missing Americans back and immediately end the policies that have appeased and emboldened Iran and other adversaries around the world.  

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