Good morning from Washington, where public health officials avoid the truth about who is most likely to contract the disease called monkeypox. This politically correct reluctance isn’t helping anyone, Doug Blair argues. Russia’s war on Ukraine has settled into a slow and bloody grind with little upside for Americans, Victor Davis Hanson writes. Plus: the trouble with prisoner swaps between nations; the FDA finally questions puberty blockers; Democrats used to defend traditional marriage; and a new superhero challenges the woke stereotype of blackness. On this date in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Medicare into law in a ceremony in Independence, Missouri, during which former President Harry Truman is enrolled as the first beneficiary of the health insurance program for the elderly.
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a leftist hack, says: “The stigma and discrimination can be as dangerous as any virus and can fuel the outbreak.”
Vastly upping aid to Ukraine has become the cause celebre of the West. But few have explained fully to Americans the ensuing costs and dangers of escalation.
Americans who knowingly take the risks of traveling to dangerous countries deserve our sympathy, but they shouldn’t expect extreme measures to secure their release from detention.
Minors suffered from symptoms of tumorlike masses in the brain, including visual disturbances, headache or vomiting, increased blood pressure, and eye paralysis.
“Isom” is a new comic book series created as an antidote to what creator Eric July sees as a push by popular media to “beat people over the head with stuff like social justice.”
The Associated Press reported in 1996 that “the Clinton campaign in its radio ad lists Clinton’s signing of the Defense of Marriage Act as evidence that ‘President Clinton has fought for our values.’”
