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The good news keeps on coming. After four years of the country being in the biggest mess that most of us have lived through, it feels like spring is here early. The cold wind is refreshing, the snow is sparkling, and the days are getting longer. 

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Trump bans the chemical and surgical mutilation of children in the name of "gender affirming care." This is just an executive order, which the next president could overturn; we need Congress to pass a law.

The CIA admits COVID was mostly likely a lab leak after all. "The CIA analysis supporting lab origin of COVID was completed and published internally during the Biden administration. It was withheld from the public by the Biden Administration in violation of the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, which mandated release," said Richard H. Ebright on X. 

Trump bans gain of function research. (Again--it's an executive order; we need Congress to pass a law.)

Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH says, "That's a good thing! ...Gain of function research, as far as I can tell, never led to a single cure, and might have killed 20 million people in the COVID pandemic!"


Anthony "I am the science" Fauci needed a criminal pardon. He belongs in prison for allowing dangerous gain-of-function research and then promoting mitigation efforts like lockdowns and masks in contradiction of everything experts knew at the time about airborne virus spread. Senator Rand Paul is still dogging him. 

Great news that's not health related, but too good not to share

Western North Carolina, which still looks like a war zone four months after Hurricane Helene sent an avalanche of debris down the mountains and into the hollers, is finally getting much more relief from the federal government. According to Grok (X's AI feature), "over 200,000 people were impacted with housing damages, with more than 100,000 homes damaged or destroyed...FEMA reported that over 13,000 households in North Carolina sought shelter through the Transitional Sheltering Assistance program." The hurricane victims, many of them now living in hotels, trailers and RVs in the middle of winter, have expressed frustration with FEMA. Temperatures have gotten down to 0F (-18C). Most of the help has come from volunteers and charitable donations. Finally, after Trump's visit, the Army Corps of Engineers is there with dump trucks. Displaced people in hotels have gotten an extension to live in the hotels through the end of May.

In an everything's on the table spirit of the times, Senator Mike Lee plans to revive letters of marque, a practice from 200 years ago allowing private individuals or entities to engage in acts of war. Back when America was young and broke, we were under attack at sea by pirates and the British. We couldn't afford a strong navy, so we used privateers (who held letters of marque) to capture pirate and British ships. Privateers kept part of the bounty they seized. Lee wants to revive this practice to fight Mexican cartels. 


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