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New research is showing vaccine hesitancy or opposition may not all be related to politics. Often it is related to fear, anxiety, and mistrust. Many of the unvaccinated frankly fear needles. The anxiety of submitting to the needle may bring on a panic attack because of injection phobia. Private rooms and an emotional support partner can help. Also, the media may need to tone down the daily video extravaganza showing people getting jabbed. These portrayals feel a little bit like public lynchings...
The silence of this general election is deafening. For years I have covered elections of officials to all levels of government from the smallest towns to the U.S. president. All year people talk, complain, and argue about politics. It picks up the month before the election. Not this time. It’s gone quiet. We can blame the pandemic for quieting down most of our lives. But I kept waiting for the candidates’ forum. I look forward to the gatherings where we witness debates from people seeking ele...
Why aren’t you working? I have read and heard enough from “experts.” I am hoping to hear from the people who are not returning to their jobs or trying to get one after being laid off. I have worked since I was 16 and will always have an urge to be productive and earn money. So I am baffled at why some people aren’t applying for jobs. Was it the extra unemployment money? Was it because you didn’t have to pay rent or bills during the pandemic? Are you waiting to be paid more? The Whitman C...
The National School Board Association, the Department of Justice, and the mainstream news media all confused free speech for violence and violence for free speech. In a carefully coordinated attempt, these entities orchestrated a media campaign designed to intimidate parents who dissent from the regime. First, in Senate testimony regarding mask mandates and other COVID-19 protocols, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said parents should not be the “primary stakeholder” in their children’s educat...
Sen. George McGovern, of South Dakota, was never a darling of conservatives; however, in his later years, he shocked fellow Democrats by his outspoken backing for streamlining government regulations and eliminating frivolous lawsuits – positions championed mostly by Republicans. McGovern, a decorated World War II B-24 pilot, who flew 35 combat missions over North Africa and Europe, was an unabashed self-professed liberal. He won the Democrat presidential nomination in 1972 but lost the e...
Recently, one of my former patients stopped by for a visit. He and his wife loved visiting the Palouse. This was their first visit to the area and despite being experienced international travelers, they were enchanted by the autumn beauty of the Palouse. We wanted to go out for lunch, however, we could not find any outdoor dining in the cooler weather, so we went to one of my favorite restaurants, and placed an order to go. We took our order to the car and safely ate our food in the parking lot...
The Washington Interscholastic Athletics Association (WIAA) unveiled its state tournament allocations for fall sports. The allocations determine how many teams each district gets to send to the state playoffs in the sports football, soccer, and volleyball. No changes were seen in soccer and volleyball. District 7, which includes Davenport and Reardan, was given one berth in girls soccer and three in volleyball for the 2B state playoffs. A fair allocation, as the number of 2B girls soccer teams...
Life is made up of meetings and partings. Such has been the way of things in Palouse this last year, and as such it has been a year of transitions. The truth of the matter is that things sometimes change and change is difficult for all of us. Most recently, our city administrator and mayor both resigned from their positions, due to family and professional obligations. The timing, in that they happened simultaneously, is unfortunate, but these things sometimes happen. I'm writing today, as mayor...
Medical freedom is more than women deciding if they are going to abort a pregnancy. It is a person's decision if they want to waive resuscitation. It's ending untreatable painful suffering. It's choosing to take a riskier healing path than what's recommended. It's deciding what drugs to take. It's deciding on vaccinations. The trio of COVID vaccinations was not welcomed by everyone. Some people decline to receive them. It used to be we had a right in Washington to decline medical aid. I guess...
Large federal dams have discharged unlimited pollution into the Lower Snake River for decades. That stops today. For the first time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set limits on oil and hot water pollution from four federal dams in the Lower Snake River. The EPA will now require the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) to collect pollution samples, report data to the EPA and the public, and ratchet back on pollution. “Dams that pollute will no longer get a free pass,” said Brett VandenHeuvel, executive director of Col...
In a recent episode of the Dan Bongino podcast, Dan interviewed Texas Senator Brian Birdwell, who came on the show to share his near-death experience at the Pentagon on 9/11. Dan was extremely moved by hearing about Sen. Birdwell’s experience, noting that nothing in his life experience compared to the adversity that the senator experienced that day and has overcome since then. In response, Birdwell said something remarkable: “Everybody has their lane that they’re working … We all work our res...
Poland and America are like two trains passing each other in opposite directions. That is becoming increasingly clear as President Biden rolls out his progressive agenda. The key question looking forward, “Will government or consumers drive our economy?” Poland broke the shackles of Soviet communist domination three decades ago. Free for the first time since World War II, Poland cast off its yoke of government control and central planning in favor of an American-style free enterprise system whe...
It’s time for us to discuss the problems caused by the Democratic party’s new bio-fascist war against unvaccinated citizens. In the blink of an eye, the party of “health care is a human right” has morphed into “no health care for the unvaxxed!” Local Democratic leaders sing the praises of socialism as a proper counterbalance to the “evils” of capitalism, while their state and national leaders declare an evil jihad on millions of unvaccinated Americans. Unvaccinated illegal aliens have not...
Gov. Jay Inslee’s end run around the legislature banning natural gas in new homes and commercial buildings is a bad idea. Even though the state legislature adjourned last spring without passing his bill, he unveiled building codes which would accomplish the same thing by fiat. Inslee’s proposed regulations forbid the use of fossil fuels for heating and hot water in new structures. Prohibiting natural gas is expensive for home and building owners many of whom installed energy efficient nat...
Hospitals are expected to deliver minimum standards of care to be accredited and eligible to bill Medicare. These standards of care are based on scientific evidence that is important for delivering safe and high-quality care. Idaho and Alaska recently activated Crisis Standards of Care for their hospitals to follow. These are guidelines for hospitals to follow when they cannot deliver services and provide minimum standards of care. This means they must ration care, which is a rare occurrence in...
It is human nature to think of risk in terms of how it pertains to us as individuals. It is understandable how one might think that their own risk is very low of being infected by SARS COV-2 virus, the virus that causes COVID19 disease, when only 10% of those who become infected in the USA develop symptoms severe enough to be hospitalized. An individual may also believe that their own risk is very low if they are generally healthy, not obese, not elderly, not a diabetic, or do not have other...
How the pandemic started: “Fifteen days to slow the spread.” How it’s going: “There is no accommodation we can provide for their religious exemption requests,” Inslee said to the Washington State Patrol. When the pandemic started, you were laughed at if you predicted that governments were going to use it as an excuse to trample on individual rights and freedom. This week, that evil day has arrived. The right to medical privacy and freedom has been eliminated for state and federal employees...
Talk about a bureaucrat with delusions of grandeur. On Sept. 3, Washington State University (WSU) Extension Office Director Vicki A. McCracken took it upon herself to dictate that all 4-H volunteers now have to be “fully vaccinated” to continue in their position or face being “inactive.” She cited Gov. Jay Inslee’s edict that everyone connected to education, from preschool through the university system, must be fully vaccinated by Oct. 18. Apparently, neither McCracken nor Inslee have attended t...
In a stunning turn of events, Gov. Jay Inslee and other progressive governors throughout the United States are calling for a return to segregation and reduced civil rights for the “wrong people.” This time, the Democrats are using a new tool to divide the elite ruling class from the unwashed masses. The governor’s new vaccine mandate for health care workers, educators, college students, firefighters, and state employees is the beginning of vaccine apartheid. Back in the 1960s, the Democ...
