businesseconomypolitics

WSJ delivers devastating blow to MAGA candidate’s Senate dreams after Tylenol suit

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton received a brutal smackdown by the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board on Wednesday evening over his lawsuit against the manufacturer of Tylenol over Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s unsubstantiated claims it causes autism when taken during pregnancy. Paxton, the board argued, is doing everything that the conservative movement hates and resents about liberal trial lawyers, soaking businesses under “dubious” pretenses to make a political statement.”‘By holding Big Pharma accountable for poisoning our people, we will help Make America Healthy Again,’ the AG said,” wrote the board. “Our people? The people he’s really standing up for are his friends and donors in the plaintiff bar. Their claim that acetaminophen the main active ingredient in Tylenol can cause autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder if taken during pregnancy was rejected in federal multi-district litigation in 2023. Mr. Paxton is bringing the claims under Texas law in state court.”The lawsuit against Kenvue, which makes Tylenol, and its former parent company Johnson & Johnson, “notably omits that the Food and Drug Administration has periodically reviewed the evidence of acetaminophen’s neuro-developmental risks over the last decade. The FDA repeatedly determined a causal link hadn’t been shown that would merit a change in its safety label,” the board wrote. “Adding a safety warning based on flimsy evidence creates its own risks, such as deterring pregnant women from taking the pain killer and fever reducer when they need it” and indeed, there is more evidence linking autism to untreated fevers in pregnancy than to Tylenol. Nonetheless, the board wrote, Paxton “apparently believes women and courts should take orders from Mr. Kennedy,” as his litigation “quotes alarmist and unscientific statements by the Health and Human Services Secretary.”In short, the board concluded, Paxton is acting as “a valet for the trial bar out to soak business for political gain and campaign donations. His anti-Tylenol suit is one more reason Texas Republicans would be wise to deny his bid to join the U. S. Senate.”All of this comes as Trump similarly jumps on the bandwagon and proclaims pregnant women should just “tough it out” rather than take Tylenol, something that runs contrary to the broad majority of medical advice and even his own Food and Drug Administration.

economypoliticssports

When George Springer could return to Blue Jays’ World Series lineup

Toronto Blue Jays outfielder George Springer will miss Game 5 of the World Series on Wednesday night. The clutch hitter did not play in Game 4 after being removed with an injury in Game 3. With a day off on Thursday, it seems that the best option for him is to return on Friday for [.] The post When George Springer could return to Blue Jays’ World Series lineup appeared first on ClutchPoints.

economypolitics

Some Good Polling News for the GOP During the Shutdown

According to a recent poll, Republicans have improved with Independents, while Democrats are in the worst position they have been in over the past 20 years. Given the fact that they are now moving toward communism and socialism, why are they doing as well as they are? CNN measured the changes since pre- and post-shutdown. [.] The post Some Good Polling News for the GOP During the Shutdown appeared first on www. independentsentinel. com.

culturemediapolitics

Daniel J. Flynn What Oxford Union’s Ousted President-Elect Could Learn from Frank Meyer George Abaraonye was removed for celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death. He might yet come to question his beliefs.

Earlier this month, the Oxford Union held a no-confidence vote in its president-elect George Abaraonye, based on his celebration of Charlie Kirk’s murder. “Charlie Kirk got shot,” Abaraonye wrote in a group chat last month, “let’s fing go.” On Instagram, he announced: “Charlie Kirk got shot loool.” Bizarrely, Abaraonye depicted the campaign to remove him from office as one of “harassment, censorship, and abuse.” Without a hint of self-irony, the young man who indecently cheered Kirk’s murder wrote: “We will not be silenced.” This past May, Kirk and Abaraonye had met in the Oxford Union. They debated the question of toxic masculinity. Kirk looked and sounded like the Oxford product and Abaraonye looked-in sweatpants, a t-shirt, and what resembled slippers-and sounded like the guy who had never gone to college, rather than the reverse. Though both men were respectful, Kirk clearly won the exchange. One needn’t even watch the 12-minute, 25-second discussion (it starts at 1: 06: 36) to know this. No one winning a fight bites the other man’s ear, and no one who triumphed in a debate celebrates the murder of his opponent. It would seem impossible to express confidence in the head of a campus debating society who welcomed the execution of a human being for the crime of debating on campus. The Oxford Union members certainly regarded it as a disqualifier. Seventy percent voted for removal.

businesspolitics

President Trump Trolls Mark Carney

Oh, this is funny.[SOURCE] Think big picture. Think strategically, like Donald Trump. He’s trying to push Canada into a desperation play where they strike trade deals with China, knowing he’s holding a USA deal with Chairman Xi in his back pocket that will undercut Canada completely. Watch. The Free Trade Agreements being made for [.] The post President Trump Trolls Mark Carney appeared first on The Last Refuge.

economypolitics

Health Insurers Are Behind Washington’s Shutdown

The post Health Insurers Are Behind Washington’s Shutdown appeared com. “Democrats insist the shutdown is about protecting health care. It’s really about protecting a subsidy gambit that has enriched their political patrons in the insurance industry,” writes Pipes. At its core, the fight is over insurance subsidies. Democrats are demanding that billions in federal payments to insurers continue uninterrupted. Republicans question whether that’s a good idea. Democrats claim they’re protecting “access to care.” In reality, they’re enriching some of the country’s largest corporations at the expense of taxpayers. The enhanced subsidies for exchange coverage are the clearest example. In 2021, as part of the American Rescue Plan Act, Democrats boosted the generosity of the premium subsidies established by Obamacare for everyone making less than four times the poverty level, which is nearly $129,000 for a family of four. People making less than 150% of poverty-$48,225 for a family of four-became eligible for premium-free coverage. Those making more than four times poverty became eligible for subsidized coverage for the first time. Democrats extended those subsidies through the end of this year as part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. Making them permanent, as the Democrats want to do, would cost $350 billion over the next decade. That would represent a direct transfer from the federal Treasury to the bank accounts of big insurers. Much of that figure is waste. Insurers are claiming premium subsidies for millions of people who do not use their coverage at all. Last year, nearly 12 million enrollees-35% of the exchange population-had no claims. Perhaps they were incredibly lucky. It’s more likely they didn’t know they had exchange coverage. Millions of people have been enrolled in exchange plans without their knowledge or consent, according to research from the Paragon Health Institute. Insurers and.