WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Andy Harris, M.D. (MD-01) sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission regarding the harm attorney advertising causes patients when they are scared into discontinuing their medication. Rep. Harris has previously acquired data from the FDA documenting patient discontinuation of medication after viewing negative attorney advertising. It is clear that patients have ceased their prescribed pharmaceutical regimens after viewing a lawsuit advertisement and suffered serious injury, such as a stroke, and/or death.
Data acquired by Dr. Harris from the FDA shows that among three categories of prescription pharmaceuticals (antidiabetics, antidepressants, and anticoagulants), the FDA identified 213 reports in which a patient viewed an advertisement and then discontinued use of their important medication. The data also shows such deceptive attorney advertising causes greater harm, and may target the elderly.
Congressman Harris issued the following statement:
“I am requesting the FTC act to protect patients and consumers from deceptive lawsuit advertising that scares them into stopping their life-saving prescription drugs without first consulting a doctor or medical professional. As a physician, I am concerned that those advertisements jeopardize the health and safety of vulnerable people, particularly the elderly, who use and need life-saving medications. The FTC should take immediate action against these misleading ads.”
For media inquiries, please contact Congressman Harris’ Washington, DC office at 202-225-5311, or contact Julia Nista at Julia.Nista@mail.house.gov.
CONCORD, NH (WGME) -- The pickup truck driver involved in a crash that killed seven people in Randolph, New Hampshire, is facing seven counts of negligent homicide.
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was arrested at his home in West Springfield, Massachusetts Monday morning.
Troopers also say they located wax packets containing a residue suspected of being heroin in Zhukovskyy's apartment.
Officials said Zhukovskyy was driving a pickup truck that was towing a flatbed trailer when it collided with a group of motorcycles around 6:30 p.m. on Friday on Route 2.
Democracy Forward received $1M from Center for American Progress, marks same address on legal docs
A "non-partisan" dark money group that regularly files litigation against President Donald Trump's administration is powered by money from the Center for American Progress (CAP), the liberal think tank founded by former Clinton campaign manager John Podesta.
The Democracy Forward Foundation, a D.C.-based 501(c)3 non-profit, was founded in 2017 to "help expose the rampant corruption in the Executive Branch and fight in court on behalf of the people it hurts." The group also has a 501(c)4 "social welfare" arm that goes by Democracy Forward.
The foundation has filed suit against numerous government agencies, such as the Department of Justice, Department of Treasury, and the Office of Management and Budget, and has aided other entities with similar litigation, including Baltimore's lawsuit against the Trump administration over immigration policy.
The group, which has maintained a relatively low profile despite its litigation efforts against the administration, dubs itself "non-partisan" and is referred to as "anti-corruption" by major media outlets. The group's leadership, however, is made up of Democrat operatives, including Podesta himself.
While the Democracy Forward Foundation did not disclose its source of funding on its initial tax forms, the Center for American Progress's own tax forms from 2017 show that Podesta's group passed $1 million to the foundation.
[Notable financial supporters of CAP include the Sandler Foundation, the JPB Foundation, the Open Society Foundations and Foundation to Promote Open Society associated with George Soros. --Editor]
A congressional hearing was held on a bill to study reparations for blacks as payback for slavery. Reparations is simply another worm Democrat presidential candidates will put on the hook of their fishing rods to catch black votes.
I am a black man who is proud, grateful, and understands how blessed I am to be born an American. My response to the Democrats' reparations scam is, “Please stop!”. Please stop telling black Americans that we are crippled, inferior and are helpless children who can only succeed via government handouts, lowered standards and special concessions. Just stop it!
The Civil War effectively ended slavery in 1863. After eight years of Americans making a black man the leader of the free world, Democrats are absurdly claiming blacks are suffering the negative repercussions of slavery and deserve a check. These people (Democrats) are evil, divisive, race-baiting and race-exploiting con artists.
In Maryland in the early 1950s, my late dad was among a handful of blacks who broke the color barrier to become Baltimore City firefighters. Despite humiliating racism within the fire department, Dad won “Firefighter of the Year” two times. Dad didn't desire reparations or insulting lowered standards. All Dad and his fellow young black trailblazers desired was an opportunity to compete.
In the 1980s, I was promoted to supervisor of the art department at WJZ-TV, ABC affiliate TV station in Baltimore. Democrat friends attempted to rob me of the pride and dignity of my achievement. They demeaned my promotion, claiming it was due to affirmative action. I was insulted. My promotion was the result of being the most qualified. No brag. Just facts.
But this is what Democrats relentlessly do to blacks; always sending us the subliminal message that we don't quite measure up.
For example: When Democrats say requiring a photo ID to vote disenfranchises black voters, Democrats are really saying we are stupid, inferior to other Americans. Black Americans should be outraged.
President Trump’s economic nationalist fight against Chinese dominance is the “number one issue” driving Hispanic voters to back the president in the 2020 presidential election, a campaign official says.
In a statement to Time Magazine, a Trump campaign official revealed that above every other issue, the administration’s fight against China is the most motivating issue for Hispanic voters who are on the fence about supporting the president in his re-election bid.
States with sizeable Hispanic populations have suffered mass job layoffs due to the United States’ trade deficit with China.
The Congregation Action Network — formerly called the DMV Sanctuary Congregation Network — is working in Washington, DC, Virginia, and Maryland to make churches places where people in the United States illegally can gather to prevent their detainment and deportation.
President Donald Trump announced on Saturday he would delay the start of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sweep to detain and deport migrants who had been served deportation orders but have instead disappeared inside the country.
“At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border,” Trump tweeted on Saturday. “If not, Deportations start!”
The network said that since Trump took office, they have been distributing “Know Your Rights” materials to migrants in the country illegally. It also has developed a “Deportation Defense” program that includes providing sanctuary to migrants inside of church buildings, according to the press release. More
OCEAN CITY — A Cockeysville, Md. man arrested on manslaughter, vehicular homicide and dozens of other charges on Friday for a fatal collision on Coastal Highway remains behind bars this week without bond after a bail review hearing on Monday.
Around 1:15 a.m. last Friday, the Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) received a call about a reported drunk driver and a description of the vehicle. OCPD officers located the suspect’s vehicle, a white Lexus LX570, in the area of 59th Street and Coastal Highway and attempted to stop it.
According to crash investigators, the driver, later identified as Todd Pivec, 41, of Cockeysville, Md., failed to stop and continued southbound on Coastal Highway. OCPD officers briefly lost sight of Pivec’s vehicle according to police reports. Moments later, Pivec’s vehicle struck another vehicle heading south on Coastal Highway in the area of 46th Street.
The force of the collision caused the victim’s vehicle to become engulfed in flames. The victim, identified only as a 51-year-old male from Princess Anne, was pronounced deceased at the scene. The victim’s name is being withheld at the request of his family.
A trip from LA to Las Vegas and back takes 8 hours by a gas-powered car but 13 hours by an electric vehicle.
The electric vehicle grand vision may flounder on something most drivers take for granted: a quick pit stop.
The inconvenient truth of electric vehicles is they are terribly inconvenient to own and operate. Most cars need a charge after 200 to 250 miles traveled.
Charging them requires finding a charging station, and then an open bay.
The New York Times reports L.A. to Vegas and Back by Electric Car: 8 Hours Driving; 5 More Plugged In.
The NYT author, Ivan Penn, drove a Chevrolet Bolt from LA to Las Vegas, a 540-mile round trip that many people make regularly.
The Democrats and liberal media insist that Russia wanted Trump to win over Crooked Hillary. The entire premise is ridiculous. The Russians had enough dirt on Hillary to fill the White House.
The TRUTH is that the entire DC establishment including the Obama White House, the liberal media and the Obama Deep State wanted Hillary Clinton to win… and they worked tirelessly and illegitimately to make it happen. And still failed.
On Sunday former prosecutory and Rep. Trey Gowdy joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures.
During their discussion Trey Gowdy told Maria that the deep state FBI was giving candidate Donald Trump different intel briefings than candidate Hillary Clinton.
Rep. Ilhan Omar swore under oath in a 2017 divorce filing that she hadn’t seen her husband Ahmed N. Elmi in six years and didn’t know anyone who might be able to locate him — yet he appears to have designed a website for Omar’s sister this year, according to data hidden in the source code of that website.
The Democratic Minnesota congresswoman swore that she had not been able to locate the man she married — who the Minneapolis Star Tribune says may or may not be her brother — since 2011. She swore she didn’t know the names of anyone in her husband’s family and that the two had no mutual acquaintances who might know how to contact him.
According to Elmi’s Facebook profile, after attending college in North Dakota he moved to England and then to Nairobi, Kenya — the same city where Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, lives and works as CEO of Grit Partners. Grit Partners’ website code contains data that indicates Elmi was involved in the creation of either the company’s website or its Instagram account.
The ties between Omar’s supposedly long-lost ex-husband and Omar’s sister appear to contradict Omar’s sworn testimony and add to the body of evidence that the ex-husband may be her brother, making all three siblings.
George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, best known for funding civil rights activists across Eastern Europe and the developing world, are increasingly turning their attention to affluent western Europe in response to the rise of the far right there.
Officials at the hedge fund magnate and philanthropist’s charity, which disburses around a billion dollars a year, said the nationalist right’s recent electoral successes were triggering the same contraction in the space for independent activism that had earlier been seen in Eastern Europe.
In southern France, the foundation has stepped in to replace funding to local migrant rights and anti-discrimination groups whose financing was frozen when Marine Le Pen’s then-National Front, since renamed National Rally, took power in a number of municipalities.
With Germany’s anti-immigration Alternative for Germany set to make gains in regional elections across the country’s east in the autumn, the foundation is preparing to take similar steps, said Selmin Caliskan, a director in its new Berlin office.
Last night Fox’s Tucker Carlson praised Trump’s decision not to go forward with a planned attack against Iran which the president claims would have killed approximately 150 people in response to a downed drone, which if true would have been a profoundly barbaric response to a broken toy plane and would have led to retaliations from Iran, followed by a chain of military actions which could have escalated God knows how far.
Carlson, who has been credited with persuading Trump against further military escalations with Iran, lit into the neoconservative elements of Trump’s cabinet with unprecedented viciousness. He called National Security Advisor John Bolton a “bureaucratic tapeworm” who never suffers any consequences for his relentless warmongering and accusing him and his collaborators of deliberately engineering a provocation to lead to direct military confrontation. Carlson urged Trump to expunge the influencers who are pushing for a war with Iran, and cautioned that it would cost him re-election.
Bombing Iran would have ended [Trump’s] political career in a minute,” Carlson said.
“There’d be no chance of re-election after that.”
Carlson’s first guest, The American Conservative’s Robert Merry, plainly stated the likely reason for Bolton’s deceitful manipulations, saying that Americans are typically reluctant to go to war and citing a few of the historical instances in which they were tricked into consenting to it by those who desire mass military violence.
A professor of literature at SUNY Old Westbury says it makes him happy when he sees poor white people on the street begging for food or money.
Nicholas Powers writes in Race Baitr (the article has since been deleted, apparently) that: “white people begging us for food feels like justice. It feels like Afro-Futurism after America falls. It feels like a Black Nationalist wet dream. It has the feels I rarely feel, a hunger for historical vengeance satisfied so well I rub my belly.” The professor is cognizant that this isn’t a “good look”; however, when he thinks about Martin Luther King Jr.’s invocations of “be [thy] best self” and “show compassion to those who spite you,” he retorts “go fuck another secretary Martin!”
Former Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took to Twitter on Sunday to criticize the conditions taking place on our southern border. She encouraged followers to "chip in" to support various organizations who are "doing critical work to defend the rights of immigrant and refugee children."
The link she posted goes to the Act Blue website, which is frequently used for Democrats' fundraising. This specific fundraiser, according to the link, benefits the following groups:
Al Otro Lado
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project
Families Belong Together
Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
Human Rights First
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)
La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE)
Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)
The owners of an Ohio butcher shop pleaded guilty Friday to 25 counts of food stamp fraud totaling $3.4 million.
A jury in a Dayton, Ohio, federal court found Michael and Amanda Busch guilty on all counts of food stamp fraud, including wire fraud and conspiracy to steal government funds, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
The couple was found guilty of carrying out a scheme where they would trade cash for food stamp benefits handed out through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) between April 2010 and May 2018.
Investigators raided the store, Busch’s Country Corner, in May 2018 and collected financial records and security camera footage as part of a warrant.
Federal investigators say that out of the 195,000 SNAP transactions completed at the store over eight years, two-thirds of them were fraudulent.
There are many never-ending debates between Republicans and Democrats. Impeach vs. don’t impeach; capital punishment vs. life in prison; wall vs. no wall; legalizing marijuana vs. not; self-driving cars vs. human drivers; Red Sox vs. Yankees; takeout vs. home-cooked; or Gone With the Wind vs. any other movie.
All of these issues are stunningly important, right up to the second where cataclysm falls and creates a nightmare scenario that so many fear.
That cataclysm is a complete loss of electricity and every mode of convenience and survival we take for granted.
The largest red flag on this issue in years just waved in South America. Last weekend, tens of millions of people in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay found themselves in a complete blackout. In one moment, they had electricity. The next moment, they had none, and they were catapulted back to the 1800s.
Officers responded to the Dover Mall on Saturday afternoon for a group of disorderly teenagers who refused to leave the property. Upon arrival, one of them fired one of these BB guns at the officers while they were still in their vehicles. All four were arrested after they fled from police and a total of three BB guns were recovered.
Acting Chief, Major Tim Stump released the following statement regarding the incident:
“I first want to commend these officers for the restraint that they showed during what quickly became a “High Risk” situation. Our officers were faced with tough, split second decision and I can’t tell you how proud I am of them and all that responded to assist in the apprehension including the rest of the shift who responded and DSU officers who responded to provide assistance.
It’s times like these that shed light on the great importance of having a well trained department. What could have been a tragic ending turned out perfectly and I’m thankful for that. I am sure the officers are as well. The juveniles were apprehended and no one was injured. The officers actions were remarkable!”
This week's big leak about a major Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation was orchestrated by acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan in an effort to sabotage the raids before they were scheduled to take place, according to three current and two former senior administration officials.
In a move he said was to placate Democrats, President Trump announced on Saturday that the nationwide immigration enforcement operation planned to start Sunday — aimed at migrant families who illegally remain in the country despite being denied asylum — was called off to give lawmakers two weeks to work on a plan to fix legal “loopholes” he said have enticed migrants to come to the U.S.
However, all five officials who spoke with the Washington Examiner confirmed McAleenan's decision to go rogue and stymie the operation was what prompted the White House to call off the 10-city operation.
Two officials said the acting secretary, who was promoted internally in April, had fought for months during closed-door discussions with White House officials, the former acting ICE Director Ronald Vitiello, and the new acting ICE Director Mark Morgan against the plan, which they noted was similar to one the Obama administration carried out in 2015. More
On Thursday, author and founder of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), Star Parker, spoke with The Daily Wire about reparations, which have become an increasingly hot topic among Democratic lawmakers.
Parker opposes the idea of monetary reparations, and during our interview she offered several major solutions to poverty-related issues facing low-income Americans.
DW: Reparations have become one of the hot topics among the Democrats running for president. Even several years ago, the idea of reparations wasn't really brought up in major debates. What is your opinion on the now-mainstream Democratic position that we need to formulate a plan to provide reparations?
PARKER: The reason the Democrats are talking about reparations today is because the Democrats are losing their grip on the black community. They see the same polls that everyone sees, that a third of African Americans have told pollsters for 20 years that they’re evangelical and conservative. They see the same polls that all the rest of us see, that just in very recent history, within the last year, 22% of African Americans say that they are conservatives politically. Therefore, Democrats understand that if these black conservatives start voting their values, they will lose every election.
Because right now, when you think about the ethnicities – in the Asian community, 29% poll as conservative and 29% vote Republican. The same numbers are present in the Latino community, 29% poll as conservative and 29% vote for Republicans. It’s only in the black community that 22% poll as conservative, but only 8% vote for Republicans. The Democrats recognize that the 14% could slip away overnight, so all of a sudden, reparations is the number one challenge that they are going to discuss.
Also, their playbook was determined 50 years ago and they don't move from it. They just bring it up when it’s the appropriate time to play the race card to divide America because it's a political season. More
You open your browser to look at the web. Do you know who is looking back at you?
Over a recent week of web surfing, I peered under the hood of Google Chrome and found it brought along a few thousand friends. Shopping, news and even government sites quietly tagged my browser to let ad and data companies ride shotgun while I clicked around the web.
This was made possible by the web’s biggest snoop of all: Google. Seen from the inside, its Chrome browser looks a lot like surveillance software.
Lately I’ve been investigating the secret life of my data, running experiments to see what technology really is up to under the cover of privacy policies that nobody reads. It turns out, having the world’s biggest advertising company make the most-popular web browser was about as smart as letting kids run a candy shop.
It made me decide to ditch Chrome for a new version of nonprofit Mozilla’s Firefox, which has default privacy protections. Switching involved less inconvenience than you might imagine. More
[Google Chrome has been 'surveillance software' for a long time. --Editor]
The former Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden in 2011 criticized Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., for a Saturday tweet that expressed support for immigrant families separated at the border.
Swalwell tweeted Saturday, "To Immigrant families: We see you, we are here for you and we will not stop fighting for you. Families belong together. Period." Former SEAL Robert J. O'Neill responded by correcting Swalwell, "You spelled 'Homeless Veterans' wrong."
O'Neill has been outspoken on veteran-related issues, and has been critical of Democrats seeming unwillingness to improve the notoriously malfunctioning Department of Veteran Affairs. He specifically criticized Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., for her comment defending the VA, in which she said, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Nearly a year after the repeal of net neutrality took effect, the average internet speed in the United States for fixed broadband rose 28% and the country is now ranked No. 7 globally.
When the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal net neutrality in December 2017, average internet download speed was approximately 77 Mbps and the U.S. was ranked No. 12 globally in average speed, according to data from Ookla, which runs a popular online speed testing service. Since the repeal took effect on June 11, 2018, average internet download speeds have increased 28% from 93 Mbps to 120 Mbps.
"When I became FCC Chairman in January 2017, investment in our nation’s broadband networks had declined for two straight years," FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement released last week. "So we turned the page on the failed policies of the past and charted a new course. We focused on reducing unnecessary regulatory burdens and cutting red tape that discourages broadband deployment. And we concentrated on updating our rules to match the modern communications marketplace ... The latest evidence reaffirms that our policies are working ... So in the time to come, we’ll continue on the same course — full speed ahead. That means getting rid of more unnecessary regulatory burdens and updating more outdated rules so that we can continue to connect more Americans with high-speed broadband and digital opportunity."
President Trump has reduced the number of Syrian refugees entering the United States by more than 60 percent compared to former President Obama’s surge of Syrian nationals arriving in the country.
Since Trump’s inauguration, he has reduced the levels at which Syrian refugees are arriving in the U.S. Between January 20, 2017, and June 2019, only about 2,419 Syrian refugees have entered the country — nearly 97 percent of which are Muslim and 1.4 percent of which are Christians and Catholics.
Compare this level to Obama’s surge of Syrian refugees between January 20, 2014, and June 2016 when about 6,368 Syrian nationals were granted entry to the country. Almost 99 percent of the Syrian refugees admitted by the Obama administration during this period were Muslim and less than 0.8 percent were Christians and Catholics.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services’ final version of the Protect Life Rule, a rule to reform the Title X funding program, is “reasonable” and may immediately go into effect. The department announced the final version on March 4, which implements five major provisions, including a provision that ”none of the funds appropriated under this title shall be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning.”
This doesn’t fully eradicate taxpayer subsidies funding Planned Parenthood, but it will prevent them from being funded through the Title X program. This ruling ensures that the Department of Health and Human Services can do more to comply with federal and state laws and help protect freedom of conscience for healthcare workers.
In a statement, Alliance Defending Freedom legal counsel Denise Harl said, “Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars should never be used to fund abortion, shield child abusers, or force medical professionals to violate their convictions by participating in the end of human life. Today, the 9th Circuit unanimously upheld the Trump administration’s rule as ‘reasonable’ and accurately applied the Supreme Court’s precedent by deciding that this rule may immediately go into effect.”
New Hampshire officials released the names of seven bikers killed Friday evening after their group collided with a pickup truck towing a flatbed trailer.
The victims were identified as Michael Ferazzi, 62, of Contoocook, N.H.; Albert Mazza, 49, of Lee, N.H.; Desma Oakes, 42, of Concord, N.H.; Aaron Perry, 45, of Farmington, N.H.; Daniel Pereira, 58, of Riverside, R.I.; and Joanne and Edward Corr, both 58, a husband and wife from Lakeville, Mass. All were members or supporters of the Marine JarHeads, a motorcycle club made up of Marines and their spouses.
Soon after the names were made public, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu ordered all flags on public buildings and grounds in the state to be flown at half-staff from dawn to dusk Monday.
President Trump doubled down on his prior assertion that the migrant crisis at the southern border of the United States was a problem he inherited from the previous administration, in an interview that aired Thursday night on Telemundo, his first on a Spanish-language network.
"Obama built the cages. I didn’t build them," Trump said. "Obama separated; I'm the one who brought them together."
Responding to the accusation that he had been very tough on immigrants, Trump took umbrage at the terms of the question. "You mean 'illegal' immigrants. I've been very good to immigrants, but illegal immigrants, yeah ... our laws are so bad ... the asylum laws are laughed at by anybody in the world who knows anything."
President Trump said he would accept the results of the 2020 election and that he only jokes about running for a third term because it drives the media crazy.
"I only joke," Trump said of his third term talk. "I joke and I say, 'Watch! I will drive Chuck Todd crazy.'"
"You will accept the results?" Todd asked Trump, referencing the 2020 election.
MSNBC has been granted exclusive rights to cover the South Carolina Democratic convention this weekend, meaning even C-SPAN has been barred from airing live footage from the first major political event of the 2020 Democratic primary.
But even more amazing than the fact that South Carolina Democrats cut a sweetheart deal with MSNBC is that the left-wing cable news company has chosen noted homophobe Joy Reid and infamous anti-Semite Al Sharpton to host its convention coverage and interview the 2020 Democratic candidates.
Talk about putting your best foot forward.
Reid was discovered in 2018 to have authored multiple homophobic blog posts for which she never really apologized. In fact, rather than blame “youthful indiscretions” or suggest that she has “evolved” on her views of the LGBT community, Reid lied and claimed a shadowy cabal of cybercriminals hacked into her long-defunct personal blog and the Wayback Machine Internet Archive, and maybe even the U.S. Library of Congress, to make it appear as if she authored a handful of homophobic articles nearly a decade ago.
