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John Klar 
The Trump administration is expected to announce today (Feb. 12) the repeal of a Barack Obama-era determination that climate change poses a threat to public health. Environmental alarmists will doubtless wring their hands and gnash their teeth in derision and faux panic, but gluing their hands to artworks has become passe. More Americans are waking … Read more
Thanks to HHS Secretary Kennedy, Help Is on the Way. Recent laboratory tests of military meals, and Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), revealed high levels of pesticides, heavy metals, and livestock drug residues within the food. America’s troops deserve better. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is making sure that happens. The … Read more
Note: The featured image is just a royalty-free image of a box of candy and in no way represents the context of the title or any claim by Florida or anyone else. A Florida report on 46 popular candy products found unacceptable levels of arsenic in 28 of them. The state has taken the Make … Read more
I realize not all of my readers are in Vermont, but the issue of a young student trying to bring intellectual light into Vermont’s progressively darkened schools is of national interest. It is shameful that there are many who want to allow only one political voice, including in public schools, often indoctrinating children into far-left … Read more
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement continues to gain both policy and political momentum as the 2026 midterms loom. The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement continues to gain both policy and political momentum as the 2026 midterms loom. By delivering on 2024 campaign promises to improve nutrition and support rural farms, the Republican … Read more
Doesn’t the left-leaning media know that the more you attack a film, the more you cause it to be pulled from a theatre, the more people will want to see it? This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Critics tried to kill the Melania documentary … Read more
Conscience vs science? A post-pandemic tension between public safety and individual liberties has infused Florida’s ongoing effort to balance vaccine mandates and parental choice. A pending bill would broaden the state’s current religious exemption to include allowances for “conscience.” Opponents, however, fear the expansion will expose unvaccinated children to disease risks. Florida’s Exemption Battle In … Read more
Americans are paying attention to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new, health-minded food pyramid that recommends nutrient-dense, whole foods, including meat proteins and full-fat dairy. Now it’s incumbent on every state to make it as easy as possible to buy the real foods that HHS and its sub-agencies recommend, and to enhance ‘food liberty’ … Read more
Competition for scarce water in dry regions has a long and sometimes violent history. Washington state has been the scene of a legal battle between a cattle-ranching family and state regulators over the family’s use of water in the dry eastern region of the Evergreen State. Tensions have escalated in tandem with the state’s enforcement … Read more
It’s not only President Donald Trump who is celebrating a one-year anniversary today, January 20. The nascent Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, movement is now celebrating its first birthday as the driving force of the Health and Human Services department. This collaboration between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the president has been a significant … Read more
The long-awaited revisions to the iconic US food pyramid, now called the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), were announced yesterday (Jan. 7) by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. US Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was also on hand to showcase her agency’s support for the new recommendations, which many have … Read more
Hillary Clinton defied a congressional subpoena on January 14 when she refused to appear before the House Oversight Committee to testify in its Jeffrey Epstein probe. The loud chorus of Americans demanding an investigation of Epstein’s activities has been notably bipartisan, yet the Clintons claim the effort to solicit their testimony is a partisan ploy. … Read more
But Will SCOTUS Intervene on Behalf of Pesticide Manufacturers? On Monday, a massive backlash by MAHA groups scuttled an effort to incorporate an amendment into a congressional spending bill that would have provided legal immunity to chemical manufacturers. This is a big ‘win’ for MAHA – a moment to celebrate months of petitioning Congress to remove Section … Read more
The New Year celebrations today usher in a rare occasion for the nation: It’s the once-in-a-lifetime semiquincentennial, the 250th birthday of America’s formation as an independent country in 1776. The bitter partisan battles that have alienated Americans in ways not witnessed since the Vietnam War are a reminder that few “democratic” experiments have endured this … Read more
More Forbidden Facts From Gavin de Becker’s New Book With the kind permission of author Gavin de Becker and his publisher, Skyhorse Publishing, I am excited and honored to share another chapter of de Becker’s new book, Forbidden Facts: Government Deceit & Suppression About Brain Damage from Childhood Vaccines. (The first chapter was published at The MAHA Report on December 17, … Read more
Lawsuit challenges denial of religious exemptions from vaccination Children’s Health Defense (CHD), a nonprofit advocate for civil liberties and improved health outcomes, filed suit on December 16 against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on behalf of US troops that CHD claims have been unfairly penalized for seeking religious exemptions from vaccination requirements. The suit outlines … Read more
Restricting parental choice in the name of empowerment. Vaccine wars continue to rage across the nation, as Kennedy Derangement Syndrome fuels irrational oppositional actions by state lawmakers. The latest iteration of this knee-jerk resistance is a bevy of Michigan bills proposed in retaliation for the recent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendation that parents … Read more
I spoke at Vermont’s annual Liberty Food Fest on December 12 regarding the benefits of grass-fed over grain-fed beef. To spice it up a bit and keep my audience’s attention, I repurposed a nursery rhyme for the occasion. (I even sang it!) Here are the lyrics of my 2025 version of the classic children’s rhyme: … Read more
With an excerpt from Gavin de Becker’s New Book, Forgotten Facts: Government Deceit & Suppression About Brain Damage From Childhood Vaccines. The recent decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to recommend that parents make individual decisions about administering the hepatitis B vaccine series to infants … Read more
New Jersey’s demands for donor lists may have gone too far The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on December 2 in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, Inc. v Platkin. The court’s forthcoming decision will have far-reaching impacts for pregnancy centers across the country that have experienced fierce attacks in pro-abortion blue states. At issue … Read more