Author: Carma Henry

Just in time for the holiday season, Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) of Broward County has launched Share the Season, a fundraising campaign for big hearts to make bright holidays. The campaign serves to bring joy and merriment to BBBS families by providing them with gift cards to purchase a Thanksgiving meal and holiday gifts.

The good news: Early analysis shows that this season’s flu shots offer some protection against being hospitalized with this variant, especially for kids. The bad news is that many Americans appear to be skipping their flu vaccines this year. New data from prescription data company IQVIA shows that vaccinations are down compared to where they usually are at this point in the year.

       Kidney disease disproportionately affects Black communities, with Black Americans nearly four times as likely to develop kidney failure compared to other racial groups. Many people don’t notice the early warning signs of kidney disease until the condition has progressed, making it vital to recognize symptoms and seek medical advice promptly. This article delves into 15 key warning signs of kidney disease that should not be ignored.

The Government Shutdown And The Collateral Damage It Caused.

     Alright, friends — lace up your sensible shoes because we’re strolling into a field that’s been plowed, planted, and harvested by venture capital, political ambition, and some very high-powered alliances. And at the center of it sits a pairing that should make every farmer, every rural community, and every American paying attention to land ownership perk up: J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel.

America at 250: It’s Time to Bring the Ballot Home

     Demagoguery is nothing new. America has always had its fire-breathers, Father Charles Coughlin, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Governor George Wallace, each exploiting fear and resentment to build a following. But today’s demagogues operate at a scale those predecessors could never imagine. They don’t need studios or rallies; they have livestreams, podcasts, and algorithmic megaphones engineered to reward outrage. They arrive faster, louder, and more frequently, wrapped in hashtags and monetized resentment.

     First and most important: “Take care that you are not made into a Caesar, that you are not dyed with this purple dye; for such things happen. Keep yourself rather simple, good, pure, serious from affectation, a friend of justice, a worshipper of the gods, kind, affectionate, strenuous in all proper acts. … help people. Life is short.” (The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, VI, ¶ 30); below “MMA”.)

      Analysis of why countries go to war sometimes argues that leaders are motivated by problems at home. They attack another country to divert attention from an economic crisis, an unlawful act, or—as in the Robert De Niro movie, Wag the Dog—a sex scandal. In recent years, for example, Israel’s all-out response to the Hamas attack in October 2023 might be explained as having been prompted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political and legal troubles. India’s brief war with Pakistan in May may have occurred to release domestic political pressures in both countries. These explanations may be off the mark, but they appear regularly in speculation about why political leaders decide to fight rather than negotiate.

     The United States was instrumental in creating the Nuremberg Charter, Principles and Judgment, and in orchestrating the Tribunals. The chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, made clear that the Tribunal’s function was to prosecute and punish the architects of the “final solution,” the designers, developers, and administrators that produced and implemented the gigantic apparatus of the holocaust which destroyed at least 10 million civilian victims.