Jimmy Kimmel became very nasty over the years and I don’t want to waste too much time talking about him. It’s doubtful he’s coming back, and it’s not because of Donald Trump nor is it just about his outrageous lies over the murder of Charlie Kirk. He’s not coming back because his teeny audience doesn’t […] The post Jimmy Kimmel Is Out Because No One Liked Him Anymore appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) — a highly influential Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine panel — held discussions and votes over the past two days on a number of vaccinations. Specifically, the CDC panel discussed the MMRV, hepatitis B, and COVID vaccines. On the MMRV vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox, the panel voted to delay the shot until a child is at least four years old, citing an increased risk in febrile seizures. It’s still currently recommended that the MMR and chickenpox vaccine, separately, be given to young children. The hepatitis B shot was also widely discussed, but ultimately a vote to delay the first dose, which is currently given at birth, was kicked for another time. Some advocates say the first dose is not necessary at birth if the mother herself tests negative for the disease, since hepatitis B is transmitted sexually or by blood. The panel did vote to recommend all pregnant women be tested for hepatitis B, a test that is covered across all insurance programs, according to Health and Human Services (HHS). Lastly, the panel took on COVID vaccines. The panel recommended that the shot “be determined by individual decision-making.” This means there is no longer a broad recommendation for all, but instead, individuals will decide after discussions with providers, including physicians, nurses, and pharmacists, according to HHS. “It allows for immunization coverage through all payment mechanisms including entitlement programs such as the Vaccines for Children Program, Children’s Health Insurance Program, Medicaid, and Medicare, as well as insurance plans through the federal Health Insurance Marketplace,” HHS adds. During this latest meeting, five new appointees were named to ACIP: Catherine M. Stein, Dr. Evelyn Griffin, Hilary Blackburn, Dr. Kirk Milhoan, and Dr. Raymond Pollak. ACIP is highly influential. The panel meets a few times a year and makes recommendations to the CDC, thereby basically setting the childhood vaccine schedule and other vaccine-related recommendations, like flu shots and COVID vaccines. ACIP also heavily influences which vaccines are covered by both public and private insurance. Back in June, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all sitting ACIP panel members over what he said were conflicts of interest. At the time, Kennedy argued in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that ACIP had lost the trust of the American people, effectively becoming a “rubber-stamp” for all vaccines while ignoring safety concerns and conflict of interest rules. He said that ACIP had “never recommended against a vaccine—even those which were later withdrawn for safety reasons,” adding that the panel “failed to scrutinize vaccine products given to babies and pregnant women.” Related: MAHA Changes Are Coming To McDonald’s

An armed man displaying “suspicious behavior” was arrested Friday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, according to federal authorities. On Sunday, a special memorial event for assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk will be held at the stadium. The event will include speeches from Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk, President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and others. The suspicious man was allegedly falsely posing as law enforcement. “The U.S. Secret Service in coordination with local law enforcement in Glendale, Arizona, is investigating an individual who was observed exhibiting suspicious behavior at State Farm Stadium,” Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi confirmed to Fox News. “The individual was approached by Secret Service and stated during the encounter that he was a member of law enforcement and that he was armed. The individual is not a member of authorized law enforcement working the event and is currently in custody,” Guglielmi added. A source told Fox that the man, who has yet to be publicly identified, “is a former deputy sheriff out of Idaho” and “identified himself with expired credentials.” “They are going through his background and trying to figure out what he was up to there,” the source added. The event has been designated by the Department of Homeland Security as a Special Event Assessment Rating (SEAR) Level 1 event, which gives it Super Bowl-level security. “This designation is reserved for events of the highest national significance and enables the federal government to provide the full range of law enforcement and security resources necessary to support local officials in ensuring a safe and successful event,” a DHS official said, according to The Hill. The service for Kirk, who founded Turning Point USA at just 18 years old, is expected to turn out at least tens of thousands of Americans, with anticipated overflow since the stadium holds little more than 63,000 people. The Daily Wire will stream the Turning Point USA event across all platforms at 2:00 p.m. ET on Sunday. Related: Trump And Top Conservatives To Gather Sunday In Arizona To Remember Charlie Kirk

In 1965, NBC introduced us to a sweet genie and an astronaut who fell madly in love in I Dream of Jeannie. The show ran for five seasons and a whopping 139 episodes. Barbara Eden portrayed Jeannie alongside Larry Hagman, her TV husband, Tony Nelson. With the blink of her eyes, Jeannie made her master’s wishes come true. The show was filled with silly storylines and lovable hijinks. At 94, Barbara Eden remains a magical presence and is excited about the show’s 60th anniversary. She shared some of her favorite and not-so-favorite parts of the show with People. View this post on Instagram A post shared by CLUB RANDOM WITH BILL MAHER (@clubrandompodcast) Barbara Eden Fell In Love With “I Dream Of Jeannie” On Day 1 Barbara Eden told People the I Dream of Jeannie pilot was her favorite episode and said, “I loved it.” The very first episode, Tony found Jeannie’s bottle on a deserted island after her space capsule landed there. The two hit it off, and Jeannie stowed away in Tony’s bag. The rest, as they say, is television history. I Dream of Jeannie had its fair share of guest stars during its 5-year-one and Barabra dished on her favorite. “I loved having Sammy Davis Jr.,” she recalled. “He was such a darling gentleman.” Barbara also remembered a not-so-wonderful time on the set. She found herself stuck with no one to rescue her. “I think the only time, and it was when the crew and Larry and the whole cast left me in the bottle at lunchtime and I was starving,” she said. “I couldn’t get out of the bottle.” Barbara Eden also explained that she helped develop her character’s signature gestures. “The arms, I just figured it out. That’s what a genie does,” she told People. “And I thought blinking the eyes is a very passive thing. You have to do stronger things, so that’s why I nodded my head.” Congratulations on your magical 60th birthday, Barbara. Now, do you have one or two wishes left to grant? We’ve got a list. This story’s featured image is by Franziska Krug/Getty Images for Marcel Remus. The post Barbara Eden Dishes On “I Dream Of Jeannie” In Celebration Of The Show’s 60th Anniversary appeared first on InspireMore.

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The FBI under President Joe Biden investigated no less than 92 conservative or Republican groups and individuals, as part of an operation code-named, “Arctic Frost,” which scoured the dregs for a way to charge President Donald Trump with crimes related to the 2020 election, according to documents released Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee. “In other words, Arctic Frost wasn’t just a case to politically investigate Trump,” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. “It was the vehicle by which partisan FBI agents and DOJ [Department of Justice] prosecutors could achieve their partisan ends and improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus.” The list included organs of the Republican Party, such as the Republican National Committee and the Republican Attorneys General Association; former Trump officials such as Mark Meadows; and nonprofit organizations focused on everything from policy to networking, such as America First Policy Institute, the Conservative Partnership Institute, and Turning Point USA. The committee released its report less than a week after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot dead while engaging in one of his characteristic political discussions with college students. The Biden administration’s surveillance against Kirk’s organization creates an unflattering parallel to the FBI surveillance authorized six decades earlier against Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Like Kirk, King was an influential Christian activist who was ultimately assassinated for his political views. Biden administration surveillance could also descend from the grandiose to the provincial. U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, said on “Washington Watch” that her own political consultant was placed under surveillance, at a time when Hageman was mounting a primary challenge to Trump-critical former congresswoman Liz Cheney, one of the few Republicans to join in the Biden administration’s attacks on Trump. What business did the FBI have investigating a political consultant to a Republican primary candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming—unless they were simply performing a favor for Cheney? Begun in April 2022 and reassigned to Special Counsel Jack Smith in November of that year, the FBI investigation left no stone unturned, conducting more than 150 interviews, serving more than 400 subpoenas, and executing more than 60 search warrants (which included seizing the phones of five lawyers, a U.S. congressman, and two White House aides). During the same period as this investigation, cartels freely trafficked drugs and people across America’s southern border, and left wing vandals attacked hundreds of pregnancy centers and churches with nearly no repercussions from the Biden administration. Hageman alleged that Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee showed the same indifference toward actual crime during a Tuesday hearing with FBI director Kash Patel. “The Democrats are not interested in what the FBI is doing to actually keep the American citizens and the American public safe,” she said. “They talked an awful lot about [files related to Jeffrey] Epstein and focused on something that, for the majority of Americans, they’re not interested.” This belated interest in Epstein betrays a political motivation, she argued, because Trump’s “is the first [administration] that has actually disclosed Epstein files. The Obama administration didn’t do it. The Biden administration didn’t do it. So they’re actually disclosing information. But that’s not good enough for the Democrats, because that’s not the point … of them going after this issue.” In other words, Democrats in Congress didn’t care about releasing the Epstein files until they believed it would hurt Trump. That same politicized attitude towards law enforcement seemed to infuse the Biden administration’s campaign of lawfare against not only Trump but anyone they viewed as a political opponent. Thus, the FBI cultivated informants in traditional Catholic churches, investigated concerned parents as potential domestic terrorists for disagreeing with school board policies, and harassed a medical whistleblower and pro-life protestors with spurious prosecutions. The recent revelations shed new light on one three-year-old case in particular. In August 2022, the DOJ used its intervention in a lawsuit against Alabama’s law protecting minors from gender transition procedures to subpoena a tiny, conservative nonprofit that wasn’t even a party to the case, demanding that its one-and-a-half paid employees turn over five years’ worth of records (a judge ultimately quashed the subpoena). At the time, the incident was a stunning abuse of authority. Now, it seems that such abuse of authority was standard operating procedure in the Biden administration’s FBI. “This is what the Biden administration did,” Hageman asserted. “They used their own FBI … as almost a Gestapo against the Republican Party.” The implications of the Biden administration’s subpoena dragnet extend beyond just the individuals and groups they targeted, argued Family Research Council president Tony Perkins. “It’s aptly named ‘Arctic Frost’ because it was intended to chill the freedom of speech,” to deter others from speaking into the political process. “Because we have seen the links of the FBI to groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and others on the Left,” he added, “I think there’s a whole lot more to be exposed.” Originally published by The Washington Stand. The post Report: Biden FBI Snooped on 92 Conservative Targets in Trump Witch Hunt appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The great outbreak of evil in these past days stirred a memory of something I used to tell my freshman students on the first day of their introduction to politics class: Politics is about what is good.We would read together the first sentence of Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” — an unrivaled introduction to politics: Every art and every inquiry, and likewise every action and choice, seems to aim at some good, and hence it has been beautifully said that the good is that at which all things aim.Aristotle goes on quickly to observe in his usual empirical way that many goods exist along with many arts developed to achieve the different goods. The medical art aims at the good of health. The art of shipbuilding aims at building good ships. The military art aims at victory in war. The art of managing the household, which the Greeks called economics, aims at the good of wealth. Virtue is the end or aim of political life.Some arts are subordinated to other arts, because the good at which the art aims is subordinate to a larger good, the way the art of the cavalryman is subordinate to the art of the general.Aristotle then introduces the subject of politics with a great hypothesis: If there exists some good, some end, that we seek for its own sake, and we seek all the rest for the sake of or on account of this one good — if, in other words, we don’t choose everything for the sake of something else, which would make all of our desires empty and pointless — this would be the good itself, in fact the highest good.He asks: Would not an awareness of this highest good have great weight in a man’s life? Wouldn’t the art of attaining that good be the sovereign or master art encompassing all the ends or goods of the other arts? And isn’t this what we call the art of politics?The good that the art of politics aims at, he says, is “the human good.” What name do people give to the human good that encompasses all others and lacks nothing? The Greek word, Aristotle says, is eudaimonia, which we usually translate as “happiness” in English. The art of politics is the art of happiness. But it gets even better.The art of politics is a practical art. It aims not just at knowing what happiness is but at being happy. Thinking happiness through, Aristotle finds that it does not have primarily to do with the body. It is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue — in fact, in accordance with complete virtue. You can’t be a happy man without being a good or virtuous man. And in this sense, virtue is the end or aim of political life.Aristotle goes on to distinguish between virtues of character and virtues of intellect, or what we usually call moral and intellectual virtues. He argues that the specific virtue or excellence of the statesman — the political man par excellence — is the intellectual virtue of practical wisdom, what he would call “phronesis.” Phronesis is the only intellectual virtue that is inseparable from moral virtue. According to Aristotle, a man cannot possess phronesis without possessing all the moral virtues actively and in their fullness. He is a man in full.I would tell students that to make progress in their study of politics — this practical art — they would have to make progress in virtue; they would have to make progress toward the human good; they would have to make progress toward happiness. This is what our semester would be about.Happiness and politics go together?If I were lucky, at least one hesitatingly confident realist among the students — they were still too young to be cynics — would be brave enough on this first day of class to raise a hand and say deferentially and politely something like: “What! Have you read a newspaper lately?” (They had newspapers back then.) “Every page is filled with violence, crime, corruption, and somebody grasping for power! To call someone a politician is an insult.”And so the semester would be off and running.I would admit that though Aristotle in his “Politics” defines man as a “political animal” because man is a “rational animal” — an animal possessing logos, or reason — he makes an empirical observation at the end of his “Ethics” that will be familiar to anyone who has read a newspaper: Rational creatures though they are, men sometimes do not listen to reason and are carried away by their passions.Aristotle would agree with Alexander Hamilton, or rather Hamilton agreed with Aristotle, when he wrote in Federalist 15: "Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.” And with James Madison’s even more famous saying, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary."In addition, working on our non-angelic human fallibility and culpability, bad education causes us to make mistakes about what is good. For these reasons, Aristotle argues that both education and coercion are central to the art of politics and, alas, that practicing the art of politics is not a leisurely activity. It is the burdensome art of inducing others to do what they ought to do for their own good and happiness, even when they don’t want to.These days, our children learn in school and online that it is good to shoplift or try to change themselves from a boy to a girl or from a girl to a boy. A shockingly large percentage of them have learned that it is good to kill those who disagree with you.From his first day in office in 2021, Joe Biden — our then-educator in chief — made it the central point of American politics that being trans was being good and questioning the goodness of being trans was evil. He thrust this bad education into the face of his country — marching trans heroes before the cameras to model the “goodness” that all Americans should admire and publicly praise if they wanted to avoid ostracism, public shaming and canceling, expulsion from school, losing their jobs, being put in jail, or being murdered in cold blood.Politics requires goodnessKnowing what is good is not easy. A man in ancient Athens with the greatest reputation for wisdom knew only that he did not know what was good. To have what was good, to be good, was so crucial to Socrates — the one thing needful — that it made no sense to do anything else with his life than to try to find out what it was.RELATED: We all knew political murder was coming home Photo by Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty ImagesBut we do not need to be philosophers to know that boys cannot become girls, that biological males should not be competing against biological females in sports or sharing their bathrooms, and that killing those who disagree with us is evil. Glenn Ellmers, Salvatori Research Fellow at the Claremont Institute and an old friend, published a short essay on the urgent need, in this increasingly deranged world, to hold on to our common sense.Machiavelli — the infamous teacher of “realist” politics — seeing unflinchingly what we all could read in the newspaper, taught that in a world where so many are so bad, it is merely common sense that it is necessary for those who would succeed in the art of politics to enter into evil. I would suggest an alternative lesson to students, one that I think is in the spirit of Aristotle: In a world where so many are so bad, it is merely common sense that it is necessary for the good to be great.Editor’s note: This article was originally published at the American Mind.