We’re Losing Children to Diseases We Already Defeated

Lauren Burke-Sarabia ...

Over the past year, the Food and Drug Administration has done important work drawing attention to how food choices affect health. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. deserves credit for shining a light on food additives and America’s dependence on processed foods.

I’m a registered nurse and a mother. I applaud that work. But I also need to ask a hard question: Why aren’t childhood vaccines getting the same attention and urgency?  *** RFK Jr is right that clean food matters.  But so does keeping measles and whooping cough of kids' lungs ...

I’ve spent years in intensive care watching people of all ages fight respiratory illness. Even with experience, it’s brutal to see a patient cling to life through ventilators, intubation, or ECMO machines.

Why Johnny Still Can’t Read: The Curriculum Cartel Doesn’t Want Reform

Vince Bielski,  March 14, 2026   

Popular programs stay entrenched even after admitting flaws. Gatekeepers prefer familiar dogma over the hard work of changing course.

Half a century after the book “Why Johnny Can’t Read” sounded an alarm about the rise of illiteracy in the U.S., the problem has only gotten worse. A quarter of all young adults, many of them high-school graduates, are now functionally illiterate. Unable to read more than basic, short sentences, their prospects in today’s information economy are bleak.

This crisis gave rise to a movement that embraced the science of reading and produced a surprising success story in the Deep South, a region dogged by the highest rates of childhood illiteracy in the nation. State leaders and education reformers in Mississippi and Louisiana led a remarkable improvement in elementary reading scores that now rank among the highest in the nation.

The Most Dangerous Job in America Claims the Life of a 29-Year-Old Kentucky Amish Man

Erik Wesner

Logging workers have the highest fatality rate of any civilian job in the US, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The profession sees 110.4 fatalities per 100,000 workers – a rate more than double that of roofing (the third-deadliest occupation) and over 33 times higher than the national average for all workers.

Amish in many communities are involved in the lumber industry – both in logging, and in operating sawmills. And sadly, news has come that another Amish logger has lost his life, this time in an incident in Crittenden County, Kentucky. ...

Northern Cheyenne Tribe Reclaims Cultural Belongings from UM

Northern Cheyenne elders and cultural leaders traveled from the southeastern Montana reservation to UM to reclaim ownership of dozens of culturally significant items, recordings and documents in the university’s collections.

Inside the University of Montana’s Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, Donovan Taylor stretched his arms across a wooden conference table holding his phone, which was recording, up to two gray speakers. He furrowed his brow and closed his eyes as he listened to a 1968 recording of a Cheyenne love song. 

Next to him, Theresa Small, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council, leaned closer to the speakers and cupped a hand to her right ear, trying to hear the drums and singers through the lo-fi audio. 

Dr. Vernon Coleman

When I first started as a family doctor I had no appointments system. There was just me, an elderly receptionist and a consulting room. Patients arrived and were seen. It was simple. I preferred it. And so did my patients.

 No one had to wait to be seen.  Appointments systems are for hairdressers and dentists. Not doctors.

To read my article go to: www.vernoncoleman.com

Alex Schadenberg: Canada Will Surpass 100,000 Euthanasia Deaths.

Monday, March 2, 2026:  

We recently received the 2025 fourth quarter Ontario euthanasia report from the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario.  

The report stated that in Ontario there were 5303 reported euthanasia deaths in 2025 which was up from 4944 in 2024, which represented a 7.2% increase. This was up from 4641 euthanasia deaths in 2023 which represented a 6.5% increase that year. 

This indicates that the growth in euthanasia deaths is increasing, not stabilizing.

The report indicated that all Ontario MAiD deaths, in 2025, were clinician administered (euthanasia). In jurisdictions that legalize both euthanasia and assisted suicide, nearly all of the deaths are euthanasia.

Health Canada released the Sixth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada on November 28, 2025.

The 2024 report stated that there were 16,499 reported (MAiD) Canadian euthanasia deaths which was up by 6.9% from 15,427 in 2023.

The Dangers of Fake History: Did Crusaders Ruin “Five Centuries of Peaceful Coexistence” with Islam?

  RAYMOND IBRAHIM 

Increasing numbers of people have become wary of the dangers of Fake News. But what about the more subtle scourge of Fake History? Although far harder to expose than Fake News—requiring familiarity not merely with history, but with primary source texts—Fake History is arguably even more dangerous.

Unlike the “news,” which is ephemeral, causing its mischief in the present before quickly dissipating, the presumed lessons of history are concrete and long-lasting. People interpret current events through the prism of history; and if that history is fundamentally flawed, then everything they believe about the present will also be flawed. 

As a prime example of the dangers of fake history, take the historical writings of John Esposito, an award-winning professor of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of more 35 books on Islam; editor-in-chief of numerous Oxford reference works, including The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World and The Oxford History of Islam; advisor to the award-winning PBS documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet (2002); and, perhaps most notably, a go-to expert on Islam, certainly in his heyday after 9/11, when he was frequently called on to brief the State Department, FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security and various branches of the military. 

How Euthanasia Is Rewriting the Ethics of Medicine

Dr Ramona Coelho

The following letter by Dr. Ramona Coelho [pictured here] was published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in February 2026.  

Dr. Coelho is a Family Physician; a Senior Fellow of Domestic and Health Policy at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and a Member of Medical Assistance in Dying Ontario (MAiD) Death Review Committee (MDRC).   

Dear Editor,

Recent BMJ commentary has suggested that Canada’s assisted dying regime involves robust independent assessment and that coercion is not a meaningful concern[1], despite alarms raised by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities[2] and government oversight reports[3]. 

A key question is whether introducing assisted dying into medicine is adversely altering clinical practice. Assisted dying is often framed as patient autonomy. Yet this framing minimizes how Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) reshapes clinical reasoning, professional responsibility, and interpretations of suffering. Under Canada’s Criminal Code, MAiD is exempt from homicide and assisted suicide offences[4]. 

Community Service Officer Jane Dore stepped in to Protect the Elderly (Dore photo with bolded quotes halfway down the page)

SEATTLE — Seattle police are warning residents about a surge in roofing scams targeting elderly homeowners, after investigators uncovered 22 victims and nearly $932,000 in financial losses since April of last year.

The average victim is 76 years old. Scammers pose as roofers, show up uninvited at homes, and pressure residents into paying large sums for unnecessary or fraudulent work, in some cases deliberately damaging roofs themselves to manufacture a reason for costly repairs.

One North Seattle woman, Evelyn, a widow, nearly lost $34,000 to the scheme before a timely intervention stopped the payments.

"He was very well spoken, very nicely dressed. Loved his accent, which was Irish," Evelyn said of the man who came to her door.

He told her that her chimney "really was on the edge of destruction and needed to be taken down." Trusting his assessment, she handed over a $30,000 check and a $4,000 check.

Evelyn, whose husband David served in Special Forces in Vietnam and passed away two years ago, said she is still adjusting to navigating decisions without him.

Snowmobiler Dies in Avalanche near Montana-Idaho Border

Amanda EggertEnvironmental Reporter

aeggert@montanafreepress.org

A snowmobiler died in an avalanche near the Montana-Idaho border over the weekend. It is Idaho’s first avalanche fatality of the 2025-2026 season.

The slide occurred on Feb. 22 north of the Keg Springs trailhead in the Centennial Mountains near Island Park, Idaho, according to the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center.

In a Sunday evening Instagram post, the avalanche center wrote that it would be investigating the circumstances surrounding the avalanche — standard procedure for fatal avalanches — on Monday.

Beijing Uses Fake Western News Sites to Attack Falun Gong, Report Finds

Dozens of websites linked to Chinese companies have been used to push Beijing’s propaganda overseas while pretending to be legacy Western outlets, according to a report by Graphika, which specializes in research into foreign influence.

The websites copied design elements in order to fraudulently present themselves as such outlets as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and others. Aside from commercial and pro-China content, they also ran articles attacking Falun Gong, a faith group brutally persecuted by the regime of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the report said.

“We identified evidence that these companies and/or individuals leveraged these domains in contracts to promote the activities undertaken by [CCP-linked] entities,” the report said.

In Europe, the Assault on Churches Continues

By Hugh Fitzgerald

No, the stories about attacks on churches in Europe seldom contain the words “Islam” or “Muslim.” But everyone knows who is vandalizing the churches in Europe, breaking the altars and smashing the baptismal fonts, setting fires, stealing church silver, urinating and defecating in the chapels, in the pews, and on the floors. More on the latest horror — the setting of two fires at a historic church in Germany — can be found here:

“Arsonists set two fires at historic German Catholic church,” by Antonino Cambria, LifeSite News, February 16, 2026:

Arsonists set fires on both the altar and near the entrance front of the historic St. Peter Catholic Church in Huttenheim last month.

Did Air Bud's Husky Brother make it to the Olympics?

Published on February 18, 2026 06:57AM EST  

It sure looked that way during the women's cross-country team sprint qualifying race on Wednesday, Feb. 18, when a dog suddenly crashed the course as the 2026 Winter Olympians were finishing.

As members of Team Croatia and Team Australia crossed the finish line, a dog appeared, first looking at the cameras before realizing there were athletes on skis to chase.

"Anybody lost their dog?" the on-course announcers joked, after saying, "it's a fairly nice mutt there, not hindering anybody's progress. One of those moments you have to laugh about."

"But you know, better it happened now than during the group sprints, let's put it that way," they added.

After the racers slid to the ground in exhaustion, the dog went around to give them a sniff before heading off to the post-finish area with the other athletes and getting some good pets and belly rubs from the Olympics volunteers.

Full ‘Worm’ Moon Will Greet Spring With ‘Blood’ Moon Total Lunar Eclipse—What You Need to Know

Michael Wing, Editor and Writer,  

2/20/2026|Updated: 2/20/2026 

This winter has been bitter for many of us, so let’s talk about a traditional sign of spring appearing in the night sky next month—the “Worm Moon.”

Ushering in morning runs and perhaps some early gardening, the March full moon will signal getting outside more as the weather warms and daylight lengthens. For Native Americans, similarly, this full moon meant maple syrup flowing again and birds like geese and eagles returning.

It also signified beetle larva squirming in the bark of trees and worms wriggling in the thawing soil, thus tribespeople dubbed it the Worm Moon. The name was adopted by colonial explorers centuries ago and it stuck. It’s still used today.

On average, full moons in March don’t look terribly different from those in other months, but a total lunar eclipse next month will make this one exceptional. When the full Worm Moon falls on March 3, at 6:38 a.m. ET, the Earth’s shadow will cause it to darken and turn deep red. This is known as a “Blood Moon.”

From Hijra to City Hall: Islam, Migration, and the Rise of Mamdani

By Raymond Ibrahim, Feb 20, 2026 *

Twenty-five years after Muslim terrorists killed 2,800 people in New York City on September 11, 2001, a self-identified Muslim has, for the first time in that city’s history, become mayor.

What is the significance of this, and what does it really tell us?

On January 1, 2026, Zohran Mamdani — 35 years old, born in Uganda to Indian parents, Shia Muslim, former housing counselor and rapper (“Young Cardamom”), self-described democratic socialist — was sworn in as mayor of New York City. He has been described by many, including the President of the United States, as a “100% Communist Lunatic.”

Others accuse him of being a closet Muslim radical working to subvert New York to Islam. Their concerns are not unwarranted (not least since Shia Islam is notorious for internalizing taqiyya, a doctrine that promotes dissembling).