The Bookworm Thinker for 21 Oct. 2021
Welcome, all, on this date of 21 Oct. On this day:
1600 — Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara and becomes shōgun of Japan. This is also is the ultimate event in arguably the finest and most popular work of historic fiction ever written, James Clavell’s Shogun.
Now on to the important part of this post.
Ms. Book W. Room, writing under the nom de guerre of Andrea Widburg, is employed by the conservative site, American Thinker, to edit submissions to the site and to write several daily posts of her own. Below are her posts on this date. Since commentary to the posts are restricted at American Thinker (long story), feel free to comment on the day’s offerings below.
Today’s Offerings:
Washington state suspends a physician assistant for prescribing ivermectin
A lot of people are angry that more doctors aren’t prescribing ivermectin when they first get diagnosed with COVID. However, a Washington State physician assistant lost his license because he prescribed ivermectin. Most doctors, having invested upwards of seven years of their lives in preparing to be a physician, don’t want to destroy that career over a politically incorrect prescription.
Andrea Salcedo, who to my great surprise has degrees in journalism, is a terrible writer. Nevertheless, she has a job at the Washington Post, from which platform she wrote a barely comprehensible article about a physician assistant named Scott C. Miller whose license the Washington Medical Commission suspended. The article is framed to make it appear as though ivermectin will kill people. . . .
Continue reading at American Thinker
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Biden’s White House wants to go after religious vax objectors
That good Catholic, Joe Biden, is troubled by the fact that people are raising religious objections to taking the COVID vaccine. We know this because a leaked White House telephone call lets us listen in as a Department of Justice attorney works with the administration to brainstorm ways to force vaccines on religious people over their faith-based objections. The First Amendment is a dead letter in the Biden White House. . . .
Continue reading at American Thinker
Note from Wolf: Ms. BWR uses the term “dead letter” to indicate the White House is ignoring the 1st Amendment. Just to point out, this might be confusing for people who are familiar with the late Justice Scalia’s arguments that the Constitution should be interpreted as a dead document, meaning only what it meant to those who approved it at the time.
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