American Medical Association Claims Body Mass Index Is Racist

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American Medical Association Claims Body Mass Index Is Racist

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The largest organization of doctors in the United States urged doctors to get rid of body mass index [BMI] as the primary measurement for a healthy body weight because the measurement system is “racist.”

The American Medical Association [AMA] stated that the metric has been used for “racist exclusion” and failed to take into account the differences in body composition of people based on their race and sex, the Daily Mail reported.

BMI is measured by dividing a person’s weight into kilograms or pounds by the square of height in meters or feet, the publication added. Even though this system is deeply ingrained in the medical system as a way to measure the health of a population, the AMA stated that BMI is very racist.

“Our AMA recognizes the issues with using body mass index (BMI) as a measurement because: (a) of the eugenics behind the history of BMI, (b) of the use of BMI for racist exclusion and (c) BMI cutoffs are based on the imagined ideal Caucasian and does not consider a person’s gender or ethnicity,” the AMA Council on Science and Public Health said.

The AMA argued that even though BMI can be a useful tool for researchers to gain a macro-level view of a population’s overall health, it cannot predict the risk of disease on an individual level, especially when it comes to races and ethnicities.

“Numerous comorbidities, lifestyle issues, gender, ethnicities, medically significant familial-determined mortality effectors, duration of time one spends in certain BMI categories and the expected accumulation of fat with aging are likely to significantly affect the interpretation of BMI data, particularly in regard to morbidity and mortality rates,” the AMA committee added.

Additionally, the committee stated that doctors should take into consideration people with different eating disorders.

“Further, the use of BMI is problematic when used to diagnose and treat individuals with eating disorders because it does not capture the full range of abnormal eating disorders.”

12-Year-Old Student Criminally Charged for Anti-Semitism

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12-Year-Old Student Criminally Charged for Anti-Semitism

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A 12-year-old student in Massachusetts reportedly faces a misdemeanor charge of criminal harassment after he allegedly drove his Jewish teacher to quit with a slew of anti-Semitic remarks and a hand-drawn picture.

The Berkshire–Eagle, a local newspaper in Massachusetts, reported last week that the teacher, 25-year-old Morrison Robblee, said the student began harassing him after he made it known to his students that he was Jewish. The sixth-grader reportedly did this during his first year at the school, as he became more comfortable with them.

“The harassment started with insults in February, Robblee said, then graduated to jokes about the Holocaust, gas chambers and other aspects of Nazi Germany in his class,” the Berkshire–Eagle reported.

“It came to a head in April,” the newspaper continued. “Robblee, 25, showed up to class during Passover wearing a kippah—a cap worn by some observant Jews. The student made hateful comments about it, and Robblee wrote him up and sent him to detention.”

A few days later, Robblee said the student handed him several drafts of a drawing that showed Adolf Hitler standing over a dead Jewish person, with heading along the top: “Sorry, Jew,” according to the Berkshire–Eagle. The student reportedly called it an apology letter.

The Berkshire–Eagle reported that the student was suspended and removed from Robblee’s class as a result. But the sixth-grade teacher reportedly said the harassment continued in the school’s hallways, and via emails from the student.

The Berkshire–Eagle also reported that the teacher was placed on administrative leave in May, following allegations of misconduct. He allegedly made a face at the student, and spoke about the student in front of other children at the school.

Robblee reportedly admitted to making the face “out of frustration,” but denied speaking about the student in front of his peers.

“Robblee said that he would have been able to return to the school, with a verbal reprimand not to make faces at the student, but he chose to resign instead, feeling that his concerns had not been heard by the administrators,” the Berkshire–Eagle reported. “The district, however, says an investigation into Robblee’s conduct is still open.”

The Dalton Police Department reportedly filed the charge against the student last Tuesday in Pittsfield Juvenile Court. Pending a show-cause hearing, it’s up to the court’s clerk magistrate to decide if it will move forward, according to the Berkshire–Eagle.

“I am not bothered by the ignorant comments of a child,” the teacher reportedly wrote in a statement. “I am bothered that, without proper intervention, this hate will continue to fester.”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Tucker Carlson Biographer Claims Major Fox News Exodus Underway

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Tucker Carlson Biographer Claims Major Fox News Exodus Underway

(Headline USA) Fox News is reportedly hemorrhaging employees in the wake of Tucker Carlson’s ouster, with several leaving the network to join Carlson’s next venture, according to journalist Chadwick Moore.

Moore, who is publishing a biography of Carlson this summer, alleged this week that nine Fox employees who previously worked on Tucker Carlson Tonight have left to work with Carlson again. The employees directly reached out to Carlson about the opportunity, Moore added. 

“My sources have now told me *NINE* former Tucker Carlson Tonight staffers have left Fox News to join Tucker on his next venture,” Moore tweeted. “There are others who are waiting to leave as soon as a role opens up for them with Tucker. Each of the 9 approached Tucker, not the other way around.”

One of the employees who has joined Carlson was the Fox News producer fired for allowing a chyron labeling President Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator” to air.

“The Based Chyron Guy, Alex McCaskill, was a former Tucker Carlson Tonight producer who has now left Fox News after ten years, en route to joining Tucker’s new team. He is one of at least three former producers who have left Fox to join Tucker’s new venture,” Moore reported.

The chyron was live for less than a minute before it was pulled from the air, but the producer was fired from the network shortly after.

Carlson publicly defended the chyron in an episode of “Tucker on Twitter,” his new show, last week, blasting Fox News for suppressing the truth.

“Lies don’t seem to bother anyone anymore,” Carlson said.

“If some cable news producer had called Joe Biden a genius or accused him of being secretly Sudanese, would anyone be yelling about it?” he continued. “Would Fox News have apologized for it? But calling Joe Biden a wanna-be dictator, that stung.”

Partisan Judge Who OKed Mar-a-Lago Raid Issues Sweeping Gag Order

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Partisan Judge Who OKed Mar-a-Lago Raid Issues Sweeping Gag Order

(Headline USA) A federal judge issued a gag order against former President Donald Trump on Monday regarding his indictment for the alleged mishandling of classified documents.

Judge Bruce Reinhart—the same judge who approved the FBI’s late night raid on Mar-a-Lago—granted a protective order on discovery at the request of the Biden Justice Department.

The order requires all discovery materials to be maintained in the custody and control of the defense counsel, and it prevents Trump from accessing them unless he is under the “direct supervision of defense counsel or a member of the defense counsel’s staff.”

The order defines discovery materials as “all non-classified discovery produced by the United States to the defendants in preparation for, or in connection with, any stage of this case,” and says that they “may be used by the defendants and defense counsel … solely in connection with the defense of this case, and for no other purpose, and in connection with no other proceeding, without further order of this court.” 

Trump will be allowed to take notes on the discovery materials, but they must be securely stored with counsel afterwards.

The gag order is meant to prevent Trump from “[disclosing] to the public or the news media, or [disseminating] on any news or social media platform,” the Justice Department’s evidence “without prior notice to and consent of the United States or approval of the court.”

If Trump violates this order, he could be held in contempt of court or face other civil or criminal sanctions.

Trump was also placed under a gag order regarding his first indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Judge Juan Merchan in that case ruled similarly, saying Trump can have “limited” access to discovery materials but is barred from publicly discussing or disclosing the material.

In response, Trump blasted Merchan as a “highly partisan judge” who “hates me.”

Both Reinhart and Merchan have a history of overtly partisan actions in opposition to Trump. Reinhart previously issued social-media posts attacking the former president, while Merchan made a series of contribution to Democrat candidates including Joe Biden.

Did Idaho Dad Go Too Far in Executing Pedophile Peeping Tom’s Entire Family?

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Did Idaho Dad Go Too Far in Executing Pedophile Peeping Tom’s Entire Family?

(Headline USA) A mass-shooting incident in Idaho on Father’s Day raised difficult moral questions over how far would be too far in protecting one’s young daughters against an alleged pedophile, who also happened to be one’s neighbor.

Idaho State Police said Monday that they were investigating a shooting that left four people dead in the small city of Kellogg. One person was in custody, according to police.

Around 7:20 p.m. on Sunday, the Shoshone County dispatch center received a 911 call indicating that multiple people had been killed inside a residence in Kellogg, state police said Sunday night in a news release.

Law enforcement officers found four people dead when they arrived and detained a 31-year-old male believed to be connected with the deaths, according to the release.

“Detectives arrived late last night. … They are continuing to work and process the scene,” a state police spokesperson said in a text message.

Crime scene tape on Monday blocked off parts of an apartment complex in Kellogg, about 36 miles east of Coeur d’Alene, KXLY-TV reported.

The shooting occurred at multi-dwelling units behind the Mountain View Congregational Church on Sunday, The Shoshone News-Press reported on the newspaper’s Facebook page.

Law enforcement had not yet identified the victims or the suspect, but the Idaho Tribune identified 18-year-old Devin Smith as one of the victims. The others are believed to be Smith’s family members, including a teenage brother.

According to its report, his assailant, “Major” Jon Kaylor was the father of two young daughters who lived in the upstairs apartment of a split-level house where Smith and his family had recently moved in downstairs.

A lengthy Facebook post attributed to Kaylor’s wife, Kaylie, accused Smith of twice being caught masturbating in the nude while looking out the window at the two underage girls.

“This dude was staring out the window directly at my girls and I and beating his d#$% off,” she wrote. “I saw his naked body jump up on his bunk bed and scoot back.”

Although the Kaylors had filed a police report roughly a week prior to the shooting, police were unable to verify the allegation and dismissed the complaint as a quarell between the neighbors.

However, the Tribune said that after the shooting several of Smith’s former classmates shared stories accusing the recent graduate of similarly inappropriate behavior, including using school devices to look up child pornography.

The Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office, which said in a Facebook post that it responded to the scene with the Kellogg Police Department, said the four people died of gunshot wounds.

The Kellogg Police Department did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking additional information.

Law enforcement believes that there is no additional threat to the community, state police said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Biden Caught on Tape Telling Ex-Ukraine Pres. Not to Worry about FBI

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Biden Caught on Tape Telling Ex-Ukraine Pres. Not to Worry about FBI

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Recently surfaced audio recordings appeared to reveal that, in 2016, then-Vice President Joe Biden told then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko not to worry about the FBI in order to cover up his family’s corruption, PJ Media reported.

One America News Network and former Fox News media personality Dan Boningo first broke the story.

Initial reporting suggested that the tapes may be leaked versions of the 17 recordings referenced by House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., who last week clashed with the FBI over their refusal to produce—or even acknowledge the existence—of the recordings.

In the recordings, which appeared to have been from a conversation after the historic Nov. 8, 2016 presidential election but before President-elect Donald Trump took office—Biden sought reassurances that the corrupt Poroshenko regime would not cooperate too closely with the incoming president.

He expressed his alarm that if Ukraine were to ask for additional funding to bail out the former Soviet nation, Trump might begin asking questions about what the money was going toward.

“This is getting very, very close to what I don’t want to have happen,” Biden said. “I don’t want Trump to get in the position where he thinks he’s about to buy on to a policy where the financial system is going to collapse and he’s going to be looked to to pour more money into Ukraine.”

When Poroshenko raised concerns that the FBI might investigate, Biden assured him that the intelligence agency would not help Trump uncover any dirt.

“No, no, they are not [working with Trump],” Biden can be heard saying.

“I told you, the FBI concluded he had nothing and they stopped,” he added. “There is no reason to talk to him again.”

The leaked audio comes as House Republicans are investigating whether Biden and his family members accepted bribes from Ukraine’s Burisma energy company to protect it from possible corruption probes.

Trump was impeached in 2019 for calling on Poroshenko’s successor, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to reopen an investigation that Biden had coerced his predecessor to abandon.

Despite the newfound attention on the Biden family’s corrupt quid-pro-quo racket, the recording is not the first evidence to emerge publicly of Biden ordering Poroshenko around to protect his own reputation.

Last summer, for example, audio resurfaced 2016 phone call, Biden warned Poroshenko that cooperating with the incoming Trump administration could threaten Ukrainian economic and “physical security.”

Biden could be heard on the call instructing Poroshenko to conclude an investigation into the soon-to-be-nationalized Ukrainian bank PrivatBank before the International Monetary Fund made a decision pumping millions of dollars into the country.

“Anything you can do to push the PrivatBank to closure so that the IMF loans comes forward, I would respectfully suggest is critically important to your economic as well as physical security,” Biden told Poroshenko at the time.

The FBI similarly suggested that the reason it was stonewalling the House investigation into the Biden bribery scheme was that it feared for the safety of the whistleblowers involved.

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Some Black Americans Think Juneteenth Mainstreaming Is a Disaster

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Some Black Americans Think Juneteenth Mainstreaming Is a Disaster

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Some black Americans have argued that Joe Biden’s memorializing of the redundant holiday, Juneteenth, has been a disaster.

In an article for the Daily Beast titled “Can We Admit Mainstreaming Juneteenth Has Been a Disaster?” writer Ernest Owens argued that pandering by white Democrat leaders including Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Rep. Nancy Peolosi, D-Calif.; and President Joe Biden has appropriated the Southern black tradition into a national holiday has destroyed its meaning.

During the notoriously gridlocked and divisive 117th Congress in 2021, lawmakers joined together in the spirit of bipartisan unity and virtue-signaling to turn the annual event—commemorating when news finally reached Texas slaves that the Civil War had ended—into a federal holiday.

But immediately, critics pointed out that honoring black emancipation by giving government workers another paid day off seemed a bit exploitative and self-serving.

Some also noted that the holiday, coming just a few weeks before the national Independence Day on July 4, might create a sort of “separate but equal” celebration that would do more to undermine unity and national identity than to promote it.

In his article, Owens reflected on his childhood memories of Juneteenth as a festive celebration in Houston, Texas.

“I can still smell the tasty barbeque, remember the gallons of signature red soda passed around, and all that hot sauce doused on my plate as the red and blue Juneteenth flags were waved,” he said, describing his memories of summers in Galveston, Texas.

“Juneteenth was our Fourth of July—a celebration which reminded me that the South still had something to say, and that [b]lack people didn’t have to wait for the validation of our white peers to gather around our history,” he added.

Owens reported that this holiday, the so-called Black 4th of July as he described it, has been “ruined” by being “mainstreamed.”

He complained that it has been hard to watch.

“I started to notice it last year when Walmart thought it was being progressive when they released a red velvet and cheesecake-flavored Juneteenth ice cream with a Pan-African decorated carton,” Owens wrote.

“Fun fact: Juneteenth has never incorporated African themed colors/designs as part of its official flag (organizers use red, white, and blue to replicate the U.S. and Texas state flags),” he said, clarifying that Walmart did not understand the holiday they were celebrating.

Owens argued that the mainstreaming of Juneteenth had diminished the meaning of the holiday.

“Juneteenth has quickly descended into the rainbow capitalism vibes of Pride month,” he complained, noting the shallow and inauthentic celebrations.

Only 32% of Americans indicated they had any plans to celebrate Juneteenth, with 17% reporting to “not know” whether they might celebrate and a whopping 51% reporting they had no plans to celebrate according to a poll by Redfeild and Wilton Strategies.

Oregon GOP Walkout Forces Dems to Compromise on Underage Abortion Law

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Oregon GOP Walkout Forces Dems to Compromise on Underage Abortion Law

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Republicans in Oregon’s state senate succeeded in eliminating part of a proposed bill that would have permitted minors to get abortions without parental permission.

According to Breitbart, the GOP had a portion of HB 2002 removed after the state senators performed the “longest walkout in state history,” consisting of six weeks of peaceful protesting.

The walkout ended on Thursday after the GOP senators agreed to compromise on several other issues.

The legislature passed a budget expanding school funding, money for mental health services and financial support for public defenders.

“We have said from the very beginning that we cannot allow the Senate to operate in an unlawful, uncompromising, and unconstitutional manner,” said Senate Minority Leader Tim Knopp, a Republican.

“We repeatedly urged Democrat leaders to put the critical needs of all Oregonians first instead of prioritizing an extreme agenda that does nothing but divide us,” he continued. “I am pleased to say that we were able to hold the Democrat Majority accountable and accomplish all these things. We achieved constitutional, lawful bipartisanship. And parental rights were restored.”

Democrat Senate President Rob Wagner did not excuse Republicans’ absences from the walkout.

The walkout was not without its political cost to the Republican lawmakers, who represent a vast swath of the state’s rural, eastern region but are nonetheless outnumbered by coastal leftists from Portland and other urban regions.

A ballot measure voted in last year put at least 10 state-level GOP legislators at risk of losing their positions.

“Though Democrats hold a slim majority, it is critically important that the voices of all Oregonians are heard in this process,” state Sen. Lynn Findley, a Republican, said in a statement.

“We knew the risk we were taking, but we feel our challenge to Measure 113’s constitutionality is strong,” Findley added. “Some of our colleagues may disagree, but that is a battle for another day. Today, we are happy to deliver this win for Oregonians.”

The new law required parental consent for minors under 15 years old seeking abortions. Democrats also removed portions of the bill that would have sought the expansion of abortion in rural areas of the state and around university campuses.

Portions of the bill funding hormone therapy and providing protection to patients who sought abortions in other states remained.

Woke NPR Celebrates Father’s Day with Pregnant Dad Story

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Woke NPR Celebrates Father’s Day with Pregnant Dad Story

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Left-leaning and publicly funded NPR has gone off the woke deep end after celebrating Father’s Day by showcasing a transgender man, who gave birth to two daughters. 

NPR’s show Morning Edition ran a series for Father’s Day called: “Voices of dads from different backgrounds,” which told the story of a pregnant woman, Kayden Coleman, who was medically altered to resemble a male, but remained a biologically reproductive female, Fox News Digitial reported. The transgender man was featured along with a military father and immigrant father.

Coleman, 37, experienced a pregnancy after stopping hormone therapy in 2013 to receive chest masculinization, a double mastectomy, which is also commonly called “top surgery.” Doctors said there would not be another pregnancy. “Today, he is raising two young daughters,” the news outlet reported.

Meanwhile, Coleman decried that as a low-income pregnant man there was pushback within the medical system because of preconceived notions of what a pregnant person is supposed to look like.

“I had to convince a lot of people that I was pregnant and that I wasn’t just a strange man trying to infiltrate the OB-GYN’s office,” Coleman told NPR. “I got offered abortions an astronomical amount of times. I think that comes from the idea that people think that trans people either don’t want to have kids or shouldn’t have kids.”

Coleman also complained about the lack of interest from the medical field in learning more about transmasculine people navigating pregnancy.

“For those of us who identify more on the masculine spectrum, just because we identify as such does not take away our desire to have kids. If we have the body parts to do so, why not?” Coleman told NPR.

However, Coleman suggested that being a trans dad offers certain advantages, particularly in gaining an understanding and insight into the female experience.

“I was assigned female at birth, and I was essentially raised to adhere to societal standards of what a girl is supposed to be, how a girl is supposed to act,” Colman added. “I think that because of that upbringing, I inherently have a kind of nurturing side.”

IRS Accused of Using Fake Name to Enter Ohio Taxpayer’s Home

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IRS Accused of Using Fake Name to Enter Ohio Taxpayer’s Home

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The Judiciary Committee recently revealed that an agent from the Internal Revenue Service used a fake name to gain entry into an Ohio taxpayer’s home.

The committee announced the misconduct in a press release, which featured portions of a letter from Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to Daniel Werfel, commissioner of the IRS.

The letter opened by informing Werfel of the allegations, and further elaborated on the situation.

“When the taxpayer rightfully objected to the agent’s tactics, the IRS agent insisted that he ‘can . . . go into anyone’s house at any time’ as an IRS agent,” the letter read. “These allegations raise serious concerns about the IRS’s commitment to fundamental civil liberties.”

According to the report, the agent claimed his name was “Bill Haus” and asserted that he was at her home to discuss her estate filings. When welcomed into the home, the strange agent insisted the homeowner pay “a substantial amount” to the IRS on several delinquent tax return filings, despite receiving no previous warnings.

The police escorted the agent off the premises and instructed him to “not go into the taxpayer’s home again or he would be arrested.”

When the taxpayer reached out to the supervisor of “Agent Haus,” the supervisor confirmed that she did not owe any additional money and admitted that “things never should have gotten this far.”

In his letter, Jordan requested that Werfel send him “documents and communications referring or relating to the IRS’s field visit” to the Ohio woman, and any “communications between or among the IRS, Treasury Department, and any other Executive Branch entity referring or relating to the incident.”

He also asked to know the identity of the agent.

Recently, journalist Matt Taibbi also received an “unannounced and unprompted” visit from the IRS at his personal home. At the time, Taibbi was testifying before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government in regards to the infamous “Twitter Files.”

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