A while back, Rose and I went on the FreeThinking Podcast to discuss Trump’s Cabinet picks. I was especially negative about the nominations for Secretary of Labor and Surgeon General. Well, the leftist Secretary of Labor got through her nomination, but enough was discovered on the Surgeon General nominee for her nomination to be pulled. So who is the replacement?

First, here is the previous nominee, Janette Nesheiwat, who is very attractive, just like many of Trump’s other bad nominees:

Donald Trump’s nominee for Surgeon General is facing backlash from some of his fiercest MAGA supporters for backing some strict COVID restrictions and masking mandates.

[…]Nesheiwat, a medical director for CityMD in New York, frequently spoke about the coronavirus pandemic and offered hardline advice about how citizens should behave.

[…]’Dr. Janette Nesheiwat supported masking kids in school. Dealbreaker,’ wrote podcast host Liz Wheeler on social media when the pick was announced.

[…]Another video making the rounds on social media featured Nesheiwat praising Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for censoring and banning so-called ‘misinformation’ about vaccines on Facebook and Instagram.

[…]Nesheiwat signaled her support for other social media platforms to follow Zuckerberg’s example and also censor vaccine skeptics.

[…]Nesheiwat also promoted the idea of making sure children were getting their COVID-19 vaccines.

Below, I link to a Daily Signal article that talks about her replacement. That article adds that “Nesheiwat has also been criticized by conservatives for touting the idea that children can identity as a gender that differs from their biological sex.” Just a total trash pick by Trump, not conservative at all. But she’s hot.

Here is the story from Daily Signal:

The Trump administration pulled the nomination of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat to be surgeon general following reports that she inflated her credentials, Bloomberg reported.

President Donald Trump instead nominated Dr. Casey Means on Wednesday… Means attended Stanford Medical School, then she pursued a surgical residency at Oregon Health & Science University. Before completing the program, she dropped out to start her own functional medicine practice and founded the company Levels, which offers consumers continuous glucose monitors and an app to track their blood sugar.

Means’ brother, Calley Means, is a prominent advisor to Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

I’m not impressed with this new pick, but she does have a record of promoting individual autonomy and choice in health care. She also has a record of opposing woke content in medical school curriculums.

The better pick would have been Florida’s Surgeon General, who has a record of opposing Big Government Health Care.

• Opposing Water Fluoridation: Advocated for removing fluoride from drinking water, citing health risks.
• Challenging Vaccine Mandates: Opposed COVID-19 vaccine mandates, questioned vaccine efficacy, and pushed for legislation against discrimination based on vaccination status.
• Contradicting Federal Health Guidance: Issued guidance against federal recommendations on COVID-19 vaccines and measles outbreak managemen.

Trump is definitely a mixed bag for conservatives. Mostly good, but a lot bad, too. I’m still seething with Trump for handing the Canadian socialist party a victory with his clowning about “51st state”. Having a socialist country to the north is only going to hurt us in the future.

I wrote an article back in 2021 about why elite Christians should not hold Anthony Fauci in high regard. So many Christian leaders sided with Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins, and tried to promote their positions to Christians. But strangely enough, there were many reasons to doubt the goodness of these two men. One of the reasons was the NIH’s experiments on captured dogs.

In my previous article, I wrote about these experiments. Let’s review that, and then see what the Trump admnistration thinks of it.

This is from the far-left The Hill.

Excerpt:

The White Coat Waste Project, the nonprofit organization that first pointed out that U.S. taxpayers were being used to fund the controversial Wuhan Institute of Virology, have now turned its sights on Anthony Fauci on another animal-testing-related matter — infecting dozens of beagles with disease-causing parasites to test an experimental drug on them.

[…]White Coat Waste claims that 44 beagle puppies were used in a Tunisia, North Africa, laboratory, and some of the dogs had their vocal cords removed, allegedly so scientists could work without incessant barking.

[…]“Our investigators show that Fauci’s NIH division shipped part of a $375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia to drug beagles and lock their heads in mesh cages filled with hungry sand flies so that the insects could eat them alive,” White Coat Waste told Changing America. “They also locked beagles alone in cages in the desert overnight for nine consecutive nights to use them as bait to attract infectious sand flies.”

That’s what I covered in my previous article, along with the NIH funding of gain of function research which likely led to the COVID lab leak. But now there is news from the Trump administration – what do they think of these experiments on dogs?

This is the latest from the Daily Caller:

The National Institutes of Health has closed the last remaining intramural beagle lab conducting painful experiments — the federal government’s largest dog lab — NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said in a television interview Sunday.

A project at the NIH Clinical Center on “stress-induced and sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy” represented the final in-house experiments that induced pain and distress in beagles, classified under U.S. Department of Agriculture pain categories D and E. The project has now been terminated.

[…]The NIH has killed 2,133 beagles in septic shock experiments since 1986, according to a nine-year investigation and advocacy campaign by White Coat Waste Project. Necroposy reports from 41 beagles and other veterinary records obtained by the group through the Freedom of Information Act show that the experiments involved infecting the beagles’ lungs with pneumonia-causing bacteria to induce sepsis and sometimes bleeding them out to induce hemorrhagic shock. The dogs are then euthanized.

I think it’s important for Christians to do their own thinking when it comes to how they vote. I don’t want Christians to vote so that they feel smart, and can claim to be in the “smart” crowd. I don’t think that Christians should get their ideas from the secular leftistswho work at NPR and PBS. One of the reasons I voted against Biden is because I remembered these experiments. I thought that a Republican administration would see someone like Jay Bhattacharya, Vinay Prasad or Scott Atlas as leader of the NIH. We got Jay, and he’s cleaning up the filth.

There are actually two dissentings scientists in the Trump administration:

• Jay Bhattacharya: He’s now the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). During the pandemic, Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor, co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, which argued against widespread lockdowns and for focused protection of vulnerable groups while letting others resume normal life. He criticized mask mandates, social distancing, and vaccine policies, often clashing with the NIH and CDC’s approaches. His views on letting the virus spread among low-risk groups to build immunity were controversial, with critics arguing it underestimated COVID’s risks. Supporters, though, saw him as a voice of reason against overreach.

• Marty Makary: Appointed as the FDA Commissioner. Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon and health policy expert, was outspoken about the need to balance COVID restrictions with societal costs. He questioned the efficacy of prolonged school closures and blanket mask mandates, emphasizing the low risk to children and the economic fallout of lockdowns. He also pushed for recognizing natural immunity in policy decisions, which put him at odds with federal health officials.

So, next election, remember not to listen to “Evangelicals for Biden” and fake, Soros-funded “evangelical” groups.

Something very exciting happened last week, so I wanted to talk about it today instead of on the weekend. Trump signed an executive order to cut funding for National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service, two far-left organizations. In this post, we’ll take a look at some reasons why NPR and PBS needed to be defunded. Are they really as far left as conservatives say?

First, let’s see a news article from Daily Signal:

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday night axing taxpayer funding for “biased” news outlets NPR and PBS.

[…]Trump ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting board of directors and all executive departments and agencies to cease federal funding for NPR and PBS.

Brianna Lyman had a really good article at The Federalist with more reasons why NPR and PBS are just too far to the left to receive funding from taxpayers – especially since taxpayers just voted for Republicans in the 2024 elections.

Here is the full list:

1. NPR Refused To Cover Hunter Biden’s Laptop
2. 100% Of NPR’s ‘Editorial Positions’ Are Held By Registered Democrats
3. NPR Spread Tear Gas Hoax
4. NPR Editor Promoted Defense Of Looting
5. NPR Pushed Skin Color Emoji Conundrums
6. PBS Promoted Reparations
7. PBS Claimed Trump Lied About America’s Greatness
8. PBS Accused GOP Of Pushing ‘White Supremacy’
9. PBS Ran Anti-Republican Hit Piece
10. NPR Claimed No Evidence For Biden Family Corruption
11. NPR Buried Biden’s Declining Mental Acuity
12. NPR Accused GOP Of ‘Voter Suppression’ While Ignoring Democrat Schemes

Looking over that list, it just looks like NPR and PBS are propaganda outlets for the Democrat party. I don’t know what else to think about such obviously biased (and often flat-out false) news reporting.

Let’s look at a few. Here’s #1:

Perhaps the most egregious example of why NPR should be defunded — and should have been five years ago — is their refusal to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in the lead up to the 2020 election.

“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions,” NPR Managing Editor for News Terence Samuel said in a statement back in October 2020. A newsletter published by NPR Public Editor Kelly McBride claimed “there are many, many red flags in that New York Post investigation.”

As we all know know, the laptop was genuine. Even left-wing sources agree. The FBI had laptop since December 2019. They confirmed its authenticity in November 2019 by matching its device number to Hunter Biden’s iCloud ID. The Justice Department, in 2024, used laptop data as “self-authenticating” evidence in court, dismissing manipulation claims.

But NPR didn’t think it was a true story. Or maybe they didn’t want their political allies – the Democrat party – to look bad, before an election.

But are they really just Democrat party operatives? Look at #2:

NPR editor Uri Berliner previously reported that voting records showed “87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans.”

NPR’s Katherine Maher admitted it was a “concern” during a March Congressional hearing that all 87 positions are held by registered Democrats.

The evidence shows a strong connection to the Democrat party, so why are they getting taxpayer money right after the majority of the country voted Republican?

When it comes to monitoring media bias, the best source is the Media Research Center. And #12 talks about them:

According to NewsBusters’ Clay Waters, “PBS treated the RNC to 72% negative and 28% positive commentary” while the “DNC received far friendlier reception: 12% negative, 88% positive.”

So, if you look at the evidence, there’s no reasons for taxpayer dollars to go to organizations that are clearly biased towards the Democrat party. Next, we should remove all grants for universities, which have similar numbers of Democrats. They can operate, but why do they need taxpayer funding? Let them sink or swim in the free market by pleasing customers, like the rest of us have to.