HEADLINE OF THE DAY — AND IT’S ONLY 7 A.M.: The Banality of Keir Starmer: Chestless Bureaucrats and the Betrayal of Britain’s Daughters.
June 19, 2026
BOB GRABOYES: Lessons from the Tuskegee Study (Redux): There will never be another Tuskegee. There will always be another Tuskegee.
Ethical breaches associated with Bell’s imperatives for the Deaf, eugenic sterilization, the Tuskegee Experiment, various HeLa experiments, and similar efforts shared a common characteristic—a view that collective good (however defined) outweighed the sanctity of individual lives. In 1910, the American Medical Association’s Flexner Report, which reconfigured the structure of medical education, anticipated traditional medicine’s focus on individual patients giving way to public health’s concern with collective good. The author, Abraham Flexner, saw the physician as a “social instrument… whose function is fast becoming social and preventive, rather than individual and curative.” . . .
Paul Lombardo, a scholar on the history of eugenics, wrote,
“The expansive reach of public health law is justified by the government’s ‘police power,’ the inherent authority to adopt laws to protect health, welfare, and morals, and an exception to the usual expectation that states should not interfere with the property rights or the liberty and bodily integrity of citizens.”
Public health’s enthusiasm for social engineering, Lombardo notes, led to the public health sector’s enforcement roles in preventing marriage between persons with epilepsy, prohibiting interracial marriages, rounding up citizens for sterilization, investigating individuals’ racial ancestry, barring immigrants, as well as the Tuskegee Experiment.
The other common thread in many of these ethical breaches in biomedical research and policy was an illiberal suppression of information flows. Eugenics maintained its respected position longer than otherwise might have been the case, thanks to the stifling of academic dissent.
Superiority complexes lead to morally inferior behavior.
FROM DENTON SALLE Sailing the Clouds of Morning: Avatar Wizard Book 7 (The Avatar Wizard.)
The sorcerer shook himself and glared at Jeremy. “You challenge me to a duel, boy?”
He flared his nimbus, so a sphere of greenish-black power surrounded him.
“I’ll drink your life, and your body will be my puppet.”Once, the volkh ruled the world like gods. Then, the Dark arose and the war shattered the world. The northern Empire finally triumphed and survived at great cost, losing its golden capital and many of its people. The southern empire, Fabled Sheba, fell and lies in ruins to this day. Mighty relics and artifacts remain there, lost in the destruction caused by the last queen’s final spell.
Jeremy and his companions, with Gerasim’s sister Nataliia and the volkva Tanya, must first travel to the ruins of the City, then to Sheba to fulfill the quest laid upon him. In addition to recovering the rod of power, he needs to return the crown of Sheba to Master Eyasu, lest the tensions in the Sheban diaspora erupt into civil war.
Fly with him in the rebuilt Hawk Ship as they travel south to a city ruined by the desperate acts of opening a hellgate. Then cross the Inland Sea with its wonders to an ancient land, destroyed by a desperate spell. A spell so powerful that, while crushing the Dark’s southern hosts, the land remains cursed to this day. Join with them as they risk their lives and very souls in a dead city, and then risk more dangers to find the secrets hidden in the City of Bees.
Meanwhile, unable to go with him, Galena has to cope alone with her mother’s plots to prevent her marriage to Jeremy. Which may mean reaching out to the scariest person she knows. The lily of the volkhvy, the mightiest sorceress in the world, Vasilia Still-heart.
Click now to return to Jeremy’s world and travel with him on the Hawk ship to the ruins of the City and beyond, where heroic deeds and wonders wait.
ATTEMPTS AT REWRITING THE PAST REVOLT ME: Memory Hole.
FEAR? THEY KNOW IRAN WON’T: Israeli Officials Fear Terrorist State Iran Will Not Live Up To Deal With America.
… they already aren’t. Same as always.
SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED: ‘Rogue Employee’ Linked to Unauthorized Radiological Cache at US Navy Shipyard.
THE LEFT IS THE PARTY OF ENVY: A trillion here, a trillion there…
GREAT BRITAIN HAS LOST ITS WAY: To suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous governance.
THINGS WE SHOULD INDEED BE ASKING: What is the penalty for smuggling weapons to the British Isles?
SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED: Illegal Alien Theft Ring Skimming Credit Cards, Stealing Fuel.
MR PRESIDENT? I BELIEVE THE DOJ MIGHT WANT TO LOOK INTO THIS: JUST IN: Governor Abigail Spanberger officially signs a bill handing over Virginia’s 13 electoral votes to whoever wins the most votes across the whole country… even if Virginians vote the other way. Insane.
THAT’S REALLY ALL THE LEFT IS: The Mean Girls.
June 18, 2026
MY OPINION OF BRITAIN HAS DECLINED SHARPLY:
Correct.
They will let Mulsim migrants gang rape the girls, block everyone in the government from helping them, and finally block them from sharing their stories publicly.
It's vast evil.
And it's deliberate.
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) June 19, 2026
NOT AS GOOD AS “HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR,” BUT FIRST CLASS WORK:
This is one of the best newspaper front pages I've ever seen.
Well done, @californiapost 👏 pic.twitter.com/7BIX6VCA9r
— Jon Root (@JonnyRoot_) June 18, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Make it march.
HEH: Tom Hanks’ brutal insult to M-SNOW reporter in shocking on-air outburst at Obama library opening.
A-list actor Tom Hanks took a surprise shot at MS NOW while attending the ceremonial opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago on Thursday.
Hanks, 69, found himself face to face with a reporter from the network shortly after arriving.
MS NOW Senior National and Political Correspondent Jacob Soboroff was streaming live and approached Hanks.
‘Great to see you,’ Soboroff said, eagerly attempting to get Hanks’ attention.
The actor appeared busy, but eventually acknowledged Soboroff after some light pestering.
He broke the silence with a quip: ‘What can I do for the 800 people watching MS NOW?’ – a nod to the network’s waning viewership.
‘Oh, come on. We’re live on MS NOW,’ Soboroff said, putting his hand on Hanks’ shoulder before offering a smile.
‘All right – add a zero to it,’ Hanks said in a dead-pan tone.
Well, that’s one way to get flyover country to see your new movie: What Have They Done to Buzz Lightyear?
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX launches 3 huge BlueBird direct-to-cell satellites from Florida.
JOHN MCWHORTER: “Dr. King didn’t die demanding that whites make excuses for us.”
Folks, I’d like to get my two cents in on Karmelo Anthony. This is a long one — pretend it’s an editorial.
“He put his hands on me. I stabbed him.” Why does a boy spontaneously justify stabbing someone on so thin a pretense? And why do so many Black Americans see his 35-year prison sentence as racist?
I think the answer to both questions takes us to Scotland, Ireland, and northern England.
Read the whole thing.
N.Y. TIMES MOM TAKES HER SONS TO UFC IN THE HOPES IT WILL MAKE THEM HATE IT. MAJOR FAIL: “‘I don’t think I’ll ever look at it the same way again, but I still love U.F.C. In fact, I love it more than ever!’ My 18-year-old agreed. ‘This was the peak, the pinnacle of my life!’ he gushed…'”
FOLLOW THE “SCIENCE.” ‘Bad Omen’: An Ancient Pyramid in Mexico Collapsed Into A Heap of Rubble.
FLAVANOLS FOR THE WIN: Your Diet Could Be Missing the Key Ingredient for Heart Protection.
