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Latest Commentary: RFK, Jr., Fires CDC Vaccine Advisory Committee -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is the Secretary of Health and Human Services. He has just undermined all the health and services for humans in the nation. He fired every single member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices despite a promise in this confirmation hearings to leave this kind of thing alone. He claims that this move will restore public trust in vaccinations. It will do just the opposite, but he likes that because he is opposed to national vaccination against lethal diseases. He has said no one should take medical advice from him, and this is why. [11 June] Trump Sends Natoinal Guard, Marines to LA -- Friday, ICE tried rounding up day laborers in a Home Depot parking lot in LA. It did not go well, trying to arrest people without probable cause. The local community staged a protest, and ICE had to back down. The LA Police Department said it had everything handled. Mr. Trump decided he needed to make matters worse, so he federalized the California National Guard. He has deployed 4,000 of them to the streets of the city, and he ordered 700 Marines to back them up. It is a needless escalation that is profoundly dangerous. [10 June] Labour Wins Scottish By-Election -- Voters went to the polls yesterday in a by-election to fill the Holyrood seat of Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse seat. The seat fell vacant with the death of Christina McKelvie, of the Scottish National Party. The seat was pretty well-defended but Labour pulled out the win a few hundred votes ahead of the SNP. Reform UK finished third while the Tories were a dismal fourth. The collapse of the Conservative vote and the rise of Reform north of the border is not the same as the developments in England. Frankly, Reform has not really arrived yet. [6 June] Musk Calls "Big Beautiful Bill" a "Disgusting Abomination" -- Two big egos in an Oval Officewere ineviably going to clash. Elon Musk and Donald Trump are two of the biggest egos on the planet (for no good reason). A break up was inevitable, and it has happened. Mr. Trump appears to have fired Mr. Musk, and as he went out the door, Mr. Musk denounced the signature bill of the White House, the so-called “big, beautiful bill.” He said is was an abomination that would explode the deficit. A broken clock is right two times a day, and Mr. Musk is, on occasion, right. Now, the MAGA wing of the party and the billionaires are falling out. This will get uglier before it improves. [4 June] Dutch Far-Right Brings Down Government -- The far-right Freedom Party [PVV by its Dutch acronym] has withdrawn from the ruling coalition of the Netherlands. As a result, the Prime Minister has resigned and will stay on as caretaker until a new coalition can be formed or until an election produces a new government. The sticking point was immigration, and the Freedom Party was angry that the three other parties in government were not as anti-foreigner as it is. The other parties claim Geert Wilders, the PVV leader, puts the country second and his ego first. The world would be better off it the Dutch hold a new election and the PVV goes back into opposition. [3 June] © Copyright 2025 by The Kensington Review, Jeff Myhre, PhD, Editor. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written consent. Produced using Ubuntu Linux.
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