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New York Times Ethicist Counsels Reader To Ignore Obesity

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Poetic Justice is an advice column that offers better advice to submissions at other publications whose advice has failed the reader.

The Ethicist columnist for the New York Times counseled a reader anxious about a close friend’s weight to ignore the problem altogether.

Last week, a reader wrote to the paper’s appointed “ethicist,” Kwame Anthony Appiah, to seek advice on how to approach a friend of half a century over their dangerously deteriorating health. Here’s what they wrote:

My friend of 50 years has recently become morbidly obese. She now must be 100-plus pounds overweight on a very small frame. She has great difficulty breathing, and her legs are bowed out from being crushed under her weight. She can no longer perform simple household tasks like cleaning.

I love my friend, and have tried several times to speak to her gently about her worsening condition. But to no avail. She says she cannot afford the new diet-drug-by-injection everyone is using; she has given up trying to lose the weight any other way.

Food is her drug. It is clear she lives for it as an addict would. She steadfastly refuses to talk to me or her family about it. She apparently skirts around the issue when talking to her primary-care provider, and nothing ever changes: Her weight continues to go up.

I have thought about approaching her children about this. But if that doesn’t work, and the children tell my friend I tried to intervene, I am sure that would

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Mayorkas Stonewalls Ohio’s Request To Help Track Foreign Nationals On Voter Rolls

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Nearly three months after Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose first sought access to federal citizenship verification records to help the Buckeye State ensure noncitizens don’t vote in the election, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has yet to respond. 

In his defense, Mayorkas reportedly has been busy enjoying high-end sushi from posh Japanese restaurant chains and shopping in fashionable Georgetown boutiques. 

LaRose says he has made several appeals to the Biden-Harris administration seeking access to DHS databases, “specifically the Person Centric Query Service (PCQS) database, the Person Centric Identity Services (PCIS) database, and the Central Index System.” 

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has intervened on the secretary of state’s behalf, demanding answers from Mayorkas on his failure to assist LaRose in securing Ohio’s elections. Jordan, who serves as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the matter is particularly pressing “in light of the open-border policies of the Biden-Harris Administration” that have led to unprecedented millions of illegal immigrants pouring into the United States. As The Federalist has extensively reported, thousands of foreign nationals have shown up on voters rolls in states across the country, including hundreds of names this year that LaRose has ordered removed from Ohio’s voter registration database. 

“Given Secretary LaRose’s state and federal statutory responsibilities to guarantee that only lawfully registered citizens vote in Ohio federal elections, his request for access to DHS’s citizenship verification databases is a ‘purpose authorized by law,’ and you must grant it accordingly,” Jordan wrote in the Sept. 27 

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After Denouncing ‘Disinformation’ In Interview, Harris Spreads Lies About Trump

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Vice President Kamala Harris is spreading “disinformation” again. She told some whoppers Tuesday during an audio town hall hosted by media personality Charlamagne Tha God and was never challenged.

At one point during the town hall, Harris said of Trump, “The man has told you he intends to terminate the Constitution.” Not quite, madam vice president.

In December 2022, shortly after Elon Musk released Twitter records showing social media companies suppressed Americans’ speech during the 2020 election at the requests of federal officials, Trump took to his Truth Social and posed a question.

“With the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC & the Democrat Party, do you throwh the Presidential Election results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW Election?” Trump posted.

This next part set off a series of news stories in 2022, stretching Trump’s comment out of proportion: “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump wrote. “Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”

Trump was not calling for the Constitution to be dismantled, but saying that the government’s actions that employ Twitter as a censorship tool dismantle the U.S. Constitution. The post is a defense of the Constitution, not a call for its “termination.”

Claiming Trump intends to terminate the Constitution is

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Democrat-Friendly Licensing Boards Target Republican Attorneys General In Election Year

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Democrat-friendly lawyer licensing boards are targeting two Republican attorneys general in an election year under the pretext of “grievances” filed by political opponents. The years-long government litigation against Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita and Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen has racked up six-figure legal bills for taxpayers while punishing these elected officials for public speech on behalf of their voters’ priorities.

“Every minute I’m spending defending the AG from this is one minute I’m not spending suing the Biden administration or defending laws passed by the legislature,” Christian Corrigan, one of Knudsen’s lawyers as Montana’s solicitor general, told The Federalist. “This is starting with conservative AGs, but it’s not going to stop there.”

These two proceedings are among the most lengthy in a massive lawfare campaign to deprive right-leaning Americans of competent legal defense, bankrupt them with legal liabilities, and sandbag effective officials, many of which are lawyers. In another prolonged case, a faction of Texas Republicans attempted to defenestrate Attorney General Ken Paxton for fighting Big Tech and Big Pharma.

Republican attorneys general have been at the forefront of checking the Harris-Biden administration’s power abuses that include forcing girls and boys to shower together, seizing private property via environmental policies, pushing dangerous sex treatments on children, and banning Trump from speaking about the lawfare against him.

Knudsen and Rokita are up for re-election this year, and voting has already started in their states. The grievances that target their speech have boosted their political opponents, enabling a constant barrage of

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