Pig Kidneys Transplanted Into Brain-Dead Man as Patients Face Organ Shortages - WSJ

The experimental surgery, which proceeded after discussions with ethicists and after Mr. Parsons’s family consented to the experiment, is part of a decadeslong effort to ease the chronic shortage of donor organs by allowing critically ill patients to receive pig organs rather than human ones.

I have profound doubt that this was indeed an ethically valid decision.

Earlier this month doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore performed the first transplantation of a genetically modified pig heart into a living human after receiving authorization from the FDA.

Here’s the key distinction between these similar cases. The Maryland heart transplant was done in an effort to save the patient’s life. They remain hospitalized, but alive.

The Alabama kidney transplant was performed on a patient who will not survive his injuries. His life was only sustained so that this experimental transplant could be performed, not because it created an avenue of possible recovery.

They said they stopped the experiment when mechanical support was no longer sufficient to maintain Mr. Parsons’s physiological processes.

Translation: life-support was only withdrawn when his body was no longer useful to the experiment, far past the point of a dignity-affirming natural death.

10 Surefire Ways To Get Out Of Wearing A Mask When Someone Tells You To - The Babylon Bee

Put on your “Trump Won” mask - They’ll instantly regret their decision to make you wear one. 4D chess!

Oops! Schumer Gives Passionate Speech Defending Filibuster After Accidentally Printing His Speech From Two Years Ago - The Babylon Bee

According to sources, his aide had accidentally printed out “passionate filibuster speech 2020.docx” instead of “passionate filibuster speech 2022.docx”, putting the Senator in a very awkward situation. 

Very common mistake.

Sanders Says He Is Open to Supporting Primary Challenges to Sinema, Manchin - WSJ

He said it was “up to the people in those states.”

And if there’s one thing we all know about West Virginians, it’s that they love when out-of-state multimillionaire socialist elites come to town and tell them what to do.

I just finished the Final Draft of the first issue of my new magazine. I’m so excited to publish this in the Spring.

Wow! What a start to the day.

Schumer Hits Trouble After Earlier Wins in 50-50 Senate - WSJ

At the start of the year, Mr. Schumer set a goal of trying to pass the voting bill by Martin Luther King Jr. Day—Monday, Jan. 17—and then pivoting to changing the filibuster. That deadline later slipped due in part to a forecast winter storm.

And he would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for that meddling climate!

Democrats’ proposal includes making Election Day a national holiday and expansive new mail-in voting requirements, among other changes they say are needed to protect access to the polls

This disjointed logic is a red flag. If there’s three weeks of mandatory early voting and no excuse mail ballots, why do we need a holiday for Election Day?

It’s like the child care subsidies. Free money for families to send their kids to daycare, money to increase daycare worker wages, and money to expand daycare facilities. Two of these are going to always push against the third.

When the logic is broken, there’s more to the story.

Some Lawmakers Push to Ban Stock Trading by Colleagues - WSJ

Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly of Arizona and Jon Ossoff of Georgia introduced legislation that would prohibit all members of Congress, their spouses and dependent children from trading individual stocks and would require them to place their stock portfolios into a blind trust.

I think the bigger story is that all of these smart people still buy single stocks.