Aug 27, 2026 3-5pm ET
Thursday on The Robert Scott Bell Show:
Hour 1
Special Guest: Jonathan Emord
For the past 37 years, Jonathan W. Emord has litigated against the federal bureaucracy, winning over and over again. Ron Paul calls Jonathan “an expert in constitutional theory and history” and “an expert litigator with a long string of legal victories over the federal bureaucracy.” George Noory calls him “a Knight in Shining Armor” and “a warrior out to save our rights.” Congressmen Dan Burton and John Doolittle describe him as “an intellectual warrior for the rights and freedoms of people in America.” Jonathan has a unique, detailed knowledge of the federal bureaucracy, the deep state. He knows how to defeat it. Jonathan graduated from the University of Illinois (BA, political science and history, 1982) and DePaul University College of Law (JD, 1985). He served as an attorney in the Federal Communications Commission during the Reagan administration. A leading constitutional law and litigation expert, he is the author of five critically acclaimed books. He has won more cases against the Food and Drug Administration in federal court than any other attorney in American history, earning him the nickname “FDA Dragon Slayer.” He is a columnist for Townhall.com, PJ Media.com, Americangreatness.com, and the U.S.A. Today Magazine. He frequently appears on national radio and television programs. He is married to Sheryl Emord, and they have two children, twins Justice and Angelica. They reside in Clifton,
2 ‘Measles-Associated’ Deaths in Pennsylvania Spark Media Blitz — But Officials Won’t Release Details Pennsylvania health officials announced two “measles-associated” deaths in unvaccinated individuals in Lancaster County, prompting widespread media coverage linking the cases to declining vaccination rates and criticizing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., while officials cited privacy concerns in declining to release details such as age, gender, health status, or whether measles was the immediate cause of death on certificates. Lancaster Health Commissioner Josh Parsons publicly questioned the state’s account, noting the county coroner’s office recorded no deaths caused by measles and only one death of someone who had measles, and demanded greater transparency. After publication, a Department of Health spokesperson clarified that “measles-associated” means laboratory or epidemiologic evidence of measles is present even if it is not listed as the immediate cause of death, and that one infant death with a positive measles test is under coroner investigation. The article reports 393 confirmed measles cases in Pennsylvania this year and 2,777 nationally as of late August 2026, the highest since 1991, with kindergarten MMR coverage at 92.4 percent in 2025-2026 down from 95.2 percent in 2019-2020. Media outlets and figures such as Dr. Paul Offit attributed the situation to Kennedy’s policies, while Kennedy stated most of the coverage decline occurred under the prior administration due to lost public trust and that Governor Josh Shapiro could not cite specific examples of misinformation; Shapiro has described vaccines as generating $4.74 billion for Pennsylvania’s economy. President Trump’s August 10 executive order called for splitting the combined MMR vaccine into separate shots over 18 months, and the article notes 95,296 VAERS reports including 500 deaths following MMR vaccination since 1990.
Why MAHA Supports the GRACE Act – and the Senate and House Should, Too Senator Mike Lee introduced Senate bill S5128, the Guaranteeing Religious Accommodation in Childhood Education or GRACE Act, on July 23, requiring public K-12 schools to grant religious exemptions from vaccine mandates or lose federal educational funding, with a nearly identical House bill HR5075 introduced by Representative Greg Steube in August 2025 that also bars schools from demanding documentation of religious sincerity and protects students’ rights to wear religious clothing, pray, or opt out of conflicting lessons. The legislation, expected to come to a vote in the fall and already endorsed by more than 50 organizations plus the MAHA movement, aligns with the principle that parents rather than government or schools should make children’s medical decisions and with a recent Trump administration executive order directing agencies to maximize parental choice and ensure states provide religious and medical exemptions. Only New York, California, Connecticut, and Maine currently lack religious or philosophical exemptions, and the article cites a February 2020 letter with over 39,000 signatures warning of state efforts to repeal such exemptions as violations of religious freedom and informed consent. Shannon Kroner of Freedom of Religion–United Solutions, who has worked since 2019 to unite Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, and other faith traditions, supports the Act as reaffirming that government must not compel citizens to violate sincerely held beliefs, with Rabbi Pinchas Yehuda Levin stating that many Orthodox Jewish scholars view vaccines as violating the commandment to guard health.
The Wealth Tax Revival Is Repeating a Failed Experiment California’s proposed 2026 Billionaire Tax Act would impose a one-time five percent levy on the worldwide net worth of residents with fortunes exceeding one billion dollars, with backers projecting up to 100 billion dollars in revenue, yet historical experience with wealth taxes in Sweden and Colombia indicates such levies are administratively porous, underperform projections, and drive capital flight. Sweden maintained a wealth tax from 1911 until its 2007 repeal, during which revenue never exceeded 0.4 percent of GDP and typically accounted for only 0.5 to 1 percent of total tax revenue despite repeated rate increases and revisions, as politicians added reduction rules, valuation discounts, and exemptions that eroded the base while more than 500 billion kronor in assets moved offshore after foreign-exchange controls were lifted. Colombia’s decades of on-and-off wealth taxation showed taxpayers immediately underreporting wealth near thresholds, with up to one-fifth of expected revenue lost to reduced reporting that persisted after the tax expired and coincided with increased use of hard-to-trace offshore entities. Publicly confirmed departures of California billionaires including Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Peter Thiel had already removed 536.4 billion dollars, nearly 30 percent of the state’s billionaire wealth base, before the residency snapshot date, with unconfirmed relocations pushing the lost share above 41 percent and modeling suggesting more than half the base could exit, reducing projected revenue to roughly 40 billion dollars while also eliminating an estimated 3.3 to 5.8 billion dollars in annual state income taxes, producing a net fiscal loss in 71 percent of modeled scenarios averaging 24.7 billion dollars. The measure is structured as a constitutional amendment with no sunset clause, permanently lifting the cap on taxes on intangible property and opening the door to future recurring wealth taxes.
From $5 trillion in the 1990s to $40 trillion: How America’s debt exploded U.S. gross national debt has risen from about $5.5 trillion in the late 1990s, when the federal government recorded budget surpluses including $123 billion in 1999, to more than $40 trillion by August 2026, with Treasury data showing the debt at $27.7 trillion when President Trump left office in January 2021, $36.2 trillion upon his return in January 2025, and over $40 trillion thereafter. The Government Accountability Office warns that federal debt is growing faster than the economy and could expand roughly twice as fast over the next decade without significant changes, driven in part by Social Security, Medicare, and rising interest costs that now exceed $1 trillion annually. The article argues that both parties have contributed to the increase, that political promises of tax cuts or expanded programs lack detailed fiscal plans, and that interest payments increasingly crowd out other priorities while an aging population raises pressure on entitlement programs. It urges voters to demand specific numbers on costs, revenue, and deficit effects before supporting legislation and notes that individuals can still control personal finances by reducing debt and living within their means even as the federal government does not.Hour 2
Four Forms of Numericide Alan Cassels critiques a New York Times article urging women to know their blood pressure, LDL cholesterol, HbA1C, and BMI targets of under 120/80, under 100 mg/dL, 5.6 or lower, and under 25, arguing these surrogate markers are used to medicalize healthy people and drive pharmaceutical treatment rather than reliably reducing cardiovascular events or mortality in those of average risk. For blood pressure, he notes the 120/80 target stems from the SPRINT trial in high-risk patients and was not endorsed by the American Academy of Family Physicians due to lack of significant benefit for all-cause or cardiovascular mortality, while intensive lowering can increase falls, fractures, and kidney injury. For LDL, a 2022 JAMA review of 18 primary-prevention statin trials found only a 0.35 percent absolute mortality difference and a number-needed-to-treat of 286, with some elderly studies showing higher LDL associated with longer life, plus known harms such as muscle weakness and diabetes. For HbA1C, the 5.6–5.7 percent “prediabetes” threshold is described as disease-mongering unsupported by evidence that driving levels below 6.5–7.0 percent extends life, while intensive control in ACCORD and related analyses showed no mortality benefit or actual harm including hypoglycemia. For BMI, a 2013 JAMA meta-analysis of 97 studies found overweight associated with lower all-cause mortality than “normal” weight and grade 1 obesity (BMI around 30) showing no significant mortality increase until BMI of 35 or higher, rendering the cutoff of 25 poorly linked to outcomes and ignoring muscle mass. Cassels concludes that obsessing over these numbers often leads to unnecessary worry, medications, and labeling rather than improved health.
Special Guest: Dette Avalon
J. Dette Avalon, FNP-BC is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner with more than 25 years of clinical experience spanning primary care and integrative medicine, and the founder of MyLabsForLife.com, a trusted online lab testing platform that has been serving the health community for 13 years. Dette’s story goes beyond the clinic she herself was diagnosed with Alpha-gal Syndrome, and that personal experience became the fuel behind her most important work yet.
She is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Alpha-gal Syndrome: A Functional Approach to Relief, Investigation, and Recovery with a foreword written by Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research Scientist at MIT and author of Toxic Legacy. Dette invited Dr. Seneff, a leading expert on glyphosate, to contribute because of the compelling and troubling link between glyphosate exposure, microbiome disruption, and our growing susceptibility to Alpha-gal and chronic disease.
Welcome back to another “Homeopathic Hits” episode on The Robert Scott Bell Show!
Today’s Homeopathic Hit is Mercurius dulcis, commonly known as Calomel.
Boericke highlights this remedy for catarrhal inflammation of the ear, Eustachian catarrh, deafness, bilious diarrhoea, soreness of the anus, prostatitis, plastic exudates, dropsical states, jaundice, and cirrhosis of the liver.
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