Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, April 26, 2022

Episode Date: April 26, 2022

Two Nordic countries move to join NATO, attacks on police hit an all-time high, 50-percent of parents financially support their adult children, New Jersey allows cops to smoke pot. Plus, Bill's Message of the Day, why do so many Americans want pot to be legalized? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here. Tuesday, April 26, 2022. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Here's what's happening across our nation. Two Nordic countries move to join NATO. Attacks on American police hit an all-time high. 50% of parents financially support their adult children. New Jersey, allowing cops to smoke pot. Also ahead is legalizing pot a good idea, but first. Sweden and Finland will submit applications to join NATO. The country is working with the USA and other Western allies to thwart Putin. Both nations have remained neutral for decades. Russia's invasion of Ukraine causing military leaders in Scandinavia to forge closer ties with NATO. Finland and Russia share an 800-mile-long border, so Vlad loses again.

More police officers were killed in the line of duty under President Biden than any other time in 26 years. According to stats from the FBI, 73 cops were intentionally murdered in 2021. That's a 59% jump compared to the previous year and the most. since 1995. Attacks against law enforcement are up in every major city. Departments blame the violence on anti-police rhetoric and lenient DAs. Homicides, by the way, up 44% nationwide compared to 2019. What does Mr. Biden think about all that? He has not said a word. 50% of parents with children over the age of 18 still provide them with financial support. A survey from Savings.com finds families give $1,000 a month on average, to help adult offspring.

65% of adult children living with their parents do not contribute to household expenses at all. biggest factors behind the handouts kids say they have credit card debt student loans and a lot of them are unemployed cops in new jersey can now legally light up marijuana unlike other places like colorado or massachusetts state says that cops can use cannabis off duty critics claim that's dangerous for people who have firearms. More on legalized weed after this short break. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets.

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Again, that's 866, 326-5576, or text bill to 998899. Time now for the O'Reilly Update, message of the day, the United States of Pot. According to a recent CBS News YouTube poll, 66% of American voters now say marijuana should be federally legal. 88% of Democrats say yes, 50% of Republicans. Just 34% believe marijuana should remain a controlled substance by the feds. Some pot facts. 13 states now permit the consumption of marijuana for recreational use. Another 22 allow medical marijuana. 9% of Americans have consumed pot in the last 30 days. 2% of U.S. adults

have a marijuana abuse problem. That's approximately 6.6 million people. The drug accounts for 67% of new treatment admissions for teenagers. Marijuana is the most abused drug in middle school, high school, and college. Teens who use pot on a weekly basis are 25% less likely to graduate high school. Drug addiction rates and adults are seven times higher for those who begin smoking pot at an early age. Teenagers who consume marijuana on a regular basis, are five times more likely to experiment with other illegal drugs. That is the gateway theory. States that have illegalized pot have seen a 10% on average increase in DUI accidents.

So the question becomes, why do so many Americans want another intoxicant in the marketplace? It is true that incarcerating people who use marijuana is foolish. It should not happen. It is also true that some folks can use pot without harm. Some folks, but children cannot. If you are a kid and you become intoxicated on a drug or alcohol, your child. childhood vanishes. And in this society, we have children nine, ten years old, becoming intoxicated. That is a crime against children. Also, legalizing pot sends a terrible message to the kids, and the stuff will be far easier for children to acquire. That's because adult

drug addicts, heroin addicts, methamphetamine, will buy legalized pot and sell it to kids to get money to buy the harder drugs. That's how it works. So, again, why do so many Americans want legalized marijuana? I think it's an emotional thing. Millions of Americans like to get high. And because they like it, they don't think about the other social implications. Pot is bad for kids. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. If you would like more honest news information, please visit Bill O'Reilly.com where you can see me on television and one week from today. My new book, Killing the Killers, The Secret War Against Terrorists, hits the marketplace. In a moment, something you might not know.

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Now the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know. 68 years ago today, doctors began administering an experimental drug to thousands of American children. The medication eventually eradicated a terrible affliction that plagued the planet for centuries. The polio vaccine had arrived. Here is the story. The search for a polio cure dates back to ancient Egypt. Some mummified bodies of pharaoh show symptoms associated with polio. The illness occurs mostly in children and often results in partial paralysis. The virus attacks the same. The virus attacks the central nervous system, causing weakness in limbs, difficulty breathing, and in some cases, death.

The disease is contagious and reached epidemic proportions throughout the first half of the 20th century as more people move from the countryside into the cities. The perfect breeding ground for polio was densely packed public schools. The man behind the original vaccine was New York-born physician and influenza expert, Jonas Sock. On April 26, 1954, his polio vaccine involved trials, and two million children were given the Vax. The trials began at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in suburban Virginia. The doses were eventually tested on kids all across the USA, Canada, and Finland in Europe. Thankfully, it worked.

One year later, the polio vaccine was announced on national public radio and then delivered to millions of schools. Vaccination was mandatory in many places. The number of annual infections in the USA dropped from 60,000 in 1952 to just 25 by 1961. Today, the virus is virtually eliminated across North America and Western Europe. And here's something else you might not know. The disease bared no one. The afflicted included President Franklin Roosevelt, musician Neil Young, Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, director Francis Ford Coppola,

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