Mueller charges lawyer for lying about conversations with ex-Trump aide Rick Gates

On Friday, writing for Al.com, Alabama columnist Frances Coleman proclaimed he was "mad as hell" at anti-vaxxers — and tried to financially quantify the damage they've done to America that they should be made to pay back to society.

"The Kaiser Family Foundation recently studied three months of data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and concluded that 'preventable Covid-19 hospitalizations' have cost the health care system an estimated $5.7 billion. The foundation defines preventable hospitalization as 'hospitalizations of unvaccinated adults,'" wrote Coleman. "The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the nation's current population at 331,449,281, give or take a few folks."

Karl Bohnak spent more than three decades reporting on the weather in northern Michigan, but says he was fired by WLUC-TV after refusing to get vaccinated, KTVU-TV reports.

"Today, it is with a heavy heart, I announce after over 33 years, I am no longer employed at TV6," Bohnak posted to Facebook. "I am leaving TV6 because the station's corporate owner, Gray Television, has mandated vaccination against COVID-19 for anyone entering a property owned by the company. Since I chose not to take one of the shots, I was fired."

Two veterans of President George W. Bush's successful 2004 re-election campaign warned about the radicalization of the Republican Party that both have since abandoned.

On Friday, the campaign's senior strategist, Matthew Dowd, was interviewed on MSNBC by Nicolle Wallace, who worked as the campaign's communications director.