In my first week in the House of Representatives in 1976, I cast one of the two votes against legislation appropriating funds for a swine flu vaccination program. A swine flu outbreak was then dominating headlines, so most in DC were frantic to “do something” about the virus.Unfortunately, the hastily developed and rushed-into-production swine flu vaccine was not only ineffective, it was dangerous. Approximately 50 people who received the vaccine subsequently contracted Guillain-Barré...
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In Praise of Grover Cleveland
Jesse Ventura released this week his new podcast conversation with Ron Paul. It is a pleasure to hear Ventura engage Paul in an unrushed, wide-ranging examination of United...
Andrew Napolitano: In a Free Society You Can Reject the Vaccination ‘Scientific Orthodoxy’
From California State Senator Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) proposing legislation to prevent parents of children attending government or private schools from making their own...
Is Privatizing the Afghan War a Feasible Exit Strategy…
...or is it a formula for perpetual war?President Obama may have told Congress and the American people in his state of the union address that the American combat mission in...
King Abdullah’s Crocodile Tears Over Burned Pilot
Jordan's King Abdullah reacted emotionally to a video showing the apparent immolation of a Jordanian fighter pilot shot down over Syrian airspace. The Jordanian leader promised...
Oops They Did it Again: ‘Moderate’ Syrian Rebels Join Jihadists
President Obama's plan to send as many as 1,000 US military personnel to train the "moderate" rebels seeking to overthrow Syrian president Assad may have run into yet another...
Obama Admits US Role in Ukraine Overthrow
Speaking on RT yesterday, RPI executive director Daniel McAdams wonders whether President Obama spoke a bit too freely in his recent CNN interview. In the interview, the...
Who Started Ukraine? Max Boot’s War. And More. McAdams and Taylor Week in Review
Ukraine heats up and the US continues pointing fingers away from its own actions. Max Boot and the neocons want us to go harder and faster against Russia. What might we expect...
The Horrible Foolishness of Sanctions: Ron Paul Talks to Lew Rockwell
photo: Sirkon AshThe momentum in the United States government seems to be behind piling more and more sanctions on countries with abandon. In opposition to this trend, Ron Paul...
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