CDC’s immunization safety director says it’s a “possibility” that vaccines rarely trigger autism but “it’s hard to predict who those children might be.” (They’re not even trying.) [This article was first published on Sept. 2, 2014] A CDC senior epidemiologist stepped forward last week to say that he and his CDC colleagues omitted data that linked […]
State lawmakers are at odds over hundreds of bills to either cripple or prop up the Affordable Care Act. The Center for Public Integrity has published a comprehensive investigation examining the efforts to gut or enhance Obamacare.
[Above image: Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1964 by Dick DeMarsico, World Telegram staff photographer - Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection.] “Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear and is mastered by it. Cowardice asks the question, […]
[Above image: Rep. Trey Gowdy, Chairman of House Select Committee on Benghazi] Most of the work done by the House Select Committee on Benghazi is happening behind closed doors. Today, Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. announced that members have just wrapped up a classified briefing with State Department officials. “The Department of State provided new information to […]
[Above image: Aftermath of Benghazi attacks, obtained by Judicial Watch in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. State Dept.] As the House Intelligence Committee recently reported, all Obama administration officials it interviewed “knew from the moment the attacks began that the attacks were deliberate terrorist attacks against U.S. interests. No witness has […]
With Republicans now in the majority in the U.S. Senate, they have new political muscle to flex and are hoping that oversight inquires once relegated to a black hole can finally yield responses. That’s why the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Charles Grassley, is renewing pressure for the Department of Justice to […]
[Above image: Gen. David Petraeus as CIA Director, Official Photo] The New York Times reports federal prosecutors are recommending felony charges against former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus for allegedly providing classified information to a civilian author and journalist with whom he allegedly had an affair. In light of the news, it’s worth looking at […]
[Photo Credit: Science Museum, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org] College student Emily* was satisfied with her birth control pill. Her doctor settled on the current formulation after trying Emily on several prescriptions. The final one improved her chronic headaches rather than making them worse and helped clear up her skin. (*Her real name is not used […]
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST SHARYL ATTKISSON FILES CLAIMS AGAINST THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND U.S. POSTAL SERVICE FOR UNAUTHORIZED AND ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE OF COMPUTERS AND TELEPHONES Washington, D.C., (January 5, 2015)—Investigative Journalist Sharyl Attkisson has filed administrative claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act against the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Postal Service, and certain […]
[Above image: Three CBP officers and a Border Patrol agent at the Calexico, California Port of Entry, Feb. 16, 2012. Photo by: Josh Denmark] On his way out of the door, his final day as a U.S. Senator, Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) released a blistering oversight report that finds the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) […]