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Posted on November 23, 2021

Ending Fauci's taxpayer-funded animal cruelty is a conservative cause

National Review’s Matthew Scully writes, “A nonprofit called the White Coat Waste Project is devoted to investigating the precise uses of federal money in animal experimentation, making heavy use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to unearth evidence of both profligacy and cruelty. In July, the group zeroed in on research that might have been authorized by Dr. Anthony Fauci, and in October publicized some of the disturbing details.

These included a lab in Tunisia that had reported receiving grants from our National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the division of the National Institutes for Health (NIH) that Fauci directs. At that lab, beagle puppies were force-fed an experimental drug, then left to be eaten alive by hundreds of sand flies — the flies starved in preparation for this test. In an experiment elsewhere, funded by NIAID, similar tests were conducted: the puppies drugged, surgically silenced — 'de-barked,' to spare researchers from hearing the cries of pain — and killed.

In most big-name newspapers, these studies were deemed unsuitable reading, while in the New York Post, Daily Mail, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, and at Fox News, and elsewhere, other revelations followed about 'Fauci’s Kennel of Horrors,' as one headline put it. No evidence of the NIAID director’s other failings had ever broken through what writer Glenn Greenwald calls the 'shield of liberal veneration.' Maybe these dog stories would be the end of him.

In their #ArrestFauci, Twitter-mob version as the controversy played out, the allegations were needlessly personal, suggesting depravity when only truthfulness and judgment were at issue....

And if you were following the scandal at the time, maybe you noticed another recasting, surely for the good. Placed by the lab revelations in the role of defenders of animals against institutional abuse, prominent Republicans found themselves on the right side of a moral issue with broad public support. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, Tucker Carlson on his show, and other conservatives, spoke with force and eloquence about what DeSantis called 'despicable' treatment of the dogs, undoubtedly conveying the bipartisan sentiments of most listeners as well."

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Posted on November 22, 2021

Rand Paul urges whistleblowers to expose Biden administration abuses of civil liberties

The Daily Signal reports, “Sen. Rand Paul sharply criticized the ‘politicized’ FBI and the Department of Justice, calling for more whistleblowers to expose government trampling of American liberties.

‘I think anytime someone is breaking the law in government, it’s a good idea to hear about it,’ the Kentucky Republican said in a Thursday interview with The Daily Signal. ‘And so, frankly, yes, I think it is a good idea for people to reveal when the government’s breaking the rules.’

Paul’s remarks follow news that the head of the FBI’s Criminal and Counterterrorism divisions reportedly ordered agents Oct. 20 to identify threats against school board members and teachers with a ‘threat tag’—although Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers the next day that the FBI was not using counterintelligence tools to target parents…

‘This should worry all of us,’ Paul told The Daily Signal. ‘My father [former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas] warned about this 20 years ago. He said when they passed the Patriot Act and when they began going after terrorists, he said, ‘Beware that they’ll use these same devices, these same powers, [this] same ability to snoop on our lives, that they’ll use it on Americans,’ and sure enough, they’re using it on disgruntled parents.”

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Posted on November 19, 2021

It's time to end the FDA mandate on animal testing

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports, “Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) visited a Northern Kentucky animal shelter Friday to discuss his bill to end animal testing mandates.

The FDA Modernization Act, introduced by Paul and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), would end a 1938 FDA mandate that experimental drugs must be tested on animals before they're given to humans in clinical trials... Animal testing isn't an effective predictor of responses in humans, and a lot of the time animal tests are used when they aren't necessary, Paul said at the press conference at Kenton County Animal Services. Hundreds of animals are often killed while testing for a single drug, according to a news release.

Paul first became aware of the mandate when approached by an animal wellness group, which inspired him to sponsor the legislation."

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Posted on November 18, 2021

Fauci has a casual disdain for liberty and science

The Post Millennial reports, “Senator Rand Paul joined Fox News' Jesse Waters on Wednesday and slammed Dr. Fauci's latest anti-American remarks in which he stated that 'individual rights' should no longer be granted when it comes to 'public health.'

Fauci said that there is a '...misplaced percepetion about people's individual right to make a decision that supercedes the societal safety.'

Senator Paul said it is 'alarming' that Fauci has such 'casual disdain' for liberty and science, and added that he is an '...authoritarian that doesn't obey the science.'

Paul and Waters discussed Fauci 'lying' about not knowing whether or not natural immunity has the ability to protect against COVID.

'He's a liar and he lies about natural immunity. He knows it works,' Paul said adding, 'This is a recipe for totalitarianism. It's a recipe for something we don't want in our country."

Posted on November 18, 2021

Rand Paul wants to kill $650M missile sale to Saudi Arabia

Responsible Statecraft’s Kelley Beaucar Vlahos writes, “Rand Paul’s office told RS today that the Republican senator is readying a joint resolution of disapproval to stop the Biden Administration’s expected sale of $650 million worth of 'defensive' air-to-air missiles or AMRAAMs, as well as 596 missile launches to Saudi Arabia, as announced on Nov. 4.

'A message needs to be sent to Saudi Arabia that we don’t approve of their war in Yemen,' Paul said in a statement to Responsible Statecraft.

The news was also confirmed in an Intercept report this afternoon in which Paul said he aims to file a privileged motion to stop the export, which would guarantee an immediate floor vote on whether to disapprove the sale. That vote could occur within the next two weeks, according to the Intercept’s Sara Sirota.

Interestingly, the article centered around Paul’s interest in generating support from his Democratic colleagues, particularly those who have typically been on the same page when it comes to U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia and its Gulf state neighbor, UAE. But as the report suggests, Biden’s fellow Dems aren’t hopping on the bandwagon right away, at least not yet.

Sen. Bernie Sanders did not show outright skepticism. He told the Intercept that he has yet to see the details, but he’s 'not unsympathetic' to what Paul is trying to do.”

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Posted on November 17, 2021

What’s really causing America’s inflation woes

FEE’s Brad Polumbo writes, “Consumer price inflation just hit the highest level in 30 years. Prices rose 6.2 percent from October 2020 to October 2021, according to new government data, prompting a new reckoning with 'temporary' inflation that’s proving not so short-lived after all. I interviewed Senator Rand Paul, a libertarian-leaning Republican from Kentucky, to get his perspective on what’s driving our mounting inflation woes.

'I think inflation is pretty easy to explain and people need to know what causes inflation,' the senator said. '[The federal government] gets debt, then the Federal Reserve prints up new money to pay for the debt, that new money enters circulation, and that expansion of the money supply [leads to] inflation.'

Paul argued that this kind of inflation, rooted in government policies, is a 'bait-and-switch' form of taxation.

'Big government politicians offer you things they say are ‘free’: free childcare, free healthcare, free college, free cell phones, free this, free that—but it's not really free,' he said. 'Either someone else is going to pay for it through higher taxes, or they're going to pay for it through borrowing and ultimately inflation.”

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Posted on November 17, 2021

Hey Fauci, maybe an unelected bureaucrat lying to the public is doing harm to our COVID response

Newsmax reports, “A 'disconcerting' political divide is hurting the ability to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci said during a bipartisan online 'fireside chat' Monday with former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.

Fauci, who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and is the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, told Frist that 'because I am representing science' telling people to get vaccinated and to wear masks, 'I get attacked' with death threats that require him to be protected by federal agents.

Fauci has also been criticized by Republicans in the House and Senate. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is one of Fauci's harshest critics and has openly sparred with him during committee testimony, accusing Fauci of being responsible for the pandemic and funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that Paul and others say resulted in a lab leak.”

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Posted on November 15, 2021

First hand account of how Fauci ignored the science

Yahoo News reports, “Former White House Coronavirus Response team member Dr. Scott Atlas blasted Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx and former CDC Director Robert Redfield in a new book saying that he was ‘disgusted’ by their dismissal of scientific data he presented to them during the Trump administration.

In the book, ‘A Plague Upon Our House' which Fox News Digital obtained an advance copy of, Atlas says he presented data and studies showing that schools should be reopened and that children are not significant spreaders of the coronavirus but was virtually ignored by Fauci and others on the team.

‘As I finished, there was silence,’ Atlas wrote. ‘No one offered any contrary data. No one spoke of scientific studies. No one even mentioned the discredited Korea study. Zero comments from Dr. Birx. Nothing from Dr. Fauci. And as always, not a single mention by Birx or Fauci about the serious harms of school closures. In my mind, this was bizarre. Why was I the only one in the room with detailed knowledge of the literature? Why was I the only one considering the data on such an important topic with a critical eye? Were the others simply accepting bottom lines and conclusions, without any analytical evaluation? Weren’t they supposed to be expert medical scientists, too?”

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Posted on November 12, 2021

Socialism requires a dictator

FEE’s Richard M. Ebeling writes, “The idea of communism — the common sharing of productive property and its resulting output — is as old as the ancient Greeks and Plato’s conception of the ideal Republic in which the guardians all live and work in common under the presumption that a radical change in the social institutional setting will transform men from self-interested beings into altruistic servers to some defined needs of society as a whole.

This highlights a fundamental difference in the conception of man in the classical liberal versus socialist worldviews. Does man have a basic and invariant human nature that may be multi-sided and complex, but no less fixed in certain qualities and characteristics? Or is human nature a malleable substance that can be remolded like clay in the sculptor’s hands by placing human beings into radically different social arrangements and settings?

Classical liberals have argued for the former, that human beings are basically what they are: fairly reasonable, self-interested beings, guided by goals of personal improvement and betterment as the individual comes to define those for himself. The social dilemma for a humane, just, and widely prosperous society is how to foster a political and economic institutional order to harness that invariant quality in human nature so that it advances human betterment in general rather than becoming a tool of plunder. The classical liberal answer is basically Adam Smith’s system of natural liberty with its open, competitive, free-market order."

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Posted on November 12, 2021

No vaccine mandates, especially for children

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