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.

“Paul’s bill would free drug companies to use other techniques, and also eliminate the animal-use requirement in NIH-funded experiments for new drugs and vaccines.” https://t.co/HoEKH7sbhd

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) November 22, 2021

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.

Fauci’s @NIAIDNews forced you to pay $375K to have #beagles eaten alive by flies in a foreign lab ??#Beaglegate

RT if you oppose this sickening spending?? https://t.co/JmAKsXefzV pic.twitter.com/UCUEvOdVgV

— White Coat Waste Project??️ (@WhiteCoatWaste) September 2, 2021

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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National Review’s Nate Hochman writes, “Bob Woodward thinks General Mark Milley’s secret talks with the Chinese military were “courageous.” In the face of the existential threat that Donald Trump posed to the republic, “the one courageous person who did something was General Milley,” the Washington Post journalist told Stephen Colbert in a Tuesday night interview…

Milley might think his judgment was more sound than that of the man that Americans elected president in 2016, but—as luck would have it—our Founders gave us a political system in which unelected appointees don’t get to make those kinds of determinations.https://t.co/qR4yBc9qIF

— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) September 24, 2021

…seizing power was exactly what Milley was doing. The nation’s highest-ranking military officer was taking matters into his own hands because he trusted his own judgment better than that of the man that Americans had elected to preside over the federal government. As the editors of National Review wrote last week, ‘Generals don’t get to have their own personal foreign policies. Period. They answer to the elected branches, and they must carry out every lawful directive and policy set by the people’s representatives.”

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In the wake of San Francisco Mayor London Breed recently breaking her own indoor mask mandate – her explanation was “I was feeling the spirit and I wasn’t thinking about a mask” – National Review’s Charlie Cooke writes, “The rule in San Francisco is that unless you’re actively eating or drinking, you need to wear a mask. And, per her own testimony, London Breed wasn’t actively eating or drinking; she was dancing while her drink was ‘sitting at the table.”

My Going Maskless Is Different, Says San Francisco Mayor, Because ‘I Was Feeling the Spirit’ | Opinion by @charlescwcooke https://t.co/lIeSPQqVzy

— National Review (@NRO) September 20, 2021

Cooke asks, “Is the rule that Breed broke stupid? Yes, it is — especially given that San Francisco has a system of vaccine passports that applies to the very club she was attending. But it’s the rule nevertheless, and, as mayor, she has to follow it, too.”

“As I write, millions of American kids are on their way to school with masks strapped over their faces — a fact of which London Breed’s political party not only approves, but is willing to sue in order to universalize,” Cooke adds. “If, as Breed implies, these rules represent unnecessary and intrusive micromanagement that can’t possibly survive contact with reality, then maybe we should do the obvious thing, and blow them all up?”

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