Shahed Ghoreishi was a career‑level press officer who drafted a single, straightforward line for the State Department press office: “We do not support forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.” A short time later his proposed language was cut, and days after that he was fired — an action colleagues told reporters sent a “chilling message” through the building that veering from the administration’s framing could threaten a person’s job. That is far more than a personnel dispute. It...
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Louisiana Surgeon General Warns Parents about ‘Authoritarian’ American Academy of Pediatrics
In February, I highlighted a statement by Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph L. Abraham, commending it for its pro-freedom tone. I also noted that “I will be watching for follow-up...
Florida Surgeon General Announces Plan to End All Vaccine Mandates in the State
In July, the American Academy of Pediatrics, which was recently criticized by United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for its major financial...
President Trump May Be Turning Against the Coronavirus Shots, His Operation Warp Speed, and Big Pharma
One area where President Donald Trump, from his first presidential term until the last few days, has been at odds with many of his supporters is in his insistence on praising the...
President Trump Bails on the Constitution
The Eighth Amendment of the Bill of Rights addresses the national government’s power in regard to bail. As with many other provisions in this set of the first ten amendments to...
U.S. Naive to Think Russia Would Lay Down Arms While Winning War in Ukraine –Daniel McAdams
President Trump is suggesting the U.S. should change the name of the Department of Defense back to the “Department of War,” as his commerce secretary teases plans for the U.S....
Good for Woody Allen
As the United States and Russia governments have over the last decade-plus drifted into relations that bring to mind the cold war and that have brought forward the prospect of...
The People Score Two Victories Against Automated License Plate Readers
Eleven years back, John W. Whitehead warned in his weekly column about the danger from government’s proliferating use of automated license plate readers across America. Whitehead...
Health Secretary Kennedy Challenges Pediatricians Organization and Its Pharma Backers
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has long been an adamant pusher for children in America to be given an increasingly long list of shots at an early age as laid out in the...
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