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Rand Paul: Congress Is Not Allowed To Know About TOP SECRET Gain Of Function Research Committee, by Steve Watson

Posted on August 5, 2022 | Leave a comment

Who, if anybody, is exercising oversight over secret and deadly gain of function research? From Steve Watson at summit.news.com:

“We don’t know the names. We don’t know that they ever meet, and we don’t have any records of their meetings. It’s top-secret. Congress is not allowed to know.”

Appearing on Fox News to discuss the first ever Senate hearing on gain of function research, Rand Paul revealed that there is a committee that is supposed to oversee such experimentation with potentially lethal viruses, but that it is above the oversight of Congress.

Paul noted that according to scientists who testified on Capitol Hill yesterday, “the committee that is supposed to review these viruses is secret.”

“We don’t know the names. We don’t know that they ever meet, and we don’t have any records of their meetings,” the Senator reiterated, adding “It’s top-secret. Congress is not allowed to know. So whether the committee actually exists, we’re uncertain.”

“We do know that they’ve met three times and there are thousands of gain-of-function research proposals. They’ve only met three times, they’ve only reviewed three projects,” Paul continued.

Three scientists testified during the hearing, they were Dr. Richard Ebright, laboratory director of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, Kevin Esvelt, assistant professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, and Dr. Steven Quay, CEO of Atossa Therapeutics Inc.

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SCOTT RITTER: Chuck Schumer’s War on Free Speech

Posted on August 3, 2022 | Leave a comment

Like most politicians, Chuck Schumer can talk a good game in favor of free speech, but in real life he hates it. From Scott Ritter at consortiumnews.com:

The Senate majority leader pushed through a funding bill that now supports a structure under which U.S. citizens and politicians — including a challenger for his own seat — are being targeted as “information terrorists.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer in 2018. (AFGE, Flickr, CC BY 2.0)

In May, Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky, held up a vote on a bill which sought to approve some $40 billion in aid for Ukraine. Paul wanted language inserted into the bill, without a vote, that would have an inspector general scrutinize the new spending.

“This would be the inspector general that’s been overseeing the waste in Afghanistan,” Paul said, “and has done a great job.”

While senators on both sides of the aisle bristled at Paul’s delay tactics, Christopher Tremoglie, a commentary fellow for The Washington Examiner, questioned the fact that

“[w]hile much attention has been placed on Paul holding up the aid legislation, the more important issue is why are so many senators against ensuring that billions of taxpayer dollars aren’t being misused?”

One of the senators who took umbrage over Paul’s actions was the senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer. Speaking from the floor of the Senate chamber, the senior senator from New York declared that “it is repugnant that one member of the other side, the junior senator from Kentucky, chose to make a show and obstruct Ukraine funding.”

Schumer added that Paul’s actions served to “strengthen [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s hand.”

What Schumer didn’t say was that an inspector general, mandated to oversee how U.S. taxpayer money authorized under the bill in question (the Additional Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2022, which became Public Law 117-128 on May 21), would have exposed the role that U.S. funds played to exact political revenge on the man who tried to inject a modicum of accountability into how monies appropriated by Congress are spent, namely Rand Paul.

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Guess Who Was Called a Crank, and Who’s Now a Covid Hero, by Tom Woods

Posted on June 24, 2021 | Leave a comment

Very few in government called out the Covid nonsense early on. Tom Woods spotlights two of them. From Woods at lewrockwell.com:

From the Tom Woods Letter:

There have been a lot of bad guys over the past year and a half.

But there have been good guys, too.

And there’s something interesting that the two best guys have in common (and it has to do with my subject line for today).

By my estimation, the best U.S. senator — by far — throughout this fiasco has been Rand Paul, and the best member of the House has been Rep. Thomas Massie.

Both have been excellent on lockdowns, masks, vaccines and vaccine passports. Both have pushed back against Fauci. Were it not for Rand, we probably wouldn’t know a thing about gain-of-function research and Wuhan.

Ain’t no way a product of the GOP establishment was going to come out swinging like Rand.

Mitt Romney standing up to Fauci? Don’t make me laugh.

John McCain standing up to Fauci? This is the guy who assured us he was learning about economics because he bought Alan Greenspan’s book — an indication of utter hopelessness if ever there were one.

Most Republican governors were horrendous through this ordeal.

But Rand Paul and Thomas Massie? A+ throughout.

Yes, both men represent Kentucky, but that’s incidental.

The key: both are products of the Ron Paul revolution.

Now let’s recall: when Ron Paul himself was running for president, both the media and the Republican establishment — and, to their eternal shame, some “conservatives” — ridiculed him. He’s a “crank”! We demand someone who will flatter us and speak in platitudes we recognize!

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Rand Paul Responds To Death Threat, Suspicious Package Of White Powder Sent To Home, by Tyler Durden

Posted on May 25, 2021 | Leave a comment

Anybody who is surprised that the left has no compunction against using violence against a political enemy doesn’t know the left. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:

Update (1300ET): Senator Paul’s wife is fuming – and rightly so – after the events detailed below.

Where’s the “tolerance” the left keeps demanding?

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As The Epoch Times’ Janita Kan detailed earlier, Sen. Rand Paul has denounced threats to him and his family after a suspicious package containing white powder was delivered to his home on Monday.

“I take these threats immensely seriously. As a repeated target of violence, it is reprehensible that Twitter allows C-list celebrities to encourage violence against me and my family,” Paul said in a statement, citing a Politico article.

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Rand Paul: Fauci Is A “Petty Tyrant”, by Steve Watson

Posted on April 14, 2021 | Leave a comment

It’s a complete mystery why Anthony Fauci has received the lionization he has received, he’s a hack. From Steve Watson at summit.news:

“His only real theme is ‘do what I say’ even when it makes no sense”

Senator Rand Paul reacted to Anthony Fauci’s declaration that Americans should still not be socialising despite having been vaccinated by labelling the White House medical advisor a “petty tyrant”.

Fauci appeared on MSNBC Sunday and announced that people should still be refraining from eating and drinking together indoors, as well as suggesting that the vaccinated may need more ‘booster’ shots to maintain protection against the coronavirus.

Senator Paul hit back at Fauci, accusing him of  ignoring “100 years of vaccine science”.

Paul added that Fauci’s “only real theme is ‘do what I say’ even when it makes no sense.”

“If you’ve recovered or been vaccinated – go about your life. Eat, drink, work, open the schools,” Paul continued, adding “Enough with the petty tyrants!

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Free Money For Everyone, from Rand Paul

Posted on December 21, 2020 | Leave a comment

Check out Rand Paul’s speech by clicking the link to the Burning Platform below. What he says won’t come as news to anyone with a lick of common sense, but that group does not include the US Senate, whom Paul was addressing.

Free Money For Everyone, from Rand Paul

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As the Republic Dies the Next Generation Must Rise, by Tom Luongo

Posted on December 16, 2020 | 1 comment

It’s way past time for Boomer politicians to fade off into the sunset. From Tom Luongo at tomluongo.me:

The first rule of screenwriting, or in fact any fiction writing, is, “Conflict doesn’t create character, it reveals it.” People are who they are and we only find out what they are made of when tested to their limit.

This is the essence of all good storytelling — create characters who rise to be role models for us as we navigate our way through a Universe hostile to our very existence.

While I hesitate to ascribe such noble ideas as ‘character’ to any politician there are a few out there who have shown great potential. I’ve written about all of them at various times in the past few years.

Matteo Salvini in Italy, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Russian President Vladmir Putin, Nigel Farage in the UK and even a flawed figure like Donald Trump are all examples of men who history will remember as having stood up when needed.

At times each of them tried to move heaven and earth to stop the degradation of society, culture and the human condition in the face of an implacable enemy – communist ideologues bent on forcing humanity into submission to their will.

But with the Supreme Court abdicating its primary responsibility under the Constitution last week citing itself in an unconstitutional ruling from 1925 (H/T Martin Armstrong for this) means it is over for Trump and the U.S. to stop the final transformation of the U.S. into an oligarchy in reality if not in spirit.

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Rand Paul: No Scientific Evidence ‘Tyrannical’ Lockdowns Work, by Steve Watson

Posted on December 8, 2020 | 1 comment

Rand Paul is one of the politicians out there who’s not a complete stranger to common sense. From Steve Watson at summit.news:

“You can take advice and you can give advice. But once you mandate it, it doesn’t become advice. It becomes a form of tyranny.”

Senator Rand Paul spoke out Monday against the policy of lockdowns and restrictions, declaring that there is no evidence they are having any impact on the spread of coronavirus, and that those who say they do are not paying attention.

“We ought to at least still use logic to try to figure out how we stop this …,” Paul said in an appearance on Fox News, adding “I don’t see any evidence that crowd control, hand washing, standing six feet apart, all of these things they tell you to do — closing down the restaurants, closing down the schools — there’s no real evidence that they are changing the trajectory of the disease.”

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EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Rand Paul Says GOP Will Shaft Trump, Allow Democrat Witnesses and Block His Requests — Warns Colleagues Not to Commit Political Suicide, by Cassandra Fairbanks

Posted on January 18, 2020 | 1 comment

Any Republican Senator who played ball with the Democrats would find his or her election imperiled. From Rand Paul at thegatewaypundit.com:

In an interview with The Gateway Pundit about the impeachment effort on Wednesday, Senator Rand Paul warned his colleagues who plan to let the Democrats choose witnesses that they will lose their reelections.

Senator Paul, who has seemingly been leading the charge to defend the president during this process, also explained that he would vote for Rep. Adam Schiff and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to have to testify, especially since Schiff has a staff member who is friends with the whistleblower — potentially making him a material witness.

Additionally, Sen. Paul stated that he wants the impeachment process to be over as soon as possible, but that if the Democrats are allowed to call witnesses, President Trump must be afforded the same right.

When asked if any other Republicans have been supportive of Sen. Paul’s assertion that he wants to call in the whistleblower and Hunter Biden to testify, he asserted that there are a lot of people who do, but that they have been quiet.

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They Said That? 12/23/12

Posted on December 23, 2018 | Leave a comment

From CNN’s Jake Tapper and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY):

Bravo, Paul!

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