By oracknows on April 4, 2017.
Last week, I took note of something that antivaxers hadn t done in nine years, specifically a march on Washington. Back in 2008, Jenny McCarthy and her then-boyfriend Jim Carrey led a rag tag rogues gallery of antivaccine activists on a march and rally that they called Green Our Vaccines. The name of the rally, of course, derived from a common trope beloved of antivaccine activists that I like to refer to as the toxin gambit. It s basically a Food Babe-like fear of those evil chemicals writ large in a claim that vaccines are packed full of horrific chemicals that are Making Our Babies Autistic and/or making them asthmatic, diabetic, or even dying of sudden infant death syndrome. It s a profoundly scientifically ignorant gambit in that the dose makes the poison and the amount of the various scary-sounding chemicals to which antivaxers like to point in vaccines is tiny and safe. For instance, antivaxers love to point to formald
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The Ohio Republican recently tweeted that he had been reading his book for the recording with a glass of something nice in-hand. You can blame the wine for the expletives, the tweet continues.
Poured myself a glass of something nice to read my audiobook. You can blame the wine for the expletives. #OnTheHouse#13Apr2021pic.twitter.com/5uN709ipOs John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) February 25, 2021
The Hill has reached out to Cruz s office for comment.
The Texas senator has famously clashed with members of his own party, and in 2016 his fellow Republican senator, Lindsey Graham
Boehner and Cruz have clashed personally in the past as well, with the former House leader remarking that same year that Cruz was Lucifer in the flesh” and a miserable son of a bitch during an address at Stanford University.
Jan 1, 2021
Associated Press photoElizabeth Taylor and John Warner in 1977. Warner, who was Taylorâs sixth husband, became a Republican Senator in 1979.Â
This is my 1,768th opinion column. It is also my last.
Permit me a few reminiscences.
Elizabeth Taylor, the movie star, was married to John Warner, the Republican senator from Virginia. She was not at all happy in Washington. She had expected to be a political salon hostess as mistress of Warnerâs vast Virginia estate, like in the movies. But she was often alone while Warner politicked on Capitol Hill.
Ben Bradlee, then editor of The Washington Post, and I, then president of the Washington Press Club, were hosting a cocktail party for the American Society of Newspaper Editors at the Kennedy Center. I was to escort Taylor around for the evening. She looked at my lavender polyester blouse with a bow at the throat and glowered. âYouâre wearing my color. But Iâll forgive you if you keep me in three finge
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