Pesonal Relationships between Media and Obama Administration

CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS Sept. 5, 2008 By Seth Stern, CQ Staff Members of the House Judiciary Committee made clear Friday they expect more answers from the FBI about its August announcement that a government scientist was responsible for the 2001 anthrax attacks on Capitol Hill and elsewhere. Committee members submitted a list of questions…

This is a fairly no-nonsense read, easily digestible.  His article makes me wonder whether, in my effort to provide breaking news and analysis, I have lost the woods for the trees.  My stories are broken up into so many pieces (hundreds of blog posts since the start of the pandemic and about 1500 overall) that…

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/the-mask-debacle Recent days have witnessed the emergence of a new rift in our pandemic debate. Strikingly, this time the dispute is not just partisan, but also splitting the Democratic Party. While Democratic governors appear to see where political winds are blowing, some blue cities are moving in the opposite direction. And many states that are dropping adult mask mandates are retaining them for kids,…

A WaPo Saturday article, based on a detailed report by the company Vodaphone, details how many other countries do exactly what the US government does with digital data, including the content of phone calls: scoop up everything they want: …In the Czech Republic, for example, the government compelled Vodafone to turn over the content of…

The 2010-11 flu season is now over.  Where do we stand in terms of vaccination and deaths from flu? The influenza vaccine is said to have been a good match to the majority of strains that circulated during this flu season. One hundred two (102) pediatric deaths were reported to CDC from the entire US for the flu…