Chapter 15 – The Stay
From the beginning I’ve had the sense that they have mischarged the offense, perhaps intentionally.
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Veterans’ Day 2019 – Something To Hear
Friends, Romans, Glibs….lend me your ears.
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Chapter 14 – Secretary Cohen’s “Four Points”
In December of 1997, the anthrax vaccine manufacturer was shut down and could not manufacture anything related to the AVA.
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Who’s a Good Boy?
Why yes, you!
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Chapter 12: The DoD “Evolves” on the Anthrax Vaccine
During the hearings on the Nixon impeachment, Senator Howard Baker (R-TN) asked the now famous question: “What did the President know and when did he know it?”
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Profiles in Toxic Masculinity VII: Mad Jack Churchill
There was no family connection to another famous example of toxic masculinity who shared the last name of Churchill.
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Chapter 11: United States v. Stonewall, July 2000
I had defended Marines and sailors facing a lot more time or charged with much more serious crimes, yet I was more nervous than I had ever been before walking into court.
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Chapter 10 – The Anthrax Vaccine Fails, Is Awarded Zero Points… and you’ll still have to roll up your sleeve!
The anthrax vaccine’s manufacturer has had an interesting ownership history, beginning in 1968 as the Michigan Department of Public Health (MDPH).
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The Face of Battle – A Book Review
In which R C Dean revisits a classic of military history.
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Profiles in Toxic Masculinity VI: Roy Benavidez
The Army, like any other large institution, has many examples that young people can learn from, both good and bad.
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Chapter 9 – The History of the Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed (AVA)
The first use of a human anthrax vaccine took place in 1954.
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Chapter 8: “It’s Against the Law!!”
I didn’t even knock on Justin’s door, I busted in like Kreamer on a Seinfeld episode.
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Gold Standards II – The Colt/Browning 1911
Resolved: The Colt/Browning 1911 pistol is the standard by which all autoloading pistols must be judged.
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Chapter 7 – Congress Acts: 10 U.S.C. §1107
More can and must be done, however, to rebuild trust, to avoid repeating past mistakes, and to...
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Chapter 6 – The Gulf War and Its Experimental Drugs aka “Your Body is the New Battlefield”
In the late 1980s, the Department of Defense had a problem. It was anticipating the need for better means to combat chemical and biological agents and, to the point, the U.S. was way behind the Soviet Union in its chemical and biological warfare preparedness.
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Chapter 5 – The FDA, DHHS, & Vaccines: Anthrax Slides By
Before 1962, vaccines, drugs, and other such products did not undergo nearly the kind of scrutiny that they do today in order to become licensed. It wasn’t until the thalidomide disaster of the 1960’s that federal regulation of drugs came to be what it is today.
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Chapter 4 – Judicial Remedies in Our Republic?
The Declaration of Independence’s most trenchant historical observation is coupled with its boldest claim: “that governments are instituted among men, [and] deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
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Chapter 3 – The General Did What?
Major John Hitesman graduated from the Norwich Military Academy a year before I graduated from Boston University. Like me, Hitesman had a “life” before becoming a lawyer.
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Chapter 2 – The Nuremberg Code
The first principle enunciated in the Nuremberg Code is that “the informed consent of the subject is absolutely essential.”
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Chapter 1 – A Brief History, or “I’m from the government and I’m here to experiment on you.”
Join Ozymandias on the first chapter of the journey.
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