Op-Ed: Rein In Reckless Spending That Funds Foreign Animal Abuse

Government waste” is a popular term used to describe a multitude of government missteps. It’s now widely believed that the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) reckless spending at a Wuhan lab likely caused the COVID pandemic that has killed more than 6 million people and crippled the U.S. economy.

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How to Respond Sensibly to an Increase in Youth Vaping

For the past few years, the United States public health community has been amplifying irrational fears among certain sections of the public toward youth vaping. At times, it has reached such fevered levels that one could be forgiven for forgetting that respected public health bodies in the United Kingdom have estimated vapes to be at least 95 percent less harmful than the combustible cigarettes they typically replace.

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Three Ways the FDA can Fight Cancer

On September 12, President Biden became the latest chief executive with a plan in hand to fight cancer. Biden called for a “moonshot” to beat cancer, rightly noting that, “[w]e know too little about why treatments work for some patients, but a different patient with the same disease, it doesn't work for.

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TPA Sends Letter to Ranking Member Webster on FEMA Recovery Efforts in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands

On behalf of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA), an advocacy organization representing millions of taxpayers and consumers, I write to express concern with how the Federal Emer- gency Management Agency (FEMA) is allocating U.S. tax dollars to the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) and the Water and Power Authority (WAPA).

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TPA Sends Letter to Ranking Member Webster on FEMA Recovery Efforts in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands

On behalf of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA), an advocacy organization representing millions of taxpayers and consumers, I write to express concern with how the Federal Emer- gency Management Agency (FEMA) is allocating U.S. tax dollars to the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) and the Water and Power Authority (WAPA).

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TPAF’s App Security Project Hosts Malware Bytes Food Truck Event

Today, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation’s App Security Project (ASP) and CQ Roll Call will be hosting a food truck event with free donuts and drinks to raise awareness and educate policy makers, users, decision makers, and other stakeholders on how app software works and the importance of strong security and privacy protections for users.

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