Category: Health
The Roberts Court and the Attack on Reproductive Freedom in America
by Lisa Graves | Jan 29, 2026 | Health, Legal AffairsOne of the first major decisions of the Supreme Court under John Roberts’s tenure as Chief Justice came in 2007 in Gonzales v. Carhart, a landmark case that upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. But Roberts had been on the (undisclosed) record as critical of Roe v. Wade since at least 1981. That […]
Cracks Are Showing in Air Force Stonewall Over Minuteman ICBM Crews’ Cancer Charges
by Robert Rudney | Sep 29, 2025 | Health, National SecurityOver 800 Air Force personnel have independently reported cases of cancer and other serious illnesses due to extended exposure to toxic chemicals while serving at three Minuteman ICBM bases since 2023. These missileers’ revelations come at a critical moment as the Air Force continues with restructuring its exorbitant $140.9 billion plan to decommission 450 Minuteman […]
Are Minuteman ICBMs Killing Their Launch Crews?
by Robert Rudney | Feb 10, 2025 | Health, National SecurityFor over forty years, the Minuteman silo-based ICBMs formed one critical leg of the sacrosanct US nuclear triad, hypothetically deterring Soviet Politburo members from unleashing World War III. As far as can be ascertained, the 400 Minuteman III missiles, each reportedly armed with a 300-kiloton warhead sufficient to cause over a million deaths if detonated […]
Delayed, Deficient or Denied: Medical Care in the Civil Commitment Gulag
by Barbara Koeppel | Dec 10, 2023 | HealthFor the 6,000 men confined in compounds in the 20 states with civil commitment laws—which keep sex offenders behind bars and out of sight for decades after they complete their prison terms and often until they die—the mantra has got to be “don’t get sick.” (See “Sex Crimes and Criminal Justice”, The Washington Spectator, May, […]
Texas District Court Judge Who Ruled on Mifepristone was Handpicked by the Same Network that Brought the Lawsuit
by Anne Nelson | Apr 18, 2023 | Health, PoliticsOn April 7, U.S. district judge Matthew Kacsmaryk made headlines with an unprecedented ruling suspending the 2000 FDA approval of the abortion medication mifepristone. The ruling marked the first time a court has tried to invalidate the approval of a medication over the objection of the FDA. Within an hour of Kacsmaryk’s ruling, a legal […]
Bad Faith Documentary
