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Rand Paul is an American politician & physician. He's the son of former U.S. Representative Ron Paul of Texas, and owns this Bowling Green, Kentucky Mansion. As a politician he served as the junior United States Senator from Kentucky since 2011.

A Republican, Paul has described himself as a Constitutional conservative and a supporter of the Tea Party movement. He has advocated for a balanced budget amendment, term limits, privacy reform, and criminal justice reform. Paul was a candidate for the Republican nomination at the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He suspended his campaign in February 2016, after finishing in fifth place out of 12 Republican candidates at the Iowa caucuses.

In 2017 U.S. Sen. Rand Paul was attacked by his neighbor. Rene Boucher 59 was arrested and charged with one count of fourth-degree assault and released on a $7,500 bond. Paul sustained five broken ribs, of which three were displaced fractures. The dispute was over Paul repeatedly leaving tree yard debris in view of his neighbor. In August 2019, part of Paul's lung required removal as a result of the injuries he suffered during the attack. In September 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated Boucher's sentence of 30 days, ruling it was unreasonably short, indicating "closer review" was in order, and remanded the case to the lower court for resentencing

His neighbor recently sold his home next door to the senator. Rene Boucher pleaded guilty last year to assaulting Paul. Paul also won a civil verdict against Boucher for more than $582,000 in January. Court records in the civil case show Boucher sold his Bowling Green home in May and delivered the proceeds of the sale, about $482,000, to the court. The records say the money will be held in an account until the civil proceedings are resolved.

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Our sacred responsibility

Within the highest form of life on earth lies the human heart. The structure of that magnificent creation contains wondrous capacities that exist in no other.

On this Memorial Day, the magnitude of that capacity will be displayed. For there is nothing moves the human heart more than when one person gives his or her life for another.

On this day, we remember those who gave, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, the last full measure of devotion. Reflecting upon what I might feel most upon realizing I was going to die in battle, I think it would not be my loss of life, but that I would not be able to see the joy in the victory, and the world that resulted from the combined efforts of all who died for the preservation of freedom.

Therefore, we who are left behind have a sacred responsibility to preserve with the greatest of love, care and selflessness, the ultimate American values for which they fought and died.

Thank you, great soldiers! As I salute you, I give you my heart and my promise that you will not be forgotten!

Bob Speir, Mesquite

Hundreds of thousands of American soldiers have died after taking the required oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Presidents, likewise, swear, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

As Memorial Day approaches, we should consider the words of President George Washington in his Farewell Address of Sept. 19, 1796, But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

Thus, we should honor those who have given their lives for our country by striving to support our established government and condemning those who would interfere with its proper functioning.

John Stettler, Dallas;

and John A. Bradley, Nashville, Tenn.

Ret. Lt. Gen., U.S. Air Force, and president and CEO Lamia Afghan Foundation

This Memorial Day, lets give credit which is due for Asians. I doubt the average American knows that about 20,000 Chinese Americans fought in World War II for this country.

E.B. Waters, East Dallas

The much-publicized Carry the Load events and fundraising over the Memorial Day weekend are laudable in that they honor veterans, firefighters, law enforcement and emergency workers. I just wish they would stop saying this event is restoring the true meaning of Memorial Day.

The true meaning of Memorial Day is to honor the men and women who died while serving in the military. Carry the Load seeks to redefine, not restore, the meaning of Memorial Day. As a Vietnam veteran who saw buddies die in combat, I dont appreciate redefining the true meaning of Memorial Day.

Rick Williams, Garland

For those who aspire to live in a humane, rational society the passing of the law allowing anyone to carry a handgun without a permit is heartbreaking and brings on a sense of frustration and hopelessness. This country needs many things such as reconciliation, social and economic justice and safety from official oppression. But more guns in the hands of people who think they have the judgment to use deadly weapons is not something we need more of.

Why would our legislators and our governor spend their time crafting and signing laws that that do not make us a safer, fairer or more just society? More guns just means more suicides, accidental deaths and more crimes of passion where using a gun seems the best way to settle a score. But its too late now; the base has been appeased and Gov. Greg Abbott says hell sign the bill. All we can do now is to sit in silent dread as the real American carnage continues to rise.

Scott Mashburn, Dallas/Merriman Park

Quality early education and child care is a two-generation issue that supports parents in todays workforce and prepares the children who will be tomorrows.

When COVID-19 caused countrywide school shutdowns, child care providers remained open to serve children of essential workers.

Evelyn, one of the nations 1.5 million child care workers, owns a South Dallas child care center that has educated and cared for hundreds of children and provided stable employment for 16 women for 35 years.

Despite receiving Texas Workforce Commission support during COVID-19, her top-rated center still risks closure: Reimbursements dont cover the full cost of quality care, and with decreased enrollment and additional costs to meet health and safety requirements in COVID-19, she struggles to make ends meet. If Evelyns business closes, it will create a triple economic impact: on Evelyn, her employees and the parents of the children in her program.

Nearly 3 million women exited the workforce during COVID-19, exposing both the fragility and importance of child care to the workforce. Our chance to reimagine, rebuild and invest in the system that supports todays workforce and prepares tomorrows is now.

Tori Mannes, Dallas

CEO/president of ChildCareGroup

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said 7.1 million people were screened at U.S. airport checkpoints from Thursday through Sunday. Friday was the highest single travel day since March 2020, when COVID-19 slashed air travel demand, as 1.96 million people were screened.

Last week, AAA forecast travel to jump by 60% for the Memorial Day holiday period, with 37 million people expected to travel 50 miles (80 km) or more from home, AAA Travel said.

United Airlines said it was forecasting Monday to be its busiest travel day since March 2020. For the five-day holiday period, it was forecasting 1.34 million passengers - but still down from 2.3 million over the same period in 2019.

Tracking firm GasBuddy said Sunday's U.S. gasoline demand jumped 9.6% above the average of the previous four Sundays, the highest Sunday demand since summer 2019.

The 2021 total, which is still 13% below that of 2019, includes 34.4 million people traveling by car, AAA said,

Patty Doxsey, 63, of Red Hook, New York, was set to take a 10-hour drive with her husband on Monday for a week-long camping stay at Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee in hopes of seeing a synchronous firefly light show.

The couple, both vaccinated, had planned to go last year until the pandemic scotched their trip, she said.

"I am so excited," said Doxsey, a reporter for the Daily Freeman in Kingston, New York. "It has been a long, long year, and we like to travel."

By Sunday, 50.5% of Americans had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The number of new coronavirus cases plummeted from a seven-day average of more than 250,000 a day in early January to about 18,900 on Saturday, the lowest number since the emergence of the pandemic in March 2020, the CDC said.

Top Memorial Day travel destinations this year were Las Vegas and Orlando, Florida, AAA said.

REMEMBERING THE WAR DEAD

The Memorial Day holiday on Monday is also a solemn occasion for remembering the country's war dead, and many of this year's military ceremonies were still being held virtually.

The biggest commemoration, the National Memorial Day Parade in Washington, which was presented online last year as the virus raged, was returning somewhat back to normal this year with a mix of in-person and virtual events, organizers said.

Instead of a traditional parade on Constitution Avenue, the march was filmed on May 3 on the National Mall with no onlookers and will be blended with other taped performers in a special television program.

"We're fully expecting to be returning to normal next year," said Kenny Cunningham, a spokesman for the American Veterans Center, a non-profit educational organization.

New York City's Staten Island borough held one of the country's relatively few live-and-in-person parades on Monday with floats and marching bands.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took part in a traditional wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

"Duty, honor, country - they lived for it, they died for it. And we, as a nation, are eternally grateful," Biden told the crowd, including families gathered to remember loved ones who lost their lives in military service.

(Reporting by Peter Szekely in New York; Additional reporting by Barbara Goldberg and David Shepardson; Editing by Diane Craft, David Gregorio and Peter Cooney)

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Rand Paul said on Saturday that he was concerned that US funds were still being used by China to develop biological weapons.

Paul told Fox News Jenine Piro on Saturday:

Paul argued that China was likely to have used acquisition of function: mutating a virus that normally propagates only between animals, jumping to humans or jumping with dong dong. And can be potentially more dangerous or deadly.

A Kentucky senator pointed out that all Democrats agreed when he proposed to stop funding the study, arguing that there is a lot of evidence now showing the institute. ..

Paul and former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have warned that ongoing research and experiments are underway at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), raising another alleged fatal virus leak. doing.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said on Saturday that he was concerned that China was still conducting biological weapons tests with US funding.

The comment is due to increasing evidence that the coronavirus was developed in China and leaked from the Wuhan Virology Institute as a biological weapon.

Pompeo told Fox News on Friday that the WIV was conducting a top-secret military investigation.

Former Donald Trump aide also claimed that there was huge evidence that the virus causing COVID-19 had escaped from Chinese laboratories.

I can say for sure that military operations were carried out in parallel with the good old civilian studies they claimed, because they knew they were engaged in PLA-related efforts within the institute. We have, Pompeo said. Interview with Fox.

They refused to tell us what it was, refused to explain their nature, and refused to allow access to the World Health Organization. The concealment alone , Suggests that there is much more we need to know.

The virology laboratory is still in operation. Perhaps we are still doing the same kind of research that could have led to the virus escaping the laboratory, he said. ..

Pompeo said, Only the Chinese Communist Party knows the answer. The world deserves the answer and they have to tell us. I hope there is bipartisan pressure to demand and be held accountable. .

Former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News on Friday that the Wuhan Virology Institute is conducting secret military research.

He spoke after President Joe Biden ordered a 90-day intensive investigation to re-examine the possible cause of the laboratory leak in the pandemic.

Its a real shame that they took the position that they couldnt see anything here early on, Pompeo said in response to a new study.

Im glad theyre watching this now. I hope this will be a serious investigation when they say that the intelligence community will give them 90 days to look into this. Has been considering this for a very long time, he said.

Former CIA spy director Pompeo has been driving lab leak theory since the early days of the pandemic.

Since I first talked about this last spring, in the spring of 2020, I knew there was a huge amount of evidence that it had escaped from the Wuhan Institute, he said on Saturday.

We know that there were people who got sick there, scientists who got sick there. They knew they were doing research on the acquisition of function.

Workers at the Wuhan Virology Institute can be seen in February.The lab was put under new surveillance as experts eventually took the lab leak seriously as a possible cause of a pandemic.

This administration has to take after this. I hope they continue the work we have been working on, Pompeo said. This is an important task. To prevent it from happening again, we need to know how this happened.

This is not the first time Pompeo has claimed a relationship between the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the Chinese military.

During the last few days of the Trump administration, the State Department, led by Pompeo, issued a statement that the United States has determined that WIV is cooperating with the Chinese military in publications and top secret projects.

WIV has been involved in top-secret research, including laboratory animal testing, on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017.

Laboratory accidents involve only a few individuals in their initial exposure and can resemble spontaneous occurrence if exacerbated by an asymptomatic infection, he said.

This means that Chinese scientists created COVID-19 at the Wuhan Institute of Veterans Affairs and tried to reverse engineer the virus version to hide its traces in order to make it appear to have evolved naturally from bats. It follows the explosive words of new research that are allegedly shown.

A 22-page treatise exclusively obtained by the DailyMail.com will be published in the scientific journal Quarterly Review of Biophysics Discovery.In it, researchers describe months of forensic analysis of experiments conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Veterans Affairs between 2002 and 2019.

The authors of the paper, Professor Angus Dalgreish of the United Kingdom and Dr. Birger Srensen, a Norwegian scientist, said they had prima facie evidence of retroengineering in China for a year, but ignored by scholars and major journals. It is written that it was done.

The shocking allegations of this study, obtained by the DailyMail.com prior to its publication, include accusations of intentional destruction, hiding, or contamination of data at a Chinese laboratory.

On Wednesday, Biden ordered 17 national laboratories run by the Ministry of Energy to assist intelligence agencies in a 90-day sprint to investigate whether the virus had leaked from a Chinese laboratory.

White House officials told CNN that the lab was being used for its ability to process large amounts of data using advanced supercomputers.

The government has not disclosed the exact type of data submitted for analysis, but experts say it is likely to be previously collected information, such as signal interception or biological evidence. ing.

Intelligence agencies regularly collect more raw data than analysts can effectively investigate, and applying advanced algorithms to look for patterns in large datasets brings new breakthroughs. there is a possibility.

President Joe Biden has ordered a major government laboratory to participate in an investigation into the true origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The device can be found at the Livermore National Laboratory in California. It is one of the 17 national laboratories called in to assist intelligence agencies in data processing.

White House officials told CNN, We want science to dominate this. We use all the resources of the intelligence and scientific community to root the problem. Try to reach.

Biden is also calling on US intelligence and its allies to look for new information that could reveal whether China has concealed a leak in the lab.

Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton said the Biden administrations response was better than not late, but far from enough.

Our intelligence community has been considering this for 15 months. They did a good job, but in the end the answer was in the hands of Chinese Communists and people working in American intelligence. Not, he told Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

Mr Cotton said Beijing officials did not reveal how the pandemic began. We are clear about what is happening at the Wuhan Institute as they clean up. You should insist on not being difficult, he said.

Situational evidence has long questioned the Wuhan Virology Institute, where researchers are known to be experimenting with coronavirus strains of bats similar to those responsible for COVID-19.

China early claimed that the virus had not leaked from the laboratory and that the crossover to humans must have occurred in Wuhans wet market, which sells live animals.

It may have been driven by hostility to Donald Trump. He accepted the institutes leak theory early on. Mainstream US media and scholars called it a conspiracy theory. ..

However, new evidence, including reports of three Wuhan Institute of Victims workers becoming seriously ill with COVID-like symptoms in November 2019, forced a calm reassessment among suspicious people.

Dissatisfaction with China increased after China said this week that it would not participate in further investigations by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Biden accused China of announcing a new intelligence survey and told allies that China will participate in an international survey based on complete and transparent evidence and provide access to all relevant data and evidence. Pressure to do it.

Rand Paul says U.S. funding is still worried about getting Chinese to run a biological weapons program

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Rand Paul revealed he would not be getting the COVID-19 vaccine. The senator from Kentucky said he sees no point in getting vaccinated because he already had COVID-19.

"Until they show me evidence that people who have already had the infection are dying in large numbers or being hospitalized or getting very sick, I just made my own personal decision that I'm not getting vaccinated because I've already had the disease and I have natural immunity," Paul said in an interview Sunday on WABC's radio show "The Cats Roundtable."

Paul, an ophthalmologist, was thefirst-known senator to be diagnosed with COVID-19 when he contracted the virus in March 2020.

The senator's stance goes against the Centers for Disease Control's recommendations that those who have already had COVID-19 nonetheless get vaccinated. According to the CDC, experts are uncertain how long natural immunity lasts. There is also a rare risk that those who've already had COVID-19 could become infected again.

He has frequently clashed with Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Biden and touched on the topic during his interview on Sunday. "We've had round after round," Paul admitted.

Paul added that he believes no one should be forced to be vaccinated: "In a free country, you would think people would honor the idea that each individual would get to make the medical decision, that it wouldn't be a big brother coming to tell me what I have to do," Paul said.

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Paul's remarks come as vaccine rates appear to be slowing across the country. Earlier this month, CBS News found that many states weren't ordering all the available COVID-19 vaccine doses allocated to them by the federal government.

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