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Bruno Cooke January 12, 2022

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US senator Randal Rand Paul and Dr Anthony Fauci sparred during a senate health hearing yesterday, prompting those who witnessed the debate to think about senator Pauls medical background. What kind of doctor is Rand Paul, and where did he go to medical school?

Dr Rand Pauls medical history is in ophthalmology, a branch of medicine and surgery that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the eye.Rand Paul received his state-issued medical licence in 1993. As of 2015, his certification, per The Week, comes from a board he incorporated and heads.

Ophthalmology covers vision services (as in glasses and contact lenses) as well as treatment and prevention of medical disorders of the eye including surgery.

In the US, ophthalmologists must complete four years of college, four years of medical school, and four to five years of additional specialised training.

Rand Paul started practising as an ophthalmologist in 1993 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He turned 30 in the same year.

He set up the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic two years later and told the National Review in 2013 he has performed more than 100 pro bono surgeries.

Born Randal Howard Paul on 7 January 1963 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Rand Paul is the middle child of five.

He grew up in Lake Jackson, Texas, and went to Brazoswood High School, where he was on the swimming team and played defensive back on the football team.

Rand Paul attended Baylor University from 1981 to 1984, during which time he completed his pre-med requirements. However, he left Baylor without completing his Bachelors degree.

Instead, he transferred to his fathers alma mater, the Duke University School of Medicine. At the time, Duke Universitys graduate school didnt require an undergraduate degree for entry.

Paul earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1988 and completed his residency five years later.

Paul announced on 22 March 2020 that he had tested positive for covid-19. He was the first member of the US senate to test positive.

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He announced his recovery two weeks later, on 7 April. Shortly afterwards, he started volunteering at a hospital in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where hed received his first job as a practising ophthalmologist.

Rand Pauls medical speciality is cataract and glaucoma surgeries, laser eye surgery, and corneal transplants.

He co-founded the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic in 1995. The clinic helps provide eye surgery and exams for those who cant afford to pay for them.

For more on what Dr Fauci and senator Paul had to say to each other during yesterdays hearing, read CBS News write-up of the debate.

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Bruno is a novelist, amateur screenwriter and journalist with interests in digital media, storytelling, film and politics. Hes lived in France, China, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, but returned to the UK for a degree (and because of the pandemic) in 2020. His articles have appeared in Groundviews, Forge Press and The Friday Poem, and most are readable on Medium or onurbicycle.com.

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U. S. Senator Rand Paul honored P31 with the Senate Small Business of the Week Award. In addition, he came to Morgantown to present a copy of the Congressional Record to Tabby Daugherty in person.

A large crowd of supporters packed into P31 on South Tyler Street Tuesday morning to show their love for local businesswoman Tabby Daugherty and her family.

Sen. Paul, a ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, noted that the awards started about a year ago to highlight success stories in an environment when about half of new ventures fail.

Not wavering from her beliefs, Ms. Daugherty requested that her pastor Brother TJ Howard lead prayer before Senator Paul presented her with the Congressional Record. Ms. Daugherty thanked her family, friends, and customers for supporting her. She recalled how her business started from modest means of making laundry detergent as a side gig until demand for it exploded.

When it became hard for her to keep up, she quit her job of fourteen years at Life Skills to focus on building her business into a full-time career. That leap of faith has benefited her greatly. Four years later, she has a storefront on South Tyler Street, her product stocked in other local stores, and an online business.

While visiting with Senator Rand Paul, supporters spoke about Tabby's entrepreneurial spirit and her giving heart.

"Tabby ( of P31 Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils and Homemade Products) keeps the essence of her favorite Proverb at the core of her life and shop, evident for all to see," said Paul.

One woman told of how the storefront is not just a shop; it is a place of refuge for those who need someone to talk to; where Tabby holds a weekly class for young women, and several come to visit because they enjoy being with her genuine heart.

P31 carries an array of natural products that are safe and effective for your family. For example, Young Living & Doterra essential oils are sold individually and in mixes and salves. The shop also carries a selection of diffusers and a variety of jewelry. Not only does Ms. Daugherty have her products, but she also encourages other entrepreneurs to showcase their handmade items, such as jewelry and honey, in her shop.

It can be challenging for locally owned businesses to thrive, so amazingly, P31 has succeeded and continued to grow and create a unique connection within the community. So, if you see Tabby Daugherty out and about in town, congratulate her on this fantastic honor!

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Call them the A, B Cs eight realities of Communist China. This is not your fathers sleepy, benign, creeping by the night, weak by day Communist China. Things are changing fast. In sum, we are not in Kansas anymore, Toto.

First, or A for those who like mnemonics, ways to remember:We are facing an A-frame in public understanding of the threat, half who gets that China aims to beat us, is an existential threat to our democracy, is waging unrestricted warfare the other half dopey, sleepy, disengaged, hopeful.

The unengaged half needs to get engaged, understand the stakes, pace of Chinas accelerating attack, multiple fronts on which China aims to best us, is making inroads, military, economic, ideological.

Second, B for recall, China is on a Beeline for supremacy, dominance in virtually every theater of political and military conflict. They are not there, but they are developing, modernizing, laying in ICBMS by the thousands, accelerating maritime abilities, practicing missile and fighter assaults on Taiwan.

That is not all, they are rapidly moving for dominance in quantum computing, cyberwarfare, pushing private and public installation in American engineering, social media, computing, education, and technology infrastructure, enabling everything from MASINT (measurement and signature intelligence) to surveillance, theft to blackmail, changing college curricula to pro-China foreign policy.

Third, or C, we need a political sea-change in this country. Beyond educating, we must understand right now what Reagan educated America about in the 1980s.Some governments are not legitimate. Communism is quintessentially illegitimate.Soviets Communism was; Chinese Communism is.

Any nation that kills its people for mild political objections, which traps, beats, tortures, and brain washes citizens for not accepting the oppression of religious, personal, and political views, which makes no apologies for inflicting Marxist carnage, suppression, coercion, intimidation, and a global virus, is illegitimate. Sovereignty resides in the people; that is the lesson of God-given rights.

Fourth, or D, deterrence is vital. It is possible still with China if we sit up, see the threat, and act. As Reagan demonstrated, peace through strength is the only way to turn back, roll back, stop aggression. We must do that again. Time is short, but concrete ways exist to show China we win if challenged.

Fifth, or E, enforcement of laws in the United States and on foreign soil, helping others call out Chinas corruption, political, governmental, and personal is vital. American companies are private in nature and bound by the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act; Chinas are governmentally tied and cheat all the time. We must use US laws, international tribunals, and allied action to prosecute their cheating.

Sixth, or F, finance is an Achilles heal for China. They such money out of free, free-market, enterprising and wealthy countries, especially the US, via publicly traded companies, US government investments, intellectual property theft, corporate coercion even corrupting politicians. That MUST stop. We would not have invested or indulged building the Soviet war machine; we must not build Chinas. They are corrupt, in debt, and endemically unapologetic about cheating we must stop it.

Seventh, or G, is game theory. China thinks ahead, around corners, aims for dominance, in 500 years, sure but also in five to fifteen years. We must understand the moves before they make them, prevent their information and influence warfare, be smarter by half, and understand the game.

Game is theory is not a game, it is a way of thinking strategically proactively, smartly, and winning. It is what China is doing, although the West typically does it better, is more nimble, has free thought, experience ideals, and individual enterprise to rely on.But we have to do this, think forward, engage, look around corners, plan our chess moves, by being ahead of where they are planning to be.

Finally, eighth or H, is for hidden battles for high ground, which China is totally committed to finding, and we will lose if we let them take those areas of high ground. Arguably, from the Revolutionary War through the Battle of Little Round Top at Gettysburg during the Civil War, to many of the big battles WWI and WWI, from Anzio to Iwo Jima, casualties, opportunities, and even outcomes are determined by high ground.

Where is the high ground in our epic contest with China? Brace yourself, because it is everywhere in near earth orbit and lunar orbit, in cyberspace, quantum computing, public awareness, information warfare, education, multilateral organization domination, the South China Sea, but also in commercial conquest of Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Western Hemisphere. It is in leasing ports, and militarizing them, recapturing the Solomon Islands which we died to free, and a thousand fronts.

So, how do we win since we must win, or over time perish to the power of illegitimate, but powerful communist coercion? We wake up, as one nation under God, remember who we are, remember what communist oppression looks like, and understand that we live in times not benign but malign.

If we do that, remember the A, B, Cs of beating Chinese communism stopping it before it wins we will prevail and, to borrow from Churchill, men and women for a thousand years will call this our finest hour. If we minimize, ignore, forget, or divide on the importance of unity to freedom, we lose. Either way, we are not in Kansas anymore, Toto time to say so.

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Xi Van Fleet, a survivor of Mao Zedong's communist revolution in China, joined "Fox & Friends Weekend" Saturday to share her experience living under and fleeing from communism. Van Fleet cautioned socialist supporters in the U.S. from embracing a dangerous ideology and "abandoning freedom."

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XI VAN FLEET: I just want to say it's so ironic. 36 years ago, I run away from socialism when I left China to come to this great country for freedom. Today, so many Americans [are] abandoning freedom and arriving into socialism. They have no idea what socialism is about. I lived under Mao's socialism. When the government controls everything and makes all the decisions big and small and decide how much grain, meat [and] cooking oil I could have. What I should learn in school, where I should live, and what job I should have and how I should think. In the socialist society I lived under, there was no choices. There is no freedom. And that's what people do not know. Socialism becomes such a diluted word and it's intentional. I can tell you, China is a socialist country. Cuba is a socialist country and so is North Korea. They are a socialist country run by communist parties. And what's the difference? What's the difference between socialism and communism? Not much. Socialism is the initial stage of communism, according to Karl Marx.

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Updated at 4:50 p.m. ET on September 1, 2022.

Mary Peltola was declared the winner of Alaskas special congressional election last night, defeating the former GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin. A Democrat hasnt held the seat in 49 years, and Peltola will be the first Alaska Native elected to Congress.

The election was the first in Alaska to utilize ranked-choice voting, a system adopted by the states voters in 2020. If no candidate reaches 50 percent support, the lowest-ranked candidate is eliminated and their votes go to the second-ranked candidate on their voters lists. This continues until one candidate has at least 50 percent. After the Republican candidate Nick Begich was eliminated in the second round of counting, Peltola ended up with about 52 percent of the vote. Ranked choice is more efficient than holding a runoff election, and its backers insist that it offers a better reflection of voters preferences.

But heres the problem: The Republican candidate didnt win, and Peltolas remarkable victory instantly sparked complaints from Republicans that the election had been rigged, echoing former President Donald Trumps rhetoric from July. Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas immediately tweeted, Ranked-choice voting is a scam to rig elections. Cotton elaborated in a second tweet that 60% of Alaska voters voted for a Republican, but thanks to a convoluted process and ballot exhaustionwhich disenfranchises votersa Democrat won. Separately, the political writer Josh Kraushaar argued that ranked-choice voting is so inscrutable to your average voter that it will only fuel the conspiracy theories that have defined elections in recent years.

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This is a bit like arguing that denying a toddler ice cream for dinner will only fuel a temper tantrum, except that Republican elites who choose to announce that elections they dont win are fraudulent are adults and should be held responsible for their choices. Conspiracy theories are not being fueled; people like Cotton are fueling them.

There is nothing inherently wrong with opposing ranked-choice voting. Theres also nothing wrong with arguing that a particular set of rules is unfair, or might skew the outcome in one direction or another. People will come to different conclusions about the most fair or efficient way to run elections. Thats all a normal part of democracy. The difference here is that Alaskas system is not being evaluated on the basis of whether or not it results in a fair election, but whether it produces a GOP victory. If it does not, then the system is corrupt by definition.

For Trumpists, no system that results in a Republican defeat can be considered legitimate, a belief that manifested in the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. (To Cottons credit, unlike many other ambitious conservative senators, he rejected Trumps election conspiracies then.) Before losing the California gubernatorial-recall election last year, Republicans were already announcing that the outcome had been rigged, rhetoric, as The New York Times noted at the time, that reflects a growing instinct on the right to argue that any lost election, or any ongoing race that might result in defeat, must be marred by fraud. Otherwise, how could a Democrat win an election in California?

Its amusing to hear Republicans devoted to the Electoral College argue that the person who gets the most votes should win the election, and that anything else amounts to disenfranchisement. Everyone knew the rules of this election before it was held. A majority of Alaskan voters might have preferred to support a Republican in theory, but they did not prefer Palin, the actual Republican candidate they ended up with. States are not party fiefdoms that are inherited by whatever empty suit the Republican National Committee sticks on the ballot. A majority of Alaskan voters preferred the Democrat. The fact that this could happen in a state as conservative as Alaska is really the GOPs failure.

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That conservatives are embracing majoritarian arguments to argue against ranked-choice voting is nevertheless illuminating, because it shows that they believe in majoritarianism only where Republicans can expect a majority. Otherwise, they seem to believe, some sort of electoral system is necessary to properly weight the votes of conservative constituencies so that they count more than everyone elses. As the only true Americans, theyre entitled to win every election every time. Anything else is just election rigging.

This article previously misidentified the Republican candidate Nick Begich as former Democratic Senator Mark Begich of Alaska.

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