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Today, we honor and celebrate all those who have served in America`s highest office across our nation`s remarkable history. 🗽
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Remembering America`s 32nd and longest-serving president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born January 30, 1882. His leadership guided the nation through both the Great Depression and WWII.
We don`t take your votes for "granite," New Hampshirites! Stay safe and warm as you cast your ballots, Granite Staters! 🥶🗳️
Today, we celebrate Benjamin Franklin`s 318th birthday. The course of history took a positive turn on January 17, 1706, in Boston, MA, when Josiah and Abiah Franklin welcomed their 15th child, Benjamin. The world would never be the same. 🗽⚡
We now know humans are, on average, 99.6% genetically identical. Skin pigmentation is related to where our ancestors migrated post-Africa. Race is a social construct, not genetic. There is only one race, the human race. Let`s celebrate MLKJ`s legacy by making his dream a reality.
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Benjamin Franklin, writing under the pseudonym Richard Saunders (AKA "Poor Richard"), published Poor Richard's Almanack from 1732 to 1758. The almanack provided useful information, proverbial wisdom, and humor to the American colonies.
In keeping with Franklin's legacy, Poor Richard's Blog tackles today’s complex issues and the foundations of the Franklin Party, while hopefully also dispensing some wisdom and good humor along the way.
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Handcuffing the Lifeguard
The role of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to protect and promote public health in America. In a sense, you can think of the FDA as the nation’s lifeguard when it comes to food and drug safety. But Congressman Andy Biggs of Arizona does not want the FDA to do its job in the area of homeopathy.
An amendment by Representative Biggs to a necessary appropriations bill tells the FDA that it cannot take enforcement action on new homeopathic drugs if the drug meets the guidelines of an 1890 homeopathic manual. The only exception is if the Secretary of Health and Human Services has evidence that the new homeopathic drug is unsafe.
Representative Biggs’ amendment allows homeopathic drug makers to sell new drugs without proving their products are safe and effective, as long as they conform to a homeopathy manual written over 130 years ago, the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia. The amendment only requires homeopathy drug makers to follow this book, composed before the airplane was invented, while stipulating the FDA can only take action based on evidence.
This is completely backward to how drug approval is usually administered in the U.S. and other countries. Normally it is the responsibility of the drug manufacturer to prove in advance to governing bodies that a drug is safe and effective.
The drug safety laws that Representative Biggs and the homeopathy industry want the FDA to ignore were put in place years ago for good reason – to protect the public against bad medicine. Don’t let Congress handcuff our nation’s food and drug safety lifeguard.
Please use this quick & easy LINK to tell your U.S. Representative to “oppose Representative Biggs’ Appropriations Amendment #4 [homeopathy FDA exemption] to H.R. 4368.”
Let’s keep our lifeguard unshackled.
Yours in republic keeping,
James Carroll
BFPNC Chair
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Handcuffing the Lifeguard
This congressional appropriations season, please tell your U.S. Representative to oppose Rep. Biggs’ Appropriations Amendment #4 (homeopathy FDA exemption) to H.R. 4368.
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