Although the mainstream media in the United States hasn’t picked up on it, at least one Mexican newspaper and some U.S. bloggers are reporting that swine flu may have originated from mounds of porcine fecal matter at the Mexican subsidiary of U.S.-based Smithfield Foods — the world’s largest pork packer More…
Both the House and Senate have scheduled hearings this week to examine the appropriate federal response to the swine flu outbreak, which thus far has been limited to just a handful of cases in the United States.
I was just talking to Wendy Wright, the president of the conservative group Concerned Women for America, about the nomination of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kans.) to run the Department of Health and Human Services. The group opposes the nomination, and Wright is raising some questions about the timing of More…
As we mentioned earlier, the recent swine flu outbreak is causing some liberals to go back to the stimulus debate of earlier this year to point out that the Democrats’ push to include hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic research and mitigation funding was thwarted by Republicans, led by More…
As the swine flu has caused the United States to declare a health emergency and the European Union to warn against travel to the U.S. and Mexico, The Nation’s John Nichols reminds us that there’s a political side to this story. Namely, that efforts from Democrats like More…
Here I was, reading through the transcript of yesterday’s White House briefing on swine flu, thinking “Why is John Brennan, the senior White House adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism, part of this briefing?” when I saw Brennan provide a certain measure of reassurance:
Q But from a security perspective,
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