Donna, Ruth and Peter Machen of Foster recently attended “Crony Capitalism: Big Pharma, Covid and Vaccines,” a panel discussion hosted by The American Conservative at Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center, Washington, D.C. At the Aug. 3 event, they met U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), mRNA technology pioneer Dr. Robert Malone and a panel of other doctors and scientists. Here, siblings Peter and Ruth and their mother Donna Machen, from left, pose with Sen. Johnson.