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Bastille Day And The French Revolution (Part I): The Ancien Régime and the Storming of the Bastille

July 14 is Bastille Day, a national holiday in France that commemorates 235 years from the day a Parisian mob stormed the “infamous” prison and commenced the upheaval of the French Revolution. The collapse of Soviet communism should not deter the invocation of the dreadful legacy of the French Revolution, the same revolution that a […]

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RE: Medical Liability Tort Reform: A Neurosurgeon’s Perspective. The Author Replies

The old saying goes that if the flak gets heavy, you know you must be over the target! The heated responses of both Drs. Dunsker and Carmel to my article suggest we have actually scored a bull’s eye and hit the target. Perhaps, tort reform itself will finally come into the cross hairs of enactment

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Interview with Dr. Miguel Faria regarding attempted assassination of Batista: March 13, 1957 by Myles B. Kantor

In this article, reporter Myles Kantor interviews Dr. Miguel Faria, author of Cuba in Revolution: Escape From a Lost Paradise, about the attempted assassination of Fulgencio Batista in Havana on March 13, 1957. The questions by Mr. Kantor are in bold, the answers by Dr. Faria in plain text. What organization carried out the attack

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Medical Liability Tort Reform — A Neurosurgeon’s Perspective

While both the Patients’ Bill of Rights legislation, allowing patients to sue HMOs in state court for unlimited damages, and tort reform, providing physicians judicial relief in medical liability, have stalled in the 107th Congress this year — these intertwined problems of health care litigation will not disappear for long from the political landscape. You

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The Astounding Case of Soviet Defection Deception by Miguel A. Faria, MD

In Alexander Orlov: The FBI’s KGB General (2002), former FBI agent Edward Gazur tries to prove the impossible ­that KGB General Alexander Orlov was a true defector, a man who switched allegiances from the Soviet Union to America and repudiated international communism. Gazur ardently believes that Orlov, who became his friend and whom he ultimately

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A Nation of Thieves

Writer’s note: Difficult as it is to be critical of a friend and ally on the war on terror, Great Britain has instituted a cruel and unjust gun-control policy, a worsening evil, upon her law-abiding citizens that needs correcting. The title of this essay comes from the seemingly paradoxical unrelenting tide of thievery and burglaries

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