A prominent member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons has refuted key details of a study published recently by the Violence Policy Center, in which researchers concluded that women were not safer if they used a handgun for self-defense. The VPC report,, called “A Deadly Myth: Women, Handguns and Self-Defense,” published Jan. 31, […]
Immediately after taking the oath of office, President George W. Bush issued four executive memoranda. One of them established a 60-day freeze on the regulations hastily issued by President Bill Clinton before leaving office. The freeze on administrative rules and regulations needs to be extended and converted into a veritable machine of executive repeals not
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The thorny problem of Cuba, 90 miles from the U.S. coast, refuses to go away. Like it or not, President Bush, like his predecessors, will have to deal with the inherited, persistent problem of the communist Caribbean nation. It has been said that Fidel Castro’s health is not what it has been in the past,
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The January 12 article describing how business owners are demanding action because of the recent string of armed robberies expresses our frustration as Macon residents. Undercover agents will be placed at businesses, but the reality is that police cannot be everywhere all of the time. Moreover, the courts have ruled they need not protect individuals;
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Every doctor knows that a gagging patient is a sick patient. But apparently the American Medical Association believes gagging medical research is just dandy when it serves the AMA agenda at the expense of public health. The Journal of the American Medical Association recently “gagged” authors of articles submitted to JAMA from speaking to the
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This slim tome can be read in one or two settings — if one can stand the poignant drama and the horror stories recounted in the pages of this book. The Politics of Psychiatry only came to my attention because its documentation value was mentioned in two special issues of The New American magazine chronicling
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