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Public Health and Gun Control — A Review (Part I: The Benefits of Firearms)

I have related previously (Medical Sentinel, Spring and Summer 1997) how the 1991 American Medical Associations (AMA) campaign against domestic violence launched for public relation consumption went hand in hand with the public health establishments 1979 stated objective of eradication of handguns in America, beginning with a 25 percent reduction by the year 2000.(1-2) Toward […]

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Media Monopoly and Incumbency Protection

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In 1997, House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., spoke candidly to Time magazine regarding McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform legislation. The Democrat admitted, “What we have is two important values in direct conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. . . .You can’t have both.” Unfortunately, Rep. Gephardt sided

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The Tainted Public-Health Model of Gun Control

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Early in the 1990s the American Medical Association (AMA) launched a major campaign against domestic violence, which continues to this day. As a concerned physician, neurosurgeon, and then an active member of organized medicine, I joined in what I considered a worthwhile cause. It was then that I arrived at the unfortunate but inescapable conclusion

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The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert

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The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert is another excellent tome on the bloody Reign of Terror of the French Revolution. The book is meticulously researched and, although the author describes it as a “readable introduction” to other historians’ works to which he is indebted, the book contains a fountain of information and

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Doctors to Spy on Patients’ Gun Ownership by Miguel A. Faria, MD

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Just when you thought talking to your doctor or psychiatrist was one of the most private and confidential things you could do … think again.(1) In what it describes as an effort to curb handgun violence, a group called Doctors Against Handgun Injury is calling for sweeping changes in doctor-patient confidentiality that would allow doctors,

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The Cuban Samizdat: Can It Be Stopped?

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Cuban dictator Fidel Castro does not want what happened in the Soviet Union and its former satellites in the years 1989-1991 to take place in Stalinist Cuba in the 21st century. Following the lead of what happened in the USSR, the enslaved people of the Eastern bloc-Warsaw Pact nations threw off the yoke of tyranny

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Public Health and Gun Control — A Review (Part I: The Benefits of Firearms)

Media Monopoly and Incumbency Protection

The Tainted Public-Health Model of Gun Control

The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert

Doctors to Spy on Patients’ Gun Ownership by Miguel A. Faria, MD

The Cuban Samizdat: Can It Be Stopped?

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