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Vaccines (Part II): Hygiene, Sanitation, Immunization, and Pestilential Diseases

Vaccines — Kill or Cure? As the controversial debate over mandatory vaccine policy heats up igniting passions, it is perhaps appropriate we summarize what is known about the manifest benefits of modern vaccines, not forgetting the tremendously salutary impact on health and longevity wrought about by better living conditions, hygiene and sanitation, in general, and […]

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‘Death and Taxes’ at the Turn of the Millennium by Miguel A. Faria, MD

[What are taxes?] The greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every cornerand crevice of industry[which] watches prosperity as its prey and permitsnone to escape without tribute.Thomas PaineThe Rights of Man (1791) George Orwell once stated there is no such thing as staying out of politics. And taxes are an enduring political issue. The issue

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Public Health and Gun Control — No Deterrent to Crime

If the intent is to prevent mass shootings and other deadly acts, then gun control laws need to be eased not strengthened. During the early 1970s, the PLO waged a nefarious war of terrorism against Israel that included attacking schoolchildren on playgrounds. A rampage of terrorist attacks culminated in the Maalot massacre, in which Arab

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Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa by Keith B. Richburg

This outstanding book by a black American journalist for The Washington Post recounts the emotional and spiritual awakening of the author upon his fateful visit to his ancestral home, Africa. He vividly recounts his adventurers and journalistic travails on the Dark Continent, and finds he belongs happily and unregretfully in America. He thanks Providence for

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