I wrote about the President’s photo op with a bunch of people in white coats, pointing out that few MD’s wear white coats nowadays.
But who are those folks in the white coats? Individuals, or do they represent large organizations?
Well, this AP photo has some names.
Dr. Roland Goertz
That name sounds familiar, and sure enough, he is […]

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Will Africa ever change? is the question posed on the very last page of Asgaard. It is a very deep question, and one that I have given much thought to for many years. Africa is a place of contradictions. It has been for hundreds of years, and continues to be that dark place that defies […]

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SAAS the  largest Adult charity in the United Kingdom who specifically cater for Adults with autism and we welcome this new Autism Strategy
SAAS welcomed a raft of new measures in the landmark adult autism strategy published today aimed at tackling the isolation, ignorance and inequality routinely experienced by the over 300,000 […]

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This is a guest post by Author Jay Rankin. When it comes to Las Vegas there is little that Jay does not know - Simon
I was the doorman at the MGM Hotel in Las Vegas for six years. One of the reasons I applied for the job was because I had heard being a […]

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We Democrats need to tell it as it is. There are no neat and tidy solutions for most our major problems. Our jobs have been shipped overseas. We have inherited huge debts from at least one pointless war — Iraq — which distracted us from fixing Afghanistan which […]

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This update just in from TJ Hart - Simon
Still more jailhouse video of Misty Croslin Cummings’ phone conversations with her mother were released Thursday by St. Johns County Jail officials.
Misty Croslin Cummings, the last person to see missing 6-year-old Haleigh Cummings more than one year ago, is being held in the St. Johns County Jail […]

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Was it a safer place under the Mob?
Las Vegas has many nicknames, but the one that most people recognize is ‘Sin City’. Las Vegas is the ultimate oasis in the desert. If you delve into the history of Las Vegas you find that it has a very chequered past. Although he was not the first […]

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New Hampshire, USA. “Live Free or Die,” baby. The official state motto emblazoned on every NH license plate has always intrigued. The thought of someone from NH might bring to mind revolutionaries or America militia sympathizers. New Hampshire has come a long way since its motto was created in 1945 and is not much different […]

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I have never been happy with the attack on Vioxx. It has focused mainly on “ad hominem” accusations against the company rather than on the medical evidence. Let me summarize that evidence briefly: Less than one half of one percent of people taking Vioxx get heart attacks and most of them are […]

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It’s an idea which keeps popping up.
There is a proposal in the state of Illinois legalize “presumed organ donation”.
Most people say that they would agree to donating their organs after they die, but sometimes they “forget” to mark it on their driver’s license, or the consent can’t be found quickly, or the family objects.Voila. Just do […]

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“Burton is bonkers. But most great people are.”
Tim Burton producing and directing a 3D version of the Carroll classic ALICE IN WONDERLAND just makes sense. Very few filmmakers have the vision, style and off the wall imagination to do the story justice. The question is how much is too much and at what point do […]

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I will leave it to skeptical climatologists to make systematic comments on the report below but a few comments from me anyway: The peer-reviewed papers concerned almost certainly are based on data from some years back — and there have been a lot of changes in recent years that make the conclusions laughable. […]

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