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An Oversold Weapon Against Breast Cancer

Steve Chapman  In 1999, newspaper columnist Molly Ivins was diagnosed with breast cancer and promptly exhorted her readers: “Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.” She also quoted a friend, columnist Marlyn Schwartz, who lamented, “If you have ever wondered what it would feel like to sit in a doctor’s office with a lump in your […] Continue reading →

Salt Restriction Increases Mortality Risk

News Max Health – by Dr. Brownstein  There are studies that dispute the “salt equals hypertension” theory. Fifty-seven trials reviewed over a 25-year period (1966-2001) showed that in individuals with normal blood pressure, a low-sodium diet resulted in an average decline of systolic blood pressure of just 1.27 mmHG and a decline of diastolic pressure of […] Continue reading →

Thomas Sowell: Fact-Free Liberals

 Someone summarized Barack Obama in three words — “educated,” “smart” and “ignorant.” Unfortunately, those same three words would describe all too many of the people who come out of our most prestigious colleges and universities today. President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried […] Continue reading →

The Obamacare Scare

Ask a cancer patient about the need for affordable health care. The issue of healthcare quality is very personal to me. As a former cancer patient, I couldn’t believe the out-of-pocket expenses that drastically affected my monthly budget! But affordable is only one aspect of the equation. Affordability should not produce poor quality. Yet it […] Continue reading →

Is Racial Profiling moral?

By: Walter Williams Police Capt. Louis Renault, played by Claude Rains in the 1942 movie “Casablanca,” in the wake of the shooting of a Nazi officer, ordered his men to “round up the usual suspects.” Was Renault engaging in some sort of profiling? He may have been, but what is profiling? Let’s look at it. […] Continue reading →