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Despite the millions of cases and hundreds of thousands of deaths that have occurred in this devastating coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, no peer-reviewed studies of specific therapies proven to be effective in reducing mortality have been published and a vaccine is many months to years away. To date, more than 1000 studies addressing various aspects of COVID-19 are registered on ClinicalTrials.gov, including more than 600 interventional studies and randomized clinical trials (RCTs).1 During the next few weeks and months, the results of numerous RCTs involving therapies for COVID-19 will be reported. Indeed, preliminary results from some studies have already...

Common Sense Medicine: Restoring the Patient/Physician Relationship Common Sense Medicine, hot off the press, is a powerful, easy-to-read, and entertaining exposé of the root problems plaguing American medicine and the simple solutions to increase access to high-quality, low-cost medical care!We are offering bulk discounts on this POWERFUL new book.Buy copies to give to patients, friends, and family!...A Kindle version is available...Read PDF version: http://aapsonline.org/CommonSenseMedicine.pdfCommon Sense Medicine: Restoring the Patient/Physician Relationship by Association of American Physicians and Surgeons on Scribd ...Meet the Author: Jeff DanbyJeff received a Bachelor of Arts in History with Honors from DePaul University in 1985, and...

I do not do “vanities” much at all, basically never. This is “activism” and it is in the right place, the news activism forum! (I did check "vanity" though.)If he wasn’t DEAD, this approach might be Saul Alinsky’s corollary to one of his creepy fascist tactics. We all should take this approach more often in this simplistic dumbed down sound byte 140 character world.Rule #666 corollary:  "Simplify every argument for morons (our constituency).” So with that in mind, OK, here is a free, simple talking point for tomorrow and onward, which may be simple enough even for Democrats to understand.(Umm...

... “we have always understood that when times change, so must we; ...fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges: ...preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.” ...New Labour trick of claiming that something can only be safeguarded by embracing its opposite: individual freedom requires submitting to the collective will. ...we can afford to support both the old and the young...our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. ...Warning to America: it didn’t work out. Obama made no attempt to explain how support at both these...

Doctors to Gingrich: Republicans Need to Repent on “Healthcare” Jane M. Orient, M.D. Dec 13, 2011By Jane M. Orient, M.D.Newt Gingrich and other Republicans promise to repeal ObamaCare, but doctors remember what they did in 1996. Just after they “defeated” ClintonCare, they changed its name and enacted the very worst parts of it.The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) started out as a short act to improve “COBRA” coverage that allows workers to extend employer-sponsored insurance for a time after changing jobs. But about 300 pages mysteriously appeared, grafted onto this supposedly insignificant bill.Republicans evidently don’t read the...

News of the Day     In Perspective      1601 N. Tucson Blvd. Suite 9 Tucson, AZ 85716-3450 Phone: (800) 635-1196 Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc. A Voice for Private Physicians Since 1943 Omnia pro aegroto Massive pork bill passed by unconstitutional process to “rescue” economyOctober 5th, 2008 According to the U.S. Constitution, all revenue bills must originate in the U.S. House of Representatives. How then did the massive bill to make taxpayers buy all kinds of toxic debt originate in the U.S. Senate?It only appears that way. For purposes of our lawmakers, “it”—that is the shell bill wrapped around the...

Definitions of "moral hazard" on the Web: Arises when people behave recklessly because they know they will be saved if things go wrong.enbv.narod.ru/text/Econom/ib/str/261.html (links to a Russian site of all things)

John Hugh Gilmore, guest column: Mob rule, not academic freedom, at Baylor http://www.wacotrib.com/opin/content/news/opinion/stories/2007/10/07/10072007wacgilmore.htmlSunday, October 07, 2007 To its proponents, intelligent design is nothing more than a sophisticated, comprehensive critique of the theoretical and scientific foundations of Darwinism and its progeny. In other words, the theory of evolution should be put to the test. Like Marx. Like Freud. To the opponents, intelligent design — ID — is an intellectual crime. Or so we must assume by the actions of Baylor University. As counsel for Baylor Distinguished Professor Robert J. Marks II, I was amazed and discouraged by the controversy surrounding his...

See comments and synthesis below, which is NOT a copy-paste of the series of articles, but an outline to them with links.

October 13, 2004 | Acton Commentary Scary Movie: Hollywood Humanizes the Despot by Bruce Edward Walker Che Guevara is commonly used in dorm room decor. As Halloween approaches, Hollywood is set to release a spate of movies designed to frighten moviegoers with the usual seasonal fare of vampires, werewolves, and zombies. But critical accolades are also being paid to another type of horror film, one that shows the allure of destructive economic and political ideologies championed by charismatic personalities. These new films look at a Nazism and Communism that, under the guise of bringing economic salvation, unleashed some of...

Going Upriver: Kerry doc plays like campaign ad Christy Lemire Canadian Press Wednesday, September 29, 2004 John Kerry, right, talks to his friend David Thorne at a Vietnam Veterans Against the War demonstration in Washington, D.C, in April 1971. The image is from a documentary film by George Butler titled "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry." (AP /THINKFilm, George Butler) Review: Going Upriver: The Long War of John KerryRating: Two and a half stars out of fourNot that you'd expect a documentary to be fair and balanced -- the whole point of the genre is to shape...

September 25, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has created a special commando task force to destroy the vicious terror network controlled by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — and twice has come very close to killing him, Pentagon officials said yesterday.

THE FOUNDATION "[A] wise and frugal government...shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." --Thomas JeffersonTHE PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE: Top of the fold -- John Kerry, Useful Idiot... "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents...." --James Madison Nineteenth-century historian Alexis de Tocqueville once...

Complaints About Broadcast Journalism Background The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) receives numerous consumer complaints about broadcast journalism (television and radio journalism). Consumers complain that networks, stations, news reporters and/or commentators have given inaccurate or one-sided news reports or comments, have either failed to cover certain events, or have covered them inadequately. Some consumers complain that the news has been staged or that news reports overemphasize or dramatize certain aspects of events. Other consumers object that broadcasters have announced an illness, accident, or a death of an individual before his or her family has been notified, or have in some way...

Due to popular request, these are the links to all of the SwiftBoat ads on the SwiftBoat Vets site with ad dates and file sizes.Be kind to their bandwidth! Download and watch it from your own computer instead of streaming it multiple times! You can download it by right-clicking the link and choosing "Save". No matter what format you choose, the ad is the same, so to just pick the format that works for you. The RealMedia format tends to be the smallest download size, but you need to have RealPlayer.Here is a direct page to the same links for...

These are links for the new SwiftVet ad.Be kind to their bandwidth! Download and watch it from your own computer instead of streaming it multiple times!You can download it here by right-clicking and choosing "Save".Windows Media: http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/friends.wmvQuickTime: http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/friends.movRealMedia: http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/friends.rmMPEG Version: http://swift3.he.net/~swift3/friends.mpgWonderful!

Link to article, which cannot be posted as text:http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64917,00.html

From The Banner of Truth Biblical Christianity through Literature P.O. Box 621 Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013, U.S.A. (717) 249-5747 http://www.banneroftruth.org/pages/articles/article_print.php?567 Five Reasons Not to Go See The Passion of Christ By Andrew J. Webb February 19, 2004 On February 25, 2004 Icon films, will be releasing Mel Gibson's much anticipated film The Passion of Christ. The date of the release was deliberately chosen to coincide with the Roman Catholic holy day of Ash Wednesday, and is indicative of the fact that for Gibson, his film was more of a work of devotion than a money making enterprise. In an interview on...

Thursday, January 02, 2003 Totalitarianism nearsWithout protest, Americans are giving up freedomBy GLEN T. MARTIN IN NAZI Germany at this time of year, people freely shopped in large department stores for gifts for family and friends. The streets were full of traffic. It was "business as usual" for most of the citizens. While in the colonial states conquered by the Nazis, and in the concentrations camps for Jews, gays and communists, life was a living nightmare of dehumanization and human-rights violations.     In the United States today, people freely shop in large department stores for gifts, and the streets are...

Charges laid in blood probeBy DARREN YOURK and ANDRÉ PICARD Globe and Mail Update Wednesday, November 20 – Online Edition, Posted at 5:39 PM ESTThe RCMP has laid criminal charges against the Canadian Red Cross Society, four doctors and a pharmaceutical company after a five-year investigation into the tainted-blood scandal of the 1980s.At a press conference in Toronto on Wednesday, the RCMP Blood Task Force announced charges of criminal negligence causing bodily harm under Section 221 of the Criminal Code of Canada, charges of common nuisance by endangering the public under Section 180 of the Criminal Code of Canada, as well as a charge...