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As I opened the CT scan last week to read the next case, I was baffled. The history simply read “gunshot wound.” I have been a radiologist in one of the busiest trauma centers in the nation for 13 years, and have diagnosed thousands of handgun injuries to the brain, lung, liver, spleen, bowel, and other vital organs. I thought that I knew all that I needed to know about gunshot wounds, but the specific pattern of injury on my computer screen was one that I had seen only once before. In a typical handgun injury that I diagnose almost...

First, by now the NFL’s #TakeAKnee controversy is probably already growing long in the tooth and so I apologize if I’m belaboring it. What is below is fairly important, though, as it’s a hell of a good response to the Michael Bennetts, Kenny Vaccaros and Marshawn Lynches of the world. And second, another hell of a good response was given by Heather Mac Donald at City Journal on Monday. Mac Donald looked through the FBI’s recently-released crime statistics and found scant evidence to support the underlying cause for #TakeAKnee. As in… Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police...

An Iowa Democratic congressional candidate's foul mouth reportedly has gotten her barred from speaking at a local fundraiser next month. The Des Moines Register reports that a Polk County Democratic Party committee voted not to offer a speaking invitation to Heather Ryan for their upcoming steak fry, where several members of Congress and other candidates from across the state will speak. Committee co-chairs Kimberley Boggus and Lindsay Paulson reportedly wrote in a letter to party members that the event will include children and should be "family-friendly." ----------- "The party that tells women to sit down and shut up is not...

The mother of a woman killed in violent clashes at a white supremacist rally has said she has "no interest" in speaking with President Donald Trump. Susan Bro said she refuses to speak to Mr Trump after hearing him equate demonstrators, like her daughter, with white supremacists. Her daughter, Heather Heyer, was killed on Saturday after a car ploughed through a crowd of counter-protesters. She said she did not "want to be used for political agendas". Mrs Bro told ABC New's Good Morning America television programme she missed a call from the White House, which appeared to have been made...

Maybe we should let all the facts get in before we judge. This video certainly does show a different story than what is being told by the media. ~cornman

The man accused of ramming his car into protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday seems to have already been found “guilty” by the media… but there may be more to the story than is being reported. * * * A video posted on Streamable reveals that the driver of the Challenger had slowed down and was apparently calm, until protesters hit his vehicle with a blunt object such as a baseball bat or large flag pole.

Via Leon Wolf, one of my favorite genres of lefty revisionism. Liberals have, I assume, been farting out pieces like this since the day Oswald’s political sympathies became publicly known, but semi-respectable left-wing pubs have been picking them up more frequently since 2009 in the name of bludgeoning Obama’s conservative critics. The “logic” runs like this: (1) Dallas 1963 was a very conservative, staunchly anti-Kennedy city; (2) JFK was murdered in Dallas; (3) ergo, very conservative, staunchly anti-Obama tea partiers are basically terrorists. You could kinda sorta forgive this if the assassin himself had been right-wing. It’s unfair to smear...

Heather A. Higginbottom, the Obama administration's nominee for Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, faced a tough interrogation yesterday from Ranking committee member and Alabama senator Jeff Sessions during a hearing with the Senate Budget committee. Perhaps Senator Sessions should ask Heather Higginbottom to explain this photo, taken from here Heather Higginbottom, podium. Left to right William Julius Wilson, Dottie Stevens, Jack Clark, Bob Haynes. D.S.A. logo on wall center right The photo above shows Heather Higginbottom, while serving as a legislative assistant to Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, addressing an October 30, 2001, Boston Democratic Socialists...

Former Rep. Heather Wilson will announce Monday that she is running for New Mexico’s open Senate seat, a GOP source confirmed to Roll Call. Wilson told Roll Call in early January that she was considering running for the seat. At the time, she had just finished chairing incoming GOP Gov. Susana Martinez’s transition team. Reached by phone on Friday, Wilson said she has no further comment at this time. The announcement will come nearly three weeks after Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D) announced he would not seek a sixth term next year. His exit gives New Mexico just its third open...

Heather Stilwell, the former chair of the Surrey School Board who led a contentious fight to ban books on same-sex couples, has died of breast cancer. She was 66. A fierce anti-abortionist, and supporter of Christian family values, Stilwell served on the Surrey School Board for 15 years. She was co-founder of the Christian Heritage Party, whose platform was to make abortion and possession of pornography illegal. As chair of the Surrey School Board in the late 1990s, she led the charge to ban three books in schools on same-sex couples. The case ended up in the Supreme Court of...

San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong's decision to retire after nearly five stable but uninspired years on the job, comes just as Mayor Gavin Newsom is facing two tough political challenges with the city's powerful police officers union: budget cuts and the need for the union's backing for his 2010 gubernatorial bid. Faced with a staggering city budget deficit, Newsom has asked the Police Officers Association to give back the 6 percent raise he agreed to in the last contract - just as he is asking other unions for givebacks. So far, the police rank and file have said no...

Dear FReepers, In October 2007, my dear friend Heather was diagnosed with cancer, a large sarcoma in her leg. She underwent chemotherapy and radiation, had that tumor removed in January of this year. At that time, her doctors were fairly optimistic regarding her prognosis, but the cancer metastasized to her lungs. She had surgery to remove the tumors in her lungs in August, and was recovering well until last month. I previously posted a prayer thread about Heather here. The cancer is back again, this time on her spine, in her abdomen, and again in her lungs. It is inoperable....

Dear FReepers, Please pray for my dear friend Heather. She has a rare cancer, and is having surgery in the morning to remove the tumor. Heather was diagnosed in October with stage three leiomyosarcoma, which is an agressive cancer of the smooth muscle. She has undergone radiation and chemotherapy over the last few months in an attempt to shrink the tumor, which is located in hip near her sciatic nerve. Her most recent MRI indicates that the tumor has indeed shrunk, but there is still the possibility that her surgeon may not be able to remove the whole tumor or...

Heather Mills 'may return to court for new Paul McCartney fight' By Emma Henry Last Updated: 3:29pm BST 01/04/2008 Heather Mills wants secret documents exposing Sir Paul McCartney's alleged behaviour during their marriage published and may return to court to make it happen, her lawyer has said. In an interview with the Evening Standard, David Rosen said Miss Mills wants to put the record straight over claims that she is a gold-digger who was only interested in the former Beatle's £400 million fortune. Heather Mills was described by Mr Justice Bennett as ‘her own worst enemy’ He said his client...

'Playboy' Prison Guard Fights To Get Her Job Back POSTED: 9:40 am EDT July 12, 2007 SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, Pa. -- A former Berks County corrections officer who was fired in April after she appeared in Playboy wants her job back, in part so she can earn enough money to keep the family farm. "You follow a dream and take a chance to see what happens. I always wanted to be a model then I lose the best paying job that I could possibly have," said Heather Hull. Hull used to make $41,000 a year working as a guard at the...

Paul McCartney offers Heather Mills £20m By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor Last Updated: 1:08am BST 20/07/2007 Sir Paul McCartney has reportedly offered a divorce settlement worth £20 million to his estranged wife Heather Mills. Heather Mills is reportedly holding out for £50 million At one stage there was speculation that the divorce settlement could leave the former Beatle with a bill for £20 million, but it is reported that Lady McCartney is holding out for £50 million. If the couple do not reach agreement, their financial dispute could be fought out in the High Court next year. The case is...

In a classic example of misleading by omission, OpinionJournal.com editor James Taranto’s bio states, "He attended California State University, Northridge." In a commentary about Marilee Jones, who had lied to her bosses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology about her educational credentials for 28 years, Taranto belatedly fills in the blanks: I left high school after my sophomore year; and although I spent several years in college, I never bothered to graduate. Noting that "[b]y all accounts Marilee Jones did an excellent job," Taranto brushes aside the central issue in her dismissal - "[o]stensibly Ms. Jones was forced out because she...

Heather Mills’ thus-far successful stint on ABC’s “Dancing with Stars” has convinced one former Heather-hater that “America should apologize” for making Paul McCartney’s estranged wife the villain in their bitter divorce battle. “I’m ashamed that I had a judgment against her based on everything that you read in the newspapers,” a caller identified as “Pat” told Ryan Seacrest who had the ex-Mrs. Beatle on his West Coast radio show yesterday. The caller continued to say he’d “love to apologize to her” for how the former model and animal activist “was wrongfully treated,” moving Mills to tears, People maggie reported.

Police tonight arrested two young women, a bank teller, and a fourth accomplice in connection with Tuesday's robbery of a Bank of America branch in Acworth, Georgia. The inside job was allegedly pulled off by Ashley Nicole Miller and Heather Lyn Johnston who are pictured in the below mug shots (Miller is at left). The women, both 19, were aided by Michael Chastang, 27, and Benny Herman Allen, a 22-year old bank employee. The men are pictured in these booking photos.

ALBUQUERQUE -- Heather Wilson raised a toast of orange juice with her husband and children, confident that re-election was secure after a 36-hour delay. The incumbent Republican declared victory late Thursday in her bid for a fifth term in the U.S. House. Wilson holds a razor-thin lead over Democrat Patricia Madrid in one of New Mexico's most caustic campaigns ever. ''My children expected to be celebrating with orange juice on Wednesday morning. It's taken a while, but I'm glad they're here with me to celebrate. Josh and Cait, we won,'' she told her 13-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter. Democrats refused...