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A problem that already has become so severe in America's health care industry that a physicians' group has launched a campaign demanding that Congress intervene has flared again. This time it is affecting the life of a 14-year-old girl who needs a lifesaving kidney transplant - but has been refused medical care by Duke University Hospital because she is unvaccinated. WND reported earlier that situation had developed so often that the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons created an online process to allow Americans to email their members of Congress. The AAPS is demanding that transplant centers be legally prohibited...

Former CBS anchor Dan Rather told a Raleigh radio interviewer Tuesday that he stands by the discredited "60 Minutes Wednesday" report that President Bush received preferential treatment when he joined the Texas Air National Guard and failed to meet requirements while enlisted. In a testy interview on WPTF-AM, Rather also vouched for the authenticity of documents used in the report, which bloggers and the national media challenged immediately after the story aired in September 2004. "I believe them to be real," Rather told interviewer Donna Martinez. "I wouldn't have put them on the air if I hadn't." Later in the...

Who are the Amish? Are they the same as the Pennsylvania Dutch? The Amish are a religious group who live in settlements in 22 states and Ontario, Canada. The oldest group of Old Order Amish, about 16-18,000 people live in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The Amish stress humility, family and community, and separation from the world. Although Lancaster Amish are Pennsylvania Dutch, all Pennsylvania Dutch are not Amish. The Pennsylvania Dutch are natives of Central Pennsylvania, particularly Lancaster and its surrounding counties. Unlike the Amish, they are not all one religion. Instead, their common bond is a mainly German background (Pennsylvania...