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Some of our editions, last week, carried a flyer from the Delaware County Trial Lawyers Association blaming insurance companies for the malpractice premium crisis that is chasing doctors from our state. Now, insurance companies are refusing to do business in this state. And I know of several doctors who have left the state or retired before they were ready. Mercy Community Hospital right off the Blue Route has closed and it's never going to reopen. But hey, it's the insurance companies. What the lawyers are basically saying is "who are you going to trust, your own eyes or us?" I...

There were 347 murder victims in Philadelphia last year. That's not as bad as Chicago which is a real quagmire. The Windy City finished 2003 with 599 homicides. There were 327 GIs killed by terrorists in Iraq in 2003. Maybe our GIs should start policing our big cities. *** Conservative Judge Robert H. Bork has endorsed U.S. Rep. Pat Toomey who is campaigning against liberal Arlen Specter in the April 27 primary election. If Specter is re-elected, he will probably chair the Senate Judiciary Committee and have a powerful say on the kind of judges we get. Judge Bork agrees...