New law banning 10-packs of cigarettes and making packaging bland comes in next week The legislation will see cigarette packets covered in health warnings and designed in ‘drab’ colours The laws on cigarette packaging are set to change by the end of the month, with 10-packs banned and boxes designed to be ‘drab’ and covered […]

Gun-Free Zone” By State Law. by WARNER TODD HUSTON Pulse, the Orlando gay nightclub targeted in a jihadist terror attack, was a “gun-free zone” by state law Per Florida’s concealed carry law, those with a license to carry may not carry their firearms into an establishment that serves alcohol. The establishment was touted as “Orlando’s hottest gay bay” on its website, […]

California’s attempt to legalize marijuana in the Proposition 19 initiative of 2010 lost by a decisive margin. It is again on the ballot for this Nov 2016. This time it is led by more experienced initiative strategists, who have placed it in the same election as the presidential when there are more Democrat and Latinos […]

            Everyone Knows About the G.O.P. Crackup—Everyone Except the Voters BY KELEFA SANNEH The New yorker, MAY 13, 2016 Do Republicans really dislike their presumptive nominee? The Republican Party is shattered. Fissured. Over. Dead. These suggestions, and more, have been inspired by the rise of Donald Trump, who has defied and embarrassed Party leaders (and pundits!) […]

He was a brave young soldier, a brilliant journalist, an extraordinary politician and statesman, a great war leader and British Prime Minister “How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The […]

Dr. Rosen:      One item in the whole gun control debate which is never mentioned: If several of the people in the homosexual club in Orlando had had a gun, Mantel would surely have been killed after he killed several of the Gays and Lesbians present. Gun ownership may have saved thirty or forty lives. Dr. […]

When I was in the US Air Force in the 1960s in charge of the Pulmonary Clinic, Pulmonary Function Lab and the Allergy Testing program, I was called to the Operating Suite to help manage a cardiac arrest that occurred during surgery under anesthesia. When I arrived, the chest was wide opened and the surgeon […]

If Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and the AFL-CIO had their way and could “deal with” the unconscionable, immoral “CEO wage gap” by confiscating 100% of the compensation of all 500 CEOs in the S&P 500 and redistribute that $6 billion of “excessive” executive compensation to America’s 97,734,000 rank-and-file workers, the average full-time worker’s income would […]

Notable & Quotable: Florence King From a 1995 Journal review of the book ‘The Inarticulate Society: Eloquence and Culture in America.’ From “Dan Rather and Other Enemies of Civilization” in the July 31, 1995, Journal, a review of Tom Shachtman’s book “The Inarticulate Society: Eloquence and Culture in America” by writer Florence King, who died […]

The voice of Douglas Farrago MD, Editor, Authentic Medicine Of the articles I’ve read to dissect and rip over the past few years, this one has left me sadder, more hopeless than most. Author Peter Ubel asks, “Have Reimbursement Rules Taken The Joy Out Of Being A Physician?” Of course the knee-jerk answer is a […]