STEVEN JONAS MD, MPH - 04.14.13 - Originally published on BuzzFlash@Truthout, Thursday, 10 January 2013
I used to think that the Teabaggers were a wholly-owned subsidiary of the GOP. They were very convenient to the not-so-Grand, but very old in its ways, party. From the time they were first organized in 2009 by old Republican hands like Dick Armey to when they marched into the House of Representatives in...
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By STEVEN JONAS MD, MPH – 01.03.13
“Washington Doesn’t Work,” or “Washington Just Doesn’t Work,” or “Washington: the Gridlock has to be Broken,” or some such. One hears it on the media all the time, both reactionary and liberal: Fox”News”Channel, Joe Scarborough, Ed Schultz, and certainly on CNN. “We’ve got to fix ‘Washington.’ ” But is it really true that “Washington doesn’t work” and that it “Has to be fixed?” Well, it all depends. It all depends who you are and what your interests are. There surely is gridlock in the Congress and between the Congress and the President, most of the time, as demonstrated by what will have...
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By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH – January 31, 2012
The term “Creationism” describes one theist position on the history of Earth. It holds that Earth is about 6000 (maybe 8000) years old, and that the “God” of the Judeo-Christian Bible created it out of nothingness, exactly as that series of events is described in (a variety of versions of) the Book of Genesis. In this regard there are folks, for example, who regard as factual the presentations at the “Creation Museum” in Petersburg, KY, where, to quote ...
Read MoreBy Steven Jonas MD MPH - 01.13.13
I have visited this major blot upon the US escutcheon a
number of times over the past five years (1-3). (Why there are so many blots
one could visit and re-visit is a topic for another time.) One would have
thought that it was dead and buried, along with the Cheney-Bush regime. In 2005
Bush himself had actually said that torture would not be included in the
US armamentarium for dealing with enemies, perceived and real, (not a policy endorsed by the arch torture-facilitator Cheney), and...
By Steven Jonas MD, MPH on 12.04.12
Remember the old Fram oil filter TV ad, “Pay me now, or pay me later?” That is if you bought a new Fram oil filter from the mechanic holding it up for you to see for $4.00 (that’s how long ago that ad appeared[!]), you would not be paying the mechanic a rather larger bill later for the repairs your engine would need due to driving around with dirty oil....
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