Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people: When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial system was on the verge of collapse. As any [...]
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Acupuncture doesn’t work, although it may help…
Wait, what? How can something that doesn’t work, help? And if it helps, doesn’t that mean it works? There is a new study out today (Reuters, Seattle PI) from the Group Health Center for Health Studies that shows acupuncture provides at least some benefit to people with chronic lower back pain. I’m sure that acupuncture [...]
Worrying about swine flu? Don’t…
It’s being reported (Seattle Times, Seattle PI) that the H1N1 “swine flu” influenza virus has taken the life of a man in Snohomish County, the third death in the US from the virus. He was in his 30s and had an underlying heart condition. Apparently, there are 101 confirmed cases of H1N1 in the state [...]
