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We need more guns
ecthompsonmd March 9, 2013

I’m not sure that there’s any subject in the United States more contentious than guns. I know I’ve mentioned this before, but when you sit down and think about the arguments that we’ve had over guns, gun control and gun rights, there are no new arguments. Over the last 30 years we’ve heard the exact same arguments over and over and over again. As far as I can tell, there’s no new data. We have reached an impasse. I’m not sure that the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut have really changed anything. From TPM: A New York town that began assigning an

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Tuesday Evening News Roundup
ecthompsonmd August 30, 2011

There seems to be some ATF fallout from a operation called Fast and Furious. I’m still not sure of all the details but the US attorney in Phoenix has resigned and the ATF director has been reassigned. There’s something fishy here. There’s a nice article in the New York Times about how this recovery missed Main Street. I would add that the problem with our economy is that the last 10-15 years of economic growth have been largely been based on credit and the availability of credit. To quote that old Smith Barney commercial, we have to start making money the

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Swine Flu 5-2-09
ecthompsonmd May 2, 2009

U.S. Human Cases of H1N1 Flu Infection (As of May 2, 2009, 11:00 AM ET) States # of laboratory confirmed cases Deaths Arizona 4 California 24 Colorado 2 Connecticut 1 Delaware 4 Florida 2 Illinois 3 Indiana 3 Kansas 2 Kentucky* 1 Massachusetts 8 Michigan 2 Minnesota 1 Missouri 1 Nevada 1 New Jersey 7 New York 50 Ohio 1 South Carolina 13 Texas 28 1 Virginia 2 TOTAL (21) 160 cases 1 death International Human Cases of Swine Flu Infection See: World Health Organization *Case is resident of KY but currently hospitalized in GA. From my standpoint the spread of

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