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What Ferguson tells us about America
ecthompsonmd August 24, 2014

For the last two weeks, Ferguson, Missouri has been nightly entertainment. We have watched CNN, Fox News, MSNBC for the latest updates. Has the violence continued? Have peace and quiet been restored? What is wrong with those people in Ferguson? Could this happen here? For two weeks, I have been avoiding the nightly news. I truly did not want to know what the latest update was. As a trauma surgeon, I hate loss of life. It is in my DNA. I hate it when someone needlessly gets gunned down in the streets. We saw that in Ferguson. We also saw it

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Sunday Evening News Roundup
ecthompsonmd July 17, 2011

It is hard for me to be disappointed in the US women’s soccer team. I’m not sure who thought they were going to the finals of the World Cup, I certainly didn’t. I’m sorry they lost. I’m glad they played as well as they did. What with baseball mired in what Roger Clemens’ says on-again and off-again trial and with football and basketball neck-deep in labor disputes, it was nice to see some United States court in which the athletes excelled. (Oh, I should add the British Open, in which Rickie Fowler, Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson were all within striking

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Don’t raise my taxes (Update)
ecthompsonmd October 11, 2010

The NFL was somewhat of a downer yesterday. I don’t know what to think of the league. Besides my Dallas Cowboys laying a Texas size egg, Houston getting punched in the nose and the St. Louis Rams getting blown out of the building by the lowly Detroit Lions, I’m trying to turn my attention back to economics and politics. Professor N Gregory Mankiw is simply somebody we should know. He tells us he is somebody we should know. He’s a Harvard professor and was part of George W. Bush’s economic team. He published an op-ed in the New York Times on

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