Bob McCarty Writes

Each February and March for the past six years, Caitlin Mills, 16, and Abigail Mills, 14, have put a card table in front of their home in Hazelwood, Mo., and sold Girl Scout cookies to drivers passing by.  This year, however, the city of Hazelwood notified their mother, Carolyn Mills, that the girls’ cookie stand [...]

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With the number of Swine Flu cases growing fast and fears of a pandemic dominating the news, many Americans are calling for the nation’s southern border to be sealed to stem the flow of individuals — legal and illegal immigrants — from Mexico and beyond who might be infected with the new flu “cocktail.” I [...]

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Experts at the Centers for Disease Control address the subject of voluntary or involuntary placement of individuals in isolation or quarantine this way: To contain the spread of a contagious illness, public health authorities rely on many strategies. Two of these strategies are isolation and quarantine. Both are common practices in public health, and both [...]

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I’m not a smoker, but I might have an answer to the mystery of why, according to a just-released report (pdf) from a coalition of public health organizations, Missouri ranks 49th in the nation in funding programs to protect kids from tobacco. First, some background from a news release about the report: Missouri currently spends [...]

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Since the beginning of the War on Terror, liberals have used a plethora of far-from-complementary adjectives to describe the U.S. military’s detainment facility at Guantánamo Bay. Today, for instance, a reader need only read the lead paragraph of a New York Times editorial on the subject to understand the slant of the editorial: The five-year-old [...]

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