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Leprosy: an ancient disease thrives in 21st century
It has been called the world’s oldest recorded disease, an evil that humans have known for more than 3,500 years, as papyri from ancient Egypt testify. Yet drugs to cure leprosy are cheap, plentiful and effective. So why is this biblical curse still around? Doctors speaking ahead of World Leprosy…
Lou Dobbs: Questioning Obama’s birth certificate is ‘common sense’
Former CNN host Lou Dobbs, in an interview published Monday in Esquire Magazine, declared that his attempts to question the validity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate were valid — a conspiracy that has long since been debunked. “I ask a question, and I am attacked from the extreme Left…
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