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The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which some people have promoted as a potential treatment for COVID-19, is known to have potentially serious effects on heart rhythms.

My first vanity in all the years I've been a member of FR. Yesterday I took down my Trump flag. It was worn out with only the TR remaining. In it's place I put up AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN flag. For those not familiar, the Appeal to Heaven flag was commissioned by George Washington just prior to the Revolutionary War for the six ships that made up the American navy. The tree on the flag represented opposition to the British prohibition of American citizens cutting down the old growth forest on their lands. The British wanted these trees for use...

This week the Fraser Institute released its Economic Freedom of the World: 2012 Annual Report. The announcement comes with good news and bad news. The good news: the report is available for free and contains thought-provoking research about nearly 150 countries. The bad news: the United States has dropped to number eighteen in the unadjusted rankings. Eighteen might not sound too bad considering about 150 countries were analyzed for the year of 2010. However, it is the lowest rank ever for the United States in one of the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom Reports. The United States ranked 12th in 2009,...

There are some things people ought to know but always seem to forget. For starters, never trust a politician who says, "Trust me." Ditto for a politician who says, "I believe in Jesus." Double-dog ditto for a politician who says, "Trust me: I really do believe in Jesus." Which brings us, predictably, to the Kerry campaign. Last week, Slate ran a piece by Beliefnet editor Steven Waldman about presidential hopeful John Kerry's most recent come-to-Jesus meeting. The minister was former Clinton mouthman Mike McCurry. The message was something about hiding one's light under a bushel—namely Kerry's religious faith. Or was...

Doug Dahl explains our role as Christians in addressing Islam "But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites and the men of Ashdod heard that the repairs to Jerusalem’s walls had gone ahead and that the gaps were being closed, they were very angry. They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and stir up trouble against it. But we prayed to our God and posted a guard day and night to meet this threat. ... After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, 'Don’t ...

There are a lot of taboos, that is, things we're not supposed to talk about, in modern society. If we do talk about them we are labeled a racist or worse. One of those things is the topic of stupid people. But the topic can no longer be ignored, because for the first time in history stupid people have more political power than anyone else, and the consequence of allowing them all that power now looms like the shadow of doom over America. To explain, a brief review of economic and political history is necessary: In the old days, and ...