America must recognize the fact that Mexico is in collapse. It is controlled by war lords just as China was in the early 1900s. The last 60 years have been very trying and costly for the United States. It has been a highway for illegal drugs and illegal movement of people into the United States, from all over the world. We have troops on the ground all around the world to help those nations from killing each other, yet we are ignoring our neighbor to the south whose death rate is not acceptable; in fact, it is reaching into the United States. ...more

February 14, 2009

Nearly all parents fear the day when their 16-year-old son or daughter drives solo for the first time. In this car-loving society of ours, the driver's license is the ultimate rite of passage. ...more

September 15, 2008

Ian Smith's 50 Million Pound Challenge aims to attack the group most affected by the rising tide of obesity: blacks. ...more

January 17, 2008

The rate of drug users who fatally overdose on methadone, a prescription that curbs heroin addiction, is skyrocketing at an alarming pace, a new Justice Department study shows. ...more

December 6, 2007

For decades, heart disease death rates have been falling. But a new study shows a troubling turn - more women under 45 are dying of heart disease because of clogged arteries, and the death rate for men that age has leveled off. ...more

November 20, 2007

The number of deaths in the United States rose in 2005 after a sharp decline the year earlier, a disappointing reversal that suggests the 2004 numbers were a fluke. Cancer deaths were also up. ...more

September 13, 2007