July 24, 2009 – 9:03 am
While we wait for the researchers who feed at the federal trough to produce something, anything, from embryonic stem cells that does not include teratomas (monster tumors,) non-embronic stem cells are continuing to be super A middle-aged leukemia patient has became Chile’s first patient to receive stem cells from an umbilical cord in a radical […]
July 24, 2009 – 8:31 am
In an interview campaign stop with ABC News, Obama had this to say “The country has to reform its health care system or else not only are you going to continue to have people really going through a hard time, we’re also going see a continuing escalation of our budget problems that can’t get under […]
July 23, 2009 – 9:36 am
If you guessed hybrid, the tequila shot is on me Quite a few big-name auto insurers have been giving hybrid owners a discount on their premium. But those deals might not last much longer; as an insurance data-analysis firm points out, the insurance industry could be losing big because of this. The surprising result: Hybrid […]
July 22, 2009 – 8:21 am
And then they will spend quite a bit defending against what they should have stopped. How else to read this? US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US is prepared to bolster the defence of its Gulf allies if Iran develops a nuclear weapons programme. Mrs Clinton said if the US extended a “defence […]
July 21, 2009 – 8:46 am
I guess all the partying, campaining, and running around the world apologizing has been counter-productive to Obama’s pledge to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within one year of him taking office. Signing legislation to close G’itmo was one of his first acts, done on his second day in office. He even said that Americans […]
July 20, 2009 – 7:42 am
He is quickly learning that being an actual leader, a job he had never held till 1/20/2009, and pushing one’s agenda is not as easy as a good campaign speech Heading into a critical period in the debate over health-care reform, public approval of President Obama’s stewardship on the issue has dropped below the 50 percent […]
July 19, 2009 – 9:58 am
Over at FiveThirtyEight, True Believer Nate Silver is a wee bit upset about something John Hinderaker wrote about the cool period in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which John compared to the Year Without A Summer (1816,) which, yes, is a stretch. Nate goes to lengths to point out that the average temperature has been pretty much right […]
July 18, 2009 – 8:49 am
This bad As the old blues song puts it, “It’s Cheaper to Keep Her.” That may sum up a divorce rate that’s been declining as the economy founders. Marion County divorce filings are down about 20 percent from this time last year. Nationally, filings are down by as much as 50 percent. Family law expert […]
July 18, 2009 – 8:38 am
It Lives! Though, I thought zombies were supposed to eat brains and grunt, not go all BDS Fidel Castro blames the coup in Honduras on the U.S. Embassy in that Central American country and other American diplomats in the region appointed during the administration of George W. Bush. “Unscrupulous characters of the extreme right who […]
July 17, 2009 – 9:26 am
Wait a moment, I thought we were supposed to be planting lots and lots of trees in order to stop the spector of man made global warming so that the Earth cools down and the seas stop rising? Heck, there is a large part of the House AGW bill all about planting trees. No? Jobs […]
