Over at Tech Central Station, Michael Fumento updates us on the "surprising" news that researchers are making impressive strides in adult stem cell research, and not so much in embryonic stem cell research. [Cardiologist Douglas] Losordo bemoans the broad-based assault by ESC researchers and the media to exaggerate the potential of ESC research while downplaying […]
I'll bet that his ghost would get kicked off the jury for cause. A Delaware County man who prosecutors say was killed by his father-in-law was called for jury duty in his alleged killer's murder trial. A court clerk says Scott Borton's name was listed in the jury pool for the first-degree murder trial of […]
I must admit that I love it when people cite Media Matters for America as a source of unbiased information. Most times, when a journalist admits that he or she has been a liar, they disappear from the radar. You don't see Janet Cooke, Jayson Blair or Jack Kelley running a media criticism Web site. […]
Apparently he got a job offer at al Jazeera. (Not really.) CNN's top news executive had accused the American military, at a forum in Davos, Switzerland, of deliberately targeting journalists in Iraq. A few thoughts: I'm surprised that Jordan has resigned. I believed that if Jordan's admitted sell out to Saddam Hussein (Jordan confessed to […]
From the former vice-presidential candidate and senator, John Edwards. "Republican leaders believe in only one thing, wealth," Mr. Edwards said. "President Bush talks of an 'ownership society' but it is nothing but an exclusive club with the doors closed for people who work hard for a living." John Edwards net worth is estimated at between […]
It's hasn't seen much use since 2000, but it's time to dust it off and post it again. Forty-three Democrats in the Senate and that pesky former-Republican/turncoat have put their names to a letter demanding that President George W. Bush stop picking on Harry Reid. "This is a new Democratic Party," Sen. Charles E. Schumer […]
Thursday's New York Times letters to the editor: 14 total letters. 5 anti-Bush. 1 neutral. 3 pro-Bush. (One from the Federal Highway Administration in direct response to an editorial). 2 anti-Bloomberg. 1 pro-business. (Response to a direct attack in an editorial). 1 anti-business. 1 nut-case. I just loved the last letter, and wonder if the […]
"Civil rights" attorney Lynne Stewart has been convicted of giving "material support to terrorists" among other assorted charges. Stewart was the lawyer for the blind sheik convicted of plotting to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, among other things. But she also testified that she believed violence was sometimes necessary to achieve justice: "To rid ourselves […]
Former President Bill Clinton's 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea, negotiated by Jimmy "see-no-evil" Carter and lauded by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has brought us to this: North Korea says it has nukes and the rest of the world can pound sand. This is what happens when you don't take foreign policy seriously […]
James Taranto points out a letter in The New York Times science section on the brouhaha over Harvard President Larry Summers suggestion that maybe men and women are wired differently. To the Editor: Many years ago, after taking the G.R.E., I discovered that there were two sets of norms for reporting my math scores - […]