President Barack Obama's game of choice is basketball. He's not much of a wrestler -- especially when it comes to "wrestling" with ethics questions, as Yuval Levin noted: In tonight's press conference, Jon Ward of the Washington Times asked the president whether he personally wrestled with the ethics of federally funding embryonic stem cell research. […]
A reader of National Review's "The Corner" posed an excellent question for President Obama and his administration who appear to be insisting that somehow healthcare needs to be dealt with as a prerequisite for fixing what ails the economy. Jonah; I have never seen this point made: all of Europe, which has nationalized health care […]
...just wait until it's free. That's the line from the incomparable P.J. O'Rourke and the death of actress Natasha Richardson apparently has some people asking if that "free" Canadian health care is worth what you pay for it. A day before Natasha Richardson's scheduled funeral, some are wondering if a medical helicopter might have been […]
Coming from the guy that doesn't think that oral sex is ... well, sex ... this sort of thing should come as no surprise: Transcript, courtesy HotAir.com [emphasis added by Ed Morrissey]: [Dr. Sanjay] Gupta: Let’s talk about something you talked a lot about in the early part of your presidency, stem cells. There […]
I've noted repeatedly that embryonic stem cells -- while popular with those on the left who give no moral weight to people at the earliest stages of human development -- just don't work. Today, there comes a report about just that. A family desperate to save a child from a lethal brain disease sought highly […]
It's amazing what really smart people can accomplish when they put their minds to it. Appearing at the All Things D conference, inventor Dean Kaman shows off the replacement arm he is developing primarily for troops who have been wounded in the war on terrorism. There's a touching moment about half-way through where Kamen shows […]
Do politicians -- even ex-politicians -- every really listen or understand the words that are coming out of their mouths. Yesterday on "Fox News Sunday," former Sen. Tom Daschle, the national co-chair of the Barack Obama campaign, had the following to say. This is a man who understands when you go to an emergency room […]
Another thing on Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' speech was an admission that the Republicans have been right all along on the Democratic Congress' motives in expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program. "We know that caring for our children, so they have a healthy and better start in life, is what grownups do," she said. […]
In the hilarious Neil Simon movie "Murder by Death" Eileen Brennan's character goes over a brief biography of Lionel Twain, played by Truman Capote, the host of their mystery weekend. One humorous fact in Twain's biography was that he was once picked up in El Paso, Texas, "for trying to smuggle a truckload of rich, […]