Pawlenty has been going after Bachmann pretty hard and Bachmann hit back today. She even compared him to Obama. Bachmann’s attack is pretty clever in the way it manages to paint any rhetoric or politics of effective governance as Obama/socialist/Big Government. Pawlenty . . . . Continue Reading »
Scientists believe they are one step closer to finding the elusive Higgs boson or ‘God particle’—a tiny but fundamental element in the construction of life : Two separate teams, working with different detectors at the collider, reported ‘bumps’ in their data - usually . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times has an interesting report today that male contraceptives in human trials appear to work, generally by reducing sperm output to the point of infertility. From the story:Male contraceptives are attracting growing interest from scientists, who believe they hold promise for . . . . Continue Reading »
I will be at the ISI honors program this week at the Admiral Fell hotel in Fell’s Point, Baltimore. Tomorrow afternoon I will speak on Lockean America, etc. Among other things, I will explain why the road to serfdom never gets to serfdom and why I am right about the Tea Party. And everything . . . . Continue Reading »
I believe I am, after reading that Pawlenty Studies thread below where Peter says the choice will come down to Bachmann or Romney. It’s been long enough, Iraq’s as okay as you could hope for, and Obama’s failure to reverse the most-demonized Bush II policies mean that the . . . . Continue Reading »
I am a strong believer in medical conscience rights—properly defined and narrowly construed. Apparently, a poll of medical students in the UK found strong support for their right as doctors to refuse to treat certain patients. I worry that is too broad an . . . . Continue Reading »
Frank Schaeffer does it again: Christian Terror in Norway: I Predicted Terror from the Religious Right in My New Book “Sex, Mom and . . . . Continue Reading »
MY view on what a study shows is that neither party speaks for the people now. That might point to compromise on this debt ceiling thing—over which the president is cleverly disingenuous and the Republicans seem confused. But the deeper point is that the Republicans have a lot of work to do . . . . Continue Reading »
A newsworthy item from the CNN Belief Blog:It just so happens that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which is weathering a storm of criticism around newspaper ethics, also owns the rights to the world’s best-selling English Bible, the New International Version.Could this lead to an explosion . . . . Continue Reading »
such things in our public discourse as Sheila Jackson Lee’s outburst accusing opponents of a debt ceiling increase on our current President’s terms as motivated by racism. I guess we have to address them, even though time, energy, and attention would be more enjoyably spent . . . . Continue Reading »
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