There is a lot of hype out there about embryonic stem cells, true and false. Much of the negative hype is from “pro lifers” who point out (correctly) that most of the actual stem cell therapies so far have come from adult stem cells. Indeed, adult stem cells are easier to “match” to the person, [...]

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— OffStumped For All Things Right of Center, Bringing a Right of Centre Reality Check to Indian Politics, News Media Reporting and Opinion now in Hindi अब आप के लिये हिंदी मे. —    BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today made Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin an issue saying it is 100% a factor in the Presidential election. She [...]

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I am amazed at the hyperventillation of terrorist attacks in the Western news media. So today, I read about a terrorist bus bombing in the Southern Philippines. LINK  Reuters reports: A powerful blast ripped through a commuter bus at a transport terminal on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao… “We’re still investigating whether this was [...]

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This week’s Democratic response to President Bush’s weekly radio address was delivered a former member of the 9/11 Commission, Tim Roemer.

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President Bush spent his radio address this week first touting improved job growth numbers, then slamming the Democrats proposed 2008 budget.

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This study (news report here) seems well crafted, but I have a few nits to pick about it. Some researchers attached microphones to college students for a few days, then counted the number of words they used. The findings: –Men averaged 15,669 words per day, women 16,215. The difference is not statistically significant. –The three [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Oh paleeeze – they’re at it again. This time they have a military spokesman on their side. He’s getting military science confused with science. LONDON: Climate change will increase competition for scarce resources and plunge many into desperate poverty, fanning conflict and terrorism across the world, Britain’s army chief said [...]

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Acorn Media has just released a Boxed DVD set of this excellent mini series that originally aired on Channel Four (England) in 1987. It is based on Tom Sharpe’s best selling satirical novel of the same name. Porterhouse Blue takes a long hard and very, very funny look at an institution of higher learning, the [...]

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Saddam was responsible for 9-11…left wing professors were responsible for 9-11…the U.S. is protecting the infant Iraqi democracy…the fall of Iraq is the fall of western civilization…apres Bush le deluge….Libby’s sentence was excessive…Iran’s leadership are the new Hitler….Do any of the writers of this sophomoric nonsense actually believe it? These people are educated, articulate, some [...]

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Last night we went to see ‘Sicko’ [ http://www.michaelmoore.com/ ], the latest offering from famed documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.  This is the first time, certainly in our family’s memory, that we have ever paid good money to go and see a documentary for heavens sake in a mainstream theatre – which is witness to the [...]

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In 1998, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon won that year’s Oscar for Best Screenplay for the 1997 film “Good Will Hunting,” giving the well experienced but virtually unknown actors the fame they had craved since coming to Hollywood. Not only did they demonstrate their acting talent but their writing talent as well. Since then, the [...]

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Summer ends early for the film and TV industry as the first writer’s strike since 1988 may take place this year. Because of this, filming schedules may be speeding up and shooting may take place long before the arrival of fall. In May, broadcast networks announced their fall schedules followed by pilot episodes which were [...]

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Tony Hicks, a 42-year-old man from Athens, Tennessee had a bad week. On Sunday he was hit by a car, on Monday he was robbed and beaten by an intruder, and on Tuesday he was shot by police after robbing a convenience store. It is still hard to say whether this makes him a very [...]

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The AP, taking their cue from the new because-she-said-so story offered by the L.A.Times, has run with a short clip on a story that claims Fred Thompson was working as a lobbyist for an abortion agency in 1991, giving the hearsay evidence against him but not offering the meat of his against the claim. The [...]

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Of all of the child abduction cases being reported, there is one that sticks out above the rest. Two sisters, ages 10 and 12 from Enid, Oklahoma are accused of kidnapping their neighbor’s one-year-old son from his home this week. Sheila Wells was asleep at 5:30 a.m. when at least one of the unidentified girls [...]

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[It is a well known fact -- acknowledged by President Musharraf during his visit last year to this country -- that the U.S. was handing out bounties to anyone in Pakistan who would turn in a "terrorist." Needless to say many a crook collected this bounty and in many cases also took revenge against an [...]

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Britain’s national Daily Mail has front page headlines “Al Qaeda fanatics working in Police” in today’s issue.  This comes on top of revelations earlier this week that Al Qaeda has infiltrated the Government’s National Health Service, and The Mail claims that it has information that other security services and Government departments have been or are [...]

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