A lot of the stem cell debate has been spun to ridicule pro life types, and to accuse Bush as hardhearted for “politicizing” science. One result of the spin has been that the very real and widespread successes with adult stem cells get little publicity, while the press tends to hype scientifically limited “breakthroughs” by [...]

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Riley Sawyers Missing and No Report Was Filed by Mother Riley Sawyers Has Not Been Submitted to Amber Alert Not in Amber Alert or FBI’s Missing Child Data Base What’s going on here? The strange and baffling case of Baby Grace, the name given to the unidentified body of a little girl found October 29 [...]

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In seemingly less time than it takes to say “ready on the firing line,” the U.S. Supreme Court will be embroiled in the firearms culture wars as it rules on what the Second Amendment really means when it comes to gun ownership. Six residents of the District of Columbia have filed suit to lift the [...]

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Due to the Thanksgiving Holidays all the soaps were not aired today. Here are today’s updates for Days of Our Lives and yesterdays updates for As The World Turns. Today’s show on The Young and The Restless was a repeat of the day of the collapse. Days of Our Lives Doug tells Shawn that Bo [...]

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Dear Friends, Hi! How are you? It’s great that you are out there making viral videos and throwing “Tea Parties” to raise money for your man, Ron Paul. It is outstanding that you are so invested in the coming election and that you’re willing to get behind a clear dark horse candidate like Dr. Ron [...]

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Even if Japan can’t solve its current population problems, the rest of us can learn from their mistakes, and hopefully their successes, as we spend the next century trying to square the problems confronting the modern, developed nation state.

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“Distant Cousin” is an interesting and eccentric book that manages to cross a number of genres – a little bit science fiction, sprinkled with alterna-sociology, a generous dash of techno-thriller, several roman-a-clef conventions gently folded in, and a rather sweet love story. Oh, and finding a place in the world for yourself; not the easiest [...]

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First published @ Celestial Junk The “it’s all about oil” crowd constantly remind us that where profit is to be made … trust can’t be had. What they don’t tell us, is that the green industry, especially the AGW industry … has become a multi-billion dollar tax hore … dwarfing just about any other government [...]

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Fresh Updates below from The Telegraph confirming that there was more to the Kolkota riots than meets the eye   Zee News Reports After outbursts from Left Front chairmen first and then the Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly against her presence in Kolkata, controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen was finally moved out from West [...]

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Shooting Back by Chari Van Wyk In this short book we find a religious man finding a way of justifying returning fire when his church comes under attack from heavily armed terrorists. Through introspection and examination of the core of his belief system; ie the New Testament. He comes to the conclusion that not only [...]

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Factcheck.org ran a piece on Senator John Edwards’ idea to try and use the power of the presidency to remove health care for the president, all cabinet officials, and Congress if some form of universal health care is not passed by July 20th, 2009.  In it, they try to debunk his claims that he could [...]

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(Screen shot of botnets for rent courtesy of the Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge blog) While John Schiefer a.k.a. “acid and “acidstorm,” is facing 60 years in prison and $1.75 million in fines for operating a botnet, the problem isn’t likely to disappear anytime soon. Schiefer was part of a hacker group known as [...]

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I have self-published 3 books now. I consider myself to be quite an old hand at this these days. But this was not always the case. I was once, like so many others, a ‘newbie’. When I first began my journey, I was quite surprised by the learning curve involved in this new venture. I [...]

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The California ballot initiative I first posted about here, the one initially funded by Giuliani supporter and hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, is back in the news- apparently supporters are still rushing to get the 700,000 signatures needed to get this blatant GOP attempt to hijack the presidential vote on the ballot.  From the LA [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog First President Bush was lost in translation by turning a war against an ideology into a war against a military tactic. Now he’s lost in space rejecting his Bush Doctrine in favor of ‘real politik’. As it stands now, American foreign policy in the Middle East has shifted from actively [...]

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At knifepoint, I mean. Encouraged by the ruthless acts of sabotage their striking French counterparts have undertaken to show that they mean business, German GDL strikers have now resorted to hostage-taking in a desperate effort to push through their ridiculous demands. An unidentified, distorted-faced union member pulled a knife on a café employee at Berlin’s [...]

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http://www.amazon.com/Historical-Present-Uses-Abuses-Past/dp/0878059857 http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2006/03/15/opinion/opinion_20002744.php Above are two links (I think the second is correct) of guys that I shared a summer with working at Time Inc. where we had been invited as the editors of our student papers to experience the range of Time’s publications. The third of us has a common name such that I don’t [...]

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