“Three parent” embryos to fight disease
4th June 2008
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4th June 2008
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4th June 2008
Looks like they may have.
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4th June 2008
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4th June 2008
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they no longer live under a repressive white regime.
Bet they really appreciate all the U.N has done for them.
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4th June 2008
A new Crusade might be in order here.
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4th June 2008
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4th June 2008
Smile for the camera, son.
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4th June 2008
The United States owes a federal shield law not only to American journalists but to journalists around the world.
And it just gets sillier from there.
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4th June 2008
Note that the author has stumbled upon an inconvenient truth — that the state’s case, although nominally about individual cases of abuse, is actually an attempt to persecute a “sect” under color of law.
The only safe place to be any more is working for the government. Better to be the hammer than the nail.
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4th June 2008
SO over….
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4th June 2008
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4th June 2008
It’s amazing how leftoids don’t like rules when it’s their ox being gored (no pun intended – I think).
For at least one priest, Kmiec’s support for a pro-choice politician made him a willing participant in a grave moral evil.
Well, duh. It has been the constant position of the Catholic church that abortion is murder. Supporting a politician who advocates freedom of abortion is morally equivalent to supporting a politician who advocates freedom to murder.
Would Cohen feel different if communion were denied to a politician who supported lynching black people? You know he would. Of course, he would whine that the situations weren’t comparable. Perhaps for him they aren’t. But for a Catholic, they are, and always have been.
Murder is murder. If supporting politicians who advocate freedom to murder isn’t “a grave moral evil”, then I don’t know what is.
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4th June 2008
No wonder they’re still Communist.
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4th June 2008
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4th June 2008
Apparently, no more so than we otherwise would be.
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4th June 2008
Trust the Australians to have a name for it. “Cowgirl” just doesn’t have the same ring.
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4th June 2008
Save the trees! Lay a carpet!
Be the first on your block to pick a side in this exciting new conflict.
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3rd June 2008
Imagine what would happen if a civilized country tried to do that to Muslims.
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3rd June 2008
It’s a good thing that we’ve got the U.N. and all those human rights groups, isn’t it?
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3rd June 2008
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3rd June 2008
The site is Vegans of Color.
So the semester ended for me here at Vassar, and as all the seniors moved out of their on-campus apartments they threw out a lot food. So my friends and I did the reasonable thing for a bunch of broke students who are working on campus during the summer– we grabbed our backpacks and hit the dumpsters.
I am not making this up.
I don’t think it’s a parody site, but….
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3rd June 2008
This is your future under Islam. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
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3rd June 2008
Ponder this scenario, offered by the National Cultural Values Survey: “You lose your job. Your friend’s company is looking for someone to do temporary work. They are willing to pay the person in cash to avoid taxes and allow the person to still collect unemployment. What would you do?” Almost half, or 49 percent, of self-described progressives would go along with the scheme, but only 21 percent of conservatives said they would. When the World Values Survey asked a similar question, the results were largely the same: Those who were very liberal were much more likely to say it was all right to get welfare benefits you didn’t deserve.
Doesn’t surprise me.
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3rd June 2008
When the nation’s premier newspaper welcomes those who are breaking the law and denigrates those who attempt to uphold the law, then I suggest it is indeed time to panic.
Note what is not said: None of these problems would exist if these people had just stayed home. And the problems would disappear if they would go back where they came from. I have no sympathy for those who create problems for themselves by doing unlawful things — and, according to all the data I’ve seen, a lot of Americans agree.
On the other hand, perhaps this is an encouraging sign that enforcement is working. We can hope.
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3rd June 2008
Ponder the role of those whose shops involve no sweat.
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3rd June 2008
And ponder just who wants to turn the U.S. system into the European system. Hint: For whom would that change be better? You? Or AlGore?
Remember: Me and my chauffer can use the HOV lane.
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3rd June 2008
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2nd June 2008
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2nd June 2008
Give some to Nancy Pelosi — she’s the worst pickle-puss I’ve seen in ages.
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2nd June 2008
Steve Sailer is always worth reading.
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2nd June 2008
DNA samples extracted from 3,000-year-old human hair excavated in Greenland indicate that the first humans to live in the far north were migrants from East Asia and were unrelated to Native Americans or the ancestors of modern Eskimos.
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2nd June 2008
Savor the irony of Black Panthers participating in a rally to protest violence. I guess we can expect the Saudi royal family to start investing in pork futures next.
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2nd June 2008
One of the UK’s current favourites, according to a recent survey, is Monty Python’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.
No wonder Britain is falling apart.
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2nd June 2008
His top showed the Transformers film character Optimus Prime holding a gun.
I’m convinced that these people do this sort of absurd stuff just to amuse themselves, and don’t really care that it makes them look like pettifogging morons.
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2nd June 2008
Hey, whatever works.
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2nd June 2008
Wonder whether they ground him up and molded him into a body shape first.
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2nd June 2008
Of course, being the New York Times, he thinks this is a bad thing. Of course, being the New York Times, it doesn’t even cross his radar that continuing state spending at its current levels might be part of the problem.
Most of the “bad” in “bad economy” is because of government spending on top of stupid government energy decisions. But not, of course, to the New York Times.
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2nd June 2008
Doesn’t seem like something that I’d care to eat, but that’s just me.
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2nd June 2008
Well, it can’t be “the recession”, since there isn’t one. Wonder what it could be?
Gee, seems to me that Mark Steyn wrote a book about this not too long ago….
And since when do leftoids care about low birth rate? I thought that they were all worried about overpopulation?
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2nd June 2008
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2nd June 2008
A vast government effort to bring oysters back to the Chesapeake Bay has turned out so dismally that it has the ring of a math-class riddle. How do you spend $58 million to get more of something and wind up with less of it?
I’m glad they have nothing more important to do with that money.
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2nd June 2008
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2nd June 2008
Identity Politics — There’s nothing new under the sun.
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2nd June 2008
There you go — Iraq is safer than Cleveland. And yet no calls for withdrawal from Cleveland from the Chattering Class.
City administration? Democrat.
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2nd June 2008
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2nd June 2008
The trouble is that people who are afraid of being bored soon become too busy to stay effective. In all their rush and haste to stay active, they have no time left to think about what they are doing, let alone add any new tricks to their repertoire.
Not to mention that they’re tiresome to the rest of us.
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2nd June 2008
That would be amusing. It’ll never happen, but it’s fun to think about the Overclass being subjected to the same government importunities as Flyover Country.
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2nd June 2008
Read it.
Yeah, promises, promises….
Eight years of George W Bush, and Alec Baldwin is still hanging around like a bad smell.
What do we have to do, elect Dick Cheney? Not that I would mind, you understand; but still. These people are just all mouth and no action.
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2nd June 2008
This is your future under Islam. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
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1st June 2008
Paul Graham ponders how important where you live might be, career-wise.
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