Larry Summers Insists: Stimulus Has Not Failed, Unemployment Numbers Not Important

July 18, 2009

C’mon, Larry: “Both administration and independent forecasts predicted that only a very small part of the total job creation expected from the Recovery Act would take place within six months.” Summers argues that deficit spending and unemployment are nothing compared to the dangers of an elongated recession. Good thing we avoided that.

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That Disappearing Y Chromosome: Are Men Even Necessary?

July 18, 2009

“In a new study, researchers say there is a dramatic loss of genes from the human Y chromosome that eventually could lead to its complete disappearance — in the next few millennia.” A bit overhyped: geneticists and biologists have known about this for decades, and it’s an exaggeration to say this is the end.

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George Orwell's E-Books Vanish From Kindle Users' Library

July 18, 2009

“This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for—thought they owned.” Amazon caved, electronically deleting all books by George Orwell to keep the publisher happy. No balls bad.

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Urban vs. Rural? War Between Two World Views

July 17, 2009

Sarah Palin celebrated Bastille Day Tuesday with an op-ed against “cap and trade” in the Washington Post. Bless the editors of that newspaper for permitting it. Predictably, even Pavlovianly liberal, as they may be on almost any issue, there is a little streak of “wicked” mischief in them that makes their paper worth reading occasionally. […]

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Krauthammer: The Forgotten Moon Mission

July 17, 2009

Michael Crichton once wrote that if you had told a physicist in 1899 that within a hundred years humankind would, among other wonders (nukes, commercial airlines), “travel to the moon, and then lose interest “… the physicist would almost certainly pronounce you mad.” In 2000, I quoted these lines expressing Crichton’s incredulity at America’s abandonment […]

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Poll: Sotomayor's Confirmation Less Popular Than Alito

July 17, 2009

Of those who have decided, most say Judge Sotomayor should not be confirmed, according to a Rasmussen Poll conducted Tuesday night and Wednesday: The public is watching and no one is buying it as she pretends she didn’t actually mean what she’s been saying for twenty years. Word of her seriously deficient decisions in (among […]

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AMA Splinters Over Failure to Oppose Obama Health Care Plan

July 17, 2009

Democrats are touting the fact that the AMA has signed on to their health care reform effort. But is the AMA really representing the views of its members, or are they playing a Washington game: currying favor with the Democrat majority, in the hopes that when negotiators decide who’ll pay for national health care, they’re […]

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Whip List: More Than Fifty House Progressives Privately Commit To Oppose Weak Health Care Bill

July 17, 2009

Progressive Democrats are taking a hard stand on health care reform, with a majority committing to oppose any health care reform package that doesn’t include a robust public option. On Wednesday, they got an inadvertent assist by an anonymous leak of their “whip list.” A whip list, which is generally tightly guarded, is used by […]

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Obama Tells NAACP "No Excuses For Failure"

July 17, 2009

President Obama delivered a fiery sermon to black America on Thursday night, warning black parents that they must accept their own responsibilities by “putting away the Xbox and putting our kids to bed at a reasonable hour,” and telling black children that growing up poor is no reason to get bad grades.

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Twins Orphaned as Oldest Mom Dies at 69

July 17, 2009

A SPANISH woman who became the world’s oldest person to give birth in 2006 when she had twin boys at the age of 67 using in vitro fertilisation has died. Carmen Bousada died on Saturday at the age of 69, her brother Ricardo said.

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