A woman in Bellflower gave birth to octuplets yesterday. All eight tiny babies survived and are expected to survive, in what is thought to be only the second time in history that has happened. Personal details on the mother and… Continue Reading
The Sun has got entirely the wrong spin on this story. It suggests that the events described in the story are somehow a fortuitous turn of events. In fact, what’s going on is damned scary. Al Qaeda is playing with… Continue Reading
The law, once again, guides the way. A doctor from New York found his marriage failing. So too was his wife’s health. He donated his kidney and saved her life. She was grateful — but not grateful enough to continue… Continue Reading
This appears to be real, not a joke. Dr. Gupta from CNN’s “House Calls” is apparently President-Elect Obama’s choice to be the Surgeon General of the United States. My immediate reaction was disappointment. “What, just because he’s a pretty face… Continue Reading
As a further evidence that torture is unnecessary to achieve our foreign policy goals — even the sub rosa gathering of intelligence about enemy movements — I refer you Readers to this piece in today’s WaPo. As it turns out,… Continue Reading
We can look forward to a nuclear or biological attack on the United States by terrorists taking place within the next four years, most likely in the form of weaponized anthrax. And there is probably nothing we can do to… Continue Reading
While tracking the football game tonight on Yahoo! Sports, I periodically saw this advertisement flash on the screen. It looked odd to me but I wasn’t paying much attention to it. Then I stopped to try and scan the box… Continue Reading
The state of Hawaii adopted universal health care for infants and newborns earlier this year. Today, Hawaii’s Governor had to suspend the program because it was bankrupting the state.
While we were in Wisconsin, my mother-in-law expressed a very common resentment of people who commit crimes, go to prison, and then get free medical care there. If you think about it, there isn’t any choice about giving medical care… Continue Reading
A friend from Tennessee asked in an online forum: If someone could articulate the distinction between the two parties, I would love to know. It would be lovely to have a major party that I could believe in. Also, it… Continue Reading