OK, Sally, look: I know that we’re supposed to be religion blogging here at Icons & Curiosities, but I just saw for sale this apple-tree bed:Its neighboring metalworks-tree bed, too:and I had to post them. I suppose I could connect them to our topic via, maybe, the brilliant work being done on . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the same kind of injury, successfully treated in mice, that gained Geron an FDA license to use potentially dangerous embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injury in human trials. Only these scientists apparently got a similar result as Geron did using blue food dye! From the . . . . Continue Reading »
For nearly two weeks, the Obama health care plan has been mired in a controversy over supposed mandatory counseling requirements for seniors about end-of-life care. Is it true? Hard to tell when on page 424, the section in question begins: (a) MEDICARE.—17 (1) IN . . . . Continue Reading »
It was nearly two weeks ago (July 16) Betsy McCaughey first charged on the Fred Thompson radio program (reported here on July 18) that the House health care reform bill required “mandatory counseling,” about end of life treatment options. Was the charge true? I . . . . Continue Reading »
Both Joseph and Paul wonder whether President’s Obama’s public approval is slipping. In these types of discussions I would argue that we need to make a distinction between approval for Obama—a wildly popular celebrity—and approval for Obamism—the President’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Another addition to the church challenge , and one which I was fortunate enough to visit earlier this month, is the Mariaczka Basilica on the town square in Krakow. The Central Europeans love color in their churches, and the Mariaczka is a perfect example. The whole church is a blaze of hues that, . . . . Continue Reading »
Like half of America, I’ve fallen for Megan McArdle ‘s economic blogging. Here she is carefully working her way through the question of nationalized health care: The other major reason that I am against national health care is the increasing license it gives elites to wrap their claws . . . . Continue Reading »
Some days ago, I promised you all an account of our adventures on the road between here and Memphis, and you know how I hate to keep people waiting. There is much that I could tell you about the state of Tennessee, admitted to the Union in 1796, a hundred years before Utah, for example, attained . . . . Continue Reading »
In answer to Joseph’s question , I am a little surprised by how far the President’s approval numbers have fallen and how much pushback he is getting on his agenda. I thought that President Obama would remain personally popular even if the public started expressing greater disapproval of . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s not just Glenn Reynolds who thinks Obamaism may have jumped the shark. Comes Mickey Kaus to “throw caution to the wind” and predict: Despite all the innovative e-mobilization and ad campaigns and town halls, the August recess will not produce any effective groundswell of . . . . Continue Reading »
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