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All Your Gene Are Belong To Us

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You may die because of a gene patent that should never have been granted. The owner of that patent owns the gene that exists in your body. It’s private property. Well, according to the late Michael Crichton anyway. Good golly, that sounds frightening. What should and should not be patentable has been the subject of debate – and legal disputes… Read more »

Panic?!?

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Who knows what the reality is — Fog of War and all — but if initial reports are accurate, this seems like, er, a big f***ing deal: SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean naval vessel with more than 100 aboard was sinking on Friday in waters near North Korea and Seoul was investigating whether it was hit in a torpedo… Read more »

Individual mandate = personal responsibility, says the Ghost of Mitt Romney Past

Mitt Romney in 2006, in the WSJ, on universal health care in Massachusetts: 40% of the uninsured were earning enough to buy insurance but had chosen not to do so. Why? Because it is expensive, and because they know that if they become seriously ill, they will get free or subsidized treatment at the hospital. By law, emergency care cannot… Read more »

God bless Joe Biden

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Here’s video of Vice President Joe Biden dropping the f-bomb during this morning’s ObamaCare signing ceremony, reminding the Big Guy that “this is a big f***ing deal.” Someone really needs to familiarize Joe Biden with the concept of microphones. Don’t you love the strained smile on Obama’s face immediately after Biden says it? It’s a smile that says: “Joe, you… Read more »

More procedural hypocrisy

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Harkening back to my point that “none of the political leaders in Washington hold, or care about, the moral high ground when it comes to…procedural arguments,” and “they’re all hypocrites with respect to such arguments,” here’s a bit of perspective about the current “deem-and-pass” kerfuffle: In the last Congress that Republicans controlled, from 2005 to 2006, Rules Committee Chairman David… Read more »

Christmas bomb plot was doomed to fail; plane would have landed safely

A test explosion for a BBC documentary suggests that the “underpants bomber” would have failed to bring down Flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009, even if he’d managed to detonate his trousers. Likely death toll: 2, namely the bomber and the unlucky soul sitting next to him. A controlled blast on a Boeing 747, using the same explosives that Umar… Read more »