Month: October 2009

Three Americans won the Nobel prize for Medicine the other day. (Cue U-S-A! U-S-A! chants). They recieved the award for discovering the existence and role an enzyme, telomerase, plays in repairing damaged DNA strands (actually...

. Palestinians want Abbas out ….. Israel needs him to stay put WEST BANK PROTEST (Al Jazeera) – Hundreds of people in the West Bank city of Ramallah protested against the Palestinian Authority’s decision to...

I don’t know if Rupert Murdoch will fire Glenn Beck or not. I don’t really care. I think it is a bad thing that Fox News exists, and Murdoch isn’t going to eliminate the network. What difference does it make...

Read this and tell me honestly if it wasn’t something you read here first (emphasis mine). Despite months of outward ambivalence about creating a government health insurance plan, the Obama White House has launched a...

. America is Now the Most Admired Country Globally – Jumping to the Top of the 2009 Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index United States Experiences Biggest Improvement in Reputation Among 50 Countries Measured Anholt...