Justice has been served. Despite blaming the media in part for his conviction, Kermit Gosnell has waived his right to appeal his conviction and will serve a life sentence in prison: A Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday to give up his right …
In the midst of all the scandals, the lousy economy and other crappy news, this is great news: NEW YORK — It’s time to load some new batteries in the clock: Jack is back!
The trial of Kermit Gosnell (who was convicted today on various charges) makes it evident that American’s have slumbered and ignored the meaning of abortion for some time. It’s shocking to think that hundreds of thousands of people simply walked by Gosnell’s clinic going to work, conversing with friends, and getting on with their lives …
So much for that comeback. The city is very nearly bankrupt. 40 years of mismanagement and corruption will do that to a city. The Detroit city government is weeks away from running out of the cash it needs to operate, according to an initial report from the emergency manager overseeing its finances. The report …
People on both sides of the aisle have been trumpeting the phrase “family values” again after Mark Sanford won South Carolina’s first district Congressional seat four years after infamously leaving his post as SC’s governor to visit his mistress in Argentina. Sanford’s GOP opponent Curtis Bostic made a runoff race out of “family values” before …
So this started in 2010 and continued through 2012: The targeting of conservative groups started around March of 2010, according to the audit documents. But Lerner, a Democrat, “instructed that the criteria be immediately revised” after a briefing on the matter in late June of 2011. The IRS adopted a more generic set of …
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Intriguing news for those interested in epidemiology. Business Insider reports: The New York Police Department, in concert with the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Lab, will release colorless, odorless, benign gas throughout the New York City subway system this July to test how a chemical or biological weapons attack would spread, according to a release. About …
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“How now, brown cow”. No, not that kind of cultured beef! Researchers in the Netherlands have created a 5-ounce hamburger from beef muscle tissue grown (or cultured) in the laboratory. The proof-of-concept in vitro burger is to be unveiled, cooked, and eaten in an upcoming event in London. Dr. Mark Post, of Maastricht University, took …
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This is the problem when people believe bogus information spread by the likes of Jim Carrey: With the nation’s highest rate of parents refusing vaccinations for their kindergartners, Oregon has become ground zero for the contentious debate over whether children should be vaccinated. A growing number of parents are declining some or all vaccines for …
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I’m sure this was nothing but a coincidence. Wink-wink. The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words “tea …