Month: February 2012
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Is “electability” too “strong” a term?
There has been a great deal of debate in Michigan Tea Party circles about the “electability” of certain Republican senate candidates. The issue keeps coming up again and again, as there is a large field of candidates running, but only two have the money and experience it takes to win. Nevertheless, many grass roots type…
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Sustainable?
I wrote a short piece on Sustainability for ECN Magazine. Here is a reply I gave to someone who sent me an e-mail on the subject: Nothing is sustainable in the long run. I believe that is why there is so much of it in the universe.
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“The human race had no sweet drinks until 1915”
A group of supposedly reputable researchers at UCSF have made headlines for demanding that sugar be regulated as a “toxin.” Sugar and other sweeteners are, in fact, so toxic to the human body that they should be regulated as strictly as alcohol by governments worldwide, according to a commentary in the current issue of…
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Broadening the Birther base?
Politics is not often funny, but leave it to WorldNetDaily to supply some much-needed amusement. Editor Joseph Farah, perhaps bored with the fact that after all these years the Obama Birther movement really hasn’t gained much traction among the hordes of reasonable people, has now turned his attention to up-and-coming GOP star Marco Rubio. Farah’s…