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Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.
Category Archives: Vaccination
Andrew Wakefield Should Be Tried For Murder
Via Oliver Willis: The British physician who launched the vaccine-causes-Autism scare was making it up FOX News style. And the report further alleges that when children’s symptoms didn’t fit the hypothesis, timelines were fudged so it looked as if autism … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Whooping Cough Is Back
I blame Jenny McCarthy. From CNN: Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, has claimed the 10th victim in California, in what health officials are calling worst outbreak in 60 years. Since the beginning of the year, 5,978 confirmed, probable and … Continue reading
Joe Lieberman’s Pound of Flesh
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on the vaccine shortage the other day. The NYT reports that representatives of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services and … Continue reading
Teh Evil Flu Plot™
The president declared swine flu a national emergency the other day. It seems the vaccine has been slow getting to patients (thanks, free market!) and “The potential exists for the pandemic to overburden health care resources in some localities,” the … Continue reading
The Coming Vaccine Nontroversy
Bloomberg reports on preparations for the Swine flu H1N1 virus: Swine flu may infect half the U.S. population this year, hospitalize 1.8 million patients and lead to as many as 90,000 deaths, more than twice the number killed in a … Continue reading
