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Julia Gorin, a wonderful humor columnist and conservative stand-up comic, recently set up a Bush/Cheney table near Madison Square Garden. She recounted her experience with angry liberals in the Washington Post yesterday. Here’s a tease: “Haven’t you seen ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′ ?” one man screamed at us as he passed. “You’re close-minded!” (Wait a minute, who’s [...]

There seems to be an emerging consensus not only that Vioxx is a bad drug, but that Merck has known for years about Vioxx’s cardiovascular side effects. If this were true, why would Merck voluntarily conduct a study that measured Vioxx’s effect on cardiovascular outcomes? Wouldn’t it have been smarter, if Merck knew about Vioxx’s [...]

Jacques Derrida, father of deconstructionism, is dead. Deconstructionism, alas, is still alive and thriving. Dan Flynn has a great chapter on Derrida in his new book. Check it out.

Why on earth does the U.S. get virtually all of its flu vaccine supply from just two manufacturers? Because only a handful of companies make vaccines for the U.S. market. And why is that? Because federal bulk purchase of vaccines at government-controlled prices has made the U.S. vaccine market a market that few drug companies [...]

One of Kerry’s most extreme proposals, which he repeated in last night’s debate, is to have Medicare use committed-use contracting in the purchasing of prescription drugs, as is now done by the Veterans Administration and many private sector health plans. As Kerry put it last night: The president also took Medicare, which belongs to you. [...]

…immigration and border security. As I wrote in my column this week, it’s the six-ton elephant in the room.

John Kerry reveals his true elitist colors. From tonight’s debate: I’m pledging I will not raise taxes; I’m giving a tax cut to the people earning less than $200,000 a year. Now, for the people earning more than $200,000 a year, you’re going to see a rollback to the level we were at with Bill [...]

Before I take up the amusing little matter of whether John Kerry’s claim of having run the Boston Marathon is true, let me share some relevant personal background: I am married to a long-distance runner. As any similarly situated spouse or significant other will tell you, runners are statistics freaks. Over the course of our [...]

Good, long read, in two parts, from Bill Whittle of Eject!Eject!Eject!

Well, folks, it’s not just the Palestinian Authority that is in the business of indoctrinating young people through vile martyrdom videos. Now, the artist formerly known as Prince has jumped into the murder-promoting, terror-sympathizing act. I just finished watching “Cinnamon Girl,” which can be viewed online here. (Warning: You need to download AOL’s media playback [...]

Here’s a lovely story highlighting the arrogance and stupidity of the publicly subsidized postmodern artist, via AP/YahooNews: $40,000 Library Mural Misspells Names LIVERMORE, Calif. – It didn’t take a nuclear physicist to realize changes were needed after a $40,000 ceramic mural was unveiled outside the city’s new library and everyone could see the misspelled names [...]

Newsflash: President Bush Did Not Win Election on October 7

MoscowHelp.org provides the following details of the medical conditions of the schoolchildren who survived the Islamofascist attack in Beslan: (Hat tip: Logic And Sanity.) Godzhiev, Kazbek Age: 10 Brain contusion, temporal and pariental bone fracture. Mechanical ventilation. Condition on 9/7/04: coma changed to deep semicoma, fragmented consciosness appeared. Hypodynemics: steady. 9/8/04: started to react to [...]

The teacher who got in trouble for displaying President Bush’s photo is headed back to work. EduWonk has new details.

Michael Fumento is on it.

Hi, all. I was at Penn State U. yesterday, speaking to students about illegal immigration and terrorism. Thanks to YAF for sponsoring and hosting the event and to all those who came to the pre- and post-event gatherings. The PS-YAF members and College Republicans are extremely energized and well-organized in Pennsylvania. They are holding the [...]

Here’s Jay Leno earlier tonight on the brouhaha over President Bush’s face during last week’s debate: When you don’t have botox, you can actually move your face.” Hey, great minds think alike!

Here is the opening paragraph of the AP post-debate propaganda masquerading as analysis: With cold efficiency, Vice President Dick Cheney sought to eviscerate the credibility of the Democratic presidential ticket Tuesday night.. Can you imagine an AP report focusing on Edwards’ performance that began “With gooey unctuousness, Sen. John Edwards etc…” The wire service’s anti-Bush/Cheney [...]

Unadulterated Dennis Miller on Jay Leno just minutes ago: That’s why I like Bush. He doesn’t over-think it. He wakes up every morning, jumps out of bed, lands on his two feet, scratches his balls, and says, “Let’s kill some f@#@$ing terrorists!” And the crowd applauded.

That’s how Morton Kondracke described John Edwards’ performance against Vice President Cheney tonight. I concur. Cheney raises Sen. Edwards’ lousy record on defense and intelligence matters, and Edwards yaps pointlessly about…”Meals on Wheels.” Edwards’ cloying closing statement was stunningly weak compared to Cheney’s stalwart, policy-packed summation. Three quick media notes: 1) Gwen Ifill deserves strong [...]

Looks like it’s time for another edition of Tolerant Liberals Gone Wild! (Part I is here.) In Orlando, Fl.: Protestors Ransack Bush/Cheney Headquarters In Orlando; 2 People Receive Minor Injuries During Protest (there’s video, too) In Knoxville, Tenn.: New photos: Shots fired into Knox Bush/Cheney headquarters In Gainsville, Fla.: Democrat slugs area GOP chief, GPD [...]

So former anti-terrorism adviser and best-selling author Richard Clarke is now writing a novel. Fiction shouldn’t be too much of a stretch.

They let ‘em die. Meanwhile, Los Angeles-area trauma units and hospitals are folding in droves because of costs related to the care of uninsured illegal aliens.

…make sure you read this article about the hard-core rappers who were given major musical roles in the animated movie, including Ludacris and Eminem proteges D12. In case you were unfamiliar with D12, here are the vile lyrics to one of its popular “songs” with Eminem. Please excuse their profanity. (Apparently, Dream Works has.) BLOW [...]

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill has protested the NY Times crossword puzzle, Fox News, and the Crazy Eddie advertising campaign for discriminating against mentally ill patients. We’ll be checking in to see if NAMI condemns Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards’ latest remarks about crazy people. Update: A reader steams… Ok, Edwards has [...]

Oh, for crying out loud. Do we really need a TV show that preaches that being an Islamofascist is “complex?” Update: A reader chimes in… Take a look at the points of views of the producers and it’s pretty clear where they are coming from. Jihadainment? Chopaganda? Terror-Vision? I don’t know what to label this [...]

Erik Ness, 1979-2000 Eight years ago, I joined thousands of Americans who wrote checks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation in honor of Erik Ness. He was the young man with brain cancer whose wish was to hunt a brown bear in Alaska with his dad. The terminally ill teen’s wish was met with a national furor. [...]

On its face, the latest story of corruption in the Philippines seems run-of-the-mill. Excerpt from the Philippine Inquirer: The former comptroller of the Armed Forces of the Philippines has been suspended for six months without pay for alleged unexplained income and for failing to fully declare his net worth. Major General Carlos Garcia was suspended [...]

John Miller, co-author of the new book, Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America’s Disastrous Relationship with France, gives Matthew Yglesias a French lesson.

Ed Morrissey, who runs the excellent blog Captain’s Quarters, is celebrating a year in the blogosphere. Add his site to your favorites and send congrats!