Will a 9-Year-Old Change the Vaccine Debate?

(NYT) – There’s no question that the case of 9-year-old Hannah Poling of Athens, Ga., has fueled the controversy about childhood vaccines. But what’s less clear is whether it will help unlock the mysteries of autism.
Hannah was 19 months old and developing normally until 2000, when she received five shots against nine infectious diseases. She [...]

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Toil and Trouble

WASHINGTON – Maybe it was because I was sitting in the back of the Senate chamber with three war protesters — grim-faced, chanting women dressed in black hooded cloaks, white makeup and blood-red hands — that I felt as though I were watching a production of “Macbeth” rather than a hearing on Iraq.
“Fair is foul, [...]

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The Holocaust Declaration

(WP) – On Tuesday Iran announced it was installing 6,000 more centrifuges — they produce enriched uranium, the key ingredient of a nuclear weapon — in addition to the 3,000 already operating. The world yawned.
It is time to admit the truth: The Bush administration’s attempt to halt Iran’s nuclear program has failed. Utterly. The latest [...]

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Immigration, Outsourced

(NYT) – Not content to botch immigration policy all by itself, Congress has handed large parts of the job to others to mishandle. It gave the homeland security czar the czarist powers to overturn any law and ignore any court to seal the border. Now Michael Chertoff is clear-cutting a forest of regulations to wall [...]

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Clinton Mistakes Wife’s Bosnia Trip

WASHINGTON (AP) – Former President Clinton has added to the falsehoods surrounding his wife’s tale of her trip to Bosnia 12 years ago. In Indiana on Thursday, Bill Clinton defended his wife’s mistake in claiming that she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia, accusing the media of treating her like “she’d robbed a bank” for [...]

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If Sen. Clinton is Exhausted at 11 pm, What Happens at 3 am?

By now you may have heard how Bill Clinton dredged up his wife’s Bosnia debacle — which began with this interview with Sinbad the comedian — at a campaign stop in Indiana Thursday night.
Defending Sen. Hillary Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) embellishment of danger in Tuzla during her 1996 trip, the former president said: “This is a big [...]

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Iwo Jima Veterans Blast Time’s ‘Special Environmental Issue’ Cover

(MSNBC) – For only the second time in 85 years, Time magazine abandoned the traditional red border it uses on its cover. The occasion – to push more global warming alarmism.

The cover of the April 21 issue of Time took the famous Iwo Jima photograph by Joe Rosenthal of the Marines raising the American [...]

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HILLARY’S TALL TALES ABOUT HEALTH CARE

Hillary Clinton had a great story to tell over and over again in her stump speech: An uninsured Ohio pregnant woman lost her baby and died because she could not afford a $100 up-front fee.
What a tale! What an indictment. What government bureaucracy could be worse than a health care system where stuff like that [...]

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Clinton leadership a study in missteps

(Politico) – Hillary Rodham Clinton wants voters to decide the nomination based on who can coolly and competently run the country. She had better hope they don’t study her recent campaign too closely for the answer.
Clinton has overseen two major staff shake-ups in two months. She has left a trail of unpaid bills and unhappy [...]

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Clinton Outlines Anti-Crime Plan

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton would eliminate the federal mandatory five-year sentence for crack cocaine users as part of a $4 billion-a-year anti-crime initiative designed, in part, to steer many nonviolent offenders away from prison.
Her plan also would revive several programs started by her husband’s administration, including federal funding of community-oriented prosecutors [...]

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