TOM MAGUIRE: So How Many Died At Watergate? “And do let’s note – a standard lib talking point during the promotion of Obamacare was that access to health insurance saves lives. Dare we presume that failure to implement Obamacare thereby costs lives, eventually if not by this weekend? Ezra Klein was talking about 15,000 to 20,000 lives per year, which dwarfs the 1,833 who died at Katrina.”
Dude. Those talking points are only applicable against Republicans.
THE OBAMACARE DEBACLE: The Beginning Of The End For Barack Obama? “Second-term presidents in the past 30 years have had some pretty embarrassing news conferences, full of frank admissions of failure, submissive spasms of shame and groveling, grieving apologies. . . . But there has never, ever, been a more pitiful presser than the one conducted last week by President Obama. In a nutshell, he said sure, everything’s a mess, but he just didn’t know.”
Related: NY Senator Throws Obama, Her Fellow Democrat Senators Under the Bus.
DEMOGRAPHICS IS DESTINY — THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO ARE BORN: Pew Study: 27% of Jewish Children Live in Orthodox Homes. “Secular”/Reform/Conservative Jews don’t have many kids. Orthodox Jews do.
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And, you can buy your wine from Amazon, though, alas, not in my state, where you can’t even buy wine in grocery stores, or on Sunday.
IN PROTEST OF “ECOTAX,” thousands of French truck drivers block highways. “At least 2,000 freight trucks blocked major highways across France on Saturday in a protest calling for the cancellation of an environmental tax on heavy loads. The protest comes despite government promises to suspend the so-called ecotax.”
PROF. JACOBSON: Triumphalism Was His Undoing. “He won. He let us know it. And he and his supporters ruled as if those who opposed him were illegitimate. Could it have been any different? I doubt it, given the man.”
HMM: Baby illnesses tied to parents nixing vitamin K shots. “The four Nashville-area infants suffered brain or stomach bleeding earlier this year. Their parents had declined vitamin K shots, which have routinely been given to newborns since 1961. The shots improve blood clotting and prevent internal bleeding. All four children were treated with vitamin K and survived. On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the illnesses were the first tied to parents opting out of the shots; reports of vitamin K deficiency are rare. The CDC said the parents cited a belief that the shots weren’t necessary or cause leukemia. Officials say neither is true.”
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DANA LOESCH AFTER THE STORM: I’m glad we don’t have ObamaCare house insurance.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Pelosi taken apart by David Gregory on false Obamacare promises.
SCIENCE: Study Suggests Bleach Can Reverse The Aging Process. “A diluted mixture of .005% bleach in water showed to reverse both the inflammation and aging of the skin in trials conducted on mice, giving researchers hope that this inexpensive household item may be the answer to addressing serious conditions in humans, including painful side-effects of cancer treatments.”
SARAH HOYT: How Not To Look Self-Published.
BILL GATES AND BILL CLINTON on the NSA, Safe Sex, and American Exceptionalism.
NEWBORN TWINS mistake bath for womb.
NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Nanoparticle therapy for incurable brain cancer effective in mice.
WITH THE EXPANDED RECOMMENDATION FOR STATIN USE, I expect we’ll see more people taking Coenzyme Q10. “Coenzyme Q10 supplementation at 300 mg/d significantly enhances antioxidant enzymes activities and lowers inflammation in patients who have CAD [coronary artery disease] during statins therapy.” As I’ve mentioned here before, I take CoQ10 and it’s one of the few supplements where I noticed an almost immediate effect on how good I felt.
TAKE THAT, MIDDLE EAST PETRO-SCUM: Energy Information Administration estimates Bakken will produce over 1 million barrels per day next month.
THE DECLINE OF WIKIPEDIA. Well, on the other hand, they no longer feature that (photoshopped) picture of me in the “I had an abortion” t-shirt.
3 TV GADGETS You Didn’t Know You Needed.
GETCHER PLAYSTATION 4. If you’re into that sort of thing.
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