Folate leads to multiple births: “Women undergoing in-vitro treatment who take large doses of folic acid, a supplement designed to prevent foetal defects, may be far likelier to give birth to twins than to singletons, a study suggests. Only about one in every five attempts at in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) results in a live birth,...
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Kicking the Pepsi Can: Hard truths about soft drinks The latest study claiming that soft drinks are the driving force behind childhood obesity has prompted the usual silly responses. The aptly named Barry Popkin, an academic at the University of North Carolina, has mused about the need for tobacco-like surgeon general’s warnings on soft-drink...
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THE REAL HISTORY OF CUBA Just an excerpt: Andy Garcia blew it big-time with his movie “The Lost City.” He blew it with the mainstream critics, that is. Almost unanimously, they’re ripping a movie 16 years in the making. In this engaging drama of a middle-class Cuban family crumbling during free Havana’s last days,...
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THE REAL HISTORY OF CUBA Just an excerpt: Andy Garcia blew it big-time with his movie “The Lost City.” He blew it with the mainstream critics, that is. Almost unanimously, they’re ripping a movie 16 years in the making. In this engaging drama of a middle-class Cuban family crumbling during free Havana’s last days,...
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Grab a cup. This one’s about 2,000 words.  Citizens For A Safer Minnesota have a most mistaken notion of that state’s adoption of the Stand Your Ground movement. In their May 4th, 2006 press release, Citizens For A Safer Minnesota referred to...
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  Authors and readers of The Daily Cause may recall a post I made quite a long time ago called “Feminist Hate”. It was a collection of actual quotations of leading feminists. I have been unable to locate these quotes on the newly migrated MND but I did happen to see them show up on...
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The appointment of General Hayden to run the Central Intelligence Agency is the ideal appointment to help reform the CIA at this critical point in time. What many people don�t understand is the relationship between the military and the CIA. The military, quite obviously, is aligned with the Department of Defense and the CIA...
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It really surprises me that, given his pedigree, Rep. Patrick Kennedy has handled the matter of his latest alcohol-related controversy with such an amateurish lack of style and imagination. At a glance, the ever-churning plot being scripted by the Kennedy spin-doctors remains as unsure as the Democratic Rhode Island Representative’s balance was described to...
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“The gigantic secret of Christianity is humor, a joyful gaiety and mirth shared by Christ himself.” –GK Chesterton Chesterton’s observation notwithstanding, modern-Evo-Science has just discovered that mankind’s innate propensity to laugh originates not in the nature and mind of his Intelligent Designer, but in the clumsy pratfalls of progressive Pliocene monkeys on the move….....
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You’ve all seen the recently captured video of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as he clumsily fumbles with an M-249 machine gun and requires help from a cohort. The U.S. military gave his performance a resounding thumbs down, mostly in an attempt to ridicule him and downplay the idea that he’s some kind of...
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Yes, given the fact that New England liberals keep re-electing Ted Kennedy no matter how abyssmal his ethical history is, I’d say this article was spot on. And, it’s really quite sad.  Rep. Patrick Kennedy’s decision Friday to return to drug-abuse rehabilitation after a traffic accident appears unlikely to have an impact on...
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Yesterday was International Laughter Day, where we were all supposed to celebrate the health benefits of laughter by finding something funny to laugh at. Today the whole world will be laughing  literally. The first Sunday in May marks International Laughter Day, a holiday established in 1998. Now, eight years later, cities all around...
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If there was ever a sign of the Second Coming, it’s Democrats loaded with optimism. Democrats aren’t known for being confident in this nation’s future, looking on the bright side, and expressing optimism. If Democrats ever do see a glass as half-full, it’s quickly downed by a Kennedy. They are starting to see the...
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Today’s column at WorldNetDaily has to do with the potential push via Congressional legislation to make it illegal to sing the national anthem in any language other than English. Several questions immediately come to mind. Is this a violation of First Amendment rights? What if somebody proposed that Miranda rights should only be read...
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Toxic fungus found at La Jolla hospital This is another one in my crazy headline series. The headline above is taken from the good old “Sacramento Bee” again. In the body of the article we read of the fungus concerned: “It is harmless to healthy people”. So much for “toxic”. Most things are toxic...
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