Have a Maccas! Fatty food protects the skin: “Fatty foods will clog your arteries and pad your backside, but at least they won’t increase your risk of skin cancer. New Australian research appearing in BMC Cancer this week contradicts the long-held belief that a fatty diet increases skin cancer risk. Led by Robert Granger...
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California: Big food fight on Bay Area’s school menus Nobody seems to be asking what is the evidence for the effectiveness of these dietary interventions. Since virtually all the evidence on the long-term benefit of dietary and lifestyle changes suggests that there is no benefit, that is rather surprising. Decibels seem to swamp science....
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Got a law you want passed? Once it hits Bush’s desk it’s rubber stamped faster than you can say “Zarqawi’s screwed.” President Bush is pushing 2,000 days in office without vetoing a single bill. He’s passed James Monroe and is pushing Thomas Jefferson as the president to go the longest without exercising veto authority....
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by Jim Kouri, CPP A recent poll reveals that out of the group of politicians who are regarded as contenders for nomination as presidential candidates, more Americans fear Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) than any other contender — Democrat or Republican. According to a just-released Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll, when asked which candidate frightens...
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Humor is subjective I did not comment on the Ann Coulter controversy because I doubted that I had much to add. Coulter is a bomb thrower but for the right. While a leftwing pundit might make me angry because I think they are wrong and, therefore, don’t appreciate their point of view. I listen...
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All throughout the blogosphere and elsewhere, when the news hit that Ann Coulter was going to be on The Tonight Show on the same night as George Carlin, the anticipation began to build. What would happen? Would a spar ensue, with the elderly Carlin firing jabs in Coulter’s direction as Ann dodges and counterattacks...
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Many people are appalled by the evils wrought by permissiveness among America’s young people: the juvenile delinquency, the teenage pregnancy, and spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Schools are often rife with all kinds of disruption which has led many observers to call for a return to corporal punishment. While psychologically oriented liberals concern themselves...
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Ann Coulter drives liberals nuts. The late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi didn’t qualify for rhetoric as harsh as that directed at the blond, but certainly never bland, pundit. What unleashed the current fury was Miss Coulter’s criticism of four 9/11 widows who’ve used their status to lobby for a Democratic agenda. Even Mrs. Clinton, who...
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All that California gun control bears fruit: “Sacramento’s violent crime rate is at its highest since 1994, new FBI numbers show. Between 2004 and 2005, the city’s number of violent crimes grew about 11 percent — the biggest increase among California’s 10 largest cities. It’s the fourth time in the last five years that...
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THE SENATE IMMIGRATION BILL JUST PASSED: The media have reported on the sections that grant illegal residents amnesty (aka path to legalization or earned citizenship). But the media have censored out of their news reports the sections that are 10 to 20 times more costly and far more dishonest than playing games with the...
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