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Study: Gila monster spit reduces food and possibly booze cravings
Magically delicious
What are you willing to do to shed a few pounds or cut down on your alcohol intake? If your answer to either question is “anything,” then I’m here to tell you there’s a pill for that. It contains Gila monster saliva, but that’s a small sacrifice for those who are serious about fighting the [...]
The ideological extremism of David Brooks
Moderation.
The latest column from David Brooks attempts to diagnose the fiscal crisis in Europe and the growing fiscal threats in America: [M]any voters have come to regard their desires as entitlements. They become incensed when their leaders are not responsive to their needs. Like any normal set of human beings, they command their politicians to [...]
What really happened to Americans Elect?
Third way... right into the ditch
Earlier this week, Ed penned a short and perhaps a bit unkind obituary for Americans Elect, the failed attempt to draft a third party ticket to run against Obama and Romney. Pundits across the spectrum were lining up to toss either roses or dirt on the grave before the body had even reached room temperature. [...]
Obama to host W for portrait ceremony
Awkward
Somebody should make sure that the White House staff gets the place all spruced up and sets out the good china for dinner, because the Obamas are expecting company. And who is the very special guest? None other than the president’s predecessor. George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, are expected to return to the [...]
NARN, Minnesota GOP Convention Edition!
Kurt Bills, Laura Brod, Chris Fields, and more at 1-3 CT!
The Northern Alliance Radio Network will be on the air today, with your hosts Mitch Berg and Ed Morrissey, on from 2-4 pm ET/1-3 pm CT, live from the convention floor! We will have our live streaming video and chat, and if you’re in the Twin Cities, you can hear us on AM 1280 The Patriot, or on the [...]
The lessons native to the Warren story
Disadvantage incentives.
We’ve had a lot of laughs at the expense of Elizabeth Warren, which come easy when a person refuses to admit the obvious even after it has been made public, and especially when that refusal keeps the story alive long enough to discover something worse. Instead of taking Allahpundit’s sage advice to simply say that [...]
Chen Guangcheng on way to US
Welcome to America.
The saga of Chinese democracy and pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng will conclude today with a much happier ending than first feared. The New York Times reports than Chen has boarded a flight to the US and is already in transit — along with his family: Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal defender who made a dramatic [...]
Super. School fined $15K for selling soda.
Saving our students, one nanny at a time
When they told me they were working on education reform at the same time as trying to fight obesity in the nation’s youth, I didn’t think they were talking about this. Davis High School has been fined $15,000 after they were caught selling soda pop during lunch hour, which is a violation of federal law. [...]
Does Georgetown need … The Exorcist?
Booooooooooo!
After a week of controversy over her invitation to speak at Georgetown University’s commencement ceremonies, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius finally delivered her speech to the graduates at the Catholic school. With the cardinal of the archdiocese publicly rebuking university president John DiGioia over both the invitation and his non-sequitur defense, the stage was set for [...]
Quotes of the day
Fat tax.
Calories, number of hours spent exercising, number of pounds to lose, those who are overweight now have a new number to worry about: a “fat” tax… A tax of at least 20 percent placed on sugar-sweetened drinks could drop obesity rates by 3.5 percent and prevent 2,700 heart-related deaths each year, according to the study… [...]
Video: The freaky deaky “drone over Illinois” clip
C'mon.
The obligatory follow-up to Monday night’s anti-drone cri de coeur from Krauthammer. On the one hand, Chicago is hosting the big NATO summit this weekend, for which security should be airtight. Has DHS added a special little birdie to their eyes in the sky? On the other hand, c’mon. Slate reports: A government source familiar [...]
Surprise: Obama’s campaign now fundraising off of Rev. Wright attack ad that never ran
Distractions.
Like I said yesterday, given his liabilities on the economy, I think The One’s reasonably comfortable with nearly any change of subject. Even this subject: Campaign manager Jim Messina sent out a fundraising appeal Thursday night saying that the proposal, submitted to (and rejected by) a Republican super PAC, “shows in vivid and gruesome detail [...]
Gallup: Stay-at-home moms report more anger, sadness, depression than women who work
Oh my.
Good thing “Julia” was a working mom or else we’d probably have to pay for her antidepressants too. Second look at the blue social model? My gut reaction: Of course stay-at-home moms are stressed, they live in poorer households than women who work do. This result is simply an artifact of worrying about money, not [...]
Oh boy: New plagiarism found in book co-authored by Elizabeth Warren in 2006? Update: Or did other author plagiarize from Warren?
Endgame?
Go look at the side by side comparison that Katrina Trinko found. Or at least, I assume she found it; maybe it was passed along to her by someone who’s now aggressively looking into this stuff for the Brown campaign after the apparently plagiarized recipes came to light. The good news for Warren? She co-authored [...]
Is public broadcasting’s $445 million subsidy really a “tiny federal investment”?
Cut it off from the federal trough
NPR, PBS and other public broadcasting outlets are asking taxpayers to fork over $445 million in funding for the next fiscal year. But not if Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) have anything to say about it. The conservative lawmakers want to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the steward of the [...]
NARN, Minnesota GOP Convention Show #1; Update: Bills wins MN GOP Senate endorsement
7-9 ET, live from the convention floor!
The Northern Alliance Radio Network will be on the air today, with your hosts Mitch Berg and Ed Morrissey, on from 7-9 pm ET/6-8 pm CT, live from the convention floor! We will have our live streaming video and chat, and if you’re in the Twin Cities, you can hear us on AM 1280 The [...]
Energy Sec Chu takes to Facebook to review The Avengers and simultaneously tout clean-energy ‘investment’
Is there a "dislike" button yet?
I hadn’t realized that Obama’s cabinet members were joining in on the Facebook fun, but they are really going full frontal assault on the messaging campaign. The youths, you know (emphasis mine): I can rarely find the time to make it to the movies, but my staff is buzzing about The Avengers, which focuses on [...]
Five reasons Congress should act now to stop Taxmageddon
The $494 billion tax hike
Americans are facing an unprecedented $494 billion tax hike on Jan. 1, 2013. It’s been dubbed “Taxmageddon” given the economic devastation it would cause. Conventional wisdom suggests lawmakers in Washington will wait until the 11th hour to come up with a solution. Fortunately, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced this week he won’t wait for a [...]
Biden: I don’t blame people for voting for that inmate in West Virginia instead of for us
Nuance.
Via the Examiner, this is actually a fairly deft, politic response to a realllly bad outcome. He can’t say “voters are stupid” or, as his party believes, “voters are racist,” so instead he absolves them and lays the whole thing implicitly on — who else? — George W. Bush. But since no one takes Biden [...]
Too good to check: Did Elizabeth Warren plagiarize her recipes in “Pow Wow Chow”?
C'mon.
Alternate headline: “Fake Indian in real trouble.” I don’t know, guys. I’m grudgingly coming around to the idea that maybe it’d be better if she won in November. We can’t afford to lose her; she’s a daily one-woman content goldmine for the blogosphere, every bit the equal of Martha Coakley. A blogger has to eat, [...]
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