The results of Australia's gun confiscation and oppressive gun laws: NOTHING... except people can no longer defend themselves.
Some truth about the stem-cell issue. Yes, of course it is being demagogued. What isn't? Here's the science. Shrinkwrapped
Hamilton College, post-Churchill, is seeking some sanity. Inside Higher Ed
Voter ID in Missouri. Quote from a piece in Opinion Journal:
People in the good state of Missouri need photo identification to cash a check, board a plane or apply for food stamps. But the state Supreme Court has ruled that a photo ID requirement to vote is too great a burden on the elderly and the poor. Go figure.
Moose are taking over Yankee-land. A conservation success, but a serious driving hazard. Hunting them is a bit like shooting a Holstein cow in a field. You make sure to kill them near a road: they are heavy.
Are you scared yet? Quoted via Junk Science:
Obligatory eye-roller: "Global warming and your health" - "Global warming could do more to hurt your health than simply threaten summertime heat stroke, says a public health physician. Although heat related illnesses and deaths will increase with the temperatures, climate change is expected to also attack human health with dirtier air and water, more flood-related accidents and injuries, threats to food supplies, hundreds of millions of environmental refugees, and stress on and possible collapse of many ecosystems that now purify our air and water." (Geological Society of America)
