I was hoping he’d live, for many reasons. But despite being cared for in Dallas rather than Liberia, Thomas Eric Duncan becomes not just the first person to be diagnosed in this country, but the first person to die of … Continue reading →
Now they want to kill the Spanish nurse’s dog as an Ebola precaution. I like dogs, but I’m not a PETA-esque fanatic. However, I’m with the nurse’s husband on this—why not quarantine the dog for a while?: In a letter … Continue reading →
Dana Milbank writes an article parsing the recent spate of books by former Obama advisors (Gates, H. Clinton, and now Panetta) critical of his policies, especially his foreign policies. But in the entire piece he treats their motives as merely … Continue reading →
…and doing next to nothing as ISIS prepares to slaughter many of the remaining inhabitants of Kobani, a mostly Kurdish town on the border of Syria and Turkey: …which is crammed with refugees””Kurdish, Turkmen, Christian, and Arab””from other parts of … Continue reading →
…is a nurse’s assistant. Unlike the accusations that have been leveled at Thomas Duncan, no one can say she kept mum about the fact that she’d been near an Ebola patient recently. That’s because she was on the team that … Continue reading →
I mean it: mosquitoes are astonishing. Until recently, all I knew about mosquitoes could be summed up as: hate the little buggers. They bite, and can cause malaria. But while researching the answer to Ymarsakar’s question the other day about … Continue reading →
Which is also a decision, because the trend in the lower courts is to declare its ban unconstitutional: Jonathan Adler writes that the Supreme Court might still take a case in the future, but I don’t see how that is … Continue reading →
Three years ago I took the test on the “Political Compass” site. This was the result back then, which seemed to place me correctly on the scale: I just took the test again. And although I certainly didn’t remember my … Continue reading →
Warnings about the 9/11 hijackers: ignored. And we’re not talking about general warnings that all too often, and yet understandably, get lost in the shuffle. We’re talking about very specific warnings about the actual 9/11 hijackers.
Continue reading →Hi there! This blog post could not bbe writgten much better! Easy for you to say. [ADDENDUM: I left comment #3 up in the comments section because I thought it very appropriate to show that some spam had successfully evaded … Continue reading →
Here’s a wonderful post by a liberal guy who’s also a shrink, on the subject of the divide between Red and Blue America, and in particular the attitude of Blue towards Red (hat tip: commenter “carl in atlanta”): The worst … Continue reading →
There are so many articles of interest on the subject of Ebola that I think I’ll just do a roundup: My guess is that the suspected Ebola case in DC will turn out to be a false alarm, if the … Continue reading →