“Britain, the Sick Man of Europe: Heart and cancer survival rates among worst in developed world,“ reports the Daily Mail:
British health care is little better than that of former Communist countries, which spend a fraction of the billions poured into the NHS.
A survey published yesterday by the [...]
It was very disappointing to find an Obamaphile attack the “evil geniuses” who are trying to smear a great president, and my name didn’t come up once. Must mean I’m not a genius, because the evil part. . . .
[...]Members of a North Dakota Indian tribe are suing to stop UND from dropping its “Fighting Sioux” nickname. They consider it a badge of honor.
[...]If this Washington Post story is right, and “U.S.-born kids of illegal immigrants twice as likely as others to face poverty,“ then the solution is obvious, isn’t it? To reduce poverty, reduce illegal immigration! What am I missing here? There must be something. . . .
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p.s. the guy in the background is photoshopped in. He’s the tourist guy… [...] 
Must see, h/t Linkiest. See it at viralfootage.com [...] 
Asphalt growing up around thermometers. Here’s a look at one in Australia. Again from Watts Up With That [...] 
The UN Climate Change Conference is underway in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference is scheduled to run from December 7th through December 18th and includes the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the [...] 
p.s. OK, so he shoots bucks in the guts, and makes us track them for miles…Â Â Â on the off chance that he reads this! [...] A nice point about [reciprocity and religious tolerance]:
When Our Lady of the Rosary, Qatar’s first-ever church, opened last year, it did so minus cross, bell, dome, steeple, or signboard. Rosary’s priest, Father Tom Veneracion, explained their absence: “The idea is to be discreet because we don’t [...]
Today’s column asks whether the Climategate e-mails are the new Downing Street Memo:
Both the Downing Street Memo and the Climategate e-mails suggest political pressure led some people in high places to massage the intelligence to fit a predetermined conclusion. . . .
On the other hand, the Downing [...]
There is much second guessing President Obama’s speech last week regarding the decision the administration has reached about the future of the conflict in Afghanistan and the border areas of Pakistan. Faced with only bad choices to resolve the conflict the Bush administration had let [...] 
The mother of slain Blackwater guard Jerry Zovko drove from Ohio to give each of the accused SEALs a blessed rosary and lend them her support.
"These young SEALs are in this situation because they caught the mastermind behind the death of my" [...]
US. Navy photo of U.S.S. Arizona burning
December 7, 1941Â “A Date Which Will Live In Infamy” [...]
US. Navy photo of U.S.S. Arizona burning
December 7, 1941Â “A Date Which Will Live In Infamy” [...] As a follow-up to Friday’s column, take a gander at this Sunday story in the Roanoke Times:
“We really need to know now ... that the Surfaces property will be available when we need to start road construction,“ Mills wrote in an [...]
