Month: May 2009

Pharma Threat to Obama Presidency

. Officials investigate how bird flu contaminated vaccines in Europe Officials are trying to get to the bottom of how vaccine manufacturer Baxter International Inc. made “experimental virus material” based on a human...

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Jack Kemp Has Died

Jack Kemp has died of cancer. He was a profoundly decent and profoundly wrong man. He lived just long enough to see the end result of the supply-side revolution he did so much to start and sustain. But he shouldn’t be...

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Open Thread

I guess Afghanistan has even weaker opposition parties than the United States.

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The Damage is Done…Move On

Ron Brownstein has some interesting statistics that bear on what is happening to the Republican Party. The emphasis is mine. In the Senate, for instance, Democrats hold 22 of the 58 seats representing the 29 states that twice...

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Prosecutors Back Down in AIPAC Spy Case

. U.S. to Drop Spy Case Against Pro-Israel Lobbyists (New York Times) – The decision to drop the case comes just days before Aipac is scheduled to begin its annual policy conference in Washington, which has often served as...

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