Republican Daniel J. Evans gives some good reason’s why not to have a hand recount in the Washington Governor race. I find his arguments to be persuasive, I wonder though if he would be making them if it was Rossi who was behind by 42 votes?
That of course is the test of principles.
That being [...]
Here is a great resource on the Raich v. Ashcroft Supreme Court case.
Basically the case is about whether the Federal Government has the power to regulate medical marijuana under the inter-state commerce clause of the constitution even if the activitiy in question neither crosses state boundaries or is commercial in nature.
My [...]
Reuters:
French soldiers opened fire on crowds of angry youths during days of mob violence and looting in Ivory Coast earlier this month, French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said.
French forces had previously said they fired warning shots during the unrest, but Alliot-Marie told France’s RTL television on Sunday night the troops had most probably “made full [...]
CNN:
Brain scans of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder show abnormalities in the fiber pathways along which brain signals pass, scientists said Monday.
The finding indicates the disorder may be more than just a chemical imbalance, they added.
Very interesting stuff. This bit here seems to be good news:
In another study, Ashtari found the brain irregularities diminished [...]
Fox News:
It worked in mice. It worked in monkeys. And now in humans, a therapeutic vaccine has stopped HIV in its tracks.
The vaccine is made from a patient’s own dendritic cells (search) and HIV isolated from the patient’s own blood. Dendritic cells are crucial to the immune response. They grab foreign bodies in the [...]
This article on the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is very interesting reading. There is a lot of stuff in it that I didn’t know about previously.
The underling issues are some of the most interesting to me. I don’t think that anyone would argue that the people who make the polio vaccines and similar [...]
Here is an interesting Op-Ed on the Washington Governor race.
But is it? It certainly isn’t more precise, as the fiasco of Florida’s chad counting proved in 2000. “When you’re talking about close to 900,000 pieces of paper, I think the machine count is going to be more accurate than a manual count,” Dean Logan, the [...]
This CNN Article has all sorts of implications.
IBM, Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. on Monday unveiled some key details on the powerful new “Cell” processor the three are jointly producing to run next-generation computers, game consoles and TVs.
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“In the future, all forms of digital content will be converged and fused onto the broadband network,” [...]
Check out this interesting, and well done, speculation on the future of media.
(via Instapundit)
This New Scientist article on Chinese blogging is fascinating.
This bit is especially cool:
Asked whether he has a strategy to expand blogging under China’s censorship regime, his response is Taoist: “What is our strategy? We do not have a strategy. But the information flow in the blogosphere has its own Way. The Way is [...]
