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Jig Zone Puzzle:
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Short Takes:
From LA Times: A U.S. district judge on Monday blocked the federal government from funding all research involving human embryonic stem cells on the grounds that it violates a 1996 law intended to prevent the destruction of of human embryos.
The judge was a Reagan appointee. It will be years before the judiciary can be balanced again.
From Washington Post: Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel (R) will throw his support behind Rep. Joe Sestak’s (D) Senate candidacy tomorrow, the latest in a series of out-of-state surrogates getting behind the Pennsylvania Democrat.
Hagel was one of the last principled conservatives to be driven to the sidelines by the current wave of Republicans without authentic values.
Cartoon: from Cagle.com
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6 Responses to “Open Thread – 8/24/2010”
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That cartoon sure sums it up. Food and drug safety, clean air, clean water — deregulation is the gift that keeps on giving.
Good for Chuck Hagel. As you said, “one of the last principled conservatives to be driven to the sidelines” by the ‘baggers and birthers.
And Republicans want even less regulation.
I have no doubt that that ruling will be overturned by some rational (activist) judge.
A Repub supporting a Dem? I don’t think I’ve seen this in my lifetime? WTF is the world going rational?
Tainted food will always be around as long as we have factory farms that cut corners on safety.
I’ve seen it before. Powell supported Obama.
I think the SCOTUS ruling in Chevron v NRDC will be the undoing of Lamberth’s injunction:
Source:
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/08/23/stem-cell-lamberth/
… AND from a law professor:
Source:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/08/one_law_profs_opinion.php#more?ref=fpblg
Thanks Nameless. You handled that better than I did.