My father-in-law had prostate surgery. We brought him to the hospital at 7:30a.m., and he was operated on at eight. We were amazed when the hospital called at noon to tell us he could go home.
Two months later our beagle, Bo, also had prostate surgery. When I brought him in, I asked theveterinarian what time [...]
William J. Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas
Background
In 2001 the Clinton Foundation, in an effort to get free land from the City of Little Rock, promised to renovate the Rock Island Bridge at the Presidential Center to become a part of our 14 mile Arkansas River Trail Loop. To date that promise to our [...]
Haiti’s hunger, that burn in the belly that so many here feel, has become fiercer than ever in recent days as global food prices spiral out of reach, spiking as much as 45 percent since the end of 2006 and turning Haitian staples such as beans, corn and rice into closely guarded treasures.
Saint Louis Meriska’s [...]
The idea of turning farms into fuel plants seemed, for a time, like one of the answers to high global oil prices and supply worries. That strategy seemed to reach a high point last year when Congress mandated a fivefold increase in the use of biofuels.
But now a reaction is building against policies in the [...]
In June of 1982 a group of Christians gathered together in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Their goal was to explore and explain their reasons for believing that Christians ought to be both socially and politically involved. Eventually, a report was published, and embedded in that report is something I think may help us continue our dialog [...]
“Nothing is easier, or more emotionally satisfying, than blaming high prices on those who charge them, rather than on those who cause them.” –Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
April, 2006
If there is anything worse than partisan demagoguery, it is bipartisan demagoguery. Republican leaders have now joined the Democrats in blaming the oil companies for the fact that prices [...]
The first ever Veruca Salt Award given by TheZoo, after much deliberation by the committee, has been awarded to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Actually, we couldn’t think of anyone more deserving…
The Veruca Salt Award is named in honor of the character from the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Veruca is a spoiled rotten child, [...]
ByDEBORAH SONTAG
Over the last five weeks, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has featured in her campaign stump speeches the story of a health care horror: an uninsured pregnant woman who lost her baby and died herself after being denied care by an Ohio hospital because she could not come up with a $100 [...]
March 31, 2008
SEARCY, Ark. — Harding University and Arkansas State University in Jonesboro have signed an agreement to develop pharmaceutical research opportunities. The agreement provides a collaborative working arrangement for Harding’s College of Pharmacy and the Arkansas Biosciences Institute at ASU.
Dr. Carole Cramer, executive director of the Arkansas Biosciences Institute at ASU, and Dr. Julie [...]
slate.com
The punishment visited on Sen. Hillary Clinton for her flagrant, hysterical, repetitive, pathological lying about her visit to Bosnia should be much heavier than it has yet been and should be exacted for much more than just the lying itself. There are two kinds of deliberate and premeditated deceit, commonly known as suggestio falsi and [...]
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