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And Baby Makes Seven Billion William McGurn has flagged a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) news item, "The State of World Population 2011." His comment: "Nothing brings out the inner Malthus like a newborn baby." [quote] At Columbia University's Earth Institute, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs tells CNN "the consequences for humanity could be grim." Earlier this year, a New York Times columnist declared "the earth is full," suggesting that a growing population means "we are eating into our future." And in West Virginia, the Charleston Gazette editorializes about a "human swarm" that is "overbreeding" in a way that "prosperous, well-educated families"...

Noman loves James Taranto's Best of the Web Today, and today proves no exception to the rule. Commencing with the defeat of President's Obama's American Jobs Act legislation in the Democratically-controlled Senate, he offers his analysis of hand-wringing on the Left. "Portnoy observes: "What I believe is happening is that the left is reading the handwriting on the wall and resigning itself to the harsh reality [that] the man they trusted to 'fundamentally transform America' is on the verge of being unelected." We'd go a step further. Not only does Obama's re-election look to be in serious jeopardy, but his...

<p>With Bill Simon preparing for high-profile Republican backing, Democratic governor Gray Davis went on the offensive yesterday, charging that the GOP candidate is "out of touch and out of sync" with California.</p> <p>During an appearance in San Francisco, Davis called Simon's decision to hire an activist with the controversial Traditional Values Coalition "a big mistake" and "an attempt to lead us in a direction most Californians don't want to go."</p>