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President Joe Biden appeared to forget which century he was in during a campaign speech in Portland over the weekend, referring to life in 1922. “Look, in 1922 the price for one blood pressure drug that millions of Medicare patients — beneficiaries — rely on went up one — went up by 500 percent,” he said without correcting himself. Biden spoke on Saturday during a campaign event in Portland, Oregon, about lowering the costs of prescription drugs for seniors.

Which Future Fear do You Fear More? I have encountered articles and discussions suggesting that fearing terrorist is irrational, even bordering on paranoia. The major source of that fear is the notion of a terrorist possessing a nuclear weapon. We cannot ignore the potential of millions beheaded in a moment. I have also encountered articles and discussions suggesting that fearing global warming is irrational, even bordering on paranoia. The major source of that fear is the notion of a rise in sea levels. We cannot ignore the potential of relocating millions of people in the future.

Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) has drawn a line in the sand over the left's rampant deficit spending and demanded that Democrats actually start following their own "pay-as-you-go" rules...

When you're in orbit, which way is Mecca? 12:14 21 April 2006 NewScientist.com news service Kelly Young Dan Bursch, Yuri Onufrienko and Carl Walz pose with their Christmas tree aboard the International Space Station in 2001 (Image: NASA)Malaysia's National Space Agency is trying to determine how its astronaut candidates will practice Islam in space. Three of its four astronaut candidates are Muslim, and two will be selected for a future Russian space flight. Once in their orbiting spacecraft, they will circle the Earth once every 90 minutes. Traditionally, Muslims pray five times per day, at times connected to the position...

Global Warming or Terrorism: Which Is a Bigger Threat? Commentary, Syed Arif Hussaini, Pakistan Link, Dec 12, 2005 Sponsored by the UN, attended by almost 10,000 representatives from 189 countries, environmental groups, scientific organizations and businesses, the United Nations Climate Change Conference just finished in Montreal, Canada. Inaugurating the November 28-December 9 conference, Canadian Environment Minister Stephane Dion called for a “more effective, more inclusive long-term approach to climate change”. Several observers interpreted his observations as an appeal to the United States, the leading consumer of oil and gas and emitter of greenhouse gases, whose President, George Bush, had decided...

House takes up leak reviewThursday, November 10, 2005 8:01 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Intelligence Committee will look into a possible leak of classified information about secret CIA prisons but will not reopen its 2003 inquiry into prewar intelligence on Iraq. As calls for intelligence-related reviews grow on Capitol Hill, Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., said Thursday his committee will study several specific leaks of classified information, including a Nov. 2 Washington Post story that discussed the existence of secret CIA prisons overseas. The story said the ‘‘black sites'' were in eight countries, including democracies in Eastern Europe. Hoekstra...

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"I can wage a better war on terror than George Bush has." So speaks Senator Kerry in the U.S. presidential campaign's final days, again reminding voters that the key issue in this race remains as it was a year earlier - deciding which candidate will better protect Americans from terrorism.As with so many topics, the basic difference between Kerry and President Bush is one of character, with the challenger repeatedly changing his mind and the president sticking with one position.On occasion, Mr. Kerry adopts Bush-like terminology. For example, in September 2004 he talked about the war on terror being "as...

Despite the "ceasefire" agreement purportedly reached in London yesterday, Hamas announced today that it would continue to murder Israelis. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a leading Hamas figure in Gaza, denied today that all the terror organizations had agreed to call off attacks until after the Israeli elections. Yasser Arafat was reported yesterday to have agreed to enforce a "no attack" period until the elections, during which civilians of pre-1967 Israel would be exempt from being murdered. Arab affairs journalist Tzvi Yechezkeli told Arutz-7 today that though Arafat signed on the agreement, "this doesn't mean that the other terrorist groups agree to...