The News article by Catherine Shaffer in the December issue1 entitled “FDA
recruits prominent critics” contends that the “the general response” to the
appointment of anti-industry zealot Peter Lurie of Public Citizen “is positive,
even among those who don't necessarily agree with Lurie's positions.”

As a former US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official myself (from 1979
to 1994), I find it difficult to comprehend how Shaffer came up with such a
misrepresentation. But...

Speaking to the perceived inequalities between the sexes in regards to domestic labor, President Obama said in an NBC interview that he thought men "need to be knocked across the head every once in a while."

Many would brush the comments aside as the Chief Executive's attempt at humor. However, as the nation has learned as of result of Rush Limbaugh's failure to acquire a stake in the ownership of the Rams, some thought are so vile that they cannot be enunciated according to the NFL...

Now that the Health Care Summit is over could we have a Jobs Summit or an Economy Summit? And what a Health Summit it was. When Mitch McConnell the leader of the Senate Republicans pointed out a two for one disparity between the time given to the Democrats and the Republicans Mr. Obama...

Prince George’s Community College wallows in blatant bigotry and sexism.

According to the 3/4/10 Gazette, the community college has established a leadership academy open only to Black and Hispanic males.

The director of the program, Brian Hamlin, is quoted as saying, “We want you to stay in college.”

In other words, it’s hoped Whites and females will drop out.

So much for it being content of character rather than color of skin that counts.

If White residents aren’t able...

As celebrities endorse nonsensical diets and journalists lend credence to anecdote over science, are we heading for disaster?

Will anecdote, rumor and buzz oust science as the basis for individual decision-making and public policy? If so, will it give rise to societal disintegration and disaster? Climate historian and physicist Spencer Weart thinks it's possible

Weart mused recently...

The Democrats have decided to re-name the Republicans the Party of No. That’s it. That’s their strategy to avoid an electoral debacle shaping up to be as bad for the Party of Hope and Change as...

Frau Obama denounces her daughter as overweight. No doubt this was a dry run for the Khmeresque plans they have for the rest of us where, in good Communist fashion, we will be forced to sit in a...

Students at the University of Mississippi are campaigning to make Admiral Ackbar from “Return of the Jedi” the school’s new mascot.

The school banished its old mascot Old Reb, an elderly Southern...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is fascinating. So is the just-released 19-page annual letter that describes the work of his charitable foundation--the world's largest. But for someone so smart who...

Over the course of 2009 conservatives and Republicans have done a far better job than anyone would have thought possible when it came to blocking ObamaCare from becoming law. Everyone thought it was...