May 6, 2011

Stem Cell Ban Lifted – For Now

  Good recent news is the sensible decision by a US Appeals Court overturning an injunction that barred the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from funding research using human embryonic stem cells. Good as far as it goes, but it doesn’t put a stop to court action, which is based on a […]
February 5, 2011

Obama for Capitalism!

According to a report in Science, President Obama has become an advocate of market forces: Letting market forces help the United States reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by choosing “cleaner” sources of electricity has been a popular notion among some Republicans, who oppose the Democratic alternative of putting a price on […]