Voting Resources
Beverly Nuckols
March 10th, 2011
Urologist Dr. Anthony Atala made news in January, 2007 with his report in Nature Biotechnology on stem cells found in amniotic fluid. These were 'adult' or non-destructive stem cells that could be turned into any sort of...
March 4th, 2011
Late Thursday night and early Friday morning, March 3-4, 2011, the new Select Committee on State Sovereignty met for the first time, under the direction of Chairman Brandon Creighton (R-16, Conroe, Montgomery County), and...
February 26th, 2011
In New York City, Black women abort 60% of their pregnancies.Pastor Stephen Broden mounted an unsuccessful run against Eddie Bernice Johnson for Dallas-area Congressional District 30 last year. He is one of the founders and...
February 8th, 2011
Break the egg of a turtle or bird on the Endangered Species List and no one will question whether the fetus or embryo was a leather backed turtle or a pelican. But according to op-eds in the Houston Chronicle, the Austin...
November 18th, 2010
This week's New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in the histrionically titled article, "A Flood of Opioids, a Rising Tide of Deaths", very roughly outlines a reported increase in deaths and injuries due to prescription...
November 13th, 2010
Science, is a weekly journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.The journal only allows non-subscribers to read an excerpt, but the AAAS report is available without subscription. In...
August 4th, 2010
Everyone wants “Cadillac” health care. The “health care reform” bill passed by Congress this year, "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," claims to be able to provide it.
July 4th, 2010
July 4, 2010, the United States commemorated the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It has been 234 years since Jefferson and his co-signers found it “self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their...
July 1st, 2010
The Scientist reports on the controversial "23andMe" home gene test for "playful" characteristics (link requires free registration) such as curly hair and the ability to smell certain metabolites of asparagus (in the urine...
June 21st, 2010
I touched last week on the politics of transhumanism. Technology that feeds information directly to our senses and/or sends data from our bodies to the Internet and machines without the more indirect input by a key board or...
March 7th, 2011
Buried within this news release about an article published this week in the journal Stem Cells is the report that the same team has accomplished as yet unpublished production of the same sorts of cells from “induced...
February 28th, 2011
“If we should vote next week on whether to begin producing cheese in a factory on the moon, I almost certainly would oppose it...On the other hand, if the government decided to institute the policy, it would be my objective...
February 16th, 2011
On Wednesday February 9, 2011, the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee held a public hearing on the Ultrasound Bill, Senate Bill 16, introduced by Senator Dan Patrick, a Republican from the Houston area. I drove to Austin...
November 29th, 2010
Since when is accusing everyone of terrorism acceptable, much less equal to accusing no one?“It is acceptable and encouraged that a TSA government official can do something to an American citizen that US military...
November 15th, 2010
Even as we learn that the journal, Stem Cell, has given its annual award to a researcher who showed that umbilical cord blood cells can help repair kidneys after trauma, that scientists have induced adult stem cells to go...
November 8th, 2010
I attended a once in a lifetime event sponsored by the Austin Heart Hospital and Texans for Stem Cell Research on the University of Texas campus Wednesday, October 27th. Six researchers reported on cutting-edge stem cell...
July 6th, 2010
Ronald Bailey is the Science Editor of Reason Magazine, a print and on line journal dedicated to “free minds and free markets.” The focus tends to be Libertarian, secular, and technological. Most of the time I agree with the...
July 2nd, 2010
When I heard about Kevin Costner’s press conference on the British Petroleum oil spill, I’m afraid that I thought about WaterWorld, that huge money-loser that helped put
June 27th, 2010
In a move reminiscent of the looters in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, President Obama’s Department of Labor announced a far-reaching change to the 1993 Family Medical Leave Act in a well publicized media event and News Release...
June 18th, 2010
I started doing research in order to write about the 21% in Medicare payments to doctors that will go into effect on Friday, June 18, 2010 unless Congress acts fast. * Instead, I got caught up in HR 4213, the "Tax Extenders...
