According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of the land of the free and the home of the brave officially hit 300 million at 7:46 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, October 16, 2006.
The Census Bureau, which uses administrative records and surveys to estimate monthly averages for the births, deaths, and net immigration that occur [...]

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Now I shall blog about the House of Representatives election in my district, Florida’s 10th. It’s not a terribly exciting race as the GOP incumbent, who won 69% of the vote in 2004, is very popular and favored to win.
But we’re purple down here in Pinellas County, Florida — in 2004, 51% of us [...]

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Because a small, but significant, number of conservatives have become frustrated with Republican governance; and independent swing voters are turning against GOP candidates, Democrats appear to be edging closer to gaining a majority of House seats.
Just four weeks before Election Day, numerous polls — all taken after the surfacing of the Capitol Hill page sex [...]

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Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in California found that the active ingredient in marijuana, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), may prevent the progression of Alzheimer’s disease by preventing the neurotransmitter acetylcholine from breaking down and blocking clumps of protein that can inhibit memory and cognition in Alzheimer’s patients.
The researchers said their discovery could lead to more [...]

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This is a sort of public service announcement for the numerous people who have found this web site via Yahoo, Google, or some other search engine using “the difference between ethics and morals” or some variation thereof.
(This is the third most frequent referral. References to the obvious closing lines of the first verse of our [...]

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