Vaccine Failure Is Setback in AIDS Fight
Test Subjects May Have Been Put at Extra Risk Of Contracting HIV
I know. They’re still perfecting it. But isn’t there any good news anywhere?
David Brown has the details about this disappointing development in this morning’s Washington Post.
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This is a great video, and nicely summarizes what all this wasteful, no-bid, mercenary-laden warfare is bringing us.

Of course, this is not a new way of looking at war and war industries.No one less then that great appeaser, President Dwight D. Eisenhower himself appears to have shared those views:

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“Veterans not entitled to mental health care, U.S. lawyers argue”
Bob Egelko reports in the San Francisco Gate, and it makes for a pretty dispiriting read.
Veterans have no legal right to specific types of medical care, the Bush administration argues in a lawsuit accusing the government of illegally denying mental health treatment to some troops […]

Have they told the seniors in Florida yet?
Jeffrey Young reports in The Hill:
McCain plan to scale back drug benefit gets little attention in Florida
If elected president, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) would pursue reforms to Medicare that could lead to hundreds of thousands of Florida seniors losing their current prescription drug coverage. But McCain’s campaign […]

January 9, 2008
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 8:10 PM

HH: I am joined now, though, by America’s favorite conservative in exile. It’s Rick Santorum. Senator, always a pleasure to talk to you.
RS: Thank you, Hugh. It’s great to be with you again.
HH: Now you know, I think pretty much everyone on our side […]

December 28, 2007
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John Edwards: Obama ‘Living in Never-Never Land’?
Edwards Criticizes Rivals as the Campaign in Iowa Enters the Home Stretch
By JAKE TAPPER
DUBUQUE, IOWA, Dec. 28, 2007—
In a wide-ranging, free-wheeling interview with Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards with ABC News Friday afternoon, the former North Carolina senator labeled “ridiculous” comments made by the […]

December 28, 2007
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Huckabee says Pakistan Proves Need for Border Fence
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: December 28, 2007
DES MOINES — Mike Huckabee used the volatile situation in Pakistan Friday to make an argument for building a fence on the American border with Mexico and found himself trying to explain a […]

December 22, 2007
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December 22, 2007
That Huey Long of Arkansas — Now He’s Going Down, Too?
One almost pities them. Every time Republicans start narrowing their choice of presidential candidates, they get the head handed to them by the vulturous press or some antagonistic, oppo-research operation. So they move on to the next Great […]