It is probably accurate to state that most people, even the most conservative and levelheaded of us, wish deep down that time travel was a real possibility. The ability to see the past or the future close-up, or (leaving aside all the paradoxes for a moment) to go back in time and right a wrong […]
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In a bold experiment in fetal therapy, doctors in San Francisco treated a fetus with a severe, often fatal blood disorder. The child was saved, but the long-term prognosis is still uncertain.

Suicide and dementia rates are highest in older people, raising questions about their ownership of guns. One possible solution: an advance directive for firearms.

As Twitchy reported, it was not just one but two armed citizens who confronted and killed a man who had opened fire inside an Oklahoma City restaurant Thursday night, injuring three.
We were ready for the spin against the “good guy with a gun” narrative, and it came quickly. Moms Demand founder Shannon Watts, for example,  noted that the gunman was shot in the parking lot after he had shot his victims…

As Twitchy reported earlier, Jason Seaman, a science teacher at Noblesville West Middle School in suburban Indianapolis, was shot three times as he tackled a school shooter and knocked his gun away from him Friday.
Of course, comedian Michael Ian Black immediately blamed not the shooter but the NRA:

A middle school. This is deliberate terrorism against our children. The NRA is terrorist organization…

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For many viewers, commercials are easily the biggest downside of watching television. They always seem to pop up at the worst possible time, whether immediately following the shocking third-act twist on a basic cable drama or after a snarky reality show host utters the dreaded words, “Right after a word from our sponsors.” No one […]
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So, has Kyle Kashuv received an invitation yet?
NBC News reports that House Democrats are inviting students from Majory Stoneman Douglas High School to intern this summer to work on gun violence prevention … which may or may not be a step up from lying on the floor of a supermarket.

House Democrats are inviting Parkland students to come intern in their offices and work on gun violence prevention…

A new vaccine and other experimental drugs now are available to fight the outbreak. But first physicians must overcome the suspicions of a frightened populace.

Body snatching, the more apt term for corpse theft, reached its height between the 17th and 19th centuries, when a whole industry emerged around stealing corpses from graves and selling them to medical schools. The reason for this was not far-fetched. More medical schools were opening, and they all needed corpses for practicals. At the […]
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