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  Death of a Conservative Great

  The Corner (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics

    I wish the Helms family peace, and I thank Jesse Helms for helping to ensure the election of Ronald Reagan, being a warrior against the Soviet Union and for the release of Soviet Jews and other abused minorities, and being a voice for millions of unborn babies. I have noticed some of the smears lobbed at William Buckley in other places since his death; Jesse Helms is in for even more of it. Other prominent...

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  The Logic of Knife Control

  Power Line (subscribe) | yesterday | Other

    In Great Britain, following decades of increasingly stringent gun control, private ownership of handguns was banned in 1997. And, in fact, there appear to be few firearms in private hands. But the result has not been what was intended. Crime rates in the U.K. have risen steadily, and violent crime has increased alarmingly in recent years. London is currently in the grip of a crime wave, as one brutal,...

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  iPhone 3G lines start at the Apple Cube... one week early

  Engadget (subscribe) | 07/04/2008 | Technology

    Filed under: Misc. Gadgets So we heard some really over-eager folks have decided to get a jump on the iPhone 3G line -- a really, really big jump. Obviously, we had to head down and see if it was true... and it is. Right now, about ten people have started a line outside of Apple's flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York. Word is that the family at the head of the queue are attempting to break some...

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  3D mammograms increase breast cancer detection by 23 percent

  arnsteinblogg 2.0 (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology

    Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Scientists have developed stereo mammograms -- breast X-rays taken with special cameras and at multiple angles -- that they say can help them increase detection of breast cancer by 23-percent while decreasing false alarms by 46-percent. By overlaying images taken at different angles or using 3D glasses, Researchers at the Mayo clining say they can now see behind dense tissue...

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  Happy Independence Day Open Thread

  Stop the ACLU (subscribe) | 07/04/2008 | Politics

    Happy Independence Day Everyone. Feel free to use this as an open post. Discuss whatever you like in the comments, and use the trackback feature to promote your own posts. If you send a trackbac, we only ask for a link back to this post. Have a great Independence Day! If you [...]

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