Sarah Palin, fruit flies and science funding

The Fiscal Cliff Is Forcing a Biomedical Day of Reckoning
Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com

Luke TimmermanSarah Palin, the onetime candidate for the second-highest elected office in the U.S., once delivered a rant on the campaign trail about waste she perceived in federal support of fruit fly research.Scientists everywhere were…

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The decline of the Fox News brain trust

‘There is some holy hell to pay’
Steve Benen, msnbc.com

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I’ve never fully under­stood how Karl Rove devel­oped a rep­u­ta­tion as a strate­gic genius.

In 2000, it was Rove’s idea to keep George W. Bush in Cal­i­for­nia in the cam­paign’s wan­ing days, instead of stump­ing in key…

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