13 Nutrition Lies That Made The World Sick And Fat

This is a really interesting article:

13 Nutrition Lies That Made The World Sick And Fat - Business Insider: "Nutrition is full of all kinds of nonsense.
The worst examples are listed here, but unfortunately this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Here are the top 13 nutrition lies that have made the world both sick and fat."

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More Good News: Already Sluggish Economy Is ‘Losing Steam’

Great:

The PJ Tatler » More Good News: Already Sluggish Economy Is ‘Losing Steam’: "U.S. manufacturing output barely rose in September and contracts to buy previously owned homes recorded their largest drop in nearly 3-1/2 years, the latest signs the economy’s momentum ebbed as the third quarter ended.


The reports on Monday showed economic activity was on weak footing even before a 16-day partial shutdown of the U.S. federal government early in October that is expected to weigh on fourth quarter growth."

No Reason, Just Hate: That’s a Modern Liberal

I see this all the time, lots of emotionalism but very little rational discourse:

No Reason, Just Hate: That’s a Modern Liberal | Power Line: "The Left’s hatred for conservatives has become so obsessive that it is hard to engage a liberal in rational discussion of any public policy issue. Take the Keystone XL pipeline: I think it is obviously a good idea, but if a liberal wants to argue to the contrary, fine. But instead of trying to advance a rational argument, what do liberals do? They can’t talk about the pipeline except by trotting out their own pet obsessions."

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Niall Ferguson's Public Flogging Of Paul Krugman

This is a really good synopsis of Ferguson's destroying Krugman's economic theories:

Much Bigger Than The Shutdown: Niall Ferguson's Public Flogging Of Paul Krugman - Forbes: "While America was distracted by the theatrics of the government shutdown and threat of default something of much greater importance occurred.  Niall Ferguson undertook a public flogging of Paul Krugman.

Krugman’s horns now forever will show under his dislodged faux halo. For this the world will prove a safer, and much more decent, place."

The painful story behind modern anesthesia

Fascinating, and am I grateful for anesthesia:

The painful story behind modern anesthesia: "One of the truly great moments in the long history of medicine occurred on a tense fall morning in the surgical amphitheater of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital."

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God and Suffering - Religion/Philosophy - Prager University

Very interesting:

God and Suffering - Religion/Philosophy - Prager University: "How can one square a world full of unjust suffering and a good God? Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, has a compelling and surprising answer."

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Remembering America

Read the whole thing:

Roger’s Rules » Remembering America: "Witnessing the unedifying spectacle put on by our masters in Washington this last week or so, we could only shake our heads sadly. And when we contemplated the action of ordinary citizens — those vets who disassembled the “Barrycades” erected in front of national monuments by a punitive Obama administration — we couldn’t help wondering whether the country was teetering towards a pre-revolutionary state."

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Eureka! Tea partiers know science

Not surprising:

Eureka! Tea partiers know science - Tal Kopan - POLITICO.com: "A finding in a study on the relationship between science literacy and political ideology surprised the Yale professor behind it: Tea party members know more science than non-tea partiers."

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10 Incredible GIFs Showing How Aging Changes Our Appearance

Fascinating:

10 Incredible GIFs Showing How Aging Changes Our Appearance | Fstoppers: "It’s always amazing to see childhood photos of old people you know and see how they looked when they were our age (or younger). Sometimes they look almost identical, sometimes they look like 2 different people."

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How bacteria in your gut affect your mental health

Interesting:

How bacteria in your gut affect your mental health - Technology & Science - CBC News: "Scientists searching for the underlying causes of mental illness have discovered a surprising contributor — it appears the bacteria that live in your gut may play a major role in your mental health and well-being."

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What an Antarctic Expedition Can Teach You About What’s Truly Valuable

What is truly valuable?

What They Left and What They Kept: What an Antarctic Expedition Can Teach You About What’s Truly Valuable | The Art of Manliness: "Shackleton’s men were faced with a series of heart-wrenching choices. Given the scant two-pound allowance, which of their cherished personal possessions should they keep, and which should they cast aside into what Shackleton called “the privacy of these white graves”?

Taking inventory of what the members of the Endurance expedition decided to keep and what they left behind can teach us much about what is truly valuable — not only literally, in terms of material possessions — but as broader symbols of what matters most in life for all of us."

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Obama Fails To Practice His Preaching On Civility During Shutdown

Our great leader:

Obama Fails To Practice His Preaching On Civility During Shutdown - Investors.com: "Leadership: Remember when President Obama was showered with kudos for his 2011 speech calling for "more civility in our public discourse"? He sure isn't practicing today what he preached then."

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SpiteHouse: National Park goons remove handles from trail water fountains

If they keep this up no one is going to like or believe them on anything.  It's also why Obama's approval is down to 37%:

Marathon Pundit: SpiteHouse: National Park goons remove handles from trail water fountains: "It what looks like a spiteful move, the NPS even removed handles from water spigots along the Chesapeake and Ohio canal where bikers and joggers exercise as well as along the Great Allegheny Passage, just to ensure people don't get any water from them. "

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Police Officers Three Times More Likely to Murder Than Concealed Carry Permit Holders

This is interesting:

Police Officers Three Times More Likely to Murder Than Concealed Carry Permit Holders: "The question arose, how often do police officers commit homicide compared to concealed carry permit holders?   Of the two, which is more common?

It appears that a person is three times safer with a concealed carry permit holder than they are with a police officer."

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Why ‘Progressives’ Always Get Tech Wrong

Excellent article on why progressives are so out of date:

Ed Driscoll » Why ‘Progressives’ Always Get Tech Wrong: "“There are two Americas, all right, Glenn Reynolds notes in his latest USA Today column. “There’s one that works — where new and creative things happen, where mistakes are corrected, and where excellence is rewarded. Then there’s Washington, where everything is pretty much the opposite:”"

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Should Christian Parents Send their Children to Public Schools?

This article concerns Albert Mohler and his question concerning Christians;  Is is ok for Christian parents to send their children to public schools?  I'm beginning to say no.

PJ Lifestyle » Should Christian Parents Send their Children to Public Schools?:  Mohler blames the loss of local control for much of the “backlash against the public schools.” In earlier generations, “the public schools were public in the sense that they were community schools maintained for and by the citizens of a community. Local control was axiomatic, and parents had a direct influence in the curriculum and policies of the schools.”

All of that began to change with the influence of the progressive agenda, though it took decades to fully emerge. But, Mohler says, “the last half of the twentieth century saw the public schools radically transformed in the vast majority of communities.” Supreme Court decisions “secularized the schools in a way that separated the schools from their communities and families.” Mohler notes that the “evil of racial segregation was rightly ended,” but court-ordered school busing destroyed the sense of community.

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Amazing Civil War photographs

Amazing Civil War photographs created by colorist bring the era's heroes and characters to life in full color for the first time | Mail Online: "Two professional colorists have combined their skills with photographs and fascination with the American Civil War to create a remarkable series of color photographs from the era. "

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