Reformed Chicks Blabbing

A third of the black women who get breast cancer are under 50 years old and 20-30% of the breast cancers are triple-negative (which is an aggressive and deadly cancer with a high recurrence and metastasis, including brain metastasis and when it reoccurs it’s usually fatal since it doesn’t respond to treatment): Studies estimate that…

He charges that the Republicans are trying to slow it down, saying the same thing that was said of slavery and the civil rights movement. Obviously, forgetting history since it was the Democrats who tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act and it was the Republicans who ended slavery:We all know the Republicans aren’t the…

David Plouffe, who manged Obama’s campaign and wrote about it in The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory, is trying to generate interest in his book by utilizing the left’s hatred of Palin to his advantage:It will be interesting to see if the lefties will let themselves be…

Vindication for those who have said that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations would be used to limit access to mammograms: The eligibility age for state-subsidized breast cancer screening has been raised from 40 to 50 by the California Health and Human Services Agency, which will also temporarily stop enrollment in the breast cancer…

Well, the GOP finally did something smart! Perfect response to ObamaCare, a breast cancer survivor who questions whether a task force would set future public policy:According to section 4105 (and other sections) of the senate bill the answer is yes.(via)

He compares her to a child:How insulting and degrading. Her question was pretty silly but he didn’t have to be insulting. He really is the worst! I liked her response: “Don’t play with me.”

I liked Obama’s response, it seemed like something a professor might say but I wish the kid had asked him about tax cuts for businesses instead. I would have liked to hear Obama’s response:

Oh boy! Not a smart move, it really moves her further to the fringes if she’s willing to pander to those who won’t get off that hobby horse: I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue. I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t know if I would have to bother…

So, it’s looking like there will be more damage than help from Copenhagen next week. A huge carbon footprint without much possibility of action. Typical. Talk about your global warming . . . When an estimated 16,500 delegates, activists and reporters descend upon Copenhagen Monday for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, a lot of…

Dr. Ronald Sider in an interview with the Village Voice explains why he signed the Manhattan Declaration. I thought this was a really good question and an excellent response: RS: How do you feel about gay people wanting to live by these kinds of conservative principles in marriage? Isn’t the desire for gay people to…

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