SKEPTICISM IS WARRANTED, BUT...:

Paralyzed woman walks again after stem cell therapy (AFP, 11/27/04)

A South Korean woman paralyzed for 20 years is walking again after scientists say they repaired her damaged spine using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood.

Hwang Mi-Soon, 37, had been bedridden since damaging her back in an accident two decades ago.

Last week her eyes glistened with tears as she walked again with the help of a walking frame at a press conference where South Korea researchers went public for the first time with the results of their stem-cell therapy.

They said it was the world's first published case in which a patient with spinal cord injuries had been successfully treated with stem cells from umbilical cord blood.

So John Kerry, Ron Reagan, Christopher Reeve, and Michael J. Fox wanted to kill all those people and debase our society for nothing?

Michael Kinsley, likewise an advocate of murder for his own purposes, expresses himself with unusual clarity today, To Hell With Values (Michael Kinsley, November 28, 2004, LA Times)

It's been less than a month since the gods decreed that, due to the election results, American political life henceforth must be all about something called "values." And I gave it my best. Honest. But I'm sick of talking about values, sick of pretending I have them or care more about them than I really do. Sick of bending and twisting the political causes I do care about to make them qualify as "values."

It would mark a major step forward in our political dialogue for all such folk to simply acknowledge their proud amorality.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 28, 2004 1:20 PM