Adult stem cells put a celebrity on the road to health. Too bad you’ll never hear about it from the MSM, despite the Senate passing and the president signing legislation to fund the ethically sound, successful method of stem cell research.

Take this ABC News story, on the bill’s signing. Despite being called the “Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005″ the article doesn’t use the words “stem cell”. Incredible, but expected. Fox isn’t much better, they only mention stem cells in the context of a bill on embryonic stem cell research. NEWS FLASH: There’s a panoply of different types of stem cell research!

I’m sure Ed Murrow would be disappointed, if Ed Murrow wasn’t a leftist.

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The Club for Growth is coming out swinging against Joe Schwarz one of the biggest liberals in Congress. He is being opposed by Tim Walberg, a solid Club-backed candidate. He apparently doesn’t have a website yet but once he does make sure to donate.

Check out this new MoveOn Ad

So let’s imagine what the founders would think of a certain situation:
1. There is a piece of land located in a sovereign state
2. The population of that state overwhelmingly supports a certain use for that piece of land
3. The federal government owns the land
4. The federal government tells the state where they can stick it
5. The citizens of other states decide what happens to the land

I believe #3 would have been enough to send the founders over the edge, but #4 and #5 would have been legitimate revolution fodder for our founders. The federal government shouldn’t own any land outside of military establishments and post offices, maybe, some other federal offices, but not huge swaths of land. Second, the Republicans should adopt a new strategy on this one. Sell the land back to the state and then there’s nothing the Washington liberals could do about it.

The true conservative approach to this and other problems is to return the land to the states and let them decide. The issue of ANWR shouldn’t be a federal issue plain and simple. Sadly though federalism on both sides of the aisle is long dead.

From Politics1 (A daily must read):

ALASKA. What exactly did curmudgeonly US Senate President Pro Tempore Ted Stevens (R) mean — according to the Anchorage Daily News — when he said “This is the saddest day of my life … I say goodbye to the Senate tonight”after his proposal to allow oil drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) failed on Wednesday? Stevens’ staff refuses to clarify the statement. Observers agree Stevens is fed-up with DC politics after his failures this year with ANWR and his failed funding for Alaska’s so-called “bridge to nowhere”? Some believe that — at age 82 and after 37 years in the US Senate — Stevens is contemplating resigning. While Stevens is not up for re-election until 2008, a resignation in the coming weeks would force a 2006 special election. A state law adopted by voters after Governor Frank Murkowski (R) appointed his daughter Lisa to his vacant US Senate seat now prohibits the Governor from making any interim appointment before the special election. Of course, at the end of the day, this is more likely just Stevens’ pissed-off way of saying he probably won’t seek re-election in ‘08.

I’m blegging for election help. The recent state elections have led to four special elections, and they’re all on short notice, and most of them have decent candidates.

The individual I’m asking you to help is Loudoun County Supervisor Mick Staton. He’s running to replace Bill Mims (a W&M grad) whose going to work for Bob McDonnell, and this race is HUGE. Last November, the Democrats ran up big numbers in Loudoun and won the county for the first time in a long time. It’s part of the NOVA exurbs, and the victory there gave potential ‘08 nominee Mark Warner a big boost. Conservatives need to knock him down a notch by holding onto this seat.

So what’s Mick about? Just look at his questionnaire from a 2003 race:

• Endorsed by Frank Wolf, George Allen, Dick Black and Bill Mims
• “What is your top public-service accomplishment?… I would have to say my top public-service accomplishment was helping to lead the defeat of the sales tax referendum in Loudoun County.”
• “What are the top five problems facing your constituents… Higher taxes and out of control spending… Education… Growth… Transportation.”

Folks, Mick Staton is the real deal. The conservative Republican Senate PAC (in Virginia the RINOs and the conservatives each have their own NRSC equivalent) have already endorsed him. But the day of the election will be determined by Mark Warner, which means it will likely be very soon. We need help and we need it ASAP.

If you want to help put a good conservative in office and hurt the chances of an ‘08 Democrat, drop me a line at stompthereds@yahoo.com.

On what happened with the Patriot Act, I recommend Bob Novak’s latest column. I won’t write too much on it, but merely draw out the two main points:

The Republicans who crossed over were motivated by honest concerns about civil liberty.

Sununu, a New Hampshire conservative and one of the Senate’s rising Republican stars, joined with three other right-of-center Republicans last week to defeat cloture… These conservatives contend that the bill’s final version, while it is aimed at terrorists, actually threatens civil liberties of law-abiding citizens. But President Bush until now has rejected a three-month extension of the government’s anti-terrorist powers while negotiations begin on an amended statute.

This state of affairs reflects a general failing and a specific misunderstanding by the Bush administration. Generally, it has ignored concern that the war against terror threatens the lives of ordinary Americans, as reflected currently in the revelation of the government’s telephone tapping.

Bush failed to pass the bill because he listened to the Dems on politics.

Specifically, it has accepted faulty Democratic interpretation of a critical Senate contest in 2002.

For the past three years, the Democratic mantra has been that Democrat Max Cleland lost his Senate seat in Georgia because he was attacked for voting against Bush’s homeland security provisions. Accepting that thesis, the president’s strategists were unable to imagine any but the most left-wing lawmakers opposing any kind of anti-terrorist legislation. Actually, Cleland lost because he was too liberal for an increasingly conservative Georgia electorate and because his Republican opponent, Saxby Chambliss, was an excellent candidate.

Michael has already written about the wire tap angle, yet while he’s most likely correct that it is legal (I haven’t read enough to say for certain, so I defer to him) that doesn’t necessarily mean its right… I may have some thoughts on that later. As to the filibuster, John’s correct that the Dems were motivated purely by partisanship, but at the same time it doesn’t mean that all opposition is “based on pure ignorace or deliberate deceitfulness.”