In recent court filings, the Food and Drug Administration has asserted that stem cells—you know, the ones our bodies produce naturally—are in fact drugs and subject to its regulatory oversight.
Funny, that sounds less like the FDA protecting the health of the country’s citizens and more like the FDA defending its enforcement turf.
Virginia’s hypocrisy on gun rights versus abortion rights
This doesn’t paint a very flattering picture of the citizens the lawmakers represent. But the picture it paints of the legislators themselves should be downright embarrassing.
Permanent residence in the USA is a valuable asset that is enjoyed by most of you reading this article. Many potential immigrants from around the world want to acquire that asset and become valuable members of American society alongside us. Why don’t we let more of them join us?
Source: A Modest Proposal For Immigration: The $100,000 Green Card | TechCrunch
tl;dr: It’s an age distribution problem.
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The government IT procurement system needs its own Steve Jobs.
Source: Startup America by stopping the IT cartel – Fortune
We almost have an IT cartel within federal IT made up of very few companies that benefit from government spending because they understand the procurement process better than anyone else not because they provide better technology.
— departing federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, from his recent appearance in front of the White House Science committee