Before doctors Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin developed the vaccines that have no doubt prevented millions and millions of people from getting polio, there was Dr. Thomas H. Weller. He and two other researchers shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in medicine for the breakthrough that led to the polio vaccine.
He died Saturday at age 93.
Kudos.

From Galesburg.com:
Maurice Fox’s motorized wheelchair became lodged when his wheels were trapped between the tracks while on his way to Aldi grocery store as a train approached.
“The problem was as soon as the three of us started working on it, we could hear a train horn,” said Galesburg Fire Department Capt. Dan Foley.
A frightened Fox [...]

Via the Associated Press:
The Supreme Court says Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices’ first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.
The court’s 5-4 ruling strikes down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. The decision goes further [...]

Glenn Beck can be a real doofus at times, but he is right on the money on the issue of illegal immigration:
The unspoken truth is that these businesses don’t hire illegal aliens because they can’t find American workers, they hire illegal aliens because they don’t want American workers. And it has nothing to do [...]

Here’s some statistical evidence that nanny-state thinking backfires, via a study done at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee:
By comparing data from a variety of locations around the United States where laws requiring smoke-free bars exist with locations without bans, economists Scott Adams and Chad Cotti found a relative increase in fatalities caused by drunk driving following [...]

From a book written by an environmentalist:

Is fighting pollution good? Yep. Is using less fossile fuel good? Yep. Is acting like the Earth will be destroyed if we don’t start living like we did before we starting using fire because we’ve fallen for a scam based on pseudo-science a good idea? Nope.
Also:
Is Wingham a [...]