Stem cell [non-benefits]

California stem-cell initiative: no cures, few jobs
Approved by voters in 2004, California’s $3 billion embryonic stem-cell initiative has produced no cures and few jobs. Proponents had predicted the initiative would create 10,000 new jobs in its first five years; the largest company in the state that engages in such research, however, has 140 employees. . . .

Sanger

Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, certainly was:

"[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children..."

"We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all."

Huxley & Soapy Sam

There is no record of it in the proceedings of the society that held the debate, and Darwin’s friend Joseph Hooker who informed him about the debate said that Huxley made no rejoinder to Wilberforce’s arguments.

Jewish Hail Mary

When the converso bishop of Burgos, Alonso de Cartagena, prayed the Hail Mary, he would say with pride, "Holy Mary, Mother of God and my blood relative, pray for us sinners"

Jews in Spain

Indeed, Spain was the most diverse and tolerant place in medieval Europe. England expelled all of its Jews in 1290. France did the same in 1306. Yet in Spain Jews thrived at every level of society.

Emancipation Proclamation

The hypocrisy of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation came in for heavy criticism. His Secretary of State William Seward said, "We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free." The New York World wrote, "He has proclaimed emancipation only where he has notoriously no power to execute it.

O W Holmes, jr.

Of Holmes, TR said, "Out of a banana I could carve a firmer backbone."