Swine flu, also known as 2009 H1N1 type A influenza, is a human disease. People get the disease from other people, not from pigs. The disease originally was nicknamed swine flu because the virus that causes the d isease originally jumped to humans from the live pigs in which it evolved.
Earlier this week the New Yorkerâs John Cassidy asked, âWhere are the real conservative intellectuals?â The short answer is that âconservativeâ once signified an intellectual tendency with partisan overtones, now it signifies a partisan tendency that would prefer not to have intellectual overtones â there are no votes in that.
Not a Fox News, Republican-group think conservative, but a real one. Thanks for the opportunity. I should start by saying that I donât think there is only one way to be a conservative. There is not conservatism; there are conservatisms, and they draw from each other. The best general definition of âconservativeâ that I know is Russell Kirkâs essay on Ten Conservative Principles.