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The guy is obviously eating up all the attention. Arlen Specter can't seem to keep his mouth shut. He is even offering advice on how the GOP can make a comeback; run more people like me in elections. Perhaps Specter is unaware how difficult it is to find such extraordinarily crass, opportunistic, false, perfidious, disloyal, and traitorous candidates - even among the political class. No matter. Specter's latest finger waving rant posits the spectacularly ridiculous idea that if only Republicans had been more like him, Jack Kemp would still be alive. Tom LoBianco of the Washington Times reports on Specter's...

Dr. Judah Folkman, a path-breaking cancer researcher who faced years of skepticism before his ideas led to successful treatments, died Monday in Denver. He was 74. .... Dr. Folkman, a professor at Harvard and director of the vascular biology program at Children’s Hospital Boston, is considered the father of the idea that tumors can be kept in check by choking off the supply of blood they need to grow. The approach is now embodied in several successful cancer drugs, most notably Avastin, by Genentech. “His vision and ideas literally changed the course of modern medicine,” said Dr. William Li, a...