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Oct 30, 2024 | 
preprints.org | Michael Davis
Preprint Article Version 1 This version is not peer-reviewed Version 1 : Received: 29 October 2024 / Approved: 30 October 2024 / Online: 30 October 2024 (14:02:09 CET) Davis, M. E.; Simmen, R. C. M. Heritability and Correlation Estimates for Serum Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Concentration, Weight, Weight Gain, and Height in Angus Beef Cattle in a Long-Term Divergent Selection Study for Serum Insulin-Like Growth Factor I (1989 to 2017). Preprints 2024, 2024102433.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Michael Davis |Carmel Richardson
Religion
Jesuit Plots
The Society of Jesus has been responsible for many revolutions both political and spiritual.
The Jesuits: A History, by Markus Friedrich, translated by John Noël Dillon, Princeton University Press, 872 pagesIn Evelyn Waugh’s masterpiece Brideshead Revisited, a Canadian bounder named Rex Mottram converts to Catholicism in order to marry the novel’s leading lady, Julia Flyte.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | James Bovard |James Carden |Ted Carpenter |Michael Davis
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
modbee.com | Michael Davis
You probably didn't get up really early on Feb. 10 to watch the livestream from Ireland of John Bruton's funeral. You may not even know about Bruton, who served as Ireland's prime minister from 1994 to 1997. That's understandable. There's a lot going in the world right now, Ireland is a small place and the 1990s were a long time ago. But small countries can be important countries. And events 30 years ago still resonate today,So let me tell you a bit more about Bruton.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Michael Davis
Politics
Why the New Hampshire Primary is a Nuisance
A dispatch from the Granite State.
Chris Christie once called New Hampshire voters “presidential wine tasters.” And while I promise we have no desire to taste Governor Christie, or any of these other freaks, we do like to kick the tires before America buys the car. Last year, the Democratic National Committee decided the New Hampshire primary’s first-in-the-nation status would be given to South Carolina.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Michael Davis
Religion
How Societies Find Religion
A reissued classic of early church history corrects modern fallacies about why the Romans converted.
The Rise of Christianity: A Sociologist Reconsiders History, Rodney Stark, Princeton University PressPrince Vladimir I of Kiev is a fratricide, a rapist, a drunk, and a heathen. Still, he has his moments of quiet contemplation. During one such mood, Vladimir begins to question his pagan faith.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Michael Davis
In the 2,023 years (give or take) since the birth of Jesus Christ, His hometown of Bethlehem has grown from a sleepy village to a city of 30,000 souls. It is situated in the south of the West Bank region and is governed by the Palestinian Authority. In the 1920s, Christians accounted for about 80 percent of Bethlehem’s population; today, they’re just 20 percent. It’s not just Bethlehem, either.
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Sep 9, 2023 | 
nature.com | Michael Davis
AbstractSmooth muscle cells in the walls of collecting lymphatic vessels fire spontaneous action potentials (APs), which conduct rapidly over the muscle layer to initiate contractions that propel lymph. Several ion channels have been implicated in the currents underlying the AP spike and the preceding diastolic depolarization, but the molecular identities of K+ channels involved in AP repolarization are unknown.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Michael Davis
Foreign Affairs
Ukraine’s Illiberalism, and Ours
The incoherent nattering about religious liberty in Ukraine shows that “liberal values” are beside the point.
(Photo by YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP via Getty Images)
If the Ukraine war has a winner, surely it must be Patrick Deneen. Apparently both Russia and NATO are conspiring to prove that liberalism has well and truly failed. Russia’s case is more obvious, but NATO’s is far more interesting.
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Jul 11, 2023 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Michael Davis
Politics
In 2024, Pro-Life Means Anti-War
Abortion isn’t on the ballot the same way it was pre-Dobbs, but that doesn’t mean the slaughter of innocents has stopped being a political issue.
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Do you know what’s odd? Thanks to Dobbs, for the first time in fifty years, abortion isn’t a major issue in the Republican primary. It will be especially weird for religious nutjobs like me, who are (or were) single-issue voters.
