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.
Analysts of political ideologies have suggested that elements of conservative thought can be found in the work of Plato , Richard Hooker and Thomas Hobbes but it is generally agreed that the origins of modern conservatism derive from opposition to the Enlightenment and in particular to the French Revolution as demonstrated especially in Edmund Burke ...