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.
Historically, conservatism has been linked to the Republican party in the United States. In contrast to conservatism, liberalism generally supports reform, change and attaches great importance to safeguarding individual... Conservatism is a general political theory that seeks to keep things the way they are. General beliefs support the status quo; cautiously consider or resist change; and rely upon traditional values. Conservative ideology has been called the right or rightâwing segment of a theoretical political continuum.