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These "State Exchanges" Are a Health Care DMV
Post Date: 2012-07-04 16:53:33 by CZ82
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These "State Exchanges" Are a Health Care DMV July 03, 2012 Michael Tanner at the Cato Institute has a piece, and he says that Obamacare is now a bigger mess. He focuses on the Medicaid expansion. Now, let me summarize this because it can get a little complicated when it needn't be 'cause it uses terms that are a little nebulous. But I'll try my best. What we do here is make the complex understandable. The health care law, in order for Obama to get a score on the total cost from the CBO of under a trillion dollars, shifted much of the new expense to the states. The health care law requires the states to bear the brunt of most of the costs of insuring all the 30 to 40 ...
Temperature Hits 100 In Chicago; Heat Wave To Last Through Friday
Post Date: 2012-07-04 15:15:32 by Brian S
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CHICAGO (CBS) – The Chicago area is under an excessive heat warning through Friday evening, as temperatures hit 100 degrees on Wednesday, which could be the first of three days in a row of triple digit heat. CBS 2 Meteorologist Ed Curran reports any 100 degree day is a big deal in Chicago, which has only seen about 60 days with triple digit temperatures since weather records began in 1871. The last time was last Thursday, and the mercury was expected to hit triple digits again on Wednesday. By 12:51 p.m., the temperature had reached 100 degrees at O’Hare International Airport, and combined with the humidity, it felt like 103. It’s only the second time Chicago’s ...
Ron Paul Inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
Post Date: 2012-07-04 10:52:07 by Hondo68
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Ron Paul has been known to bust up some Congressional testimonies, but this week he's been recognized for his ability to bust the cover right off a baseball. Every year, Congress puts differences aside for a day to play the Congressional Baseball Game, which pits Elephants versus Donkeys in America's favorite pastime. In the fifty years this tradition has taken place, only one Congressman has sent one out of the park... In 1979, Ron Paul crushed a curveball from Ronald Mottl (D-Ohio) into the stands of Four Mile Run Park in Alexandria, Virginia. It was the shot heard 'round the Beltway — and Mottl intentionally walked Paul the following year. Due in part to that ...
Obama campaign's portrayal of Romney is paying off
Post Date: 2012-07-04 10:06:47 by Ferret Mike
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Polls indicate voters are responding well to the Obama campaign's push to define Mitt Romney as an exporter of American jobs: The president is ahead in key states and moving up nationally. President Obama, shown arriving in Miami last month, is leading Mitt Romney 48% to 44% – the first significant lead either candidate has held in Gallup polling since April. But he may find tougher times around the corner, beginning with Friday’s release of the monthly jobs report. (Jewel Samad, AFP/Getty Images / December 31, 1969) WASHINGTON — After a month in which some prominent Democrats openly questioned President Obama's campaign strategy, the mood at the White House has ...
This is why I can beat tickets in any state
Post Date: 2012-07-04 00:34:39 by A K A Stone
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Al-Jazeera: Tests suggest Arafat died of polonium poisoning
Post Date: 2012-07-03 20:49:52 by A K A Stone
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Recent tests conducted on Yasser Arafat's personal belongings at the time of his unexpected death in 2004 suggest his body contained abnormal levels of radioactive polonium, the same poisonous substance that killed Russian spy-turned-dissident Alexander Litvinenko, Al-Jazeera TV reports. Al-Jazeera says its nine-month investigation found that Arafat was in good health until he fell suddenly ill Oct. 12, 2004, at his compound in Ramallah on the West Bank. He was flown to a French miitary hospital in Paris, where he died several days later. READ: Al-Jazeera's full story No autopsy was performed on the longtime Palestinian leader, who died at the age of 74. Al-Jazeera says the ...
8,733,461: Workers on Federal 'Disability' Exceed Population of New York City
Post Date: 2012-07-03 19:02:10 by CZ82
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8,733,461: Workers on Federal 'Disability' Exceed Population of New York City By Terence P. Jeffrey July 2, 2012 A record of 8,733,461 workers took federal disability insurance payments in June 2012, according to the Social Security Administration. That was up from 8,707,185 in May. It also exceeds the entire population of New York City, which according to the Census Bureau's latest estimate hit 8,244,910 in July 2011. There has been a dramatic shrinkage in the United States over the past 20 years in the number of workers actually employed and earning paychecks per worker who is not employed and is taking federal disability insurance payments. In June 1992, according to ...
California Considers Allowing More Than Two Parents
Post Date: 2012-07-03 18:13:05 by CZ82
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California Considers Allowing More Than Two Parents July 3, 2012 by Tad Cronn Amidst the most disastrous economy in the 50 states, California’s so-called leaders still find time to muck around with radical social experiments designed to redefine and ultimately weaken the nuclear family. The latest one is a bill that would allow children to legally have more than two parents. It has already passed in the Senate and will be considered by the Assembly. It should come as no surprise that this sort of straw-headed effort would originate with gay San Francisco Sen. Mark Leno. You probably already guessed that he’s a Democrat. Leno has a long history of pushing bills that promote ...
Governments Spend Wealth Instead of Building It
Post Date: 2012-07-03 16:10:32 by Capitalist Eric
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Paris, France – “The US seems to have gotten the worst of it,” said a French friend this morning. We were taken aback. Everyone knows Europe is in a state of permanent crisis. The US seems solid by comparison, no? “Now that the Supreme Court has approved Obamacare, you have the same problems we have in Europe, social welfare spending with no limits…plus you have your colossal military spending. You have both ‘bread and circuses,’ just like the ancient Romans. You are doomed.” Yes, dear reader, we came to the fork in the road after the 9/11 attack. And the government took it! And now the feds can fork over whoever and whatever they want. No ...
Mcconnell, Of Obama's Healthcare Law: 'Hard To Undo Something Of This Magnitude'
Post Date: 2012-07-03 13:13:55 by Brian S
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Republicans will continue to fight to repeal the Obama administration's healthcare reform law, but odds are in favor of supporters of the legislation, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Monday. "If you like the bill — and some of you may — it is hard to undo something of this magnitude. It was a 2,700 page bill, which nobody really understands anyway," McConnell said. McConnell made the comments to about 50 people during a tour of Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown, Ky. "If you thought it was a good idea for the federal government to go in this direction, I'd say the odds are still on your side," McConnell continued according ...
Actor Andy Griffith Dies In North Carolina, TV Station Says [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-07-03 10:57:38 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Actor Andy Griffith, whose portrayal of a small-town sheriff made "The Andy Griffith Show" one of American television's most enduring shows, has died at his North Carolina home, television station WITN reported on Tuesday. The television station quoted a longtime friend as saying that the 86-year-old actor died at his home on Roanoke Island. The Dare County Sheriff's dispatcher would say only that an ambulance was called to Griffith's residence but would not comment further. Griffith created another memorable character, the folksy defense lawyer in "Matlock" in the 1980s and '90s, but it was his portrayal of Sheriff Andy Taylor on the ...
Rand Paul puts forward measure that would force the Senate to read bills
Post Date: 2012-07-03 07:20:19 by A K A Stone
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After blasting the Senate last week for passing a 600-page bill no one had time to read, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced legislation that would force the Senate to give its members one day to read bills for every 20 pages they contain. "For goodness sakes, this is a 600-page bill. I got it this morning," Paul said Friday, just before the Senate approved a massive bill extending highway funding, federal flood insurance and low student loans rates. "Not one member of the Senate will read this bill before we vote on it," he added. Paul also introduced related legislation Friday, S. 3359, that would prohibit the inclusion of more than one subject in a single bill. The ...
Hey look another HOMO Prime Time News Host
Post Date: 2012-07-02 21:37:35 by A K A Stone
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Last week, Entertainment Weekly ran a story on an emerging trend: gay people in public life who come out in a much more restrained and matter-of-fact way than in the past. In many ways, it's a great development: we're evolved enough not to be gob-smacked when we find out someone's gay. But it does matter nonetheless, it seems to me, that this is on the record. We still have pastors calling for the death of gay people, bullying incidents and suicides among gay kids, and one major political party dedicated to ending the basic civil right to marry the person you love. So these "non-events" are still also events of a kind; and they matter. The visibility of gay people is one of the core means ...
12 Incredible Obamacare Quotes That Show That Our Wretched Healthcare System Is Headed Directly Into The Toilet
Post Date: 2012-07-02 21:34:39 by A K A Stone
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You might as well stick a fork in the U.S. healthcare system because it is finished. Even before Obamacare, Americans paid far more for healthcare than anyone else in the world. Now thanks to Obamacare we will be faced with much higher health insurance premiums, much higher taxes, much longer waits to see doctors and more government bureaucrats involved in our lives than ever before. As I have written about previously, the U.S. healthcare industry is a horrible mess, and now Obamacare is going to take the entire system directly into the toilet. All over America today, families are going broke because of outrageous health insurance costs and suffocating medical debt, doctors are going broke ...
Rand Paul: Roberts' ruling isn't final
Post Date: 2012-07-02 21:20:35 by A K A Stone
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In the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision, can you still argue that the Constitution does not support ObamaCare? The liberal blogosphere apparently thinks the constitutional debate is over. I wonder whether they would have had that opinion the day after the Dred Scott decision. While it is clear to anyone who was awake in high school civics class that the Supreme Court has the power to declare whether a law is valid under the Constitution, that power is not a pronouncement set in stone. Think of how our country would look now had the Supreme Court not changed its view of what is constitutional. Think of 1857, when the court handed down the outrageous Dred Scott decision, which said ...
This Black Woman is Full of Shit
Post Date: 2012-07-02 19:41:19 by A K A Stone
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Paul Ryan, Rights, Health Care, God and Confused Liberals
Post Date: 2012-07-02 17:07:47 by CZ82
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Paul Ryan, Rights, Health Care, God and Confused Liberals posted on July 2, 2012 by Tad Cronn Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis, has liberals in a tizzy because he went on George Stephanopoulos’ show and talked about repealing Obamacare in the same breath with which he pointed out that rights come from God, not government. Ryan’s comments were preceded by a clip of former Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Chappaquiddick, and an interview with his widow Victoria Kennedy, talking about how Kennedy had sought “affordable health care” as a “right, not a privilege.” Liberals are apparently confused by the two concepts of “affordable health care” and “rights.” ...
C-130 Firefighting Air Tankers Grounded After Fatal South Dakota Crash
Post Date: 2012-07-02 16:58:41 by Brian S
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(CNN) -- The U.S. Air Force is grounding all firefighting-equipped C-130 planes after a fatal crash of one while it was involved in efforts to subdue a blaze in southwestern South Dakota, a military spokesman said Monday. Air Force spokesman Todd Spitler announced that C-130s with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System, or MAFFS, won't fly until further notice. The South Dakota crash follows another crash of a firefighing air tanker, along the Nevada-Utah border, several weeks earlier. The Air Force describes MAFFS as "a self-contained aerial firefighting system owned by the U.S. Forest Service that can discharge 3,000 gallons of water or fire retardant in less than five ...
"Hot And Hotter" Forecast As Heat Wave Bakes Eastern U.S.
Post Date: 2012-07-02 14:18:22 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - Relentless heat was forecast for much of the eastern United States for a fourth straight day on Monday, with about 2.2 million customers without power after violent storms and soaring temperatures killed at least 15 people. Power companies warned it could take several days to restore electricity completely in some areas as much of the United States sweltered in a record-breaking heat wave. "Hot and hotter will continue to be the story from the plains to the Atlantic Coast for the next few days," the National Weather Service said. Emergencies were declared in Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington because of damage from a rare "super ...
Mullen: 18 Veterans Kill Themselves Every Day In The U.S.
Post Date: 2012-07-02 13:57:58 by Brian S
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Navy Admiral Mike Mullen (ret.), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience in Aspen this weekend that military has “18 vets a day who are killing themselves in the United States” due to the incomprehensible stresses of military life, which he said are compounded by a public that is increasingly disconnected from the ongoing wars. Military suicides rose dramatically after the start of the Iraq war, according to a recent study by the Army’s Public Health Command. That same study found that in 2008, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers voluntarily submitted to a mental health evaluation, “implying a prevalent public health problem.” Since then, the ...
AUA: Male Pattern Baldness Predictive of Prostate Cancer
Post Date: 2012-07-02 06:45:25 by A K A Stone
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Male baldness is associated with prostate cancer, with more severe balding patterns more strongly associated with cancer, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association, held from May 19 to 23 in Atlanta. TUESDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- Male baldness is associated with prostate cancer, with more severe balding patterns more strongly associated with cancer, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association, held from May 19 to 23 in Atlanta. David Margel, M.D., from the University Health Network in Toronto, and colleagues conducted a prospective study of 196 consecutive patients referred to a ...
Roberts switched views to uphold health care law
Post Date: 2012-07-01 19:08:59 by A K A Stone
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(CBS News) Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court's four conservative justices to strike down the heart of President Obama's health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, but later changed his position and formed an alliance with liberals to uphold the bulk of the law, according to two sources with specific knowledge of the deliberations. Roberts then withstood a month-long, desperate campaign to bring him back to his original position, the sources said. Ironically, Justice Anthony Kennedy - believed by many conservatives to be the justice most likely to defect and vote for the law - led the effort to try to bring Roberts back to the fold. "He ...
A Californian Sees the Writing on the Wall
Post Date: 2012-07-01 13:58:11 by CZ82
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A Californian Sees the Writing on the Wall By John McLaughlin Two-term Congressman Tom McClintock, an emerging leader of California's conservative faction, holds an optimistic view about the upcoming national election -- but he harbors troubling doubt regarding how victorious Republicans will respond. In a recent sit-down interview for American Thinker, I sought to obtain a follow-up report on the escalating dispute between House Republicans and the IRS over alleged harassment of Tea Party organizations and key leaders. As reported in a post-interview blog, the dispute may move toward a formal hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee. Then, McClintock, who overpowered his ...
Texas Students Hack U.S. Gov. Drone in Midair, Hijack It
Post Date: 2012-07-01 13:53:11 by SJN
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They did it on a dare: The University of Texas at Austin team successfully nabbed the drone on a dare from the Department of Homeland Security. They managed to do it through spoofing, a technique where a signal from hackers pretends to be the same as one sent to the drone’s GPS. As PopSci pointed out, Iran claimed to do the same thing last year, downing one of our drones. Wired Magazine wrote at the time it would be difficult to do, but it was possible: It’s possible to spoof unencrypted civilian GPS systems. But military GPS receivers, such as the one likely installed on the missing drone, use the encrypted P(Y)-code to communicate with satellites. The notion that Iran could ...
Romney raises $4.6 million after Supreme Court’s health care ruling
Post Date: 2012-07-01 06:36:09 by CZ82
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Romney raises $4.6 million after Supreme Court’s health care ruling By Holly Bailey, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – Fri, Jun 29, 2012... President Barack Obama may have scored a major policy victory when the Supreme Court voted to uphold most of his health care reform law, but the decision has also been a boon for Mitt Romney among small donors. According to his campaign, Romney has raised more than $4.3 million from roughly 43,000 online donors in the 24 hours since the ruling came down. (Update: That total has now increased to $4.6 million, according to the campaign.) That's a big deal for a candidate who has struggled to win over small donors. While a $5 or $10 donation ...
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