Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) on Medicare, writing in the Detroit News: With every passing year our nation's health insurance programs for the elderly, disabled, and poor draw closer to a crisis point. Right now, transforming Medicare may help ... READ MORE
This London Sunday Times story is interesting: A pub must pay a fine for a murder on its premises more than 300 years ago.Auditors discovered the long-forgotten penalty for The Swan in Ipswich, Suffolk, while balancing the books for the ... READ MORE
I received two e-mails today alerting me to errors on the blog, and, in both cases, the e-mailers were correct. Here then, are two corrections. I apologize to the readers of this blog, and anyone else affected, for the errors: ... READ MORE
Mychal Massie of Project 21 disputes conclusions of the National Urban League's annual report on the state of black America: (CNSNews.com) - The median white family in America has approximately ten times the net worth of the median black family, ... READ MORE
Stacked-deck events like this would never happen if the GOP controlled Congress: March 28th, 2006 29 PANELISTS INVITED TO PRESENT DETAILS ON PROPOSALS AT ENERGY COMMITTEE'S BIPARTISAN CLIMATE CONFERENCE Twenty-nine panelists have accepted the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee's ... READ MORE
Maybe Lay and Skilling need new lawyers?: Lay, Skilling in Danger of Conviction as Enron Prosecution EndsMarch 29 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. prosecutors have presented enough evidence to convict Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling of the fraud that destroyed Enron Corp., ... READ MORE
After my March 22 post about the March 16 defeat of the DeWine-Crapo Social Security amendment, Laura Thurston Goodroe of Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID)'s office alerted me to a recent article by the Senator on the subject. Some excerpts: During ... READ MORE
From the Washington Post's "Andrew Card Resigns as White House Chief of Staff" today: "[Andrew Card has] been here 5 1/2 years. The average tenure of chief of staff is two years," said a senior administration official, who spoke before ... READ MORE
A typical e-mail of those I received from those who were critics after my March 22 post about the March 16 Social Security vote in the U.S. Senate: About 80% of the American public trusts the views of the AARP, ... READ MORE
The National Center's environmental and regulatory project held a briefing on Capitol Hill today, in conjunction with the Capital Research Center. Happily, Hill interest in the possibility of improving the Endangered Species Act in a manner that protects property rights ... READ MORE
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