The media is making much of the Obama Administration's hints that the President will no longer insist on a so-called "public option" in a health care bill he signs, but the idea of a government-started "co-op" alternative to private health ...
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Everyone over a certain age knows what you have to do if you want to have a baby -- that is, except in Britain, where for some couples, the route to parenthood lies in changing their home address. That's because ...
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"Because I have traveled a great deal in my life, often recklessly so, alone, and to weird places in search of answers to topographical questions of the ancient Mediterranean world, and first-hand observations about battles and campaigns in out of ...
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...he had been working with Manuel Zelaya to negotiate Zelaya's return to Honduras. I guess you can get that flu from swine after all ...
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Tonsils redux: President Obama says greedy doctors are coming for your feet... but LA Times says prevention in these cases is expensive. Why don't the greedy doctors do prevention, Mr. Prez? Funeral Director Full-Employment Bill: President Obama sees post office ...
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Picked up by the Detroit News, and then the Heritage Foundation, is this nearly-unbelievably ignorant statement by Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan: Climate change is very real. Global warming creates volatility and I feel it when I'm flying. The storms ...
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Triumph of hope over experience: Pro-Georgian blogger asks Russian government to defend his free speech rights. Got the flu in Britain? Need medical help? No problem! The government health service will put a 16-year-old on the phone with you. President ...
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"Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American." I've always felt this is true. I just never thought Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer believed it, too. So when might we expect Pelosi and Hoyer to hand over their passports? In yesterday's ...
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You wouldn't think it possible, but United Nations scandals are getting weirder. In this one, a United Nations employee bites a security guard who is trying to drag him out of a superior's office, where he had gone to make ...
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