It’s almost like those who supported this wanted to make it so people would be forced it into government run plans: Democrats continue to try to dismiss the evidence that Obamacare will dramatically increase the cost of insurance for people who buy it on their own. But on Thursday, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced …
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The White House is set to begin arming Syrian rebels starting this week. Moved by the Assad regime’s rapid advance, the Obama administration could decide this week to approve lethal aid for the beleaguered Syrian rebels and will weigh the merits of a less likely move to send in U.S. airpower to enforce a no-fly …
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The debate over the value of a college education has intensified of late. This is partly due to rising education costs and high unemployment rates, but also to President Obama’s reboot of his “Don’t Double My Rate” plan to circumvent July’s increase of student loan interest rates. Last week the Center on Education and the Workforce …
College Degrees and Unemployment: It’s Your Major, StupidRead More »
Dr. Michael Ciampi of South Portland, Maine has come up with a new plan to bypass the hassles of dealing with insurance companies as middlemen: he stopped accepting insurance altogether, effective April 1st of this year. However, despite what one may assume, this has actually allowed Dr. Ciampi to charge his patients less than he did before …
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This was a sad thing to read on Memorial Day. We’re nearly a hundred years on from World War I, and many of the memorials to our honored dead have begun to succumb to age and neglect. Meanwhile, cities eye the space and wonder if it could be put to better use. From the …
Arizona Senator John McCain is strongly opposed to President Obama’s current policy in Syria, i.e., we aren’t giving the Syrian rebels weapons to fight Assad (yet). On this Memorial Day, Senator McCain visited Syria to meet with the head of the Free Syrian Army “for a few hours before going back to Turkey.” McCain supports arming …
In an amusing story from NewsBusters, it appears as if Bill Nye the Science Guy is under the impression that “not many countries beside[s] the U.S. have tornadoes.” Nye was also quick to blame global warming for the extreme weather event in Oklahoma this week in spite of the fact that most meteorologists and climatologists (yes, even those …
Bill Nye Knows Absolutely Nothing About TornadoesRead More »
The LA Times reported on Friday, May 17th that an asteroid with the endearing name “1998 QE2″ will passing by to visit Earth on May 31st (closest approach will be at 1:59 p.m. PDT). 1998 QE2 is 1.7 miles long and has the potential to trigger a worldwide dinosaur-scale extinction if it were to collide …
More IRS trouble… It has been reported (also here) that the IRS is being sued by a California entity claiming that in March 2011, 15 IRS agents allegedly accessed and stole 60 million medical records from 10 million patients. The records included psych and GYN information, as well as other personal medical data. The medical records of …
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In the midst of all the scandals, the lousy economy and other crappy news, this is great news: NEW YORK — It’s time to load some new batteries in the clock: Jack is back!