Shutting off the miracle-drug spigot (Gee Go Figure)

Nov 07, 2009 - Shutting off the miracle-drug spigotBy JEFF STIER & HENRY I. MILLER  (NY POST)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was right last week when she called her latest health-care-reform proposal a "his toric moment": After decades of life-saving and cost-cutting scientific innovations from drug and medical-device companies, the government is about to step in and stifle the R&D that is our best hope for improving health outcomes.<p> </p><br> Pelosi's bill may cost pharmaceutical companies $150 billion over a decade -- nearly double the amount they conceded when they cut a White House-approved deal with Sen. Max Baucus this summer.<p> </p><br> The Pelosi bill is a prescription for fewer new life-saving drugs. - 0 Comments

Will President Obama Veto Health Reform?

Oct 07, 2009 - by Newt Gingrich October 7, 2009  |  Vol. 4, No. 40     With the Senate Finance Committee poised to pass health care legislation, the final contours of the bill that could come out of Congress are starting to come into focus. - 1 Comment

GOP Lawmakers: Government Care Okay for Them

Sep 02, 2009 - Republicans in Congress have raised the specter of a bloated, "socialized," bureaucrat-run nightmare of a health care system as a means of undermining the White House's effort at a systematic overhaul. And yet, as Democratic sources are now pointing out, when medical crisis hit close to home, many of these same officials turned to a government-run hospital for their own intensive care and difficult surgeries. Take, for instance, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who warned that "a government takeover of health care" would "take away the care that people already have [and] are perfectly satisfied with." - 2 Comments

Huckabee Doubles Down On Controversial Kennedy Comments

Aug 31, 2009 - Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee doubled down Sunday on controversial remarks he made last week, in which he declared that Ted Kennedy would have been told to go home and die under ObamaCare. "What did I say that wasn't true?" - 6 Comments

W.'s Greatest Hits

Jan 14, 2009 - http://www.slate.com/id/2208132/ The top 25 Bushisms of all time. By Jacob Weisberg Posted Monday, Jan. 12, 2009, at 3:43 PM ET I started gathering Bush's verbal slip-ups while covering his first presidential campaign. - 9 Comments

A must read for climate change enthusiasts

Jan 11, 2009 - Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age (An article from today’s Pravda) The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years. Ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations all demonstrate a regular cyclic pattern of Ice Age glacial maximums which each last about 100,000 years, separated by intervening warm interglacials, each lasting about 12,000 years. - 31 Comments

A Secret Promise Kept

Oct 25, 2007 - A Secret Promise Kept The appointment I was on my way to was very important; I was very late and very lost. With my male ego in check, I began to look for a place to ask directions, preferably a gas station. Since I had been crisscrossing the city, my gas gauge was perilously low and time was of the essence. - 2 Comments