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Against the strong wind of public opinion, Congressional Democrats passed a massive government takeover of health care in America on Sunday. This slap in the American people’s face is all the more egregious because of the opportunity the Democrats had to pass truly landmark, bipartisan legislation under allegedly “post-partisan” leadership from President Obama. Republicans and Democrats alike agree that health care is too expensive, and that, in the absence of reform, budgetary realities of Medicare and Medicaid will force harsh fiscal choices...
First, 16 million Americans will be added to the failing government-run Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program rolls. That is, half of the 32 million Americans that the bill’s proponents claim will be covered are dumped into a government-run program that America already cannot afford. While 87 percent of doctors reported accepting all or most new privately insured patients in 2008, only 53 percent of doctors reported accepting all or most new Medicaid patients, because Medicaid reimburses doctors below market rates. What good is Medicaid coverage if a doctor refuses...
...want every idea you have about Lady Gaga to be challenged, watch her video for “Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say).” Though this 2009 single was never released in America, its video shows that the crazy party girl we know from “Bad Romance” actually has a weirdly girlish, domestic side. She also has a taste for fairly horrifying fake tan, but that’s beside the point. Somehow, in recent months Gaga seems to have forgotten everything normal about her, always pushing to be crazier than...
Alice Eve and Krysten Ritter are two very busy women. Promoting their upcoming romantic comedy, “She’s Out of My League,” they have been making a whirlwind tour of America, stopping in Boston in late February to screen the movie and orchestrate some publicity...
...started off with a simple little dish. I remember hearing on the radio in 1999 that it was the longest America had been at peace, and thought it would be really cool to send a gift to Bill Clinton. It was a humble pot, made by American hands; it was sort of to say, “Thank you, and it’s up to you to keep the peace.” The next thing you know I got a letter back from Bill Clinton, that said, “Thank you so much for your kind words...