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Until now. Thanks to the Health-Care Callousness Assessment Test (or HCCAT, for short)--a test I've devised as a supporter of universal coverage enacted in economically rational ways--the guesswork and knee jerk can be taken out of the equation. With three simple questions--the kind that can be dropped casually in conversation or on national TV during a debate--anyone can discern whether a Republican's approach to health care is truly pitiless or merely unsympathetic. A look at how the HCCAT scores Romney's Massachusetts plan and the health-care tax deduction just announced by Rudy...
...Finally there's something Coulter and I can agree on. She is a bigger jerk than liberal men! Do her handlers make sure that she gets her rabies and distemper shots? I swear I saw her foaming at the mouth the other day. Ann, honey, chill. Go home. Bake something. Put on a sexy negligee for your husband. Oh, I forgot. You're too manly for that stuff. Linda Doebler, LEWISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA...
...young girl, Liz Jones knew there was something wrong with her legs. Every evening, she would experience a "creepy, crawly" sensation that persisted throughout the night. Her legs would jerk involuntarily, making it impossible to fall asleep. She was six when her mother first took her to a doctor for help. That doctor chalked it up to growing pains. Another doctor assumed she had a psychological condition and prescribed antidepressants, which made her symptoms worse. Another advised her to "read a book at night," a suggestion that was both dismissive and ineffective...
...noble things, all in efforts to sanitize their money. Or--let's not be cynical!--in sincere efforts to show gratitude and share the wealth a bit. And then they still end up having to wonder whether every stranger they pass on the street is thinking: What a selfish jerk...
...after they have been charged. The government has promised to consult on the new law widely and seek consensus on its terms. Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the human-rights group Liberty, often critical of Blair's approach, praises the new government for "resisting party politics or a knee-jerk rush to the statute books." Bob Marshall-Andrews, a Labour M.P. and bleak critic of the Blair Administration, says, "There is a completely different spirit in Parliament, and everyone can feel it. The signs are that we are in for a much more liberal and less authoritarian period of government...