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...obesity rate rises, it's not just waistlines that are expanding. The cost of medical care has ballooned, according to a new report in the policy and research journal Health Affairs. The study's authors compared medical data from 1998 and 2006 and found that obese Americans--who now make up a quarter of the U.S. population--are responsible for a $40 billion jump in annual medical spending. Obese people spend $1,400 more a year than people of normal weight on medical services, according to research data. Medicare doles out $600 more for obese beneficiaries; Medicaid pays $230 more...
Last month the Human Rights Watch issued a report condemning the Equatorial Guinean government’s lack of transparency with respect to oil revenue. This was an important step towards keeping the average citizen’s struggles in the international eye, but as long as American oil companies remain the largest contributors to Equatorial Guinea’s income, it remains to be seen if any parties involved (especially the U.S.) can move beyond words and agreements towards concrete actions...
...Taitz' efforts: "I'm here to tell you that I agree. Barack Obama is a terrible President, and we have to get him out of office by any weird loophole we can make up." - Stephen Colbert (interviewing Taitz on The Colbert Report, July...
Taitz has argued her case on her website, The Colbert Report and cable news networks, culminating in a meltdown on MSNBC on Aug. 6. For her part, Taitz claims the mainstream media is suppressing the truth about Obama's birth and has likened them to the brownshirts of Nazi Germany. If her allegations were correct, Obama would be ineligible to serve as President. But her evidence is scant, and Taitz may have to just settle for being the peroxided grand poobah of a small - but vocal - fringe. (See the top 10 Obama gaffes...
...Gist: It was an endless campaign - close to two years of political and cultural combat among a sprawling cast of presidential hopefuls that, eventually, led to a history-making Commander in Chief. Journalists Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson - current and former Washington Post reporters, respectively - capture the momentous contest in a polished account refreshingly free of last year's breathless soundbites, pundit insta-reaction or fixation on trifling gaffes (the maelstrom over President Obama's "lipstick on a pig" comment warrants barely a mention). Instead, it provides an evenhanded and comprehensive account of the race, based on interviews with...