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...visits are exactly the kind of pro-family policy that social conservatives would embrace. And they have. The home visitation provision in health reform legislation was modeled on a bill authored by Republican Senator Kit Bond of Missouri. Bond went through a parenting education program in Missouri when his son was born three decades ago and has been a fan of the idea ever since. "Being a parent is hard work," he says, "and babies don't come with directions." (Read TIME's exclusive health-care interview with President Obama...
Bachmann, Representative Michele • AmeriCorps, a program recently attacked by as "re-education camps for young people ... as a parent, I would have a very, very difficult time seeing my children do this," is - ha! - joined by the son of • mere reporting of Harrison Bachmann's joining AmeriCorps is disingenuously attacked by as "a hit piece on one of my kids...
Another single mother, Sarah Landry, a Montana State University student, told Obama her 11-year-old son has severe autism and Type I diabetes and that "I rely heavily on Medicaid for coverage." She worried that a national plan might cut into his coverage. Obama assured her, "If your son currently qualifies for Medicaid, he could continue on Medicaid ... Our [existing] system is not a health-care system - it's a disease-care system, because we wait until someone gets very sick." For example, he said, a diabetic should be counseled on health and helped long before reaching the point...
...shaking hands and smiling as people snapped photos with cameras and cell phones. The First Family then boarded the green Marine One helicopter and headed southwest 60 miles, into the mountains, to land at the Big Sky Resort, the luxury ski and vacation-home development founded by a native son, broadcaster Chet Huntley, nearly 40 years ago. From Big Sky, the First Family will visit Yellowstone National Park before flying off on Air Force One Saturday afternoon to Grand Junction...
...that, following Ahmadinejad's dismissal of the Intelligence Minister late last month, as many as 20 officials in the ministry who disapproved of the public airing of confessions by political dissidents were purged, including the deputy minister and chief of counterintelligence. The move, according to Hassan Younesi, the son of a former Intelligence Minister, was engineered by Hussein Taeb and Ahmad Salek, two top Guards commanders. "Never has the Intelligence Ministry witnessed such a politically motivated purge since its establishment," Younesi wrote on his personal blog...