National Journal: Face-lifts, tummy tucks and hair transplants could be hit with a new tax to help finance the trillion-dollar healthcare overhaul plan, according to sources familiar with the Senate talks. The Senate Finance Committee has discussed imposing a 10 percent excise tax on cosmetic surgery deemed unnecessary for medical purposes. The idea was broached [...]
RALEIGH, N.C. – A North Carolina man trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan has been charged along with six of his alleged recruits with conspiring to support terrorism and traveling overseas to participate in “violent jihad,” according to an indictment unsealed Monday. Daniel Patrick Boyd, 39, and the six other men were arrested Monday and made [...]
Above: National Health Care anyone? The Boston Herald: Let us for a moment adopt the proposition that health care is in fact a “right,†as pretty much every liberal politician has told us. Now let us consider how President Obama’s health-care bill would work. An official body – staffed with government doctors, actuaries, economists and [...]
POLITICO: For the second time this month, congressional budget analysts have dealt a blow to the Democrat’s health reform efforts, this time by saying a plan touted by the White House as crucial to paying for the bill would actually save almost no money over 10 years. A key House chairman and moderate House Democrats [...]
WASHINGTON – Despite their denials, influential Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd were told from the start they were getting VIP mortgage discounts from one of the nation’s largest lenders, the official who handled their loans has told Congress in secret testimony. Both senators have said that at the time the mortgages were being [...]
The 911 Call The Police Dispatch: “He is not cooperative”
Guess they beat us to it, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t still have our own protest. Israel National News: For the first time in years, the nationalist camp will hold a large scale rally against United States policies vis-Ã -vis Israel. The protest will be held in downtown Jerusalem, on Agron St. on Monday evening, [...]
But how is Congress supposed to know? It’s too long to bother reading. The New York Post: The proposed health-insurance bill from the House of Representatives refers to mentally disabled people as “retarded” — a term advocates, relatives and physicians find outdated and offensive. The bill refers to: “A hospital or a nursing facility or [...]
I feel bad for the people who had to help demonstrate…
Charlotte Observer: While protesters rallied in his support, the owner of a Concord Mills kiosk that sells conservative merchandise said he met with the mall’s manager Sunday to see what arrangements can be made for him to remain after his lease expires Friday. Nothing was agreed to, except that the two would meet again today, [...]
MSNBC: DALLAS – Off-duty police officers are patrolling streets, looking for people illegally watering their lawns and gardens. Residents are encouraged to stealthily rat out water scofflaws on a 24-hour hot line. One Texas lake has dipped so low that stolen cars dumped years ago are peeking up through the waterline. The nation’s most drought-stricken [...]
