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Charges, coroners’ findings, an exciting new study, & a new senator’s health-care impact
Charges filed: 1) I wrote about them yesterday, ten Americans claiming to just be “missionaries” but suspected of child trafficking, caught attempting to transport roughly 30 Haitian children across the border into the Dominican Republic in the chaotic aftermath of the recent earthquake in Haiti. Well, Haitian authorities have now
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Government Health Care and Personal Economies
Socialized medicine through out the world has the following characteristics: • It leads to delays where, as in the case of Canada, patients wait for 17 weeks on average from the time a general practitioner says indicates that something is wrong until one visits a specialist • It leads to rationed
Massachusetts Senate Race: Election Results Show Scott Brown Leading by 5% (44% Reporting)
The Massachusetts Senate Race is close to being over and it looks like the winner is going to be Scott Brown. With 44% reporting, he is leading by 5% of the vote. Scott Brown has 52% while Martha Coakley has 47% – a difference of 46,000 votes. The Democrats fell asleep at the wheel on this
Catching Up!
I’m back in Kansas and back online and hoping that everyone had great holidays. Happy New Year! Here’s a quick rundown of developments in various cases that occurred while I was on hiatus: The Florida man who allegedly murdered several family members at Thanksgiving dinner and fled the
Wanted: Another President like Grover Cleveland
One of my favorite Presidents was Grover Cleveland. He is one that is largely neglected by the media and historians today, which are indicators of their own as being someone I would likely admire. He is the only President to not serve his terms sequentially, being both the 22nd (1885 to 1889) and 24th
How To Have A Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas! I’m going to do something I don’t normally do — voluntarily give the floor to someone else. I recently got the following note from some good friends, Janet and Steve Hayes, and thought it pretty much said it all this Christmas, so thanks to them, I now get to share
Federal Salaries Explode While CEOs face Scrutiny
You have seen the headlines, “The Worst Unemployment in 25 years,” “First Mark of Double Digit Unemployment in Decades,” and more. Unemployment is rampant and the American people are rightly concerned. Many US employees are taking salary cuts, hour cuts, and any other type of
Tim Geithner Plays with Words on Fox Business
Liz Claman of the Fox Business Network is one of my favorite interviewers in media today. She is warm and cordial, which also means her guests are easily disarmed and she follows that up with some of the tougher questions in business news. Recently Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was a guest
Updates and a bizarre new missing-persons case
Tiger Woods updates: 1) A major sponsor, consulting firm Accenture, has dropped Tiger Woods as its spokesperson. Looks like the folks at Accenture have been reading my blog! Good! 2) Some in the
Gasoline Alternative
Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have genetically modified a cyanobacterium to consume carbon dioxide and produce the liquid fuel isobutanol, which holds great potential
