Medicare Says It Won’t Cover Hospital Errors

Following up on a previous thread, what do you think of this development? It's clearly a double-edged sword. Sure the government and insurance companies should pay less (or nothing) for inferior services - or...

Bush Cites Vietnam Against Iraq Pullout

Don't read this article if you're allergic to revisionist history!   http://news.aol.com/story/_a/bush-cites-vietnam-against-iraq-pullout/20070822090809990001   Bush Cites Vietnam Against Iraq...

Michael Vick discussion (more humor than news, but some serious points raised)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77aw9dG7tis Via AOL fanhouse: "In other Michael Vick news ... he's been sued for $63 billion by a man who claims Vick stole his dogs, sold them on eBay, and then used the money...

Companies Doctor Wiki Articles in their Favor

http://www.maltastar.com/pages/msFullArt.asp?an=14323Student’s program sends PR chaos in Wiki-scandal Thu, 16 August 2007 ...

Stability in Iraq: A War We Just Might Win

Stability in Iraq: A War We Just Might WinThe New York Times, July 30, 2007Michael E. O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy StudiesKenneth M. Pollack, Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East...

At US Base, Iraqis Must Use Separate Latrine

Published on Saturday, August 4, 2007 by McClatchy Newspapers At US Base, Iraqis Must Use Separate Latrine by Mike Drummond FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq - The sign taped to the men’s latrine is...

Blue Cross HMO, where the patients come first

" Mar. 23 - KGO - A $1 million dollar fine for Blue Cross of California. State regulators say the insurance provider systematically and brazenly violated state law by cancelling insurance for policy holders who...

Marine sentenced over Iraq murder

Marine sentenced over Iraq murder A US marine has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the murder of an Iraqi civilian during a failed search for an insurgent by the unit he led. Sgt Lawrence Hutchins...

This is America? This is 2007? Racial conflict in Jena

All Things Considered, July 30, 2007 · As at hundreds of other high schools across America, black and white students at Jena High School in Jena, La., rarely sit together. The white students gather under a...

Only in California: Road rage shuts down highway

" Rage shuts down highway Abuse of road workers prompts closure of route. By Greg Risling, Associated Press "   WRIGHTWOOD - California highways have been shut down by wildfires, mudslides,...

Coalition of Evangelicals Voices Support for Palestinian State

July 29, 2007By LAURIE GOODSTEIN  In recent years, conservative evangelicals who claim aBiblical mandate to protect Israel have built abulwark of support for the Jewish nation — sendingdonations,...

Farm subsidies

Massive US farm bill faces Bush veto, may impact WTO talks   AFP via Yahoo! News - 18 minutes ago A massive US farm bill packed with consequences for global trade is moving through the...

Consequences of the "ethanol economy"

The craze over agrifuels (a more accurate description than the vague "biofuels") in the West has triggered some fairly profound environmental and socioeconomic changes in parts of the developing world. Because...

Democrat frontrunners only accepting "clean money"?

We hear over and over again that Edwards, Obama, and Clinton loathe the GOP's corruption and lobbying excesses, and desire clean campaign finance instead. We hear their promises of ethical government where the...

Bush stressing the Al Qaeda-Iraq link

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12199252 http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/25/news/policy.php                "The same...
 

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