Jenny Sanford on Husband's Affair: I Told Him Not to See Her - Political News - FOXNews.com

Jenny Sanford on Husband's Affair: I Told Him Not to See Her - Political News - FOXNews.com: "South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford sat in her oceanfront living room Friday, recalling how her husband repeatedly asked permission to visit his lover in the months after she discovered his affair."

Unbelieveable!

Record-setting fireworks to cap off Fourthfest | Duluth News Tribune

Record-setting fireworks to cap off Fourthfest | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota: "Terry Mattson, CEO of Visit Duluth, said the Duluth fireworks display is “the largest pyrotechnic display in Minnesota. They have earned the reputation as the best around.”

Comparing size of the fireworks display and the shells themselves, the Duluth fireworks are second only to Chicago, Mattson said."

TakeBackMedicine

TakeBackMedicine - Home: "Physicians have stood on sidelines too long as you have watched your control over the practice of medicine taken over by politicians, insurance companies and regulators – people who have never laid a hand on a sick patient, explained to a sobbing child why she needs a “shot,” or made split-second life-or-death decisions.
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They’ve never know what it’s like to have a make a decision whether to “break the rules” or do what’s best for your patient in spite of the rules.
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For too long, doctors have been carrying the burden of a scheme that increasingly leaves you out of the decision-making process, and tells you that your first responsibility is to the government or insurance company, rather than your real clients, your patients."

Obama Leaves Door Open to New Tax on Health Benefits - Political News - FOXNews.com

Obama Leaves Door Open to New Tax on Health Benefits - Political News - FOXNews.com: "Hospitals were being asked to accept a reduction of roughly $155 billion over the next decade in fees they are promised under government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, according to numerous officials."

"Baucus is seeking similar concessions from nursing homes, insurance companies, medical device makers and possibly others"

Money doesn't grow on trees and neither do cost reductions. We will pay for that someway or another.

"At its heart, any legislation is expected to require insurance companies to offer coverage to any applicant, without exclusions or higher premiums for pre-existing medical conditions."

So everyone will get higher premiums.

"Current law allows those expenses to be itemized when they exceed 7.5 percent of adjusted gross income. The proposal under review would raise that to 10 percent, officials said."

Only people with massive medical problems will be affected by this so we'll tax the hurting.

"Gerald W. McEntee, president of the 1.6 million-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said in an interview that union leaders believe Obama is 'a person of his word.' He was referring to Obama's opposition to taxing those benefits during last year's campaign.

'They're not going to take it,' McEntee said of workers' views of that proposal. 'They're not going to tolerate that.'"

"ABC News was the lone network broadcasting Obama's town hall -- drawing criticism from Republicans who wanted equal time.

In defense, ABC News President David Westin said the show would 'include a variety of perspectives coming from private individuals asking the president questions and taking issue with him, as they see fit.'"

So that makes it fair? Would they consider it fair to only do a Republican town hall like that?

Stop the Cap-and-Trade Bill

Campaign For Liberty — Stop the Cap-and-Trade Bill: "Supporters of the legislation are of course trying to downplay the cost of this scheme to the American people.

But if the bill does not directly and massively increase energy costs to consumers, how would it possibly achieve its stated aims?"

Supreme Court Rules Strip Search of Child Illegal - US Supreme Court | Cases | Justices - FOXNews.com

Supreme Court Rules Strip Search of Child Illegal - US Supreme Court | Cases | Justices - FOXNews.com: "The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a school's strip search of an Arizona teenage girl accused of having prescription-strength ibuprofen was illegal."

I don't understand why anyone would think it is ok to strip-search someone just because another student claimed she had ibuprofen!

Ethanol Standards: Why Federal Policy Is Crazy | Harry de Gorter and David R. Just | Cato Institute: Commentary

Ethanol Standards: Why Federal Policy Is Crazy | Harry de Gorter and David R. Just | Cato Institute: Commentary: "The EPA's sustainability standard is based on 'life-cycle accounting' (LCA), a 'well to wheel' measure of greenhouse gas emissions in the production of gasoline and a 'field to fuel tank' measure for ethanol production. While attractive in theory, LCA fails to recognize that if incentives are given for ethanol producers to use relatively 'clean' inputs (e.g., natural gas and land previously used for soybean cultivation), the 'dirtier' inputs (e.g., coal and land previously dedicated to rainforests) that might otherwise have been used will simply be used by other producers to make products not covered by the sustainability standard.

In short, sustainability standards reshuffle who is using what inputs with no net reduction in national emissions. LCA measures are therefore misleading and may not measure the actual greenhouse gas emissions saved by ethanol production."

Does aid to Africa help Africans?

Geldof Humanitarian Gig | Marian L. Tupy and Michela Wrong | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Africa, however, would surely be better off if rich countries followed the much-lambasted Italian example and cut their aid budgets. Decades of academic research have failed to show a positive correlation between foreign aid and economic development. In Africa, the correlation between the two is negative. In addition to breeding corruption, aid acts as a disincentive to genuine political and economic reform."

Some form of restraint in our choice of medical procedures is going to be necessary

The Non-Debate over Non-Reform | Arnold Kling | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Some form of restraint in our choice of medical procedures is going to be necessary. The debate we should be having is over whether restraint in our use of medical services should be initiated by government officials or left to consumers. The Democrats want to avoid that debate. Instead, they make it sound as if they can make excess health-care spending disappear by magic. But even if we were to stipulate for the sake of argument that all of the supposed savings from preventive care, electronic medical records, and eliminating the waste and greed supposedly inflicted by insurance companies and doctors will actually materialize, the excessive use of medical procedures would still be the main problem with our health-care system."

VA Medical System in Shambles, Veterans Groups Say - Political News - FOXNews.com

VA Medical System in Shambles, Veterans Groups Say - Political News - FOXNews.com: "With Veterans Affairs hospitals giving botched radiation treatments to nearly 100 vets and exposing 10,000 to HIV and hepatitis viruses, veterans advocates and lawmakers say the VA health system is in dire need of proper oversight and funding."

That is another example of how government isn't good a doing things outside of its domain.