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Heroic Name Given to Photo of President Obama

March 9th, 2009 · 81 Comments

Soon after President Barack Obama signed an executive order lifting the ban on the use federal funding of embryonic stem cells in medical research, the wizards behind the White House web site posted the photo above.  Though I find it less troubling than the president’s continuing assault on the unborn, the file name (hero_stemcell_main2.jpg) under [...]

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Will President Obama Ask Mitchell to Resign? (Updated)

March 9th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Talk about irony.  On the very day that CNN published a glowing report about former Sen. George Mitchell’s diplomatic efforts in Northern Ireland, violence erupted at a British Army barracks on the Emerald Isle. Yesterday, the Atlanta-based cable news network published a Mitchell-adoring piece on its web site under the headline, Out of trouble: How [...]

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If Poor Communication Costs Hospitals Billions, How Much Will Socialized Medicine Cost?

March 9th, 2009 · 7 Comments

If poor communication costs U.S. hospitals billions per year, how costly — aside from the moral costs — will socialized medicine be for Americans if it becomes a reality? Researchers from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business put a price tag on the cost of poor communication in U.S. hospitals at $12 [...]

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Survey: Fewer Christians, More Muslims in USA

March 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Americans are slowly becoming less Christian and more Muslim, according to the just-released update to the American Religious Identification Survey conducted by the Program on Public Values at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. Specifically, the percentage of Christians in America, which declined in the 1990s from 86.2 percent to 76.7 percent, has now edged down [...]

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New Ad Touts New Alternative Retail Sales Tax

March 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Only two weeks after they began running ads about the Fair Tax serving as “jumper cables” for the economy, the folks at FairTax.org announced this morning another full-page ad promoting the national retail sales tax that is proposed as a healthy alternative to the income tax system. The text of the full page ad, running [...]

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