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Victimhood Alive, Well at Single-Payer Conference

November 16th, 2009 · No Comments

In the beginning of her speech, Ethel Long Scott didn’t present herself as the most-polished of the six speakers who addressed attendees during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis.  She did, however, come off as the loudest, most-outspoken and most-victimized liberal granted access to a microphone.
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Contract Gives Whole New Meaning to ‘Pork’ (Update 3)

July 19th, 2009 · No Comments

Nowhere on the web page for FARMER JOHN® Premium Spiral Sliced Half Hams could I find a “2-lb. frozen ham sliced” priced at $1,191,200. I could, however, find a contract summary (shown below) that appears to reveal that the Department of Agriculture paid Clougherty Packaging, L.L.C., $1,191,200 for a “2 POUND FROZEN HAM SLICED.”

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You Can’t Rest on Imaginary Laurels!

May 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

“We can’t rest on our laurels, because we’ve got a lot of work to do.”
President Barack Obama was only half-right when, according to Reuters, he shared those words with an audience at a Democratic National Committee fundraising event in California.  Why?  Because, as evidenced by the post-stimulus unemployment claims chart shown above, the laurels exist [...]

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‘No Good Deed Goes Unpunished’ (Part 2 of 2)

May 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment

“You have a new form of business now for trial lawyers which is that they now go to foreign locations and try to root up and play off plaintiffs under circumstances under which legal systems are less well-developed and then try to export those judgments to the United States,” said Charles A. James, executive vice [...]

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‘No Good Deed Goes Unpunished’ (Part 1 of 2)

May 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments

“This case is the ultimate embodiment of ‘no good deed goes unpunished,’” said Charles A. James, executive vice president and chief legal counsel at Chevron Corporation, speaking about the 16-year-old, $27 billion lawsuit filed by the Amazon Defense Coalition against Chevron in Ecuador.
James shared the opinions above during a conference call with bloggers one day [...]

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