Next year seniors won’t see an increase in their monthly Social Security checks. The increase, which is determined by cost of living up to June of the previous year, was determined to not be necessary by the government. A lot of people depend on these checks, and as well depend on Medicare. Currently Medicare has […]
Forget the emails that basically prove nothing, except to give the science and common sense deniers something to go crazy over. That wasn’t enough to give the current climate change controversy the famous “gate” suffix. But now we have something new happening; something that takes us back to the origins of the “gate” suffix: Attempts […]
This story is really weird: Taping three minutes of “Twilight: New Moon” during a visit to a Rosemont movie theater landed Samantha Tumpach in a jail cell for two nights. Now, the 22-year-old Chicago woman faces up to three years in prison after being charged with a rarely invoked felony designed to prevent movie patrons […]
Image via Wikipedia Oh those were the days, but like everything else that falls within the realm of common sense, that too has become extinct: Over the last few years, drug-makers have embraced a startlingly simple tactic for fending off competition from generic brands: paying them off. In a nutshell, the company that holds the […]
Like most I have been very interested in the Mark Sanford story. I think it really highlights the downfalls of the person coined a top GOP contender in 2012. What does it say about the leadership of Stanford when he just disappears for days without letting anyone know where he will be, including his own […]
Common sense is prevailing in the media war over Electronic Cigarettes. Slate has published a great rundown on the coverage in the mainstream. Talking about the current import ban on electronic cigarettes, Slate asks this (h/t OsborneInk): Governments seem to be buying this view. The FDA has officially barred importation of e-cigarettes. “These appear to […]
At the beginning of the week the health industry was all gung-ho to work with the administration to ease to costs of healthcare. Now it looks like they are yelling out “SIKE!” Hospitals and insurance companies said Thursday that President Obama had substantially overstated their promise earlier this week to reduce the growth of health […]
Something doesn’t seem really right here: Also Monday morning, Powell sentenced a 15-year-girl who admitted March 12 in juvenile court, to sending a nude photo of herself to the boy via cell phone. Powell sentenced her to 100 hours community service, forbid her from cell phone use during a 30 day probationary period and told […]
Obama had a celebration yesterday with Mexico’s ambassador and had a little gaff: President Barack Obama is celebrating Cinco de Mayo a little early. On the eve of the Mexican holiday, Obama on Monday had an event in the East Room of the White House with Mexico’s Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan (sahr-oo-KHAN’). Obama joked that it […]
Smoking Everywhere, one of the nation’s largest distributors of electronic cigarettes, has filed for an injunction against the FDA for stopping their shipments from coming in over seas. The suit claims (and rightfully so) that the FDA is overstepping their bounds. The FDA is attempting to classify Electronic Cigarettes as a smoking cessation/nicotine replacement device. […]