Anyone shocked by this? Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years. In the last year, the industry has raised the wholesale prices […]
Remember the failed Bernard Kerik nomination to run homeland security? Guess who was pushing the nomination through, regardless of legal troubles? When former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani urged President Bush to make Bernard B. Kerik the next secretary of homeland security, White House aides knew Kerik as the take-charge top cop from Sept. […]
Don’t everyone wish their business ran this way – “no matter how bad you do, you still get paid top dollar”. Well if you work for the government then that is exactly how it goes: In late February 2004, the Army announced that it was canceling plans to build a radar-evading helicopter called the Comanche, […]
Well McCain may be busy trying to show he is a good little Bushie this weekend but other Republicans are not buying into it. Several Republicans here said Mr. Bush urgently needed to shake up his staff. Senator Norm Coleman, Republican of Minnesota, pointed to what he described as a series of management and political […]