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Teen dies hours after liver transplant approved
Posted by Jonathan Fauth on 12/21, 4:39pm
"Mark Geragos, attorney for the girl's family, said he plans to ask the district attorney to press murder or manslaughter charges against Cigna HealthCare in the case. The insurer 'maliciously killed her' because it did not want to bear the expense of her transplant and aftercare, Geragos said. " (Read more...)
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Lakota Sioux Declare Independence
Posted by Michael E. Marotta on 12/22, 8:35am
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Warnings about contractors went unheeded
Posted by Ed Thompson on 12/23, 10:42pm
[I'm still personally on the fence about these hired merc's] The U.S. military, which entered the country with 130,000 troops, needed additional manpower to protect supply convoys, military installations and diplomats. Private security companies appeared "like mushrooms after a rainstorm," recalled Michael J. Arrighi, ...(Read more...)
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Hitchens on Bhutto Assassination
Posted by Ted Keer on 12/27, 12:18pm
The sternest critic of Benazir Bhutto would not have been able to deny that she possessed an extraordinary degree of physical courage...(Read more...)
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Lindsay Perigo will be speaking at the TAS Summer Seminar
Posted by C. Jeffery Small on 1/04, 8:34am
Check out this link at SOLO: Batten down the hatches! On Objectivist Living, Robert Campbell reports: "I just called the TAS office and got a confirmation that Lindsay Perigo will be speaking at the Summer Seminar." My comment: I couldn't conceive of any other action that would better validate Di...(Read more...)
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France best, U.S. worst in preventable deaths
Posted by Ed Thompson on 1/08, 9:38am
NOTE: Use caution when interpreting these results. Inference to the best explanation points to pull-peddling fascism -- not to truly free market mechanics. Also, it pays to keep in mind the perspective that every country got better -- and the US just got better more slowly than other countries did, since the previous e...(Read more...)
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Katrina victim sues U.S. for $3 quadrillion
Posted by Ed Thompson on 1/09, 1:30pm
For the sake of perspective: A mere $1 quadrillion would dwarf the U.S. gross domestic product, which Scott said was $13.2 trillion in 2007. A stack of one quadrillion pennies would reach Saturn. ...(Read more...)
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No Longer Alternative: Top Hospitals put Unorthodox Therapies into Practice
Posted by Ed Thompson on 1/20, 2:28pm
http://natalie.feedroom.com/usnews/smallnatshow... [ If the embedding-link above doesn't work then, for a short time, the video should be available (on left side of page) at http://www.usnews.com/ ] The commentator makes the error of claiming there's no proof for Alternative Medicin...(Read more...)
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Is John McCain the New Bob Dole?
Posted by Bob Palin on 1/28, 4:08pm
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The Faith to Outlast Politics
Posted by Eric Rockwell on 1/29, 8:37am
Attila takes our money and hands it over to the Witch Doctor.(Read more...)
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