Health-care reform: Why I'm suing to get back my freedom

Seeded on Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:25 PM EDT (Christian Science Monitor)

A small-business owner and former Iraq war combat medic explains why he's challenging the new health-care law's requirement that everyone buy insurance.

politics, healthcare

Doctors in Cuba Start Over in the U.S.

Seeded on Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:36 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Cuban doctors have been fleeing to South Florida since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959, but the pace intensified after 2006, when the Department of Homeland Security began a program that allowed Cuban medical personnel "who study or work in a third country under the direction …

doctors, cuba, health, healthcare, public-healthcare

California voters exercise their power -- and that's the problem

Seeded on Wed May 20, 2009 9:59 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Residents relish their role in the lawmaking process, but they share the blame for the state's severe dysfunction.

Banks aren't reselling many foreclosed homes

Seeded on Thu Apr 9, 2009 10:45 AM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)

A vast "shadow inventory" of foreclosed homes that banks are holding off the market could wreak havoc with the already battered real estate sector, industry observers say.

housing, real-estate, bubble, us-news, foreclosure

Burst of housing bubble drives Barstow houses to affordable level

Seeded on Wed Mar 4, 2009 10:34 AM EST (Desert Dispatch)

Without the market downturn, he said, "I would have had to rent for the rest of my life."

economy, housing, real-estate, finance, us-news

S&P says subprime far from over;understated fraud

Seeded on Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:53 PM EDT (The San Diego Union-Tribune)

"The U.S. subprime housing crisis will not peak until 2009, rating agency Standard and Poor's said on Tuesday, adding it had underestimated the extent of fraud in the industry." Ooops.

market, economy, housing, finance, us-news, realestate

Study Backs Up Feds' Theory of Why World Trade Center Collapsed on Sept. 11

Seeded on Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:34 PM EDT (USA Today)

A computer simulation of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks supports a federal agency's findings that the initial impact from the hijacked airplanes stripped away crucial fireproofing material and that the weakened towers collapsed under their own weight.

new-york, terrorism, terrorist, science, wtc, 9-11, 911

Air Force Considered Gay 'Love Bomb' Against Enemies

Seeded on Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:05 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)

"The Air Force on Tuesday confirmed a report that in 1994 a military researcher requested $7.5 million to develop a non-lethal "love bomb" that would chemically alter the state of mind of enemy troops and make them want to have sex with each other rather than fight."

technology, iraq, afghanistan, air-force, gay, war, military, chemical, homosexual

Global warming debunked

Seeded on Sat May 19, 2007 2:25 PM EDT (Stuff.co.nz)

The other greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen dioxide, and various others including CFCs, contributed only five per cent of the effect, carbon dioxide being by far the greatest contributor at 3.6 per cent.

global-warming, green, science, climate-change, earth

Czech president calls for rational debate on global warming, rejects "current hysteria"

Seeded on Wed May 16, 2007 12:24 PM EDT (International Herald Tribune)

Wow, I'm all for bending some rules so he can come over to the US and run for President after his term at the Czech Republic is up.

debate, global-warming, politics, czech-republic, mass-hysteria

Jihadist Video Shows Boy Beheading Man

Seeded on Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:09 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

"The boy with the knife looks barely 12. In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy. Then he hacks off the captive's head to cries of ``God is great!'' and hoists it in triumph by the hair."

afghanistan, pakistan, muslim, taliban, associated-press, world-news, jihad, alqaeda

California legislator takes on in-game ads

Seeded on Thu Dec 21, 2006 2:30 PM EST (Ars Technica)

"California Assemblywoman Lori Saldana (D-San Diego) is thinking of proposing a bill into the state legislature to prevent in-game ads and spyware from being installed on user's computers, even if the player gives consent during the installation process."

games, politics, government, legislation

European Socialists eager to work with U.S. Democrats

Seeded on Fri Dec 8, 2006 12:00 AM EST (Reuters)

"We are not anti-American, we want the real America, your America," former Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, president of the European Socialist Party, said in remarks directed at Dean.

politics, government, howard-dean, democrat, socialist

Climate of Fear - Global-Warming Dissenters Silenced

Seeded on Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:07 PM EDT (OpinionJournal.com)

Interesting piece from an MIT professor that discusses the issues facing scientists who don't buy into the current trend of alarmism.

world, science, globalwarming, opinionjournal, climatechange

IOL: Explosion raises tension in Addis Ababa

Seeded on Fri Apr 7, 2006 1:45 PM EDT (IOL)

Whoa! I will personally come down and take up arms against Eritrea if they try to stop the flow of that sweet, sweet Arabican bean to my local coffee house.

terrorism, ethiopia, africa, coffee, world-news

Traffic School - A Good Time Had By All

Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:37 PM EST

I was recently urged to attend my local county's traffic school so that I could keep a speeding ticket off of my driving record and save myself a painful insurance payment increase. I chose to attend school at the Orange County courthouse.

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