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“U.S. Preventive Services Task Force advising against routine mammograms for women in their 40s.” This recommendation is being met with by strong protests among cancer groups and breast cancer survivors alike. The recommendation is based on the fact that while cancer is detected in some women there are also a good number of false positives [...]

From JohnMcCain.com sponsored email… Taxpayers simply cannot afford this government takeover of our health care system and this is our opportunity to put an end to it. That’s why I urge you to add your name to this petition showing your opposition to government-run health care. We still have an opportunity to stop the Democrats’ public option from [...]

In grand gesture of foolishness, Senator Lindsey Graham was censured last week by the Republican leadership in South Carolina for working with Democrats, specifically on a climate change bill. This is the same state whose Republican governor tried to sneak off to Argentina to have an affair. Hopefully his mistress wasn’t a Democrat, [...]

As unemployment hit 10.2% last week the House in a special Saturday session of Congress passed health care bill that is costly and unpopular. In a great example of politicians being out of touch, Congress has decided that health care reform takes precedence over the economy and jobs even when poll after poll (including [...]

Nov. 4, 2009

November 4, 2009 new protests in Iran.

Yesterday was a big day for Republicans with huge wins in Virginia and New Jersey.  Those two races also showed that the Obama election machine is not invincible.  While the White House had already conceded Virginia prior to election day, New Jersey they fully backed right up to election day.  They brought all their big [...]

The AP has an interesting article on Farmers growing electricity along with their crops. There are a myriad of reasons, whether economic, social, or environmental, that using alternative sources of energy is increasing in popularity. This article shows how farmers are becoming not just producers of food but some are are producing [...]

The Obama administration is still having difficulty in justifying the massive expenditure that came with the stimulus package. The root of the problem comes with claiming stimulus success is the state of unemployment. The administration prior to passing the stimulus said that it would prevent unemployment for rising above 8.5%, but now that [...]