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If you like to drive through Chicago talking on your cell phone, and eating goose liver pate,  the city of Chicago wants you to know that they’re coming after you! If you’re a cell phone-using, goose liver-eating, cigarette-smoking, fast food-loving person, Chicago might not be your kind of town. In this city that once winked at Prohibition,... »

Congress is working on scrapping their idiotic policy of tying Medicare reimbursement to physicians to economic growth. For years Congress has mandated that Medicare payments to doctors grow no faster than growth in the GDP, but it appears that will be changing soon. It will cost billions of dollars to override required cuts in Medicare... »

Here’s another silly AP-Ipsos poll that purports that people in this country are so fed up with the GOP that  the Democrats will regain control of the House and Senate in November.  Unfortunately for the AP, and everyone who reads the trash that they put out,  the results of the poll are so nebulous... »

For all those naysayers who  still don’t believe that tax cuts can stimulate the economy to the point that they wind up paying for themselves, I say get a grip on reality. The Federal budget deficit is falling rapidly due to the tax cuts passed by the Bush administration. The projected US budget deficit unexpectedly... »

Over at Brad DeLong’s “reality based” blog, DeLong is ragging on Tom Maguire for writing that the Hamdan decision may be a Pyrric victory for the Democratic Party. Tom Maguire loses his identity. He forgets that he is an American patriot, and for a moment becomes a cynical Republican partisan: JustOneMinute: GD Hamdan – Careful What... »

The terrorist government that runs the Palestinian Authority states that they are now “implicitly” ready to recognize Israel. Oooh, how noble of them! First of all, Israel is a  nation created by UN mandate that has legally existed for about 60 years.  So, who gives a rats ass whether  the mass murdering thugs in... »

If you want to know why we’re going to have a major shortage of primary care physicians in the future, all you have to do is look at what’s happened to the income of family doctors over the past decade. Adjusted for inflation, they’ve dropped by 10%. The average primary doctor is the United... »

I wrote recently about the appalling and misguided attempts by a group called the Center For Science in the Public Interest to try to force Kentucky Fried Chicken, via a lawsuit, into changing the oil that it uses to fry it’s chicken in to an oil which is lower in trans fats. The obvious... »

Geno’s Steaks (one of the finest food purveyors in the City of Brotherly Love in my opinion) is being threatened with a lawsuit for putting up a sign in their restaurant which states that, in the United States, we speak English. The suit is being filed by a (get this) civil rights agency, the... »

A medical doctor and a consumer group are suing Kentucky Fried Chicken to try to force them to fry their chicken in a healthier type of cooking oil than they do presently, or at least make sure that consumers understand that the cooking oil the chain uses is not the healthiest.    A doctor and a... »

The country of Jordan is refusing to allow the body of the Jordanian Al Qaeda terrorist al-Zarqawi to be buried there.   The family of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi asked three Islamist lawmakers to intervene with Jordan’s government to bring the slain militant’s body home for burial, one of the lawmakers said Saturday. “One of al-Zarqawi’s brothers asked... »

There’s considerable evidence that the Haditha “massacre” may be a complete fabrication. We still aren’t completely sure what happened, but it’s become quite clear that many of the supposed eyewitnesses to this event are not credible. Evidence accumulates of a hoax in Haditha. The weblog Sweetness & Light has done an estimable service gathering together... »

Gee, it must really be nice to be a whacked out Islamist. If you get blown to bits it’s a victory. If you don’t, it’s also a victory. It’s just a win-win situation all around! “We want to give you the joyous news of the martyrdom of the mujahed sheik Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. “The death of... »

Even though the majority of Americans polled support a ban on same sex marriage, and 45 out of 50 states have already banned it, Charles Gibson of ABC World News Tonight claimed on the air that the American public is evenly split on the issue. A new ABC News poll found that by a 22-point... »

This story about an Illinois neurosurgeon points out perfectly why we need medical malpractice reform that includes caps on noneconomic damages (ie. “pain and suffering”). While the doctor did make a medical error, evidence was presented at the trial that the plaintiff was lying about the symptoms which supposedly resulted from the physician’s mistake.... »

No, I’m not referring to New Orleans residents voting to re-elect their idiotic mayor Ray Nagin, despite how badly he screwed up during Hurricane Katrina. I’m talking about the fact that it looks like the city of New Orleans is sinking faster than we previously believed. Parts of New Orleans are sinking far more rapidly... »

Things aren’t looking so good for Hillary Clinton’s presidential aspirations, as a recent ABC poll shows just 19% of those polled would definitely vote for Hillary, while 42% say they definitely would not. A bare 19 percent of those polled by ABC said they would definitely vote for Sen. Hillary Clinton,D-N.Y., while almost half –... »

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who has lambasted GOP lawmakers for taking gifts from lobbyists, has been found to have engaged in exactly the same behavior himself. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, who has criticized Republican ethics, accepted free ringside tickets to three professional boxing matches from Nevada officials who were trying to influence... »

Another medical malpractice reform success story, as the biggest malpractice insurer in Arkansas will not raise insurance rates for the first time in many years. The company cites the medical malpractice reform bill passed three years ago as the reason. Add Arkansas to the lsit of states who have passed medical malpractice reform which... »

Solomon links to this World Net Daily story, where one of the leaders of the terrorist group Hamas discusses how Hamas is working on plans to fly planes laden with explosives into skyscrapers in Tel Aviv if the “truce” with Israel doesn’t work out. If anyone is still under the delusion that Hamas has... »