Seymour Hersh: Bush is "Unreachable"

Seymour Hersh: Bush is "Unreachable": "�Nothing I write� is likely to influence Bush, he said. �He is unreachable. I can�t reach him. He�s got his own world. This is really unusual and frankly, it scares the hell out of me.�"

The New York Times > Opinion > Editorial: Theresa Marie Schiavo

The New York Times > Opinion > Editorial: Theresa Marie Schiavo: "What little we know about Terri Schiavo the person as opposed to the videotape tells us that she would have been appalled by the last weeks of her life. What worse nightmare could a rather shy and affectionate young woman conjure up than 15 years of lingering unconsciousness, in which the entire globe became intimately familiar with the sight of her wasted limbs while the people she loved most engaged in a vicious court fight for control of her body? "

The New York Times > Opinion > Editorial: Theresa Marie Schiavo

The New York Times > Opinion > Editorial: Theresa Marie Schiavo: "ne of the most astonishing things about the human experience is the realization that loved ones die. The first time it happens, we are invariably amazed that nearly everyone who has ever lived has weathered an experience so wrenching. "

The Incapacitated Person's Legal Protection Act of 2005

The Incapacitated Person's Legal Protection Act of 2005: "an incapacitated person shall be deemed to be in custody under sentence of a court established by Congress, or deemed to be in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State Court, as the case may be, when an order of such a court authorizes or directs the withholding or withdrawal of food, fluids or medical treatment necessary to sustain the person�s life."

CNN.com - Bush:�Millions saddened by Schiavo's death - Mar 31, 2005

CNN.com - Bush:�Millions saddened by Schiavo's death - Mar 31, 2005: "Judge Stanley F. Birch, Jr., a conservative appointed by the former President Bush, wrote a rebuke of Bush and Congress. He said the action by the White House and lawmakers was 'demonstrably at odds with our Founding Fathers' blueprint for the governance of a free people -- our Constitution.'"

CNN.com - Bush:�Millions saddened by Schiavo's death - Mar 31, 2005

CNN.com - Bush:�Millions saddened by Schiavo's death - Mar 31, 2005: "'This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change,' DeLay said. 'The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today. Today we grieve, we pray, and we hope to God this fate never befalls another.'"

MSNBC - What can we learn from the Schiavo case?

MSNBC - What can we learn from the Schiavo case?: "nearly every doctor, nurse and dietician in America knows that a feeding tube is a form of medical treatment."

MSNBC - What can we learn from the Schiavo case?

MSNBC - What can we learn from the Schiavo case?: "If Congress and the legislators in Florida made anything very clear over the past few years of fighting about Schiavo�s fate it is that they have no idea what they are talking about."

MSNBC - The Legacy of Terri Schiavo

MSNBC - The Legacy of Terri Schiavo: "the Schindlers also made what a court-appointed guardian for Terri deemed 'horrific' and 'gruesome' comments�that the family would never remove Terri's feeding tube even if she had asked them to, and that even if she developed gangrene, the family would amputate her limbs to keep her alive. Ultimately, the judge sided with Michael. "

MSNBC - The Legacy of Terri Schiavo

MSNBC - The Legacy of Terri Schiavo: "No one will ever know what Terri Schiavo's true wishes were. She never left a written directive explaining what to do in the event that she lapsed into a vegetative state, "

ThisisLondon

ThisisLondon: "People saw me as the benchmark queer while George was passing himself off as a straight stud. In fact, he was loitering in public loos like some pre-war homosexual. It's one thing to keep quiet. It's another thing to pretend to be someone you're not.'"

Social Security Plan Meets Doubt in Iowa (washingtonpost.com)

Social Security Plan Meets Doubt in Iowa (washingtonpost.com): "Unlike the current system, the money built up in private accounts could be passed onto family or friends if the worker dies before or after retirement. "

That's half truth at best. You can pass on funds ONLY if your financial picture is strong enough to avoid having your retirement funds turned into an anuity.

The New York Times > Washington > Judge Blocks Rule Allowing Companies to Cut Benefits When Retirees Reach Medicare Age

The New York Times > Washington > Judge Blocks Rule Allowing Companies to Cut Benefits When Retirees Reach Medicare Age: "The rule would have created an explicit exemption to the age discrimination law, allowing employers to reduce health benefits for retirees when they became eligible for Medicare. Under the rule, Judge Brody said, employers could have given older retirees 'health benefits that are inferior' to those given retirees younger than 65."

The New York Times > Washington > Judge Blocks Rule Allowing Companies to Cut Benefits When Retirees Reach Medicare Age

The New York Times > Washington > Judge Blocks Rule Allowing Companies to Cut Benefits When Retirees Reach Medicare Age: "The rule would have created an explicit exemption to the age discrimination law, allowing employers to reduce health benefits for retirees when they became eligible for Medicare. Under the rule, Judge Brody said, employers could have given older retirees 'health benefits that are inferior' to those given retirees younger than 65."

The New York Times > Washington > Judge Blocks Rule Allowing Companies to Cut Benefits When Retirees Reach Medicare Age

The New York Times > Washington > Judge Blocks Rule Allowing Companies to Cut Benefits When Retirees Reach Medicare Age: "The rule would have created an explicit exemption to the age discrimination law, allowing employers to reduce health benefits for retirees when they became eligible for Medicare. Under the rule, Judge Brody said, employers could have given older retirees 'health benefits that are inferior' to those given retirees younger than 65."

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up'

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up': "The human race is living beyond its means. A report backed by 1,360 scientists from 95 countries - some of them world leaders in their fields - today warns that the almost two-thirds of the natural machinery that supports life on Earth is being degraded by human pressure."

village voice > news > Terri Schiavo: Judicial Murder by Nat Hentoff

village voice > news > Terri Schiavo: Judicial Murder by Nat Hentoff: "Ralph Nader-Wesley Smith report: 'The courts . . . have [also] ordered that no attempts be made to provide her water or food by mouth. Terri swallows her own saliva. Spoon feeding is not medical treatment. This outrageous order proves that the courts are not merely permitting medical treatment to be withheld, they have ordered her to be made dead.' "

Week 7: Lean Protein: Chicken, Beef or Fish? (washingtonpost.com)

Week 7: Lean Protein: Chicken, Beef or Fish? (washingtonpost.com): "salmon, trout, mackerel, sardines -- have the most omega-3's"

USATODAY.com

USATODAY.com: "food, my family was asked to approve insertion of a feeding tube. Our answer was a considered no, and she quietly passed.
If the Schindlers had gotten their way, proper decisions such as the one my family made could be brought into question and needlessly reversed."

The New York Times > Washington > List of Schiavo Donors Will Be Sold by Direct-Marketing Firm

The New York Times > Washington > List of Schiavo Donors Will Be Sold by Direct-Marketing Firm: "Pamela Hennessy, an unpaid spokeswoman for the Schindlers, said she was initially appalled when she learned of the list's existence.
'It is possibly the most distasteful thing I have ever seen,' Ms. Hennessy said. 'Everybody is making a buck off of her.'
Ms. Hennessy, who operates the Schindlers' Web site, www.terrisfight.org, said the family had not released any of the names or e-mail addresses gathered there. 'Obviously these people are enterprising, and they are taking advantage of this very desperate father,' she said."

FOXNews.com - The O'Reilly Factor - Talking Points - Coming Clean About Terri Schiavo

FOXNews.com - The O'Reilly Factor - Talking Points - Coming Clean About Terri Schiavo: "As 'Talking Points' put forward last night, that's a shame. Michael Schiavo should walk away and allow Terri's family to care for her. There's no downside in doing that."

DallasNews.com | News for Dallas, Texas | Local News

DallasNews.com | News for Dallas, Texas | Local News: "If all other cities kept their current crime rankings, Dallas would have to cut crime by nearly 20 percent to have a crime rate comparable to the No. 2 city, Phoenix. "

MSNBC -

Political dustups give elites bad name
"But in the end, Americans shocked by this macabre chapter in American politics will see the Democrats as the party on the side of death and see George Bush as the defender of defenseless."

MSNBC - Pharmacists� rights at front of new debate

MSNBC - Pharmacists� rights at front of new debate: "Some pharmacists across the country are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and morning-after pills, saying that dispensing the medications violates their personal moral or religious beliefs."

When it's cruel to be kind, you get Pat O'Brien

When it's cruel to be kind, you get Pat O'Brien: "Get off the cross; we need the wood"

"Media Matters," week ending March 25, 2005 ... [Media Matters for America]

"Media Matters," week ending March 25, 2005 ... [Media Matters for America]: "The radical Democratic left is an army of soulless ghouls. Being of the living dead, they live in a world of death and try to impose it on we the living. "

DeLay's Own Tragic Crossroads

DeLay's Own Tragic Crossroads: "'There was no point to even really talking about it,' Maxine DeLay, the congressman's 81-year-old widowed mother, recalled in an interview last week. 'There was no way [Charles] wanted to live like that. Tom knew � we all knew � his father wouldn't have wanted to live that way.'"

Tom DeLay is the anti-decent political icon of the conservative movement.

FOXNews.com - Politics - States Ponder Lessons Learned From Schiavo

FOXNews.com - Politics - States Ponder Lessons Learned From Schiavo: "Alabama state Republican Rep. Dick Brewbaker disagreed; he has introduced legislation similar to the bill that failed in Florida and he hopes it will have enough support to pass. His measure says it should be assumed that a patient without a living will would want to be kept alive.
'I am hopeful that this will encourage people to think a little more about this sort of thing,' Brewbaker told FOXNews.com, 'so that it won't affect Alabama. There seems to be more of a respect for life here.'"

The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > 'Break, Blow, Burn': Well Versed

The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > 'Break, Blow, Burn': Well Versed: "Ambition undid him, as it has undone many another American poet infected by the national delusion that the arts can have a major league."

[minstrels] Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock -- Wallace Stevens

[minstrels] Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock -- Wallace Stevens: "Despite his death and subsequent decomposition, Stevens is still the
only lawyer I would welcome in my home...

-- Roderick Scott Greene (whoever he is)"

The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > 'Break, Blow, Burn': Well Versed

The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > 'Break, Blow, Burn': Well Versed: "The proud motto of every suckerfish is: we swim with sharks. "

My Way News

My Way News: "Gov. Bush and the state's social services agency filed a petition in state court to take custody of Schiavo and, presumably, reconnect her feeding tube. It cited new allegations of neglect and challenges Schiavo's diagnosis as being in a persistent vegetative state. The request is based on the opinion of a neurologist working for the state who observed Schiavo at her bedside but did not conduct an examination of her.
The neurologist, William Cheshire of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, is a bioethicist who is also an active member in Christian organizations, including two whose leaders have spoken out against the tube's removal.
Ronald Cranford of the University of Minnesota, a neurologist who was among those who made a previous diagnosis of Schiavo, said 'there isn't a reputable, credible neurologist in the world who won't find her in a vegetative state.'"

washingtonpost.com: Media Notes Extra

washingtonpost.com: Media Notes Extra: "not nearly as nauseating as the knowledge that in the state of Texas, thanks to a bill signed in 1999 by then-Governor George W. Bush, conscious, living human beings are deprived of life support against their express wishes (and those of their family) in order to save money from the Medicaid budget and make room for tax cuts.'"

ABC News: DeLay Says He's Not Giving Up Schiavo Fight

ABC News: DeLay Says He's Not Giving Up Schiavo Fight: "'These people in Congress are walking all over my personal and private life,' he said. 'I'm telling you, the United States citizens, you better start speaking up, because these people are going to trample into your personal, private affairs.' "

ABC News: DeLay Says He's Not Giving Up Schiavo Fight

ABC News: DeLay Says He's Not Giving Up Schiavo Fight: "ABC News obtained talking points circulated among Senate Republicans explaining why they should vote to intervene in the Schiavo case. Among them, that it is an important moral issue and the 'pro-life base will be excited,' and that it is a 'great political issue � this is a tough issue for Democrats.' "

ABC News: DeLay Says He's Not Giving Up Schiavo Fight

ABC News: DeLay Says He's Not Giving Up Schiavo Fight: "'All we're doing in Congress is giving Terri Schiavo an opportunity to come to the federal courts and review what this judge in Florida has been doing, and he's been trying to kill Terri for 4 1/2 years.' "

George W. Bush, King of Hypocrisy

George W. Bush, King of Hypocrisy: "as governor of Texas, he signed a piece of legislation enabling a patient's physician and health care facility appointed review committee to involuntarily terminate the life support of those who have executed a living will, even if they expressly indicated their wish in an advance directive to be kept alive through extraordinary means and even if it is AGAINST THEIR FAMILY's or GUARDIAN'S EXPRESS WISHES."

'A Great Political Issue' (washingtonpost.com)

'A Great Political Issue' (washingtonpost.com): "Terri Schiavo lives so that others, notably Frist, can run for higher office. I know that by watching the tape. "

'A Great Political Issue' (washingtonpost.com)

'A Great Political Issue' (washingtonpost.com): "Rep. Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, proved you don't need a medical degree to make foolish statements about Schiavo. 'It won't take a miracle to help Terri Schiavo,' he said, neglecting to cite his source. 'It will only take the medical care and therapy that all patients deserve.' "

'A Great Political Issue' (washingtonpost.com)

'A Great Political Issue' (washingtonpost.com): "Sen. Bill Frist watched a videotape last week of Terri Schiavo made by her parents in 2001. He did this in his capacity as Senate majority leader and as a renowned physician. In both roles he performed miserably. As a senator, he showed himself to be an unscrupulous opportunist. As a physician, he was guilty of practicing medicine without a brain."

CNN.com - A mobile page turner - Mar 21, 2005

CNN.com - A mobile page turner - Mar 21, 2005: "A writer who goes by the single name Yoshi wrote 'Deep Love,' a series of stories about a Tokyo teenage prostitute. He began by posting them on an obscure cell phone site he started and made reader payment voluntary.
'Deep Love,' which uses erotic language and violence to create a page-turner despite a preposterous plot-line, became a hit, mainly through word of mouth among young adults. It went on to become a movie, TV show and 'manga' or Japanese-style comic book.
It's even been turned into a real book, with some 2.6 million copies sold."

Welcome to AnnCoulter.com

Welcome to AnnCoulter.com: "How many people have to die before the country stops humoring feminists? "

The New York Times > Washington > Federal Court Judge Schedules Hearing on Terri Schiavo Case

The New York Times > Washington > Federal Court Judge Schedules Hearing on Terri Schiavo Case: "The Florida courts have brought Terri and the nation to an ugly crossroads by commanding medical professionals sworn to protect life to end Terri's life,' Mr. Sensenbrenner said."

Amazon.com: Books: The Coming Generational Storm : What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future

Amazon.com: Books: The Coming Generational Storm : What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future: "Historically when governments overspend, they reach for the printing press and flood the market with cheap money. This is what I predict will happened. The US, Japan, and Europe will all go massively under the flood of inflation and will, after horrendous suffering, reemerge to restructure their transfers so that all of the suggestions of the authors are put in place including later retirement, responsible taxation, controlled medical costs, and a more modest lifestyle for all. That is, if we don't have revolutions and a return to some sort of absolute state control. "

Welcome to AnnCoulter.com

Welcome to AnnCoulter.com: "How many people have to die before the country stops humoring feminists? "

Yahoo! News - Reflections of a Firebrand

Yahoo! News - Reflections of a Firebrand: "'There are two ways, my friend, that you can be rich in life. One is to make a lot of money and the other is to have few needs.' "

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Who Gets It? Hillary

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Who Gets It? Hillary: "Abortions fell steadily under Bill Clinton, who espoused that position, and have increased significantly during President Bush's presidency. ("

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Who Gets It? Hillary

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Who Gets It? Hillary: "Mrs. Clinton has helped turn the debate around by emerging as both pro-choice and anti-abortion.
That is potentially a winning position for Democrats. "

Faculty Group Rebukes Harvard President With Vote (washingtonpost.com)

Faculty Group Rebukes Harvard President With Vote (washingtonpost.com): "'The votes seem to me to be a negative comment not on the leadership of President Summers, but on the faculty of arts and sciences,' Ruth Wisse, a literature professor, said. 'This is a university that is in the business of looking for the truth. If you look for the truth, you often find yourself in a situation where you offend some people.' "

My Way News

My Way News: "'We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real,' he said. "

My Way News

My Way News: "But he cautioned that 'closing the gap solely with rising tax rates would be problematic' because the high level of taxation that would be required could by itself 'severely inhibit economic growth.'
Because 'benefit cuts will almost surely be at least part of the solution,' Greenspan said it is imperative for Congress to let future retirees know as soon as possible that all currently promised benefits won't be forthcoming when they retire."

Bullshit to the max. Reducing benefits sucks muddy rocks.

My Way News

My Way News: "'If confronted with the same evidence we had back then, I would recommend exactly what I recommended then,' he said."

Why? If you know it's wrong, why?

My Way News

My Way News: "Alan Greenspan and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton clashed briefly Tuesday over rosy surplus forecasts the Federal Reserve Chairman relied on to support President President Bush's 2001 tax cuts, estimates that turned out to be considerably off the mark.
'It turns out that we were all wrong,' Greenspan conceded at a Senate hearing.
'Just for the record, we were not all wrong, but many people were wrong,' Clinton, D-N.Y., quickly shot back."

Creative Commons Is Rewriting Rules of Copyright (washingtonpost.com)

Creative Commons Is Rewriting Rules of Copyright (washingtonpost.com): "'There is this weird sense that the Internet is broken because it lets people make easy copies. . . . The Internet is a machine for making copies, and artists need to come to grips with that,' Doctorow said."

CNN.com - 'Blair Witch' creator takes new project to Web - Mar 14, 2005

CNN.com - 'Blair Witch' creator takes new project to Web - Mar 14, 2005: "'Unlike a Fox show that needs 3 million viewers a week or it's canceled, I only need a fraction of that and I can be filming forever,' he said. 'At Sundance, we were the only ones out there not looking for distribution. You've already got the largest distribution network in the world already on your desktop, and the end-user experience is getting better every day.'"

AOL: AIM Conversations Are Safe

AOL: AIM Conversations Are Safe: "'You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the content or to be compensated for any such uses,'"

Laurie Spiegel On The Idea #6

Laurie Spiegel On The Idea #6: "As each individual is 'a universe entire', so does the benefit of creative self-expression fall primarily to the maker, leaving to that person's audience, however large or local, only the artifacts of the process, the works that remain."

Laurie Spiegel On The Idea #6

Laurie Spiegel On The Idea #6: "Though I have made music 'on demand' and to others' specifications, such as for dance, theater or film, I am primarily inner directed and all of what I consider my best work is always made for my own needs. This is another wonderful paradox that perhaps only the arts manifest well, that by pleasing the self we are more able to please others."

Selected Small bits of Laurie Spiegel Poems

Selected Small bits of Laurie Spiegel Poems: "only those clever enough to find the latch
only those willing to pay the price
only those strong or angry enough
to crash in anyway "

Laurie Spiegel On The Idea #6

Laurie Spiegel On The Idea #6: "From the earliest, I craved the arts, any of the arts, all of the arts. The feelings, thoughts and imaginings presented to me by other minds did not represent, reflect or resonate with my solitary subjective experience, nor did they provide the means I so urgently felt I needed of making life's momentary intensity more comfortable."

village voice > people > Lusty Lady by Rachel Kramer Bussel

village voice > people > Lusty Lady by Rachel Kramer Bussel: "keep things light and friendly, low on drama and high on nakedness, there's more short-term payoff. "

Laurie Spiegel's Retiary Ramblings

Laurie Spiegel's Retiary Ramblings: "What has become obsolete may have qualities, properties, characteristics, and unfulfilled potential which will later be considered prophetic (e.g. 'musique concrete� being virtually reborn with the advent of low cost realtime digital audio samplers). "

Laurie Spiegel's Retiary Ramblings

Laurie Spiegel's Retiary Ramblings: "By 'commercialization' I mean the transition from use value to exchange value as the common and expected motivation for technological research and development for musical applications. "

Laurie Spiegel's Retiary Ramblings

Laurie Spiegel's Retiary Ramblings: "Underwriters Labs. They were hiring girl nerds instead of just guys during the Viet Nam War due to the draft, one of feminism's least acknowledged impetuses. "

:: rogerebert.com :: reviews

:: rogerebert.com :: reviews: "millions of people can be led, and millions more killed, by madness leashed to racism and the barbaric instincts of tribalism."

Hitler human, still disturbing in the bunker

Hitler human, still disturbing in the bunker: "absolute faith in one's own virtue is not a commitment to virtuous behavior but a commitment to one's own will"

Hitler human, still disturbing in the bunker

Hitler human, still disturbing in the bunker: "'Downfall' reminds us that the challenge of citizenship means recognizing evil when leaders are smiling, playing with their dogs and being photographed with children. "

WFTV.com - News - Police Accused Of Tasering Suspect To Get Urine Sample

WFTV.com - News - Police Accused Of Tasering Suspect To Get Urine Sample: "'I feel I was basically raped,' Wheeler said.
Said Amnesty International USA spokesman Edward Jackson: 'If this had taken place in China, it would be an egregious violation of human rights, and the public would be outraged.
'I hope that they don't allow the fact that it happened on U.S. soil deter from the fact that this may very well be a case of torture.'"

Propaganda Machine

Propaganda Machine: "Liberal enough to listen to new ideas, conservative enough to choose the right ones."

MSNBC - Bankruptcy bill near Senate passage

MSNBC - Bankruptcy bill near Senate passage: "They say it would turn the bankruptcy courts into collection agencies for the credit card companies."

Black robes and betrayal - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - March 02, 2005

Black robes and betrayal - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - March 02, 2005: "I am convinced that from time to time juries find before them 16- or 17-year-old defendants who understand full well the vicious nature of their murders, and deserve -- after receiving the full panoply of due process -- to be fried, gassed, hanged, shot, injected or otherwise sent promptly to Hell. "

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Buffett attacks American spending junkies

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Buffett attacks American spending junkies: "A country that is now aspiring to an 'ownership society' will not find happiness in - and I'll use hyperbole here for emphasis - a 'sharecropper's society'.'"

FOXNews.com - Special Report w/ Brit Hume - Political Grapevine - Demanding an Apology

FOXNews.com - Special Report w/ Brit Hume - Political Grapevine - Demanding an Apology: "Jim Gibbons (search) for saying this past week that the 'tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals [in Hollywood should] ... go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else,' adding, 'it's just too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket' to become human shields in Iraq."

Yahoo! News - House OKs Bill on Faith-Based Jobs

Yahoo! News - House OKs Bill on Faith-Based Jobs: "Democrats are objecting to cuts in some programs and the religious discrimination provision. "

BuzzMachine ... by Jeff Jarvis

BuzzMachine ... by Jeff Jarvis: "He started off by explaining how the mainstream media doesn't have the same influence it once did, that professional and amateur journalists were getting to be on the same plane, and that essentially, there were no rules anymore.
'Sort of like f--king in the 1970s,' Corddry observed.
That appeared to catch Rosen slightly off-guard.
The program talked a bit about blogging. Corddry said declaratively to Rosen, 'you're a blogger.' Rosen happily agreed that indeed he was. 'Well thank you for wearing pants,' Corddry said."

Yahoo! News - 'Hobbit' Brain Supports Species Theory

Yahoo! News - 'Hobbit' Brain Supports Species Theory: "a sophisticated human dwarf species marooned for eons while modern man proliferated"

The New York Times > Washington > New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans

The New York Times > Washington > New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans: "almost four out of five respondents said it was the government's responsibility to assure a decent standard of living for the elderly."

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Kansas on My Mind

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Kansas on My Mind: "At one of Senator Rick Santorum's recent town-hall meetings promoting privatization, college Republicans began chanting, 'Hey hey, ho ho, Social Security's got to go.'"

FDA official says agency acted too slowly on Vioxx

FDA official says agency acted too slowly on Vioxx: "Millions of people took Vioxx in the years after its risks to the heart became apparent. As a result, as many as 55,000 patients may have died from heart attacks and strokes induced by the drug"

Social Security overhaul a tough sell

Social Security overhaul a tough sell: "Boxer said people view Social Security very simply: 'They pay for it, it's an insurance program, and when they reach a certain age, they get a check in the mail. Pretty straightforward.' "

FINDING MY RELIGION / Rik Myslewski is a happy atheist

FINDING MY RELIGION / Rik Myslewski is a happy atheist: "So, you're certain that God does not exist?
That's right, which I realize puts me in a minority role in this country. I guess I won't ever be elected president."

My Way News

My Way News: "The court says in so many words that what our people's laws say about the issue does not, in the last analysis, matter"