A crowdfunding website to pay the medical expenses of bombing victim Jeff Bauman has already raised almost $200,000. Bauman lost both of his legs in the attack and a gruesome photo of his injuries instantly became one of the tragedy’s most haunting images. He is also the only person to provide the FBI with an eyewitness description of one of …
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USPS Reports $16B Loss
The Postal Service has reported a record $15.9B loss for the year, more than three times last year’s loss. Much of the red ink was due to mounting costs for future retiree health benefits, which made up $11.1 billion of the losses. Without that and other related labor expenses, the mail agency sustained an operating loss of $2.4 billion, lower …
Read More »Christian Groups To Protest Obamacare Outside The White House
Via press release: For the faith community, we can never be silent or indifferent when it comes to matters of justice, human rights and religious freedom. As people of principle and faith, we must purpose in our hearts that we will never comply with an unjust or immoral government mandate which would require us to violate our conscience, the teachings …
Read More »Ireland’s President Vs The Tea Party
For reasons not yet apparent, a two year-old anti-Tea Party rant by Irish President Michael Higgins has suddenly exploded across the web and gone viral. Listen. Legendary. Thanks to everybody who sent it to me last night.
Read More »New Study: Declining U.S. Circumcision Rate To Increase Sexual Diseases
According to a just-published Johns Hopkins University study, the declining U.S. rate of newborn circumcision will result in higher health costs for the nation when these boys become sexually active adults. About 55 percent of the 2 million males born each year in America are circumcised, a decrease from 79 percent in the 1980s, according to the report in the …
Read More »Obamacare Will Ban Anti-Transgender Discrimination By Health Providers
A senior official from the Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed that under the Affordable Healthcare Act, federally funded agencies and providers will be barred from discriminating against transgender patients. Chris Geidner reports at Buzzfeed: In response to a letter sent by a dozen LGBT health and advocacy organizations to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in June, Leon Rodriguez …
Read More »London’s Olympic Opening Ceremonies Praise Universal Health Care
One of the most interesting moments in last night’s opening ceremonies was the lavish tribute to Britain’s National Health Service. Teabaggers went nuts on Twitter, of course. Check out the below commentary from one American, whose clip has (so far) evaded the the IOC, which has been furiously scrubbing YouTube of Olympics-related clips.
Read More »Blacks AIDS Group Issues Grim Report
Yesterday the Black AIDS Institute issued a grim report that will surely be the subject of much discussion at next week’s International AIDS Conference. HIV-AIDS is affecting black gay men in the United States on a scale unseen among any other group in the developed world, said a report issued Wednesday ahead of the International AIDS Conference. So grave is …
Read More »Alan Grayson On FL Gov. Rick Scott: The Blood Of The Poor Will Be On His Hands
Today’s Lie From World Net Daily
Make that 83% of doctors that belong to a wingnut Obamacare repeal group.
Read More »Obamacare & The End Times
They’re related, of course.
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Concerned Women Are Concernstipated That Poor People Will Get Health Care
“We are outraged to see the Supreme Court ignoring the constitutional limits the Founders put in place to constrain the federal government’s power over us. Shame on them! With this decision they have given a blank check to the federal government, forever altering the constitutional concept of checks and balances that has been so crucial throughout our history. We wholeheartedly …
Read More »Blowing Away Health Care Reform
Alliance Defense Fund Vs. Obama
Government In Your Vagina
UN Issues World Happiness Report
Shocker! The world’s happiest nations tend to be the most socialist. Who’d think that providing your citizens with health care and adequate housing would make them happy?
Read More »Obama Vs Romneycare
Suh-NAP!
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This Is An Actual Thing
Grammy watchers buzzed on Twitter after CBS ran a short teaser for an apparent contest to win a free colonoscopy. It’s a real thing and as the teaser implied, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are involved. Wait, does that make a colonoscopy less scary? If you are the grand prize winner, we will fly you and a companion to New York …
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