Eugene Robinson: Romney’s health-care dither. But when I checked the transcript, here’s what I found: “MR. ROMNEY: Well, I’m not getting rid of all of health-care reform. Of course, there are a number of things that I like in health-care reform that I’m going to put in place. One is to make sure that those with preexisting conditions can get coverage. Two is to assure that the marketplace allows for individuals to have policies that cover their — their family up to whatever age they might like.
I also want individuals to be able to buy insurance, health insurance, on their own as opposed to only being able to get it on a tax-advantaged basis through their company.” So Romney wants to repeal Obamacare and replace it with Obamacare, or at least the consumer-friendly parts of Obamacare that Romney knows are popular. But as Romney knows, it’s the individual mandate that makes the other benefits possible by preventing young, healthy people from gaming the system. We know more about how Romney would handle Medicare.
Texas in the 112th Congress (2nd Session) Indefinite Detention Law Hall of Shame - List of Senators Who Voted Yes on the NDAA bill (And a list of their twitter accounts) | Waiting for the Storm. Gnn Ibm And The Holocaust. 'Unabomber' Ted Kaczynski Was CIA Mind Control Subject! The Loneliness and Courage of Thomas Drake: A Whistleblower's Journey. “As a student of history and politics, I firmly believe that we have reached a breaking point in this country, when the government violates and erodes our very privacy and precious freedoms in the name of national security and then hides it behind the convenient label of secrecy. This is not the America I took an oath to support and defend in my career. This is not the America I learned about while growing up in Texas and Vermont.
This is not the America we are supposed to be.” -- Thomas Drake, from his acceptance speech of the 2011 Ridenhour Prize for Truth–Telling Thomas Drake tried to do everything right. (Portrait of Thomas Drake by Robert Shetterly. Immediately after his first day on the job at the National Security Agency --- September 11, 2001 --- he began to see those roads diverge. Thomas Drake is being charged under the Espionage Act, section 793(e), only the fourth American ever. Thomas Drake needs our support as much as Bradley Manning needs it. Ahmadinejad says West to blame for drought in Iran. By Agence France-PresseThursday, May 19, 2011 9:01 EDT TEHRAN — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday accused Western countries of devising plans to “cause drought” in the Islamic republic, as he inaugurated a dam in a central province.
“Western countries have designed plans to cause drought in certain areas of the world, including Iran,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in the central city of Arak in Markazi province. “According to reports on climate, whose accuracy has been verified, European countries are using special equipment to force clouds to dump” their water on their continent, he said. By doing so, “they prevent rain clouds from reaching regional countries, including Iran,” Ahmadinejad charged.
Iran has experienced several droughts in recent years. “The regions (referred to in) the article… include countries whose culture and civilisation frighten the West,” Ahmadinejad said in support of his argument. Agence France-Presse. Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber - 00.06. This time my return was prompted not by nostalgia but by curiosity. No. 7 Divinity Avenue is a modern multi-story academic building today, housing the university's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. In 1959 a comfortable old house stood on the site.
Known as the Annex, it served as a laboratory in which staff members of the Department of Social Relations conducted research on human subjects. There, from the fall of 1959 through the spring of 1962, Harvard psychologists, led by Henry A. Murray, conducted a disturbing and what would now be seen as ethically indefensible experiment on twenty-two undergraduates. HAD a special interest in Kaczynski. In 1971 Kaczynski moved to Great Falls, Montana; that summer he began building a cabin near the town of Lincoln, eighty miles southwest of Great Falls, on a lot he and his brother, David, had bought. In our desire to leave civilization Kaczynski and I were not alone. Most of us may believe we already know Ted Kaczynski. The Manifesto. MALCOLM X: Collected Speeches and Interviews 1960-1965. Michele Bachmann's Holy War | Rolling Stone Politics.