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By
thudfactor on
August 8, 2006
There’s an interesting article in the Washington Post about Lieberman’s recent political past:
bq. [Lieberman's] instincts for collegiality and bipartisanship, once regarded as virtues, are now seen as virtual disqualifications by his critics here and nationally. “I haven’t changed,” Lieberman explained in an interview aboard his campaign bus Friday. “Events around me have changed.” [ "Lieberman's Troubles [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Bush, Iraq, Lebanon, Medicare, North Korea, the Washington Post
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By
thudfactor on
January 20, 2006
OK, so here’s what I don’t get; Medicare Part D (as in, nearly an F) fails and people say “see, the government screws up anything it touches.”
Yet the President says he has the right to be able to secretly spy on and arrest anyone he pleases — without a warrant — and people say “well, that’s what he needs [...]
Posted in Art and Writing
| Tagged Alaska, Barbie Girl, Bruce Wooley, Camera Club, HTML, Joe Johnson, Johnny Cash, Medicare, Norah Jones, Philip K. Dick, Ricky Nelson, Saint Martin's College, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonny Bono, William Shatner, Yoko Ono
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By
thudfactor on
March 23, 2004
The “Karen Ryan” story gets more and more interesting. In case you haven’t been following it, many regional television stations ran a gushingly positive story about the new Medicare drug benefit. The report was filed by “Karen Ryan” from Washington. When a few people decided to do some background research on Ms. Ryan, they discovered [...]
Posted in So Called Media
| Tagged Associated Press, CNN, Columbia Journalism Review, Department of Health and Human Services, Karen Ryan, Medicare, PR Newswire, Reuters, Washington
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By
thudfactor on
July 9, 2003
Lest you miss the story (it’s a bit buried in the Washington Post web site), a Federal Appeals court has “ruled against Cheney’s attempts”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29486-2003Jul8.html?nav=hptoc_p to keep the membership list of his energy task force secret.
Hey, we haven’t heard much from Cheney recently, have we? Well, I haven’t.
Anyway…
bq. Drawing on two rulings issued by the court [...]
Posted in Archived Unsorted
| Tagged Bill Clinton, Congress, David S. Tatel, energy task force secret, Federal Appeals court, Medicare, the Washington Post
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By
thudfactor on
June 26, 2003
I read in Salon’s newsfeed that the Administration is refusing to release a memo exploring how senior citizen decisions on medicare will affect their out-of-pocket costs. In theory, the memo says refusing to convert to HMO Medicare will increase their health care costs by as much as 25%.
According to the AP story on “Salon”:http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2003/06/25/memo/index.html (browsing [...]
Posted in Archived Unsorted
| Tagged Congress, Medicare, Rick Foster, Tom Scully
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