Entries for March 2010
nwsource.com | Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won't take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition — the latest development in an ongoing dispute over Medicaid reimbursement.
The company, which operates 121 stores in ...
google.com | BOISE, Idaho — Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance.
Similar legi...
usatoday.com | Just when Toyota thought it was getting hold of its recall nightmare, it is now trying to figure out how to fix computer flaws in up to 1.2 million Toyota Corolla and Matrix models that can cause engines to stall, the Detroit Free Press is reporting.
But Toyota has told federal auto ...
hotair.com | During the ObamaCare summit three weeks ago, Nancy Pelosi declared that the bill would create four million jobs over the next ten years, with 400,000 new jobs created almost immediately. Pelosi relied on a study written by the left-wing advocacy group Center for American Progress ...
WASHINGTON, March 17 (UPI) -- One-quarter of U.S. adults agree with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the 2001 terrorist attacks were fabricated, a poll released Wednesday said.
Two-thirds of those surveyed by the Canadian company Angus Reid Public Opinion agreed with the conclusions of th...
huffingtonpost.com | RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian authorities are investigating three priests accused of sexually abusing altar boys after a video allegedly showing one case of abuse was broadcast on television, police and church officials said Tuesday.
The case came to light after the SBT network ai...
(NaturalNews) A Philadelphia jury has found drug giant Pfizer Inc. guilty of deliberately ignoring evidence that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drug Prempro increased women's risk of breast cancer, ordering it to pay unspecified damages to defendant Connie Barton.
lewrockwell.com | The federal government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Dental Association (ADA) are holding a symposium in Chicago this week titled: "National Fluoridation Symposium 2005: Celebrating 60 Years of Water Fluoridation" (July 13–16). The CDC ranks fl...
huffingtonpost.com | MEXICO CITY — Scores of police officers – including the entire department of one town – have been detained in Mexican probes of killings and kidnappings.
Mayor Alfredo Osorio of the Gulf coast town Tierra Blanca said Monday that about 90 city policemen were being held for quest...
huffingtonpost.com | After an intense White House lobbying effort, Dennis Kucinich announced on Wednesday morning that he has decided to vote for health care reform when it comes before the House in the next few days, reversing his previous position and giving a boost to President Obama, congression...
theeconomiccollapseblog.com | These days there are times when you read the economic headlines and all you can do is shake your head. Is anyone in control out there? Who in the world could possibly be making so many bad decisions? The truth is that the U.S. econo...
blogspot.com | New Jersey Governor Chris Christie proposed a $29.3 billion budget that would suspend property-tax rebates, skip the state’s $3 billion pension contribution and fire 1,300 workers next year.
The plan would reduce aid to schools by $820 million, towns by $446 million and higher educat...
rt.com | French television has recreated a disturbing 1960s psychological experiment, turning participants of a mock show into willing torturers.
During “Game of Death” participants were to ask another player a series of questions and punish him for giving incorrect answers with increasingly powe...
MSNBC Reporter David Shuster reports again today on the continuing UFO sightings by 20-year-old Euclid, OH, resident Eugene Erlikh.
While these videos were shot last evening, Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Field Investigator Tom Wertman was on the scene.
roguegovernment.com | WASHINGTON – Handing big tobacco corporations a huge victory, the U.S. Senate has passed the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act – an act tribal leaders say is an attack on tribal sovereignty and economies that will devastate Indian tobacco businesses across the country.
huffingtonpost.com | For months I've been reporting in The Huffington Post that President Obama made a backroom deal last summer with the for-profit hospital lobby that he would make sure there would be no national public option in the final health reform legislation. (See here, here and here). I've...
americanfreepress.net | In an echo of the Great Depression, local currencies with their own special flavors are popping up all over in attempts to give commerce and communities a lift.
Last year, two Detroit businessmen were bemoaning the local economy—no one in the city had cash, and when they d...
alternet.org | You know tax season is around the corner when you see start seeing the guys in the cheap Statue of Liberty costumes. They begin popping up in mid-February, haunting subway exits and downtown intersections nationwide draped in garish aqua togas, faces lit up in sparkle paint, heads top...
go.com | Tea party protestors gathered once again on Capitol Hill today to denounce the bill. Holding signs and chanting "Kill The Bill," the riled-up attendees took their protests into the halls of Congress, even though many lawmakers were not in their offices.
"It seems they're hiding," said Bonn...
Foxnews | Republicans and Democrats are locked in an unusual battle over how to vote on the health care package as House Republicans try to block Speaker Nancy Pelosi from using a legislative trick that would allow rank-and-file Democrats to vote for the health care bill without really voting for th...