The Associated Press | Mon, 03/22/2010
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc. stopped censoring the Internet for China by shifting its search engine off the mainland Monday but said it will maintain other operations in the country. The maneuver attempts to balance Google’s disdain for China’s Internet rules with the company’s desire to profit from...
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This is only a step. HR3590 was a change to the bill, and it now must go back to the senate for reconciliation/affirmation.
The senate, in essence, must avoid making any changes to the HR3590 changes in order to present this to the president. The bill produced for the executive must be identical from the...
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This past year has certainly, thus far, been much more ‘volley’ than ‘party’.
Unfortunately we’re talking battlefield and gunfire ‘volley’ here… not a friendly game of summer ‘volley ball’ on the nearest beach or neighbor’s back lawn. (Though more than a few of us would probably much prefer a good bbq and a beer over...
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Reuters | WASHINGTON
WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR OF ENACTMENT
*Insurance companies will be barred from dropping people from coverage when they get sick. Lifetime coverage limits will be eliminated and annual limits are to be restricted.
*Insurers will be barred from excluding children for coverage because of pre-existing conditions.
*Young adults will be able to stay on their...
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The 10th Amendment couldn’t be much clearer: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Just where does the Constitution authorize the Congress or President Barack Obama to force individuals to buy health insurance? Nowhere....
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Having earlier reminded his own party members to ‘behave like grownups’ no matter the outcome, John Boehner (R-OH) certainly wasted no time in being the first to lose his cool. Red faced and frothing at the mouth, he makes is final effort to get fellow House members to see things his way.
“Can you honestly...
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Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication
