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Month: March, 2010

Alleged benefits from Obamacare are years away but the costs are hitting you right now.

31 March, 2010 (15:25) | Economy, Medicine, Politics | By: ricjames

Companies looking at how their compliance with the provisions of the tangled mess that is the newly-signed “Obamacare” debacle are being affected are starting to announce that they’re going to take major hits to their bottom lines. From the Denver Post: While most of the purported benefits of health-care insurance reform are years away, it [...]

Should you buy an iPad?

31 March, 2010 (13:10) | Technology | By: ricjames

Decisions, decisions! Should you buy that iPad everyone’s talking about? Why wrack your brain when someone else has already done it? Just use this handy-dandy flowchart and make that decision a snap!

G3Security Group Ladies’ class moved to April 24

31 March, 2010 (10:56) | 2nd Amendment, Human Interest | By: ricjames

I wrote recently about a Ladies’ basic firearms class being held by G3Security Group. It was originally scheduled for April 11th but has been moved to April 24th, 10:00am to 2:00pm. As before, mention the “Miss A Special” when you register for the class and pay only $135 instead of the normal $160. A good [...]

Obama set to announce go-ahead for new offshore drilling?

31 March, 2010 (09:50) | Economy, Energy, Environment, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

@jaketapper from ABC was the first I heard of this but it’s now being confirmed that President Obama is set to announce a new offshore drilling push that will allow for new drilling off Virgina’s coast out to 50 miles, permit new seismic surveys of the outer continental shelf (OCS) from Delaware to Florida, and [...]

NY Bishop addresses the media’s annual Easter assault on Catholics, Catholic faith

31 March, 2010 (09:05) | Human Interest, Politics, Religion, The Media | By: ricjames

At Easter and Christmas, you can count on seeing a rise in stories in both print and video purporting to give “the real story” on Jesus and the Catholic Church. This year’s no different with a large portion of the news attention being given to a priest sex-abuse case from several years ago and allegations [...]

Judge rules patents on human genes invalid

30 March, 2010 (09:20) | Human Interest, Medicine, Politics, Science, Technology | By: ricjames

A company’s patents on 2 human genes have been ruled invalid by a judge in New York: A New York City judge has invalidated a company’s patents on two genes linked to an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer. The ruling Monday by federal Judge Robert Sweet challenging whether anyone can hold patents on [...]

More from the “didn’t read the bill before they signed it” department: individual mandate unenforceable

28 March, 2010 (08:24) | Medicine, Politics | By: ricjames

Word is spreading about a problem with Obamacare’s individual mandate that citizens must buy health insurance. Apparently, the penalty they’ve been talking about applying to people who don’t follow the mandate can’t be enforced. The federal Joint Committee on Taxation issued a report this week and they found that the law clearly states that the [...]

Why do people swear?

27 March, 2010 (22:05) | Human Interest, Politics | By: ricjames

“Why do people swear?“ Hell if I know.

Dem amnesia strikes again as they accuse Republicans of stalling judicial nominees

27 March, 2010 (12:20) | Politics | By: ricjames

In what is becoming the standard procedure for the Dems these days, we’re hearing a lot of complaining about how those despicable Republicans are “stonewalling” President Obama’s judicial nominees. Every one of those Dems charging that this situation is somehow unwarranted have no one to blame but themselves. And any of them who assert otherwise [...]

Shape of things to come? UK NHS plan secret cuts to health services, hospital closures

26 March, 2010 (23:21) | Medicine, Politics | By: ricjames

Well, this certainly couldn’t be more timely. The vaunted UK government-run, socialized healthcare system that so many of our leftwards leaning fellow citizens tout as the model to be emulated is apparently collapsing under its own budgetary weight. The National Health Service (NHS) has drawn up plans (in secret and not to be released until [...]