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FDA claims your stem cells are drugs and they can regulate them.

3 February, 2012 (08:50) | 2012 Elections, Medicine, Science, Technology | By: ricjames

The Centeno-Schultz Clinic in Colorado (www.centenoschultz.com) has come up with a procedure wherein they treat patients’ severe joint pain with a non-surgical injection of the patients’ own stem cells into the affected area. The process, simply put, involves drawing the patient’s own blood, centrifuging it and extracting the stem cells that we all produce, and [...]

Time for copyright laws to be revised, clarified?

22 January, 2012 (14:09) | Economy, Entertainment, Human Interest, Law, Medicine, Politics, Science, Technology | By: ricjames

Picture yourself as an author, producing an article for a magazine or even a book for publication. In order to make your point or get the particulars of a scene across, you make use of prose from a literary work literally decades old, a work that’s firmly in the public domain. You send the article [...]

11th Circuit rules Obamacare mandate unconstitutional

12 August, 2011 (14:30) | Medicine, Politics | By: ricjames

The Federal Government has no authority to force you to buy something, specifically health insurance with qualities that they think you should buy. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that the health care reform law’s requirement that nearly all Americans buy insurance is unconstitutional, a striking blow to the legislation. The suit [...]

If Obamacare is so great, why are unions and companies in Dem/liberal districts trying to get out of it?

22 May, 2011 (18:49) | 2012 Elections, Medicine, Politics | By: ricjames

Dr. Milton Wolf writes in the Washington times: Selective enforcement of the law is the first sign of tyranny. A government empowered to determine arbitrarily who may operate outside the rule of law invariably embraces favoritism as friends, allies and those with the best-funded lobbyists are rewarded. Favoritism inevitably leads to corruption, and corruption invites [...]

Enforcement through embarrassment and trend of security entitlement

16 November, 2010 (10:43) | Aviation, GWOT, Human Interest, Medicine, Politics, Science, Technology, Transportation | By: ricjames

“Those who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety,” said Benjamin Franklin in an oft-quoted comment. But the matter of access versus security is tightrope men have walked throughout history. Once upon a time going to the airport to catch a flight involved as much security [...]

QandO highlights the irony expressed by certain liberals over the Simpson-Bowles proposal

14 November, 2010 (13:25) | Economy, Medicine, Politics | By: ricjames

McQ uses the term “irony” to describe it. I think “hypocrisy” is more accurate. Speaking to a post by Matt Yglesias wherein the vaunted liberal says, basically,  ‘of course liberals are unhappy with the proposal because there were no liberals involved in its creation’ McQ wonders where Yglesias’ perspective was during the Obamacare so-called “debate.” [...]

AARP tells its employees Obamacare is making them raise their insurance premiums

5 November, 2010 (10:16) | Economy, Medicine, Politics | By: ricjames

But… but… but….  Obamacare means insurance costs will go down! Bend the cost curve down! Right? RIGHT?!? Apparently… wrong. AARP’s endorsement helped secure passage of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Now the seniors’ lobby is telling its employees their insurance costs will rise partly as a result of the law. In an e-mail to [...]

Idle thought: Fathom the odd hypocrisy…

26 September, 2010 (17:50) | Human Interest, Immigration, Medicine, Politics | By: ricjames

…that Congress wants every citizen to prove that they are insured, but not that they are citizens. (Hat tip to my niece and her husband for this one.)

Of God, medicine, and private schools

14 September, 2010 (10:29) | Academia, Human Interest, Law, Medicine, Politics, Religion | By: ricjames

With a headline like, “Parents Sue Catholic School for Denying Admission to Their Unvaccinated Son” you just have to click that link and read what’s up. Interestingly, the headline pretty well sums up the story: A New York couple is suing a Catholic high school for refusing to grant a religious exemption that would allow [...]

Sebelius threatens insurers who don’t shut their mouths about Obamacare

10 September, 2010 (12:56) | Medicine, Politics | By: ricjames

From Ed Morrissey at Hot Air: Rarely have we heard a Cabinet official tell Americans to stay out of political debates at the risk of losing their businesses.  It points out the danger in having government run industries and holding a position where politicians can actually destroy a business out of spite.  It also demonstrates [...]