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Before we spin off into a Thanksgiving reprise of last summer’s death panel lunacy, let’s be clear. Nothing in Will’s statement is true. This is what is true: Both the House health bill and the measure now being debated in the Senate include a “play or pay” fee on those who don’t buy insurance. Some call it a tax, but whichever word ...
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Is the Senate health plan anti-gun?
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The Senate's 2,074-page health care bill doesn't mention guns, but some gun owners are worried certain provisions could eventually be used to discourage or even restrict gun ownership as part of a government effort to influence behavior as it broadens its control over the health care system.
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Senate, House Health Bills Have Much In Common
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Much of the recent discussion about a health care overhaul has focused on the differences between the House and Senate bills. The bills actually have much in common, however: big ideas that may have once seemed controversial but are now overshadowed by talk of a public option and abortion.
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While arguing why the Senate's proposed "0.5 increase in the Medicare payroll tax on upper-income people: individuals earning more than $200,000, families earning more than $250,000" is unlikely to pass, Frum explains a basic political truth:
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Reid’s Payroll Tax Hike
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The Senate health plan contains an 0.5 increase in the Medicare payroll tax on upper-income people: individuals earning more than $200,000, families earning more than $250,000.
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The media world is in a (relative) uproar over what the implications of News Corp. pulling its content off Google would be. But! A three-part Gawker investigation-type thing indicates the impact might be quite minimal for you, the consumer. Observe: The most popular story on WSJ.com today has been their semi-exclusive about Joe Lieberman saying ...
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Would You Use a Free Netbook From Google?
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Glyn Moody writes "The response to Google's Chromium OS has been rather lukewarm. But suppose it's just part of something much bigger: a netbook computer from Google that would cost absolutely nothing. Because all the apps and data are stored in the cloud, storage requirements would be minimal; screens are getting cheaper, and the emphasis on ...
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CNET News Daily Podcast: Google to track TiVo data
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In today's podcast: Google will start tracking TiVo viewing data to help advertisers see how commercials get seen in the day of the DVR; four days after the CERN particle accelerator was turned back on, it's making quick progress; Intel overhauls its Atom processor for Netbooks; AT&T follows Verizon's lead with mobile broadband plans; and more of ...
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When the crowd is racist at Google
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If you search Google Images for "Michelle Obama" (no quotes), the first image you'll see is a poorly photoshopped picture of her as an ape. You'll also see a Google Ad on that page that links to Google's explanation of why such a blatantly racist photo is the top-ranked one at ...
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Microsoft to get exclusive access to News Corp's content
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TONY EASTLEY: Rupert Murdoch is reported to be ramping up the pressure in his bid to get people to pay for online news content. News Corporation has held talks with Microsoft on a plan to remove News Corp's content from the search engine Google.
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Murdoch madness
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I’ve had a fair number of press calls on the Murdoch/Bing sillliness and here are the points I’ve been making: Were Bing to pay News Corp. to drop Google, it would be a double-play in Google’s favor: Microsoft would lose money and gain little. News Corp. would lose traffic, shifting away from the search engine with [...]
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...and a subhead written on her PJs (click ad). $6! But, "they shoot straight and kill." Looks like Janie already knows how to load it. Better let her test it out on her dolly first, though. (ad from a 1913 Saturday Evening Post, image via). Previously: the instant action Flame Gun.
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Weigel tackles Palin fans for abusing statistics to make her seem more popular than she is. Another telling piece of data: of the 296 customer reviews of going Rogue, 143 reviewers give the book five-stars and 124 give the book one-star.
Yelp for iPhone contains all the ingredients you'd expect from the well-known business-rating and reviews site, except for one small thing: the capability to write a rated review from the iPhone or iPod Touch. True, two features do provide a workaround: one lets you write short, 140-character tips and observations; the other lets you begin a ...
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Yowza Mobile Coupons for iPhone 2.1
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Yowza Mobile Coupons for iPhone finds deals in your geographic area--from as close as within a mile of you or as far as 15 miles away. Choose one of the offers and visit the store. When you walk up to the cashier, just show the Yowza Mobile Coupons for iPhone deal on your device and let them scan the barcode. It features deals negotiated ...
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President Obama will announce within days whether he will send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, the White House said late Monday night.
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Obama Says He Intends to ‘Finish the Job’ in Afghanistan
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WASHINGTON — President Obama said on Tuesday that he will announce his decision on how many more troops to send to Afghanistan next week, and that it is his intention to “finish the job” that began with the overthrow of the Taliban government in the fall of 2001.
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Obama Aims To 'Finish The Job' In Afghanistan
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President Obama said Tuesday he intends to finish the job in Afghanistan, adding he would soon announce his strategy for the country. The comments came in a joint news conference with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is on a state visit to the U.S.
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No escalation in Afghanistan
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I assumed that because we elected Obama to end the war in Iraq that it went without saying that the war in Afghanistan would be ended as well. Apparently not so. The President is now considering an escalation of the war in Afghanistan. I can't imagine he will not face substantial opposition in the US and elsewhere, if the answer is escalation. I ...
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1) Are they saying that the archetypal spending bill they oppose would be a stimulus package in the worst recession since the 1930s? C'mon. Surely, a bill like Medicare D, unfunded and passed during a boom, would be a more apposite example. So on the first count, we have partisanship, not principle winning out.
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Are the alligators in New York City sewers just an urban legend? Not according to Salvatore Condoluci, 92, who in 1935 claimed to have caught and killed an 8-foot-long gator in a sewer on 123rd Street near the Harlem River. However, it wasn't until the publication of Robert Daly's 1959 book The World Beneath The City that the sewer alligator ...
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1935 Sewer Gator Story Confirmed
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The New York Times rather casually and without fanfare has confirmed a significant event in alligator-in-the-sewers history. The actual teenager who had the confrontation with the over seven-foot-long sewer alligator in 1935 was tracked down, interviewed last week, and verifies it wasn’t just an elaborate newspaper tale.
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A group of South Carolina lawmakers is weighing whether a series of ethics charges and performance issues were grave enough to warrant Gov. Mark Sanford’s removal from office.
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A HOUSE RESOLUTION
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TO PROVIDE THAT PURSUANT TO ARTICLE XV, SECTION 1, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1895, THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA, THE HONORABLE MARSHALL C. SANFORD, JR., IS IMPEACHED FOR SERIOUS MISCONDUCT IN OFFICE.
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Telecoms: "At the recent Symbian Exchange and Expo (SEE) held in London, telecoms.com talked to John Forsyth, leadership team, Symbian Foundation, about the organisation’s new direction and the threat from Linux and Android."
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The open road
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At the recent Symbian Exchange and Expo (SEE) held in London, telecoms.com talked to John Forsyth, leadership team, Symbian Foundation, about the organisation’s new direction and the threat from Linux and Android.
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After posting his excellent series of instructional videos on YouTube for 3-string cigar box guitar, Keni Lee Burgess has started posting videos for the 4-string cigar box guitar. Previously:Keni Lee Burgess plays ""Judge Harsh Blues" on cigar box guitar ... Keni Lee Burgess plays "Baby Please Don't Go" on his cigar ...
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The return of BBTV: Boing Boing's former video acronym taken over by bedbugs
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We used to call our original video episodes "BBTV," and we don't anymore. We call it Boing Boing Video now. Well, ladies and germs, allow me to present to you the inheritor of that acronym: BBTV is now the name used by Bedbug TV, a guy who makes episodic web video content about how to deal with bedbugs. I think he runs a pest control company. His ...
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That is all. Jason Linkins: Mark Halperin's Mary Landrieu Photoshop: Pure Class :
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Quick Read
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As many of you know, Mark Halperin is this babbling idiot whom Time magazine hired to cobble together this insipid web product called "The Page," which is designed to scam people looking for trenchant, up-to-the-minute political news into giving Time many, many unnecessary ad impressions as you follow Halperin's teasing links to his content. That ...
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Nmap: "Hi folks. I'm happy to announce our first post-5.00 release! It contains the results of a full five months of work, since the 5.00 release candidate was branched off in June. Good work, everybody!"
After contributing to the destruction of productivity at work by helping Facebook through its early days, Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein are launching a new service aimed to make people and businesses productive once again. The company, Asana, announced details today on its funding. However, details on the service itself are still vague.
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At the end of December, the Washington Post will close its bureaus in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. This is the biggest write-off of on-the-scene domestic news coverage by any major paper yet. The Washington City Paper broke the story , and has the full internal memo on the bureau closures. Key graf: At a time of limited resources and ...
Insurance companies want us to be healthy. Really, they do. They have our interests at heart, and they defend those interests with an unusual zeal. This is why I am wondering which details might be missing from the tale of Natalie Blanchard.
With health care overhaul legislation set for action on Capitol Hill, all eyes are on the bottom line. But estimating the financial impact is incredibly complex and contentious. In search of clarity is Doug Elmendorf, the head of the Congressional Budget Office. Elmendorf discusses how his office puts a price tag on proposed bills, and his view ...
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Dean Flier on Health Care Debate
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Last week, Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier commented on the debate over health care reform. His article begins: As the dean of Harvard Medical School I am frequently asked to comment on the health-reform debate. I’d give it a failing grade. Instead of forthrightly dealing with the fundamental problems, discussion is dominated by ...
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It was the first time the F.D.I.C. fund’s balance has been negative since the early 1990s, as the pace of bank failures accelerated in the third quarter.
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