White House officials summoned dozens of leaders of nonprofit organizations that strongly back the health law to help them coordinate plans for a prayer vigil, press conferences and other events outside the court when justices hear arguments for three days beginning March 26.Can 'astroturfing' get any more blatant?
Friday, March 09, 2012
WHITE HOUSE works to shape debate over health law.
MORE ECOFAIL: "China is blocking orders for at least $12 billion worth of Airbus jets to protest the European Union's emissions trading fees.... Airbus spokesman Stefan Schaffrath said his company is seeing 'retaliation threats' from 26 countries [including China]."
ECOFAIL: Colorado's Own Green Loan Sinkhole. Crony capitalism at it's best.
Isn't it remarkable how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, just as Obama predicted would happen if he didn't win the presidency?
Isn't it remarkable how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, just as Obama predicted would happen if he didn't win the presidency?
[SOLAR STORM] IMPACT less than predicted. As usual. Any news headline that starts with '[TBD] Disaster Looming' should also have the subheadline that reads '99.99% to be unaffected'.
JONAH GOLDBERG: Someone Take the Wheel. In an article about fully-automated (driverless) cars, there was this nugget:
Health and safety -- particularly for "the children" -- have become all-purpose writs for social meddling. The list of dangerous substances and activities we need to be protected from grows by the day. With the help of a media establishment that turns anecdotes into epidemics in a heartbeat, the state ceaselessly empowers itself to constrain our freedoms for what the experts tell us is for our own good.Read it all.
NASA ENGINEERS are shifting the orbits of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Odyssey probes, to ensure they have line-of-sight communications with the Curiosity lander as it descends to land at Gale crater on Mars.
ENTITLEMENT NATION.
While most voters view excessive government spending as the problem, those who feel entitled to rule over the rest of us see the voters as the problem. And that's the real entitlement crisis facing the nation today. The political class wants to govern like it's 1775, a time when kings were kings and consent of the governed didn't matter.Read it all.
FOR THE MEDICALLY INCLINED: Using avatars to understand adverse drug reactions. I particularly liked this sentence: "After typing in a few common ingredients or drugs (e.g., acetaminophen, ibuprofen, amoxicillin or vioxx) and seeing what they possibly can do to your body, you might be tempted to swear off all drugs forever." That's the way I feel every time I see a drug commercial on television.
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