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The Pro-Life Position and Good Business Practice

…patients who couldn’t pay, or makers of pharmaceuticals and medical devices to serve those who can’t afford it, or even the average Joe to help the poor, we’d be infringing…

Just an opportunity to libel, never a previous concern

…Stay away from fox news on torture says army 2004 Joe Lieberman 2004 Cheney and torture 2005 On the geneva conventions 2006 waterboarding 2007 McCain and Giuliani 2007 Torture legalities…

Baker suggests second opinions

…crew to outline his preferred path? Congress could give Joe Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winner and one-time chief economist to President Clinton, who is also a harsh critic of the…

The President’s Speech

…President Biden to lead a tough, unprecedented oversight effort – because nobody messes with Joe. I have told each member of my Cabinet as well as mayors and governors across…

Is Obama Echoing Bush on Social Security?

…payroll tax of 12.4 percent rate. Instead, he and Joe Biden are considering plans that would ask those making over $250,000 to pay in the range of 2 to 4…

Why does Santa hate poor kids?

…me with my cousin Joe because Santa didn’t bring him jack. I am not suggesting ruining Christmas and the belief in Santa for the really small kids. But you need…

Shiela C. Bair Tries to Save the World–Again

Via Felix, we discover Joe Nocera at the NYT reporting that securitization professionals are not as stupid as they would have had us believe: What [the FDIC] has discovered, said…

Obama’s Cabinet

…is known to be much interested in “Team of Rivals” wants Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State and Joe Lieberman to impartially investigate whether he is putting America firs….