Just a friendly reminder that these are the folks who will be making your healthcare decisions and keeping track of the costs. This from The Hill: Despite a ban on funding for sexual or erectile-dysfunction treatments, Medicare improperly paid $3.1 million for the treatments over a two-year period, according to a new internal report. Medicare’s […]
Legislation that would outlaw the use of all but hands-free cell phones while driving is apparently drawing bipartisan support in the General Assembly, with the House slated to discuss the proposal this week. The penalty for driving and gabbing sans a hands-free device would be a $100 fine. Drivers could still use a hand-hand cell […]
You read it here first. It will not be long before your local store shelves do not have everything on them you have come to expect. Due to a variety of issues there will not be enough trucks on the road to deliver all the products and food that the growing economy demands. A major […]
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Billions, that is, and it still had some alleged fiscal conservatives on their heels bemoaning what amounted to a drop in the bucket of much needed spending cuts. This from CNSNews: The national debt jumped by $72 billion on Tuesday even as the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution to fund the […]
Obama’s chief educrat was bobbing and weaving this week, trying to justify why the federal government should be in the public skrool business. This from CNSNews, which querried Duncan, “The Bill of Rights says that powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution are reserved to the states and the people. With that […]
Senator Rand Paul was in classic form this week at a hearing for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, where he literally flushed an Obama energy official down the drain over draconian energy efficiency standards that subvert consumer choice and government regulations that destroy small businesses. While noting that the Obama administration is pro-choice […]
Foreclosure filings hit a 36-month low in February, which sounds like great news on the surface. More troubling is what’s still underwater. Like at Bank of America. This from Bloomberg: Bank of America Corp. (BAC) the biggest U.S. lender by assets, is segregating almost half its 13.9 million mortgages into a “bad” bank comprised of […]
Despite losing a vote Wednesday to override Gov. Beverly Perdue’s veto of the Healthcare Freedom Act, Republicans had a chance to push through with a winning margin Thursday. They opted instead to keep a hole card in their pocket, along with a vow to fight every veto coming from Perdue’s desk – even if they […]
With the country $14 trillion in debt, the hard-hitting hombre from Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, is fighting tooth and nail to save cowboy poetry, or something. Meanwhile, back in reality, Senator Jim DeMint is continuing his push to cut funding for public broadcasting: If NPR and PBS want to continue their programming, they […]
