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Three cheers for RomneyCare
02/01/2012
If only the Democrats had decided to socialize the food industry or housing, Romneycare would probably still be viewed as a massive triumph for conservative free-market principles -- as it was at the time.
It's not as if we had a beautifully functioning free market in health care until Gov. Mitt Romney came along and wrecked it by requiring that Massachusetts residents purchase their own health insurance. In 2007, when Romneycare became law, the federal government alone was already picking up the tab for 45.4 percent of all health care expenditures in the country.
Until Obamacare, mandatory private health insurance was considered the free-market alternative to the Democrats' piecemeal socialization of the entire medical industry.
In November 2004, for example, libertarian Ronald Bailey praised mandated private health insurance in Reason magazine, saying that it "could preserve and extend the advantages of a free market with a minimal amount of coercion."
A leading conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, helped design Romneycare, and its health care analyst, Bob Moffit, flew to Boston for the bill signing.
Romneycare was also supported by Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School professor and health policy analyst for the conservative Manhattan Institute. Herzlinger praised Romneycare for making consumers, not business or government, the primary purchasers of health care.
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Submitted by Lola on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 13:52.
The four remaining candidates debated once again, this time in Tampa, Florida — where facts took a beating.
Mitt Romney falsely claimed the Navy is smaller now than at any time since the start of World War I. (It had fewer ships as recently as four years ago.) And Newt Gingrich again claimed credit for balancing federal budgets that were voted on after he left the House.
The event was sponsored in part by NBC News, which broadcast it. We noted these incorrect or misleading claims:
Romney Flunks Naval History
Romney claimed that “our Navy is now smaller than any time since 1917.” That’s not true — at least as measured by the number of active-duty ships. There are more Navy ships now than during the last four years of George W. Bush’s presidency.
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Women Inventors
Famous women inventors - learn about women inventing in traditionally male fields and why women are a minority of patent holders and how that is rapidly changing.
Hey, for the men in this room who think women are worthless, brainless robots designed only for baby-making, fucking and cooking, check out this info. I bet women have done just as much as men, but laws in the USA forbade a woman the right to obtain a patent and they had to put it in their husbands name. WTF! Times they are a changin'. Women should be allowed to choose whether they want to be moms, wives or workers or all of the above. Please do not discount us as less than you. You don't want to be viewed like a Muslim man, right? We are not equal, yes, but both genders possess many strengths and weaknesses which all benefit mankind or I guess humankind. Look at societies that denegrade and physically and sexually abuse women; these are weak countries, third world countries. We are better than that.
Mystery Inventors
We'll probably never know how many women inventors there were. That's because in the early years of the United States, a woman could not get a patent in her own name. A patent is considered a kind of property, and until the late 1800s laws forbade women in most states from owning property or entering into legal agreements in their own names. Instead, a woman's property would be in the name of her father or husband.
For example, many people believe that Sybilla Masters was the first American woman inventor. In 1712 she developed a new corn mill, but was denied a patent because she was a woman. Three years later the patent was filed successfully in her husband's name.
Submitted by Lola on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 13:38.
Submitted by Lola on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 18:21.
Feds shut down file-sharing website
By Matthew Barakat, Associated Press
McLEAN, Va. – One of the world's largest file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company executives were charged with violating piracy laws, federal prosecutors said.
An indictment accuses Megaupload.com of costing copyright holders more than $500 million in lost revenue from pirated films and other content. The indictment was unsealed one day after websites including Wikipedia and Craigslist shut down in protest of two congressional proposals intended to thwart online piracy.
Submitted by Lola on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 22:49.
Submitted by Lola on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 17:15.
6 so-called vices banned by Iran's morality police
Anything deemed un-Islamic — from dolls to water pistols to snow skiing — is considered fair game for censure
posted on January 18, 2012, at 1:32 PM
Iran's morality police detain a man with unacceptable hair and clothing back in 2008: In recent weeks, Tehran has cracked down on shopkeepers selling Barbie dolls. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer SEE ALL 40 PHOTOS
Submitted by Lola on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 11:02.
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Living abroad doesn’t have to lead to homesickness. That’s especially true for people who have relocated to New Zealand, Australia or South Africa.
These are the three nations where it’s easiest to befriend locals, learn the local language, integrate into the community and fit into the new culture, according to the results of HSBC’s Expat Explorer Survey, released last month.
The World's Friendliest Countries
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Submitted by Lola on Fri, 12/30/2011 - 19:27.
'Synthetic' marijuana is problem for US military
By JULIE WATSON | AP – 2 hrs 12 mins ago
The abuse of the substance has so alarmed military officials that they've launched an aggressive testing program that this year has led to the investigation of more than 1,100 suspected users.
So-called "synthetic" pot is readily available on the Internet and has become popular nationwide in recent years, but its use among troops and sailors has raised concerns among the Pentagon brass.
Submitted by Lola on Fri, 12/30/2011 - 17:17.
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