Boehner didn\’t deny that he initially agreed to a \”clean\” continuing resolution with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) but said \”I and my members decided the threat of Obamacare and what was happening was so important that it was time for us to take a stand. And we took a stand.\”
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A ‘Conservative’ vision for America – ‘The Cruelty of Republican States in One Chart’
‘When you look at these income eligibility levels, you see just how cruel the existing system is’.
‘For instance, in Alabama, you can’t get Medicaid if your income exceeds 23 percent of the poverty level, or $4,500 for a family of three’.
‘Just think about that for a second’.
‘Do you think you could find a place to live, pay your bills, and feed your family on that income’?
‘But the state of Alabama says if you’re that rich, you can afford to buy health insurance’.
‘In Texas, the state that will be depriving the most people of insurance by rejecting the expansion, only families under 25 percent of the poverty level, or $4,894 for a family of three, will be eligible for Medicaid’.
‘I’m guessing that’s about what Rick Perry spends on boots every year.
‘The states rejecting the expansion of Medicaid are the ones that already make it…
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Race Report: Paradise Coast International Triathlon
Two weeks after a race and I finally get around to writing the race report. Ugh, I am the worst blogger ever. Sorry, y’all. First it was just that my capacity for responsibility (TM Hyperbole and a Half) had been exceeded, which happens about once every other week or so, but then it was compounded by my faltering immune system, which decided to surrender to the germs and assorted funk that all but coats my office and let them march right into my sinuses and make themselves at home in my mucuous membranes. The only way I could cope with life was to take medicine that has the letters “PM” somewhere in its name and then roll myself into a ball on the couch while watching hours of my favorite movies.
Now all is well again! And so let me get this race report out of the way so I…
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Why They’ll Die On This Hill
The Democratic group headed up by Stan Greenberg and James Carville has just put out a report on their recent focus group discussions with Republican voters. It’s a sobering read (pdf) – and definitely helps explain the primal scream now threatening to take down the entire American system of elective government.
Here, for starters, is the word cloud for what these voters say when talking in like-minded focus groups about president Obama:
The base Republican voters in these focus groups view themselves as besieged by minorities seeking free benefits, and see Obama as the Pied Piper of those hoping to abuse the system. They are not explicitly racist about the president or about the beneficiaries of the new goodies (though they had no such qualms during Bush’s Medicare D entitlement). But they believe they are losing an America that a Roanoke evangelical describes like this:
Everybody is above…
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The Borinqueneers: The real story of Puerto Rican war heroes
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AUB Professor Discovers New Chemical Reaction
A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares
As a rule of thumb, we feel proud when such discoveries happen at local institutions because we can relate to them somehow.
Today, I feel even prouder because the man that discovered this reaction was my professor at AUB.
Makhlouf Haddadin, a Jordanian professor, has discovered a new reaction which he called the Davis-Beirut reaction, after ten years of testing during which he didn’t come out on Lebanese TV shows to discuss his science, to boost himself among the Lebanese populace, to get some free advertising, etc.
This isn’t his first discovery as well. Prior to Lebanon’s civil war, Dr. Haddadin discovered a reaction which he called the Beirut reaction and which has caused AUB’s Chemistry department to get a huge boost ever since.
According to Dr. Haddadin, his new reaction might serve as a breakthrough in the treatment of cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening disorder that mostly manifests in the…
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