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Of course, if you read this site, you knew this last week.

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Ever make a stop at the Vince Lombardi rest stop in New Jersey? There are two guys selling designer style sunglasses, but for a few bucks a pair? I’ve always wondered where they get them from, and now I know.

Check out this site for cheap sunglasses and you can buy them in bulk for [...]

Very interesting video from Hank explaining what Ecosystem Services are. Sounds much less interesting than it is, trust me.

Driving past the White House the other day, my eye was caught by the bumper sticker on the shiny black Toyota Prius in front of me. It read: “We love you Hillary – Clinton for President, 2016″.

A year ago, I’d have snorted at the slogan and kept my distance from the vehicle – judging the [...]

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Ed Morrissey on Hot Air:

I don’t disagree with most of what Glenn Beck says in this piece. Courts-martial for Navy SEALS who allegedly gave a terrorist a fat lip while in custody? Does the Navy court-martial sailors who give each other fat lips? Would a SEAL stop at a fat lip if he actually got [...]

From Jeff’s blog:

I have confidence that our justice system will give this asshole Khalid Shaikh Mohammed a fair trial, or at the very least the most fair trial he could ever hope to attain. We are not perfect but a trial by jury is the best we can do. I also believe that we will [...]

All day yesterday, all we heard was how Sean Hannity was going to “bury” the story and try to come up with ways to “justify” his massive deception of using the wrong video of a rally on one episode of his show last week. Yeah, this is the big scandal in the media these [...]

If only some of our politicians had the brains of Grover…

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Yesterday I was fortunate enough to attend Audience, a conference that should be the model for how tech conferences are handled. How so?

In the first words Loren said, he reminded people that there would be no open laptops during the show and no Twittering during the conference or “I’ll throw your ass out. [...]

Without Google, try and figure out who said the following…

The administration has said that Iraq has no right to stockpile chemical or biological weapons (“weapons of mass destruction”) – mainly because they have used them in the past. Well, if that’s the standard by which these matters are decided, then the U.S. is the [...]

Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo? Answer: They’re all more profitable than the health insurance industry. In the health care debate, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making “immoral” and “obscene” returns [...]

First the obvious, via Hot Air:

DADT is another matter entirely. All it would take to end it is an executive order. Obama is, after all, the Commander in Chief. Obama wants Congress to take the heat for this as well, though, and has passed the buck on the issue since his first [...]

I’ve never doubted there is climate change, and I don’t even doubt that man is somewhat responsible for it. What I do doubt, and continue to doubt is the extent to which man is responsible, and how much of the climate is cyclical and influenced by other factors. I’m glad some people are [...]

Sometimes I think I have a staff working for me. Yesterday, I posted an article about how Medicare denies a ton of claims; moreso than any of the largest private insurers (and by a large number, except for Aetna to whom Medicare is pretty close in denial rates). Jeff, a good friend of [...]

To Harry Potter fans, he is the flame-haired best friend of the boy-wizard who has attracted an army of fans and dedicated websites. But when the actor Rupert Grint moved on from his boyish role as Ron Weasley at Hogwarts and signed up to star in a coming-of-age teen film featuring sex and drugs in [...]

From wheelchairs and walkers to orthopedic shoes and needles, Medicare buys tens of thousands of products every day for elderly Americans. And as the single largest buyer of medical products, you’d think it would at leastget a volume discount.

But it doesn’t. In fact, Medicare doesn’t even get the best price.

According to their own auditors, Medicare [...]

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who as a boy sold peanuts on the street, beat the world’s two richest nations for the 2016 Olympic Games. Now, he must defeat Rio de Janeiro’s violent crime, which residents call the biggest cloud over their city’s postcard-perfect bid.

Lula will also have to push Rio, the sea-side [...]

Check this out; I found a paper I wrote about Hillary Clinton’s health care plan way back in the oldern days. Amazing how some of it is still true, right?

The first page is the cover graphic, then the paper starts.

Enjoy!

The Clinton Prescription BW