Drug companies will reap windfall profits exceding the 77 billion made last year, and generics will  rarely reach the market. Drug importation is not allowed. Medicare may not negotiate for better prices, and the donut hole will be open for who know how long?

The  chipping away of Women's rights by Stupak and Nelson in the House and Senate versions of HC bill will seriously inhibit Women from acting in their own behalf when making medical and moral decisions about abortion. Equal protection and freedom of choice have been limited to Women by a Democratic congress and inserted arbitrarily and callously. Constitutional protection belonging to Women is being seriously undermined by Democrats they elected to protect their rights.

Pelosi  embraced The Council Of Catholic Bishops and invited them to make their speech condemning abortion. So Pelosi's bait and switch is one of the reasons Stupak felt emboldened, aside from all the other obvious implications.

This Healthcare bill was not about abortion until this happened.

Democrats By Suicide?  Imagine Obama running as a Republican for re-election in 2012?
He really doesn't have to as his policies are basically Republican, but I doubt when he is up for re-election too many Democratic and independent voters will be there for him.

Mike Johnston, the chief financial officer of Faces Nightclub would not confirm if the senator was spotted there.  "We had a management meeting with the management staff and none of the managers saw him and none of the staff we spoke with saw him. We can't confirm he was here, we can't confirm it," Johnston said.

Now without a majority Republicans are running the show.

Imagine what happens after the midterms with the timid Democrats when they are certain to get clobbered?

Keep goin' at this rate, and soon you'll be like Balzac: cranking out five completed novellas a year, while slamming down fifty cups of coffee a day..

But..strike while the iron's hot, by all means, my friend.

Keep 'em comin'

I'm 100% in favor of people doing what they they want in their own lives and 0% supportive when they do it at the cost of others. If I'm en-flight, I don't want someone's kid -- no matter how adorable -- playing around with the works, or the flight crew taking hits off a blunt.

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. - JSM

When discouraged workers are included, along with those working part-time because they can't find full-time work, the so-called "underemployment" rate rose to 16.8 percent last month from 16.5 percent. That reflects a jump in the number of involuntary part-time workers. The figure is below October's all-time high of 17.4 percent.

In some countries (e.g. Spain), the underground economy including extended families helps people makes ends meet.  Are there any reports available detailing the state of the underground economy in the US?

Would legalizing and regulating more of the underground economy promote jobs and economic growth or would it just be a wash?  I would think legalizing marijuana would help the jobs and deficit picture.

The Minnesota job market started 2010 with its best month in close to five years, with employers adding 15,600 jobs in what economists and job seekers hope will be the beginning of a long march toward full employment.

The jobs gain for January also dropped the state unemployment rate to 7.3 percent from 7.4 percent in December, well below the national rate of 9.7 percent.

The best part was that 7 of 11 tracked "industrial" sectors added jobs including 3,000 in manufacturing and 3,100 in construction (this is a somewhat seasonal figure, as folks laid off for the winter, are going back to work as MN thaws. Also, according to the article, some of these contsruction jobs were aided by the stimulus)

I'd be more inclined to discipline the child (pending more information on the child's history - I know we all think of third-graders as sweet and innocent, but that's not always the case, especially in the particular location where this happened), and arrest the gun owner who either knowingly gave the gun to the kid, or did not secure it properly to prevent the child from taking it.

And the speakeasies for unlicensed drinkers would probably become the hottest spots in town, drawing the licensed and unlicensed alike.