this is an adventure

If there’s one thing politicians are good at, it’s hobnobbing. “If there was one assured victor even before the G-20 had commenced, it was the format of the event itself.” Also, glassmakers, repairmen, and cops who want overtime money from fending off anti-globalization protesters. But remember, it’s the Tea Parties that are dangerous.

Litany of fees: “$6.7 billion on health insurance companies, $4 billion on medical device producers, $2.3 billion on drug manufacturers and $750 million on clinical laboratories, all of which would surely be passed on to consumers in higher prices.” Plus the insurance companies have a $6.7 billion tab — that’s 60% of the industry’s earnings.

The White House decides to continue under the post 9/11 legislation allowing for detention: “In concluding that it does not need specific permission from Congress to hold detainees without charges, the Obama administration is adopting one of the arguments advanced by the Bush administration in years of debates about detention policies.”

Simple: “The conversations in question were knowingly exposed in a place of business to two customers who walked in off the streets. There is and can be absolutely no expectation of privacy for the ACORN employees in question. As such, the conversations are not “private conversations” under the Maryland Wiretap Act as a matter of […]