The NRCC’s claim that the IRS will be ‘in charge of your health care’

(NRCC) Congressman Barrows Plan: Put the IRS in Charge of Your Healthcare. Fed Up? banner on mobile billboards launched this week by the National Republican Congressional Committee The NRCC this week sought to explicitly tie the Internal Revenue Service scandal to the presidents health-care law, targeting four possibly vulnerable Democratic lawmakers with mobile billboards in their congressional districts. Continue reading

Obama Seeks $17.7 Billion for NASA to Lasso Asteroid, Explore Space

NASA unveiled a $17.7 billion spending plan for 2014 today (April 10) that continues major ongoing space exploration projects, while including funds to kick-start an audacious new mission to capture a small asteroid and park it near the moon so astronauts can explore it by 2025. The proposed NASA budget is part of President Barack Obama’s 2014 federal budget request and would restore the U.S Continue reading

Freedom to Conduct Harlem Shake, Fans Needed for Filming

February 15, 2013 – Frontier League (FL) Florence Freedom Florence, KY – To celebrate Presidents Day in the land of the free, the Florence Freedom are organizing minor league baseball’s version of the Harlem Shake, and since schools and some workplaces will be closed, fans are invited to be in the making of the video. The free style dance that has lit up YouTube will be conducted at University of Cincinnati Medical Center Stadium at noon on Monday, February 18. Continue reading

FreedomHonda – Presidents Day Event – CRV and 0% for 60 Months – Video




FreedomHonda – Presidents Day Event – CRV and 0% for 60 Months Stop by Freedom Honda in Colorado Springs to take advantage of the Presidents' Day Sale Event. Freedom Honda, the new Honda dealer in your hometown! By: FreedomHondaCO Continue reading

Exorbitant Health Care Cost Wastes Affecting Health Insurance Consumers, HealthCompare Warns

Orange, CA (PRWEB) October 08, 2012 A new [report released by the Institute of Medicine indicates that $750 Billion is wasted each year in the health care industry. The wastes outlined in the report come from everything from administrative overages to ordering unnecessary tests, impacting the viability of finding affordable health insurance. The news comes amid the presidential campaigns end where the hot ticket is the Presidents and Romneys differing views on the how to approach the health care issue in this country Continue reading

Connecticut beaches closed so Obama can fund-raise with Hollywood mogul

Beachgoers, get lost. Amid the peak summer season, two of Connecticuts popular public beaches — maintained with taxpayer money — were closed Monday to accommodate President Obamas fundraising excursion that ends with a $35,800-per-plate event at movie mogul Harvey Weinsteins mansion. Continue reading

Freedom of information advocates wants Aquino to make FOI bill a priority

Members of the Right to Know Right Now Coalition on Friday urged President Benigno Aquino III to name the Freedom of Information Act a priority bill in his third State of the Nation Address. The coalition has sent several letters requesting the Presidents endorsement of the bill, including an open letter signed by advocates from over 40 countries, but has yet to receive a reply. Sa SONA naming hihintayin ang kanyang sagot, Rowena Paraan of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines said Continue reading

Policing compliance with health care law will fall largely to IRS

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press twitter.com/stephenatap WASHINGTON The Supreme Courts decision to uphold most of President Barack Obamas health care law will come home to roost for most taxpayers in about 2 years, when theyll have to start providing proof on their tax returns that they have health insurance. That scenario puts the Internal Revenue Service at the center of the debate, renewing questions about whether the agency is capable of policing the health care decisions of millions of people in the United States while also collecting the taxes needed to run the federal government. Under the law, the IRS will provide tax breaks and incentives to help pay for health insurance and impose penalties on some people who dont buy coverage and on some businesses that dont offer it to employees Continue reading

Health care law becomes a campaign rallying point

AP photoRepublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks about the Supreme Court ruling on health care in Washington. President Barack Obama and Romney say the Supreme Courts decision last week upholding the presidents health care law gives them each advantages in the roughly dozen of states they are contesting most aggressively. DES MOINES, Iowa President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both are using the Supreme Court decision upholding the federal health care insurance requirement, loved by liberals and hated by conservatives, to rally core supporters in the most competitive states in the presidential race Continue reading

Ruling could throw health care into chaos

By Jack Torry and Peggy O’Farrell Staff Writers 7:05 PM Saturday, June 16, 2012 WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court is on the verge of ruling on the new health care law, a decision that could throw health care into temporary chaos as providers and patients scramble to adjust to a wave of uncertainty in the system Continue reading

Model Organisms Help Researchers Learn About Human Cancers

Newswise BETHESDA, MD June 12, 2012 — Its hard to imagine that a zebrafish, a small tropical freshwater fish that is often found in home aquariums, could help scientists solve complicated problems about melanoma, a type of human skin cancer. But zebrafish and other small organismssuch as fruit flies, roundworms, yeast and mice are helping research scientists uncover how human cancersskin, colon, breast and othersbegin, invade, spread and can be treated. Continue reading

Obama Aides Helped Plan Ads to Back Health Bill, GOP Says

By Drew Armstrong – 2012-06-09T04:00:00Z House Republicans say a drugmaker- funded advertising campaign run by supposedly independent groups was part of an agreement with the Obama administration to help pass the U.S. Continue reading

Religious liberty at stake in battle over contraception rule

Groups protest in March in New York over a rule that most employers provide health care insurance coverage for contraception. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Editor’s note: Mary Matalin, a founding member of the board of Conscience Cause, a coalition opposing the Department of Health and Human Services’ mandate, has worked for Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Continue reading

President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón and Carlos Slim to speak at inaugural WTTC Americas Summit

7 May 2012 From May 16-18, 2012, key industry identities from the public and private sectors, NGOs and the media will convene for a unique networking forum. The event will be the first in a series of WTTC “Regional Summits,” and will explore commonalities as well as challenges throughout the travel and tourism industry in the Americas while identifying opportunities for growth and collaboration. Speakers will include Ministers of Tourism from around the world including Secretary Gloria Guevara of Mexico; US Deputy Secretary of State, Thomas Nides; Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General of the UN World Tourism Organization; executives from hotels, airlines, tour operators and travel agencies; and key opinion leaders from the media such as CBS Travel Editor Peter Greenberg Continue reading