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Friday, April 12. 2013

Steyn: The Unfinished Revolution in the UK

Re Maggie: The Silence of the Feminists

Amherst College Ignores Racially Motivated Prank Against White Male Students

Louvre Workers Walk Off Job Over Increasing Problem Of Pickpockets At The Museum

Five ‘Takeaways’ From Obama’s Budget

America is now being run by the logic of the urban machine.

Vineyards may intrude on Polar Bear habitat

Why Chemotherapy That Costs $70,000 in the U.S. Costs $2,500 in India

Soldier priest to get ultimate medal

Blame all around in Stockton - The risk was unmistakably clear when creditors lent the troubled city money during a borrowing binge.

Energy updates, including a new estimate that the US has a 110-year supply of natural gas

Baroness Thatcher's American football star grandson takes on the world of U.S. politics

Smoking Is a ‘Preexisting Condition’ - D.C. exchange board bans “discrimination” against smokers.

The Real Lesson of JC Penney: Sometimes, You're Stuck - It's fun to blame Ron Johnson, but it's doubtful that anyone else could have saved the ailing retailer.

The history of racism in the United States - a 100 year anniversary

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"Smoking Is a ‘Preexisting Condition’"

BD - Once again, it's simply incredible how alike our two native states of CA and CT are, even discounting the fact that both start with the letter 'C' and are composed of 10 to 11 letters, a claim no other state, or even nation, can make.

"Smoking, as it turns out, “is a preexisting medical condition,” according to Dr. Mohammad Akhter, the chairman of the D.C. Health Exchange Board. Two liberal states, California and Connecticut, have decided likewise,"

For better or for worse, long live CA and CT! Sister states forever!

#1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2013-04-12 07:50 (Reply)

Smoking is a preexisting condition so they can't charge increased premiums to smokers. How much you want to bet they mandate increased premiums for gun owners?

It's almost like they wanted to institute a system where they could impose all their programs without the risk of those nasty elections.

#2 JKB on 2013-04-12 09:11 (Reply)

This should be in the list

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/little_anthony_freemonts_twilight_zone_is_our_reality.html

#3 joel on 2013-04-12 10:40 (Reply)

Thanks for the heads-up. Great article! I would hope it becomes a thwack-on-the-side-of-the-head for those who are yet unaware of how much our culture has changed since the early days of The Twilight Zone.

#3.1 jma on 2013-04-12 15:35 (Reply)

Politico: As unbiased as the NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, DNC, OFA, etc., etc.

Chicagoization: Seems about right.

Grizzlies and Poleys ravaging the vinyards! We. Are. DOOMED!

Given the cost and time and trials of developing a new drug, for cancer or anything else, clearly the drug companies could conclude stopping development.

Stockton: It seems due diligence would have discovered the crazy union/employee contracts and pension plans.

Thatcher: "'Thatcher is to blame for Britain's poor relationship with Europe': Ex-German leader says her legacy is years of conflict with Brussels" Not blame; CREDIT!

There was a local doc here years ago. A woman. Believed in eugenics.

#4 Sam L. on 2013-04-12 11:40 (Reply)

In 2008, I thought it would be interesting to see the Chicago Machine politics try thrive in the open field of national politics. My presumption was that it would be exposed and prosecuted. I was wrong, very wrong.

Interesting aside, the NY city gun ban was first imposed to exploit a tragedy but many suspected its real purpose was to control machine cronies.

QUOTE:

Others were skeptical of the motives of Sullivan, notorious for his association with the underworld. “Cynics suggested that Big Tim pushed through his law so Tammany could keep their gangster allies under control,” wrote Richard F. Welch in his 2009 biography, “King of the Bowery: Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Hall, and New York City from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era.”

#5 JKB on 2013-04-12 11:44 (Reply)

I shopped JCPenney online for years, having switched over from their catalog. They were reliable purveyors of basics. I could get good women's Oxford shirts for example. One day lasat year I went on-line to buy some more of these shirts. They had posted a notice that the entire line was being discontinued, and I could buy some now at sales prices. I did, and never went back.

I'm the customer they hate. Middle-aged, not terribly fashionable. But I easily spent $1000 a year there on basics that they don't carry any more.

If you want to be fashionable, don't also just drop the basics.

#6 Park Slope Pubby on 2013-04-12 12:51 (Reply)

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