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Congress is knocking off for its August recess, and the evidence to date is that the Democrats aren't much better than the Republicans at getting their required work done. Congress' basic annual chore is to pass a budget blueprint and then enact the 12 spending bills that fund the federal government for the next fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1. More ... An 88-year-old man with dementia is sent to the emergency room with vague symptoms. He's poorly cared for, not because the doctors and nurses are bad, but because he is a low priority. A frail grandmother suffers a heart attack at home, and an ambulance is called. The doctors shock her several times. They shove a tube down her throat. More ... Samantha was the name of the woman who finally put me over the edge. I could deal with the two and a half hours it took my friend to have her MRI, just to make sure the fact that her wrists won't move doesn't mean the breast cancer has spread to her bone. More ... WASHINGTON Watch out, Fred Thompson: By the time you get into the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney may have run away with your constituency. More ... FANCY FARM, Ky. Overwhelmed by the angry boos and catcalls that repeatedly drowned out his supporters' shrill chants for "Four More Years," Governor Ernie Fletcher did what he does best: He pardoned himself and abruptly left the stage, beating a hasty retreat from the heat - rhetorical and otherwise - that filled an open-air pavilion on the picnic grounds of the St. More ... First off, I want to thank Speaker Richards for ending the 67-item special session. $60,000 per day is a waste of taxpayers' money. However, agreeing to another session to cut a special deal for Peabody is no better. Peabody is the biggest coal company in the world and had $600 million in profits last year alone. More ... |
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