It also explains why food disappears from the dish so quickly!

She's a pig in a dog suit.  

Numerically, the mandate would probably not affect that many.   And, the mandate fines/penalties would be difficult to enforce. From my perspective the mandate is not essential to the Act, as incentives, enrollment periods with discounts or other positive approaches are likely to be as effective.

Hence, the mandate may be a stalking horse for a less known and  a more dreaded aspect of the Act-new Medicare support taxes that affect high rollers.   Firstly, the additional 0.9 percent levied on wages above $250,000, and secondly, the flat tax of 3.8 percent on investment income, with a modified adjusted gross income threshold of $250,000 family/$200,000 single.  While pension, social security, IRA/annuities are not taxed, they may contribute to your threshold.  But, investment income would include real estate.

It became equally apparent that the Hispanic community was becoming disenchanted with Obama and that he could no longer count on their votes. So, after many years of nothing, he made a statement that gives the appearance at least of liberalizing current immigration policy.

In other words, Obama yields to pressure. We have known that for some time - watching him cave to right wing interests time after time in the guise of unity or reaching across the aisle.

But, here, at long last, he is yielding to pressure from groups with which I can identify.

Isn't it time that those interested in civil liberties, people who want an end to indefinite detention without charge or trial, people who want Guantanamo closed, people who want an end to the idiotic persecution of people who want to smoke marijuana, people who want an immediate end to the war in Afghanistan... Isn't it time that these groups assert their "no mas" - instead of cowering.

"I have not made a life in the academy, but I have spent my life reading, admiring, and attempting to learn from those who do," Daniels said in a statement.

I learned one other thing from the reception of my article. When a piece of writing gains enough notoriety to create controversy, the responses it generates often have little to do with the original text. The author has struck a nerve, usually by examining an issue others have ignored or distorted. When all the repressed energy is suddenly released, it takes its own shape. For most respondents the text itself is merely a point of departure. Reading the various articles and editorials inspired by "Can Poetry Matter?", I was interested to see how often I was invoked to support an idea I disliked or to condemn a notion I endorsed. This can be either amusing or annoying. The important thing is to step aside and let the ideas pursue their own dialectic. The culture is now at work, and the author has become only one of the spectators.

Hunter S. Thompson wrote on a red IBM Selectric. One of his first jobs was as a copy boy for Time, and while he was supposed to be working, he used a typewriter and typed out, word for word, all of The Great Gatsby and A Farewell to Arms, in order to learn something about writing style.

Why would Penn State be liable for that.  Sure he was an employee, but he was acting totally outside of his authorized employee responsibilities.  

Why does Penn State have good Samaritan obligation to rigorously police it's employees not doing criminal acts?  

Here's the latest.

One by David "Papa" Limbaugh, and the other by Edward "the Immortal  Bard" Klein..

At 27.95 and 29.95 respectively, in a down economy, when half the conservatives in the country already think the King James Bible and Atlas Shrugged are the only two books anyone needs to read..