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Cancer patients who face long waits in the NHS will be given cash to go private, in a radical shift of Government policy. Gordon Brown will unveil a significant expansion of private sector involvement in health provision as part of his much-hyped relaunch next week. For the first time, if a primary care trust (PCT) cannot give cancer patients a specialist appointment within two weeks of referral from a GP, it will have to provide equivalent funding for a private consultation. However, the principle of involving the private sector in acute treatment is regarded as a major change of approach....

The Rev has got it .

n a wide-ranging interview set to air Sunday on CNN's State of the Union, one of President Barack Obama's most prominent Republican supporters says he is 'concerned' about the new president's ambitious agenda and the high price tags accompanying many of Obama's initiatives. "I'm a little concerned," former Secretary of State Colin Powell says. "I'm concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs and the additional government that will be needed to execute them." Powell also seems to sound a note of warning to the young president. "I think one of the...

Hiya FR Gun Club members, I received the following email today, with the attached pics of the new STG-556 E4. Looks like a kewl new toy to go shoot!!!! The email: From: guns@ratworxusa.com To: al@ratworxusa.com Subject: New STG-E4 Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 00:45:34 +0000 Hey, we just thought we would share with everybody some photos of the new MSAR STG-E4. We received our shipment of rifles today. We demo'd the very first production gun to leave the factory to 11 L.E. Departments, and the gun worked flawlessly all day. For those of you who had pre-oders, right now we...

Here's a real dander-raiser on the eve of the 233rd anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: Few if any members of the U.S. House of Representatives that last week narrowly voted to pass the outrageous and deceitfully titled American Clean Energy and Security Act actually read the bill. That's the hardly surprising -- but still unacceptable -- conclusion of Jonathan Adler, a Case Western Reserve University legal scholar writing in National Review Online. The legislation, commonly called the "cap-and-trade" bill, would impose an onerous, if not socialist, regimen on just about every aspect of American life at a cost ridiculously...

The Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (LDA) regulates federal lobbyists and organizations that lobby. The law defines and specifies the following: Who is a Lobbyist? Any person who: Receives compensation of $5,000 or more per six-month period, or makes expenditures of $20,000 or more per six-month period, for lobbying; Makes more than one lobbying contact; and Spends 20 percent or more of his or her time over a six-month period on lobbying activities for an organization or a particular client. Unless each of these criteria is met, there is no registration requirement for that individual. An organization is required to...

CNN's, Anderson Cooper interviewing Sarah Palin's spokeswoman and she descirbes a point guard passing the ball and the smug Anderson Cooper says he doesn't know anything about basketball, then says he's clueless about sports in general. Weren't these the same idiots that bashed Palin for not knowing anything?

On Today's Show...   Programming Note: Rush will be off next week for a golf vacation. Guest hosts will fill in.   Rush Leads the Fight Against Dependence Day! Don't let them take away our liberty.   America Needs to Stand Up to This Schoolyard Bully's Failed Agenda Our economy is in shambles, and it's completely traceable to Obama's statist policies.   Now Hospitals Cave to Obama's Threats (Rush 24/7 Members:  Listen)   "The statists like Obama know that they have drummed up in people's heads the importance of health care. People are more frightened of going a day without...

We all know by now that MSNBC is an extreme advocate of the liberal agenda that is being pushed forth by the new administration and by the majority in both the House and the Senate. Now, did you know that General Electric owns NBC/MSNBC? The blatant bias of the reporting shown above is bad, but below you will find information about just how deep the ties between the CEO of G.E., Jeffrey Immelt,, and the Obama administration run. With the aid of unbridled support and ardent reporting of MSNBC, an inexperienced and relatively unknown man who was named the most...

IT admins across the globe are letting out a collective groan after servers and PCs running McAfee VirusScan attacked core system files, in some cases causing the machines to display the dreaded blue screen of death. Details are still coming in, but forums here and here show that it's affecting McAfee customers in Germany, Italy, and elsewhere. A UK-based Reg reader, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized by his employer to speak to the press, said the glitch simultaneously leveled half of a customer's 140 machines after they updated the latest virus signature file. "Literally half...

July 03, 2009 Sarah Palin breaks the mold again By Thomas Lifson. At this point there is much speculation about why Sarah Palin abruptly announced her impending resignation from Alaska's governorship. Her critics are already calling her "erratic" but she is consistent in one respect: she cares little for the established ways of doing things when she thinks she has a better course of action. The conventional wisdom holds that you bury news when it is announced at 4 PM on Friday of a holiday weekend. But the comparative news vacuum seems to be only amplifying the echoes reverberating through...

In a lopsided fight that even Don King would have had trouble promoting, a burglar in Oxford, England, got more than he bargained for when he broke into the home of Frank Corti, a 72-year-old former junior boxing champion.

Not since 1965 has it been so hard for teens to get work. Think an unemployment rate of 9.5% is bad? It could be worse. You could be a teenager. For teenagers, the summer job market has not been so bleak in generations. During what should be the start of the bustling summer job season, the unemployment rate for 16- to 19-year-olds who want work is 24%--the worst since 1965. The outlook for teen jobs is so bleak that it's weighing down the entire employment report, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Thursday. The country is headed for...

I learned last night that my high school track coach, Mr. Dennis Walker, was hit by a car and is currently in a coma at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne. Right now, the doctors are not expecting him to live and are saying it would take a miracle for him to come out of the coma. Well, I am praying and hoping for that miracle. Please add Coach Walker to your Church Prayer lists. Coach Walker is one of those individuals who help make me the person I am today. He is a great father, husband, teacher, coach and mentor....

Leaving a team of ‘wise men’ to set interest rates is absurd. Market forces will always do it better Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, complained recently that he lacked the powers required to fulfil his new statutory role of ensuring stability in the banking system. A more powerful Bank of England would do a better job. He is wrong. The economy would benefit from a weaker Bank of England, stripped of its principal power: namely, the power to set interest rates. This is not intended as a criticism of Mr King or of the other members of...

A participant of a summer camp on Tech's campus has been confirmed by Schiffert Health Center to have a case of H1N1 influenza, according to an e-mail to on-campus students from Housing and Dining Services. The H1N1 influenza virus, also known as swine flu, recently hit pandemic status in early June, indicating widespread global activity, as defined by the World Health Organization. According to the Center for Disease Control website, the pandemic status only reflects the spread of the virus to over 70 countries and not its severity. Housing's e-mail, sent by Associate Director for Occupancy Management Kenneth Belcher, clarified...

Amid President Barack Obama’s admonishments of the American people concerning how it is necessary for them to change their lifestyles, give away more of their money, downsize their living quarters and trade their SUVs for battery-charged golf carts, there is one person who has no intention of doing any of these things, and that is Barack Obama. This is best exemplified by his recent weekend jaunt to New York City with his wife on the taxpayer’s dime. That’s right; he didn’t pay for it; you did. How much did it cost you? The answer is tens of thousands of dollars,...

She survived Katie Couric and Tina Fey, searing scrutiny, rumors about her baby, anonymous taunts of "whack job" from those who once touted her credentials to be a heartbeat away. Yesterday Sarah Palin completed a remarkable media flameout that made her one of the most famous women in the world, the exotic Alaska caribou hunter, one of the most revered and reviled politicians in modern history. The governor announced she is calling it quits, just eight months after she and John McCain went down to defeat. She has nursed a grudge against mainstream journalists, accusing them of peddling "gossip and...

July 03, 2009 Remembering What the Declaration of Independence is Not By Bruce Walker When we celebrate the Fourth of July, we are celebrating one of the most important political documents in the history of the world. The Declaration is a statement to the world -- the people of the world was the audience -- about the very nature of government and its relationship to men. Sometimes we appreciate what this document was, but perhaps we need even more to appreciate what it was not. It was not a poll-driven summation of current opinion. The men who gathered in Philadelphia...

Need some techie help pls . fellow Freepers. I have an XP Media HP laptop 2006 1.6 GB 2006. The laptop keeps attempting to boot up, the power is on but it wont just go to the XP /os start up,,,(the past 20 minutes now) the solution pls especially how to access the laptop drive because it looks like I will have to reboot this laptop completely with the recovery disks BUT I dont want to unless neccessary. And there's some info that I need to get to especially the hard drive. Expert and intermediate suggestions and solutions pls..