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Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager vilified in nearly every corner of America for buying a pharmaceutical company and jacking up the price of a life-saving drug more than fiftyfold, was arrested Thursday on securities fraud charges unrelated to the furor. The boyish-looking 32-year-old entrepreneur -- a relentlessly self-promoting figure who has called himself "the world's most eligible bachelor" on Twitter and recently plunged into the hip-hop world by buying an unreleased album by the group Wu-Tang Clan -- was in custody awaiting an appearance in federal court in Brooklyn. He was charged in a seven-count indictment unconnected to...

Vinson, Clyde Roger Born 1940 in Cadiz, KY Federal Judicial Service: Judge, U. S. District Court, Northern District of Florida Nominated by Ronald Reagan on September 9, 1983, to a seat vacated by Lynn C. Higby; Confirmed by the Senate on October 4, 1983, and received commission on October 5, 1983. Served as chief judge, 1997-2004. Assumed senior status on March 31, 2005. Education: U.S. Naval Academy, B.S., 1962 Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 1971 Professional Career: U.S. Navy Lieutenant, 1962-1968 Private practice, Pensacola, Florida, 1971-1983

While we slept this morning, the real mobsters, the ones dishing out and accepting bribes in the District of Criminals, completely screwed our country … with the first vote on Christmas Eve in more than a century. Atlas just shrugged.

Here is the card that major Muslim Nidal Hasan gave to the infidels along with a quran before meeting his 72 raisins. Now look at the card. Notice the SoA on the card? Soldiers of Allah. Followed by SWT, an abbreviation that usually follows the word Allah. (hat tip Robert)

Only video available. I will add a few of Rep. Ryan's remarks to the thread.

Utah is currently implementing consumer-centered health insurance reforms enacted in March of this year.[1] The reforms are designed to increase choice, portability, and availability of private health insurance coverage. They are the product of a continuing, multi-year health reform process in that state. This first set of Utah health reforms includes three key elements: 1. Insurance market reforms to create a new "defined contribution" coverage option for businesses and their workers; 2. A board to design and manage a companion risk adjustment mechanism; and 3. A "virtual" health insurance exchange to coordinate the various administrative functions of a consumer-choice market.

Democrats' plans to pass major health care legislation have been stymied, at least for the moment, by the Congressional Budget Office's cost estimates. To the consternation and apparent surprise of leading Democrats, the CBO scored Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus' latest offering at $1.6 trillion over 10 years, while it scored the completed sections of Sen. Christopher Dodd's bill at $1 trillion. Presumably, the incomplete sections would cost more.

WASHINGTON -- There is no need to wait until a new president is elected next year for the great national health care debate. It is underway right now, disguised as a routine extension of an immensely popular, non-controversial 10-year-old program of providing coverage to poor children. In fact, this proposal is the thin edge of the wedge to achieve the longtime goal of government-supplied universal health insurance and the suffocation of the private system. The Senate Finance Committee was scheduled to mark up this portentous legislation expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) today [Thursday], but disagreement over the...