Good news, ladies and gents: Emergency contraception (aka "Plan B" or the morning-after pill) will indeed be sold over-the-counter in drugstores with lower age restrictions -- and without caveats from the federal government. More »
Feds Finally Cave On Over-The-Counter Emergency Contraception...
Feds: You Ain’t Getting Your Megaupload Data Back
By Jamie Condliffe
Ever since Megaupload was raided and shut down, there has been wild speculation about what would happen to the data stored on its servers. Now, Federal prosecutors are proposing a route forward which will make it impossible...
...unfunded health care plan? Every country with government run health care has the VAT. That's how they pay for it.
Why do you think Pelosi was floating that trial balloon back in October 2009?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703298004574457512007010416.html
Highland: you might...
Wireless spectrum—the tiny slices of the invisible world that make data through the air possible—is a precious, precious commodity. Everyone wants it. You want it. And the government wants to hand some out—but everyone will hate the plan. More »
On Friday, the feds indicted the founders the three largest online poker companies in the U.S. (PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker) and seized their websites in a major crackdown on internet gambling.
If you visit any of the three sites — pokerstars.com, fulltiltpoker.com or...
The U.S. government proposed a new mandate today requiring backup cameras on all new vehicles by 2014. It's the latest front in Ray LaHood's war to protect us from ourselves. You know what else works? Paying attention. [AP] More »
if it passes there will be federal agents all over the state fully enforcing the federal law against it. I dont smoke pot so I dont care if its legalized or not. Im just scared what the feds might do? Theres already medical marijuana for cancer patients so that should be enough. Im voting NO...
Here's today's jarring news from the NY Times: federal law enforcement and national security officials want to force companies like Facebook, Skype, and BlackBerry to let them wiretap your accounts. More »
Kaiser Health News staff writer Mary Agnes Carey reports on states' progress with high-risk pools created as part of the health reform law: "The program, one of the highest profile provisions of the law, is designed to provide health insurance to people who have been denied coverage due to a...
Kaiser Health News staff writer Mary Agnes Carey reports on states' progress with high-risk pools created as part of the health reform law: "The program, one of the highest profile provisions of the law, is designed to provide health insurance to people who have been denied coverage due to a...
Kaiser Health News staff writer Mary Agnes Carey reports on states' progress with high-risk pools created as part of the health reform law: "The program, one of the highest profile provisions of the law, is designed to provide health insurance to people who have been denied coverage due to a...
News outlets report on efforts to expand accountable care organizations, medical homes and community health clinics. Crain's New York Business, on ACOs in New York: "Authorized by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Barack Obama in March, ACOs are intended...
The Hill: A medical device trade group and former lawmaker separately called on the White House to do more to promote life-saving medical innovation this week. "In separate events Wednesday and Thursday, former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) and Stephen Ubl, the head of the medical...
...start a civil war if initiated? Tea Party Patriots must have put the fear of something in them in DC cause now they are dancing a new tune about future bail outs on TAX PAYERS DOLLARS....
I was really angered by today's story that congress is finally asking the recepients of the bailout money how it was spent, is this some joke to fool the American public? Our fedeal reserve interest rate is currently near 0%, meaning that banks can ask the US government, without condition, for...