November 19, 2009 – 3:36 pm
Attention naysayers: Senate Democrats have unveiled a health care reform bill, dubbed The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which will expand coverage to the 31 million uninsured, reduce the deficit and make unicorns a reality. Essentially written by that socialist albatross, Harry Reid, D-NV, the details of the senate bill so far portray a document [...]
November 18, 2009 – 2:20 pm
In this week’s LEO, reporter Farrah Johnson journeyed to Louisville’s only abortion clinic to observe the ongoing battle over a woman’s right to choose. Here’s an excerpt:
Although the scene outside the surgical center in Louisville is typically rowdy, the clash between activists on the front lines has intensified recently given the current political fight over [...]
November 17, 2009 – 4:22 pm
Attention all ye red-eyed “outdoorsy types” — Portland, Oregon is now home to the United States’ very first marijuana cafe. Imagine: You complain to your doctor about how you’re just not sleeping all that well, how you’ve got this chronic pain in your neck and that you haven’t been eating enough, either, in which case [...]
November 16, 2009 – 3:49 pm
Those of you familiar with the “Back to the Future” series of documentaries are probably aware of what a paradox is, wherein two diametrically opposed, contradictory realities appear to coexist in the same universe, causing much confusion and the comical raising of eyebrows. Along those lines — and minus the comedy – here’s a report from the USDA, released [...]
November 10, 2009 – 4:47 pm
On the eve of Veteran’s Day — which for most of us means just another day that banks are closed and the mail gets fucked up — President Obama has prepared a speech of the kind pundits dub “very presidential,” which means the themes are lofty, universal and (hopefully) inspiring. But since he is the president, it [...]
November 3, 2009 – 3:56 pm
In what amounts to a sound argument for taking better care of our service economy’s indentured servants, The New York Times reports that alarming numbers of H1N1-infected wage slaves are reporting to work sick because, well, they can’t really afford to miss a day’s pay in this economy.
When Latisha Carter caught H1N1 from her 6-year-old [...]
November 3, 2009 – 1:46 pm
So here we have Louisiana Senator David Vitter being asked by a consituent about Vitter’s “no” vote on an anti-rape clause in a defense appropriations bill that passed, 68-30, last month. The clause/rider — the first authored by Frosh Senator Al “I Can’t Believe I’m A Senator” Franken — would prohibit funding to military contractors [...]
October 20, 2009 – 12:49 pm
A number-filled report released yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that our current fossil fuel-based transportation economy isn’t as cheap as we think it to be — yet it’s just as crude. (Ha!)
According to The New York Times‘ summary of this report, the United States loses approximately $120 billion every year due to [...]
October 13, 2009 – 12:26 pm
Not like this should really come as a shock, but what can you do? We’re the home of the Biggie-sized meal, eleven different versions of “CSI,” and baseball stopped being interesting decades ago; why should our stomachs shrink when it comes to something actually exciting, like a war, which at least features explosions? From The Baltimore [...]
August 26, 2009 – 2:54 pm
Attention fatties: If you value your brain, put down that Famous Bowl and step away from the combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell/KFC. A new UCLA study shows that obese people exhibit higher levels of brain degeneration than their svelte counterparts. On average, corpulent individuals have brains aged prematurely by as much as 8 years.
More than 300 million worldwide [...]
