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Since open enrollment in individual health insurance plans will be starting up again in November, I thought I would provide some backstory to the perennial rise in health insurance premiums everyone’s stomachs should be used to churning over by now: 1. Inflation of currency
A new study on the fiscal condition of the 50 states ranks New Jersey dead last, citing revenue shortfalls, budget practices and high levels of debt. The healthiest states, on the other hand, are those benefiting from the domestic energy boom, including Alaska and
North Korea amplified its threatening rhetoric as the U.N. Security Council approved new sweeping sanctions, vowing to launch a first-strike nuclear attack against the United States and threatening to engulf Washington in a “sea of fire.” At a mass rally in Pyongyang on Thursday,
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela died Tuesday afternoon after a long battle with cancer, the government announced, leaving behind a bitterly divided nation in the grip of a political crisis that grew more acute as he languished for weeks, silent and out of sight
“There is nobody at the CIA who can tell you more personally about Kim Jong Un than Dennis Rodman, and that in itself is scary,” said Col. Steve Ganyard, USMC (Ret.), a former deputy assistant secretary of state and ABC News consultant. It’s also
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Friday that Congress should stop placing legal limits on the amount of money the government can borrow and effectively lift the debt limit to infinity. On Bloomberg TV, “Political Capital” host Al Hunt asked Geithner if he believes “we
(Check back for updates.) As of Wednesday, November 14, 2012, individuals from all 50 states have petitioned the Obama Administration for withdrawal from the United States of America in order to “create its own new government”. These petitions were created just days after the
Taken from a press release from Gary Johnson’s presidential campaign: Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson’s campaign today (September 21st) filed an anti-trust lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California challenging Johnson’s exclusion from upcoming debates sponsored by the
This week, the Wiki Weapon Project, an initiative that aims to design and build the world’s first entirely 3D-printable handgun, met its goal of raising $20,000 from Internet donors, according to the group’s spokesperson, University of Texas law student Cody Wilson. That’s about ten
Johnson, a Libertarian who is on 47 state ballots and fighting petition challenges in the other three, including Pennsylvania, suggested that the U.S. presence in the Middle East is abetting unrest in the region. “Get out of these embassies, just plain get out,” Johnson
