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The Samantha Clemens Show covers current events in politics, science, relationships and anything else that affects our lives; featuring interviews, commentary, analysis, occasional pontification and even some spouting off.
Paul Krugman clears up some of the baloney that’s been going around about the health care reform effort…
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What’s on my mind…
What’s on your mind?
* or, why I adore Warren Buffet…
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Michael Smerconish: For Me, the Party Is Over.
I think President Obama is earnest, smart, and much more centrist than his tea party caricature suggests. He has never been given a fair chance to succeed by those who openly crow about their desire to see him fail (while somehow congratulating one another on their relative patriotism). I know he was born in America, isn’t a socialist, and doesn’t worship in a mosque. I get that he inherited a minefield. Still, the level of federal spending concerns me. And he never closed the deal with me that health insurance is a right, not a privilege. But I’m not folding the tent on him. Not now. Not with the nation fighting two wars while its economy still teeters on the brink of collapse.
Human Culture Plays a Role in Natural Selection – NYTimes.com.
Biologists are finding evidence that culture has been interacting with genes to shape human evolution.
Five European states back burka ban
Do you think people should be legally obligated to show their faces?
More than half of voters in four other major European states back a push by France’s Nicolas Sarkozy to ban women from wearing the burka, according to an opinion poll for the Financial Times.
Cultural divide: women of different faiths in a street in Blackburn, Lancashire
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Even those families that enjoy generous insurance now are likely to see the cost of those benefits escalate. The typical price of family coverage now runs about $13,000 a year, but premiums are expected to nearly double, to $24,000, by 2020, according to the Commonwealth Fund. That equals nearly a quarter of the median family income today. While some employers will continue to contribute the lion’s share of those premiums, there will be less money for employees in the form of raises or bonuses.
Even those families that enjoy generous insurance now are likely to see the cost of those benefits escalate. The typical price of family coverage now runs about $13,000 a year, but premiums are expected to nearly double, to $24,000, by 2020, according to the Commonwealth Fund. That equals nearly a quarter of the median family income today.
While some employers will continue to contribute the lion’s share of those premiums, there will be less money for employees in the form of raises or bonuses.
Where we could be if prior legislation had been passed….
What Might Have Been - NYT, Feb 26, 2010
People who touch are more successful than those who don’t? Hmmm, where do New Englanders fall on that continuum?
Brown, 4 others in GOP break ranks to advance jobs bill – The Boston Globe.
What the bill does:
The measure would extend the Social Security tax break to eligible employers through December and give an extra $1,000 per employee credit if the worker stays on the job for at least a year. The measure also includes an extension of popular highway programs.
How it compares to other bills:
The jobs bill is a scaled-back version of a $174 billion package the House approved in December. It is also significantly smaller than a Senate measure that had been floated by a bipartisan team of lawmakers.
Well, that’s a hopeful start… But, apparently he had permission to vote this way…
Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas and chairman of the national Republican Senatorial Committee, said Brown did not upset the GOP leadership with his vote. “This was a procedural vote. There was no sort of insistence by leadership that this was a place where we plant our flag or make our stand,’’ Cornyn said.
“This was a procedural vote. There was no sort of insistence by leadership that this was a place where we plant our flag or make our stand,’’ Cornyn said.
