Paraphrasing Abraham Maslow’s “If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” – “If your only issue is Repealing the Medical Device Excise Tax, then every job loss can be blamed on MDET.” Investors woke up to read the quarterly report and guidance from Medtronic with this headline — [...]
On Thursday, May 24th, the House is scheduled to vote on Chairman John Kline’s (R-MN-02) H.R. 1911 – Smarter Solutions for Students Act to address college student loans. Federal student loan interest rates are set to double on July 1, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, costing students on average an extra $1,000 on their [...]
If you are a man, you wonder about prostate cancer. Should you have the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test ? If you are a woman, you wonder about breast cancer. Should you have a test for BRCA1 or to a related gene BRCA2 ? The medical community seems to be divided on the PSA test – [...]
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QUERY : If you are one of the 184,940 Minnesota undergraduates who participate in the Federal student loan program, would you want the “banker” to charge 2.5% handling fee … or a handling fee that is less than 1% ? As you ponder that question, be advised that students in Minnesota graduate with an average [...]
An optimist sees the glass half full. A pessimist sees the glass half empty. An extremist sees the glass contains poison. Reading this tweet, does Erik Paulsen (R-MN-03) seems to be evoking the extremist claim : Sad to learn Labcorp is reducing its staff. #DeviceTax cited as one of the reasons. #RepealDeviceTax #4jobs #4MN ow.ly/l4dKg [...]
If your only source of news was John Kline’s (R-MN-02) press releases, the Republican-controlled House is doing a fantastic job. Take, Thursday May 16th and his two press releases : John Kline Statement on Passage of Legislation to Repeal Health Care Law John Kline’s Legislation Preventing Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Receives Bipartisan Support Of [...]
“Right now, too many sexual assaults in our military go unreported. My daughter is a military veteran so I know exactly the kind of hard-working women we have in our armed forces. This situation is a travesty and we need to fix it now. As a doctor, I’m used to working with others to find [...]
The right is so desperate for something to bitch about, they will go back to old news. The dead bomber from Boston has been autopsied and buried – finally. Not the determined search for a cause for hysteria on the right. Now, from the Long Island Press, we have another load of Glenn-Beck-style organic fertilizer: [...]
PONDER THIS : What would be the reaction if instead of profiling based on “TEA Party”, “Patriot” or “9/12”, the IRS focused on “Inner-City Muslim Action”, “North American Islamic” or “Committee on American-Islamic Relations” ? For those wondering which scandal (military sexual abuse, DOJ reviews of journalists’ telephone records, the Obama administration responded to the [...]
The ink hadn’t dried on Betty McCollum’s (D-MN-04) press release before the news broke : A U.S. Army sergeant first class assigned as an equal opportunity advisor and Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention program coordinator to III Corps at Fort Hood, Texas, is now under investigation for pandering — a prostitution solicitation charge — abusive [...]
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