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On February 25, 2010 our president will be in a meeting with officials from both parties, discussing a health bill that the U.S.A. does not want. The president will be at this meeting from 10a.m. till 4p.m. The U.S.A. is in a recession with high unemployment. We have troops all over the world. We are in two wars. Our government wants to talk health bill. Why? The proposed government health bill does nothing for prescriptions. So what is it they will be talking about? Our government is involved in almost every facet of our life. They are involved in most business except our health and now want the ability to dictate what care we may get. What does health care have to do with our government? Nothing! If our citizens want health care then let them decide in a free market what to get.

By Clive Cookson in San Diego Published: February 22 2010 01:29 | Last updated: February 22 2010 01:29 Public trust in science as a whole has suffered from recent attacks on climate research, the head of the senior US scientific body admitted at the weekend. “There is evidence that the corrosion in the public attitude to climate science has spread over to other areas of science,” said Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences , citing public opinion surveys in the US and elsewhere. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Diego, Prof Cicerone and other research leaders said scientists must work to regain public trust by being more open about their findings. “We need to be more transparent and provide more access to our research data,” he said. In the “climategate” scandal at University of East Anglia in the UK, emails showed researchers at the Climatic Research Unit refusing to release da...

• NBC's Meet the Press : General David Petraeus, Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN), WaPo's E.J. Dionne , WSJ's Peggy Noonan , Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). • CBS' Face the Nation : Exclusive interview with former Secretary of State Colin Powell. • ABC's This Week (with Terry Moran) : Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA), Gov. Edward Rendell (D-PA)and roundtable with George Will , Donna Brazile , Matthew Dowd and Arianna Huffington . • CNN's State of the Union (with Candy Crowley now) : • Fox News' Fox News Sunday : Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Governor Haley Barbour (MS-R), Gov. Jennifer Granholm, (D- Michigan) and Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics at YouTube. • CNN's Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz : • Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal : Alexis Simendinger of National Journal, CNN's Gloria Borger , Jackie Calmes of The New York Times and Politico's Eamon Javers . • CNN...

The bawdy Fox cartoon "Family Guy" features a mentally disabled girl whose mother is governor of Alaska, and Palin, naturally, responds : People are asking me to comment on yesterday’s Fox show that felt like another kick in the gut. Bristol was one who asked what I thought of the show that mocked her baby brother, Trig (and/or others with special needs), in an episode yesterday. Instead of answering, I asked her what she thought. Here is her conscientious reply, which is a much more restrained and gracious statement than I want to make about an issue that begs the question, “when is enough enough?”: “When you’re the son or daughter of a public figure, you have to develop thick skin. My siblings and I all have that, but insults directed at our youngest brother hurt too much for us to remain silent. People with special needs face challenges that many of us will never confront, and yet they are some of the kindest and most loving people you’ll ever meet. Their live...

I think we went to far in our expectations of Scott Brown. While I am happy that he won, I think it is wrong for us to say he is presidential material. Let us see what he can do. Let him compile a resume first.

Autism Awareness International Share Day & Autism Book Drive Caribbean Focus Friday, October 23, 2009 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. INFORMATION SHARING SESSION Moderated by Jamaican Journalist Maia Chung-Smith Founder of the Maia Chung Autism and Disabilities Foundation & First Global Bank's Woman of Vision 2009 AND Rosetta J. Jamieson-Thomas, author of A Margin of Hope Caribbean Literary and Cultural Center Brooklyn Public Library: Flatbush Branch 22 Linden Boulevard , (between Flatbush Avenue and Bedford Avenue ), Brooklyn, NY 11226 Telephone (908) 313-0856 or (718) 856-0813, x130 .