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Health Care and Violence

WASHINGTON (AP) - A fax bearing the image of a noose. Profane voice mails. Bricks thrown, a gas line cut. White powder sent to an office. Democrats and a few Republicans revealed mounting numbers and unsettling details of threats against them Thursday in the emotional aftermath of the passage of the health care overhaul. Lawmakers uniformly condemned the harassment, but that's where the agreement ended. Democrats said Republicans were slow to condemn the vigilantism, while Republicans said Democrats were playing politics with the threats. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100325/D9ELTLUG0.html

The government's war on obesity

Part of the problem with government health care is the emphasis it places on “prevention.” And while prevention might be fine in theory, in reality is just becomes money spent of PSA ads lecturing us about our diet. I think most people would rather to forego the lectures and have the money be spent of real research to finding cures. http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE56R5UH20090728 No doubt that Americans are obese. But most people are smart enough to know why they are obese – they eat too much food. There is no need to waste taxpayer dollars to preach to these people.