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Monday, August 10th, 2009

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Drug Industry to Run Ads Favoring White House Plan
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: August 8, 2009
WASHINGTON — The drug industry has authorized its lobbyists to spend as much as $150 million on television commercials supporting President Obama’s health care overhaul, beginning over the August Congressional recess, people briefed on the plans said Saturday.
The unusually large scale […]

Vincenzo Kolchak sent this open letter to House Speaker Pelosi and Senators Reid, Obama and Durbin.

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Clearly the current economic crisis needs a legislative solution.  An executive branch giveaway is not the answer, particularly a giveaway that neither shows little planning nor one that is being shoved down the throats of our legislators and, ultimately, the taxpayers.
In the last few days, we have heard a lot of fine creative ideas from […]