Tag: Justin Green

Did you hear about how the proposed immigration reform bill will create, in the words of the headline writers at Wired, a “Biometric Database of All Adult Americans“?

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Congressional members and staffers are realizing what Obamacare means for them, don’t much like it, and are attempting to exempt themselves from the law. From POLITICO (emphasis mine):

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Kevin Curtis, the man just arrested in Mississippi on suspicion of sending letters filled with ricin to Senator Roger Wicker, President Obama, and a local judge, is an Elvis impersonator on the side:

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Norway’s got it so great, even its problems aren’t that hard to solve. Norway is sitting on a cash reserve equal to $140,000 a person, and it has a GDP of more than $100,000 per capita. The issue? Norwegians don’t think they need to work, and it’s causing an increasingly serious labor crunch:

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Will Portman, son of Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman, writes on coming out to his parents, the possibility of his sexuality becoming a public issue during the 2012 presidential campaign, and his role in pushing his Dad to publicly support gay marriage. I’ll quote from the closing section:

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