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- Bachmann to Skip First Presidential Debate in South Carolina
- Doc holiday: Behind the coming physician shortage
- Captured on Twitter: Raid against Osama bin Laden
- Gas Tax Hike May Be Proposed In Special Session
- Sony Details Restoration Plans for PlayStation Network
- Minnesota Majority, tea party lose case on voter ID buttons
| Bachmann to Skip First Presidential Debate in South Carolina Posted: 02 May 2011 04:55 PM PDT
Add another tally to the count of GOP presidential hopefuls who will not be participating in what is shaping up to be a lackluster "kickoff" candidate debate on Thursday in South Carolina: Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., unceremoniously announced in a Fox News Sunday appearance that she will bypass the network's cosponsored event. The news isn't entirely surprising. The requirements for debate participation include having an established exploratory committee, something Bachmann has consistently said would happen "by June." Prodded on Sunday by Fox News host Chris Wallace, Bachmann crystallized the vague sentiment she's expressed in recent weeks. "I'm not making my formal announcement either way until June," she said. "So I didn't feel that it was appropriate to be in the first official debate, which Fox will be sponsoring." Though Fox News told National Journal as recently as Friday that Bachmann was still "50-50" in deciding whether or not to take the plunge, comments from her camp left little doubt that she would decline to join Rep. Ron Paul of Texas; former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania; and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty in the early-primary state. "Her understanding is that if she did take the stage on May 5, she would essentially be declaring her candidacy," Bachmann spokesman Doug Sachtleben told National Journal last week. "It's been a careful consideration for her, but she's said pretty clearly that she won't be making any sort of decision until [around] June, and there's no reason to question that at this point." Bachmann also told Wallace that her role this weekend in New Hampshire's Presidential Summit on Spending and Job Creation, sponsored by the tea-party-affiliated Americans for Prosperity Foundation, served effectively as a litmus test for her primetime skills against the other likely candidates. Also appearing were former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, pizza magnate Herman Cain, and Pawlenty and Santorum. Bachmann and her fellow participants "were back-to-back with each other and all on the same topic and all being asked questions," she said. "So I've already been there, done that." To read more, visit: http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/bachmann-to-skip-first-presidential-debate-in-nobr-south-carolina-nobr–20110501 |
| Doc holiday: Behind the coming physician shortage Posted: 02 May 2011 04:50 PM PDT
The doctor is not in. The United States already faces a growing physician shortage. As our population ages, we require more and more intensive health care. At the same time, enrollment in medical schools has been essentially flat, meaning we are not producing new physicians at anywhere near the rate we need to. In fact, according to the American Association of Medical Colleges, we face a shortfall of more than 150,000 doctors over the next 15 years. And it could get a whole lot worse. The health reform bill signed into law last year is expected to significantly increase the number of Americans with health insurance or participating in the Medicaid program. Meanwhile, an aging population will increase participation in Medicare. This means a greater demand for physician services. To read more, visit: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/doc_holiday_Nyb5JCHkWyejLq7dTjTs2J |
| Captured on Twitter: Raid against Osama bin Laden Posted: 02 May 2011 04:41 PM PDT
DUBAI/ABBOTTABAD (Reuters) – In the early hours of Monday, Sohaib Athar reported on Twitter that a loud bang had rattled his windows in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, adding that he hoped it wasn’t “the start of something nasty. A few hours later Athar posted another tweet: “Uh oh, now I’m the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.” In the age of Twitter, perhaps it’s no surprise that the first signs of the U.S. operation that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden were noticed by an IT consultant awake late at night. Athar, a resident of Abbottabad where bin Laden was holed up in a fortified mansion, first noticed the sound of a helicopter and thought it unusual enough to post via his Twitter account. “I was awake, working on my computer when I heard a sound of helicopter. It was rare here. It hovered for about six minutes and then there was a big blast and power gone,” Athar, 34, said in an interview with Reuters. “I tweeted it because it was something unusual in the city,” said Athar, adding that he moved from Lahore to the city a year and a half ago to avoid “bomb blasts and terrorist attacks.” To read more, visit: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/raid-against-osama-bin-laden-captured-twitter-101832783.html |
| Gas Tax Hike May Be Proposed In Special Session Posted: 02 May 2011 04:32 PM PDT
COLUMBIA, Md. (WJZ)—Pain at the pump. If you think gas prices are high now, there is a plan that could push them even higher. WJZ-TV Political Reporter Pat Warren tells us a hike in the gas tax could be just down the road. A failed effort to increase the state tax on gasoline during the regular General Assembly session doesn't mean the idea has gone away. The prospect of another bill may be proposed in a special session. That's right. Governor Martin O'Malley held a roundtable discussion on the transportation trust fund on Friday. And wouldn't you know it, the gas tax came up. This is where the rubber meets the road, and the wheel, and the axle and sometimes the muffler. A plan to raise the state gas tax to cover road construction and repair was shot down in the General Assembly this session. As voters watched the price of gasoline go up and up, lawmakers backed off a plan to add their 12 cents to the existing 23.5 cents Marylanders already pay. To read more, visit: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/04/29/omalley-discusses-transportation-funding-needs/ |
| Sony Details Restoration Plans for PlayStation Network Posted: 02 May 2011 04:22 PM PDT By: Chris Morris, CNBC.com Nearly two weeks after being the subject of one of the largest data breaches in business history, the PlayStation Network will go back online this week, Sony announced Sunday morning. The company, which says the service restoration will be a phased one, also discussed several new security enhancements, as well as a program meant to encourage gun shy users to return to the PSN. “We would like to extend our apologies [to those] who we inconvenienced and worried because we potentially compromised their data," said Kazuo Hirai, executive deputy president of Sony (and widely considered to be the chief candidate to replace CEO Howard Stringer at some point). "We offer our sincerest apologies.” By the end of the week, Sony [SNE 28.80 0.49 (+1.73%) ] plans to restore online game-play access for both the PlayStation 3 and PSP portable gaming device, along with user access to accounts, online movie and music streaming and chat functionality. That's bound to make core gamers happy, but many of the 77 million people whose information was illegally obtained by hackers are still worried that their credit card information might have been compromised as well. Sony says that data was encrypted, but acknowledged that it did have 10 million accounts with credit card information on file. “We take the security of our consumers’ information very seriously and are committed to helping our consumers protect their personal data,” said Hirai. "The organization has worked around the clock to bring these services back online, and are doing so only after we had verified increased levels of security across our networks.” While there have been no proven incidents of credit card data being used by the intruders, Sony says it will help users enroll in identity theft protection services. To read more, visit: http://www.cnbc.com/id/42846466 |
| Minnesota Majority, tea party lose case on voter ID buttons Posted: 02 May 2011 09:04 AM PDT By Andy Birkey, The Minnesota Independent Minnesota Majority, Minnesota Voters Alliance and the North Star Tea Party Patriots lost a case in court on Friday when U.S. District Court Judge Joan Erickson dismissed the trio's challenge to a state law that bans political apparel in the polling place. The groups had attempted a campaign to have their supporters bring "Please ID Me" buttons and tea party t-shirts into polling places, but elections officials said the items would not be allowed. The groups requested a restraining order just days before the 2010 election to force elections officials to throw out the rules regarding political attire in polling places, but Erickson rejected that request. The groups refiled the complaints following the election on the grounds that the rules that keep political buttons and t-shirts out of the polling place are unconstitutional. The plaintiffs argued that elections officials violated their free speech rights by prohibiting the voter ID buttons and Tea Party t-shirts in the polling place. Erickson, however, said that the polling place is not a a public forum and that "the state has a well-established, legitimate interest in providing a safe, orderly, advocacy-free polling place." She noted that the advocacy that was being promoted by Minnesota Majority and the Tea Party could be perceived as intimidating to voters. "The language on the button intimates that government-issued identification should be — or is — required in order to vote in Minnesota," wrote Erickson. "This intimation could confuse voters and election officials and cause voters to refrain from voting because of increased delays or the misapprehension that identification is required." She added, "On this basis alone, the Court concludes that it was reasonable to ban the 'Please I.D. Me' buttons." Minnesota Majority and the tea party also argued that their buttons and t-shirts were not political but Judge Erickson wasn't buying that argument. To read more, visit: http://minnesotaindependent.com/80935/minnesota-majority-tea-party-lose-case-on-voter-id-buttons |
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