The Cost Conundrum What a Texas town can teach us about health care. by Atul Gawande June 1, 2009 Costlier care is often worse care. Photograph by Phillip Toledano. Related Links Audio: An interview with Atul Gawande. It is spring in McAllen, Texas. The morning sun is warm. The streets are lined with palm trees and pickup trucks. McAllen is in Hidalgo County, which has the lowest household income in the country, but it’s a border town, and a thriving foreign-trade zone has kept the unemployment...

if Obama was elected? " Bin Laden threatens Americans in new tape BY MAAMOUN YOUSSEF Associated Press Writer CAIRO -- Osama bin Laden threatened Americans in a new audio recording aired Wednesday, saying President Barack Obama inflamed hatred toward the U.S. by ordering Pakistan to crack down on militants in Swat Valley and block Islamic law there. Bin Laden claimed U.S. pressure led to a campaign of "killing, fighting, bombing and destruction" that prompted the exodus of a million Muslims from...

RUSH: Maybe I should say here, ladies and gentlemen, for the first day, for the first time in my life I'm proud to be an American. No, no, no, just kidding. But Sonia Sotomayor is a great story. It's a great story. Greetings to you music lovers, thrill-seekers, and conversationalists all across the fruited plain. Time for broadcast excellence hosted by me, Rush Limbaugh, the former titular head of the Republican Party. Telephone number, 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com . Jus...

Below is extensive documentation on the obsession of the ruling elite with dark occultism. To begin with, see the below very important article series which contains extensive documentation on the child sex-slave and snuff-film rings run by the globalist elite: "The Pedophocracy," Parts I through VI, by David McGowan, Center for an Informed America ( http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com ), August 2001: http://www.geocities.com/psyop911/pedo1.html http://www.geocities.com/psyop911/pedo2.html http://www...

I've started a list of milestones of Obama's first 100 days. It's far from complete and I haven't had much time to update it. Please feel free to add anything I may have forgotten or missed so far. If you can, try to keep it "short & sweet" and include the date, and I'll add it to my master list. I'd like to start sending it out via email asap. Obama's First 100 Days: December 2008 • Dec 3, 2008 -- Obama nominates New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as Commerce Secretary -- only to have him withdraw...

. currently 14:21 03/01/2009 It looks as if MI5 have not made a new year's resolution to leave me alone in 2009. They started on the mindcontrol around 12.30pm repeating the words "angielska kurwa" meaning English prostitute in reference to the English girl with the upper class voice who sucked my cock a few weeks ago in the Hammersmith restaurant, paid for by the taxpayer. Then they started repeating "cesspit of a country" attempting to refute the suggestion that the English have turned their c...