Author: JimF

What do you call a repeated lie?

The truth. When you tell a lie over and over and over …. “Job Killers” in the News: Allegations without Verification “…there’s a simple rule: You say it again, and you say it again, and you...

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Christmas comes early at NASA

The Washington Post informs us today that a US intelligence agency had two unused telescopes with better optics than the Hubble just sitting in storage and has given them to NASA. The secretive government agency that flies spy...

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Quitting a job to keep health ins.

Since we in the USA link health care with employment, this is the kind of situation some people find themselves in. I went by my old school to see friends the day after the kids were gone for the summer and was talking with one...

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Saving Social Security via the Doughnut Hole

And I thought the doughnut hole was just a way to add to the insurance and drug companies’ bottom lines. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/04/17/150823790/seniors-in-medicare-doughnut-hole-more-likely-t...

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But we knew this already. Didn’t we?

FACT CHECK: More US drilling didn’t drop gas price By JACK GILLUM, Associated Press It’s the political cure-all for high gas prices: Drill here, drill now. But more U.S. drilling has not changed how deeply the gas...

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