Health bill could slip into next yearSource: Politico
"Democrats have blown so many deadlines for getting health reform done this year that insiders are increasingly skeptical they can finish by year's end — and some even suggest the effort might slip to a new deadline, before the State of the Union address.

Can you imagine a better American these days than Peter Gailbraith? Standing up to all the phonies at the UN who wanted to look the other way during so many fraudulent episodes of the Afghan election?
Grading the Baucus Health PlanSource: www.brookings.edu
"Like earlier draft Senate and House bills, the '"chairman's mark" of Senator Baucus would require legal residents to be insured — through a public program, employer-sponsored plans, or individually purchased insurance.
Husain Haqqani To ISI: Let Blackwater InSource: google groups
Mr. Haqqani's assertion that deporting Americans found involved in suspicious activity and denying them entry is hurting Pakistan's image, is idiotic at best and treason at worst. PKKH requests the Pakistan Army and the Inter-Services Intelligence to take note of Mr.
Grassley Suggests Health-Care Debate Will Last Until Mid-NovemberSource: The Washington Post
Members of the Senate Finance Committee launched a final week of health-care legislation negotiations Monday afternoon, even as they searched for a glimmer of optimism that an end is in sight.
The leading Republican on the committee, Sen. Charles E.
Bill does NOT make Private Health Insurance Illegal!Source: The News is NowPublic.com
"There is talk going around that the Health Care Reform Bill makes Individual Private Health Insurance illegal. I believe that IBDeditorials.com originally posted this hooey and it has circulated around the conservative talking sites like the new gospel."
What was that? The CIA DID Mislead CongressSource: FOXNews.com
CIA Director Leon Panetta told lawmakers in a recent briefing that the intelligence agency he heads misled Congress on "significant actions" for a "number of years," a group of Democrats revealed on Wednesday.
Politics of ProvocationSource: Khaleej Times
Israel's boarding and capture in international waters of The Spirit of Humanity, an unarmed boat carrying relief supplies to the suffering people of Gaza, shows that state-sponsored piracy is a real peril today...
Changes needed in billsSource: The Dawn Media Group
The Kerry-Lugar and Berman bills are being moved simultaneously in the Senate and House of Representatives.

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Canada Sees Boom in Private Health Care BusinessSource: FOXNews.com
Private for-profit clinics are a booming business in Canada -- a country often touted as a successful example of a universal health system.
Facing long waits and substandard care, private clinics are proving that Canadians are willing to pay for treatment.

Protecting intellectual property rights is essential to innovation and economic development . However approved patent that had expired over 20years and had not developed a utility model or prototypes therefore useless, should and cannot not be enforced as prior art.
Zardari does a Mush on ObamaSource:
In January 2002, Pervez Musharraf leveraged the Taliban link to get tens of billions and immunity from from US scrutiny for Pakistan; this week Zardari did a repeat on Obama

Recommendation to control Bird flu.