The New England Journal of Medicine published a shocking report that states that HIV has gotten beyond out of control in the United States. Certain populations in America have higher rates of HIV infections than in Africa, the distinguished medical magazine claims.
According to the NEJM, more than 1 in 30 adults in Washington, D.C., are HIV-infected, which is a greater percentage than what’s reported in the African countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria or Rwanda.
ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer 11:15 AM PDT, August 6, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is ordering up three Gulfstream jets to fly Pentagon and other top government officials — including members of Congress — around the globe in conditions far cushier than coach class.
By ALEXANDER BURNS
FOX News host Glenn Beck dialed up his rhetoric against President Obama Tuesday, branding the president a "racist" in an appearance on the morning show "Fox and Friends."
Beck charged that the president's handling of the controversy over the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. displayed a "deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture."
"I'm not saying he doesn't like white people, I'm saying he has a problem," Beck said. "This guy is, I believe, a racist."
By Chris Cillizza
Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 28, 2009; 3:10 PM
One.
That's the number of Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee who voted for the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court today. (Thanks to C-SPAN for the video above.)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A key U.S. Senate committee will hold a hearing on the military's controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays and lesbians, according to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat.
The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold the hearing in the fall, she said in a written announcement.
A committee spokeswoman confirmed that there will be hearings but that no specific legislation is under consideration.
President Barack Obama has been busy attempting to sell his government takeover of the health care citizen. In doing so, he contines to be, shall we say, a bit lax with the facts. Philip Klein has pointed to the president's, er, "mistakes." Other publications are picking up the trail.
By Dan Eggen A group of veteran conservative activists have added their voices to the fight against President Obama's health-care reform efforts, writing in a memo released today that Democratic plans will "bankrupt the country and exacerbate unemployment during these difficult times."
The brief, single-page memo is the latest in a series of talking-points documents to emerge as part of the GOP's intensifying attacks on proposed reforms to the health-care system, which many conservatives have begun referring to derisively as "Obamacare."
There has been a lot of debate recently about a healthcare plan that asks the wealthiest 1% of Americans to help finance healthcare reform for the 20% of Americans least able to afford it.
