With at least one hit in each of Taylor's five games, Otis hit .625 and slugged at 1.500 in 16 at-bats. Between RBIs and runs scored, he accounted for 17 of Taylor's 42 runs scored during the week.
Otis hit home runs in three out of five games last week, including a blast that put Taylor up 4-1 against defending Big Ten champion Indiana
JIM LEHRER: Senator, as you know -- much has been made of this -- that, through history, recent history in particular, Republicans have opposed things like Social Security, Medicare, even civil rights legislation, but then, once they lost, they took some deep breaths and moved on, and then finally ended up embracing many of these major changes in -- in laws and in the way we do business here.
Is that going to happen with health care reform?
SEN. JON KYL: Jim, could I argue a little with the premise of your question?
JIM LEHRER: All right. OK. Sure.
SEN. JON KYL: The civil rights legislation was pushed by Republicans, as you will recall. It was the Southern Democrats who filibustered it, who fought against it.
The last...
JIM LEHRER: Excuse me. I was just thinking specifically of Senator Barry Goldwater, a colleague of yours in -- in -- from Arizona, who did oppose -- I'm not saying all Republicans. I didn't mean to suggest all Republicans.
The only thing bi-partisan about the health-care bill was the opposition to it, and no matter how many times people on the Left, like Jim Lehrer, try to paint Republicans as racists for opposing Obama, facts get in their way (not that they care).
We should stop the Department of Energy's effort to destroy the one tonne of uranium-233 that we already have. They don't think that that uranium-233 has any value to their mission and are going to spend $500M to mix it with uranium-238 and throw it away in the desert. That's a bad idea. We're going to need that one tonne and a whole lot more.The next step is to get going on the research and development of the liquid-fluoride thorium reactor. This is the machine that can burn thorium as a fuel and only needs about a tonne of U-233 or other fissile material to start it up. The US hasn't invested any money to develop LFTR since 1974, the year I was born. Other countries are making investments. We need to get going before we get completely left behind on something that we invented.
We are preparing to destroy a very rare ton of U-233 -- a huge source of safe, clean energy. We're going to chemically destroy it and bury it in the desert.
You have reaped a whirlwind by subverting a democracy. Now you must deal with it. The Democratic Party is no longer "progressive" or "liberal." It is reactionary. And you and your cohorts have forever defined yourselves as reactionary politicians.
Violence is to be condemned, but so is the desecration of a great democracy.
Exactly. I could hardly believe it this weekend when the Sunday shows twisted around 180 degrees and said the passage of this bill over the will of the public would be a winner in November. The people in Washington D.C. are insane, on both the Right and the Left and they need to be voted out of office ASAP.
Dec. 31, 2013. That's when the individual mandate will go into effect. If ObamaCare hasn't been repealed by Congress or nullified in court by then, its opponents would be justified in urging Americans to refuse to buy coverage or pay fines and dare authorities to come after them.By some estimates, Uncle Sam will need to hire an additional 17,000 IRS agents or so just to enforce the coverage mandate. But even if a few million Americans simultaneously refuse to abide by it, they could easily overwhelm the system. Self-rule or swaraj, Gandhi said, requires a collective understanding of the immense capacity of citizens to "regulate and control" the coercive apparatus of the state through mass nonviolent resistance.
We'll see how the courts rule and proceed from there.
2010
Coverage
Subsidies begin for small businesses to provide coverage to employees.
Insurance companies barred from denying coverage to children with pre-existing illness.
Children permitted to stay on their parents' insurance policies until their 26th birthday.
2011
Coverage
Set up long-term care program under which people pay premiums into system for at least five years and become eligible for support payments if they need assistance in daily living.
Taxes and fees
Drug makers face annual fee of $2.5 billion (rises in subsequent years).
2013
Taxes and fees
New Medicare taxes on individuals earning more than $200,000 a year and couples filing jointly earning more than $250,000 a year.
Tax on wages rises to 2.35% from 1.45%.
New 3.8% tax on unearned income such as dividends and interest.
Excise tax of 2.9% imposed on sale of medical devices.
Cost control
Medicare pilot program begins to test bundled payments for care, in a bid to pay for quality rather than quantity of services.
2014
Coverage
Create exchanges where people without employer coverage, as well as small businesses, can shop for health coverage. Insurance companies barred from denying coverage to anyone with pre-existing illness.
Requirement begins for most people to have health insurance. Subsidies begin for lower and middle-income people. People at 133% of federal poverty level pay maximum of 3% of income for coverage. People at 400% of poverty level pay up to 9.5% of income. (Poverty level currently is about $22,000 for a family of four.)
Medicaid, the federal-state program for the poor, expands to all Americans with income up to 133% of federal poverty level.
Subsidies for small businesses to provide coverage increase. Businesses with 10 or fewer employees and average annual wages of less than $25,000 receive tax credit of up to 50% of employer's contribution. Tax credits phase out for larger businesses.
Taxes and fees
Employers with more than 50 employees that don't provide affordable coverage must pay a fine if employees receive tax credits to buy insurance. Fine is up to $3,000 per employee, excluding first 30 employees.
Insurance industry must pay annual fee of $8 billion (rises in subsequent years).
Cost control
Independent Medicare board must begin to submit recommendations to curb Medicare spending, if costs are rising faster than inflation.
2016
Taxes and fees
Penalty for those who don't carry coverage rises to 2.5% of taxable income or $695, whichever is greater.
2017
Coverage
Businesses with more than 100 employees can buy coverage on insurance exchanges, if state permits it.
2018
Taxes and fees
Excise tax of 40% imposed on health plans valued at more than $10,200 for individual coverage and $27,500 for family coverage.
—Sources: House bill; Kaiser Family Foundation
Joe Donnelly (IN-02)
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consideration of inland activities would be necessary to account for the significant interaction between upstream activities and ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes uses and ecosystem health.
In Britain, Gordon Brown does not go to his local NHS clinic to get substandard medical care, nor does he go to the scandalously dirty hospitals in the Midlands. In Brussels, the European Union bureaucrats would just sneer at medical care for ordinary folks. They get nothing but the best. That hypocrisy is all over the American ruling left as it is emerging today
"I never thought I would see a case where somebody dies and somebody doesn't go to prison," Judge Don Daniel told Lynch. "I don't believe putting you in prison would accomplish anything for anybody."
The directory of the original "Karate Kid (1984)" (John Avildsen) was also the director of the original "Rocky (1976)." I read a nice article once about how Avildsen's brilliance showed in how he made the "Karate Kid" the exact opposite of "Rocky."
The hero is young, not old; quick witted, not mentally slow; the girlfriend is rich and pretty, not poor and plain; she's outgoing, not withdrawn; the Karate Kid's teacher is calm and not at all ambitious, while Rocky's manager is washed up and looking for the big win; the Kid's training scenes are set to light music and all shot among nature, while Rocky's theme was all big horns and shot on the docks and in the city.
Opposite setups, but both great fight movies. I wonder if the new one (with Will Smith's son Jaden as the Kid and Jacky Chan as the teacher) can live up to the old.
Update: (I found the article I refer to above): At 25, "The Karate Kid" still packs a punch
Though Hostettler performs better in the poll, many GOPers are lining up behind Coats. House GOP Conf. Chair Mike Pence, who passed on a SEN bid, has endorsed Coats.
