ABC News: Study: Minn. Tops U.S. in Health Coverage
ABC News: Study: Minn. Tops U.S. in Health Coverage: "WASHINGTON Apr 27, 2005 — Minnesota has the
lowest percentage of adults without health insurance of any state and
Texas has the highest, according to a study released Wednesday."

The study uses data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2003. States with the highest rate of uninsured adults were: Texas, 30.7 percent; Louisiana, 26.4; and New Mexico, 26 percent.

Those were the same states with the highest percentages of uninsured adults with jobs: Texas, 26.6 percent; Louisiana, 22.6 percent; and New Mexico, 22.6 percent.

Same old story... Texas in training to become third world country, Minnesota leading the US toward civilization.

Why exactly do we keep electing Southern Politicians when their region is hands down the most screwed up in the country.
- posted by Don Quijote @ 10:00 AM

 
Clinton impeachment was retaliation for Nixon, says retiring congressman
Google Cache:
Google Cache: WLS ABC7 Chicago - Clinton impeachment was retaliation for Nixon, says retiring congressman

Same story different headline:
Rep. Hyde reflects on 30 years of office

"Was this pay back?" asked Andy Shaw.

"I can't say it wasn't. But I also thought that the Republican Party should stand for something, and if we walked away from this, no matter how difficult, we could be accused of shirking our duty," said Hyde.

The list of stories the MSM have produced refering to the above Hide Statement:

Google Search: Hyde Clinton payback: "Hyde: Clinton Impeachment Retaliation for Nixon"


Our fine media at work!
- posted by Don Quijote @ 7:49 AM

 
Iraqi Suspect Says U.S. Troops Took Mother Hostage
International News Article | Reuters.com:

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi apparently suspected by U.S. troops of
taking part in attacks in Baghdad accused U.S. forces on Tuesday of
taking his mother and sister hostage to pressure him and his brothers
into surrendering for questioning.

Gee, I wonder why they don't like us.

UPDATE:

Reuters |U.S. Says Detained Iraqi Women Were Not Held Hostage

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Friday two Iraqi women detained for six days had been held on suspicion of complicity in insurgent attacks, not used as hostages to pressure fugitive male relatives to surrender.

"U.S. forces do not take hostages, nor do we participate in blackmail activities," Lieutenant Colonel Clifford Kent, spokesman for the 3rd Infantry Division, said in a statement.

The women, 60-year-old Salima al-Batawi and her daughter Aliya, were arrested by U.S. troops and Iraqi police last Saturday and were released by U.S. forces Thursday.

"We strongly believed they had both direct and indirect knowledge of the planning and coordination of attacks against Iraqi security forces and coalition forces," Kent said.

"Sources told us the women were present during meetings to plan attacks against coalition forces and that they had knowledge of terror cell leaders and the location of weapons caches in the area."

The two women told Reuters Friday that soldiers had informed them they would be detained until they revealed the whereabouts of male relative suspected of insurgent attacks, or until the wanted male relatives turned themselves in.

Arkan Mukhlif al-Batawi, the son of Salima and brother of Aliya, told Reuters Tuesday that the women were being held to pressure him and his brothers Muhammad and Saddam to surrender.

- posted by Don Quijote @ 8:22 AM