LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) – British primary care doctors are wasting hundreds of millions of pounds a year by prescribing heavily promoted and pricey branded medicines rather than cheaper generics, a parliamentary committee said on Thursday.The critical report from the Committee of Public Accounts adds to the growing pressure on the pharmaceuticals industry across Europe, [...]

Michigan’s unemployment rate in 2007 hit its highest level in 14 years, losing a total of 90,000 jobs as the state draws near to what everyone hopes is the bottom of a very deep hole.Worse than jobs disappearing is the fact that tens of thousands of residents are, too. A total of 40,000 people vanished [...]

HINSDALE, Illinois (Reuters) – A house in this wealthy Chicago suburb is far beyond the reach of most Americans.Unfortunately, Hinsdale may also now be too expensive for some of the people who already live here.“There is a section of the population here that over-extended themselves to buy here and then keep up the facade of [...]

Sex in restroom stalls is private, ACLU saysCivil liberties group goes to bat for Sen. Craig
Interesting….
ST. PAUL, Minnesota – In a legal effort to help a U.S. senator, the American Civil Liberties Union is arguing that people who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy.Republican Senator Larry Craig is asking the Minnesota [...]

A recent article by Breitbart has a funny article stating that the Michigan GOP congratulated the wrong candidate after the election! Instead of congratulating Romney, they congratulated McCain!
Read about it at Breitbart.

With just one loss under her belt, speculation seems to be running rampant with rumors of Hillary dropping out of the race. While I think it is way to early in the game to even consider her dropping out, news stories abound online. I have provided the links below.
Looking at the most recent Rasmussen polls, [...]

New concerns over mercury hazards split green activists on switch to CFLs

WASHINGTON – Al Gore says switching from incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescents can help save the planet from global warming.California, Canada and the European Union are so persuaded he’s right, the three governments are in the process of banning the sale of [...]

Less than a month after the U.S. Congress passed an energy bill banning the incandescent light bulb by 2014, the UK Environment Agency issued guidelines calling for evacuation of any room where an energy-saving compact fluorescent light bulb is broken, releasing toxic mercury.The warning comes a month before the British government begins its phase-out of [...]

New Hampshire debate shows a wide open Republican race
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney clashed with Mike Huckabee on foreign policy and John McCain on immigration Saturday night in a high-stakes presidential campaign debate three days before the New Hampshire primary.“It’s not amnesty,” McCain shot back after Romney criticized his plan for overhauling [...]

CONCORD, N.H. – John Edwards has a simple philosophy when it comes to fine-tuning his message for New Hampshire: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.Edwards regaled a crowd of more than 200 this morning with indictments of corporate greed and lobbyists’ grip on Washington D.C., along with pledges to fight for universal health care, [...]