According to today's Los Angeles Times : The Department of Managed Health Care declines to require carriers to pay for applied behavior analysis…
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Read moreI think I have a pretty good idea about who is going to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism this year. That would be Gene Weingarten, whose story a…
Read moreI see that the Vatican has endorsed the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a 9-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being rap…
Read moreAs many readers know, the most astute and principled commentator on the "war on terror" efforts of both the Bush and Obama adminstrations, …
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Read moreThis is a short animated film, called " Closed Zone ," by Yoni Goodman , director of animation for Ari Folman's "Waltz with Bash…
Read moreFrom time to time, we've had discussions on this blog's Comments section about whether or not President Barack Obama should be directly criti…
Read moreA report by the Israeli group Peace Now , based on Israeli government documents, concludes that the Ministry of Construction and Housing is planning…
Read moreAs the death toll of U.S. soldiers in Iraq falls, it is rising among GI's serving in Afghanistan (and also among Afghan civilians.) But the names…
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