By Steven Jonas MD, MPH on 12.04.12
Remember the old Fram oil filter TV ad, “Pay me now, or pay me later?” That is if you bought a new Fram oil filter from the mechanic holding it up for you to see for $4.00 (that’s how long ago that ad appeared[!]), you would not be paying the mechanic a rather larger bill later for the repairs your engine would need due to driving around with dirty oil....
Read MoreBy Loren Adams, December 2, 2012
It is 2012’s “October Surprise,” an unwelcome “Act of God.”
One of history’s largest storms crashes the mid-Atlantic coast preceding the
election just two days before Halloween, scaring the hell out of fearless New
Jersey and downstate New York The 900-mile “frankenstorm”
By Conn Hallinan - 12.02.12
Over the next four years the U.S. will face a number of foreign policy issues, most of them regional, some of them global. Dispatches From The Edge will try to outline and analyze them, starting with the Middle East.
Syria
The most immediate problem in the region is the on-going civil war in Syria, a conflict with... Read MoreBy Michael Faulkner - 11.18.12
Barack Obama was re-elected to the presidency with 50.5 per cent of the popular vote and 303 of the electoral college votes, on a turn-out of about 60 per cent. His re-election has been welcomed throughout Europe, including in Britain. According to some estimates, if the rest of the world had been able to...
Read MoreBy Loren Adams - 11.18.12
How interesting that millions of Americans are in total denial of Mitt Romney’s defeat. But there’s reason for such. FOX and rightwing pollsters, as per norm, awarded Romney the edge leading up to November 6. In fact, FOX’s Dick Morris predicted a Republican landslide – in direct contradiction to “mainstream media” data gurus and Nate Silver’s...
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