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Edwards Admits Affair, Denies Love Child His
After months of speculation — and, let’s face it, lies — John Edwards has admitted to having an affair with Rielle Hunter but denies that he fathered her child. Former Democratic presidential candidate...
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Health Care Tradeoffs (Updated)
Ezra Klein wrote an interesting post Wednesday arguing that extending life through medical intervention is expensive and that tradeoffs and rationing have to be made. The only question, then, is how...
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Robin Toner Dies of Colon Cancer
Sad news: Robin Toner, who was the first woman to be the national political correspondent of The New York Times and who had a significant hand in the coverage of five presidential elections,...
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Jack Kemp Has Cancer
UPDATE 2 May 2009: Sad news. Jack Kemp Dead at 73 Jack Kemp has been diagnosed with cancer. The office of Jack Kemp says the former housing secretary, congressman and Buffalo Bills quarterback has been...
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Ginsburg Has Pancreatic Cancer Surgery
The health woes of our sole remaining female Justice continue: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery Thursday after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the court said. Ginsburg,...
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Ginsburg’s Replacement
It seems mighty churlish to be speculating about replacements for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg only a day after her surgery for pancreatic cancer but such is punditry. Jeffrey Toobin gets us started...
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Schwarzenegger: Put Aside Ideology
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was on ABC’s “This Week” this morning and two quotes in particular are garnering some attention. Taegan Goddard awarded “Quote of the Day” honors to this one:...
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Bunning: Ginsburg Likely Dead Soon
U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning guessed that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would likely be dead from pancreatic cancer within nine months. During a wide-ranging 30-minute speech on Saturday at the...
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I’ve argued in the past that health care outcomes like infant mortality and life expectancies are not really very good measures of a country’s health care services since such outcomes are also a...
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Farah Fawcett Dead at 62
Breaking: Actress Farrah Fawcett dies at 62, according to AP CNN (Farrah Fawcett, sex symbol and actress, dies): Farrah Fawcett, the blonde-maned actress whose best-selling poster and “Charlie’s...
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‘World’s Oldest Mother’ Dead at 69
Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, who made news three years ago when she gave birth to twins at the age of 66, has died. [S]he had been diagnosed with cancer shortly after giving birth. In 2007, Ms...
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Jeff Jarvis Has Cancer: Robots Attack
Longtime blogosphere stalwart Jeff Jarvis has announced that he has prostate cancer. Thankfully, they caught it early and he’s got access to the most advanced treatment options. I’m opting for robotic...
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Manly Thoughts
What you’ve missed the past week if you’re not reading Manzine: Features: Mad About Mad Men (James Joyner) – “Mad Men” is the hottest show on TV, having somehow captured the zeitgeist with its...
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Mary Jo Kopechne
In my early morning Teddy Kennedy Dead at 77 media roundup post, I observed, “That the Chappaquiddick scandal didn’t make the first several paragraphs — or even first page — of several of these obits...
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Obama Health Exam Under Attack
President Obama is setting a bad example for the country by getting expensive, unnecessary medical tests, at least two critics charge. NPR’s Scott Hensley reports: For starters, take the whiz-bang CT...
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