Its called ‘‘evidence-based home visits...’’

According to an Obamacare provision millions of Americans will be targeted.

The Health and Human Services’ website states that your family will be targeted if you fall under the ‘‘high-risk” categories below:

• Families where mom is not yet 21.
• Families where someone is a tobacco user.
• Families where children have low student achievement, developmental delays, or disabilities.^[1]
• Families with individuals who are serving or formerly served in the armed forces, including such families that have members of the armed forces who have had multiple deployments outside the United States.

‘‘...the new statute, by its own definition, has no... limitation.  Intervention may be with any family for any reason.  It may also result in the child or children being required to go to certain schools or tak[e] certain medications and vaccines and even having more limited – or no – interaction with [their] parents.’’

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Ann Coulter:  Yes we should revitalize the Republican Party.  I’ll tell you who to throw out – Any Republicans who support amnesty.  You have a clear list Tea Partiers...

Sean Hannity:   Oh, so is the love affair with Chris Christie over?

Ann Coulter:   Sadly, over amnesty.  And, by the way, that’s when the love affair ended with George Bush.

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...A city’s number [one] priority should be to keep the city a place people want to live.  At bottom this means decent public safety [police and fire, mostly...], decent transportation [roads, signals], and decent schools; at a ‘price point’ [total taxation] that the average... taxpaying citizen finds reasonable.  Anything else... is basically fluff.

People living in Seattle can no longer enjoy a brown bag lunch after city bureaucrats banned the term from official use for being racist

A memo sent out from the Office of Civil Rights also banned the word ‘citizen’, claiming it could lead to people feeling excluded...

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... while eliminating debit cards would be a drastic move by the banks, you would more likely see the end of things like ‘‘free’’ checking.

The reason for this is ‘‘interchange fees’’.  Or, more precisely, price controls on interchange fees.  Interchange fees are the fees banks charge retailers for processing the use of debit cards.  The interchange fee used to be about 1.35% of the amount purchased at the retailer.  This enabled banks to cover the costs of debit cards and offer other perks such as ‘‘free’’ checking.

Because the price of the interchange fee may soon be set at .03-.06 cents per transaction, banks have to figure out another way to cover their costs.  Say welcome back to fees for checking.

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Investors Business Daily:

Media Can’t Ignore New Developments In IRS Scandal

Sure they can.  This morning, while I was getting ready to head off to work, the TV was on to the local morning news... around the time that subjects of national interest came up... There was something about Trayvon, that NSA guy at some hacker’s gathering in Las Vegas, and something about ambulance-chasers illegally soliciting Asiana crash victims.

But the IRS?  Zippo.

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Karl Bode recently noted the large number of one star reviews on Crawford's book that exhibit a pretty clear pattern: a ‘‘folksy’’ tone from someone in an ‘‘ordinary’’ job, living in a ‘‘rural’’ location (they all mention a rural location) absolutely trashing Crawford's book, all using talking points that the big telco lobbyists have been handing out.

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Delaware state officials have told Congress that they likely destroyed the computer records that would show when and how often they accessed Christine O’Donnell’s personal [federal] tax records.

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