GAO Report: PhRMA Failing American Public
The GOA has released a report on the result of the pharmaceutical industry's increase in R&D Spending. "The results of this analysis indicate that the reported increases in research and development...
View ArticleMedicare Part D- Screwing the Corner Drug Store Again
Last year, as most of you know, was a disaster for local independent pharmacies, due to delayed and decreased payments. Well, it's been quiet this year in the press, but the same issues are popping up...
View ArticleKatherine Harris: The Thing That Wouldn't Leave
I'm not sure how many of you will remember that skit from an ancient Saturday Night Live. Our Favorite Dark Haired Polk County Princess just doesn't get it. She LOST!
View ArticleBush to Corner Drug Stores-"Go Bankrupt"
Do you have a neighborhood pharmacy where you get your prescriptions filled? Do you have a nice but very busy pharmacist who is there with information on your prescription and with advice on minor...
View ArticleIf this is what it means to be a Libertarian..
I want no business in our party recruiting them. This type of immature fallacious reasoning is why I think that Libertarianism is a morally and operationally bankrupt concept. While this writer is not...
View ArticleOh those rascally College Republicans!
Ever wonder where the 33% come from? Here's where part of the are from, from the University of Iowa College Republicans. And they are so funny A student-organized capture-the-flag game pitting...
View ArticleFrustration and the long run.
Yes, it's been a frustrating couple of weeks. We did not get the result that we wanted on the Iraq funding bill. But I've got no sympathy for those who are throwing a fit and walking away from the...
View Article144 Yrs ago on July 2nd, the Nation was saved. Yesterday, it was not. 20th...
144 years ago, in the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, a college professor and a group of Maine lumberjacks and fisherman prevented the right flank of the Union Army from being turned. This...
View ArticleHillary...another out of touch DC'er.
Hillary Clinton let down her guard at Yearly Kos to show what she really is... She's stuck in the early 90's mentality of the DLC. Big Shock there!Let's fact it, she's ANOTHER out of touch Beltway Big...
View ArticleChicken-hawks at the Iowa State Fair
The Iowa State fair is visited by over 1,000,000 people each mid-August in Des Moines, Iowa. As this is a pre-election year, the candidates and parties usually have a prescence, but it was muted this...
View ArticleI shook John Edwards' hand tonight.
John Edwards and his wife have been very busy in Iowa this week. Today Elizabeth had a reading from her book at the University. Full house, I hear. John stopped at a local landmark- Hamburg Inn #2...
View ArticleAnother Hate Merchant Meets His Maker- D James Kennedy
This won't be a long diary, but another of the first wave of Mega-church hate peddlers has died. D James D Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida died early this morning....
View ArticlePope Panzer blames Atheism for "Greatest forms of cruelty and violations of...
Talk about projection! This is the type of ridiculous crap that makes bigotry against atheism one of the most commonly accepted prejudices of our time.
View ArticleAnother big mouth lard ass Chicken-Hawk-eye
The University of Iowa, in general, is a very liberal place. It's a great place to be a liberal, but once in a great while, one of the local College Republicans raises their head and gets some press.
View ArticleIA-CD 3 Dem Primary- Boswell attacks Fallon as ineffective, confrontational.
Until this session, Blue Dog Leonard Boswell voted with his party less than 75% of the time. Now that he's in the majority, and being pushed by progressive Ed Fallon, he's voting with the Democrats in...
View ArticlePhRMA bought academic researchers lying to us.
While this is no suprise to those of us who work in or near academic medicine, the prestigious JAMA is bringing attention to 2 particulary aggregious examples of PhRMA's shenanigans with research
View ArticleHillary Clinton, meet Pyrrhus of Epirus
Last night, Hillary Clinton won the Pennsylvania Primary. Senator Clinton seems to be specializing in the type of victories that General Pyrrhus was famous for.
View ArticleSenator Clinton continues to channel General Pyrrhus
Last night, Hillary Clinton "won" the Indiana Primary. Senator Clinton still seems to be enjoying the type of victories that General Pyrrhus was famous for.
View ArticleMay, 2016 Breaking! HRC still fighting for 2008 nomination!!!
Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed to fight on for seating the Michigan and Florida delegates for the 2008 Democratic convention!
View ArticleMy Long Time Republican Mom "How many more kids ..."
My parents visited my family here in Iowa City this weekend for my older son's graduation from high school. A McCain commercial came on the 10PM news. What she said after the commercial stunned me..
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