A fourth hospital in two years is shutting down in Georgia because of payment cuts imposed by Obamacare.
Finding out what’s in it: A fourth hospital in two years is shutting down in Georgia because of payment cuts imposed by Obamacare.
Year: 2014
University of South Carolina administrators refuse to teach the Constitution as required by state stature because they find it “inconvenient.”
The law is such an inconvenient thing: University of South Carolina administrators refuse to teach the Constitution, as required by state stature, because they find it “inconvenient.”
State statutes maintain that all students at a South Carolina public school must spend a certain amount of time studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers. Failure to abide by the statute is grounds for the removal of the head of the public institution–in this case, President Pastides. “Willful neglect or failure on the part of any public school superintendent, principal or teacher or the president, teacher or other officer of any high school, normal school, university or college to observe and carry out the requirements [of the statute] shall be sufficient cause for the dismissal or removal of such person from his position,” according to South Carolina law.
The USC administrators say the statute is inconvenient to enforce, however, since it would disrupt the university’s current course requirements.
It might inconvenient, and the law itself might be foolish, but it isn’t up the administrators to decide this. They should be fired.
Communism fails again, and the Western intellectual elite puts blinders on so they don’t have to see it.
Communism fails again, and the Western intellectual elite puts blinders on so they don’t have to see it.
Communism and top-down state control of human activity has always failed in the past, continues to fail in the present, and will always fail in the future — no matter how good or sincere the intentions might be. If you want to make life better for people, give them freedom and then try to persuade them to do the right thing. Applying force simply does not work.
Is Yutu alive or dead? Only the Chinese know for sure.
Is Yutu alive or dead? Only the Chinese know for sure.
The Russian head of the Baikonur spaceport has resigned.
The Russian head of the Baikonur spaceport has resigned.
It appears that this is part of the continuing shake-up in Russia’s space operations as a result of its recent launch failures.
Kate Upton and Sports Illustrated have completed a swimsuit photo shoot on the vomit comet.
The competition heats up: Kate Upton and Sports Illustrated have completed a swimsuit photo shoot on the vomit comet.
More here, with pictures.
Cygnus has departed ISS after successfully bring its cargo to the station.
Cygnus has departed ISS after successfully bring its cargo to the station.
NOAA’s official prediction for this winter was worse than monkeys working on typewriters.
The uncertainty of science: NOAA’s official prediction for this winter was as bad as monkeys working on typewriters.
“Not one of our better forecasts,” admits Mike Halpert, the Climate Prediction Center’s acting director. The center grades itself on what it calls the Heidke skill score, which ranges from 100 (perfection) to -50 (monkeys throwing darts would have done better). October’s forecast for the three-month period of November through January came in at -22. Truth be told, the September prediction for October-December was slightly worse, at -23. The main cause in both cases was the same: Underestimating the mammoth December cold wave, which brought snow to Dallas and chilled partiers in Times Square on New Year’s Eve.
But don’t worry. These guys know exactly what’s going to happen to the climate in a hundred years.
Three relatively large near Earth asteroids have just been discovered.
Chicken Little report: In October of last year three relatively large near Earth asteroids were discovered unexpectedly.
Read the report, which is the second notice at the link. I missed it at the time. Each of these new discoveries was interesting and surprising. Key quote: “The delayed discovery of 2013 US10 is a bit harder to explain, since current population models suggest that almost all near-Earth asteroids of this size and orbit should have already been found.” Apparently not.
In related news, a several hundred foot wide asteroid zipped past the Earth this evening.
A Boston hospital kidnaps a man’s daughter and then slaps a gag order on him to try to prevent him from talking about it.
A Boston hospital kidnaps a family’s daughter and then slaps a gag order on them to try to prevent them from talking about it.
The Boston hospital, to which the girl was transferred on the advice of her original doctors in Connecticut, disagreed with the treatment and then forced their decisions on the family to the point of denying them access to their daughter. The father is now going public because he fears if she doesn’t get the right treatment “she is going to die.”
Though the story makes no mention of it, we must remember that Massachusetts is the land of Romneycare, where the government has stepped in to run the medical world. Somehow, I strongly suspect that fact plays a part in this story, if only as a cultural factor.
Police shoot and kill an 80-year-old man in his own bed.
Police state: Police shoot and kill an 80-year-old man in his own bed.
They were looking for drugs, which they did not find. They also apparently lied in their police report about what happened.
Is Google planning to launch a constellation of 1600 satellites?
The competition heats up: Is Google planning to launch a constellation of 1600 satellites?