It's Not the Principle, It's the Party

Losing a loved one under any circumstances is never easy, but when their death could have been prevented through another party's actions or negligence, it can feel especially unjust.

Last month when the GOP got their first honest-to-God chance to repeal the Affordable Care Act (which they nicknamed “Obamacare”), their failure to follow through despite having majorities in both houses of Congress and a Republican president merely illuminated what most of us have suspected all along, which is that their years of bluster have been a steaming pile of politics and that there's very little in the way of governing going on. The GOP healthcare zombie seems once again to be poking its withered fingers out of the legislative grave, though, this time with a new “conservative” solution to the problem of expensive premiums: high risk pools.

The lawsuit claims that Carnegie Mellon administrators failed to take action after an architecture professor used a student's project, which incorporated Orthodox Jewish elements into its design, as an excuse to launch into an anti-Israel tirade and disseminate purportedly antisemitic propaganda.

Some people have a high tolerance for alcohol and they may appear to be sober. At least at first.

The conclusions are tenuous, but Dr. David Wu says it should give e-cigarette aficionados reason to pause and ponder.

An attorney for "Nirvana baby" Spencer Elden said the lawsuit will be re-filed within the coming weeks.

Florida doctor is charged with insurance fraud.

A recent IIHS study estimates that injury claims could be reduced by as much as 35 percent by implementing the technology. A comparative study of Volvo insurance claims found that property damage claims involving vehicles with automatic-braking systems were 15 percent lower than vehicles without the systems. IIHS president Adam Lund said about automatic-braking systems, “Most crashes involve driver error. This technology can compensate for the mistakes every driver makes because the systems are always on alert.”