Big times in health care: "If we could find another Health Midwest, we would obviously go for that big time." Jack Bovender, Jr., CEO of HCA, the largest for profit hospital owner in the US after a $1.13 billion acquisition (bringing the total M&A amount recently spent by Frist family-founded HCA to over $20 billion)... It's enough to make you...

Sending the boys home... Australian MP is making good on a promise to bring his nation's soldiers home from Iraq now. You see, it is possible: just send a plane...
Viva la Swiss! Remember those xenophobic, send us your money but not your weary, fondue lovers? They just voted down an initiative that would put up obstacles for immigrants to be granted coveted Swiss citizenship... Tell Lou Dobbs' vacation planner to scratch the Alps...

HuntsvilleTX death row is up and working again; executions go forward after nine-month hiatus; for scared-to-death operators of town's DeathRowMuseum a sigh of relief...

There are now 660,000 foreclosed homes owned by lenders and investors... no relief in sight.

Those litigious dems... Will Hillary file a lawsuit re: Michigan, Florida delegates? Dems filed 24 lawsuits in 18 states in 12 weeks to keep Ralph Nader of the ballot in 2004... By the way, where's the blogger ink on Murdoch getting behind Obama. Shades of Tony Blair?