Healthcare Like the US Postal Service? (ABC News)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) compared his proposed health care reform to the relationship between the US Postal Service and private delivery companies. Apparently, this was supposed to be a POSITIVE analogy: “The Postal Service may not be perfect, but the public option is there, and the private companies, …

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Worst rash of post-poll strife kills 5 (The Statesman)

; Statesman News Service DURGAPUR/TAMLUK/BEHRAMPORE/KOLKATA, 15 JUNE: In one of the worst days of post-poll violence in the state, a CPI-M karmadhyaksha of Burdwan Zilla Parishad was shot dead in Mongalkote this morning, while a CPI-M party office and an abandoned police outpost were torched and the house of a …

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