Month: June 2005

Health Care Spending Increases 8.2% in 2004

[From the diaries by susanhu.] A new report titled Tracking Health Care Costs: Declining Growth Trend Pauses In 2004 highlights that while medical costs have slowed their increases, these increases are still far faster than...

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Wednesday FBC Happy Hour!!!

Happy Humpday Tribbers!  The coffee’s on, the bacon’s a-fryin’ and the café is open for business.  Eggs Benedict and Chocolate Banana Pancakes (a special request from the Abbottette) are the...

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Research Tools: Search Engines

One of the many functions that blog communities like Daily Kos and Booman Tribune have evolved to serve is that of research community. I thought a list of research resources would be a good idea. I looked for other diaries and...

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The Democrats and Iraq

Charles Babington and Dan Balz of the Washington Post write up the current poop on the Democrats’ strategy on Iraq: “There is rising concern that everything seems to be going the wrong way,” Sen. Dianne...

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