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Blogs of the Right:
Blogs of the Middle & More
May 12, 2009
May 12, 2009The reports on the supposed problems of Social Security based on the Social Security Administration's report today are "totally misplaced," asserts former U.S. House Aging Committee Director Bob Weiner. Full release.
Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and a Democratic constituent in her Florida district are enthusiastically sharing their prescription for health care reform in America in a personal letter to every member of the Senate. Full release.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congressman Rush Holt of New Jersey returned today from an official visit abroad that began Thursday in Jordan and continued on to Qatar, Iraq and the United Kingdom. Full release.
Reecon Advisors, Inc., an independent real estate economics and information company, today launched Real Estate Economy Watch (realestateconomywatch.com), a new Web site providing insight and intelligence on the residential real estate economy. Full release.
In an April survey conducted by the Michigan Business and Professional Association (MBPA) and its sister association, the Michigan Food and Beverage Association (MFBA), responses from one-third of a significant sample of small businesses across the state said they had considered cancelling their company's health care insurance, but only 5 percent actually did so. Full release.
The following statement regarding the release of Roxana Saberi from an Iranian prison is from Klara Moradkhan, the cousin of Silva Harotonian, a young Iranian woman of Armenian descent jailed in Iran since June 2008 on similar political charges. Full release.
PATH and WaterAid America released two new reports today that show that the international aid community and developing-country governments are not responding to clear evidence on child mortality by targeting resources where the disease burden is greatest. Diarrheal disease, a leading killer of children under age five worldwide, is responsible for the deaths of nearly 1.6 million children annually, yet it receives very little attention from both policymakers and the public. During the 1980s and 1990s, diarrheal disease mortality rates were cut by nearly 50 percent, made possible by wide availability and implementation of lifesaving prevention and treatment interventions. Full release.
John Demjanjuk, a former Nazi death camp guard and a resident of Seven Hills, Ohio, has been removed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Germany, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and ICE Acting Assistant Secretary John P. Torres announced today. Demjanjuk was removed through a court order of removal obtained by the Department of Justice. On March 10, 2009, a German judge issued an order directing that Demjanjuk, 89, be arrested on suspicion of assisting in the murder of at least 29,000 Jews at the Sobibor extermination center in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. In addition to serving at Sobibor, Demjanjuk served the SS as an armed guard of civilian prisoners in Germany at the Nazi-operated Flossenburg Concentration Camp in Germany and at Majdanek concentration camp and the Trawniki training and forced labor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Full release.