Everything could change minute by minute, but right now there are serious questions...  The face photo of a dead bin Laden that has been circulating on British media online sites is a fake. That has been confirmed by The Guardian site. It's a composite of an old bin Laden photo and an unknown dead man whose face was mashed up. The Guardian has the photos on its site, and you can see the fake was put together from two others.

A hundred years ago, in America, an old idea was given new legs: Help everybody. And of course, who would carry the freight of this grand “help everybody” premise? Government. Now, that gigantic expansion is running into a brick wall. The federal government and state governments can’t pay for the cost of saving every soul. The point is simple. If you expect to give everything to everybody, it’s wise to add up the price tag, project future outlays, and check your bank account. And if tax increases form the basis of your strategy, you’d also better nail down the percentage of wages you’ll eventually have to extract from working people. 50%? 60%? 70%? 

Many parents around the country have discovered that Ritalin has become a condition for their children continuing in school. There are even reports, by parents, of threats from social agencies: “If you don't allow us to prescribe Ritalin for your ADHD child, we may decide that you are an unfit parent. We may decide to take your child away.”  This mind-boggling state of affairs is fueled by teachers, principals, and school counselors, none of whom have medical training. Yet even if they did…

Every year in the US there are: 12,000 deaths from unnecessary surgeries; 7,000 deaths from medication errors in hospitals; 20,000 deaths from other errors in hospitals; 80,000 deaths from infections acquired in hospitals; 106,000 deaths from FDA-approved correctly prescribed medicines. The total of medically-caused deaths in the US every year is 225,000. This makes the medical system the third leading cause of death in the US, behind heart disease and cancer.