TX Appeals Court Overturns Vioxx Verdict Against
Merck

post from TalkLeft on 14 May 2008 04:12:00 PM. © TalkLeft

Via How Appealing, a Texas Court of appeals has reversed the verdict against Merck in the Vioxx case. I found this interesting:

After the trial, a juror admitted borrowing thousands of dollars from [deceased Plainff]Garza's widow, Felicia Garza, although that does not seem to have been a factor in Wednesday's appellate court decision.

The opinion is here.

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Boehner, Cantor: when in doubt, lie

post from Crooks and Liars on 14 May 2008 04:10:13 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Barack Obama sat down with the Atlantic?s Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss U.S. policy towards Israel, and for the first 95% of the interview, Obama offered a solid, uncontroversial position, which included effusive praise for the Jewish state.Asked if he perceived Israel as “a drag on America?s reputation overseas,” Obama said:“No, no, no. But what I [...]

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Ohio Attorney General Facing Impeachment

post from Moue Magazine on 14 May 2008 04:02:23 PM. © Moue Magazine

The Buckeye State has been busy of late (yes, that rhymed and I apologize). The offices of Attorney General Marc Dann were raided this morning by investigators from the Ohio Inspector General’s office. The investigators seized electronics including[...]

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Fearguth’s Great Snark Hunt

post from American Street on 14 May 2008 04:02:00 PM. © American Street

Graphic for New GOP Slogan, “The Change You Deserve”

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Midday Open Thread

post from Daily Kos on 14 May 2008 04:00:51 PM. © Daily Kos

NARAL Pro-Choice America has endorsed Barack Obama.

Don't miss Stephen Colbert mocking Bill O'Reilly's meltdown.

And speaking of things you don't want to miss, check out Markos' take on contested primaries in his latest column in The Hill.

The death toll in China's earthquake is now over 15,000 and expected to climb higher.

Filed under "things you can't make up," George Bush is warning of disaster in Iraq if a Democrat wins the White House and begins to withdraw troops. That would be as opposed to the more than five year, ongoing disaster in Iraq. Stay the course!

Via Atrios, Donald Rumsfeld thinks a terrorist attack would be just the thing to help out George Bush:

RUMSFELD: That's what I was just going to say. This President's pretty much a victim of success. We haven't had an attack in five years. The perception of the threat is so low in this society that it's not surprising that the behavior pattern reflects a low threat assessment. The same thing's in Europe, there's a low threat perception. The correction for that, I suppose, is an attack.

Larry Craig, who really ought not to be doing anything involving stripping, has an amendment to strip the Webb GI bill from the war supplemental. [Kagro X]

In health care news:

Congressional Democrats on Tuesday announced that they have reached a tentative agreement on a $3.3 trillion fiscal year 2009 budget resolution that rejects reductions in spending for Medicare and Medicaid proposed by President Bush, the New York Times reports. Bush has estimated that his legislative proposals over five years would reduce spending for Medicare by $178 billion and spending for Medicaid by $17 billion. According to Senate Budget Committee Chair Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), the agreement also would provide "about $20 billion" more for military and domestic programs than the $991.6 billion requested by Bush (Pear, New York Times, 5/14). House Budget Committee Chair John Spratt (D-S.C.) declined to disclose additional details about the agreement (Clarke, CQ Today, 5/13).

[DemFromCT]

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Maybe the Key is Repetition

post from Talking Points Memo on 14 May 2008 04:00:00 PM. © Talking Points Memo

It hasn't worked yet, but the NRCC signaled today that it will continue to try to tie down-ballot Dems to Obama. [...]

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Four at Four

post from Docudharma - Front Page on 14 May 2008 04:00:00 PM. © Docudharma - Front Page

The Los Angeles Times reports Consumer prices up just 0.2% in April, but there's a catch. "The government's main inflation gauge, the consumer price index, rose just 0.2% in April, when adjusted for seasonal changes, the Labor Department reported. Since[...]

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Book Salon: Fear and Courage in the Democratic
Party, by Glenn Hurowitz

It's not that Democrats are dumb, it's that they're chickensh*t. Or as Glenn Hurowitz might put it[...]

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Book Chat: Fear and Courage in the Democratic
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Big gay marriage court case coming down tomorrow

post from AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth on 14 May 2008 04:00:00 PM. © AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

The California Supreme Court will issue its same-gender marriage ruling tomorrow at 10am Pacific time. More from the Chronicle:

More than four years after San Francisco defied state marriage laws by allowing nearly 4,000 same-sex couples to wed at City Hall, the state Supreme Court is set to decide Thursday whether gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California.

But the decision, due at 10 a.m., may not be the last word. Conservative religious organizations have submitted more than 1.1 million signatures for an initiative that would amend the state Constitution to outlaw same-sex marriage. If at least 694,354 signatures are found to be valid, a tally that is due by mid-June, the measure would go before the voters in November and could override a court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage.

If it's a presidential election year, it's gay marriage.