The Associated Press reports that in the wake of President Obama’s decision to push for a shorter period of exclusivity for biologics, the drug lobby is threatening to walk away from its deal to support the bill:
Apparently, Iran’s military dictatorship is now moving to arrest its opponents–and there are many–among the Mullahs in the holy city of Qum. Word comes that Ayatullah Mohammed Taqi Khalaji has been arrested. His family does not know where he is being held. Khalaji is a follower of the late reformist Grand Ayatullah Montazeri, whose death [...]
Item: The DSCC released an ad attacking Scott Brown for his opposition to President Obama’s proposed tax on big banks to repay lost TARP funds. All to be expected, except that one screen shot of the ad showed the World Trade Center in the background. Doesn’t seem intentional as much as klutzy. Keeping Score: Scott [...]
A while back, Michael Scherer and I wrote this story about how the biotech industry has been one of the big winners in the health care debate. Maybe not so much, it now appears. The New York Times reports that President Obama may be making a last stand to bring lower-cost generic biologics to market [...]
I’m posting this for our colleague Jay Newton-Small. It arrived by email at 5:39 a.m.: En route overland from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to Haiti I’m on assignment for TIME heading to earthquake-stricken Haiti. Word is emerging of a strong aftershock this morning. I was meant to embed with the USS Vinson but, having missed [...]
Bill Galston is a good friend of mine, but that shouldn’t disqualify him from the praise and attention he deserves–especially when he lays out a really smart draft State of the Union Address (at least, the domestic policy part) like this one.
Another day, another exercise in damage control from the Senate Majority Leader’s office. The latest centers on a story in the upcoming edition of the New York Times Magazine, in which Harry Reid is reported to have called Joe Lieberman a double-crosser. This statement, just issued by Reid’s office, is not exactly a denial: REID [...]
The White House is speechless. Pat Robertson is clarifying. But fellow evangelical pastor Rick Warren has perhaps the final word on the matter, via Twitter: Labeling any natural disaster as God’s judgment is nonsense. True “judgment begins with God’s family” 1Peter4:17, not others UPDATE: Warren, for his part, has responded to the Haiti tragedy like [...]
