Archive for December, 2008

UnitedHealth Sells Health Insurance Option

Filed under Economics

In an attempt to satisfy consumers who are worried they might not be able to buy health insurance in the future UnitedHealth has a new product:
For these economically uncertain times, the UnitedHealth Group has a first-of-its-kind product: the right to buy an individual health policy at some point in the future even if you become [...]

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Slab of Bacon

Filed under Sports

I love Paul Bunyan’s Axe, but there’s something sort of cool about two college football teams fighting for a Slab of Bacon.
Wikipedia, the font of all things less than trivial, has an entry.

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Packers Have Top Sports Brand

Filed under Sports

It’s no surprise when the Green Bay Packers win the team’s image becomes quite valuable:
The Green Bay Packers are struggling this season, but they remain an iconic presence when it comes to team branding.
Turnkey Sports & Entertainment, a sports marketing company, has released its team brand index, and the Packers are No. 1 in all [...]

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Buckley and McCarthy

William F. Buckley did indeed write books that didn’t totally demonize Sen. Joe McCarthy. However, like the better intellectuals his descriptions were, to say the least, complex. In response to the movie featuring Edward R. Murrow taking on McCarthy, Good Night and Good Luck, Buckley wrote,
[T]he Stamford Advocate is a newspaper, and perhaps will look [...]

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Gavin Newsom Gabs on YouTube

Filed under eCampaign

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom found a new way to deliver his State of the City speech. He’s doing it on YouTube, all 7 1/2 hours of it:
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has been crafting his State of the City speech for months and will debut it today – all 7 1/2 hours of it [...]

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Neil Gabler Fails at American Political History 101

Neal Gabler is in the mood to whip up his own version of the history of the modern conservative movement. It’s typical of Leftists who don’t get conservatives or really want to.
Gabler forgets how William F. Buckley kicked out the McCarthy’s heirs, The John Birch Society, from the conservative movement. Doing so doesn’t fit the [...]

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