It only makes sense that if ObamaCare’s passed employers will opt out of providing private insurance and millions upon millions, 85 million  by some estimates, will end up herded into the President’s public plan. But that’s okay with millionaire actor Steven Weber because he know what’s best for us he and his loved ones will never ever have to worry about being the victims of the government run health-care system  he’s so eager  to see the rest of us shoved into against our will. Weber’s

In the summer of 2001, when I was editor of The Hill , the congressional newspaper I helped start in 1994 and headed until 2005, I was talking about the Vietnam War with some of our young reporters, who were all in their 20’s and had little recollection of it. One of them, Alison Stevens, our political editor at the time, told me about the emotional reaction of her father, a former Naval officer in Vietnam, to the 1995 memoir of Robert McNamara, in which he admitted the Vietnam policies he advocated as Secretary of Defense from 1961-68 were based on lies and half-truths.

United4Iran has updates from around the world: AP reports: Iran police disperse protests in Tehran 8,000 people at the event in Paris, 4,000 in Stockholm, 3,000 in Amsterdam, more than 2,500 in Washington DC, 2,500 in New York, 2,000 in London… San Francisco protest streaming live on www.norcal4iran.com Demonstrators in Kyrgyz Republic arrested for participating in global day of action U2 to play solidarity video at their July 25 Dublin show Iranian rockstar Dariush dedicates latest song to July 25, plays at DC rally Press coverage so far: CNN , BBC Persia , New York Times , USA Today , Huffington Post , Ms.

BBC News Gates agrees to beer with Obama, policeman msnbc.com July 24: After arriving at Friday’s press briefing unannounced to discuss his comments about the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, President Obama invited Gates and the officer who arrested him to the White House for a beer. … Black scholar agrees to beer with Obama, policeman Reuters Analysis: Race is daunting challenge for Obama The Associated Press Gotcha! Henry Gates, Jr.

Multiple suicide attackers strike southeastern Afghan city of Khost; 7 militants killed (Kitchener – Waterloo Record) KABUL – Less than a month before Afghanistan’s presidential election, Taliban fighters wearing suicide vests attacked a provincial capital Saturday, triggering gunbattles that killed seven militants. U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke said it is “extraordinary” to hold a presidential election during a war.

BBC News Gates agrees to beer with Obama, policeman msnbc.com July 24: After arriving at Friday’s press briefing unannounced to discuss his comments about the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, President Obama invited Gates and the officer who arrested him to the White House for a beer. … Analysis: Race is daunting challenge for Obama The Associated Press Gotcha! Henry Gates, Jr.

In a devastatingly insightful column in the Huffington Post, naturopath Anne Dunev writes about our broken healthcare system and what should be done to fix it . Dunev has practiced naturopathic medicine both in Britain and in the United States. She has experienced how both systems work. Not surprisingly Dunev is not impressed with the President’s healthcare proposal. She thinks it does not go nearly far enough. Dunev urges us to do away with insurance entirely, because it costs too much and contributes nothing to healthcare.