“I am what you might call a matchmaker,” Levy Izhak Rosenbaum told an undercover FBI informant in mid July, referring to his involvement in the first case of alleged criminal human organ trafficking in United States legal history.  Mr.  Rosenbaum’s dubious services were uncovered in tandem with a corruption investigation against several New Jersey mayors and Rabbis who currently stand accused of facilitating an international money laundering scheme.

The Popular Capitalist View

There seem to be some persistent and wrong assumptions about policy issues that are used to frame positions and prescriptions such as mine, particularly in the currently volatile subject of medical or health care reform. So, in order to better the understanding and serious consideration of what I have presented here, I have decided to take a step back and place medicine and its reform in an economic context.

This Action/Horror film stars Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, and Elizabeth Shue as part of a team of scientists working on an invisibility serum. Bacon plays the lead character, Sebastian Caine (seen above), a self-proclaimed genius scientist who becomes progressively rapey as the film goes on.

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contradictory perplexities settled on the fringe of thoughts
my gums had been bleeding on and off for two days now
i think i’m dying , but i think that a lot now
especially since the waves of panic masks itself in the wind
i frame my beliefs around moments of fear
because it’s those moments i understand my existence better
better than most assume
so i drew a cross on my window
with soap hoping the sun would see it
send me to providence
i promised to pray more
after a while , the soap flaked off and i was left …

This post was originally published at the Internet’s newest and hippest blog devoted to the health care debate, Give Me Health Care or Give Me Death! Check out the site when you get a chance.

I always knew Newt Gingrich and I disagreed on a lot of things, but after his many appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, I felt I could take comfort in the fact that while we disagreed, he was still an intelligent, reasonable man. This weekend my image of Mr. Gingrich was shattered.

SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE ORDERS NEW BRUNSWICK
TO PUT WARD QUESTION TO VOTERS
Cites Illegality of City’s Charter Study Ordinance

Alfa Art Gallery is pleased to announce “East + West: Photographs of New York and Japan by Andrew Darlow.” This is the second solo exhibition of Andrew Darlow’s photographs at Alfa Art Gallery. The opening reception will be held on Friday, August 28th from 6-9 pm at 108 Church Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The show continues until September 17th. A photographic slideshow and lecture: “A Trip Around the World,” will be presented by Andrew Darlow at 7:00 pm, and a poster print signing will follow, featuring exhibition images from …

Draine On Society

The national discussion on health care reform has recently taken a dangerous turn. What should have been a meaningful discussion on goals and feasibility has been transformed into a campaign of deliberate misinformation. The goal of this campaign is not to enact any meaningful reform whatsoever, but to foster an atmosphere of fear and misunderstanding that will threaten any attempt to change the status quo.

Poesia

A chaise strung by a dream,
two of them float upstream tonight;
digging their souls for might
& space to hold them tight. Sideways,

From the board rooms
From the seats of power
In the towers of ivory and gold
Let us call the doctors home
Let us call the doctors home