Our Bloated, Wasteful Healthcare System
Total annual healthcare spending in U.S.
$4.3 Trillion $12,900
Per person annual healthcare spending. In SODERSTROM
Judge Benched for Texting A
n Oklahoma judge caught playing with her phone as a mother
sobbed about the murder of her child was suspended after she sent 500 texts ridiculing prosecutors and calling the mom “liar, liar,” the New York Post reported.
The chief justice of
the Oklahoma Supreme Court recommended the removal of District Judge Traci Soderstrom, who had only been sworn in in January, for
MASTER’S DEGREE IN MAGIC
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British college is to off er a
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contrast, Japan spends $82 per person, per year, and life expectancy there is five years longer than in the U.S.
constantly playing with her phone during Khristian Martzall’s trial for the beating death of 2-year-old Braxton Danker. Soderstrom’s messages also
questioned whether a juror was wearing a wig, if a witness has teeth, and admiring a police of icer who testified as “pretty.” “I could look at him all day,” the judge texted. When questioned by the Council on Judicial Complaints, Soderstrom said her texting “probably could have waited.”
degree in magic and occult science.
Professor Emily Selove, associate professor in
medieval Arabic literature at the University of Exeter, said the idea came from a surge in interest in the history of witchcraft and a desire to “create a space where magic could be studied across academic fields,” The New York Times reported.
The course,
which starts next year, will
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$266 Billion Or $1,055 per person on
administrative costs. Funded by the federal government.
34% 25%
Healthcare spending considered wasteful, including services and processes that are either harmful or do not deliver benefits and
excess costs that could be avoided by replacing services or products with cheaper alternatives that have identical or better benefits.
SOURCE: New York Post SOURCE: Peter G. Peterson Foundation, April 2023
include the study of Western dragons in lore, the practice of deception and illusion, and the philosophy of psychedelics. Christina Oakley
Harrington, a retired academic of
medieval history and the founder of Treadwell’s, a London bookstore specializing in literature on magic
and spiritualism, said that many witches she knew were thinking about enrolling. “Not because they’re
idiots and think it’s going to teach them how to wave a magic wand and do a spell,”
Harrington said. “They’re people who have just a huge curiosity about the world and the way we perceive the seen and the unseen worlds.” In the United
States, interest in all things magic has surged. Six in 10 adults believe in one
or more of the following:
reincarnation, astrology, psychics, and the presence of spiritual energy in physical objects like mountains or trees, according to a 2017 Pew Research Center study.
SOURCE: The New York Times
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