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Is there a proposal that fixes the TSA and health care while also reducing the cost of government? Is it something that Republicans, Democrats, and fiscal libertarians can all agree on? Or is this compromise too good to be true?

Queensland police will forego their speed camera vans and go back to pounding the beat if the state government has its way.

The plan for civilian operators to take over the cameras comes as the government and police union wrangle over a three-year pay deal.

Union leaders will meet with Premier Anna Bligh in Brisbane on Friday at 3pm (AEST).

The government has offered 2.5 per cent over three years, prompting a police union rejection and a television advertising campaign demanding more.

Across the globe, citizens of nations with government-run health care systems experience long wait times, a lack of access to certain treatments and, in some instances, a diminished quality of medical care. Navigate the links below to learn more about patients’ health care horror stories.

U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson accepted without trial the states' argument that the new law violates people's rights by forcing them to buy health insurance by 2014 or face penalties. At issue was whether the government is reaching beyond its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce by requiring citizens to purchase health insurance or face tax penalties.

Will ObamaCare turn us into a nation of part-time employees?

As the Supreme Court ponders whether the Obama administration can constitutionally take over the private sector when it comes to health care – and then order all Americans to buy health insurance—an unintended consequence is lurking in the government’s unemployment figures. Plagued by fears of explosive costs from mandated healthcare, companies are quietly transitioning much of the American workforce into a nation of part-time employees.

Not only does the U.S. government spend more on health care than Canada, it also spends more than the U.K., Japan, Germany, and France!

The UK's tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that all employers send employee paychecks to the government, after which the government would deduct what it deems as the appropriate tax and pay the employees by bank transfer.

Walmart's New Health Care Policy Shifts Burden To Medicaid, Obamacare: Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, plans to begin denying health insurance to newly hired employees who work fewer than 30 hours a week, according to a copy of the company’s policy obtained by The Huffington Post. Under the policy, slated to take effect in January, Walmart also reserves the right to eliminate health care coverage for certain workers if their average workweek dips below 30 hours -- something that happens with regularity and at the direction of company managers.

We live in an America where third party voters are suspected by government as being highly dangerous, pro-lifers are condemned on prime-time tv as clinic-bombing extremists and of being “one branch of the broader movement of violent, militant, anti-government extremism in this country” (Rachel Maddow), and opponents to this socialized health-care are openly being called “terrorists” by members of the political class. And now the conservatives ...