A Twisted Defense of ObamaCare

Rich Lowry, New York PostLast Updated: 4:39 AM, December 18, 2010 Posted: 10:23 PM, December 17, 2010 Prior to the passage of the health-care law, President Obama was at his most em phatic and condescending in insisting the penalty for defying the mandate to buy health insurance is not a tax. In an ABC News interview in September 2009, Obama scoffed when George Stephanopoulos resorted to the dictionary to argue that the penalty must be a tax. An irritated Obama waved it all off as another unfair charge by his unhinged opponents. So you reject the notion that it's a tax increase?...

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Google Book Tool Tracks Cultural Change With Words

Perhaps the biggest collection of words ever assembled has just gone online: 500 billion of them, from 5 million books published over the past four centuries.

The words make up a searchable database that researchers at Harvard say is a new and powerful tool to study cultural change.

The words are a product of Google's book-scanning project. The company has converted approximately 15 million books so far into electronic documents. That's about 15 percent of all books ever published. It includes books published in English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Russian and Hebrew.

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