* A detail for best-system-in-the-world crowd to consider: "Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year -- one every 12 minutes -- in large part because they lack health insurance and cannot get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday." * According to several reports, Najibullah Zazi, the Denver man at the center of an alleged New York bomb plot, has "admitted" his ties to al Qaeda and is "in negotiations to plead guilty to a terror charge." Full Article at Political Animal