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Florida Tea Party chairman sends email to group saying Ryan Medicare Phase Out plan is “public policy nightmare” for the Tea Party and GOP, predicts Republicans will blame Tea Party for the electoral carnage.

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, will leave our solar system any day speeding along at 100,000 miles an hour. Relive some of its finer moments when it was closer to home.

Breitbart: I saved Anthony Weiner from Blackmail. Watch.

As you’ve probably heard, there’s been a growing controversy about a McKinsey & Co. report claiming that the health care reform law would lead to millions of people losing their employer health care coverage. In response to demands, McKinsey has now released the internal details and methods of the study. We’ll have our report shortly. Stay tuned.

McKinsey responds to criticism of their health care reform law study: “The survey was not intended as a predictive economic analysis of the impact of the Affordable Care Act.” Read more here.

Japan now officially has the fastest computer in the world. And for all that work they couldn’t come up with a more original name than ‘K’.

Google and the British Library today announced an agreement for the search giant to digitize 170 years with a history in 250,000 out-of-copyright books.

Was the McKinsey report just a marketing exercise that was never supposed to see the light of day?

A Reader writes in …

A quick review of the McKinsey survey makes me pretty sure it was created as an internal market research tool — to assess the need for healthcare consulting services and help the firm design and sell those services. Someone got the bright idea of publicizing some of the results and, since the survey wasn’t designed to predict or even describe the effect of reform on the healthcare system, the published report was highly misleading. I can see why they didn’t want to release the tool or the raw data — the stuff looks very valuable from a market research point of view. I’m sure the other large consulting companies have assigned analysts to this data and are all writing reports to guide their healthcare practices — while giggling at their good fortune and McKinsey’s gaffe.

Local paper says Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) will announce her retirement from Congress next Monday.