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Hillary Clinton proposes universal health care for the U.S. with an estimated price tag of $110 billion. Calculated cost of universal health care for the state of Ohio alone is $50 billion. Something doesn't jive. Tom Blumer explains. Read & remember.

The gay crowd bemoans the reduction in the number of alternatively oriented characters on scripted broadcast network shows. Last season, there were nine. This season only seven. Well, shucks.

Rosie O'Donnell won't promote her new book, "Celebrity Detox," because she's not ready to discuss or defend what she wrote. That's a shame.

Condolences to Debbie Schlussel and her family. A week ago, cancer took her father, H.L. Schlussel, M.D.