. >> tom: meantime, cigna healthcare faces a $100 million gender discrimination lawsuit. a female manager is suing the company, claiming it unfairly blocks female employees from promotions and high paying jobs. the lawsuit is seeking class- action status. cigna says it's reviewing the complaint, adding the company is committed to diversity and equal opportunity. >> susie: in silicon valley, the land of high tech, there's nothing more sacred than intellectual property. but tonight's commentator says, unfortunately, that's not true everywhere. he's harry lin, c.e.o. of taaz.com, a venture capital- backed technology start-up in san diego. >> there's a strong rumor that an internet company known as the "facebook of china" is going to go public on the u.s. market this year. renren, which means "everyone" in mandarin, is a popular social-networking site in china. unlike facebook, which dominates social networking in this country, renren has many competitors, or clones. see, in china, the difference between competition and copying is blurry. the notion of protected intellectual

even if you have etna are cigna are united healthcare or some other plan, the government is in charge of your care. here is right here. it says insurance companies can pay only those doctors who follow whatever dictates the secretary of health and human services imposes in the name of quality. that covers everything in medicine whether you are ob/gyn decides to do a caesarean section. your medical treatments are going to be entered into a national electronic database. your doctors' decisions are going to be monitored. and your doctor is going to have to choose between doing what is right for you and staying in the government's good graces. you heard the president promised that he was going to solve the problem of the uninsured by making health insurance affordable. that is not what he did. you have gotten your premium increases in the mail. instead, he will put 31% of americans below age 65 into medicaid. 31% of americans on medicaid, imagine that. and to pay for that, there are $410 billion in new taxes in this law. in addition, they are now talking about that new tax the vanishing a

these are clean air act permit applications that are needed for either undertaking a new facility or a cignathe modification would raise the amount of grain as gases -- a significant modification that would raise the amount of greenhouse gases. most of party done their analysis for greenhouse gas admission -- most have already done their analysis for greenhouse gas emissions. >> on clean water, this dump truck of a bill known as h.r.-1, a dump truck, because you guys dump everything you can imagine weighing it down so much we have trouble getting it passed, of course, but it updates guidance pertaining to the definition of water under the clean water act. there are two supreme court decisions, one in 2001 and one in 2006 that had created some confusion and uncertainty over the scope of the clean water act. but the prohibition in a jar-one is anti-real estate and anti--- in h.r.-1 is anti-real-estate and anti-business. we do support a process the would provide clarification for all sides and allow them to participate in the regulatory process. i asked you, how would the h r-onetion dumped ont

pieces, all the one hand, this damnable but also potentially significant -- but also apotentially a cigna big mistake. -- on the one hand, understandable but also potentially a significant mistake. i want to sort of set the stage if you will, in a little bit more of an abstract and broadway. i think it is clear that, certainly, in the early days of the uprising, the beginning of this calendar year, people tended to see these "arab uprisings" as all of a peace. it is certainly true that they were largely unexpected, spontaneous protests against aging authoritarian rulers in tunisia and in egypt and in libya and now, as we are seeing increasingly elsewhere as well. many of us have, for a long time, wondered how the next generation would take power in these countries. at least, in a few places, we seem to have the answer. it is through these popular uprisings. the contempt for their own citizens that had been conveyed by a lot of these governments for decades they had seemed indifferent to the well-being of their own citizens. they seemed to have lost touch with the populations that they wer