Monday, January 9, 2017

Last Call For That Death Spiral Thing

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Republicans are busy putting out press releases that they and they alone can save the "failing" health care sector by repealing O...

The Obama Machine Revs Up

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President Obama will not be going quietly into that good night, no matter how many folks on the right (and left) wish he would just disappea...

Checking Up On The Cabinet

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The All-New Reince Priebus did his best Sunday to normalize the notion that Trump cabinet picks don't need background checks for ethica...

StupidiNews!

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North Korea is warning President-elect Donald Trump that Pyongyang can launch ICBMs "at any time" even as the country appears to ...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Empire State Of Voting

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New York state and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have gotten a lot of flack for the state's convoluted voting rules , particularly in the wake of l...

Bibi B-busted B-big Time

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is in quite a bit of trouble after leaked recordings showing that he planned to strike a deal to help an Isr...

Sunday Long Read: Justice Served

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Texas Monthly writer Skip Hollandsworth gives us this week's Sunday Long Read , the story of Edwin Debrow, who in 1991 killed a cab dri...

Russian To Judgment, Con't

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In a finding that should surprise precisely no one, it seems Trump voters are not only ignoring the report on Russian interference with US ...
Saturday, January 7, 2017

Last Call For The Difference Between Republicans And Democrats

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In North Carolina, under GOP Gov. Pat McCrory, millions of people remained trapped in limbo with no access to subsidies for health insuranc...

Steal This Book, She Said

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Former BuzzFeed News editor turned CNN Money investigative reporter Andrew Kaczynski is certainly leading off the network's new KFile p...

Russian To Judgment, Con't

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Still plenty of folks, including our incoming leader, who are doing everything they can to try to deflect attention away from the fact that...

Mad Dog Bites Back

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So it turns out when you want to hire a guy nicknamed "Mad Dog" to run the Pentagon that 1) he doesn't take constructive criti...
Friday, January 6, 2017

Last Call For Flights Of Fancy

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Ol' Perfessor Glenn Reynolds is quite perplexed in his USA Today column this week as to why liberals haven't simply all moved to Ca...

Climate Of Hostility, Con't

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Remember last month when I talked about the Trump transition team being very, very interested in the identities of any Department of Energy...

Home Rule Is No Longer Cool

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I'm old enough to remember when Republicans demanded local control over their city and county governments because those knuckleheads in ...