© Jen Sorensen That’s right, not satisfied with waiting until (Black) Friday, several big box retailers are opening their doors on Thanksgiving day. Not just Walmart and Kmart, but also Target, Best Buy, JC Penny, Kohls, Staples, and (of course) Toys R Us. Even venerable Macy’s will be open on Thanksgiving Day, for the first […]
The US Justice department is making noises that they may not be able to bring criminal charges against Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, for publishing classified documents. The problem is that if they prosecute WikiLeaks, how can they avoid also having to prosecute US news organizations and journalists (who have repeatedly published classified documents), […]
Months of intense negotiations have resulted in an historic agreement with Iran that signals a “game-changing rapprochement that would reduce the risk of a wider Middle East war“. Iran has agreed to place strict limits on their nuclear activities and submit to increased inspections. In return, the US — along with France, Germany, Britain, China, […]
As most people know by now, the Democrats changed the rules in the Senate to eliminate filibusters against judicial nominees (except for the Supreme Court, which can still be filibustered). This has sometimes (and misleadingly) been called the “nuclear option”. To justify this dramatic move, Senate majority leader Harry Reid released the following graphic: PolitiFact […]
An article in the Washington Post reveals that we are in danger of losing the fight against software patent trolls. Ironically, it was the sponsor of the bill in the House, Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), who gave in to corporate lobbying pressure and removed a key provision of the law. Unfortunately, WaPo doesn’t do a particularly […]
Republicans seemed positively gleeful that “only” 40,000 people signed up on healthcare.gov in its first month. House Speaker John Boehner released a statement saying “Above all, this report is a symbol of the failure of the president’s health care law. It is a rolling calamity that must be scrapped.” Senator Marco Rubio called the numbers […]
If you have only been hearing about the problems with the website, read this article about people who have already been helped by the ACA. Why would anyone want to go back to what we had before? If there are problems with the site, fix them. If people are being cancelled by their insurance company […]
© Tom Tomorrow I have a new rule. If someone complains about something wrong with Obamacare, I officially don’t care unless they suggest how to fix the problem (other than repealing Obamacare). Problems with the web site? Fix them. Employers reducing the number of full time employees? Change the rule. As long as people are […]
Who better to fix the problems with the healthcare.gov website? © Ruben Bolling It has often been noted that people seem more than happy to throw their private information at websites like Facebook and Twitter, if they get back something in return. Maybe the NSA should change their tactics?
Several surveys have shown that more Americans have an unfavorable view of Obamacare (44%) than a favorable view (38%). Republicans have taken this statistic and twisted it to claim that Americans want them to get rid of Obama’s signature health care reform. Heck, the GOP believes this so strongly they even shut down the government […]
The Daily Show attempts to determine what state is the most homophobic, with hilarious results: Anecdotally, I’ve lived in both the south and the north, and I’ve found the same thing. Maybe the problem is that socially we are ahead of where we are politically.
In the beginning there were “death panels“, followed by a long string of other “Pants on Fire” lies. So it is no surprise at all that there are still new lies going around the media about Obamacare. For example, the media is reporting that Obama lied (and knew he was lying) when he said that […]
I’ll believe that corporations are people when “three strikes” laws are enforced against them. Because Diebold, the world’s largest maker of banking ATMs and for years one of the largest manufacturers of electronic voting systems, would have enough strikes against them to be locked up for life. The latest charges against them are for bribery […]
Who knew that there is actually something that you can do to help fix political gridlock! Three years ago, California was teased as a “failed state”. The state was nearly bankrupt, infrastructure was crumbling, and the government was completely gridlocked. But as I reported a month ago, nobody is teasing California any more. Their economy […]
In two separate comics, Adam Zyglis captures the irony of the rollout of the healthcare.gov website. © Adam Zyglis On one hand, the creation of a website as complicated as this will always have problems. It is silly to claim that this is some kind of inherent defect in Obamacare. I work with the web […]
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