Mitt Romney made a big gaffe yesterday. Sure it ended up being taken out of context, but hey – that’s the game Romney likes playing! Here’s what Romney said: “I want individuals to have their own insurance. That means the insurance company will have an incentive to keep people healthy. It also means if you […]
With the Supreme Court expected to make a ruling on the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law next July, Democrats are starting to wonder if maybe they went a little too far: Democrats on Capitol Hill are worried that the Supreme Court will rule against President Obama’s healthcare reform law. Over the last couple weeks, […]
Kent Snyder, Ron Paul’s 2008 campaign manager and the man credited with pushing Paul into running for President, died at the age of 49 just two weeks after Paul ended his 2008 bid. Like the man in Blitzer’s example, the 49-year-old Snyder (pictured) was relatively young and seemingly healthy* when the illness struck. He was […]
When your parent company is the largest media corporation in the world and in the middle of one of the hugest corporate scandals in history, then blaming the media probably isn’t a good idea, but that’s exactly what happened on Fox yesterday. Bob Dilenschneider of the Dilenschneider Group was on Fox and Friends, trying to […]
If the people of this country paid as much attention to the bankers who destroyed this economy or the health insurance companies that drop coverage on people that need it the most, leaving them for dead (children included!) as they did the Casey Anthony trial, maybe we could start fixing things.
Even with Julian Assange in a massive legal fight, his work carries on. Now the group Anonymous has released a large batch of Bank of America emails, with this potentially explosive information: The documents indicate that Bank of America improperly foreclosed on several homes during the height of the financial crisis in 2008 that began […]
Things are going to get really interesting now: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. Assange will appeal, his legal team confirmed. If this is unsuccessful, he will be extradited to Sweden in 10 days. Delivering his ruling at a hearing at Belmarsh magistrates […]
Yesterday Twitter erupted with news that Jane Hamsher and David House had been “detained” at Quantico Marine Base when trying to visit Bradley Manning. Of course the Twitters and Internets quickly erupted with conspiracy theories of why they were being detained. According to Quantico, they were actually never detained, but they did have their car […]
Can’t say I’m surprised by this: A federal judge in Virginia ruled Monday that the individual mandate contained in the health care law passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama this year is unconstitutional. The judge found in favor of Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who brought this suit separately from the other […]
10. I am really looking forward to nonstop investigations of President Obama over the next two years. 9. It will make Sarah Palin proud. 8. Majority Leader Mitch has a real jazzy sound to it. 7. Insurance companies should have the right to deny coverage to anyone and jack up the prices whenever they want. […]