The New York Times is reporting that the Senate bill will result in much higher premiums. One example is a family of 4 earning $54,000 in 2016. They would be elligible for a $10,100 subsidy under the new system, but if they buy into the most popular federal plan then the monthly premiums would be […]
Image by caribb via Flickr The New York Times is reporting on a new alliance forming against the Justice Department and criminalization over all in our country. That alliance is the right and left. Generally the right has always supported the aggressive position of the federal government when it comes to prosecuting crimes, but given […]
According to a new study just released, 80% of consumers would not be willing to pay for access to online content: A similar study was done by the Boston Consulting Group and found only 48% of the respondents would pay for online access to news, and the average monthly price they would be willing to […]
The New York Times is reporting that Blackwater Executives started paying Iraqi officials around $1 million in 2007 to silence them about the shooting death of 17 Iraqi civilians. The information was provided by four former Blackwater executives in interviews. You can read the entire article here.
So says the New York Times. Cesca does a good job at tearing this trash piece by the NYT down: Every Republican in Congress defends Rush Limbaugh and parrots Glenn Beck, and all of the really important Republicans from Chuck Grassley to Big John Cornyn have at one time or another engaged in the “death […]
Today’s New York Times has an interesting article about a 22 year old girl in Britain who was texting while driving and ended up killing a 24 year old girl. The driver got 21 months for this horrible accident, which is far less than the recommended 4-7 years under British law. Laws like this are […]
I was just reading Cohen’s latest piece of crap-o-la over at the WaPo. First let’s start with this: Attorney General Eric Holder has named a special prosecutor to see whether any of the CIA’s interrogators broke the law. Special prosecutors are often themselves like interrogators — they don’t know when to stop. They go on […]
The big news is that the pressure is on for President Obama to reverse himself and start looking into the allegations of law breaking by the Bush administration: Leading Democrats on Sunday demanded investigations of how a highly classified counterterrorism program was kept secret from the Congressional leadership on the orders of Vice President Dick […]
Funny how Sarah Palin constantly invoked the first amendment as her protection, yet she and her attorney wants to take action against others who are granted protection under it: The abruptness of her announcement and the mystery surrounding her plans have fed widespread speculation. But Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action […]
Judge Richard Posner thinks that should be the case: Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent . . . What Posner is arguing is insane. Basically he is saying that if I want […]