FEC official to NYT: “I hate it when people lie to us. If somebody submits a sworn affidavit, we usually do not go back and question it, unless we have something else to go on. Maybe we should not be so trusting.”

In his speech today relaunching his plan to privatize/phase out Medicare, Rep. Paul Ryan said that his plan for phasing out Medicare will strengthen “welfare for those who need it.”

An amazing photo from shuttle Endeavor’s final launch this morning.

Full slide show here.

Is it an accident that both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have come out of the gate stumbling over whether there’s a place for individual mandates in reforming America’s dysfunctional health care system? Read More