Sarah Palin says she’s disturbed that many of Pope Francis’ pastoral pronouncements have “sounded kind of liberal.”
Sitting where I sit, “Obamacare” is a focus for me in two key ways – 1st, as the editor of TPM, in terms of our news coverage and my own opinion pieces and then 2nd, as the publisher and owner of TPM, as the purchaser of health insurance for more than twenty people in two jurisdictions. There are lots of people purchasing and paying for group health insurance plans. And there’s no shortage of people in the media analyzing, reporting and pontificating about Obamacare. But I think I’m part of a pretty small population of people doing both. So, since we’ve had a number of questions about it, I wanted to give a few details about what our own experience has been with Obamacare as a small business.
Americans love to believe in the idea of the athlete recognized for his skills and rising out of poverty to be a superstar. (Let’s face it, most of the time when we talk about this dream, it’s male athletes that get to live it. Female athletes tend to see athletics as a path to higher education rather than wealth.) Unfortunately, that that American dream is mostly a lie.
Okay, so while it looked like a troop of militia types showed up to menace a group of gun control supporting moms, a new photo provided by the militia types themselves shows a friendly enough group of crazy people with paramilitary weaponry in a strip mall parking lot for some reason. Which is pretty much normal behavior.
