11.27.13 | 5:19 pm
If You Lose Chomsky …

Perhaps it had to fall to Noam Chomsky of all people to deliver the ultimate smackdown to 9/11 Truthers.

“There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics. But it doesn’t work like that … There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.”

Video after the jump …

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11.27.13 | 5:10 pm
Is Hampton Florida Awesomer Than Toronto?

Not only did the Mayor of Hampton get clipped for dealing Oxycodone, he’s also got a lengthy rap sheet.

11.27.13 | 2:58 pm
Blessed Moment

Florida Sheriff says “this isn’t Toronto” as he arrests Mayor for dealing oxycodone.

11.27.13 | 2:05 pm
A Realist’s Take on Obamacare

For years, Obamacare supporters weathered at best tepid support for the President’s reform in the expectation that once people experienced the actual law, rather than the right-wing fever dream, opinions would change. Then they were hit with the wholly unexpected surprise of a botched website roll out that set the whole public opinion war back on its heels and then a wave of cancellations that were reported in a misleading way (and only affected a tiny portion of the population) but nevertheless further soured public opinion.

But for all that, here’s why I think the generally cataclysmic press is overblown and why the law will be a success.

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11.27.13 | 1:45 pm
Big Punt

The Obama administration has announced that it is delaying the online Obamacare exchange for small businesses for a year.