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08.27.13 | 1:42 pm
Whoa

The state Senate in Michigan just finished voting on accepting Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, and things got pretty weird. Read More

08.27.13 | 1:09 pm
The Day In 100 Seconds

As the war drum beats, cable news spends the day speculating which targets in Syria should be hit with which bombs.





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08.27.13 | 11:42 am
The Truth Finally Comes Out

Pat Robertson: San Francisco gays wear special sharp-tipped rings contaminated with AIDS that deliberately infect unsuspecting believers with a mere handshake.

08.27.13 | 10:37 am
Wanted: Giant Bowl Of Popcorn

The lawyer for a fired Fox News executive says the network’s chief Roger Ailes should fear his client.

08.27.13 | 10:13 am
Disturbing

The former intern who helped save Rep. Gabby Giffords when she was shot in the head is now being targeted with an anti-gay smear campaign.

08.27.13 | 7:45 am
Vermont Yankee To Close

News this morning that Entergy will close and decommission the 40-year-old Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. A hugely controversial plant — even as the politics of nuclear power has changed a lot in the last four decades — and in the end it sounds like economics as much as political opposition contributed to its closure.

08.27.13 | 5:30 am
The Obamacare Goof That Is Biting Hard Now

You already know how the Affordable Care Act failed to provide funding for the federally run health insurance exchanges. These are the exchanges HHS is setting up in states that refuse to set up their own, which contrary to initial predictions ended up being over half the states. HHS has been scrambling to find the funding to run these exchanges (the GOP House has refused to help fix the error and allocate additional funding). Read More

08.27.13 | 5:05 am
The Same-Sex Marriage Putsch In New Mexico

Since last week upwards of 200 marriage licenses and counting have been issued to same-sex couples in New Mexico, where same-sex marriage has neither been explicitly legalized nor explicitly banned. The existing law there is gender neutral: “Marriage is contemplated by the law as a civil contract, for which the consent of the contracting parties, capable in law of contracting, is essential.” Read More

08.27.13 | 4:25 am
Hawking Impeachment

Where there is impeach Obama fever, there is someone trying to make a buck. Guess who?

08.26.13 | 11:51 am
Still Dreaming

Scenes from Saturday’s 50th anniversary March on Washington