The state lawmaker who started an anti-anal sex crusade last week has responded with even more crass analogies and anal sex shaming after state doctor contacts him to assure him he’s an ignoramus. Watch.
Rob Ford apparently denied entry into US. His current whereabouts are unknown.
Also he’s still Mayor of Toronto.
There was a study out of Oregon last year that suggested there was little evidence that people with health insurance had better health outcomes, though they did enjoy greater peace of mind and improved mental health. But there’s another, far more rigorous study just out on Massachusetts’ 2006 experiment with health care reform and it paints a very different picture: universal or near universal health care coverage drops mortality substantially. In other words, it saves lives. Lots of them.
GOP Lawmaker who compared Obamacare sign-ups to Jews being shipped to Auschwitz says, You’re totally missing my point.
In case you missed it, a great piece on why the world of Cliven Bundy couldn’t exist without big government spending verging on quasi-socialism.
Las Vegas PD: Don’t have sex before marriage or you could lose a limb in a meth lab explosion.
TPM Reader CS thinks I’m too pessimistic about how long the current political impasse will last. To be clear, I was not buying into that prediction. But the arguments for it were better than I thought or considered and it’s a very different ten to twenty year outlook than has seemed credible to me. That said, CS …
I have to admit I was somewhat taken aback by your (in my mind) pessimistic political prognosis in your posting “How long? Maybe very long“. This is a topic that you are much more on top of than I, but I just can’t envision the continuing Presidential/Congressional stalemate that you’re predicting.
Interesting discussion thread that just opened up in The Hive (sub req): Where does all this disdain for the poor come from?
So Fox News will now only broadcast briefings if the subject is Benghazi. Watch.
A few days ago I was talking to one of our DC reporters about how to find the narrative thread in the politics of this moment. We basically knew there would be no legislation in 2013, though there was enough possibility to pretend. But this year we don’t have to pretend. Nothing is happening on Capitol Hill besides possible investigations. But that’s not the main thing that makes it hard to grasp the thread of the political moment.