Here’s our big piece today on what’s at really at stake in the battle to control the Senate next year. And what if voters just don’t care?
The Kent State blood shirt you never knew you needed is now on sale at Urban Outfitters.
Arizona GOP leader resigns after saying Medicaid should be tied to compulsory sterilization.
This is something I’ve been wondering about a lot. Does Scotland, an independent Scotland, think it will ever be allowed into the EU?
In case you’re just tuning in, Team Palin has responded to reports about their epic stretch Hummer brawl. Yeah, we brawled, they say. But it was a righteous brawl.
When I read the latest news about professional football and chronic brain injuries, I’m reminded of a conversation I had with my father, probably going on forty years ago. This was in the late 1970s, when I was very young. My father was a scientist but a marine botanist – so not expertise that had any immediate relevance to these questions. In any case, he didn’t suggest that what he told me was based on anything more than experience, watching.
Last night I noted that an April inspection revealed security concerns about the management of high security inmates at the prison where convicted school shooter T.J. Lane pulled of his escape last night. It sounds like those concerns were warranted: prison officials reportedly learned of the escape plot days in advance but took no additional steps to secure the unit where Lane was housed.
Mayor Rob Ford officially withdraws from Mayor’s race, to be replaced on ticket by brother Doug Ford, city council member.
Silverstein is here submitting paperwork. Withdrawing Rob Ford’s name from the race and entering Doug. pic.twitter.com/iEFkWokg8n
— Jennifer Pagliaro (@jpags) September 12, 2014
Ford is currently hospitalized with an abdominal tumor – results of a biopsy will reportedly not be known for a week.
Back in May, Dylan Scott first brought you the story about a free clinic in Tacoma, Washington, that was closing because Obamacare had succeeded in providing all of the clinic’s would-be patients with health care coverage. It was one of the those small but telling examples of the ways the heath care reform law was working.
Now The Daily Show has done a segment on the clinic, putting on camera the doctor and nurse we initially interviewed, in a Colbert-style attempt to get them to admit that Obamacare has been TERRIBLE: