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09.18.14 | 11:19 pm
Great Lakes Border Wall Proposed

You kind of have to see this video. If nothing else it shows the fine line separating right-wing propaganda and SNL skits. It’s James O’Keefe’s report proposing we create a border wall across the Great Lakes to keep out ISIS terrorists bringing in Ebola, ricin or other biological threats. As I said, you just have to watch it. But the central element is O’Keefe’s friend dressed up in an ISIS uniform as the two grown men role play the incursion onto American soil.

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09.18.14 | 4:41 pm
Exclusive

Dowd tells TPM: I got wasted on 1/4 of a weed bar, not 1/2.

09.18.14 | 3:34 pm
This Is Going Great

“With Jews We Lose” candidate in Kentucky spoke yesterday at University of Kentucky Constitution Day.

09.18.14 | 12:47 pm
If You Hate America, You’ll Love AP American History

Texas took a major step today toward rejecting the new “anti-American” Advanced Placement American History curriculum.

09.18.14 | 12:34 pm
Boom

Remember how one of the biggest GOP attack memes on Obamacare was enrollees not actually paying their premiums? Sure, they might be “signing up,” but were they actually writing that check when it counts?

Well, today the government announced that more than 7 million people have enrolled and paid their premiums. To put that number in perspective, 7 million was the target for signups during the open enrollment period, without regard to whether they had paid yet.

Did people pay in significant numbers? Yes. Is a death spiral looming? For this and myriad other reasons, no.

09.18.14 | 11:39 am
Very Sneaky

Important read from ProPublica on how health insurance companies are getting around Obamacare’s ban on discrimination against pre-existing conditions.

09.17.14 | 7:45 pm
Mayor Rob Ford Diagnosed with Aggressive Cancer

A Doctor for Toronto Mayor Rob Ford today announced that the Mayor has a rare and aggressive form of cancer that affects the fat cells. The tumor itself is in Ford’s abdomen but it is not a tumor of one of the abdominal organs. The technical term is pleomorphic liposarcoma.

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09.17.14 | 3:03 pm
We’re All Hobby Lobby Now

Well, this is turning out well. Member of polygamous Mormon splinter-group successfully cites Hobby Lobby to avoid testifying in federal court about child labor case.