For a lot of folks, the Senate Intel Committee report is so long overdue that it seems like a rehash (no, there’s lots of new details in here) of a dark chapter that has been closed. But so long as the CIA continues to assert that torture (though it doesn’t use that word) yielded actionable intelligence, I don’t see how you can call this a closed chapter in American history. From CIA Director John Brennan’s statement today (“EITs” is the euphemism for torture: enhanced interrogation techniques):
With today’s Gruber auto de fe, it’s worth stating again something that is obvious and really indisputable: Obamacare is almost certainly the most deeply scrutinized, discussed and argued over piece of legislation of the entire 20th century and early 21st century. Jonathan Gruber saying something silly at a conference doesn’t change that.
It looks like another Ted Cruz tantrum may upend the GOP’s best laid plans to avoid another government shutdown. Here’s the story.
The text of the executive summary of Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the United States’ post-9/11 torture regimen.
The GOP’s long-awaited change to confront Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber is underway in the House. Watch.
Missouri bar owner sorry people were upset by the “Mike Brown Shot Special” special his bar was offering.
So how did the rightwing media apparatus turned Jon Gruber into the Lord High King of Obamacare? This is really an amazing look into contemporary media culture on the right. How a policy wonk whose ideas did play a key role in the formulation of Obamacare (and Romneycare) became a world-altering scandal for things he said at policy conferences years later.
Sheldon Adelson is done giving tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to SuperPacs. He wants to start his own SuperPac so he can run the whole the thing.
In tragic new setback for Obama, new data shows its reducing the growth of spending on health care, basically the Holy Grail of longterm financial stability for the country.
You may have seen the news that Mark Wahlberg is petitioning the Governor of Massachusetts for a pardon for crimes he committed as a teen in Boston in the 1980s. These were a bit more than your typical bad seed childhood run-ins with the law. At least two incidents could possibly qualify today as hate crimes. Though I’ve increasingly admired Wahlberg’s acting work and his ability to transition from a music act/novelty actor to the real thing, I can’t say I’ve given him a great deal of thoughts one way or another.
But there’s more to this story than celebrity news.