This is really for the ages. Louisiana Republicans are begging Grover Norquist to let them out of their ‘no new tax pledge’ to get the state out of its fiscal mess.
Six million people risk losing their health care subsidies, yet @POTUS continues to deny that Obamacare is bad for the American people.
— Senator John Thune (@SenJohnThune) June 8, 2015
At a now-defunct gay conversion therapy clinic in New Jersey patients were encouraged to beat a pillow with a tennis rack and curse their mothers (symbolized by the pillow) to exorcise their gayness. This information comes from a suit filed by former patients.
In case you didn’t see this over the weekend: President Obama’s eulogy for Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden and former Delaware Attorney General. Watch.
Yesterday brought a burst of good news from Turkey, whose democracy has seemed to be teetering on the edge of a descent into de facto strong man rule for several years. The headline news is that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP party lost its majority yesterday in national parliamentary elections. They are still far and away the largest party in the parliament. But without an absolute majority they must form a coalition with other parties. In most multi-party democracies this would be in the normal course of things. But in 2015 Turkey, it is a dramatic result.
Here’s why.
If you’d read the Duggar police report it was pretty clear that they lied consistently through their Fox News interview. Here are some key examples.
The winner of the Cruz campaign raffle who gets to go out on a shooting excursion with Ted Cruz to honor the fight against tyranny will him or herself need to undergo a background check.
House Republicans: Fix subsidies? Our constituents don’t get subsidies.
I have been waiting for this battle for a lifetime: Donald Trump Goes After ‘Overrated Clown’ Charles Krauthammer.
Two worthies who were truly meant for each other.
A couple of House GOPers go on record that they’re not too worried about an Obamacare fix because, heck, so few of their constituents receive any subsidies.