Texas struggles to convince Tea Partiers they won’t have to fight the UN for control of the Alamo.

If you want to understand the Obamacare ‘cancelation’ story, you really need to read this piece. Most everyone is either untouched or a winner. But there are arguable losers (people who will have to pay more for what are inarguably better plans). And figuring out who is who has been significantly complicated by the glitches with HealthCare.gov. A sober, non-crazy look at a critical story about which there’s been endless bamboozlement.

If you’ve ever caught yourself rolling your eyes at someone who looks too poor to be buying an iPad or other luxury goods, read this thoughtful post by Tressie McMillan Cottom that might make you think differently about that judgment.

I’ve said it before but this may be the best story in several hundred years. Yesterday we reported that Toronto police have been investigating Mayor Rob ‘Crackalack’ Ford for months. And among other things, they’ve now got the infamous video – the one Gawker raised two hundred grand for, the one a couple people may have been killed for and so much more. But now it gets better. Read More

Alabama Blogger/Muckraker jailed for writings about ex-Governor’s son.

Tea Party challenger to extremely conservative Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) now claims he only attended one neo-Confederate political rally.

Deputy Mayor hopes to meet Mayor today. But members of the Mayor's executive have been unable to connect directly with Ford last few days.

— Jamie Strashin (@StrashinCBC) November 2, 2013

Actually there’s no ‘T’ in crack. But if there were, Toronto would put it there. Because this city seriously knows how to party. As you know, earlier this week news emerged that the Toronto police were investigating the city’s crackhead Mayor and had found the infamous Ford crack tape. Now the Mayor is apparently on some sort of wild bender where the Deputy Mayor is trying to find time to talk with him but, in the words of CBC reporter Jamie Strashin, “the Mayor’s executive have been unable to connect directly with Ford [for the] last few days.”

But now there’s this. Read More

We’re one month into Obamacare. What do you think? Are you optimistic or pessimistic. We’re getting everyone’s gut-check and discussing our reactions to the first month of the rollout in this thread at The Hive (sub.req.).

Wanted to make sure people saw this piece.

A group of red state Dems in the Senate are pushing a series of ‘reforms’ of Obamacare that would actually be deeply damaging to the law.