With Obamacare coverage kicking in Jan. 1, some conservative doctors are going so far as to refuse to accept all private insurance.
One such doctor tells TPM that Obamacare raises the specter of government scientists falsifying research to help keep down the cost of Obamacare.
Just a reminder: The TPM Prime reader chat with Murdoch’s World author David Folkenflik (sub. req.) starts at noon. Join us!
Did your favorite Republican lose his R-card this morning for praising Mandela on Facebook? Must read about where some of America still lives.
When someone of Nelson Mandela’s stature, historic significance and personal greatness dies, there’s really nothing to say for most of us that isn’t trite or unneeded. That seems especially so in this case in which Mandela’s passing has elements of a blessing in human terms, given his great age and deep enfeeblement and apparent suffering. But after a day of absorbing this expected news, there is one thing I would like to add: violence. And I mean that in a good way.
One of the most outside-the-box privacy activist plans to disrupt NSA surveillance: shut off their water supply so they can’t cool their computers. Or presumably, drink or hydrate themselves.
Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg remembers working for Mandela.
Today at TPM Cafe’s Book Club, Diane Ravitch makes the case against the modern education reform movement, as argued in her book Reign of Error:
In the early years of the twenty-first century, a bipartisan consensus arose about educational policy in the United States. Right and left, Democrats and Republicans, the leading members of our political class and our media elite seemed to agree: Public education is broken. Our students are not learning enough. Public schools are bad and getting worse. … There is only one problem with this narrative. It is wrong.
Oklahoma Satanists want to put monument on state Capitol in Oklahoma.
TPM is a website and a news organization. But fundamentally it’s a small business. And like any well-managed small business we keep a close eye on expenses and review all the incoming and outgoing revenue at the end of month. So it was with some surprise when I heard from our accountant last week asking me about a payment for $1984 to Julian Toynbee (not his real name, for reasons which will become clear shortly.)
Pickens County, SC Sheriff Rick Clark has deleted his Facebook post saying he would refuse to lower Sheriff Department flags to half staff in Nelson Mandela’s honor. He now says it’s time to “move on” and advises readers to “read about President Mandela.”