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In case you missed the official announcement of this year’s Golden Dukes winners live on Hardball on Thursday night, you can see it again now. Video after the jump …
Pretty shocking live CCTV video of that that suicide bombing at a rail station in southern Russia. Video after the jump …
If the ducks had simply moved out of the way, this New Hampshire lawmaker wouldn’t have been forced to run them over with his BMW.
What should we make of the NYT’s blockbuster weekend report on the September 11 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi? According to the Times, there’s no evidence that al Qaeda was involved in the attack and there’s substantial evidence that the fabled anti-Muslim video actually played some role in fomenting the attack.
TPM Reader LF considers the debate we should really be having about the Benghazi attack …
There is one other really important point about the nonsense surrounding Benghazi–it has made it absolutely impossible to have the real foreign policy discussion that we need to have. The reality is that, whatever the particular cause in Libya, the real cause of what happened is that in Libya we adopted an aggressive, forward-leaning foreign policy.
Yesterday we learned that a big surge of sign-ups at Healthcare.gov in the last days of December pushed the number of enrollees through the federal exchange to more than 1.1 million. That’s a big number. But it’s still small when you consider the number of people who lack insurance in the country and small compared to the targets set for sign ups by the end of the year.
But it’s not the whole picture.
TPM Reader PB thinks I’m being too soft on the GOP’s Benghazi lies …
I think your coverage of Benghazi is overlooking the fact that the original GOP attack was designed to muddy the waters and cover up Mitt Romney’s disastrous campaign gaffe when he broke his self imposed 9/11 campaigning truce to attack the President while the attack was still going on.
Yesterday I surveyed the progress of Obamacare to date. About 6 million new people insured under the program so far. A bit over 2 million have enrolled in ACA-compliant policies via the state and federal exchanges. About 4 million have enrolled under Medicaid expansion. An unknown number have enrolled in ACA-compliant policies directly through insurance companies, in many cases because they got fed up using healthcare.gov in October and November. If you add in the number of young adults under 26 now enrolled under parents’s plan you add another 3 million. But then I asked, how many people now do not have coverage because of Republican governors and/or state legislatures who decided to opt out of Medicaid expansion.
Well, here’s the number: 5 million people.