There have been so many hasty and opportunistic reactions to the famed Oregon Medicaid study that containing the spread of misinformation is a bit like standing athwart a tsunami yelling “stop!” Moreover, people like Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt are much more qualified to comment on it and have been doing an excellent job, so I’d really recommend you read their recent posts on the subject.
But to draw attention to one of Medicaid critics’ most effective sleights of hand, performed most recently and deftly by Ross Douthat, consider the following thought experiment. Read More
The same company that sold that bleeding Obama firing range dummy also markets another firing range dummy called “The Ex”, barely clothed woman to use at the firing range which will ‘bleed’ when shot.
FBI agents believe “a terror attack was disrupted” when they arrested 24 year old Buford Rogers at his western Minnesota mobile home filled with Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs and firearms.
It appears that Rogers is either the founder or a member of an upstanding sounding group known as the Black Snake Militia.
Billions of cicadas about to overrun eastern United States in once-in-17-years booty call.
Obama firing range dummies that got booted from the NRA convention. But all hope is not lost because they did show up in two recent Discovery Channel reality shows.
Top Air Force Officer in charge of preventing sexual assault arrested for sexual battery. From the police report: “drunken male subject approached a female victim in a parking lot and grabbed her breasts and buttocks.”
Top Air Force Officer in charge of preventing sexual assault arrested for sexual battery.
Last night I flagged this bizarre and disturbing shoot-out video out of Ohio where a guy in a routine traffic stop got out of his car with an AK-47 and proceeded to unload on the police cruiser. (They were wounded; he was killed.) One of our readers noticed that what appears to be a course manual for one of the courses taught by Tactical Response CEO James Yeager was recovered in the shooter’s car. This afternoon Yeager posted a video — apparently in response to my post? — denying that Gilkerson had ever been a student or customer and claiming that the manual was actually a bootleg of his work. Watch.
I’m not sure if the folks at the conservative Heritage Foundation realized their propagandistic new study on the budgetary effects of immigration reform would invite so much derision from experts on the right, but that’s what it’s getting.
This is why they call wedge issues wedge issues, but for me the real fun part is the revealed opportunism on both sides of the wedge. Read More