Sahil Kapur reports some amazing doublespeak the GOP is doing on Social Security and Medicare.
ICYMI: Meet the geology grad student who ran the NRA out of Rhode Island. Amazing story.
A Florida restaurant chain called Gator’s Dockside is charging customers a 1% Obamacare “surcharge” and their employees health care coverage doesn’t even start until almost a year from now.
The short, sad history of the “religious liberty”/”cool to hate on the gays” mini-movement.
After telling Valerie Jarrett he doesn’t think the President understands the “urgency” of the situation on the streets, Bill O’Reilly says the First Lady needs to come on The Factor and tell teenage girls “You stop having sex. You stop getting pregnant. This is wrong.”
And the President needs to “get people like Jay Z, Kanye West, all these gangsta rappers to knock it off.”
In terms of consequences and impact, it may not rate too high. But in terms of sheer, concentrated derp, this tale from the the Daily Mining Gazette out of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, may be one of the biggest journalistic goofs in maybe forever. We covered the initial round of the story a few weeks ago. But here’s TPM Reader JL’s update from this morning …
This is strange…my local paper did an interview with MI-1st congressional district democrat challenger (to republican incumbent Dan Benishek) Jerry Cannon in which the reporter, evidently, interviewed someone over the phone who represented himself as Mr. Cannon, but wasn’t Mr. Cannon.
CEO of Bitcoin exchange Mr. Gox loses $450 million of other peoples’ money on Bitcoin nonsense, apologizes for the “inconvenience.”
Nichole Perkins points out that all too many black actresses nominated for Oscars don’t see the kind of career boost that other white actresses do. Can Hollywood avoid shoving aside 12 Years A Slave‘s Lupita Nyong’o?
With new arms on campus bill in view, Professor asks: Since I’m old and younger students might be quicker to get off the first shot, can I be proactive and shoot them first?
Meet the paralyzed Arkansas state Rep. who is voting against Medicaid expansion even though he has received more than $1 million of Medicaid funded hospitalization and rehabilitation and continues to be on Medicaid. He’s says the potential new recipients don’t work hard enough and probably just want to abuse prescription drugs.