Editors’ Blog - 2014
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04.01.14 | 2:29 pm
Important Read

Key architect of both Obamacare and Romneycare says the process of enrollment is far from over.

04.01.14 | 2:59 pm
Danger: Repeal At Your Own Risk

Conservatives are finally getting to the point where they’re starting to admit that a straight repeal may not be a great idea. Sahil Kapur goes through some of the more prominent conservative wonks’ warnings.

04.01.14 | 4:26 pm
Obama Takes His Lap

Obama speaking Live at White House on 7.1 million signups. Watch.

04.01.14 | 4:54 pm
Boom

An appeals court just ruled Florida’s 2012 voter purge was illegal.

04.01.14 | 5:37 pm
All My Dreams Have Come True

Founder of 2012 Unskewed Poll Movement debunks 7 million sign up figure.

04.01.14 | 5:47 pm
CNN: We’re On This Mofo for 3000 Years, Baby!

In today’s installment, CNN did a cool graphic of a boat equipped with sonar to map the ocean’s of the entire globe to find the plane. They calculate it will take 2,995 years. (Presumably also 3000 year of blanket coverage.) Watch.

04.02.14 | 1:32 am
Young Girl’s Dreams Dashed

8 year old Olivia McConnell had a dream of having the Wooly Mammoth declared the official state fossil of South Carolina. And a law to make it so was on the verge of passage before getting held up on State Sen. Kevin Bryant (R) insistence that the authorizing legislation specify that the God created the mammoth on the “on the sixth day with the beasts of the field.”

04.02.14 | 2:15 am
North Korean Drone Actually Model Airplane

I had to look at this a few times before assuring myself it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke. But it’s been reported in numerous outlets and I just picked up the photos off our AP wire account and anyway it’s now April 2nd. So I have to assume it’s true. After an exchange of artillery fire on Monday, the South Korean Defense Ministry released photos of an alleged North Korean drone that had crashed on Beangnyeong Island, near the border between North and South. But here’s the thing: I was a boy who grew up in the pre-Internet era. And based on that knowledge I can corrected identify this as a model airplane. At a minimum North Korea’s focus on nuclear weapons has come at the severe determinant has pretty seriously prioritized nuclear weapons research over drone development.

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04.02.14 | 8:07 am
The Francis Effect

Citing Pope Francis, Archbishop of Atlanta apologizes for plan to build himself $2.2 million home.

04.02.14 | 8:14 am
No Ideas, Please

Jon Stewart asks if CNN has checked “their own A**holes” for the missing Malaysian plane. (Mainly, I’m worried this will give the folks there an idea for a new virtual reality board segment.) Watch.