Taibbi: The Anti-Refugee Movement Is America at Its Most Ignorant
Worth a read.
Category: politics
The Trump era is shredding Senate comity
The Trump era is shredding Senate comity
The standing filibuster of the Obama years killed comity. It’s been dead for years.
Rand Paul on Flynn: ‘Makes no sense’ to investigate fellow Republicans
Rand Paul on Flynn: ‘Makes no sense’ to investigate fellow Republicans
I just don’t think it’s useful to be doing investigation after investigation, particularly of your own party. We’ll never even get started with doing the things we need to do, like repealing Obamacare, if we’re spending our whole time having Republicans investigate Republicans. I think it makes no sense.
That’s Rand Paul standing on principal.
One thing red state voters don’t like about Obamacare is that it sucks
One thing red state voters don’t like about Obamacare is that it sucks
It is absurd that someone whose income is 130% of the poverty line can go to a doctor but someone whose income is 140% (or 150%, 160%, etc.) of the poverty line cannot. Yet that is the reality the design of Obamacare has created. This design generates enormous resentment because it is actually bullshit that making a little more money makes health care unaffordable.
Why did people who are on Obamacare vote against Obamacare? Maybe because Trump promised them something better and Hillary promised them more Obamacare.
New Documents Show This TSA Program Blamed for Profiling Is Unscientific and Unreliable — But Still It Continues
In the past, government auditors, members of Congress from both parties, and independent experts have labeled the program wasteful and ineffective. Our study reinforces these conclusions, and more.
53% of Republicans don’t know repealing Obamacare repeals the Medicaid expansion
53% of Republicans don’t know repealing Obamacare repeals the Medicaid expansion
They will blame the dems.
Mitch McConnell Cuts Off Elizabeth Warren For Criticizing Jeff Sessions
Mitch McConnell Cuts Off Elizabeth Warren For Criticizing Jeff Sessions
The GOP special snowflake caucus demands that Warren not hurt their feelings.
Statement for the BBC on the Disruption of Berkeley Speaker Event on February 1, 2017
Statement for the BBC on the Disruption of Berkeley Speaker Event on February 1, 2017
If the members of the Berkeley Republican Club believe that their invited speaker has ideas about politics and moral philosophy that are–even potentially–great, I really wish that they would explain why they think they are great. They have a duty to the university to do so. But perhaps they invited their speaker because they hoped he would make African-American, Asian, Hispanic, Muslim, and other minority members of the university feel small and unsafe. If so they need to examine their consciences and pray to their gods, and think hard about whether they understand the purpose of a university.
If you only care about free speech when it’s your freedom to insult people you dislike, then you don’t actually care about free speech. You care about insulting people.
US officials: Trump approved Yemen raid ‘without sufficient intelligence’ – Business Insider
US Central Command said in a statement that an investigating team had “concluded regrettably that civilian noncombatants were likely killed” during Sunday’s raid. It added that children may have been among the casualties. (via US officials: Trump approved Yemen raid ‘without sufficient intelligence’ – Business Insider) Who is Trump going to throw under the bus… Continue reading US officials: Trump approved Yemen raid ‘without sufficient intelligence’ – Business Insider
Donald Trump Is Becoming an American Dictator – Defiant – Medium
Donald Trump Is Becoming an American Dictator – Defiant – Medium
Trump infamously promised in his convention speech that he alone could fix the country’s problems, and that’s how he intends to govern — alone.