Jonathan Chait writes: The Obama administration today released the final numbers on the premiums in the state health exchanges. This is the single most important piece of data we have to gauge the plausibility of the exchanges, which are the…
Month: September 2013
Updates on what’s happening on the breast cancer frontlines. Use what you can, pass the rest on. MUTATED HEREDITY BRCA1 and BRCA2 are human genes that belong to a class of genes known as tumor suppressors. Mutation of these genes…
Marissa Alexander, the African-American woman who was sentenced to 20 years for discharging a firearm in Florida despite pleading Stand Your Ground against her husband, will get a new trial. Alexander, 32, said she fired a bullet at the ceiling because…
Curved displays are an early stage in screen evolution which is shifting to bendable or foldable designs, eventually allowing mobile and wearable gadgets to take on new forms that could radically change the high-end smartphone market. “We plan to introduce…
The love of guns and violent shooting video games is apparent in this video
The wedge between the establishment GOP and the Tea Party gets driven deeper with each passing day, and got a good whack yesterday when House Republican media darling Peter King had something to say about the Senator from Calgary: “My…
We already hold the record for the most guns on iur streets with an armed population like no other in the world. And naturally with all those guns floating around, we also hold the record for the most gun-related deaths…
There are some Republican voters out there praising Ted Cruz for his one man “filibuster” of Obamacare. These poor uninformed folks think that what Cruz is doing will eventually result in the law being dismantled, or straight up voided by…
Dr. Seuss may have written Green Eggs and Ham, but Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Tuesday that his dad invented them. Cruz was well over an hour into his symbolic filibuster of a government spending bill that would defund Obamacare…
It was well rumored, but the rumor will finally be being confirmed to be true. According to this tweet from NY Post Marc Berman, the official announcement that the 2015 All-Star weekend will be split between Madison Square Garden in…
It’s not enough for Ted Cruz to be wrong, because he is. It’s not enough that he’s offensive, because he is. And it’s not enough that he’s a hypocrite, because he is. The worst part is that he has the…
Okay. So apparently some of you have complained that it was too complicated to understand Obamacare. Maybe you’ve listened to the Republicans talk about the 2000+ pages of the law and the government red tape it entails. Well complain no…