CREDIT: AP Photo/Susan Walsh On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that represents the first major challenge to the health reform law since the justices upheld its individual mandate in 2012. If the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell are successful, the government will no longer…
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Abbreviated pundit roundup: Net neutrality vote is a historic win for consumers
Republicans are vowing to fight the FCC’s party-line vote in favor of net neutrality, but they will have an uphill battle. Consumers want an open and fair internet. We begin today’s roundup with Craig Aaron, President & CEO of Free Press, who looks back at the long fight leading…
The Funniest Tweets From The Great Llama Escape Of 2015 – Refinery29
West Texas NewsThe Funniest Tweets From The Great Llama Escape Of 2015Refinery29Arizona is known for many things, from scorching deserts to the energy vortexes in Sedona and the wild llamas running through the exurbs of Phoenix. Okay, that last one was merely wishful thinking on the parts of two …
Sarah Palin Delivers Mostly Coherent Speech At CPAC, WTF?
We do not know what happened to our beloved sister Sarah Palin, but obviously someone sedated the hell out of her and told her if she dares to go off script during her speech at CPAC this year and vomit incoherent nonsense all over the stage like she usually does…
Inside the Beltway: Jeb Bush: Hawk or dove? Americans are undecided – Washington Times
Kansas City StarInside the Beltway: Jeb Bush: Hawk or dove? Americans are undecidedWashington TimesAmericans are under the perception that George W. Bush is more of a “hawk” than his brother Jeb Bush. (ASSOCIATED PRESS) more >. By Jennifer Harper – The Washington Times – Thursday, February 26, 2015. A pivotal moment at the Conservative …
Pot lovers light up as Washington legalizes marijuana
Residents of Washington can now possess up to two ounces (56 grams) of marijuana — enough to fill two sandwich bags — and grow as many as six plants in the privacy of their homes without threat of arrest. Head shops will be free to sell pot paraphernalia, but retail sales of …
Republicans prepare to pass Homeland Security funding
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hours from a partial agency shutdown, Congress is moving to approve a short-term funding bill for the Homeland Security Department that leaves intact Obama administration immigration policies Republicans vowed to repeal.
GOP Hopeful Slams Hillary For Clinton Foundation, Forgets To Mention Her Own Extensive Involvement
Carly Fiorina with Bill Clinton at a Clinton Foundation event last year. CREDIT: YouTube Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina had some harsh words for Hillary Clinton and her family’s foundation for allegations that it has accepted money from foreign governments at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday…
Abbreviated pundit roundup: Controversial comments by Giuliani and Walker
After repeatedly standing by his claim that President Obama doesn’t “love America,” former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani is now trying to walk back his comments, but the damage to his reputation is already done. Over at The Washington Post, Eugene Robinson analyzes Guiliani’s comments in the context of…
Report: VA Secretary Robert McDonald apologizes for misstating military record – Washington Post
Washington PostReport: VA Secretary Robert McDonald apologizes for misstating military recordWashington PostRobert McDonald, the secretary of veterans affairs, misrepresented his military record in a recent TV appearance, falsely stating that he was in an elite special operations division. McDonald, a West Point grad who served with the 82nd Airborne Division ……
Idaho Republican Asks How Do You Get Stuff In A Lady’s Vagina?
Vito Barbieri is not as stupid as you think he is. (Okay, he is probably as stupid as you think he is.) But by donning the mantle of a complete buffoon who thinks — we don’t know, that you put Sheldon Adelson’s aspirin in your vagina? — …
Obama taps Indian Americans to fix things at home and abroad
Washington, Feb 24 (IANS) President Barack Obama, with the largest number of Indian Americans in his administration, keeps dipping into the expanding talent pool of the three million-strong Indian American community, to take care of issues ranging from combating terrorist propaganda abroad to nation’s health at home. Last week, after …
Historic US-Iran nuclear deal could be taking shape
GENEVA (AP) — Edging toward a historic compromise, the U.S. and Iran reported progress Monday on a deal that would clamp down on Tehran's nuclear activities for at least 10 years but then slowly ease restrictions on programs that could be used to make atomic arms.
Ukraine Says Truce Isn’t Working and Rebels Not Withdrawing Arms – Bloomberg
TODAYonlineUkraine Says Truce Isn't Working and Rebels Not Withdrawing ArmsBloombergPro-Russian rebels load ammunition onto a truck near Debaltseve, on Feb. 17, 2015. Fighting continued after the cease-fire agreement was meant to come into force on Feb. 15, underscoring the tenuous nature of the deal brokered by European leaders last …Vladimir …
Is The Terrorist Threat Against Malls Being Hyped For Political Purposes?
CREDIT: AP The Mall of America and other shopping centers are taking extra precautions after Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson called for vigilance. His warning stems from a video threat by the Somali terrorist group Al Shabaab, in which a masked militant claimed the group will attack shopping centers in…
Capital Playbook: Bill O’Reilly’s war stories – Capital New York
New York Daily NewsCapital Playbook: Bill O'Reilly's war storiesCapital New YorkTOP TALKER — “Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem: The Fox News host has said he was in a 'war zone' that apparently no American correspondent reached,” by Mother Jones' (and birthday boy) David …
Abbreviated pundit roundup: 2016
Paul Krugman at The New York Times explains Governor Scott Walker’s courtship of economists who have been proven wrong time and time again: Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, is said to be a rising contender for the Republican presidential nomination. So, on Wednesday, he did what, these days, any…
Please Do Not Wear These Gun T-Shirts If You Are Black
Small businesses, we are told, are the engine of our economy, the soul of capitalism, the American dream itself realized, workshops of imagination from whence spring innovation and dynamism like sweat from a (non-migrant) farmer’s sun-beaten brow. So it was with a sense of pride and giddy…