“The past is never dead; it’s not even past.” Via Tom Scocca’s twitter feed, a Dorothy Thompson Harper’s article from 1941: It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I …
Method agnosticism and funding
I’m fairly agnostic about what method the United States uses to provide healthcare and health insurance to our population as long as the objectives of providing decent care at affordable prices in an equitable manner are either met or worked towards. If that means Medicaid expansion, great. If it is Medicare for All, fine. If …
“Dangerous permanent trend”
With elfin racist Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III installed as AG earlier today, the so-called president rolled out a series of new executive orders. Via The Hill: “I’m signing three executive actions today designed to restore safety in America,” Trump said in the Oval Office after swearing in Jeff Sessions as attorney general. It’s unclear what …
Can’t mail it in, can’t phone it in, can’t send it in
Senators’ phones are blowing up so they’ve decided to whine and say that only outside agitators are doing the calling. Here’s something that will be harder for these clowns to dismiss: massive turn-out at town hall meetings. You can see a fairly comprehensive list of town halls for the House and the Senate here.
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Writing Group Sunday Reminder and Open Thread
My staff – they need to learn to do filing. I think we’ll have a writing group on Sunday, same bat-time, same-bat channel. (12:30/11:30/10:30/9:30). The weather is suppose to be incredibly nice here, so I might not be sticking around for the entire time, but will get it started… I have topics in mind, but …
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Another anti-trust win
Via the Washington Post there was another anti-trust win last night. The Anthem-Cigna merger was denied. Anthem wants to appeal the decision but Cigna might want to walk away. “The evidence has also shown that the merger is likely to result in higher prices, and that it will have other anticompetitive effects: it will eliminate …
Thursday Morning Open Thread: Fighting the White Snowflakes
Fun fact: We didn't always have a Justice Department. President Grant created it in 1870 to protect black civil rights and smash the Klan. — Matt Ford (@fordm) February 9, 2017 After today, we've definitively established our ruling party is racist, now we're just arguing about just exactly how racist. — Schooley (@Rschooley) February 9, …
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