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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Lighter Late Night Open Thread: I Think I’ve Figured Out Why Cole’s Too Busy to Post
He’s trying to get Lily and Steve to be more brand-friendly dammit!!!… Bianca Bosker, in the Atlantic, on “Instamom: The enviable, highly profitable life of Amber Fillerup Clark, perfect mother and social-media influencer”: One morning in early November, Amber Fillerup Clark sat at her dining-room table, which serves as her desk most days, peering at …
Open Thread: Jason Chaffetz, Craven Careerist
"The president said, 'no oversight. You can't talk about anything that has to do with oversight.'" — Untroubled GOP chair of oversight https://t.co/N8GzcYl4Aj — Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 7, 2017 Chaffetz gets a 30-min mtg with Trump/Priebus in the Oval Office, says Trump insisted on no talk of investigations https://t.co/D0j8zI19Wq — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February …
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Open Thread: AWKward, Judge Gorsuch!
NEW: Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch calls Pres. Trump comments on the judiciary "demoralizing" and "disheartening" https://t.co/i3q2sS91B1 pic.twitter.com/FyFq3teSbg — Good Morning America (@GMA) February 8, 2017 I'd add "corrosive" and "damaging to our civic culture." https://t.co/BI060Smfkx — Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 8, 2017 Note the senders: happy-chat morning tv show, and a conservative who still …
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Public Safety Announcement Regarding Marches, Assemblies, and Demonstrations
I don’t want to alarm anyone, and I’ve not found any reporting on this happening anywhere else, but one of our readers/commenters sent me the following. I’ve removed a lot of the personal references so as not to identify the reader/commenter unless he/she wishes to do so in the comments. I’m curious if you have …
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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: The Trump Cabal, On Beyond Shameless
Sean Spicer just now: I can only hope that if Coretta Scott King was still with us, that she would support Senator Sessions's nomination. — Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) February 8, 2017 Used to be, an elderly racist like Jefferson Beauregard Sessions would be required to festoon his confirmation hearing with platitudes about ‘youthful indiscretions’ and …
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