Very exciting things happening soon- Walter is going to my groomer and they are going to give him a makeover. There will be pictures! Oh, and this guy mentioned in the LA Times sounds familiar: Indeed, two of our most assiduous Obamacare-trackers, Richard Mayhew of Balloon-juice.com and Charles Gaba of ACASignups.net, put the lie to …
AZ Gov. Jan Brewer Gives Weapons to Terrorists in Exchange for Personal Meth Supply
Oh hey, please disregard that title; it’s just a typo. What I meant to say is that Governor Brewer blamed a “stumble of the tongue” when she mispronounced “Hillary Clinton” as “lying killer” during a radio interview this week. Simple mistake — it could happen to anyone, amirite? Open thread!
A thousand and one posts
Wow, that last post was my 1,000th post here at Balloon Juice. I was not expecting that when I first got started here. I’ve been a Balloon Juice reader and primarily a lurker since before the Cole Conversion time. Over the summer of 2013, I saw a lot of good questions about the ACA and …
Thursday Morning Open Thread: Compare & Contrast
(via Huffington Post) From the NYTimes, “Hillary Clinton Twists the Knife in Donald Trump’s Tax Proposals“: Hillary Clinton leaned into her plans to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans on Wednesday, denouncing Donald J. Trump’s tax proposals as a boondoggle for billionaires. “We’re going to tax the wealthy who have made all of the income …
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Follow-up on Aetna
CNBC got a quote from Aetna on their Pennsylvania strategy: “We don’t discuss our performance on a state level,” Aetna spokesman T.J. Crawford told CNBC after the insurer’s profitable Pennsylvania picture was first highlighted by the website Balloon Juice on Wednesday. Crawford declined to say whether Aetna’s plans were profitable in Pennsylvania this year, or …
Overnight Open Thread: Music!
Here’s some music to take you into the wee hours!
How We Got Here: A History of The Development of the Alt-Right and Trumpism
Following on several of the posts today, but to step back a bit from the campaign issues a bit, The Guardian has run a long read, long form report on the roots of Trumpism, or perhaps more accurately, what is being called the alt-right. Here’s a taste, but as a student of socio-cultural identity and its …
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