Archive for March 26th, 2010
The Nexus of Wingnut
Get ready everyone for Kookapocalypse Now! Well, OK, not now. Actually, April 7. That’s when former Governor, former VP candidate, and current Queen of the Tea Baggers Sarah Palin will host a fundraiserfor Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann. Yup. That’s right. Palin and Bachmann will be together in the same room. Physicists at CERN are concerned that [...]
26Mar2010 | Scott P | 28 comments | Continued
More March Madness! The Worst Company in America
The Consumerist is running their annual Worst Company in America competition and this year’s brackets are up:
Print it out,make your picks and follow the going on here. Tell us who your first round picks are too in the comments.
I lovelovelove the matchup between AIG and Cash4Gold. That is classic. Just classic.
Another Fracture in the GOP Wall
This time TalkingPointsMemo documents the infighting:
26Mar2010 | cassandra_m | 14 comments | Continued
Friday Open Thread
Welcome to Friday of what has been both a weird and wonderful week. I hope you have awesome weekend plans! What’s on your mind? Let’s get this open thread spinning.
Before you feel too sorry for the newly-purged conservative David Frum, take a look at this blast from the past (written by Frum in 2003).
You [...]
Why Yes, I Do Intend To Document Every Incident
Here’s the latest: (Via Think Progress)
After picking up his 10-year old daughter from school yesterday afternoon, Nashville resident Mark Duren was driving home when he was suddenly and intentionally rammed from behind by Harry Weisiger. Enraged at the sight of Duren’s Obama bumper sticker, Weisiger gave Duren “the bird” and then hit him from behind, [...]
Insurance Commissioner is Failing Aggrieved Patients
That title is stolen from the News Journal Opinion page today, whose writers I have to give some credit to today.
They highlight an odd bit of business, where Senator John D. Rockefeller, D-W.V has written to Delaware Blue Cross to ask them to provide detailed documentation of why they would deny cardiac testing prescribed by doctors to patients exhibiting symptoms of heart failure.
26Mar2010 | cassandra_m | 21 comments | Continued
Student Loan Reform
Somewhat overshadowed by all the attention on the health care reform bill was the student loan overhaul that was added into the reconciliation package:
Ending one of the fiercest lobbying fights in Washington, Congress voted Thursday to force commercial banks out of the federal student loan market, cutting off billions of dollars in profits in a [...]
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