What Medicare “Waste, Fraud & Abuse” Looks Like Up Close
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Mike Pence Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About, True Fiscal Conservatives Know That You Can’t CUT Revenue Streams In A Time Of Record Debt & Deficits
$60+ trillion in unfunded entitlement liabilities already on our government’s books. A $1.5 trillion 2010 budget deficit. And Republicans and Democrats in Washington claim that they can CUT taxes in this environment: House Republicans’ first move in the majority would be to extend tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year, House [...]
Don’t Attack Saddam by Brent Scowcroft, August 15, 2002
Originally Published in the Wall Street Journal Our nation is presently engaged in a debate about whether to launch a war against Iraq. Leaks of various strategies for an attack on Iraq appear with regularity. The Bush administration vows regime change, but states that no decision has been made whether, much less when, to launch [...]
Senator Tom Coburn Is Only Guilty Of Actually Saying What Most Everyone Is Thinking
Coburn on Newt Gingrich: Gingrich “is a super-smart man, but he doesn’t know anything about commitment to marriage,” he said of the thrice-married former House speaker. “He’s the last person I’d vote for for president of the United States. His life indicates he does not have a commitment to the character traits necessary to be [...]
Only Idiot Campaigns Actually Pay Political “Bloggers” For Favorable Coverage, But There Are A Lot Of Idiot Campaigns, And Political Bloggers
The Daily Caller yanks back the curtain on a story that’s going to have all sorts of legs in run-up to the 2012 presidential: Katie Couric once described bloggers as journalists who gnaw at new information “like piranhas in a pool.” But increasingly, many bloggers are also secretly feeding on cash from political campaigns, in [...]
The Associated Press Pushes Back Against Mosque Hysteria
Posting in full. AP Standards Center issues staff advisory on covering New York City mosque Associated Press Deputy Managing Editor for Standards and Production Tom Kent sent the following note to the staff about covering the New York City mosque story and then discussed the guidance and reaction in a Facebook entry headlined “Behind the [...]
A Closer Look At That Mosque In NYC
The New Yorker: Ah, the “Ground Zero mosque.” Well, for a start, it won’t be at Ground Zero. It’ll be on Park Place, two blocks north of the World Trade Center site (from which it will not be visible), in a neighborhood ajumble with restaurants, shops (electronics, porn, you name it), churches, office cubes, and [...]
Chart Of The Day
Yes, the chart looks like a penis. But that’s not the point. Andrew Sullivan explains.