Refresh and scroll down for updates. (All times Pacific) 6:10 p.m.: This would go faster if they didn’t stand up and clap so much. Here’s the remarks as prepared. Obama’s not out of touch. He remembered that we just had an election. 6:21 p.m.: I don’t really buy this: China became home to the world’s […]
The Washington Post is reporting that President Obama “has decided not to endorse his deficit commission's recommendation to raise the retirement age, and otherwise reduce Social Security benefits, in Tuesday's State of the Union address, cheering liberals and drawing a stark line between the White House and key Republicans in Congress. “ This would be […]
Last week, a Philadelphia grand jury returned an indictment [PDF format] against Dr. Kermit Gosnell alleging he caused the death of a woman and murdered 7 babies at his abortion clinic. From the indictment: This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally […]
I’ve purposely phrased the headline in this post in the hopes that somewhere down the line someone who actually thinks that vaccines cause autism or some other parade of horrors in children. In February 2010, The Lancet retracted a 1998 study that linked vaccines to autism. Earlier this month, the British medical journal BMJ looked […]
New York Times columnists Paul Krugman and Frank Rich are setting a high bar for stupidity, but Jose Lambiet of the Palm Beach Post takes the cake. The name of Michael Lemole, the University of Arizona neurosurgeon who’s been treating U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ brain injuries since the Jan. 8 shooting, may sound familiar to […]
In an effort to defend the indefensible Obamacare law, the Department of Health and Human Services came out with a report claiming that if Obamacare were repealed, 129 million Americans “could be denied affordable coverage.” Think about that number for a minute. There are approximately 311 million Americans. Those over the age of 65 are […]
I can’t believe I missed this: “We’ve had some incidents where TSA authorities think that congresspeople should be treated like everybody else,” [Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C.] said. “Well, the fact of the matter is, we are held to a higher standard in so many other areas, and I think we need to take a hard […]
A reader forwarded me the link to this Village Voice article defending New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. I encourage you to check it out. It’s hilarious in how it elides all the substantive arguments against Krugman’s knee-jerk, fact-free attempt to blame the Tucson shooting on the political right. The author, Roy Edroso, quotes the […]
Last week, The Washington Post reported that food prices are going up and some countries are making moves to protect their supplies and keep prices under control. Faced with rising international food prices, governments around the world are cooking up measures to protect domestic supplies and keep a lid on prices at home. Russia has […]