In the midst of a government shutdown, the ACA exchanges open to much fanfare and success. Well, actually, no they didn’t. CNN and MSNBC tried all day to get them to work and could not sign up on live television. People browsing often couldn’t access the site or proceed through the process. They tried to …
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The current government “shutdown” (which I will heretofore refer to as a “slowdown,” because that’s all it really is) has inspired a number of assorted thoughts on which I thought I’d elaborate below. 1. The American political system is working. Michael Barone made this same point earlier this week. This is precisely the system that …
God Bless Ted Cruz for trying. I don’t think I’d have the patience to explain what should be common sense about Obamacare – not just once, but over and over again. Keep it up, Senator.
So the people who keep us safe and rely on base grocery stores to save money are out of luck. But if you want to play a round of golf at Andrews Air Force Base, that’s still open. Want to guess as to why that is? His favorite courses are on military bases at Andrews …
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Last week one of the best television shows of all time –of all time, I tell you – ended its run. The story of mild-mannered chemistry teacher Walter White’s transformation into a meth kingpin is fraught with tension, drama, violence, and at the end of it all a genuine and profound regret. It is a …
Thank goodness the National Park Service reversed its shutdown policy and reopened the World War II memorial in Washington, D. C. Blatantly disrespecting our veterans by choosing to barricade them out to make the shutdown painful and noticeable is frankly un-American (yes, I did use that word). The veterans were having none of it, pushing …
Against the backdrop of the current budgetary battle and the ensuing shutdown of the federal government, there has been much chortling and wry humor bandied about on Twitter and in the conservative blogosphere about “essential” vs. “non-essential” government employees. Many a pundit ask the question, “Well, if these employees are ‘non-essential,’ why should we have …
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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is in the race of his life against Rich Friend of The Clintons, Terry McAuliffe, for the governorship of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He currently trails by a tenth of a point when compared to the Democrat, but the signs are troubling. From the Zogby poll: One possible stumbling block …
I think we are at a point where those who devised and have implemented “zero tolerance” policies should locked up somewhere just for being so dumb. A 12-year-old boy was suspended from a Rhode Island middle school after a gun keychain — just bigger than the size of a quarter — dropped out of his …
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Neoconservatives and libertarians have something in common that they tend not to share with traditional or classical conservatives. I don’t mean some policy, but something philosophical. Unlike nostalgic conservatives (to which camp I admit to belonging), neocons and libertarians are future-oriented, comparatively optimistic about where things are going. Less hindered by a view of human …