@ meghanmccain if it wasn't for politicians cheating on their wives, you wouldn't exist.
- David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 8, 2013

Megan McArdle shows the numbers and how they don't add up. Our commitments for Social Security and Medicare will soon outpace the revenue the government can raise through returning taxes to the pre-Bush tax cut levels.


Ending The Bush Tax Cuts Won't Save Social Security

The pain is going to start really soon...

(BTW, the government still hasn't put ( Read more... )

Pro-choice group shocked that health care legislation will work against them...

Now, that's my summary.  But at the moment, there is no federal funding for abortion anyway. (Unless those folks at Planned Parenthood were lying on their Medicaid reimbursement forms...)  And before the health care legislation passed, some parts of health insurance ( Read more... )

Well...

It looks like tonight is the night (this morning is the morning in the particular time zone), that Israel would be able to attack the Iranian Bushehr nuclear reactor without causing nuclear fall-out. The reactor is supposed to be loaded up with nuclear fuel over the weekend.

Let's see how this goes...

Congress appears to have "accidentally" voted itself out of the federal government health care plan.

Now, I could go off on this in several different directions.  But let's go this way, we've resigned ourselves to a health care system with a single point of failure.  Not only is the federal government imperfect, it is imperfect and swayed by ( Read more... )

"There's a part of her record that seems to be, up to now, been flying under the radar a bit. And that's her tough stance on criminals and her unyielding commitment to finding justice for the victims of crime," Biden said ( Read more... )

She appears to be a qualified candidate, but there are a handful of other judges that would be better choices than Judge Sotomayor ( Read more... )

Well, this is very disturbing if true ( Read more... )

MSNBC is spending a nice chunk of this morning bitching about the what their own evening talking heads called the 300,000+ tax and bailout protesters. The "tea baggers" joke is pretty funny, until you realize that those folks are smack in the middle of your core ad demographic. And hey, what are they really protesting anyway, out of control ( Read more... )

CNN Headline: "Heroin Cheaper than Six-Pack of Beer"

(And higher quality than ever, too)

If there is a clearer sign that we should stop prosecuting drug buyers and sellers and turn our efforts on rehabilitating those users that want or desperately need help, please let me know what it is.