The victim-blaming hypocrisy of Rep. Peter King
Peter King, shown actually caring about Hurricane Sandy victims sometime last year. If he had not had asthma and a heart condition and was so obese, almost definitely he would not have died from this....
View ArticleYou won't believe what happens in a manual recount
You think you voted. But we'll confirm that in a hand count. Spend enough time working campaigns, and you'll eventually be a a part of a race that's so close that isn't decided on election day. This...
View ArticleCalifornia Governor Jerry Brown outlines ambitious climate goals
California Governor Jerry Brown: Climate Hawk In Sacramento this Monday, California's new and returning statewide elected officials, all Democrats, were sworn in to their new four-year terms. In...
View ArticleBrownback's results in Kansas scaring Republicans away from tax cuts
"I can't believe I screwed things up this badly." How bad are things in Sam Brownback's Kansas right now? So bad that conservative governors in other states are taking a look at the state and saying,...
View ArticleCalifornia revenue soars, even as tax-cutting states feel the pinch
Things continue to look up in California. Republican-led states like Kansas, Wisconsin and Arizona are suffering mightily because of their addiction to tax cuts (which, it turns out, are actually not...
View ArticleThe Laffer Curve has flatlined
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker believed in the Laffer Curve. It's coming back to bite him. “I don’t want to say the Laffer theory is disproven, but it’s a difficult time to advance that way in Wisconsin...
View ArticleFor Republicans, the only tax cuts that matter are the ones for the wealthy
A tax cut for these guys? That's a tax cut. A tax cut for the middle class? "Washington spending." It's a foundation of American political debate: Republicans love tax cuts. It's almost an addiction,...
View ArticleIn King v. Burwell, we already know the plaintiffs are wrong. But will SCOTUS...
Obamacare: awesome for people who need insurance. Not so much for conservative SCOTUS. It has not been a good week for the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell. For those who have missed out on the latest...
View ArticleWill Republican healthcare 'alternative' provide cover for the Supreme Court?
Sen Orrin Hatch (R-UT): The Republican face of health insurance reform. This past week, the House of Representatives voted for the 56th time to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Not because they have...
View ArticleMichael Cannon, CATO hack behind King v. Burwell, lying again about Ben Nelson
CATO's Michael Cannon, last seen mansplaining Julie Rovner's own reporting to her Michael Cannon, director of Health Policy Studies at the conservative libertarian CATO Institute think tank, is one of...
View ArticleDo the King v. Burwell plaintiffs even think their own interpretation is...
Here's who stands to lose health insurance due to King v. Burwell. Not that conservatives care. For better or for worse, I've spent the past few weeks writing about the impending King v. Burwell U.S....
View ArticleGOP solution to possible King v. Burwell disaster? Take subsidies away more...
Justice Alito, seen here doing something else besides shamelessly finagling on King v. Burwell Let's be honest. I'm tired of writing about King v. Burwell. By now, you're even more tired of my writing...
View ArticleRepublicans: the party of forced birth for teenage sex slaves
Sens. Cornyn and McConnell: Shutting down the Senate to force sex slaves to bear their rapists' children It should have been fairly straightforward. But then, this is the Republican Party we're...
View ArticleIt's so hard to be an Obamacare-hating Republican these days
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), perhaps seen contemplating whether to use an Affordable Care Act health plan. One of the more striking features of the contemporary conservative...
View ArticleThe religious right hates the Indiana RFRA compromise. That's why it's good...
The media called for a fix. Indiana Republicans conceded. What will the religious right do now? When Republican Gov. Mike Pence signed Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) a little over...
View ArticleKing v. Burwell unpopular, but anti-ACA propaganda having lasting effects
Five years later, still not repealed As it turns out, stripping some 8.2 million people of their health insurance isn't a popular idea. A recently released poll conducted by Perry Undem on behalf of...
View ArticleThe submerged state: Welfare for the well off
The wealthy and middle classes get welfare—but they don't think of it that way. The federal government and the state of California are on the verge of paying me a fair chunk of change. I didn't do any...
View ArticleSame-sex marriage opposition is a modern-day 'Mudsill theory'
Sorry. Can't let you get married because straight people won't feel superior any more. This upcoming Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether it is constitutional for states...
View ArticleThe White House Correspondents' Dinner: America's political saturnalia
President Obama and his "anger translator" Keegan-Michael Key, disrupting the social order. Ancient Roman society had a special holiday each December called Saturnalia. Part Halloween, part Mardi...
View ArticleWant Bernie Sanders to talk police violence and immigration? Change the...
Sen. Bernie Sanders kicks off his campaign in (very white) Vermont Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is off to a fast start in his quest for his party's presidential nomination. The self-described...
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