LIVE: Pa. co wrongly thinks it's health ins woes are ACA-related. UPDATED X3
UPDATE #3: BIG h/t to MartyM (from the comments)... HE went there!!! I called the company, Simonetta's spoke with a nice lady....they have 7 employees and have purchased small group insurance through a...
View ArticleHey Scalia, we already HAVE an internment camp, thanks to you!
Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia taught a class recently at the University of Hawaii, and afterwards he dropped these pearls of wisdom:Scalia was responding to a question about the...
View ArticleACA-dar: What's the real story of Emilie? MAJOR UPDATE X3! Emilie Speaks!
UPDATE #3: Emilie Speaks! (Be sure to read the original diary and first 2 updates to get the full story)The Tennessean newspaper did a good story about about Emilie with lupus from  Lawrence, TN. We...
View ArticleOpen Season on Young Black Men Confirmed
just don't shoot into a car and make sure your intended victim is alone. That's what the jury in the 'loud music' trial just said.I'm outraged. This is a huge travesty, an abomination, a total...
View ArticleMother of all ironies: Iran is our new BFF. McCain's head explodes!
It appears that at about the same time yesterday that John McCain (R-Confused) was delivering his fiery Senate floor speech in which he excoriated President Obama for having pulled US combat troops out...
View ArticleShooting instructor gives 9yo girl an UZI on full auto... what could possibly...
Is this the ultimate gun-fail?Charles Vacca was a shooting instructorin Nevada who was teaching a 9 year-old girl on vacation from New Jersey how to shoot an UZI.... yeah, an UZI.For those of you not...
View ArticleSo just how big a problem is ISIS/ISIL/IS ?
ISIS (I'll use that term, although the others are also valid) is certainly the flavor of the month, or even year. Our Secretary of Defense is certainly concerned about them. From a recent press...
View ArticleThe ultimate idiocy of the Christie/Cuomo Ebola quarantine policy
As everyone knows, last Friday Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo announced that everyone flying into their two states who had been in contact with Ebola victims in West Africa (or something) would be...
View ArticleHey Congressional Dems: Don't boycott Bibi's speech.... walk out!
I applaud the growing list (now over 50) of Democrat Senators and House members who have stated they will boycott Netanyahu's anti-Iranian, pro-war screed in the Capital tomorrow.The problem with the...
View ArticleAmazing: GOP budget turns Medicare into Obamacare!
I was taking a look at the latest GOP budget  - it sort of reminded me of slogging through a sewer barefooted - and came upon this gem:Our budget addresses this challenge by building a premium support...
View ArticleImplementing Donald Trump's Immigration Policy
'Come in. Hurry up, I have a lot of work to do.''Sir, please, can you tell me what this is all about?''Are you an illegal alien?''I have a job, a family, I make no trouble.''That's not what I asked....
View ArticleHAHAHAHA! Who spoofed the ticket site for Trump's Mobile 'Pep Rally'???
It's now pretty obvious that our soon-to-be Maximum Leader The Donald isn't going to come anywhere near the 40,000 screaming Trumpets (or is that Trump-ettes?) that his campaign claims to have RSVP'd,...
View ArticleTrump's attack on Huma Abedin was utterly despicable
I don't know why I'm stunned, but Trump's vicious, unwarranted attack on Huma Abedin was just horrifying.The gist of his attack was that.... well, let's see.... Huma Abedin is married to Anthony Weiner...
View ArticleChris Christie wants to tattoo bar-codes on tourists.... or something
It seems that the competition for stupidest immigration idea - recently dominated by wanna-be Dear Leader Donald Trump - has started attracting others. Enter Chris 'Remember Me?' Christie.At a town...
View ArticleSo, President Trump, you want a Great Great Wall... let's look at the numbers
Fun fact: the US/Mexico border is 1,954 miles long.Fun fact: the Great Wall of China contained about 3,889 miles of actual wall - we don't want to count the 1,500+ miles of trenches or rivers. No sir,...
View ArticleTrump: We have to defend Iran against Israeli attack... say what?
I was falling asleep listening to The Donald fouling off softballs from Don Lemon last night, after a fine day touring Quebec City, when this one opened my eyes:Donald Trump said on CNN tonight that...
View ArticleChristie tries again on tracking tourists.... fails again
A few days ago, Chris Christie spouted (pun intended) that he would hire Fred Smith - founder of FeDex - to teach the government how to track people overstaying their visas. My diary on that subject is...
View ArticleTrump: I'll deport them all in 18 to 24 months and THEN build my Great Great...
Here's our soon-to-be Dear Leader in full flow:Celebrity tycoon and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told members of the Alabama Republican party on a Thursday night conference call that...
View ArticleTrump's Tuesday speech sponsored by 'Veterans for a Strong America' - who are...
I'm sitting here watching the run-up on CNN to the latest Trump-a-palooza, a speech on 'national security' that the Donald will be giving on the decommissioned battleship USS Iowa.Somewhere along the...
View ArticleSurprise! Ted Cruz's tax plan throws money at the rich, relies on pixie dust
Well, maybe 'Surprise!' is a bit sensational, but hey, it's a headline.Ted Cruz unveiled his plan for reforming the federal tax system yesterday, and it's a doozy. He's way behind Trump in terms of how...
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