With a non-stop geyser of news hitting digital media every day, a lot of material tends to slip through the cracks. For example, we somehow missed an op/ed from several days ago that’s packed...
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Republicans Unwittingly Vote for Obamacare Improvement; Boehner Fecklessly Skulks and Spins in the Shadows
As long as the radical, far-right tea party wing of the GOP continues to exist, the party’s establishment will have no choice but to skulk around in the shadows — the only place where...
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Yes – “Roundabout” Acoustic Live So it looks like a Yes theme week. Deal with it. Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading →...
Dispatches and Debunkery from the Trenches of the Obamacare Debate
My friends are always warning me to avoid political shovel fights on social media. And while I’ve somewhat restrained my natural compulsion to do so, I simply can’t help it. It’s...
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The Daily Banter Mail Bag! The Supreme Court’s Campaign Finance Decision, the Gun Control Debate and the Inevitable #CancelBanter Hashtag.
This week’s questions. Answers here. 1. This is probably a rhetorical question but do you think anything can be done at this point about billionaires and wealthy interests buying elections? The...
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Louie Gohmert Thinks the Church-State ‘Wall of Separation’ is a ‘One Way Wall’
The physics of this thing should baffle anyone with even a basic grasp of logic. So, conversely, it makes perfect sense to Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX). Speaking for a World Net Daily presentation...
The Most Egregious Examples of Hobby Lobby’s Religious Hypocrisy
Yesterday, we learned that Hobby Lobby, which is challenging the federal government over Obamacare’s mandatory contraception coverage, offers its employees a 401(k) retirement plan that happens...
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Please, Republicans, Run Against Obamacare This Year and We’ll See You in November
Anyone who tells you the GOP is a lock for holding onto the House of Representatives while taking back the Senate in the midterms doesn’t know what the hell they’re talking about. Why...
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When Hashtag Activism Totally Lost Its Narrative
One of my biggest gripes with the extreme flanks of the political debate is this: neither the far-left nor the far-right appears capable of modulating their respective screeching. This not only self...
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Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, I’m Officially Covered
I’ve told parts of this story before so I’ll mostly skip over the narrative about the why and the how, but since 2005 and for various reasons including a punitively large premium...
The Daily Banter Mail Bag: Nate Silver vs Paul Krugman, InfoWars Goon Dan Bidondi and Dating Gwyneth Paltrow.
This week’s questions. Answers here. 1. It is my imagination or has Nate Silver taken on a Greenwaldish tone with the new FiveThirtyEight? It feels like he’s picking petty fights and...
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