SpiderFarmer

Let’s play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called “Imagine.” The way it’s played is simple: we’ll envision recent happenings in the news, but then change them up a bit. Instead of envisioning white people as the main actors in the scenes we’ll conjure – the ones [...]

New Economic Perspectives has a critique of what’s wrong with this “reform” – it solidifies the central position of the ridiculously inefficient private insurers:
Very briefly, the most significant outcome of this legislation is the windfall gain for insurance companies—who will be able to tap the wages of the huge pool [...]

Those of you who read me or know me, know that I’m so far left as to almost be a socialist…but this “health care” bill has to be defeated…as much as I hate to suggest siding with the loonies and the birthers and the teabaggers.
This bill will cost most consumers another 27% of their income [...]

So Sarah Palin resigned from her first term as Governor. Nobody knows why she would do something this insane…but, ya know, it is Sarah we’re talking about here. You betcha.
Regarding the initial Palin speech, Sean Cockerham, of the Anchorage Daily News, wrote a concise article that put a lot of the rambling nonsense into context, [...]

Planned Parenthood has just learned that Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) is expected to attack Planned Parenthood again today. He will offer an amendment to the Appropriations Act this afternoon that would block Planned Parenthood health centers from receiving federal funds from Title X, the nation’s family planning program.
This move is an unconstitutional, completely unfounded attack [...]