Megan McArdle on a bogus report concerning bankruptcies due to inadequate medical coverage: Yet even so, their own work shows medical bankruptcies falling in the years between 2001 and 2007, which would seem to invalidate, not support, the claim that half of all bankruptcies in 2001 were driven by medical events beyond the household’s control. Elementary googling reveals that the two doctors who co-authored this study are prominent spokespeople for

Story at News Busters. Remember, it’s not writing the sick thing that’s bad, it’s pointing it out. Caleb Howe fired on same pretext. Congratulations, AOL, you just became relevant again, as a prime example of journalistic douchebaggery.

See what you bought, America? Rep Barney Frank (D-Mass.) won a stay of execution on Thursday for a General Motors plant in his district that the automaker had announced it would close. No other lawmaker has managed to halt the GM ax. As chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Frank oversees the government’s bailout program, known as TARP. Frank’s staff said the lawmaker spokes with GM CEO Fritz Henderson

Absence of Bush, presence of Obama to blame. Gay groups get huffy grow impatient with Obama. “Consistent with my goal to increase transparency and ensure greater accountability to the public, please take all steps necessary to ensure that the quarterly Statement of Disbursements be made available online free of charge to the public and on a suitable House website,” Pelosi wrote yesterday in a letter to the chief administrative officer

Via Moe Lane: Kill Bill and Kung Fu star David Carradine has been found dead in a Bangkok hotel room. Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and body on Thursday morning. The US star was in Thailand filming his latest film Stretch, according to his personal manager Chuck Binder. Erm. I will leave

Like Dan Spencer at Red State, I have a few problems with Obama’s speech, namely: Let me also address the issue of Iraq. Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world. Although I believe that the Iraqi people are ultimately better off without the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, I also believe that events in Iraq have reminded America of

But remember, his crime was not as hateful as George Tiller’s executioner’s: Also Wednesday, The Associated Press, also citing an unnamed official, said some of the sites searched and mapped out on Google were Jewish organizations, a child care center, a Baptist church, a post office and military recruiting centers in the southeastern U.S. and New York and Philadelphia. After Monday’s attack outside the Army-Navy Career Center in Little Rock,

As a Christianist, I abjure and do strongly condemn the downburning of a topless coffee shop.

Late Sunday, U.S. Judge Arthur Gonzalez, the bankruptcy judge overseeing Chrysler’s case, issued a ruling approving the sale following three marathon days of testimony and arguments. Gonzalez also ruled that the funds do not have standing to challenge the use of TARP money because they will receive their fair share of the $2 billion set aside for secured debtholders, which is more than they would have received if Chrysler had

On health care, it looks a lot like this. Looks like Americans in general might be a bit more post-racial than the Pres.