Congress, after all, can’t risk a “brain drain” by hiking premiums and risk losing public employees to the thriving private sector, where they are guaranteed the best of all health care plans, can they?  I mean, who would be left to write press releases and pass laws funding Cowboy poetry festivals while banning certain shower heads? Market Watch, which originally reported on the exemption later backtracked and tried to explain

Sometimes I’m not sure what’s worse:  that the Democrats run on their “compassion” while systematically turning the part of their base not involved in high-stakes corporatism, public sector subsidies, and crony capitalism into dependents of the state; or the fact that the GOP establishment is so impotent and timid it can’t even articulate this very obvious condition to the American electorate. Instead, they actively fight the conservatives pushing a last

Most mind-boggling, blatantly evil premise to judge people by their race, not their character or behavior, this year. And considering the unconscionable race-baiting and pro-lynch mob demagoguery surrounding the Zimmerman case, that’s a pretty high bar. The core group of Republicans who are pushing the House toward a showdown with the White House over the debt ceiling and government spending is made up of 41 members — all white men

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Yikes As the population grows, so, too, will its hunger for meat. By 2050, meat production will need to surge by 50% to quell demand. The only problem is, producing so much (red) meat is already an environmental nightmare. And we simply might not have the resources to scale. Meanwhile, Katharina Unger is planning to invite her friends over to an insect barbecue. (Really.) The University of Applied Arts Vienna

A propaganda campaign organized by hucksters to take away the kind of natural right that would-be tyrants most fear, one that has always led to an increase in violent crimes, particularly in those urban areas where restrictions on rights are maximized, minorities are most adversely affected, and the law abiding majority is left as easy prey for the unscrupulous, opportunistic, and just place vicious and evil? Why, that could never

On deaf ears it falls. Not ours. Or even the majority of Americans, who stand opposed to amnesty. But rather on the ears of our betters.  Who evidently rely on the self-styled GOP intellectual class and its complex political strategems and 3-D chess games for adopting policy positions.  That then lose them election after election after election in what is a predominantly conservative country. But what the hell. It won’t