Jon Stewart gets Bill Kristol to admit the the VA system is an exceptional healthcare system but that the rest of Americans don't deserve it. Kristol gets caught up in the typical GOP talking point trap of "government run healthcare is really awful but it's so good that private insurance can't compete." Republicans are just incoherent on this issue. At least he wasn't repeating the Faux News talking point that Barack Obama wants to kill your grandmother.
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) - Eagles begin training camp at Lehigh University this week with the same coach and same quarterback who have sucked just enough to seem good enough to…
Laurel Democratic Sen. Robert L. Venables -- a neighbor of one of the company's co-owners -- inserted the $50,000 into the General Assembly's annual bond bill to help Fry Manufacturing…
This just in: As expected, the Senate Judiciary Committee has voted mostly along party lines to give a favorable recommendation to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter…
Oh well, there goes another talking point. The report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the public option proposed by Democrats would not drive private insurers out of business…
I really hate all the pharma ads on TV. Now I have an even better reason to abhor them. (h/t Digby) Meanwhile, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, has…
Please allow El Somnambulo to apologize to the (presumably) fine folks at the Caesar Rodney Institute. Yesterday's article was, by necessity, incomplete. He feels confident that, upon further examination, the…
Republicans, we warned you this would happen if you didn't act to quell the birthers. Now you're hostages to the birther movement. Is this the image you want to project?…