Month: February 2014

GOP Doesn’t Care if You Die

The Affordable Care Act offers money to expand Medicaid services in all 50 states. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court ruled that states were not required to accept the federal funds necessary to expand Medicaid services and up to...

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Serious Questions

Is Jeb Bush inevitable? Would another Clinton/Bush contest prove that we’re not a representative democracy but a “nepotistic oligarchy”? What say you?

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British Court Challenges Mormon Church

Some religious beliefs are demonstrably false, while others strain credulity or are just plain implausible even if they can’t be completely disproven. But we’ve never argued that these beliefs can be put to some...

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Poor Boehner’s Predicament

One of the most boring things in the world is watching John Boehner try to figure out how to pass a clean debt-ceiling hike with a majority of Republican votes in the House. It’s an example of the Republican majority...

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Dutch Minister: I Had No Snooping Idea We Did It

Dutch government, not NSA involved in snooping De Volkskrant | Feb. 5, 2014 Minister of the Interior hasn’t got a notion which intelligence agency is collecting 1.8 million metadata of Dutch citizens’ phone calls...

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