Month: June 2014

Republicans, Wrong Again

Well, well, well, what do we have here? Health insurance companies are looking to lower their rates in Florida? Not a single health insurance company on Florida’s ObamaCare exchange has asked to increase its rates for next...

Read More

Hard to Root Against Thad Cochran Tonight

I have been rarely been so ambivalent about an election as I am about today’s Republican Senate primary in Mississippi. Incumbent Thad Cochran is 76 years old and has been serving in the U.S. Senate since late-1978. As you...

Read More

For Me, It Was Always About Abdulrahman

I have never been overly troubled by the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki. To the degree it bothered me at all, it was based on the lack of transparency over how it was legally justified and how the government viewed its...

Read More

A Lot of People Should Shut Up

I am so weary of all the hand-wringing about folks telling each other to shut up. In the case of George Will, the reason the Washington Post should fire him isn’t because he wrote something impolitic and offensive;...

Read More