Like it or not, the Affordable Care Act is now law. Barring full repeal or a court finding that it’s unconstitutional – impossible in the near term and fairly unlikely in the long term – there’s not much those opposed to the law can do to resist it. But yet, some of the people who [...]
David Brooks makes a not-very-convincing, and somewhat confused, case against more economic stimulus in his column today. His argument, essentially, is that since the economy hasn’t boomed in the wake of Obama’s stimulus plan, the plan probably didn’t work. I’m no economist–and, as Brooks accurately points out, most economists are far too convinced of their [...]
Remember how Jim Bunning blocked those unemployment benefits in March and everyone was outraged? Then when Tom Coburn did it in April, the outrage was a little less? With voter worries about deficit spending mounting, Republicans are now seeing benefits to blocking the extension of unemployment benefits unless they are paid for. Meanwhile, the GOP [...]
Well, it’s a lovely day here on Cape Cod, a Norman Rockwell July 4th–which we celebrated last night, in true American fashion, with a feast prepared by some Bengali friends. It’s a good day to end a vacation, to get back to work remembering what it is about this country that we should truly cherish. [...]
I haven’t been paying close enough attention, but luckily Kate is on the case. Check out this week’s podcast:
–Virginia becomes the first state to hold oral arguments in its court challenge to the Affordable Care Act. Twenty other states are also trying to invalidate the law. According to the New York Times’ Kevin Sack, the federal judge hearing the case, a George W. Bush appointee, “predicted that the challenges to the health care [...]
The memorial service is in full swing in Charleston. Meanwhile, our TIME colleague Michael Grunwald has his own goodbye to Senator Robert Byrd which looks at the West Virginia Democrat’s life without the rose colored glasses that always come with the idiom: Don’t speak ill of the dead. Let’s just say, upon reading this Grunwald’s [...]
You don’t have to be a hard-core hoops fan to know that NBA star LeBron James, one of the most famous athletes in the world, is currently a free agent deciding where he’ll take his astounding game next. Teams in several major cities–including New York, Miami and Chicago–are courting James with massive salary offers and [...]
NBC’s First Read has found a videotape of RNC Chairman Michael Steele at a Connecticut fundraiser (above). The audio’s not great but in it Steele seems to suggest that President Obama is responsible for the war in Afghanistan. “Keep in mind again, this was a war of Obama’s choosing. This was not something the United [...]
