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It is shocking how one man’s words and the reactions to them can illustrate everything wrong with both sides of the healthcare debate. But that’s exactly what happened when several videos featuring Jonathan Gruber, an Obama adviser who helped write the landmark Affordable Care Act, were released. At a conference a little over a year […]
Net neutrality is under attack in the United States. If you don’t know what net neutrality is, or why you should care, answer the following question: Why are you reading this? You might think, “Because I clicked on the link,” or “Because the headline looked interesting.” All the above are reasons you want to read […]
On Wednesday morning, The New York Times sent the following breaking news alert via its mobile app: “Obama and G.O.P. Speak of Cooperation.” Beyond the utterly sad implication that politicians deciding to (heaven forbid) cooperate with one another warrants the title of “Breaking News,” the story that ran not just in The New York Times, […]
If the gods of election outcomes came down from the clouds, appeared to the Democrats in their dreams and told them they were going to lose a midterm election in the next decade but could pick which one it would be, every single Democrat should cheer for an absolute face-crushing in the midterm election that […]
The media magicians have pulled their greatest switcheroo yet: convincing the nation to care more about the Ebola virus than violations of basic human rights happening in Detroit. The following is intended to reverse that trend. You read that right, by the way: Detroit. Not Baghdad, Kabul, Damascus or Guantanamo. Detroit, Michigan — an […]
To put it nicely, the Iraq War that began in 2003 and ended in 2011 has been written into American history books as one of the most misguided and costly conflicts America has ever fought. In the last six months, issues with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria have brought the United States back […]
In Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays a weatherman who finds himself living the same day over and over again. In the wake of another Supreme Court decision that opened the door for gay marriage in more states, listening to critics of the decision is a bit like being stuck on Groundhog Day; the arguments are […]
Media coverage on the Ebola virus appears to be spreading through the general population with greater speed than the virus itself. With all the scary headlines, it seems almost certain that readers won’t even get a chance to pick up this column in the racks this morning. When a falling acorn hits Chicken Little on […]
National Voter Registration Day took place this past Tuesday, six weeks before Election Day on Nov. 4. In other words, folks around the nation celebrated the equivalent of a college professor having a “don’t forget to turn in your paper in six weeks” day. The national day was established in 2012 by the League of […]
In 2013, the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that the average woman earns 78 percent of what a man makes despite working a similar full-time job, and Senate Republicans simply don’t care. On Monday, Republican Senators unanimously rejected the Paycheck Fairness Act, a piece of legislation that attempts to fix the gap between money women […]