Richard Cohen, who very often gives a very convincing impression of a 2,000 year old man—and not a very nice one, either—nonetheless still has a trick or two up his sleeve and delivers a nice one here, taking down White House evil genius in chief and all-around prick Stephen Bannon’s account of his spiritual awakening…
Author: Alan Vanneman
Yo, Frank Rich! Want to beat Trump! REPEAL RENT CONTROL!
New York’s Frank Rich has an always hilarious and frequently accurate takedown of what Manhattanite Frank deems “Hillbilly Chic”, the new fashion for feeling the pain of the OxyContin-poppin’ white trash who supposedly put Donald Trump in the White House. As Frank shrewdly points out, if Hillary hadn’t pocketed over $21 million in speaking fees…
Maybe it’s because they’re REPUBLICANS, Avik?
Avik Roy, a conservative health care expert who’s finding it harder and harder to be “conservative”, struggles with Lyin’ Paulie Ryan’s latest wrinkle to the Health Care bill that he and Donald Trump are trying to “ram” through the House of Representatives. The original bill had sort of a problem, noted by ethical gal around…
Lonnie Jordan WARtet—“Well You Needn’t”
“Mr. Duran,” a seeming resident of an early fifties time warp, presents “The Lonnie Jordan WARtet” on WAR (probably a TV station in San Gabriel, LA County, CA). Piano – Lonnie Jordan; Drums – Sal Rodriguez; Bass – Francisco “Pancho” Tomaselli; Sax – David Urquidi. Posted by MRDURANdotcom
If you like your insurance you can keep it. Not! And the mystery deepens
Surely you remember, a couple of years ago, when President Obama’s blithe promise, “If you like your insurance, you can keep it”, was given four Pinocchios, or three enchiladas, or whatever, and labeled and ridiculed as the “Lie of the Year”. Well, I’ve been reading Steven Brill’s book, America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals,…
That’s because they’re REPUBLICANS, Mona
Mona Charen, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributor to the National Review, has a problem, almost an ethical problem, one might say. Writing in the Review regarding Lyin’ Paulie Ryan’s House Speaker Paul Ryan’s plans to repeal and replace Obamacare, Mona says “… compared to the current law [i.e.,…
Obamacare: The Democrats won by losing, lost by winning, and now may have won by losing. Will the Republicans duplicate their “success”?
Donald Trump was right. Health care is complicated. How complicated, even I didn’t know until, by some coincidence, I started reading Steven Brill’s extensively titled though well worth reading America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System just as House Speaker Paul “Lyin’ Paulie Ryan” Ryan began…
A Limo at Risk, Part I: A skeptical view of American education reform, 1983-2017
(Author’s note: In the spring of 1996 I began to work as an editor/writer for a newly created non-profit called the “Education Statistics Services Institute,” whose sole function was to support the National Center for Education Statistics, part of the U.S. Department of Education. I was assigned work on the National Assessment of Educational Progress,…
Oh, and another thing: David Gelernter is an idiot
David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale and a major contributor to development of the software used in parallel processing and, I am sure, many other remarkable achievements, not to mention his scruffy beard and hair, looks like what he hates: a damn hippie. So Dave isn’t really an idiot. He’s what happens…
I think you just answered your own question, Avik
Over at Forbes, conservative health care policy maven Avik Roy is confused: “Remarkably, House GOP leadership plans to move forward with marking up the bill [to replace ObamaCare] on Wednesday without even having the CBO score available. It’s not clear why they’re proceeding without a score, but it means that members of the House Energy…