The irrationality of Medicaid refusal

"Leading health economist Uwe Reinhardt is baffled as to why Republican governors would turn down potential billions by refusing Medicaid expansion. He uses a helpful analogy to show just how irrational an economic decision refusal is...."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/12/1321004/-The-irrationality-of-Medicaid-refusal?detail=hide

Georgia Republican Governor’s Corruption Costs Taxpayers Millions

"Allegations of corruption and ethics violations against Georgia’s GOP Governor, Nathan Deal, began to plague him even before he was elected as Georgia’s governor in 2010. An attempted cover-up of an investigation into Deal’s misuse of funds,  ethics violations, and violations of campaign finance laws, led to a series of whistle blower lawsuits, and a scandal that has implicated not only the Governor and some of his closest staffers, but the state’s entire ethics committee, as well. Recent developments also call into question whether the state’s republican Attorney General, Sam Olens, is willing or able to carry out the duties of his office in a non-partisan manner...."

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/08/03/attempted-cover-up-of-georgia-republican-governors-corruption-costs-taxpayers-millions/

Who do Republicans really work for?

"Republican senators blocked an election-year bill Wednesday to limit tax breaks for U.S. companies that move operations overseas...."

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/in-case-you-doubted-who-republicans.html

GA Congressional District 10's Embarrassment

"Tuesday brought the news that yes indeed, Georgia Republican House candidate, tea partier and general crazy person Jody Hice did indeed win his primary and will be headed to the general election and, most probably, into Congress. Ladies and gentlememz, presenting the next Michele Bachmann...."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/23/1316080/-Meet-Republican-Jody-Hice-the-likely-new-craziest-member-of-Congress

America's prisons are broken, and puppets are necessary to explain it

America's prisons are broken. Just ask John Oliver and several puppets.
America's prisons are broken

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A Solution In the Middle East

"...there’s enough death on both sides to fill a battlefield with dead children and dead husbands and dead wives and dead mothers and dead fathers and dead bystanders of every stripe...."

http://www.stonekettle.com/2014/07/an-eye-for-eye-in-country-of-blind.html

Supply-Side Zombies

"...tax cuts don’t have magical powers, but we already knew that. The real lesson from Kansas is the enduring power of bad ideas, as long as those ideas serve the interests of the right people...."

Supply-Side Zombies