In a speech on Tuesday evening, Former Vice President and internet inventor Al Gore said that NSA leaker Edward Snowden “revealed evidence of what appears to be crimes against the US Constitution.” During a speech at McGill University, Gore described the
Sources tell BBC that Saudi Arabia is planning to purchase nuclear weapons from Pakistan. According to a NATO source, “Pakistan actually has made bombs for Saudi Arabia and they are ready to go, the report said.” Saudi Arabia has long
who has an RCP average deficit of 7%? Serious question. I find myself oddly on the “establishment class” side on this. Some polling showed Cooch down by double digits. Is that really winnable? Is everything really always “Establishment v. Tea
ABC News’ exit poll analysis shows that McAuliffe was hurt more than Cuccinelli by the presense of fake libertarian candidate Sarvis. According to Gary Langer and Gregory Holyk, “while it didn’t change the outcome, the third-party candidate in the race,
A proposal on the ballot in eleven Colorado counties failed to gain support in yesterday’s election. Six of the eleven counties voted against secession, with votes in the remaining counties still being counted. The purpose of the vote was reclaim
Voters in Telluride, Colorado rejected a ballot measure to tax sugary drinks yesterday. The tax was smacked down by a margin of 68% to 32%. The tax would have added a 1 cent per ounce tax on sodas and sports
State senators in South Carolina will host public meetings this week on proposed legislation that would nullify Obamacare. The bill argues that the Affordable Care Act has “exceeded the scope of powers granted to the federal government by the Constitution.
The California Endowment, a foundation spending big bucks to promote Obamacare, has just delivered a $500,000 grant to TV writers and producers to sneak Obamacare promotions into their programs. “The aim is to produce compelling prime-time narratives that encourage Americans
Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt ripped into the NSA after reports surfaced that the NSA was spying on Google’s data center. “It’s really outrageous that the National Security Agency was looking between the Google data centers, if that’s true. The steps
At least 3.5 million Americans have received notice that thier health insurance policies have been cancelled. Associated Press reported the finding, and caveated the number by adding that data is unavailable in half the states. The administration is claiming that
A new book chronicling the new 2012 presidential election is reporting that President Obama used to tell his aides that he was “really good at killing people” referring to U.S. drone strikes. Mark Halperin and John Heilemann are authors of
Intrigue and mystery surrounded the identity of the woman pictured on the healthcare.gov website rollout. After a few weeks, the mystery woman was removed and replaced with graphics. Now, the administration is seeking out successful purchasers of healthcare.gov services to
Most of the talk about the Affordable Care Act has focused on website glitches and skyrocketing premiums but there are other issues looming on the horizon for the healthcare overhaul. Hospital coverage. If consumers expect to have (or continue to
According to a new book to be released in February, President Obama asked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to stay on another year after he was re-elected. Obama was worried at the time about losing both Clinton and Leon Panetta,
The Conference Board released its monthly consumer confidence report, with a notable drop from 79.7 down to 71.2. “Consumer confidence deteriorated considerably as the federal government shutdown and debt-ceiling crisis took a particularly large toll on consumers’ expectations,” Said Board
According to sources close to the White House, Vice President Joe Biden and his chief of staff Bruce Reed are “no longer involved” in planning for Obama’s long term gun violence prevention program. The vice president’s disappearance from an issue
Yesterday, Obama’s twitter account was breached by hackers allied with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Electronic Army claimed credit for the hack. A link posted to the president’s account redirected from the intended link, a Washington Post article, to
The White House has granted a six week waiver for Americans to sign up for the Obamacare program. The policy change allows people who sign up by March 31 to avoid a tax penalty. The previous deadline required that people
Curious consumers headed over to healthcare.gov on Sunday found themselves out of luck, as the fragile website was out of service. A Department of Health and Human Services spokesman said the website’s outage was the fault of a private contractor.
Middle class consumers in California are looking at increases in their insurance premiums, a consequence of Obamacare’s changes to the health insurance rules. Rates are rising to subsidize the higher cost of covering sick enrollees along with other people previously
According to a CBS investigation the recent “explosion” of Medicaid enrollment could “threaten the entire structure of Obamacare.” Yesterday, I wrote about New York’s insurance exchange which had 2/3 of its enrollees dropped into the Medicaid program. “According to a
There has been plenty of talk about the impending fixes to the ill-designed, barely-functioning healthcare.gov website. Although the “glitches” should be fixed eventually and the site will execute as it should, there are far serious problems looming on the Obamacare
One of the consequences of the 2008 economic decline was that more men found themselves unemployed than women. With “traditional” gender roles turned on their head, savvy marketers used the opportunity to adjust their marketing strategies and conduct some research
Speaking at a forum in Boston, Vice President Joe Biden explained the country is on the brink of ‘remarkable changes’ in the treatment of mental illness. Biden joined HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s signing
NY Governor Cuomo announced yesterday that more than 37K New Yorkers have signed up for Obamacare. However, of those 37,030 new enrollees, 23,717 hopped onto the Medicaid rolls. Only 13,313 bought insurance from private companies. The uptick in Medicaid
Late Wednesday night, the Obama administration revealed it will give Americans six extra weeks to purchase health insurance via the ill-functioning online market place. A Health and Human Services official gave a deadline of March 31, 2014 to sign up
This nifty chart put together at alexmarchant.com, shows some startling comparisons between the programming of the healthcare.gov website and other popular programs/websites/operating systems. Healthcare.gov has about 500 million lines of code Windows XP has about 45 million lines of code
In an interview with CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reported that President Obama only learned of the technical defects in Obamacare website in “the first couple of days” after the launch. “But not before that?” Gupta
According to papers filed by federal prosecutors, Tamerlan Tsarnaev took part in a 2011 triple homicide in Massachusetts. Tamerlan, deceased, and his brother Dzokhar are alleged to have detonated homemade pressure cooker bombs at the 2012 Boston Marathon, killing three
According to the Washington Post, just days before the scheduled launch the Obamacare website would crash with only “a few hundred people” on it. “It crashed after a simulation in which just a few hundred people tried to log on
A new USA Today/Princeton Research poll released yesterday reports serious discontent with the US Congress. An impressive 47% say that Congress would be “better off” if most members were replaced. The number is slightly higher among GOP and lean GOP
If you really wish you could sit down and watch an episode of Dallas right now, sit tight. Apparently, Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins (Democrat) is on a witch hunt – trying to replace judges he doesn’t like by having
Last week, the Lockport police department charged a resident under the New York Secure Ammunition Firearms Enforcement Act for possession of a magazine loaded with 10 rounds of ammunition. Paul A. Wojdan, who was pulled over in a traffic stop,
The latest Gallup survey shows Obama’s presidential approval is continuing to drop. The 19th quarter of his presidency registers at 44.5% average approval rating, a drop of 3% from his 18th quarter average. “That is one of the largest quarter-to-quarter
The Department of Health and Human services announced on Sunday that ‘consumer friendly’ changes have been made to the homepage of the Obamacare program. In addition, HHS are consulting with the “best and the brightest” of technical experts to repair
According to a study released today, 15% of youth aged 16-24 are out of work and out of school. The Opportunity Nation coalition reports that almost six million young people “have neither desk nor job.” And it’s not just the
The Washington State United Food and Commercial Workers Union has voted to authorize a strike because of Obamacare regulations. Approximately 30,000 workers could walk picket lines as early as next week and the vote to strike was approved by 98%
Gallup released a new poll today showing that 60% of Americans say the Democrats and the Republicans do a “such a poor job of representing the American people that a third major party is needed.” This level of discontent is
Nine of eleven Doctor Who episodes starring Partick Troughton have been found in Nigeria. Troughten was the second actor to play Doctor Who. The episodes were found in at TV facility in Jos, Nigeria and were among 106 “lost” episodes
The Obamacare roll out is getting bad grades from the public. According to a AP-GfK poll, 7% of Americans say the roll out has “gone well.” According to the report, 7% of the public has attempted to sign up