Great info graphic from Mother Jones. Kevin Drums writes…
Nobody asked me for my favorite chart of the year, which is too bad. Because I actually have one. It’s the chart from my austerity piece a couple of months ago that shows how government spending has plummeted during the current recovery, something that’s never happened before. If you want to understand the weakness of our economic recovery over the past five years, it tells about 90 percent of the story. But there are […]
Turns out Obamacare is a major success. Sy Mukherjee from Think Progress reports
About 1.7 million poor Americans looking for health coverage were deemed eligible for Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in November, according to new government data released on Friday. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) also revised previous estimates that about 1.5 million people
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee over at Think Progress has some good news for Undocumented Immigrants in New Jersey:
New Jersey Governor Signs In-State Tuition Bill For Undocumented Immigrants ” Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) signed into law a piece of legislation Friday that will allow some of his state’s undocumented residents to be eligible for in-state college tuition starting in January 2014. The state is now the 18th state to grant eligible undocumented immigrants access
More on Obama’s stingy record regarding pardons:
Blog December 20, 2013 11:23 AM Time for Obama to Go Big on Pardons By Ryan Cooper Yesterday, President Obama commuted the sentences of eight people who had been sentenced under the old crack cocaine sentencing regime, and pardoned 13 more who had already been released, a welcome move for a president who has had an extraordinarily stingy record on pardons. Dafna Linzer digs into one of those cases, a man named Clarence Aaron […]
Great article about the idiot from Politico:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin talks during a rally supporting Steve Lonegan, left, who is running for the vacant New Jersey seat in the U.S. Senate, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, in New Egypt, N.J. Palin has said Lonegan’s Democratic opponent, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, is out of touch because of his A&E’s suspension of its Duck Dynasty star, Phil Robertson, is now dominating the holiday-season headlines and prompting much political commentary—perhaps most notably from […]
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