Dumb, Uneducated, And Eager To Deceive: Media On Religious Liberty

Dumb, Uneducated, And Eager To Deceive: Media On Religious Liberty: "In the aftermath of the abominable media coverage of Arizona’s religious liberty bill, an editor shared his hypothesis that journalists care about freedom of speech and of the press because they practice them. And journalists don’t care about freedom of religion because they don’t."



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Obamacare Victims Are ‘Liars,’ Says Top Democrat - Yahoo Finance

Obamacare Victims Are ‘Liars,’ Says Top Democrat - Yahoo Finance: "The data looks even worse for the “don’t believe your own lying eyes” messaging strategy. When the initial rollout of Obamacare took place, the Obama administrations oft-repeated claim that the currently insured would be able to keep their plans went out the window, as insurers were forced to cancel insurance for five to six million people under now-forbidden coverage. To this day, the Obamacare exchanges have only had four million sign-ups, with as many as 20 percent of those failing to complete enrollments. 



 This week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimated that another 11 million people with coverage from small-business group plans will see their premiums rise as a result of the law – 65 percent of all those with such coverage. "



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Obamacare Victims Are ‘Liars,’ Says Top Democrat - Yahoo Finance

Obamacare Victims Are ‘Liars,’ Says Top Democrat - Yahoo Finance: "It’s true that Boonstra’s story turned into a dispute when others looked into her claims. The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler gave the AFP ad two Pinocchios, noting that the premium decrease for Boonstra’s new plan (her existing plan, which she preferred, got canceled under Obamacare) added up to the out-of-pocket limit, negating her claims of extra expense. News media reported on that interpretation, and a Democratic incumbent filed a complaint with the FCC to force stations to stop airing the ad.



However, Boonstra disputes that interpretation, because while it might balance out by the end of a year, the immediate out-of-pocket expenses are much higher in the new plan – and there is no guarantee that the new plan will cover her current medication regime. In fact, they declined to do so when Boonstra tried to renew the prescription."



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Russia admits that it has moved troops in Ukraine - Telegraph

Russia admits that it has moved troops in Ukraine - Telegraph: "The soldiers, who wore no identifying insignia, refused to answer questions from journalists as they strolled up and down outside the airport.
The troops made no apparent attempt to interfere with the running of the airport or take over key infrastructure, contenting themselves with strolling up and down the car park at a leisurely place, apparently deliberately for the benefit of television cameras."



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My Way News - Russian moves raise stakes in Ukraine conflict

My Way News - Russian moves raise stakes in Ukraine conflict: "Russia has pledged to respect Ukraine's territorial integrity. But the dispatch of Russian fighter jets Thursday to Ukraine's borders and drills by some 150,000 Russian soldiers - almost the entirety of its troop force in the western part of the country - signaled strong determination not to lose Ukraine to the West."

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This is one of the problems I have with so-called "libertarian foreign policy" advocated by the likes of Rand and Ron Paul. I agree that the U.S. often makes missteps, and that sometimes exerting influence abroad makes us less liked in the world. But it also seems like it's not in U.S. interests to let countries with imperial intentions, like Russia, go unchecked.

The PJ Tatler » What Happens when Lois Lerner Returns to Testify Next Week?

The PJ Tatler » What Happens when Lois Lerner Returns to Testify Next Week?: "There is no doubt that crimes were committed by IRS officials, as I’ll explain on the next page."



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Harry Reid Denies All Obamacare 'Horror Stories'; 'All Are Untrue' | The Weekly Standard

Harry Reid Denies All Obamacare 'Horror Stories'; 'All Are Untrue' | The Weekly Standard: ""Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America," said Reid. 



"The leukemia patient whose insurance policy was canceled [and] could die without her medication, Mr. President, that's an ad being paid for by two billionaire brothers. It's absolutely false. Or the woman whose insurance policy went up $700 a month--ads paid for around America by the multibillionaire Koch brothers, and the ad is false."



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Harry Reid Denies All Obamacare 'Horror Stories'; 'All Are Untrue' | The Weekly Standard

Harry Reid Denies All Obamacare 'Horror Stories'; 'All Are Untrue' | The Weekly Standard: ""Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America," said Reid. 



"The leukemia patient whose insurance policy was canceled [and] could die without her medication, Mr. President, that's an ad being paid for by two billionaire brothers. It's absolutely false. Or the woman whose insurance policy went up $700 a month--ads paid for around America by the multibillionaire Koch brothers, and the ad is false."



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Piers Morgan’s Decline and Fall | National Review Online

Piers Morgan’s Decline and Fall | National Review Online: "What distinguished him from successful and beloved British imports such as Alistair Cooke, Christopher Hitchens, and Craig Ferguson was not the voice but the attitude. Most Brits move to America because they adore the place — becoming “American on purpose,” as Ferguson gracefully puts it. Morgan, conversely, came for work and work alone — believing, as Simon Cowell told him, that his fortune lay in America — and he demonstrated a reflexive disdain for his audience that he never quite managed to overcome."



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Althouse: The NYT's Supreme Court writer smacks down the New Yorker's Supreme Court writer in one devastating sentence.

Althouse: The NYT's Supreme Court writer smacks down the New Yorker's Supreme Court writer in one devastating sentence.: "We've been talking (and talking and talking) about Jeffrey Toobin's toolish attack on Clarence Thomas in The New Yorker, and it's not surprising that the NYT needed to take notice and say something. So here's Adam Liptak in today's Times:

Jeffrey Toobin of The New Yorker recently called Justice Thomas’s silence “downright embarrassing.” But the real work of the Supreme Court is done in written opinions, and there Justice Thomas has laid out a consistent and closely argued vision."

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Althouse: "Writes The New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin, who probably never had any confidence in Thomas to lose. What Toobin calls "ludicrous," "petulan[t]," and "demeaning" behavior is simply Thomas's silence at oral argument. Toobin invites us to imagine all 9 Justices adopting Thomas's approach to oral argument and dictates how we'd all feel: We'd rightly, and immediately, lose all faith in the Supreme Court."

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Whenever I read Toobin's writing, it's almost always this silly.

AP News : For Obama, a new sense of purpose in acting alone

AP News : For Obama, a new sense of purpose in acting alone: "Yet the flurry of executive actions does seem to be having a cathartic effect inside the White House, which was in need of a jolt after a frustrating and disjointed 2013 that included the flawed rollout of Obama's signature health care law and a sharp drop in the president's approval ratings. Advisers who ended the year dispirited now appear buoyed by a new sense of purpose - and the prospect of working around a Congress that has long been an irritant to the president."



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It must be so irritating, having to deal with Congress.

BRUCE: Mitt Romney, the new comeback kid? - Washington Times

BRUCE: Mitt Romney, the new comeback kid? - Washington Times: "Even among my rather diverse circle of friends (liberals, conservatives, libertarians, Christians, pagans and even an actor or two) in the People’s Republic of Los Angeles, there’s an interesting reaction to the Romney of 2014, a sort of regretful melancholy."



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The Corner | National Review Online

The Corner | National Review Online: "A first Democratic senator has indicated he thinks it might be time to scrap Obamacare. While legislators should work to fix the law in the meantime, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia told Beckley’s Register Herald that he would support getting rid of the law entirely.



 “I will vote tomorrow to repeal [the Affordable Care Act], but I want to fix the problems in it,” Manchin told an audience."



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Millennials Jump Ship over Obamacare Bait and Switch | The Fiscal Times

Millennials Jump Ship over Obamacare Bait and Switch | The Fiscal Times: "As National Journal’s Ron Fournier reports from the survey’s findings a majority of those 25 and under in this survey of more than 2,000 would vote Obama out of office if they had the chance for a do-over.  Among the entire group, the President’s overall job approval sinks to 41/54, just about the overall national average."



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