Obama Signs SCHIP Bill

February 5, 2009

While POTUS has already talked openly about delaying his health care agenda in the wake of the Daschle withdrawal, signing the SCHIP bill today put 3.5 million children in a nationalized health system – exactly the sort of step many concerned parents will demand in this economy.

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Feature: Tracking the Most Wanted Nazi

February 5, 2009

An interesting, if unusually glancing for the NYT, story about the effort to track down and account for one of the last true butchers of the Nazi regime. That the monster appears to have escaped justice by dying in Egypt almost twenty years ago is only offset by the certainty that he’s somewhere hotter now.

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This is Why You Bought That JesusPhone

February 4, 2009

MC Hammer reinvents himself as a cutting edge iPhone app. Seriously. There’s no punchline.

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MLB: Selig's 18M Deserved, or Out of Control?

February 4, 2009

Taking in more money than all but three players, Commissioner Selig is sitting on a pile of cash the size of Boomer Wells. But with a dozen teams raising ticket prices, the Mets’ Citi Field in question, and the economy in the tank, he’ll have to prove his worth in the coming year.

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CBO: StimPack Not Going to Help, Could Hurt

February 4, 2009

In a You Don’t Say? moment, the Congressional Budget Office tells us that world-historical spending and borrowing today will impoverish us in the future. A bonus: The effect on job creation by 2011: “Minimal.”

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Obama Intends Massive Nuclear Disarmament Talks With Russia

February 4, 2009

Fighting The Last War file: President Obama makes a bold move to virtually eliminate American nuclear weapons, in return for the Russians doing the same to their aging, broken, and mostly nonfunctional arsenal. Fortunately, we already told the Poles that we wouldn’t protect them from Russian nuclear strikes. On to the Sudetenland!

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Dept of WTF: Gregg Recuses Self From Voting on StimPack

February 4, 2009

Brian Beutler says: “What was I saying yesterday about pro quo?”

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Poll: Support for StimPack Falls to 37%, Plurality Oppose

February 4, 2009

Support for the economic recovery plan working its way through Congress has fallen again this week. For the first time, a plurality of voters nationwide oppose the $800-billion-plus plan.

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Zinni Offered Ambassadorship to Iraq, Then Rebuffed

February 4, 2009

The Obama administration asked retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni to be U.S. ambassador to Iraq but abruptly withdrew the appointment without explanation, Gen. Zinni said Tuesday.

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National Signing Day: When You Pretend You Know Something About That 17 Year Old Phenom

February 4, 2009

Rivals.com Prospect Ratings. Enjoy!

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