How hard is it to get somewhere when so many people are slamming on the brakes?
Monsanto hires infamous mercenary firm Blackwater to track activists around the world
"Kids for Cash" judge gets 28 years. This is what you get when you privatize prisons.
The IRS 'scandal'. (via Bryan of Why Now?)
Krugman: The Obamacare Shock
"...here’s what it seems is about to happen: millions of Americans will suddenly gain health coverage, and millions more will feel much more secure knowing that such coverage is available if they lose their jobs or suffer other misfortunes. Only a relative handful of people will be hurt at all. And as contrasts emerge between the experience of states like California that are making the most of the new policy and that of states like Texas whose politicians are doing their best to undermine it, the sheer meanspiritedness of the Obamacare opponents will become ever more obvious.
So yes, it does look as if there’s an Obamacare shock coming: the shock of learning that a public program designed to help a lot of people can, strange to say, end up helping a lot of people — especially when government officials actually try to make it work.
