- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass tells us what Republican plan (come on, we can guess) will cost Kentucky almost $12 billion, and how the Governor will handle it.
- Jon Perr at PERRspectives explains the heart of the newest Republican program to repeal and replace Obamacare with block grants to states to do with as they please. We will then be able to rely on the good faith and best intentions of state and local Republicans.
- @bjork55 at Bjork Report brings in Lewis Black to explain to Republicans what health insurance actually is. Educational rants are the best.
- nojo at Stinque considers one Senator and the health care debate, and has a hard time coming to terms with obsessive inhumanity.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz applies that theme more generally, telling Republicans he simply does not understand their embrace of cruelty.
- Lots of debate these days about whether a single-payer system would be better than Obamacare, whether it is practical, whether it is even possible. Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara at Principled Perspectives covers some of that before going straight for transcendence. He concludes single-payer would be immoral.
- Jonathan Bernstein has been following Republican tax reform efforts. He reports that our national lawmakers are less concerned with actual reform, which is hard, than they are with an easier goal: tax cuts for the wealthy to be sold as tax cuts for you.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit provides a condensed explanation of Donald Trump’s foreign policy.
- Tommy Christopher examines the new trending word dotard as those of third grade mentality proxy-fight nuclear war. Tommy makes reference to William Shatner’s wonderfully terrible butchering of ‘Rocket Man’ the night of January 20 1978, an evening which will live in infamy.
- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from The Washington Post, reporting that the Trump Administration ordered up a report on how much refuges have cost the US in the past decade. They were shocked by the answer. So did they revise their position in light of new evidence? Nope. They buried the report.
- President Obama took less vacation time than President Bush, and a whole lot less than President Trump at this point in his Presidency. But the attacks about his time off were unrelenting. Something about presumed laziness, I suppose. Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post takes note of President Trump’s continuous retreats from a job he seems not to like and suggests a better solution.
- driftglass brings back fictional Winston Wolfe from fictional “Pulp Fiction” fiction to buzzsaw Kathleen Parker for mindless both siderism. I confess to some bias on that. I don’t mind truth-in-the-middle, both-sides-do-it as a legitimate conclusion. I object to it as an unexamined premise.
- I do remember how Wheaton College in our neighboring state of Illinois made a professor’s life very hard for suggesting that Muslims and Christians worship the same God. As if we don’t.
Michael John Scott of MadMikesAmerica contrasts that quick firm action with the story of 5 students who kidnapped and sodomized a classmate. The college kept the rape secret for a year, then punished the criminals, requiring of them hours of community service and a written essay. Poor lads. I’m glad Michael didn’t mention the college was founded by Methodists.
- John Scalzi at Whatever has fun with a critic who insists Scalzi will never be able to generate an income from writing.
- Infidel753 considers internet ads that clog the browser and suggests they can’t be producing results, except to annoy users.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce recounts a searing experience from years ago and why, to this day, he cannot bring himself to drink Sprite. Yuck.
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