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Price and Ryan-- these 2 want to end MedicareGeorgia doesn't have any swing districts. The state's 14 congressional districts are gerrymandered up to pack Democrats huge numbers of Democrats into 4 districts.

The closest Blue America ever came to actually endorsing a Republican was in 2012 when thoughtful Libertarian Justin Amash was the GOP candidate against rot-gut conservative hack, Steve Pestka, an anti-Choice crackpot and vicious homophobe. Michigan's local anti-Choice organization endorsed Pestka over Amash.

Yesterday, Greg Sargent started the news cycle rolling at the Washington Post with a simple question: Will Donald Trump really go through with all of it?.

Last Tuesday, Life's Losers got their revenge: with the help of Putin and the FBI they saddled America with a vengeful narcissist with a tiny attention span who has surrounded himself with fascists. They sent their message, that the two establishment parties have left them and their families for roadkill.

I don't know what it's like in your state. I know a lot of nurses in Florida come from Haiti. When my friend Stephen's mom died after a long, protracted illness, he gave her primary nurse several hundred thousand dollars from his mom's estate. His mom wanted him to and Stephen described the nurse to me as an angel who made his mother's last years not just bearable, but worthwhile for her.

Paul Ryan and his utterly dysfunctional House Republican conference is riven with so much in-fighting and back-stabbing and with so many ideological purity tests that they can't get anything done-- not even the most basic functions of government. The Florida delegation-- both Democrats and Republicans-- have been begging and are now demanding that Ryan call Congress back into session to deal with the Zika crisis.

More great investigative reporting from David Sirota at the International Business Times, this time on how proposed healthcare insurance mergers between Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana will harm the public by reducing competition and raising costs for consumers.

From the June 2, 2016 episode of TVO’s the Agenda with Steve Paikin, the guest, claimed, 2 minutes in, that a report on mental health costs said that the annual cost due to lost productivity in Canada was $51 billion, and is projected to go into the trillions in 30 years. Given that Canada has […]

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Until Friday, the newest controversy around young greed and selfishness icon Martin Shkreli was how he bought the single existent copy of the 31-track Wu-Tang Clan double album, Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, for a million or two million dollars (no one who knows for sure is telling) at an auction, after having a trusted staffer listen to a 13 minute snippet.