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Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 28, 2013 13 Comments
Obamacare is ending the year on a very low note. Two states, both deep blue in their politics, are unhappy with the quality of the websites designed for the healthcare insurance exchanges.  Shockingly, they have opted to take a very free market approach to the...

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 25, 2013 2 Comments
Oregonians wishing for a ray of hope on the last day of Obamacare sign-up are in for a bad disappointment, as the shining light of awesome medical coverage has been sucked into the super massive blackhole of administrative incompetence. Oregon’s troubled health insurance exchange began...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on December 23, 2013 8 Comments
A radio station in Iowa has been granting Christmas wishes to a few chosen listeners each year for over two decades. This year, one of those requests stood out and will tug at your heartstrings. (Watch the video after the jump). From ABC News: A...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2013 98 Comments
I’ve been learning more, over the past few days, about Duck Dynasty. This narrative makes a lot of sense: Duck Dynasty is not the show that they wanted, it is the show that got away from them. It seems what the producers intended and what...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on December 19, 2013 5 Comments
A college student’s documentary as part of a senior project highlights the impact of social media after Hurricane Sandy, and I think illustrates the role that such communications played in bringing people, community, and information together during a time of need. From Newsworks/Down the Shore...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on December 15, 2013 4 Comments
Anti-government protests again continued in Ukraine over the weekend after nearly four weeks of demonstrations, sparked by President Viktor Yanukovych’s refusal to sign an association agreement with the European Union. But after talks over the agreement had resumed earlier in the week, it seems work...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2013 29 Comments
No, not of me. Of Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt yucking it up at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service. The allegation was that the reaction was racist. From the ever-reliable Salon.com, The media’s Michelle Obama problem: What a selfie...
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