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Back in September 2004, Hurricane Ivan tore through the Gulf of Mexico. As a result of this weather phenomenon, a Taylor Energy Company offshore oil rig platform collapsed into the water, and oil began spewing into the gulf. Taylor Energy told everyone...

Privatization is the goal of the Trump administration and you will soon see massive moves in this direction when the orange jackal takes power on January 20. What is privatization?  It is the takeover of government services by private corporations....

Sometimes it’s just plain embarrassing, sorry, I mean stupefying how much the media doesn’t know about what they’re talking about. I mean, they’re supposed to know. They’re supposed to have a clue, but there times when they really really don’t. One of...

Trump’s big line is he should be president because he is a successful businessman. After reading this devastating Newsweek story, no Trump apologist can ever say that again. The story goes through the bankruptcies of course, but there are defaults,...

A new analysis by Brookings health policy researchers Loren Adler and Paul Ginsburg concludes that just as the Obamacare designers hoped, average health insurance premiums on the individual market are considerably lower than they would have been...

The right-wing media are salivating at reports from San Jose that anti-Trump protesters pelted a woman with eggs, burned some “Make America Great Again” hats in effigy  and otherwise may have instigated assaults on some Trump supporters. This provides...

Right Wing Watch has a nice write up of the many different conspiracies that Donald has talked about over the last few years.  This is an area where all media simply gives him a pass.  He is not confronted when he just tosses some random CT out there. ...

My family lived the conservative dream. That’s why none of us are conservatives. I’m the product of a teen pregnancy. My parents got married, against family advice on both sides, and my dad joined the Navy so he could support his new family. He was...

Donald Trump scorns traditional presidential candidate standards. The Donald doesn’t do what’s expected. And he certainly doesn’t do what he tells other candidates they must do. If Donald doesn’t feel like debating, he stiffs his opponents and grabs...

Every once in a while, a story comes along that I feel completely unqualified to make fun of. A story whose inherent stupidity would seem to require a response above my pay grade; one that could only be properly addressed by digging up Mark Twain or...