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Facebook Beheadings, Obamacare Controversy, and More Bad News
A 12-year-old shot up his school, the Obamacare site continued to malfunction, and a jerk posted a video of a beheading on Facebook. Once again, it is a bad week in America. Here's all this week's bad news.
My Family Lost Our Health Insurance and Can't Sign Up for Obamacare
The previous American medical system was screwed up, and our old health insurance was expensive, but at least we had insurance. Here’s to hoping Obamacare gets it shit together, but as of right now my family, like many others, has been left out in the...
A Postal Worker Was Fired for Throwing Away Mail About Obamacare
A postal worker in Fresno, California was fired last week for disposing of Obamacare literature. No media outlet claimed the postal worker threw away the pamphlets for political reasons, but it was not outside the realm of possibility.
We Asked a Military Expert if All the World's Armies Could Shut Down the US
The government shutdown might throw the world into a "deep, dark recession." Didn’t the planet just come out of one of those? Maybe it's time the rest of the world said enough is enough. It’s time for the rest of the world to get a great big army...
Dread Judges
The Supreme Court is increasingly politicized and prone to making far-reaching rulings that negate laws passed by Congress. You can call the US a democracy if you like, but most of the important policy choices are made by an unelected council.
Uninsured Americans Are Crowdsourcing Health Care Costs
David Price is uninsured and searching for health care from outside of government and private insurance. Just this month, David went biking alone in a canyon in Texas. David hit a large bump on the trail, the bike sailed out from under him, and he fell...
What the Sequester Really Means: The Poor Will Suffer More
The sequester is a set of automatic budget cuts that reduces funding for all discretionary programs at an equal rate. The cuts aren’t meant to eliminate any programs but simply reduce funding across the board. Get ready for some potentially disastrous...
The VICE Guide to Voting - High-Class Whores
PROSTITUTION. A vocation as old as politics and half as dirty. Professional ladies and fancy gents have been taking it for cash long before Obama and Romney were shaking hands and kissing babies. If this election is about redefining social order, our...
I Was Wrong: Mitt Romney Is Not a Sociopath After All
Last week, in the inaugural installment of my new column, I concluded that Mitt Romney is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and probably worse; that he is a sociopath out for the Oval Office at whatever cost. I was wrong.
Big Surprise - Henry Rollins Can Reform Health Care, Man!
I realize that the Henry Rollins I see on my television is not the same person I pictured the first time I heard Damaged as a kid. And he shouldn't be. That Henry—immortalized for punching a mirror—was a lot younger, angrier, and less politically aware...
Obamacare Upheld: Everyone Start Yelling
Chief Justice Roberts's deciding vote is a guarantee that American politics will jam itself deeper into the sausage grinder of mutual hate and masturbatory anger.
Don't Freak Out Over the Healthcare Hearing Just Yet
Just because the solicitor general screwed the pooch doesn't mean PPACA is dead.