Lynn Sweet

George E. Condon, Jr.

Brent Budowsky

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Ron Fournier

I'm sorry that when Americans recognized the deception you tried to reinvent history: "What we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed." No, no, no, no, no--that's not what you guys said.

I'm sorry you didn't trust Americans with the truth.

I'm sorry that the Democratic Party's decades-old chase toward universal health care is now at risk because your law--your legacy, sir--is off to such a miserable start. The online networks don't work and the people you need bought into the system, particularly young Americans, can't access the market and now may never trust it ... or you.

Employer-based plans are changing, too.  My firm has already announced increases to employee contributions to avoid the "Cadillac tax" that will be implemented in several years.

The truth is that not all individual-market plans are bad; I have one and it's good.  I know others who feel the same way.  But that doesn't mean I don't still recognize that there is a better way, a way that truly opens the door to all Americans, and wouldn't leave 30 million people still going without the magic insurance card that, if nothing else, gets them in the door, even if they can't really afford the price of admission.

It would be nice to have congressional approval on such matters in order to demonstrate a political unity of purpose, but it's not absolutely necessary. And frankly, Congress does the country no favors by attempting to hamstring a president's ability to conduct foreign policy and to negotiate with other nations.

If Congress has a problem with it, they should have jumped in when he began doing it, not when he decided to ease off.

A review of Treasury Department notices reveals that the U.S. government has all but stopped the financial blacklisting of entities and people that help Iran evade international sanctions since the election of its president, Hassan Rouhani, in June.

IOW, there is no proof beyond the number of violator destinations decreasing that anything has changed.  From 7 before the election to 2 since.   Maybe Iran stopped playing games and there simply aren't as many violations.  

The entire article is based on the assumption that because treasury has issued fewer designations, Obama has backed off.

Back in reality, most people would be very pleased with break-through in negotiations with Iran.  

I have seen lots of folks say 'how did Stanford lose to Utah', but all you have to do is look at how poorly Stanford did in the last five minutes of the game and it is clear how they lost to Utah.  The Stanford QB is really not up to the level of play needed to compete in big games.  I saw him miss passes guys like Winston, McCarron, Manziel, or Perry would make.

Maybe we have a different definition of front loaded but FSU has played all the highly ranked teams on their schedule already while 'bama, Baylor, and the other relevant teams still have some highly ranked teams left.

Props to Stanford for a good running attack that the Ducks could not stop even if they knew it was coming.  I am not sure how healthy Mariota is, but he certainly was less effective than in past games.  On the other hand Stanford was without their best D lineman.  Most folks would also say both Stanford and UO have a harder schedule than FSU and there is a better chance one of both of them will lose a game than FSU will lose.

As I said Winston and FSU seem in the drivers seat with fewer bumps in the road than any other team.  Still predicting 'bama and FSU in the natty.  OSU most likely will be in the Rose Bowl but I could see Stanford, ASU, or maybe even another Pac 12 team facing them.

They already think that Hillary is going to be the next president anyway whether they vote or not. The demographics for the GOP are only going to get worse they say in the next few years. So in their minds why should they bother to vote? It's not like GA has ever been decisive in a presidential election anyway.

Probably 90% of the stuff we said to each other, if you saw it written, would seem much, much worse than the quotes I've seen in the Incognito/Martin case.

An excerpt:

Welcome to Incarceration Nation, where the mindset of the Miami Dolphins' locker room mirrors the mentality of a maximum-security prison yard and where a wide swath of America believes the nonviolent intellectual needs to adopt the tactics of the barbarian.

I don't blame Jonathan Martin for walking away from the Dolphins and checking himself into a hospital seeking treatment for emotional distress. The cesspool of insanity that apparently is the Miami locker room would test the mental stability of any sane man. Martin, the offspring of Harvard grads, a 24-year-old trained at some of America's finest academic institutions, is a first-time offender callously thrown into an Attica prison cell with Incognito and Aaron Hernandez's BFF Mike Pouncey. Dolphins warden Jeff Ireland and deputy warden Joe Philbin put zero sophisticated thought into what they were doing when they drafted Martin in the second round in 2012.

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Yeah, the Dolphins are circling the wagons around Incognito. I get Ryan Tannehill's defense of his Pro Bowl left guard. He needs him. He doesn't believe the Dolphins can protect him or win games without Incognito. There's a popular belief you can't consistently win football games without a few "thugs" like Incognito in your locker room. Makes you wonder how Stanford competes with USC, Oregon, UCLA, etc., every year. You wonder how Nebraska and Oregon survived after booting Incognito. You wonder why three NFL teams let him go. Maybe he's not as essential as the myth-makers would have you believe.

But what makes me want to check into a mental hospital is Miami's black players' unconditional love of Incognito and indifference to Martin.

It points to our fundamental lack of knowledge of our own history in this country. We think the fake tough guy, the ex-con turned rhetoric spewer was more courageous than the educated pacifist who won our liberation standing in the streets, absorbing repeated ass-whippings, jail and a white assassin's bullet. We fell for the okeydoke.

We think Malcolm X was blacker than Martin Luther King Jr.

The economy added 204,000 jobs,depsite the federal shutdown, which was good news, but the unemployment rate rose to 7.3%, which was not so good news.

is both a positive and negative assessment.

Apparently, today is "Let's Bully JB Day."