and from multiple unrelated sources that if you didn't have insurance in 2015 but tell da gubment you did on your tax return they have no way of knowing if you're telling the truth.  Wanna be there's a wide disparity between the number of people covered according to the IRS as opposed to the DHHS?

Government health insurance: the ultimate sickness.  And we had to pass it to see what was in it.  We see.  Now can we remove this craptastic mess from our public life and economy already. 

FROM INCOMPETENCE, KLEPTOCRACY AND STATE OBAMACARE EXCHANGES, THE GOOD LORD DELIVER US: ‘Numerous Weaknesses,’ ‘Inadequate Security Settings’ Found in Colorado Obamacare Exchange.

REMEMBER THE HEALTHCARE.GOV LAUNCH? Apparently so did some hackers:

but we all know they chose a long time ago.

SUDDENLY, WE’RE NOT ALL SOCIALISTS NOW AT THE WASHINGTON POST – “WashPost Columnist: Trump’s Rise Explains How Hitler Came to Power,” as noted by Tom Blumer at NewsBusters yesterday, who spots Danielle S. Allen, “a political theorist at Harvard University and a contributing columnist for The Post,” penning a column in which she writes that America has reached – insert trademark Monty Python Spanish Inquisition giant orchestra sting here – “The moment of truth: We must stop Trump,” in which Allen asserts:

Like any number of us raised in the late 20th century, I have spent my life perplexed about exactly how Hitler could have come to power in Germany.* Watching Donald Trump’s rise, I now understand. Leave aside whether a direct comparison of Trump to Hitler is accurate. That is not my point. My point rather is about how a demagogic opportunist can exploit a divided country.

OUR APOCALYPTIC DEMOCRATS:

● “Hillary Clinton: The Leader You Want When The World Ends.”

—Headline, BuzzFeed,2/23/16

● “‘He maybe the last voice we ever hear’: Veteran actor Dick Van Dyke releases video endorsing Bernie Sanders calling for voters to ‘hear the alarm he’s sounding.’”

—Headline, the London Daily Mail 2/23/16.

A QUESTION FOR THE ATLANTIC: Is the AR platform an underpowered jammomatic, like you had Major General Scales write? Or is it a nearly-automated, death-spraying killing machine, like you had Mark Obbie write? It’s whatever The Narrative needs it to be, of course.

This is my shocked face: Obama Falsely Implies His Gun Controls Could Have Stopped the Kalamazoo Shooter

BUT OF COURSE: You can’t buy or sell guns in Facebook…unless you are Al-Qaeda.

From the "If a Republican had said this" Files:  HILLARY ON GUNS: THERE’S A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, TOO: “There is? Perhaps Hillary Clinton’s copy of the US Constitution has bleed-over from a page containing the Declaration of Independence.”

FIRED PROFESSOR MELISSA CLICK CLAIMED SHE THOUGHT STUDENT JOURNALIST HAD A GUN: “Let’s step back for a moment. Click allegedly thought the student had a gun, so her response was to bring other students into the situation, possibly putting them in harm’s way.”

I've been quiet during my tutoirng.  It's been a real ... experience.

IS OUR CHILDREN LEARNING? Liberals Rewrite History, Make a Few Mistakes:

DISPATCHES FROM AIRSTRIP ONE: “Hampshire school calls police after pupil looks at UKIP website,” the BBC reports.

1984, a warning for the rest of us, a user’s guide for the left.

I've been tutoring students for the OGT the last couple of weeks.  My hope for the future is dimming.

BRAD TORGERSEN EXPLAINS: Why I can’t be a socialist.

I'd LOVE to have a chance to impliment some of this/these in the classroom: Free Exchange and Promoting Human Well-Being

WHAT PASSES FOR GOOD NEWS DURING THE OBAMA RECOVERY: The U.S. economy’s slowdown in the final three months of 2015 wasn’t quite as bad as initially thought.  Lessez les bon temps rollez

Good policies from bed economics: Montana’s Milk Expiration Laws Protect Dairies and Force Food Waste: New at Reason

And the last bits of bad news?  LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: Black Wealth Barely Exists, In One Terrible Chart.  But they'll stay on the Donk plantation, facts be damned.

Most of the dust has settled but there's still a lot of chaff blowing around out there.  Hopefuly these links and comments will help you sort.  Side note:  Had an interesting discussion with a LWW last week:  she wass claiming the Elphs were going to deny POTUS appts a hearing and that "this has never happened before."  I asked her source.  It was an AM radio morning show talk jock.  Authoritative.  My first response was "it hasn't happened THIS time yet, but it HAS happened over half a dozen times before."  I then provided the data.  But obviously I'm wrong and a racist because this AM talk jock couldn't say it on air if it wasn't true, and he has researchers and stuff.  C'est la guerre.

Some of these are lengthy but ALL of them provide valuable historical perspective

[Jonathan H. Adler] On election year Supreme Court vacancies

Supreme Court vacancies in presidential election years

Side issue: recess apointment:

Is a recess appointment to the Court an option? (UPDATED)

COULD OBAMA MAKE A RECESS APPOINTMENT TO REPLACE SCALIA?: 

THE FIRST FRUITS OF SELF ESTEEM EDUCATION: Obama’s rudeness hits new heights with Scalia, Schumer.

STRANGELY, THIS IS AN IMPROVEMENT: Obama’s foreign policy now boils down to ‘let’s pretend’.

Democrats Claim Opposition to Liberal Supreme Court is Racist Money graphs:

When he took office in January 2009, President Obama had extraordinarily high poll ratings. Just before the inauguration he had a 78% “favorable” rating.

But after seven years of lawlessness and other liberal forms of “governing,” Obama’s favorability rating is now down to 45%. How do Obama supporters explain the massive drop?

Racism.  Apparently sometime between 2009 and 2016, a third of Americans belatedly discovered that President Obama is black and, being racists, realized that they no longer liked him.

 

IT’S BAD WHEN YOU’RE HEARING THIS FROM MOTHER JONES: Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Has Crossed Into Neverland.

Bernie Sanders On Immigration In 2007 Video: This Is A Bad Bill For American Workers.

Related: “Vetting Bernie: He Never Voted For Intervention In Iraq — Except Twice.”

The Bernie Sanders campaign sent out a tweet at 10 a.m., reading: "Greed, fraud, dishonesty, arrogance. These are just some of the adjectives we use to describe Wall Street." That got the attention of Jezebel blogger Joanna Rothkopf, who posted it under the headline, "These Are All Nouns, Bernie." Shortly thereafter, the tweet was deleted, but I was able to grab a screenshot in time.

President Clinton’s Labor Secretary Endorses…Bernie Sanders.

Robert Reich, you old socialist (and fabulist) scamp you.

The Top Ten Films of 1996

my list:

 Mission Impossible was 15 on my list, so not too far off.

Haven't SEEN The Rock ... adding it to my watch lst.

Swigers doesn't make my top 20 which I find kind of surprising.

Bottle Rocket?  Been doe a dozen times before.

Happy Gilmore:  y'know I hate stupid comedys.

Dusk til Dawn:  LOVE it, but only the first half.  Might reconsider and bump it up a little in the fall.

Perhaps this w/e I'll get around to Scalia and "The vacancy."  There's a LOT of info ot there.  Most of it is "wrong" or useless.  So I'm winnowing.  I read the crap so you don't have to.  And hopefully I support my factual assertions so you can be smarter.

But until then ...

John Kerry Was So Proud of Meeting With Hollywood Hotshots He Tweeted This...

DER SPIEGEL ON OBAMA — AND HILLARY’S, AND JOHN KERRY’S — SYRIAN DEBACLE:

The war has long since ceased being solely about Syria. The country has become Ground Zero of global geopolitics, an unholy mixture of Russia’s desired return to superpower status, an increasingly authoritarian Turkey, tentative US foreign policy, the Kurdish conflict, the arch-rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Islamist terror and the inability of a divided, crisis-ridden EU to do much of anything.

The war in Syria has transformed from a civil war into a world war.

TO BE FAIR, A LOT OF US FEEL THIS WAY: Turkish Officials Say They’ve Given Up On Obama Administration, Are Waiting On Successor.