99% of all health insurance markets are highly concentrated. That hasn’t been seen in an entire sector since the Gilded Age.

‘Bout time, guys: “The US military is reviewing a video of a controversial helicopter attack on a group of people in Iraq in 2007, officials say.”

Qatari diplomat takes substantial early lead in this year’s Darwin Awards.

Featuring new videos from Beans & Fatback and Solander.

A lot of people have trouble with Michael Medved’s mustache, calling it a “hateful & contemptible lip-douche.” They ask questions like, “what did that hideous sewer caterpillar ever do to you that  made you want to crucify it under your nose?” Myself, though, I approve of it. A mustache like that says to the world, [...]

Bradbury and OMS’s assurances don’t correspond with the evidence from JPRA internal documents, which describe the use of waterboarding as leaving students “psychologically defeated” and impaired in the ability to develop “psychological hardiness.” Furthermore, as a Truthout article last month notes, the discontinuance of waterboarding was not due to mere failure at resistance to the technique. They were finding measures of physiological harm.

A new Gallup poll finds that, for the first time in ten years of polling, Americans prioritize energy production over the protection of the environment–but the poll presents a false dichotomy.

It appears that document mills are fabricating missing documents, backdating documents, and doing assignments of documents after the time to lodge those documents in the trusts has long expired. In other words, they are committing fraud to cover up the fact that they failed to “perfect” their ability to foreclose.

Hawaii’s special election format presents unique challenges for Democrats. All candidates compete in a single election, with the winner taking the seat regardless of percentages. There are two high-profile Democrats in the race and one Republican, which raises the possibility of the Democrats splitting the vote and delivering the race to Charles Djou, the Republican. This has led Democratic operatives to want to push one of the Democrats out and pave the way for a victory. However, they appear to have chosen the moderate LieberDem who is hated by the state political establishment.

Members of Congress and progressive organizations have begun talking more about the Local Jobs For America Act. It is a good bill that should actually help to create and save jobs while temporarily helping to ease the crushing financial shortfalls faced by the states. Also, the bill has the added benefit of containing the word “Job” in the title.