Elizabeth Sheld

According to sources close to the White House, Vice President Joe Biden and his chief of staff Bruce Reed are “no longer involved” in planning for Obama’s long term gun violence prevention program.  The vice president’s disappearance from an issue

Yesterday, Obama’s twitter account was breached by hackers allied with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.  The Syrian Electronic Army claimed credit for the hack.  A link posted to the president’s account redirected from the intended link, a Washington Post article, to

The White House has granted a six week waiver for Americans to sign up for the Obamacare program. The policy change allows people who sign up by March 31 to avoid a tax penalty. The previous deadline required that people

Curious consumers headed over to healthcare.gov on Sunday found themselves out of luck, as the fragile website was out of service. A Department of Health and Human Services spokesman said the website’s outage was the fault of a private contractor.

Middle class consumers in California are looking at increases in their insurance premiums, a consequence of Obamacare’s changes to the health insurance rules.  Rates are rising to subsidize the higher cost of covering sick enrollees along with other people previously

According to a CBS investigation the recent “explosion” of Medicaid enrollment could “threaten the entire structure of Obamacare.” Yesterday, I wrote about New York’s insurance exchange which had 2/3 of its enrollees dropped into the Medicaid program. “According to a

There has been plenty of talk about the impending fixes to the ill-designed, barely-functioning healthcare.gov website. Although the “glitches” should be fixed eventually and the site will execute as it should,  there are far serious problems looming on the Obamacare

Speaking at a forum in Boston, Vice President Joe Biden explained the country is on the brink of ‘remarkable changes’ in the treatment of mental illness. Biden joined HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s signing

NY Governor Cuomo announced yesterday that more than 37K New Yorkers have signed up for Obamacare.   However, of those 37,030 new enrollees, 23,717 hopped onto the Medicaid rolls. Only 13,313 bought insurance from private companies.  The uptick in Medicaid

Late Wednesday night, the Obama administration revealed it will give Americans six extra weeks to purchase health insurance via the ill-functioning online market place. A Health and Human Services official gave a deadline of March 31, 2014 to sign up

This nifty chart put together at alexmarchant.com, shows some startling comparisons between the programming of the healthcare.gov website and other popular programs/websites/operating systems.  Healthcare.gov has about 500 million lines of code Windows XP has about 45 million lines of code

In an interview with CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reported that President Obama only learned of the technical defects in Obamacare website in “the first couple of days” after the launch.  “But not before that?” Gupta

According to papers filed by federal prosecutors, Tamerlan Tsarnaev took part in a 2011 triple homicide in Massachusetts.  Tamerlan, deceased, and his brother Dzokhar are alleged to have detonated homemade pressure cooker bombs at the 2012 Boston Marathon, killing three

According to the Washington Post, just days before the scheduled launch the Obamacare website would crash with only “a few hundred people” on it.  “It crashed after a simulation in which just a few hundred people tried to log on

A new USA Today/Princeton Research poll released yesterday reports serious discontent with the US Congress.  An impressive 47% say that Congress would be “better off” if most members were replaced. The number is slightly higher among GOP and lean GOP

If you really wish you could sit down and watch an episode of Dallas right now, sit tight.  Apparently, Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins (Democrat) is on a witch hunt – trying to replace judges he doesn’t like by having

Last week, the Lockport police department charged a resident under the New York Secure Ammunition Firearms Enforcement Act for possession of a magazine loaded with 10 rounds of ammunition.  Paul A. Wojdan, who was pulled over in a traffic stop,

The Department of Health and Human services announced on Sunday that ‘consumer friendly’ changes have been made to the homepage of the Obamacare program.  In addition, HHS are consulting with the “best and the brightest” of technical experts to repair

According to a study released today, 15% of youth aged 16-24 are out of work and out of school. The Opportunity Nation coalition reports that almost six million young people “have neither desk nor job.” And it’s not just the

The Washington State United Food and Commercial Workers Union has voted to authorize a strike because of Obamacare regulations. Approximately 30,000 workers could walk picket lines as early as next week and the vote to strike was approved by 98%

Gallup released a new poll today showing that 60% of Americans say the Democrats and the Republicans do a “such a poor job of representing the American people that a third major party is needed.”  This level of discontent is

Nine of eleven Doctor Who episodes starring Partick Troughton have been found in Nigeria.  Troughten was the second actor to play Doctor Who.  The episodes were found in at TV facility in Jos, Nigeria and were among 106 “lost” episodes

The Obamacare roll out is getting bad grades from the public. According to a AP-GfK poll, 7% of Americans say the roll out has “gone well.”   According to the report, 7% of the public has attempted to sign up