John Sexton

The original film version of Carrie scared the bejesus out of me when I saw it decades ago. I don’t know if I’m up for the remake but this promo for the film is a winner. Basically they rigged a

Saturday Reuters reported that IT experts it contacted saw serious problems in the design of the exchange website launched last week by HHS: One possible cause of the problems is that hitting “apply” on HealthCare.gov causes 92 separate files, plug-ins

Chad Henderson, the poster boy for the Obamacare roll out claimed earlier this year that he’d “traveled to Florida” to help with Obama’s reelection and also donated $1000 to the campaign. That was, he claimed, why he was invited to

Chad Henderson has become the poster boy for the Obamacare exchange roll and one of the few identifiable people who have successfully signed up for insurance on the new website. But if this Reason story is accurate he has not

Chad Henderson is the kid who, somehow, became the media’s face of Obamacare sign ups. Yesterday Sarah Kliff at the Post did a story titled “Meet Chad Henderson, the Obamacare enrollee tons of reporters are calling.” Kliff’s right that the

The Washington Post’s Sarah Kliff has a new story titled “Government continues bid to streamline new health exchanges.” Predictably, this is a story about the failure of the exchanges and how, after two days, people are finally able to use

Greg Sargent of the Washington Post reports that President Obama and unnamed White House advisers are worried that the GOP does not understand how serious the President is about not giving anything to the GOP for a debt limit increase.

According to progressives at the Washington Post and elsewhere, the roll out of the Obamacare exchanges was a smashing success. Ezra Klein and fellow Wonkbook writer Evan Soltas have a post reflecting on the success of the first day of

I mentioned this earlier but I think it deserves its own post. During the debate over the sequester cuts a park ranger came forward to claim that his supervisors seemed to be trying to insure the public would feel the

By now most have heard about the barricades which were placed in front of the open air WWII Memorial yesterday by park service employees. When an honor guard flight of WWII vets arrived, they pushed through and visited the memorial

Matt Mitchell of the Mercatus Center puts U.S. income inequality in world perspective. Much more on this here including the claim that we are now living in a “non-Marxian” world where social class matters far less than location of birth.

Monday the Washington Post published a story on the conspicuous absence of major hurricanes this year. The reason this is surprising is that every group which predicts the strength of hurricane seasons, including NOAA, said this was going to be

The website Funny or Die which makes short spoof videos often starring big names has a new pro-Obamacare spot out today starring Jennifer Hudson. The clip is the result of a meeting the White House held in July seeking help

Web MD has an online quiz called “Health Care Reform Myth or Fact” which is designed to test your knowledge of reform. While most of the questions stick to familiar topics such as pre-existing conditions and staying on your parent’s

During the previous administration we heard a lot about how the world sees the United States–as a cowboy, a bully, etc. Barack Obama was elected to change all of that. According to a BBC report published today, the Obama administration’s

If you haven’t seen it, a design company in Portland has created a video called 4 Rules to Make Star Wars Great Again. They’ve also set up a website and a petition which they are hoping 1 million people will

Chris Christie’s crossover appeal is unlike that of any other Republican. Real Clear Politics reports that a series of polls in New Jersey show Christie getting more than 30 percent support from black voters: In a Quinnipiac poll released on

The DNC Twitter feed pushed out this fake ransom note attributed to the Tea Party today: BREAKING: Another ransom note found. Once again, Tea Party involvement suspected. #EnoughAlready pic.twitter.com/ZQN0qqbxL7 — The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) September 26, 2013 Democrats have played the

NBC has once again used its flagship morning show to insinuate that George Zimmerman, a man who has already been acquitted by a jury, may have gotten away with murder. Recall that NBC did more than any other network to

The Atlantic Wire says conservatives are wrong on the facts about coverage of Wendy Davis and Ted Cruz. Here’s the chart that supposedly proves it: Here’s the explanation focused on the blue bars: As you can see, Cruz’s speech was

I don’t know if Dylan Byers is reading The Conversation these days but his post this morning about media treatment of Ted Cruz vs. Wendy Davis is dead on: When a Democrat like Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis filibusters against

Bill de Blasio is a left-wing extremist who seems to side with every socialist movement that comes along.  His fondness for the Sandinistas and “democratic socialism” in the early 90s has been described in detail by the NY Times. For

Remember in June when State Senator Wendy Davis filibustered a bill designed to limit abortions in Texas after 20 weeks? She succeeded in blocking it at that moment but three weeks later it was signed into law. In between her