Politics

By Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic - Naked partisanship, raw ignorance and insufferable arrogance come to mind.  It would also help if most of them were not manifestly incompetent at covering the news.

By William Kilpatrick,The Catholic Thing - In the wake of the jihad truck attack on a New York City bike path, politicians and the press responded with the usual reassurances… NYC Mayor de Blasio said, “The last thing we should do is start casting dispersions [sic] on whole races of people or whole religions.” NY State’s Governor Cuomo said, “We’re not going to let them win. We’ll go about our business. . . . Live your life. Don’t let them change us.”

By Charlie Butts, OneNewsNow - "IPAB was a board created by the Affordable Care Act, ObamaCare," Steven H. Aden, chief legal officer for Americans United for Life, tells OneNewsNow, "and it's tasked with coming up with Medicare cuts if spending on Medicare rises above a certain threshold. By killing the IPAB, the House is signaling that it doesn't want any kind of rationing of healthcare – and that is a very good thing."

By Michael Bastasch, The Stream - The Storm is coming. A whirling political tempest the likes of which Washington, D.C. has never seen. Or so the skies and barometer are suggesting.... Sometimes you ride out the bad weather. Sometimes you evacuate as soon as possible.