Today's news has the many flaws of Democratic Party politicians in all their infamy.
New York Post:
This is baby-sitting — Anthony Weiner-style.
While his wife, Huma Abedin, travels the country campaigning for Hillary Clinton, the disgraced ex-congressman has been sexting with a busty brunette out West — and even sent her a lurid crotch shot with his toddler son in the picture, The Post has learned.
The stay-at-home cad shot the revealing photo while discussing massage parlors “near my old apartment” shortly after 3 a.m. on July 31, 2015, a screen shot of the exchange shows.Suffice it to say, the details of the story are inappropriate, especially considering he is married. But this wouldn't even be a story except for the fact he is married to Hillary Clinton's top aide.
Speaking of Hillary...
Washington Post:
During her first run for president in 2008, Hillary Clinton had an opportunity to become an undisputed leader in the gay rights movement.
As she prepared for a forum on the gay-oriented Logo network, she reached out to her friend Hilary Rosen, a political consultant who is a lesbian. Rosen expressed frustration that so many mainstream political figures opposed legalized same-sex marriage, and she challenged Clinton to speak out for a community that had strongly supported her.
Clinton refused.
“I’m struggling with how we can support this with a religious and family context,’’ Rosen recalled Clinton telling her. Clinton just wanted to know the best way to explain the position.
...Clinton eventually got where her friends wanted her to go, though her change of heart came when the political risk had disappeared — close to a year after similar shifts by President Obama and Vice President Biden.Mind you, this is a flaw shared by most politicians everywhere. They are unable to take a principled stand by themselves. Unfortunately, this is a bad quality in a "leader".
Speaking of empty pantsuits...
Wall Street Journal:
Long story short: Icann, the organization which controls the Internet, will no longer have its monopoly status when the U.S. government gives up control of the Internet. As the article points out:
Without the U.S. contract, Icann would seek to be overseen by another governmental group so as to keep its antitrust exemption. Authoritarian regimes have already proposed Icann become part of the U.N. to make it easier for them to censor the internet globally. So much for the Obama pledge that the U.S. would never be replaced by a “government-led or an inter-governmental organization solution.”Oops.
But we still have Obamacare, right?
Wall Street Journal:
The new study, by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, suggests there could be just one option for coverage in 31% of counties in 2017, and there might be only two in another 31%. That would give exchange customers in large swaths of the U.S. far less choice than they had this year, when 7% of counties had one insurer and 29% had two.
...At least one county—Pinal in Arizona—is at risk of having no insurers offering marketplace plans next year, despite talks between regulators and insurers aimed at filling the void.Heck, even under Obamacare, you can't keep your coverage if you like it!
Speaking of government healthcare...
Activist Post:
In what can only be described as paradigm-shattering research on drug prices, the Journal of the American Medical Association has officially recognized why drug prices skyrocket in America. Big pharma is granted a monopoly by the State which effectively eliminates their competition and allows them to charge any price they want — so they do.Imagine that. So basically all the efforts that the Bush and Obama administrations put into "fixing" the costs were actually caused by the government in the first place? Naturally, the FDA is still chugging along as before, untouched by anything our bumbling politicians have tried.
The new paper, published on August 23, “The High Cost of Prescription Drugs in the United States: Origins and Prospects for Reform,” set out to “review the origins and effects of high drug prices in the US market and to consider policy options that could contain the cost of prescription drugs.”
What the paper’s authors, Harvard Medical School doctors Aaron Kesselheim and Jerry Avorn, and jurist Ameet Sarpatwari, found and subsequently admitted, shatters the very assertion that government regulation in the market is needed to keep medical care costs low. In fact, their findings were quite to the contrary.
According to the paper:
The most important factor that allows manufacturers to set high drug prices is market exclusivity, protected by monopoly rights awarded upon Food and Drug Administration approval and by patents.
But don't expect the Democrats to ever fix this. They believe government can do no wrong. Will Rogers said it best: "I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat."
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