This post has no politics, no anything but poker. (Well, one humorous anecdote at the end ( Read more... )

Yay! Another tax season is done. I'm emerging from my cave....

I'll have my thoughts on the shutdown at the end. First, ObamaCare!

( They're not bugs, they're features! )

The best article I've seen regarding the US health system and what to do about it. Read it in full--Mike Smith makes a lot of sense.

Meanwhile, Jon Stewart ripped HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius last night. He got non-answers and at the end wondered if he was lied to.

I do expect the shutdown to end in a week or so; eventually both sides will ( Read more... )

RIP: Tom Clancy. His early books are still among the best modern stories I've read.

Shhh: The Fast and Furious Scandal continues: Judge refuses Justice Department request to stop lawsuit over executive privilege.

Why large government pensions are doomed: Two years after bankruptcy, California city [Vallejo] again mired in pension debt. ( Read more... )

ObamaCare: Train Wreck Addition Edition


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You can't make this stuff up:

1. Did you know that Constitution Day was this past week? Yes, that's the day the US Constitution was signed. Some students at Modesto Junior College wanted to distribute copies of the United States Constitution on Constitution Day. The students were stopped. FIRE has written the rather stupid, or perhaps, ( Read more... )

Some interesting news, with a dose of politics to end:

It's not the faces but the arms: "Poker pros' arms betray their hands."

The New Madrid earthquake sequence has always been something of a mystery. After all, southeast Missouri isn't anywhere near a plate boundary. A new hypothesis is that there was a hotspot (think Hawaiian volcanism or ( Read more... )

Income inequality has actually dropped over the last two decades according to a new study. It doesn't fit the meme, so it will be ignored.

White House rejects labor's request for exemptions on ObamaCare.

If you have an EZPass, you're being tracked. I used to have a FastTrak (a similar device for the Califiornia toll roads)....

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It's not in Syria; rather, it's on gun control. Politicians who vote for gun control are painting a target on their back and have, in the view of the electorate, crossed a bright red line ( Read more... )

John Kerry: Our attack will be "unbelievably small." Yes, he really said that.

Via Volokh, the ridiculous case of Corsi's Life of Political Crime. Hopefully the Supreme Court puts the end to that.

It really is global cooling time.

Tony Abbot won the Australian Election. Abbot's liberal party is on the right (in Australia), and he vows to ( Read more... )