This week, the former president* pulled out one of his threadbare scamlets from the 2016 campaign, promising to "get rid" of the Affordable Care Act, which he says doesn't work, and replace it with some wondrous alternative that he pretends to have thought of in his very excellent brain. To which, I have one response: Mississippi, y'all. Yes, the home office of bad health survey results has decided to accept the FREE MONEY! available to the state's Medicaid recipients through the provisions of the ACA.
Richard Lewis, one of America's most beloved and revered stand-up comics who also played a fictionalized version of himself on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, has died. He was 76. read more
Arizona Republicans are advancing a bill that would allow people to legally kill someone accused of attempting to trespass or actively trespassing on their property. read more
The 18-year-old son of Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., was arrested Tuesday after a "recent string of vehicle trespass and property thefts" in Rifle, Colorado, according to police. Tyler Jay Boebert faces felony counts of criminal possession of identification documents, conspiracy to commit a felony, and more than 15 additional misdemeanor and petty offenses, the Rifle Police Department said in a Facebook post.
From the Washington Post, reporting on Trump's plans to use the military to round up immigrants and throw them into camps. read more
"Richard and I were born three days apart in the same hospital and for most of my life he's been like a brother to me. He had that rare combination of being the funniest person and also the sweetest. But today he made me sob and for that I'll never forgive him."
- Larry David