If only: Israeli and Palestinian women meet in Tel Aviv to promote peace between their people. The kicker: They include people from both sides who have lost family members in the conflict. Two hundred Palestinians is a pretty high number to join a peace rally. Here’s hoping they weren’t arrested when they got back to the West Bank.
He fell on his gun: An Iranian commander of the cyber warfare division was found shot to death (bullet in the heart). But it’s not an assassination, the Iranians say. It was a “horrific accident”. Like that scene from Yellowbeard. “All these men are dead!” “Plague.” “Plague? This man has a sword in him!” “‘e fell on it.”
Sympathy for the smugglers: It’s time for another news article filled with sympathy for Gaza’s smuggling tunnel operators. Oh, AP, you’re so predictable. Printing lies from Palestinians who say they’re the only way to bring goods into Gaza when Israel sends tons of good every day–yep, that’s the anti-Israel media at work.
Great job, Obama! Eight million people will be left out of Obamacare because their states don’t want to pay for the Medicaid extensions. Of course, let’s blame the Republicans instead of the crappy thing that is Obamacare. The first two days were so buggy that the administration is refusing to tell the media how many people actually managed to enroll online. Almost nobody could be confirmed to have done so.
Obamacare is a spectacular success. Just ask Organizing for America, the outfit that, as James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal’s “Best of the Web Today” column describes it, sells access to the President. In Connecticut a genu-wine young person (well 30-years old) signed up, a law student (who has had insurance for the last three years, paying $39 a month for premiums this year). After two tries he signed up. Here is Taranto’s summation of the results.
“So, how much of a premium is strapping young Brendan Mahoney paying to help make ObamaCare work? Oops. The Courant reports that Mahoney “said that by filling out the application online, he discovered he was eligible for Medicaid. So, beginning next year, he won’t pay any premium at all.”
“So the great success story of ObamaCare’s first day is the transformation of a future lawyer who was already paying for insurance into a welfare case.”
Somehow, that seems so characteristic of this administration. Unless Obamacare gets younger people to pay gigantic premiums to offset the higher expenditures on older people in the system, the scheme is, in that favorite word of liberals, unsustainable.