The Shi'ite victors of Mosul are building up sectarian hostility of the sort that helped PISSI get in.

The next episode of Shi'ite-Sunni strife will not be quite like PISSI, but it is likely to be very bad. Shame that no one has the leadership to lead Iraq away from that.

[PISSI] May Be on Its Knees But It Will Rise Again If We Don't Break the Cycle.

Despite some concessions, the new Senate version of the Dontcare bill still provides a big tax cut for the rich and insurance companies.

The latest Senate Dontcare bill would deny people with preexisting conditions effective medical coverage.

Major US medical insurance sellers say that this makes it totally unworkable.

The goal of the Dontcare bill is to cut a large piece off the carpet that now covers (but only barely just) most Americans. So it won't be big enough. Each version of the Dontcare bill reflects a different scheme to pull the diminished carpet over various places to make it appear to cover us, but that can't be done. The shortfall has to be somewhere.

The troll is rumored to want to appoint an official to oversee wage law enforcement who has been sued for not paying for work done.

Just like the cheater himself.

The allied victory in World War II was the demonstration that state planning can work very, very well.