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Morning Briefing
For November 19, 2013
1. Jessica Sanford, one of Barack Obama’s obamacare ‘success stories,’ will have no insurance.
Oh dear God but the Democrats have not done right by this woman.
"Jessica Sanford, the Federal Way woman who
got a shout-out from President Obama last month with her fan letter for
the Affordable Care Act, got a rather rude awakening last week. Turns
out she doesn’t qualify for a tax credit after all." . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. The Obama Wedding Tax
Earlier this month The Atlantic told the
story of a New York couple, Nona and Aaron, considering divorce. What
was the couple’s reason for ending their marriage?
ObamaCare.
Among
the countless flaws and absurdities in the president’s signature law is
this: it contains a wedding tax. Because of the way ObamaCare subsidizes
health insurance, many couples can save money on insurance by not
getting married—or by getting divorced. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Democrats: If The GOP Wants To Win Elections They’ll Ignore Obamacare
In the view of the Democrats, if the
Republicans really, really want to take advantage of the “stumble” on
Obamacare they need to act on a lot of other stuff. We need to go after
tax reform, and ENDA, and the Holy Grail: Comprehensive Immigration
Reform.
The
idea seems to be that now that the GOP is on the right side of an issue
that has about 70% support it best course of action to ensure electoral
success is to stop talking about that issue and move on to other issues
where the GOP Caucus has rather dramatic fault lines or issues that can
be demogogued by the Democrats. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Healthcare.gov site advertising SQL injection attacks
Via Alex Hern on Twitter, we find that the
Obamacare website has attempted website attacks in its search box,
automatically prompted for you if you type or mistype the right letters
or punctuation.
This tells us a few things: there is a lack
of polish in the Healthcare.gov website, there are many people who want
to break into the website, and there isn’t much confidence in the
security of the website. All of these things should be troubling to
people with data in that system.
For the
curious, let me explain what’s going on with these searches. These
searches are attempting variants on a website attack called an SQL
Injection attack. SQL is a programming language used very commonly for
databases attached to websites, storing information used by the site. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. Why You Might Care That This Hotel Says The Only Cockroaches Are The Ones Carrying Picket Signs
One
might be *bugged* about reading of alleged cockroach infestations.
However, as the Supreme Court decides on the legality of union so-called
“neutrality clauses,” one of the ways unions get employers to agree to
neutrality is through so-called “corporate campaigns”–and this appears
to be one of those cockroach corporate campaigns.
It is
no coincidence that the union that is the subject of this article is
also the union involved in the case before the Supreme Court.
UNITE-HERE, for years, has used a wide array of tactics to garner
employers’ “neutrality.” . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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