Among the growing number of stories speculating on the potential outcomes of the Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s mandates and coverage expansion, we’re also seeing articles like this — Supporters Slow to Grasp Health Law’s Legal Risks — by Peter Baker of the New

This just in: The electoral commission in Egypt has just declared Muhamad Morsi, the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s new president. CNN is caring the celebrations in Tahrir Square live.

This just in:  The electoral commission in Egypt has just declared Muhamed Morsi, the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s new president. CNN is caring the celebrations in Tahrir Square live. The Commission chairman introduced the decision with an hour long statement explaining the commission’s actions in overseeing the election

The New York Times has a lengthy, heart rending account of the suffering Greeks are going through as their economy collapses, money disappears, businesses close, and their ability merely to survive faces increasing risks. More here from The Guardian on the collapse of health care system.

If there had been an equivalent natural catastrophe — a massive tsunami or earthquake — the response to the human suffering on this scale would, one hopes, be entirely different. Whatever else y0u do, you save the people first.

But this human catastrophe — with echoes in Spain, Portugal, Ireland — was entirely man made by Europe’s financial elites.

Video via The Guardian, showing campaign rally by Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras. The New York Times has a lengthy, heart rending account of the suffering Greeks are going through as their economy collapses, money disappears, businesses close, and their ability merely to survive faces increasing risks.  More here from The

I glanced at the top stories on my dead-tree New York Times this a.m. and immediately thought of Hubert.

Back in the mid-1960s, Hubert the Preacher would stand on the steps near the entrance to U.C. Berkeley leading to Sather Gate and berate the unrepentant students as we trudged to our morning classes. Preacher Hubert was red: he had flaming red hair to match his red, freckled face. His booming voice and intensity sometimes seemed about ready to burst the veins in his neck and face.

“Repent your sins.”

I glanced at the top stories on my dead-tree New York Times this a.m. and immediately thought of Hubert. Back in the mid-1960s, Hubert the Preacher would stand on the steps near the entrance to U.C. Berkeley leading to Sather Gate and berate the unrepentant students as we trudged to

This why we can’t have nice things anymore. For nearly a week the media has been pressured to focus on an irrelevant distraction involving President Obama’s silly claim that the “private sector is fine,” when he obviously meant to say something like, “we’ve created some jobs in the private sector

For nearly a week the media has been pressured to focus on an irrelevant distraction involving President Obama’s silly claim that the “private sector is fine,” when he obviously meant to say something that is self evident. But they’re missing the economic and political story of the decade.

Following outrage by Afghanistan officials and citizens over yet another deadly airstrike on Afgan civilian residences last week, US/NATO commanders announced they will restrict further air strikes on residential homes . . . except when they decide to strike residential homes.