In Massachusetts, health insurers stop offering new plans while they argue with the state over rates. I guess they didn't get the memo...they need to shut up and do what the government orders them to do. Where do they think they are? America?

Health costs need to come down, but this prescription won't work.

The Arctic sea ice finally starts melting, at the latest date so far recorded. The global warming folks will find some way to fit it into their narrative, no matter how convoluted.

Yes, there are African-Americans in the GOP, and some of them are running for Congress.

Bill Whittle calls on folks to support the Tea Party movement in their area, and go out to vote in November.

The new Republican governor of Virginia issues a proclamation declaring Confederate History Month. Previous Democratic governors had stopped issuing the proclamation, and a previous GOP governor had issued the proclamation with new language concerning slavery, which is not in the current version. I know that a lot of folks in the states of the former Confederacy want to honor the sacrifices of their fallen soldiers from that war, but in my view there is no way to separate out the fact that the war was fought, in large part, to continue the abominable practice of black slavery. As a political matter, this may play well to Governor McDonnell's base, and since African-American support in the GOP is so minimal, perhaps there will be little price to pay. But, as a Union man, and always with respect for the sacrifices people make for their beliefs, some beliefs are wrong and need to be eradicated. The rebellion needed to be crushed, and slavery abolished. All the soldiers in that war, Blue and Gray, fought for their own reasons and beliefs. Most of them shared a belief in White superiority which today we would find offensive. But the fact remains that if the soldiers wearing gray had won, slavery would have continued for many more years than it did.