Open Thread March 10 2024 Medicare Advantage Care Denials Affect Patients
Angry Bear | March 10, 2024 5:53 pm As UnitedHealth Medicare Advantage Care racks up unprecedented profits, the people it insures battle for care. Open…
How 14 years have shown the impossibility of shrinking the UK state
The Budget was predictable, and predictably boring. Hunt cut taxes, but the tax burden is still rising because of the tax increases already programmed in. Furthermore, he was only…
Dianabol Side Effects For Men – How To Avoid
Dianabol, a widely recognized anabolic steroid, offers significant benefits in muscle building and strength enhancement. It works by increasing free testosterone levels, boosting nitrogen retention, enhancing protein synthesis, and raising…
Jeremy Corbyn is re-elected with an increased mandate
OWEN SMITH was never the front-runner in Labour’s leadership contest. But moderates in the party hoped that he would at least begin the process of clipping away at the mighty…
January JOLTS report shows more (relative) weakening, downward revisions to 2023
January JOLTS report: shows more (relative) weakening, downward revisions to 2023 – by New Deal democrat The JOLTS report for January showed only minor changes compared with December, all to…
Dianabol Cycle – Planning From Start To Finish
Dianabol, chemically known as Methandrostenolone, is a widely recognized anabolic steroid that athletes and bodybuilders utilize to promote muscle growth, enhance strength, and improve overall athletic performance. As a powerful…
Parliament must push for a bigger role in the Brexit negotiations
TODAY is Brexit day at the Conservative Party conference and Theresa May has opened proceedings with two chunky announcements about Britain’s next steps towards the exit door. First, she intends…
Manufacturing and construction show softness to start the month
Manufacturing and construction show softness to start the month – by New Deal democrat As usual, the new month’s data starts out with information on manufacturing and construction. The ISM…
Do Steroids Show Up On Drug Tests?
Drug testing plays a crucial role in ensuring safety and compliance in various settings, including the workplace, sports, and criminal justice system. By detecting the presence of illicit drugs, performance-enhancing…
Nicola Sturgeon’s consultation on a new Scottish independence referendum gets her out of a tight spot
DELEGATES and journalists arriving in Glasgow today for the Scottish National Party (SNP) conference had one big subject on their minds: the political puzzle that has been hanging over Nicola…
City mouse, country mouse – Angry Bear
Over at jabberwocking.com, Kevin Drum takes on Paul Krugman over his assertion that small-town America is aggrieved because the working-age men are more likely to be unemployed than their metropolitan…
The Witney campaign offers the Lib Dems a road out of the wilderness
ONE can read too much into the Liberal Democrats’ storming performance at yesterday’s by-election in Witney, the well-heeled Oxfordshire seat vacated by David Cameron’s resignation from the House of Commons.…
Clueless in Gaza II – Angry Bear
“U.S. officials say they believe Hamas has been constrained by the Israeli operations, but that Israel will not be able to achieve, in the foreseeable future, its goal of eliminating…
Donald Trump’s win will make Brexit more painful
“BREXIT-plus-plus-plus” was how Donald Trump—who also called himself “Mr Brexit”—termed his pitch to voters during his successful presidential campaign. Sure enough, many Americans will soon be waking up soon to…
Open Thread February 21 2024 Is Late Economic Reporting the Cause as New Deal democrat says?
Bill Haskell | February 21, 2024 3:39 pm Is Late Economic Reporting the Cause of bad perceptions by the population? Open Thread February 13 2024…
Anglo-German relations are defined by mutual incomprehension
“MARK my words. Within a year she’ll be gone. She’s stuffed.” Thus a senior Cameroon surveyed the landscape almost exactly a year—and what feels like many political ages—ago over dinner.…
The Mad Dogs Who Didn’t Bark In the Nightime
One of the most reliable lazy pundit columns Democrats in disarray and the related warning that Democrats have to watch out for the damage done by the McGovern wing of…
Labour, not the Tories, should be most worried by the Richmond Park result
IN A year of grim defeats for internationalists in Britain and abroad, a morsel of relief. The Liberal Democrats pitched yesterday’s by-election in Richmond Park as a chance for voters…
Initial jobless claims remain positive
NewDealdemocrat | February 15, 2024 3:51 pm Initial claims remain positive – by New Deal democrat Initial jobless claims declined this week -8,000 to 212,000.…
On the dangers of comparing every political event to Donald Trump
A PATTERN is emerging in political journalism. Whenever something can be construed as a rejection of the establishment, or a win for authoritarianism, or a triumph for swaggering, braces-twanging bombast—or…