February 12

Texas lawmaker calls Ted Nugent a "patriot" and invites him to the State of the Union address.

*A patriot does not have sex with underage girls, shit his pants for a week to avoid going to Vietnam, or threaten the president. Well done, Mr. Stockman.

Democrats have invited residents of the Newtown tragedy to attend the State of Union address. The GOP has invited noted misogynist asshole Ted Nugent — who runs around telling everyone to suck on his machine gun, who has made veiled threats against President Obama's life and called him "a piece of shit," and who called Hillary Clinton "worthless bitch" — to attend the State of the Union address:

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Hot New Conspiracy Theory: Wimpy Gun-Fearing Tyrant Obama Sending Death Squads To Murder Gun Fondlers

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Guns! - Gunfire inside a Delaware Courthouse is being reported, the number of injuries and severity is unknown at this time. (TPM Livewire)

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Don't believe in God in Kentucky? Get ready for jail time!

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Pope Benedict XVI Resigning Papacy To Coach Football At Penn State

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"My employment has been terminated through no voluntary act of my own and I am without 

sufficient income or assets with which to continue to pay my $117,000 child support obligation." 

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6 Facts You Must Know Before Watching Obama's State Of The Union Address

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Fox News Wastes Four And A Half Minutes Criticizing Adele's Weight

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Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks is having a very bad year. First the North Las Vegas Democrat was arrested with a loaded weapon after (ALLEGEDLY!) threatening the life of the Democratic Speaker-elect, Marilyn someone or other. Then he gave a buckwild shirtless interview, with his attorney, Dr. Gonzo, explaining that he wasn't crazy (INSTITUTION) you're the one who'se crazy (INSTITUTION). Then (and we missed this one) he was put in for a psych hold after some mishigas at his grandma's house. And now he has been arrested again, after fighting with both his mom and some cops, whose service revolvers he attempted to grab. It is a good thing he is an elected official and not, say, a random brown person in Los Angeles, or his breathing might have been permanently impaired!

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Ted Nugent Accuses Liberals of Hypocrisy on Drones

Nugent in his new Wingnut Daily column:

Imagine for a moment if the tables were turned and a Republican president had issued an order that permitted the killing of American citizens with drones.

The country would go gonzo.

Liberals would be screaming at the tops of their lungs about the president's intentional violation of due process and civil rights.

Well, a Republican president did, in fact, issue that order (link and link), and it went largely unnoticed by liberal bloggers, etc, back in 2002.

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The Department of Justice announced today that they recovered $8 for every $1 spent while investigating healthcare fraud in 2012.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government says it recovered almost $8 for each dollar it spent investigating health care fraud over the past three years, including a record $4.2 billion last year.

The $7.90 average return on investment is the highest in the 16-year history of the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Program. Since 1997, the program – a joint effort of the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services – has returned more than $23 billion to the Medicare trust funds.

Overall, the Justice Department opened more than 1,100 criminal health care fraud investigations last year involving 2,148 potential defendants. More than 800 defendants were convicted of health care fraud-related crimes during the year and the department opened nearly 900 new civil investigations.

Because of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice are better equipped than they've ever been to combat waste and fraud. And as we've discussed here in the past, healthcare fraud is a massive industry. In the state of Florida, for example, Medicare fraud is bigger than the illegal drug trade. Maybe that's why they elected a Medicare fraudster as their governor. Zing!