RedState Briefing 11/19/2013

Morning Briefing For November 19, 2013 >> Today's Sponsor 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 → >> Today's Sponsor Sincerely yours, Erick Erickson Editor-in-Chief, RedState Forward This Email to a Friend Take me to RedState