Ann Coulter is talking about Delta Airlines (again), and social media is upset because Michael Vick wants to know why Colin Kaepernick doesn’t cut his hair.
Here's a look at those columns and other topics in Thursday’s opinions from the Right and from the Left.
From the Right
Jay Sekulow: Was it a campaign vote or a real vote? -- Time for the Senate to act on ObamaCare
“Against the backdrop of exploding insurance premiums and vanishing options for health care, it is time for the U.S. Senate to deliver on the promises its members have been making to voters for more than seven years.
...Nearly every member of that majority has voted numerous times to provide such relief—but did so while President Obama sat ready to issue a veto. Many have described those previous efforts as “show” votes, while others have characterized them as a promise to deliver if and when a president who will sign it occupies the White House. With President Trump now indicating his eagerness to sign such a bill, we are about to find out which description is accurate.”
How Delta Airlines Wrecked American Health Care
“I think I've found the core problem with health care in America. And guess what? It involves Delta Airlines!
A few weeks ago, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow was going on and on about a "single insurance provider" that pays for 49 percent of all births, as well as full health care costs of almost 40 percent of all children in the United States. This single "insurer," Maddow said, was the biggest "health insurance provider in the country by a mile."
Maddow was talking about Medicaid, which, of course, is not "insurance" but "welfare." ”
Wrapped in an Enigma
“It took some time, but here we are. After decades of minimizing the menace posed by Russia—recall Barack Obama’s gibe, in response to Mitt Romney’s suggestion that Russia was our greatest geopolitical threat, that the 1980s had called and wanted their foreign policy back—American liberals are suddenly convinced of the Russian government’s malevolence toward the United States. We’re glad to see our friends on the left take a more clear-sighted view of an adversary, even if this new conviction has taken the rather strange form of an unshakable certitude that Donald Trump’s campaign staff and its surrogates illegally collaborated with Russian operatives in the run-up to and immediate aftermath of the 2016 election.”
From the Left
What does the NRA think about the shooting of Philando Castile?
“The National Rifle Association has broken its silence on the shooting of Philando Castile, a Minnesota carry permit holder who was killed during a traffic stop last summer by a cop who panicked when Castile reached for the wallet containing his driver's license.
"I think it's absolutely awful," NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch said during a debate on CNN. "It's a terrible tragedy that could have been avoided." ”
Underneath the Vick-Kaepernick dust-up: black respectability politics
On Monday, former NFL quarterback Michael Vick appeared on FS1’s Speak for Yourself, and when asked about any advice he could give to former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who still has not signed with a new team, Vick said, “First thing we’ve got to get Colin to do is cut his hair” if he wants a team to sign him.
To no one’s surprise, Twitter lambasted Vick left and right. And on Tuesday, Kaepernick tweeted the definition of Stockholm Syndrome (it “appears when an abused victim develops a kind of respect and empathy towards their abuser,” reads the beginning of Kaepernick’s tweet), obviously taking a swipe at Vick for now carrying water for an establishment that used to trash him.”
The Circular firing squad isn’t amusing anymore
“Notwithstanding the addictive daily drama of leaks, tweets, and resistance, there are major issues that exist separate and apart from the 24-hour news cycle. These long-term problems are as salient in the digital moment as they were in the analog ’60s.
This coming October 9 will mark the 50th anniversary of Che Guevara’s murder. Yet the pathology underlying his famous quip that when the American left is asked to form a firing squad it gets into a circle is as relevant today as a Rachel Maddow response to Kellyanne Conway’s spin du jour.”
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